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  • NAPOLEON

    The Legacy and the Real Extraordinary Man Behind It

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by John B. Larner ...
    In "Napoleon," Alexandre Dumas delivers a captivating narrative that intertwines historical fact with rich storytelling, reflecting the tumultuous era of the French Revolution and the rise of one of history's most controversial figures. Dumas employs a vivid, accessible prose style, masterfully weaving together dramatic events and personal intrigues, accentuated by his characteristic flair for ... Read more

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  • NAPOLEON

    The Legacy and the Real Extraordinary Man Behind It

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by John B. Larner ...
    In "Napoleon," Alexandre Dumas embarks on a sweeping historical exploration of one of history's most enigmatic figures, Napoleon Bonaparte. With Dumas's signature flair for vivid storytelling, the book intricately weaves together drama, biography, and political commentary, immersing the reader in the tumultuous world of the French Revolution and the ensuing rise of the Napoleonic Empire. Dumas ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Legacy: A 20-Volume Journey Through History

    Twenty Volumes of War, Empire, Exile, and the European Imagination

    by Leo Tolstoy, Alexandre Dumas, L. Mühlbach, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Eleanor C. Price, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Frederick Whishaw, Max Pemberton, Henry Seton Merriman, G. A. Henty, James Grant, Warwick Deeping, Charles Downer Hazen ...
    Translated by W. Binet, F. Jordan, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, John B. Larner ...
    Napoleon's Legacy: A 20-Volume Journey Through History assembles an expansive literary archive of the Napoleonic age and its afterlives. Across historical fiction, adventure narrative, romance, memoir-like reconstruction, political reflection, and military history, the collection traces how empire reshaped Europe's battlefields, courts, households, and imaginations. Its most compelling ... Read more

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  • NAPOLEON (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Legacy and the Real Extraordinary Man Behind It

    by Alexandre Dumas, Owen Fenlow ...
    Translated by John B. Larner ...
    Alexandre Dumas's Napoleon is a vivid biographical portrait of the soldier-statesman whose ascent reshaped modern Europe. Rather than offering a detached academic chronicle, Dumas presents Napoleon's life with the dramatic pacing, narrative color, and moral intensity familiar from his historical fiction. The book belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of Romantic historiography, where great ... Read more

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  • The Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars: 20 Historical Novels

    Twenty Historical Novels of Exile, Restoration, Intrigue, and Post-Waterloo Europe

    by Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, L. Mühlbach, Eleanor C. Price, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Leo Tolstoy, Frederick Whishaw, Max Pemberton, Henry Seton Merriman, G. A. Henty, James Grant, Charles Downer Hazen, Warwick Deeping ...
    Translated by W. Binet, F. Jordan, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, John B. Larner ...
    The Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars: 20 Historical Novels gathers a wide-ranging nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reimagining of Europe in the shadow of imperial conquest. Across romance, adventure narrative, political chronicle, military fiction, mystery-inflected storytelling, and psychological realism, these works trace the unsettled consequences of revolution, restoration, nationalism, and ... Read more

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  • Napoleon (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. From Corsican Origins to Exile on St. Helena: A Historical Biography of the French Emperor—European Conquests, Military Genius, Personality, Legacy

    by Alexandre Dumas, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Translated by John B. Larner ...
    In Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas crafts a brisk yet panoramic life of the Emperor, tracing Bonaparte's rise from Corsican outsider to architect of Empire and his eclipse on St Helena. Written in the energetic cadence of the feuilleton, the book fuses documentary extracts and novelistic tableaux—Austerlitz gleams, Moscow burns, the Hundred Days race. Dumas balances campaign narrative with civic ... Read more

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  • Military Life in Bivouac, Camp, Garrison, Barracks, &c.

    by Elzéar Blaze ...
    Translated by Sir Charles J. Napier, G.C.B. ...
    Many memoirs of the Napoleonic period are recounting, more or less interesting dependant on the author, of the events of their service interspersed by anecdotes of interesting events, Elzéar Blaze eschewed that style of reminiscence and left a singular view of his time in the Grande Armée. His memoirs are highly stylised, divided into the 'themes' of military life, and eruditely written by an ... Read more

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  • Uncle Bernac A Memory Of The Empire

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart. None the less I took it out of my pocket, and, sitting on the side of the lugger, I went over it again with as much attention as if it were for the first time. It was written in a prim, angular hand, such as one might expect from a man who had begun life as a village attorney, and it was ... Read more

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  • War and Peace (Volume 2 of 2)

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Considered one of the best books ever written, "War and Peace" has remained in the upper echelon of world literature because it masterfully captures an intimate view of humanity on an epic scale. Through the use of fictional narrative, Tolstoy utilizes a huge cast of characters, centering on five aristocratic Russian families in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. These characters, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo

    by Cyrus Townsend Brady ...
    Cyrus Townsend Brady was a late 19th century American journalist and historian, but some of his best known works were adventure fiction. Today, his most famous work is the history Indian Fights and Fighters. ... Read more

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  • Recollections Of An Officer Of Napoleon's Army

    by Captain Elzéar Blaze ...
    Many memoirs of the Napoleonic period are recounting, more or less interesting dependant on the author, of the events of their service interspersed by anecdotes of interesting events, Elzéar Blaze eschewed that style of reminiscence and left a singular view of his time in the Grande Armée. His memoirs are highly stylised, divided into the 'themes' of military life, and eruditely written by an ... Read more

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  • A Conspiracy of the Carbonari

    by L. Mühlbach ...
    L. Mühlbach was renowned for her historical fiction, which often depicted significant events and figures from various periods in history. "A Conspiracy of the Carbonari" likely delves into the political intrigue and upheaval surrounding the Carbonari, a secret society in Italy during the 19th century.The Carbonari played a role in the movement for Italian unification and independence from foreign ... Read more

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