Napoleon : A Political Life (Revised)

French History Scholar Steven Englund
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0-674-01803-6

A remarkable analysis to add to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall, from his Corsican boyhood, his French education, his military.

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victories and acts of reform as First Consul (1799-1804) to his controversial record as emperor, and finally, to his exile and death.