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“Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to happen.” BAILEY.The Bible, as well as other historical books show traces of a general and substantial belief in dreams. Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon attr… more

If you have never played cards before, this book is the ideal introduction. Or if you have a basic idea of the rules of some games, it will help you extend your existing knowledge and add new games to your repertoire. You will learn all th… more

British scholar Briggs unveils his lucid new translation of Tolstoy’s masterpiece-the first in almost 40 years-to a slightly anxious audience, from first-timers who, balking at the amount of time required by this massive yet startlingly int… more

The Peninsula War against Napoleon has left wounded ex-soldiers littering the street throughout England. Unable to work, they beg. Constance, a wealthy twenty-eight-year old spinster, sets out on a mission to help these defenceless men, lit… more

Tanley’s boring life on Saint Michael’s Mount gets a lot more complicated when a man is washed up on the beach. With her father dead, the neighbor smuggling, and a knife wound in the man’s shoulder she’s all alone with a whole lot of troubl… more

In THE GHOST OF NAPOLEON, Liddell Hart concentrates on two of these intellections, each of which vitally affected the course of history in the last two centuries. One was responsible for the triumphs of Revolutionary France and for Napoleon… more

With foreign assassins hot on his trail, Lang Reilly races across the globe in search of the historic artifact that Napoleon believed enabled him to conquer most of the world.

In the pages that follow, the Author leads the reader along the way he must travel to achieve success. The man who succeeds is he who saw his object in early life and never lost sight of it. “Genius,” Bulwer tells us, “is but fine obser- va… more

It was a quiet day; the sun was shining bright with just a slight breeze to cool the skin. The sky was cloudless and the birds were high making use of the thermals available. The beauty of nature was in stark contrast to the ugliness and … more

The increasing capacity of states to muster violence, the concomitant rise of military power as a meaningful instrument of foreign policy, and the frequent episodic collapse of that power are considered in this examination of force, order, … more

Do you know the longest time a man once had hiccups for? What a Money was once tried and convicted for? What Napoleon was absolutely terrified of? These are just a few of the questions that you’ll find out the answers to.A great way of pass… more

Instead of following “Madame Thérèse” with stories celebrating the victories of Napoleon and thus appealing to their compatriots’ love of glory and military illusions, MM. Erckmann-Chatrian take up next the tragic and far more significant s… more

“The Italian subjects of Napoleon the First were far from displaying the same zeal and the same gratitude for his paternal care and kindness in taking upon himself the trouble of governing them, as we good Parisians have done. ”

The stories made by the people, and told before evening fires, or in public places and at the gates of inns in the Orient, belong to the ages when books were few and knowledge limited, or to people whose fancy was not hampered by familiarit… more

Lily was only six when she met the man she knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. When he asked her father for her hand in marriage, he believed the lies her father told him, and immediately left to fight in the war against Nap… more

Each of us bears about within him a dark, strange room, through the closed doors of which none but himself and God may pass to see and know what lies therein. With some the room is small, and much is left without for all the world to see an… more

This book offers a fresh analysis of Napoleon’s rule.

In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural figures who represent similar tendencies. In contra… more

The late Prince Napoleon (who was more truly “the nephew of his uncle” than was Napoleon III.), in his Napoleon and His Detractors, bitterly assails this work of Constants attacking both its authenticity and the correctness of its statement… more

Through Russian Snows, A Story of Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow 1902