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Napoleon and the Hundred Days / Stephen Coote.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coote, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815.
- Napoleon.
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- France--History--Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.
- France.
- History.
- France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : DaCapo Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Vienna, 1815: As the political leaders of Europe assembled to determine the fate of the continent after the defeat of Napoleon, the alarming news arrived that Napoleon had escaped from captivity on Elba and was returning to France. Bonaparte-the revolutionary turned emperor and "disturber of the world's peace"-was fast approaching Paris, gathering troops and taking cities without firing a single shot. He had returned, and it would be just one hundred days before he met his enemies in a final, epic battle at Waterloo.
- In Napoleon and the Hundred Days, Stephen Coote vividly recreates the rise and fall of Bonaparte's empire and brings to life the characters who shaped it: Wellington, Britain's Iron Duke; Josephine, Napoleon's great love; Talleyrand, his duplicitous minister; Fouche, the sinister head of the secret police; Blucher, the uncouth yet courageous Prussian commander; and, of course, Napoleon himself. With the eye of a historian and the dramatic style of a novelist, Stephen Coote describes how the path to war became inevitable and how, at the battle at Waterloo, the fatigued but ever arrogant Napoleon met his match. This is a dazzling portrait of the legendary emperor, whose genius, courage, and tenacity won-and lost-a vast empire.
- Contents:
- Vienna, 1815
- Elba, 1814
- The flight of the eagle, 27 February-20 March 1815
- Paris, 21 March-12 June 1815
- Waterloo, 12-21 June 1815
- St. Helena, 21 June 1815-5 May 1821.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0306814080
- OCLC:
- 57285878
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