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The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant
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The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, XI)

by Will & Ariel Durant (otherwise under Will Durant)

Series: The Story of Civilization (Part 11)

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Simon and Schuster (1975), Hardcover

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France was the most populous and prosperous nation in Europe.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 067121988X, Hardcover)

A sweeping portrait of an age, this book--the 11th and final volume in Will and Ariel Durant's Story of Civilization series--makes Napoleon its hero. The Durants, capable of switching from art to science to warfare with ease and skill, rank among the world's great popular historians. This adroitness requires some condensation: the description of Waterloo, for instance, takes up about three pages. If you want a detailed history of Napoleon's battle orders, look elsewhere, but if you want to understand the age and the man--in that order--The Age of Napoleon is a great place to begin.

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