Napoleon Bonaparte's Astounding Life And Military Genius Have Captured Imaginations For Two Centuries. Now Award-winning Historian David A. Bell Provides A Succinct And Elegant Portrait, Offering An Original And Lively Account Of Napoleon's Dazzling Career And Firmly Situating Him In The Historical Context Of Revolutionary France. Bell Emphasizes The Astonishing Sense Of Human Possibility - For Both Good And Ill - That Napoleon Represented. By His Late Twenties, He Was Already One Of The Greatest Generals In European History. At Thirty, He Had Become Absolute Master Of Europe's Most Powerful Country. In His Early Forties, He Ruled A European Empire Mightier Than Any Since Rome, Fighting Wars That Changed The Shape Of The Continent. But His Fall Was Epic As Well, Leading Him To Spend His Last Years In Miserable Exile In The South Atlantic. The Corsican, 1769-1796 -- The General, 1796-1799 -- The First Consul, 1799-1804 -- The Emperor, 1804-1812 -- Downfall, 1812-1815 -- Epilogue: 1815-2015. David A. Bell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

The Making of a Female Serial Killer"In America's First Female Serial Killer, McBrayer offers us a complex―and terrifying―portrait of a killer who seemed almost doomed from birth." ―Kate Winkler Dawson, author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI#1 Best Seller in History of Ireland, Child Psychology, and Crime & CriminalsFor readers who are fascinated by how serial killers are made. This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and readers of both fiction and true crime nonfiction. It is for watchers of television shows like Deadly Women and Mindhunter, who are fascinated by how killers are made. It’s for self-conscious feminists, Americans trying to bootstrap themselves into success, and anyone who loves a vigilante beatdown, especially one gone off the rails.America’s first female serial killer was not always a killer. America’s First Female Serial Killer novelizes the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Although all the facts are intact, books about her life and her crimes are all facts and no story. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way.Making of a serial killer. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, wrote her out of the will, and essentially taught her how to hate herself. Jilted at the altar, Jane became a nurse and took control of her life, and the lives of her victims.Readers of America’s First Female Serial Killer:Will gain insight into the personal development of a severely damaged person without rationalizing her crimes Experience the rarely told story of a female serial killer Understand that even monsters were humans, firstIf you enjoyed books such as In We Keep the Dead Close, Mindhunter, or In Cold Blood; you will love reading America’s First Female Serial Killer.

The Duke of Wellington, the most successful of British commanders, set a standard by which all subsequent British generals have been measured. His defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 crowned a reputation first won in India at Assaye and then confirmed during the Peninsular War, where he followed up his defence of Portugal by expelling the French from Spain. Gordon Corrigan, himself an ex-soldier, examines his claims to greatness. Wellington was in many ways the first modern general, combining a mastery of logistics with an ability to communicate and inspire. He had to contend not only with enemy armies but also with his political masters and an often sceptical public at home.

Looks At The Lives Of Napoleon Bonaparte And His First Wife, Josephine, And How They Influenced The Political, Social, And Cultural Life Of The Period. Evangeline Bruce. A Lisa Drew Book Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Napoleon Was But A Poor, Insignificant Army Officer. Josephine Was A Widow. They Met In The Paris Of 1795, A City Ravaged By Revolution And Despairing Of War. They Fell In Love And Married. Their Relationship Became A Legend. From The Early Days Of Their Love When Napoleon Was In Italy, To The Bitter Divorce In 1809, The Couple Kept In Touch Through Intimate Letters. Napoleon's Insatiable Ambition Took Him From Italy To Egypt, From General To Emperor. But His Opinions, His Thoughts, His Actions, He Relayed In Writing To Josephine. This Collection Of Letters Reveals Much About The Times Through Which Napoleon And Josephine Prospered And About The Forces Which Played Upon A Couple Who Rose At Astonishing Speed To The Very Height Of Power And Success. This Edition Includes Detailed Commentaries On The Letters, A Chronology And Biographies Of Key Personalities.--jacket. Biographical Notes. -- The General. -- The Consul. -- The Emperor. -- Provenance Of Letters. -- Chronology. Preface By Diana Reid Haig. The Letters In This Volume Were Translated By Henry Foljambe Hall (published In 1901 As Napoleon's Letters To Josephine, 1796-1812, By J.m. Dent & Co. In London) But They Have Been Edited, Corrected And Augmented And Illustrations Have Been Added -- T.p. Verso.

This all-new volume chronicles the events that climaxed on the field of Austerlitz in one of the most famous battles of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Not only was it the first campaign that Napoleon waged as Emperor of France, but also the first great test for his Grande Armée. The Emperor himself regarded it as his greatest victory and it undoubtedly won him a mastery of Europe that would remain unbroken for almost a decade. Most accounts of the campaign have until now been based almost exclusively on French sources, but following extensive research in the Austrian archives Ian Castle is now able to provide a far more balanced account of Austerlitz.

An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first class research..'A fabulous story, superbly told ' Max HastingsThe bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end.Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of British officers that were gathered about twenty years after the battle. But the recent publication of an abundance of fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the participating armies has illuminated important episodes and enabled radical reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What emerges is a darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of regimental honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and human frailty.An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the real inside story of the greatest land battle in British history, the defining showdown of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and cannon.

The Story Of The Battle Of Waterloo - Of The Ultimate Defeat Of Napoleon And The French, The Triumph Of Wellington, Blücher And Their Allied Armies - Is Most Often Told From The Viewpoint Of The Victors, Not The Vanquished. Even After 200 Years Of Intensive Research And The Publication Of Hundreds Of Books And Articles On The Battle, The French Perspective And Many Of The Primary French Sources Are Under-represented In The Written Record. So It Is High Time This Weakness In The Literature - And In Our Understanding Of The Battle - Was Addressed, And That Is The Purpose Of Andrew Field's Thought-provoking New Study. He Has Tracked Down Over Ninety First-hand French Accounts, Many Of Which Have Never Been Previously Published In English, And He Has Combined Them With Accounts From The Other Participants In Order To Create A Graphic New Narrative Of One Of The World's Decisive Battles. Virtually All Of The Hitherto Unpublished Testimony Provides Fascinating New Detail On The Battle And Many Of The Accounts Are Vivid, Revealing And Exciting. .