WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA—General de Caulaincourt ... most of the soldiers with whom he was in contact. Last week the Book-of-the-Month Club offered Caulaincourt’s recently discovered memoirs ...
On the other hand, in his analysis of Book II of the Gallic Wars, Napoleon totally misses the fact that Caesar’s near disaster against the Nervi and other Belgic tribes on the Sambre in 57 BC was due ...
There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...
barely understanding what they had," Nina Burleigh writes in her book, "Mirage," about Napoleon's scientists in Egypt. "Collecting old objects without understanding their use or meaning was a ...