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2) Charlemagne
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Pub. Date
1986
Description
Traces the life of the Frankish warrior and king who built a great empire in western Europe.
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Pub. Date
2003.
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What becomes of leaders when absolute power is wrested from their hands? How does dramatic political change affect once-absolute monarchs? In acclaimed historian Munro Price's powerful new book, he confronts one of the enduring mysteries of the French Revolution, what were the true actions and feelings of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they watched their sovereignty collapse?
Dragged back from Versailles to Paris by the crowd in October 1789,...
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Pub. Date
c2004
Description
This book examines the nature and politics of Napoleon's power and how he used it, discussing his rise to fame as a soldier in the French Revolution, his achievements as first consul and emperor from 1799 to 1815, and the impact his political domination had on world history and development.
11) Napoleon: a life
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon...
12) Charlemagne
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Pub. Date
[1968]
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Surveys the age of Charlemagne and his influence on subsequent periods of European history. Profusely illustrated with photographs of art dating from the time of Charlemagne.
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Pub. Date
c1997
Description
This lively, brilliantly written one-volume biography captures the spectacular rise and dizzying fall, the battlefield victories and personal struggles, of one of history's most powerful and fascinating figures. Filling a remarkable gap, historian Alan Schom offers the most complete picture ever of Napoleon Bonaparte, "the scourge of Europe" and France's greatest hero.
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The Barnes & Noble Review: Was she a sexual predator, political meddler, wastrel, and traitor? Or was she a scapegoat for a corrupt and bankrupt nation, who went with superb dignity to the guillotine, the victim of a vindictive judicial murder? The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, rich in conflicting detail, remains a biographer's challenge, and Antonia Fraser's richly human yet evenhanded account is a reader's delight. In 1770, Marie Antoinette,...
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