This book is suitable for children age 9 and above. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France. He was a very successful military general and he led his

A biography of the general who used his skills to carve out the largest and wealthiest empire the world had seen since the fall of Rome.

The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many different persona: the Jacobin, the Republican, the reformer of t

One of France’s most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better

Prince Louis Napoleon was born with a compelling sense of destiny. The eldest nephew of Bonaparte, he came from exile and ignominy to rule France, first as Pres