"A definitive contribution to Napoleonic literature."-Jose Sanchez, St. The story moves as fast as one of Bonaparte's campaigns and is told with the clarity of his dispatches."-The Economist "A surprisingly sympathetic biography of one of the most fascinating men who ever strutted across the stage of history."-Dolph Honicker, Nashville Tennesseean Markham's book is notable.a well-balanced study of a man vastly bigger than his 5 feet 6 inches, who has been for generations one of the most fascinating of subjects for biography."-Mark S. It has been hailed as the most important single-volume work in Napoleonic literature. It is based on newly discovered documents-including the personal letters of Marie-Louise and the decoded diaries of General Bertrand, who accompanied Napoleon to his final exile on St. This magnificent reconstruction of Napoleon's life and legend is written by a distinguished Oxford scholar.
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