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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte (Memoirs of Napolean Bonaparte)
Louis Antonine Fauve De Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Phipps

University Press of the Pacific, 2001

This is Volume 2 of a four volume set This incredible set begins with Napoleon's birth in Corsica in 1769 and ends with his entombment in the Invalides in Paris in 1840, further set off by an additional section back of Volume IV, Napoleon's Will. (And, no, he didn't leave it all to Josephine. They divorced in 1809. Four months later, he married Archduchess Marie Louise. She didn't get anything either.) That aside, these four illustrated ...

The Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon I.: Vol. 4 (Armies of the ...

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Ramsay Weston Phipps

Greenwood Press Reprint, 1980

To Follow The Drum
The only reason that this five volume work is rated with five stars is that is the highest I could go on this forum. It rates a 'ten' easily. This monumnetal, authoritative, exhaustively researched work is also a great read. Ramsay Phipps delved into the lives and accomplishments of some of the greatest soldiers in history and came up with the definitive work on the period. Generally, we ...