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Napoleon: The End of Glory
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Napoleon: The End of Glory tells the story of the dramatic two years that led to Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. Though crucial to European history, they remain strangely neglected, lying between the two much better-known landmarks of the retreat from Moscow and the battle of Waterloo. Yet this short period saw both Napoleon's loss of his European empire, and of his control over France itself. In 1813 the massive battle of Leipzig - the bloodiest in modern history before the first day of the Somme - forced his armies back to the Rhine. The next year, after a brilliant ... Read more
Napoleon: The End of Glory tells the story of the dramatic two years that led to Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. Though crucial to European history, they remain strangely neglected, lying between the two much better-known landmarks of the retreat from Moscow and the battle of Waterloo. Yet this short period saw both Napoleon's loss of his European empire, and of his control over France itself. In 1813 the massive battle of Leipzig - the bloodiest in modern history before the first day of the Somme - forced his armies back to the Rhine. The next year, after a brilliant ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1963
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198766230
SKU
V9780198766230
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About Munro Price
Munro Price is a historian of modern French and European history, with a special focus on the French Revolution, and is Professor of Modern European History at Bradford University. His publications include The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil, which won the 2002 Franco-British Society Literary Prize, and The Perilous Crown: France ... Read more
Reviews for Napoleon: The End of Glory
Review from previous edition ... an exciting story and it is one to which Munro Price has devoted himself with consummate skill
Reviews in History
Price's book is well paced, cleanly written and thoughtful.
John Bugg, The Times Literary Supplement
Price has rewritten the history of the decline and fall of Napoleon in a highly original ... Read more
Reviews in History
Price's book is well paced, cleanly written and thoughtful.
John Bugg, The Times Literary Supplement
Price has rewritten the history of the decline and fall of Napoleon in a highly original ... Read more