The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (The Complete Four-Volume Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. French Revolution, European Conquest, Waterloo, and the Making of Modern PowerBy William Milligan Sloane
Length58h 30m
About this audiobook
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (The Complete Four-Volume Edition) is an expansive political, military, and psychological study of Napoleon's rise, rule, and fall, set against the convulsions of the French Revolution and the remaking of Europe. Sloane combines narrative history with documentary seriousness, tracing campaigns, institutions, diplomacy, and character with the confidence of late nineteenth-century scholarly prose. The work belongs to the great age of comprehensive Napoleonic biography, when historians sought to reconcile battlefield grandeur with constitutional, social, and imperial consequence. William Milligan Sloane, an American historian and educator associated with Princeton and Columbia, was deeply trained in European history and particularly attentive to French revolutionary and Napoleonic sources. His academic formation and long engagement with continental politics equipped him to treat Napoleon not merely as a military genius, but as a product of revolutionary upheaval, administrative ambition, and modern statecraft. This edition is recommended for readers who want more than a brief life of Napoleon. It will especially reward students of European history, military affairs, political leadership, and historical biography, offering a richly contextualized portrait of a figure whose legacy still shapes modern power.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length58 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26CHAPTER XXII.
2Volume 1
27CHAPTER XXIII.
3PREFACE TO THE LIBRARY EDITION
28CHAPTER XXIV.
4PREFACE
29CHAPTER XXV.
5CHAPTER I.
30CHAPTER XXVI.
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6CHAPTER II.
31CHAPTER XXVII.
7CHAPTER III.
32CHAPTER XXVIII.
8CHAPTER IV.
33CHAPTER XXIX.
9CHAPTER V.
34CHAPTER XXX.
10CHAPTER VI.
35CHAPTER XXXI.
11CHAPTER VII.
36CHAPTER XXXII.
12CHAPTER VIII.
37CHAPTER XXXIII.
13CHAPTER IX.
38CHAPTER XXXIV.
14CHAPTER X.
39Footnote
15CHAPTER XI.
40Volume 2
16CHAPTER XII.
41CHAPTER I
17CHAPTER XIII.
42CHAPTER II
18CHAPTER XIV.
43CHAPTER III
19CHAPTER XV.
44CHAPTER IV
20CHAPTER XVI.
45CHAPTER V
21CHAPTER XVII.
46CHAPTER VI
22CHAPTER XVIII.
47CHAPTER VII
23CHAPTER XIX.
48CHAPTER VIII
24CHAPTER XX.
49CHAPTER IX
25CHAPTER XXI.
50CHAPTER X[12]
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