From General to Emperor: How Napoleon Seized Power—and What It Cost Europe
Napoleon Bonaparte was a revolutionary general who did something unthinkable for 19th-century Europe: he crowned himself. In an era…
Napoleon Bonaparte was a revolutionary general who did something unthinkable for 19th-century Europe: he crowned himself. In an era…
Europe was at war. Napoleon had his eyes set upon Portugal. The Napoleonic Wars had unleashed a rolling crisis…
French Revolution books, more than 200 years after the storming of the Bastille, continue to draw avid readers. Rarely…
In the tumultuous wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, few lives were as unlikely as that…
Napoleon’s greatest military victories and defeats are as relevant today as they were throughout the Napoleonic Wars. The resounding…