The Fifty Days: Napoleon in England
Author | : Jean Duhamel |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jean Duhamel |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick O’Brian |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-12-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007429444 |
Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
Author | : Joseph Roth |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2016-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811222799 |
Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica—an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates. Roth’s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. “There may be,” as James Wood has stated, “no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.”
Author | : Jenny Uglow |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466828226 |
A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers—how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.
Author | : Philip G. Dwyer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317882717 |
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon was at the apogee of his power in Europe. This broad ranging reassessment explores the key themes presented by his extraordinary career: from his rise to power and the foundation of the imperial state, to the final defeat of his grand vision following the doomed invasion of Russia. It was a period of almost uninterrupted war in Europe, the consquences of victory or failure repeatedly transforming the political map. But Napoleon’s impact reached much deeper than this, achieving the ultimate destruction of the ancien regime and feudalism in Europe, and leaving a political and juridical legacy that persists today.
Author | : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) |
Publisher | : Grosset & Dunlap |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ted Gott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780724103553 |
This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social change with the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the rise to power of the young Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine.
Author | : Andrew Roberts |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Generals |
ISBN | : 0743228324 |
Explores the relationship between the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington prior to and in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, the most decisive battle of the nineteenth century.
Author | : Stuart Semmel |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300090017 |
What did Napoleon Bonaparte mean to the British people? This engaging book reconstructs the role that the French leader played in the British political, cultural, and religious imagination in the early nineteenth century. Denounced by many as a tyrant or monster, Napoleon nevertheless had sympathizers in Britain. Stuart Semmel explores the ways in which the British used Napoleon to think about their own history, identity, and destiny. Many attacked Napoleon but worried that the British national character might not be adequate to the task of defeating him. Others, radicals and reformers, used Napoleon's example to criticize the British constitution. Semmel mines a wide array of sources--ranging from political pamphlets and astrological almanacs to sonnets by canonical Romantic poets--to reveal surprising corners of late Hanoverian politics and culture.