Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's astonishing return to power in France from exile on Elba in 1815 and how ...

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 ...

In Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky began his contemplations on the consequences of the actions of the so-called Great Men of History, from Peter the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte, who is ...

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 ...

A trove of objects that portray Napoleon Bonaparte at his most powerful—and his most personal—sold for a whopping total of nearly $10 million at auction. An iconic portrait of the French emperor at ...

The Great Men of History, just like the Grand Inquisitor, may impose their power, but their rule is temporal and cannot withstand the counterbalancing presence of free will, which, by endowing ...

The figure of Napoleon has long been an object of fascination, but the new Ridley Scott biopic makes one wonder why. The film, perhaps inadvertently, partakes of the spirit of the times. The … ...

Below, four authorities on Napoleon recommend their favorite books, movies, pods, and docs about the little Emperor.

As director Ridley Scott prepares to drop his take on one of history’s most-discussed characters, we've assembled an elite panel of Napoleon experts to suggest some points of comparison.

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.” ...