Henry Carter Hull

Napoleon has been called a giant for the ages, and his influence resonates to this day not only in the field of military endeavor but also in law and governance. His military maxims, captured here in Napoleon's Art of War , are timeless principles applicable to many aspects of life. To contextualize each of the seventy-eight pithy maxims, General Burnod provides brief explanatory expositions.

Presents a biography of French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte, with maps, illustrations, primary source documents, a timeline, and a glossary.

Chronicles the life of Josephine Bonaparte and reveals the dark secrets she hid in her past, including her family's debt, her spiteful first husband, and her abusive marriage to Napoleon.

Presents a fictionalized account of the Battle of Essling in 1809, Napoleon's first major defeat on land.

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St. Helena to begin his imprisonment following Waterloo. By 1821 he was dead. During his brief stay, he crossed paths with six medical men, all of whom would be changed by the encounter, whether by court martial, the shame of misdiagnosis, or resulting celebrity. What would seem to be a straightforward post became entangled with politics, as Governor Hudson Lowe became paranoid as to the motivations...

Includes over 180 illustrations, portraits and maps covering the Russian Campaign of 1812. These Memoirs are the findings of a professional soldier, sitting in judgment upon the foremost soldier of fortune the world has known. But they are something more than that. They are the observations of a man of the Old R gime, whose lot had been cast in with the new Empire. The soldier who wrote them was a statesman as well a diplomatist of the school of Talleyrand,...

"The Modern Library of the world's best books." An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time.