ANOTHER CAESAR—Alfred Neumann—Knopf ($3). Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according ...

A trove of objects that portray Napoleon Bonaparte at his most powerful—and his most personal—sold for a whopping total of ...

Banned books in the 19th century. ... from Peter the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte, who is referenced continually in Crime and Punishment, the intellectual sequel to Notes from Underground. ...

Man of Logic NAPOLEON'S MEMOIRS [605 pp.) —Edited by Somerset de Chair—Harper ($7.50). "I have been severely scolded today over my laziness," said the exiled Napoleon ...

Read a Book - Clang! 7/11/2022 | 6m 47s Video has Closed Captions | CC. In 1806, German scientist Ernst Chladni experimented with sound by making wires, columns of air, and solids vibrate.

Once the ruler of nearly all of Europe, Napoleon found himself confined to an island ten miles long and six miles wide. On Elba, he had at least been an Emperor.

Napoleon ranks third behind Jesus and Hitler in the number of books written about him but outdoes them both in the number of films — about 1,000 — made for cinema and television.

The introduction to that book ends with him acknowledging the continuing controversy before noting that “I hope the reader will be in no doubt why I have called [the book] Napoleon the Great.” ...

The historian and author on the inaccuracy of the latest Napoleon film, gout pills, and the joy of writing. By New Statesman Andrew Roberts was born in 1963 in London. He is a historian, professor and ...

Banned books in the 19th century. ... from Peter the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte, who is referenced continually in Crime and Punishment, the intellectual sequel to Notes from Underground. ...