Download or read book Napoleon in Exile or a voice from St Helena written by Barry Edward O'Meara and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Murder of Napoleon written by Ben Weider and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history books say that Napoleon died of natural causes. Napoleon himself, expiring at 51 after a lifetime of robust health, suspected otherwise and ordered a thorough autopsy. His suspicions were well-founded. So clever was the crime, however, that until recent developments in forensic science, it was impossible to prove a case of murder, let alone name the killer. Now, the authors of this fascinating book assert, it has been done-by a brilliant man whose 20-year inquest, a feat of detection, has produced one of history’s greatest surprises. What the critics say: "History at its most electrifying" - Newsweek "A nonfiction whodunit based on modern scientific technique" - New York Times "A spellbinding whodunit about one of history's greatest crimes" - History Book Club "Sensational ... as gripping as a detective novel yet scrupulously observant of historical fact" - Publishers Weekly "Thoroughly convincing... A major Odyssey in historical research" - Harold C. Deutsch, professor of military history, U.S. Army War College
Download or read book My Memoirs written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outlines of History written by Thomas Keightley and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon s Jailer written by Desmond Gregory and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowe's reputation has never recovered from the slanders and libels of the Bonapartists and their vocal Whig supporters, in spite of one or two attempts by historians to set the record straight.
Download or read book George F Hoar written by United States. 58th Cong., 3d sess., 1904-1905 and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outlines of History By T Keightley Second American edition with additions and a set of questions for examination of students by J Frost written by Dionysius LARDNER and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Memoirs 1802 to 1833 written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 4782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no real biography of Alexandre Dumas. Nobody has collected and sifted all his correspondence, tracked his every movement, and pursued him through newspapers and legal documents. Letters and other papers (if they have been preserved) should be as abundant in the case of Dumas as they are scanty in the case of Molière. But they are left to the dust of unsearched offices; and it is curious that in France so little has been systematically written about her most popular if not her greatest novelist. Many treatises on one or other point in the life and work of Dumas exist, but there is nothing like Boswell's Johnson or Lockhart's Scott. TheMémoires by the novelist himself cover only part of his career, Les Enfances Dumas; and they bear the same resemblance to a serious conscientious autobiography as Vingt Ans Après bears to Mr. Gardiner's History of England. They contain facts, indeed, but facts beheld through the radiant prismatic fancy of the author, who, if he had a good story to tell, dressed it up "with a cocked hat and a sword," as was the manner of an earlier novelist. The volumes of travel, and the delightful work on Dumas's domestic menagerie,Mes Bêtes, also contain personal confessions, as does the novel, Ange Pitou, with the Causeries, and other books. Fortunately Dumas wrote most about his early life, and the early life of most people is more interesting than the records of their later years. In its limitation to his years of youth, the Mémoires of Dumas resemble that equally delightful book, the long autobiographical fragment by George Sand. Both may contain much Dichtung as well as Wahrheit: at least we see the youth of the great novelists as they liked to see it themselves. The Mémoires, with Mes Bêtes, possess this advantage over most of the books, that the most crabbed critic cannot say that Dumas did not write them himself. In these works, certainly, he was unaided by Maquet or any other collaborator. They are all his own, and the essential point of note is that they display all the humour, the goodness of heart, the overflowing joy in life, which make the charm of the novels. Here, unmixed, unadulterated, we have that essence of Dumas with which he transfigured the tame "copy" drawn up by Maquet and others under his direction. He told them where to find their historical materials, he gave them the leading ideas of the plot, told them how to block out the chapters, and then he took these chapters and infused into them his own spirit, the spirit which, in its pure shape, pervades every page of the Mémoires. They demonstrate that, while he received mechanical aid from collaborators, took from their hands the dry bones of his romances, it was he who made the dry bones live. He is now d'Artagnan, now Athos, now Gorenflot, now Chicot,—all these and many other personages are mere aspects of the immortal, the creative Alexandre.
Download or read book Champ Clark written by William Larkin Webb and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon from the Tuileries to St Helena written by Louis-Etienne Saint-Denis and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Robert Fulton and the Submarine written by William Barclay Parsons and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of Robert Fulton's submarine design and research plans, notes, and previously unpublished manuscripts. Fulton is an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont). The success of his steamboat changed river traffic and trade on major American rivers. The submarine design that is featured in this book was commissioned by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte.
Download or read book Bl cher And The Uprising Of Prussia Against Napoleon 1806 1815 written by Dr. Ernest F. Henderson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 32 Illustrations and 6 maps. BLÜCHER is chiefly known to English readers as the man who came to Wellington’s aid at Waterloo. The object of the present volume is to show that he had a separate existence of his own and performed other great deeds in the cause that are equally deserving of praise. Strange that he has never been made the subject of an English biography and that of his German lives none have been translated into English! The present work cannot pretend altogether to fill the gap, as the plan of the series, if I have understood it rightly, is to treat the movement as fully as the man. I shall feel a certain satisfaction if I can succeed in establishing Blücher in his rightful position, as the peer of Wellington in all that concerns the overthrow of Napoleon. “You forget Wellington’s Spanish campaigns,” I shall be told. “You in turn forget,” I shall answer, “that Blücher was the one progressive, inspiring element among the leaders of the allied armies from the year 1813 on.” Without Blücher’s decision to cross the Elbe at Wartenburg there would have been no battle of Leipzig; without his cutting loose from Schwarzenberg in March, 1814, there would have been no closing in of the allies on Paris; without his brave endurance at Ligny in spite of the non-arrival of the promised reinforcements, Wellington would have been overwhelmed at Quatre-Bras and there would have been no Waterloo.
Download or read book A History of Mediaeval and Modern Europe for Secondary Schools written by William Stearns Davis and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Hundred Days Aubrey Maturin Book 19 written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
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