The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
Eyewitness Memoirs, Military Strategy, and the European Legacy of Empire, Exile, and WaterlooBy Napoleon Bonaparte, Carl Von Clausewitz, Charles Downer Hazen, Alexandre Dumas, Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan Sloane
Length358h 32m
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The Rise and Fall of Napoleon assembles a capacious documentary and literary portrait of the Napoleonic age, tracing the transformation of revolutionary general into imperial ruler and defeated exile. Military analysis, memoir, biography, eyewitness recollection, political history, and romance-inflected narrative coexist here, illuminating battlefield strategy alongside courtly ceremony, private ambition, and the human costs of continental war. Vivid campaign narratives and reflections on Waterloo give the volume particular dramatic force. Its contributors include commanders, soldiers, attendants, historians, and major literary interpreters of the nineteenth century, as well as Napoleon himself. Their varied positions—from the Emperor's inner circle to British and French military experience—situate the collection within the enduring historiographical contest over Napoleonic heroism, despotism, modernity, and memory. Together these voices reveal how the legend of Napoleon was fashioned through testimony, retrospective judgment, and imaginative reconstruction. Recommended for students of European history, military studies, and historical literature, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare perspectives within a single volume. Readers will find both an accessible introduction to the Napoleonic Wars and a stimulating archive of competing interpretations, whose dialogue deepens understanding of power, leadership, nationalism, and historical remembrance.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length358 hrs 32 mins
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Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (Annotated)
2The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
3Historical Works
4The History of Napoleonic Wars (Charles Downer Hazen)
5The First Wars (The Era of Directory)
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6The Consulate
7The Early Years of the Empire
8The Empire at Its Height
9The Decline and Fall of Napoleon
10The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz)
11CHAPTER I
12CHAPTER II
13CHAPTER III (pt. 1)
14CHAPTER III (pt. 2)
15History of the Expedition to Russia (Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur)
16HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
17BOOK I.
18BOOK II.
19BOOK III.
20BOOK IV.
21BOOK V.
22BOOK VI.
23BOOK VII.
24HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
25BOOK VIII.
26Chapter I
27Chapter II
28Chapter III
29Chapter IV
30Chapter V
31Chapter VI
32Chapter VII
33Chapter VIII
34Chapter IX
35Chapter X
36Chapter XI
37BOOK IX.
38BOOK X.
39BOOK XI.
40BOOK XII.
41Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 1)
42Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 2)
43Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 1)
44Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 2)
45Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 3)
46England and Napoleon (1801-1815) (S. E. Winbolt)
47INTRODUCTION
48THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC (1801). Source.—Thomas Campbell: Historical Lyrics and Ballads
49VERSES BY CANNING AGAINST ADDINGTON (1803). Source.—Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, 1862.
50THE YOUNGER PITT (1806). Source.—Sir W. Scott.
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