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The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey (Paperback, 2001)

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Product Description : Ever since 1821 when he died at age fiftyone on the forlorn and windswept island of St Helena Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demigod or devil incarnate In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte the first volume of a twovolume cradletograve biography Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being Asprey tells this fascinating tragic tale in lush narrative detail The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleons vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power Here is Napoleon as he wasnot saint not sinner but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself his empire and his world

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Robert Asprey charts Napoleon's thrilling, reckless rise to power in this fast-paced first volume of the definitive biography of the fascinating, enigmatic, and still mysterious tragic conqueror.. Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to-grave biography, Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being. Asprey tells this fascinating, tragic tale in lush narrative detail. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting, reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleon's vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power. Here is Napoleon as he was-not saint, not sinner, but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself, his empire, and his world.