Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts about the Napoleonic Wars written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what led to Napoleon and the French taking over most of mainland Europe? What was it that eventually caused his downfall? How many men died as a result of his vision for a global French Empire? And what is the legacy of the Napoleonic Wars? This easy-to-read guide to one of the most important periods in European history contains over one hundred amazing facts about the Napoleonic Wars, with chapters covering subjects such as an overview of the conflict, military commanders and notable figures, weaponry used and developed during the time and much, much more. So whether you’re studying the period at school or university, or are simply interested to know more about one of the most fascinating leaders of all time, 101 Amazing Facts about the Napoleonic Wars is the perfect addition to your bookshelf.
Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts About England written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing eBook you will find more than one hundred facts about England. Who are the ten greatest English historical figures? What are the top landmarks to visit? Separated into sections covering these topics and more (such as its geography and its people), you will learn some fascinating information! Whether you are planning on visiting England, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this country steeped in history, this is an excellent addition to your bookshelf. Find the information you need, fast!
Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts about Scotland written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Scotland. Separated into sections such as its history, information about its capital, famous Scottish figures from history and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Scotland, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this beautiful country, this is an excellent addition to your bookshelf. Find the information you need, fast!
Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts About Paris written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing eBook you will find more than one hundred facts about Paris. What are the top landmarks, museums and galleries to visit? What is the history of the Eiffel Tower? Separated into sections covering these topics and more (such as its history, its culture and recommendations for some of the city's best restaurants), you will learn some fascinating information! Whether you are planning on visiting Paris, working on a geography project or just want to know more about an amazing historic city, this is an excellent addition to your bookshelf. Find the information you need, fast!
Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts About London written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing eBook you will find more than one hundred facts about London. What are the top landmarks, museums and galleries to visit? What is the history of the London Underground? Separated into sections covering these topics and more (such as its history, its culture and the many bridges which span the Thames river), you will learn some fascinating information! Whether you are planning on visiting London, working on a geography project or just want to know more about an amazing historic city, this is an excellent addition to your bookshelf. Find the information you need, fast!
Download or read book 101 Fun Facts To Impress Everyone written by Zahid Ameer and published by Zahid Ameer. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover '101 Fun Facts To Impress Everyone' – a captivating eBook filled with intriguing, funny, and surprising trivia. Perfect for curious minds and great conversation starters!
Download or read book Napoleon s Wars written by Charles Esdaile and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious?and conclusive?chronicle of the wars waged by one of the most polarizing figures in military history Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic as a new standard on the subject, this sweeping, boldly written history of the Napoleonic era reveals its central protagonist as a man driven by an insatiable desire for fame, and determined ?to push matters to extremes.? More than a myth-busting portrait of Napoleon, however, it offers a panoramic view of the armed conflicts that spread so quickly out of revolutionary France to countries as remote as Sweden and Egypt. As it expertly moves through conflicts from Russia to Spain, Napoleon?s Wars proves to be history writing equal to its subject?grand and ambitious?that will reframe the way this tumultuous era is understood.
Download or read book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers’s was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the “facts” and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then. With élan and erudition—and with winning enthusiasm—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Roger’s work. Relying on the latest scholarship, Gates leads us on a romp through African, diasporic, and African-American history in question-and-answer format. Among the one hundred questions: Who were Africa’s first ambassadors to Europe? Who was the first black president in North America? Did Lincoln really free the slaves? Who was history’s wealthiest person? What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry? Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history? Where was the first Underground Railroad? Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? Which black man made many of our favorite household products better? Here is a surprising, inspiring, sometimes boldly mischievous—all the while highly instructive and entertaining—compendium of historical curiosities intended to illuminate the sheer complexity and diversity of being “Negro” in the world. (With full-color illustrations throughout.)
Download or read book 1 339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop written by John Lloyd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Times–best-selling 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off. 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia—informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Did you know? • Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear. • There are 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. • There is a cult in Malaysia that worships a giant teapot. • Earthworms have five hearts. • Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days. • Charles Darwin's tortoise Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176. Every fact in this magnificent little volume has been researched with punctilious care in order to bring you the truth in its purest form.
Download or read book The Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1801 1814 Organisation Uniforms Equipment Volume 2 written by David A. Wilson and published by Reason to Revolution. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the regular cavalry and field artillery covering all aspects, organisation, uniforms, arms and equipment, fully illustrated in colour.
Download or read book The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Robert Asprey and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to-grave biography, Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being. Asprey tells this fascinating, tragic tale in lush narrative detail. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting, reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleon's vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power. Here is Napoleon as he was-not saint, not sinner, but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself, his empire, and his world.
Download or read book Strange Stories Amazing Facts of America s Past written by Reader's Digest and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Reader's Digest. Over 600 true stories delve into history and come up with all-American entertainment.
Download or read book Chief of Staff Vol 1 written by David T Zabecki and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the art of command. None have focused exclusively on the chief of staff -—that key staff officer responsible for translating the ideas of the commander into practical plans that common soldiers can execute successfully on the battlefield. In some cases, it is almost impossible to think of certain great commanders without also thinking of their chief of staff. Napoleon's chief of staff Berthier and Eisenhower's chief of staff Bedell Smith are two examples that are profiled in this work. Zabecki and his collaborators examine the history, development, and role of the chief of staff primarily through profiles of the most important practitioners of the art. These books are published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.
Download or read book The Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1807 1814 written by David A. Wilson and published by From Reason to Revolution. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated unique record of the uniforms of the Napoleonic Danish and Norwegian armies and their flags in full colour.
Download or read book Napoleon written by Andrew Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.
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Download or read book Globalization in Historical Perspective written by Michael D. Bordo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been made to present a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration. This volume collects eleven papers doing exactly that and more. The first group of essays explores how the process of globalization can be measured in terms of the long-term integration of different markets-from the markets for goods and commodities to those for labor and capital, and from the sixteenth century to the present. The second set of contributions places this knowledge in a wider context, examining some of the trends and questions that have emerged as markets converge and diverge: the roles of technology and geography are both considered, along with the controversial issues of globalization's effects on inequality and social justice and the roles of political institutions in responding to them. The final group of essays addresses the international financial systems that play such a large part in guiding the process of globalization, considering the influence of exchange rate regimes, financial development, financial crises, and the architecture of the international financial system itself. This volume reveals a much larger picture of the process of globalization, one that stretches from the establishment of a global economic system during the nineteenth century through the disruptions of two world wars and the Great Depression into the present day. The keen analysis, insight, and wisdom in this volume will have something to offer a wide range of readers interested in this important issue.
