The Hundred Days Of Napoleon

Author : Stephen Coote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89081652646

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Napoleon and the Hundred Days by Stephen Coote Pdf

In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assembled to determine the fate of the continent after the wars of the last twenty years, the news arrives that Napoleon has returned to France. Bonaparte -- the revolutionary turned emperor and 'disturber of the world's peace' -- had been defeated and exiled to Elba, but now he is fast advancing on Paris, gathering troops and taking cities without firing a single shot. Europe's peace is not to last. NAPOLEON AND THE HUNDRED DAYS brilliantly re-lives the rise and fall of Bonaparte's empire, and brings to life the characters who shaped it: Wellington, the Iron Duke; Napoleon's great love, Josephine; the duplicitous Tallyrand, his erstwhile foreign secretary; and, of course, Napoleon himself. Showing where the mistakes were made and how the path to war became inexorable, it culminates in a virtuoso description of the Battle of Waterloo itself. Displaying his customary blend of historian's and novelist's eye, Stephen Coote paints a vivid portrait of the legendary emperor and military genius, whose energy, courage and tenacity won -- and lost -- him a vast empire.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429448

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The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 19) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222792

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The Hundred Days by Joseph Roth Pdf

Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica—an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates. Roth’s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. “There may be,” as James Wood has stated, “no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.”

Author : Alan Schom
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025380448

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ONE HUNDRED DAYS by Alan Schom Pdf

A riveting narrative of the events from Napoleon's return from Elba through the battle of Waterloo, but above all it is a sparkling portrait gallery of the personalities who shaped those events.

Author : Philip Guedalla
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786255020

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The Hundred Days [Illustrated Edition] by Philip Guedalla Pdf

Illustrated with 30 maps, portraits and diagrams of the Waterloo Campaign Philip Guedalla was a British barrister, nut he was better known as a popular historical and biographical writer. His subjects were many and varied, but he had a noted inclination toward European subjects and particularly the history of France. For this volume he chose as his subject the “Hundred Days” — the return of the Emperor Napoleon from exile on Elba to his defeat at Waterloo and his final banishment to St. Helena. Eschewing national bias, the author sums up the dramatic events with wit, panache in his inimitable style.

Author : Giovacchino Forzano,Benito Mussolini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89003150240

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Napoleon: the Hundred Days by Giovacchino Forzano,Benito Mussolini Pdf

Author : Peter Cochran
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 9781443882385

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Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days by Peter Cochran Pdf

Napoleon was, after his defeat at Leipzig, “granted” the island of Elba to rule. He soon found this unsatisfactory, and, early in 1815, left for the south of France, and marched on Paris to some acclamation. He was, all too quickly, defeated at Waterloo. Observing all this was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse, an ardent Bonapartist. Byron, who posed as one, never answered his letters from the thick of things in Paris. This book is structured in four layers, and begins with an essay about Byron and Napoleon, which is then followed by Byron’s poems about Napoleon and Hobhouse’s diary. Hobhouse’s letters conclude the volume. Most of Hobhouse’s diary has never been published. The book is published, aptly, on the bicentenary of The Hundred Days.

Author : Katherine Astbury,Mark Philp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319702087

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Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy by Katherine Astbury,Mark Philp Pdf

This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon’s dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe united against him, he had to marshal popular support for his new regime, while simultaneously demanding men and money to back what became an increasingly inevitable military campaign. The initial return – known as ‘the flight of the eagle’ – gradually turned into a dogged attempt to bolster support using a range of mechanisms, including constitutional amendments, elections, and public ceremonies. At the same time, his opponents had to marshal their resources to challenge his return, relying on populations already war-weary and resentful of the costs they had had to bear. The contributors to this volume explore how, for both sides, cultural politics became central in supporting or challenging the legitimacy of these political orders in the path to Waterloo.

Author : Patrick Pringle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049355444

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Napoleon's Hundred Days by Patrick Pringle Pdf

Recounts Napoleon's last bid for power after his escape from Elba until his defeat at Waterloo slightly more than one hundred days later.

Author : David G. Chandler
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039259978

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Waterloo, the Hundred Days by David G. Chandler Pdf

Presents an account of the battle, and discusses the organization behind the French and Allied Armies, their commanders, strategy, tactics, and weapons.

Author : Pier Kuipers
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497492947

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Let's Trail Napoleon's Hundred Days by Pier Kuipers Pdf

"There is no sacrifice, not even that of life, which I am not ready to make for the interests of France." With those words, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated the throne of his French Empire on 11 April 1814. After the disastrous retreat of his Grande Armée from Russia with heavy losses and the invasion of France by Allied troops, his generals revolted and forced his abdication at Fontainebleau. Napoleon was sent into exile to the island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. It would be impossible for someone who had crowned himself emperor and dominated almost all of Europe for many years to accept such a sedate and quiet retirement at the age of just 45. The remarkable sequence of events that saw Napoleon escape from Elba, return triumphantly to Paris and finally meet his destiny at Waterloo were to become known as The Hundred Days - and that is where we pick up the trail in this title of the Let's Trail series. You can visit Elba or journey within France to Antibes, Grenoble and/or Paris. You may visit Belgium where you will the see the battlefield of Waterloo and relive these events all the time travelling in Napoleon's footsteps.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789674310745

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Napoleon Bonaparte by Anonim Pdf

This book is suitable for children age 9 and above. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France. He was a very successful military general and he led his army into many victorious battles. This is the story of how a lawyer's son rose to become a powerful emperor.

Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783781232

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The Legend Of Napoleon by Sudhir Hazareesingh Pdf

'God was bored with Napoleon,' wrote Victor Hugo, and the Emperor was duly defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled to St Helena, where he died an agonizing and horrifying death. The Emperor's real legacy is the modernizing and beautifying of Paris, the official promotion of religious tolerance, the current French legal and educational systems, and the European Union, to name but a few Napoleonic initiatives. And of course, the legend lives on. Drawing on new archival research, Hazareesingh traces not only the emergence of the Napoleonic myth and how it developed into a potent political culture, but also the amazing tenacity of popular affection for the Emperor, manifest in countless busts and portraits in ordinary citizens' homes, grass-roots political activism, miraculous apparitions reported after his death and the memories kept alive by thousands of imperial war veterans. This book is a timely study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries.

Author : Archibald Belaney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026378745

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The Hundred Days of Napoleon by Archibald Belaney Pdf

Author : Beatrice de Graaf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842068

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Fighting Terror after Napoleon by Beatrice de Graaf Pdf

Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.