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Maintaining leadership for 22 years, he was the longest-reigning French head of state since the fall of the Ancien Régime, although his reign would ultimately end upon his surrender to Otto von Bismarck and Wilhelm I on 2 September 1870. Napoleon III commissioned a grand reconstruction of Paris carried out by prefect of the Seine, Georges ...
One Hundred Days, Napoleon's Road to Waterloo (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 and London: Penguin Books) Napoleon Bonaparte, A Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 1997) The Eagle and the Rising Sun—The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943 (NY: WW Norton, 2005) As Alan Strauss-Schom. The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III (US ...
In 2014, Roberts wrote Napoleon the Great (the US edition is titled Napoleon: A Life), which was awarded the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best biography. In this biography, Roberts seeks to evoke Napoleon's tremendous energy, both physical and intellectual, and the attractiveness of his personality, even to his enemies.
Napoleon: A Biography (2003) 752pp, stress on military; Roberts, Andrew. Napoleon: A Life (2014) Rose, Tom Holland. The Life of Napoleon I: Including New Materials from the British Official Records, (2 vol 1903), old but solid scholarship; online edition vol 2; Schom, Alan. Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life (1997), 944pp; argues Napoleon was a ...
Napoleon: A Biography 1997 Arcade Publishing: Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography 1997 Thomas Dunne Books: 1066: The Year of the Three Battles 1998 Johnathan Cape: Pimlico Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution 2000 Basic Books: Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails 2002 Grove Press
Napoleon Charles had two brothers: the youngest, Louis Napoleon, eventually became Emperor as Napoleon III in 1852. The strong attachment that Napoleon showed towards the child, which was not repeated with his two younger brothers, gave rise to speculation that Napoleon-Charles was the son of a forbidden relationship between Napoleon and his ...
The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy King Charles ascended to the throne on September 8, 2023, upon the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth .
Lacroix was born in Paris, the son of a novelist. He was a prolific and varied writer, composing more than twenty historical romances and a variety of serious historical works, including histories of Napoleon III and of the Czar Nicholas I of Russia.