Napoleon Bonaparte
His Life, Death, and Revolutionary Wars

This book is a very short history of Napoleon’s rise to power. Napoleon led the French Army into incredible victories over Austria, Italy and Egypt. As he was doing this France was in the mists of their Revolution 1789-1799. Napoleon returned to France in 1797 as a hero and looked to, by many, to st......more

DNF. Completely fanatical take on Napoleon, written almost like an obsessive novel. Can't quite tell what is fiction and what is fact, so you can't take anything as fact. Full quotations that have no bibliographical information, so I can only assume they are made up. Very anti-British, as well, whic......more

A beautifully written and eloquent history of Napoleon, Abbott defends the noble spirit of Napoleon in the face of countess ego-centric british historians at the time.......more

“Frenchmen! You have been anxious for peace. Your government has desired it with still greater ardor. Its first efforts, its most constant wishes, have been for its attainment. The English ministry has exposed the secret of its iniquitous policy. It wishes to dismember France, to destroy its commerc......more

"The mind is saddened as it wanders amid the labyrinths of conscientiousness and of passion, of pure motives and impure ambition. This is, indeed, a fallen world. The drama of nations is a tragedy. Melancholy is the lot of man." I suppose this is what it would look like if I were to write a book abou......more