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Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga)
C.S. Forester
Back Bay Books
Back Bay Books
"In this, the tenth volume in C.S. Forester's series of classic naval adventure tales, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew--a dubious chore, but one that leads Hornblower, with the aid of his old...
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The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm
Vintage
Vintage
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic...
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The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815
Noel Mostert
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits. In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary...
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Napoleon: The Path to Power
Philip Dwyer
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. But the journey that led him there was neither inevitable nor smooth. This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and...
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The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
David A. Bell
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war," but as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the age of Napoleon. Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in...
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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
Nina Burleigh
Harper
Harper
Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation—and no...
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