Napoleon
- ISBN-10
- 0670030783
- ISBN-13
- 9780670030781
- Series
- Napoleon
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 190
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Author
- Paul Johnson
Description
An acclaimed historian turns his sights on Napoleon, casting his towering life in a new light, from his early displays of military genius through his lust for power and his eventual defeat at Waterloo and exile on St. Helena. 30,000 first printing.
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