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Book The Ghost of Napoleon

Download or read book The Ghost of Napoleon written by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ghost of Napoleon

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  • Author : Basil Henry Liddell Hart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1933
  • ISBN : 9789333693998
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Ghost of Napoleon written by Basil Henry Liddell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ghost of Napoleon

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  • Author : Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Ghost of Napoleon written by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Taken By    Things

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  • Author : Maddie Montrose
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-03-10
  • ISBN : 9781530467211
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book Taken By Things written by Maddie Montrose and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five funny, juicy, HOT fantasies. What's not to like...? You'll laugh. You'll cry... Err... Okay, you might cry out with passion as you indulge yourself with these five juicy, ridiculously sexy stories. They'll definitely fuel your imagination for intimate, personal pleasure. What's inside this five-book mega bundle: Follow the weird and sexy adventures of a hot-and-horny vampire girl as she enjoys amorous encounters with a Greek god, a ghost, an enchanted tree, a billionaire biker mummy, and a time traveler. (This book also includes some graphic, almost-sex with a blue Venusian... a sizzling-hot encounter of the third kind.) Are these "taboo sex" topics? Only if your imagination takes you there. (You'll have plenty to work with in this collection of oddball sex partners.) The five full-length stories in this anthology: - Taken by the Sun God: Or, how sex with Apollo saved me from a terrible vampire death. (erotic fantasy) - Taken by the Ghost of Napoleon Bonaparte's Horny Little Brother, Jerome, at Niagara Falls. (paranormal erotica) - Taken on Earth Day by an Enchanted 17th Century Woodsman Temporarily Turned into a Tree. (green erotica) - Taken by the Bad Billionaire Biker Mummy: Or how I found ecstasy in the manly arms of Ramenhotep. (desert erotic parody) - Taken at Area 51: Or, how two well-equipped visitors from time and space changed my sex life. (alien erotica and sci-fi erotica) FOR MATURE READERS AGES 18 AND ABOVE. These books contain very graphic descriptions of sexual acts involving multiple orifices and positions. They also contain whimsical trivia related to sex, vampires, waterfalls, sex, 17th-century witches, desert travel, sex, Flesh Gordon, and -- oh yes -- did we mention sex? Maddie Montrose writes fun and juicy erotica to fuel your fantasies and enhance your personal pleasure. These books are written for smart women who like weird, intelligent, sexy stories that are hot... and funny. If you're looking for wild, weird, and adventurous sex in odd locations with unusual partners, you'll like these books. This volume is about 14,000 words long. It includes the full text of five separate books (available individually). Go ahead. Enjoy yourself. Lust and laughter in one juicy package... ready for your pleasure!

Book Vilnius 1812

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  • Author : Paul Richardson
  • Publisher : Trotman, Limited
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Vilnius 1812 written by Paul Richardson and published by Trotman, Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first published account & groundbreaking record of the extraordinary discovery of a Napoleonic mass grave in Lithuania in 2002, the victims being soldiers from the 1812 campaign. Author Paul Richardson was given full access & information by the authorities, allowing him to document, with original photographs this time capsule of remains & artifacts of the Grande Armee.It begins with a necessary but concise history of the 1812 Campaignand its aftermath and how the many bodies came to be buried in mass graves in and around Vilnius (there is ample evidence that there are more mass graves that are unlikely to be found as they are now probably under new buildings in the city. This is followed by an in-depth explanation of the archaeological excavation of the gravesite, the cataloguing of the bones and number of people buried (and their gender as there were not only males ), artefacts, including buttons and pieces of uniforms and equipment from many of Napoleons regiments, but no side arms as these would not have been thrown into the grave, and the history of the ongoing restoration of these artefacts.

Book Finding Napoleon

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  • Author : Margaret Rodenberg
  • Publisher : She Writes Press
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 1647420172
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Finding Napoleon written by Margaret Rodenberg and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rodenberg inventively uses Bonaparte’s own unfinished novel to tell the story of the despot’s rise to power, which she juxtaposes against the story of his last love affair. Told creatively and with excellent research!” —Stephanie Dray, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of America's First Daughter and The Women of Chateau Lafayette “Beautiful and poignant.” —Allison Pataki, New York Times best-selling author of The Queen’s Fortune With its delightful adaptation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s real attempt to write romantic fiction, Finding Napoleon: A Novel offers a fresh take on Europe’s most powerful man after he’s lost everything—except his last love. A forgotten woman of history—the audacious Countess Albine—helps narrate their tale of intrigue, desire, and betrayal. After the defeated Emperor Napoleon goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together enslaved Africans, British sympathizers, a Jewish merchant, a Corsican rogue, and French followers, they confront British opposition—as well as treachery within their own ranks—with sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, but always desperate action. Amid his passions and intrigues, Napoleon finishes his real novel Clisson that he started writing as a young man. Now it's a father's message to the young son whom his enemies took from him, but how can they get it to the boy? When Napoleon and Albine break faith with one another, ambition and Albine’s husband threaten their reconciliation. To succeed, Napoleon must learn whom to trust. To survive, Albine must decide whom to betray. This elegant, richly researched novel reveals the Napoleon history conceals and the Countess Albine history has forgotten.

Book Napoleon III

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  • Author : Fenton Bresler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780006388142
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Napoleon III written by Fenton Bresler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Louis Napoleon was born with a compelling sense of destiny. The eldest nephew of Bonaparte, he came from exile and ignominy to rule France, first as President then as Emperor for 22 years, from 1848 to 1870. Under his benevolent dictatorship, the nation grew in artistic fulfilment, industrial wealth and international influence - until catastrophic defeat at the hands of Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 cast her back into the shadows.

Book The Black Room at Longwood

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  • Author : Jean-Paul Kauffmann
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press
  • Release : 1999-05-31
  • ISBN : 9781568581286
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book The Black Room at Longwood written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999-05-31 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his subject, Napoleon, author Jean-Paul Kauffmann has experienced captivity, as a three-year hostage in Beirut. He brings his insider's knowledge to this moving account of the most famous French soldier's last years in seclusion on a tropical island. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled and imprisoned by the British on the island of St. Helena. He became increasingly withdrawn, surviving on a diet of memories that he recounted to the few people around him. But the book -- part history, part travelogue -- portrays the leader as a prisoner also of his mind, poisoned by nostalgia for his triumphs and grief over his defeats. "A haunting, unforgettable book....Kauffmann captures the desolate atmosphere of Napoleon's last home with evocative precision." -- Boston Globe

Book King Leopold s Ghost

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  • Author : Adam Hochschild
  • Publisher : Picador
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 1760785202
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book King Leopold s Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

Book Black Rock

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  • Author : Louise Hoole
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-03-11
  • ISBN : 9781939604248
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Black Rock written by Louise Hoole and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should ambition cease with death? Napoleon Bonaparte doesn't think so. His ghost is actually hungrier than ever. The ex-emperor has no intention of allowing his premature end to thwart his destiny or threaten his legacy. But death holds unexpected surprises for the restless spirit of the nineteenth-century's most infamous tactician. Set in 1821 on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena during the week between Napoleon's death and burial, this historical who-done-it examines what powerful men do in narrowed circumstances and what ordinary people do when their lives collide with the exceptional. Louise Hoole, who lived on St Helena as a child, draws upon the letters and memoirs of those exiled on the island to bring to life the complex machinations of those who made up Napoleon's last court.

Book Russia Against Napoleon

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  • Author : Dominic Lieven
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2009-10-01
  • ISBN : 0141947446
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book Russia Against Napoleon written by Dominic Lieven and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before. Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe; the consequences of which could not have been more important. Ultimately this book shows, memorably and brilliantly, Russia embarking on its strange, central role in Europe's existence, as both threat and protector - a role that continues, in all its complexity, into our own lifetimes.

Book Tales of Passion  Tales of Woe

Download or read book Tales of Passion Tales of Woe written by Sandra Gulland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-05-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second novel in the acclaimed Josephine B. Trilogy, Sandra Gulland offers a sweeping yet intimate portrayal of the political and personal struggles of the wife of the most powerful man in the world. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe is the much-awaited sequel to Sandra Gulland's highly acclaimed first novel, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. Beginning in Paris in 1796, the saga continues as Josephine awakens to her new life as Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte. Through her intimate diary entries and Napoleon's impassioned love letters, an astonishing portrait of an incredible woman emerges. Gulland transports us into the ballrooms and bedrooms of exquisite palaces and onto the blood-soaked fields of Napoleon's campaigns. As Napoleon marches to power, we witness, through Josephine, the political intrigues and personal betrayals -- both sexual and psychological -- that result in death, ruin, and victory for those closest to her.

Book Ghost Trackers

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  • Author : Chris Gudgeon
  • Publisher : Tundra Books
  • Release : 2010-10-12
  • ISBN : 0887769500
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Ghost Trackers written by Chris Gudgeon and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the hit television series "Ghost Trackers," this ghostly tome invites readers to explore the mysteries that haunt us all: ghostly histories, how to equip yourself to explore a haunted house, the latest on what the scientists think. All this and much more is packed into this fascinating book. In the world of Ghost Trackers, kids who are interested in ghosts and the paranormal search for answers to the questions we all have about the afterlife. Full of stories of sightings, both ancient and recent, and information about becoming a ghost tracker, this book demands to be read and shared. After all, who knows if ghosts are evidence of life after death or if they are simply a natural occurrence we are yet to understand?

Book Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary

Download or read book Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary written by Gary Rosenshield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon today is still a figure who fascinates both his admirers and detractors because of his seminal role in European history at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, straddling the French Revolution and the enormous empire that he fashioned through military conquest. Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers—poets, novelists, critics, and historians—to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and his subsequent exile to St. Helena, in much of Europe a re-evaluation of Napoleon's person, stature, and historical significance occurred, as thinkers and writers witnessed the gradual reestablishment of repressive regimes throughout Europe. This re-evaluation in Russia would have to wait until Napoleon's death in 1821, but when it came to pass, it continued to occupy the imagination of Russia's greatest writers for over 130 years. Although Napoleon's invasion of Russia and subsequent defeat had a profound effect on Russian culture and Russian history, for Russian writers what was most important was the universal significance of Napoleon’s desire for world conquest and the idea of unbridled ambition which he embodied. Russian writers saw this, for good or ill, as potentially determining the spiritual and moral fate of future generations. What is particularly fascinating is their attempt to confront each other about this idea in a creative dialogue, with each succeeding writer addressing himself and responding to his predecessor and predecessors.

Book The Napoleonic Wars

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  • Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-13
  • ISBN : 0199394067
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Napoleonic Wars written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control. Skillfully narrated and deeply researched, here at last is the global history of the period, one that expands our view of the Napoleonic Wars and their role in laying the foundations of the modern world.

Book Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

Download or read book Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetical Works of George Meredith

Download or read book The Poetical Works of George Meredith written by George Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: