Napoleon

by Jean Tulard

Book Overview

A richly illustrated biography of Napoleon, this book sheds new light on one of the most written-about figures in history. Napoleon's epic life and deeds are recounted in rare depth that will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882516028
• ISBN13: 9781882516025
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Lithograph Pub Co
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent history !

In this book,Jean Tulard,a distinguished historian of the napoleonic empire with many other books on the subject,gives us a very penetrating and elucidative view of Napoleon's political position inside France. Most english and american historians center their attention on Napoleon's military and foreign achivements,forgetting the internal,domestic french political picture which is vital to the understanding of the whole saga.Reading this book you begin to understand the real weakness of the napoleonic empire and how Napoleon,inflated by his successes,forgot why he was put into power in the first place. I strongly recomend this book,especialy to people who focus too much on Napoleon the general and conqueror,for after all,the first and most important people Napoleon had to subdue were the french.