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His book gives a vivid, intimate, detailed account of his interactions with Napoleon and his mother, brothers and sisters; with his first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais and her children; with notable French politicians; and with the marshals, he was especially friendly with Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, the future King of Sweden, when they ...
Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military officer and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Books about Napoleon" ... Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography;
Schom has been highly critical of Napoleon. His 1997 900 page biography, Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life, was the first complete revision of Bonaparte's life and career. This the result of a ten-year period of research in the French archives, reveals Napoleon's destructive personality to friends and subjected country, his love of conquest ...
Napoleon (1971) also published as Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography in 1972 is a biography of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte written by Vincent Cronin.The biographical style tends more towards a sympathetic overview of Napoleon's life and focuses more on the man's personality and relationships rather than his wars and battles, although these still play a significant part of the book.
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization Of Victory; 1793-1815. Penguin. ISBN 978-0141038940. Lieven, Dominic (2010). Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace. Nafziger, George (2009). Napoleon's Invasion of Russia. Zamoyski, Adam (2004). 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow.
From the 1950s to 1960s, Herold primarily wrote about Napoleon Bonaparte during his literary career in French history. [3] In 1952, Herold wrote a children's book about Joan of Arc with Joan, Maid of France while Frederick T. Chapman provided the drawings. [8] After starting the work in 1953, Herold released his Madame de Stael biography in 1958.