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Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815 [Hardback]

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(University of Newcastle, Australia.)
  • Format: Hardback, 816 pages, height x width: 234x153 mm, weight: 1330 g
  • Pub. Date: 07-Nov-2013
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN-10: 0747578087
  • ISBN-13: 9780747578086
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  • Format: Hardback, 816 pages, height x width: 234x153 mm, weight: 1330 g
  • Pub. Date: 07-Nov-2013
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN-10: 0747578087
  • ISBN-13: 9780747578086
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'Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular imagination. He himself contributed much towards the construction of his own myth, from his youth even until after he fell from power, when, while in exile, he dictated his memoirs to a group of disciples who took down his every word in the hope that his version of history would prevail. Such were Napoleon's skills as a chronicler that much of the legend is still unquestioningly accepted...'

This second volume of Philip Dwyer's outstanding biography sheds further fresh light on one of the great figures of modern history. After a meteoric rise, a military-political coup in 1799 established Napoleon Bonaparte in government, aged just thirty. This meticulously researched study examines the man in power, from his brooding obsessions and capacity for violence, to his ability to inspire others and realise his visionary ideas. One of the first truly modern politicians, Napoleon skilfully fashioned the image of himself that laid the foundation of the legend that endures to this day; Philip Dwyer's ambitious, definitive work separates myth from history to offer us anew one of history's most charismatic and able leaders.

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Five books about wars impressed me this year: Roger Knights immaculately researched Britain against Napoleon: the Organisation of Victory 1793-1815; Philip Dwyers Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815 which gives, in depth, the other side of that coin * Simon Heffer, New Statesman Books of the Year * The main purpose of the concluding volume of Dwyers life of Napoleon is not to explain why he became such a revered general, but rather to unpick his complex character and asses his political and military achievements. He succeeds brilliantly and we are left with a nuanced portrait of a ruthless and far from infallible leader who concealed his defeats, exaggerated his victories and blamed other for his failings ... Philip Dwyer has produced a fitting sequel to his early life of Napoleon Bonaparte that will be hard to emulate. What it lacks in battlefield colour it more than makes up for by its subtle and judicious assessment of Napoleon the man and Napoleon the politician * Literary Review * He is very good on the tensions and rows ripping through the Bonaparte family, which was such an important element in the whole enterprise. Here, as everywhere, he produces nice detail and the telling anecdote ... a very fine book, which explains Napoleons extraordinary rise to power and equally meteoric fall, with great erudition, skill and verve * Adam Zamoyski, Spectator * Exemplary scholarship ... A book of meticulous research and beautifully detailed descriptions of Napoleons military adventures, brings home the full horrific cost of the march on Russia * New Statesman *

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The second volume of a new and comprehensive biography about one of the history's most charismatic leaders
Regeneration, 1799--1802
1 The Invention of a Saviour
`Neither Excitement nor Enthusiasm'
3(5)
`Despair of Relying on Yourselves and Rely Only on Me'
8(2)
`Do You Want to be King?'
10(2)
`Blood will Flow Up to your Knees'
12(2)
A Regime of `Servitude and Silence'
14(3)
The Vessel of State Arrives in Port
17(2)
`The End of our Suffering'
19(2)
Repression and Reconciliation
21(3)
2 `Perfect Glory and Solid Peace'
The Seat of Power
24(4)
The Search for Peace
28(3)
Preparations for War
31(2)
`Like a Thunderbolt'
33(5)
`Calm on a Fiery Horse'
38(3)
3 Italy and the Consolidation of Power
`In God's Name, Return if You Can'
41(3)
`If I Die, It Would be a Misfortune'
44(2)
The Hero Returns
46(1)
The Festival of the Concord
47(3)
`Why am I Not Permitted to Weep?'
50(4)
If I am a Traitor, Become Brutus'
54(5)
4 Peace
`Blood, Must Flow!'
59(4)
Hohenlinden
63(3)
`We Blessed the Name of Bonaparte'
66(2)
`The August Pacifier of the World'
68(6)
Bonaparte's Paris
74(2)
`No One Dares Now Talk Politics'
76(3)
5 The Politics of Fusion
The Return of the Emigres
79(2)
A Vaccine against Religion
81(6)
`The Head of Medusa Should Show Itself No More!'
87(5)
Portraying Bonaparte
92(7)
Empire, 1802--1804
6 The Conservative Turn
`The Men of the Revolution Have Nothing to Fear'
99(3)
The Imagination of the French People
102(3)
Pots of Butter and Malcontent Republicans
105(1)
`An Aura of Fear'
106(2)
A Republic in Uniform
108(2)
`Weeping Tears of Blood'
110(4)
`Six Centuries of Outrage to Avenge'
114(2)
7 The End of the Revolution
The Plot to Kill Bonaparte
116(3)
The Kidnapping and Execution of the Due d'Enghien
119(5)
Bonaparte Becomes Napoleon
124(4)
`Sea of Dreams, Empire of Reality'
128(3)
A Troublesome Family
131(7)
8 `The First Throne of the Universe'
The Trial of General Moreau
138(2)
`The Most Perfect of Men'
140(4)
Plebiscitary Leadership
144(1)
Trinkets and Baubles
145(2)
Boulogne
147(2)
Charlemagne, Not Caesar (or Alexander)
149(2)
`The Restorer of the Roman Empire'
151(1)
The Thaumaturge King
152(2)
Rendering Napoleon Sacred
154(5)
A Vexed Question
159(2)
9 Citizen Emperor
The Coronation
161(6)
Representing the Empire
167(8)
The Distribution of the Eagles
175(4)
The People's Empire
179(1)
The Jacobin Emperor
180(5)
Conquest, 1805--1807
10 `The Rage of Conquest and Ambition'
King of All Italy
185(4)
The Rebirth of the Coalition
189(1)
The Army of England
190(3)
The Battle of Cadiz
193(3)
Seven Torrents Descend on Germany
196(3)
`Fighting England in Germany'
199(4)
The `Bloodiest [ Battle] Ever Recorded'
203(5)
`Peace is an Empty Word'
208(3)
11 The Grand Empire
Napoleon the Great, Napoleon the Saint
211(4)
`He is the One God Created'
215(1)
The Bonapartes in Europe
216(6)
`Breathing a Desire for Revenge'
222(3)
Avenging Rossbach
225(4)
A Triumphant Napoleon...
229(3)
... Encounters an Obdurate Frederick William
232(3)
Walewska
235(3)
12 Zenith
The Great Debacle
238(5)
`One More Victory'
243(3)
The Partition of the World
246(5)
`Everybody Hated the French'
251(2)
`The Heavens Gave Birth to Bonaparte for Victory'
253(2)
The Limits of Despotism
255(3)
13 `The Devil's Business'
The Lion and the Lamb
258(3)
The Famine March
261(2)
A Despised Family
263(6)
`A Pitiful Intrigue'
269(2)
`Glorious Insurrection'
271(2)
`A Barbarous and Inhospitable Land'
273(3)
Bailen
276(5)
Crucible, 1808--1811
14 The Desolate Father
Erfurt, the German Princes and a Russian Bear
281(5)
`When Will the Blood Cease to Flow?'
286(2)
The Consolatory Gaze
288(3)
The Clemency of His Majesty
291(4)
`A War of Cannibals'
295(4)
The Courtier's Mask...
299(2)
... and Napoleon's Bad Behaviour
301(3)
15 The Tide Turns
`For the Love of the Fatherland'
304(2)
Eckmuhl
306(2)
`So the Man is Mad'
308(4)
The Battle of the Cannon
312(3)
Schonbrunn
315(2)
`I am Charlemagne'
317(3)
`Politics Has No Heart'
320(6)
16 Bourgeois Emperor, Universal Emperor
`I am Marrying a Womb'
326(4)
Marie-Louise
330(4)
Ceremonial Paris
334(2)
Men are `Insufferable'
336(1)
The King of Rome
337(4)
The Father of the People
341(4)
Towards the Universal Monarchy
345(5)
17 `A Very Stormy Year'
Napoleon Reaches Out
350(3)
The Phantom Alliance
353(3)
`Two Blustering Braggarts'
356(4)
The Army of the Gauls and the Twenty Nations
360(2)
The Imperial Progress
362(7)
Hubris, 1812
18 The Second Polish War
The Tempest Breaks
369(2)
The Tsar Dances, the Emperor Fumes
371(3)
`Like a Ship without a Compass'
374(5)
`The Corpse of a Dead Enemy Always Smells Good'
379(2)
Borodino
381(6)
19 `The Struggle of Obstinacy'
Moscow
387(2)
`The Irresponsible Act of a Deranged Asiatic'
389(4)
`I Want Peace, I Need Peace, I Must Have Peace!'
393(3)
`A Cadaver of a Capital'
396(4)
Maloyaroslavets
400(1)
`The Empire of Death'
401(5)
20 Destiny Forsaken
`A Starving Multitude'
406(3)
Napoleon's Despair
409(1)
Vengeance
410(2)
The Berezina
412(4)
`A Vast and Lugubrious Taciturnity'
416(2)
Napoleon Decamps
418(3)
In a Sleigh with the Emperor
421(2)
Aftermath
423(8)
The Adventurer, 1813--1814
21 `The Enemy of the Human Race'
The Limits of Attachment
431(3)
The Germans Strike Back
434(4)
The Beast of the Apocalypse
438(5)
`A Policy of Illusion'
443(2)
Lutzen and Bautzen
445(2)
The Allies Devise a Plan
447(2)
`Excessive Ambition and Greed'
449(4)
22 The Deliverance of Europe
`A Weak, Rotten, Poorly Designed Structure'
453(2)
Dresden
455(2)
The Battle of the Nations
457(7)
Self-Destruction
464(4)
The Barbarian Invasions
468(7)
23 The Naked Emperor
`I Shall Know How to Die'
475(6)
`Everyone Has Lost their Heads'
481(3)
`Nap the Mighty is -- Gone to the Pot!!!'
484(5)
`Napoleon is Always Napoleon'
489(1)
The Struggle for Marie-Louise
490(2)
The Long Goodbye
492(7)
24 Sovereign of Elba
Napoleon Returns to his Roots
499(2)
A Dead Man, in Perpetual Movement
501(5)
Wife, Lover, Sister, Mother
506(5)
The Decision
511(5)
`The Die is Cast'
516(5)
The second coming, 1815
25 The Saviour Returns
`A Criminal and Impotent Delirium'
521(6)
Rumours
527(1)
Marching to Paris with their Hands in their Pockets
528(2)
From Adventurer to Prince
530(3)
The Passionate and the Afflicted
533(1)
Napoleon Impotent
534(4)
26 A Parody of Empire
`Venality Dressed in Ideological Garb'
538(2)
The Last Plebiscite
540(2)
The Champ de Mai
542(2)
`Never Did I See Such a Pounding Match'
544(4)
Chaos
548(2)
`I Have Received a Mortal Blow'
550(3)
`I Want Nothing for Myself'
553(3)
Epilogue 556(9)
Notes 565(140)
Bibliography 705(70)
Acknowledgements 775(2)
Index 777
Philip Dwyer studied in Perth (Australia), Berlin and Paris, where he was a student of Frances pre-eminent Napoleonic scholar, Jean Tulard. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, and is Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia.