![]() |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 781-789) and index. |a xxi, 870 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of illustrations : |b illustrations, maps |c 25 cm. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders. ![]() |a The age of Napoleon : |b a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815 / |c by Will and Ariel Durant. Buy The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 By Will Durant. |PrefaceBook One: The French Revolution, 1789-99Book Two: Napoleon Ascendant, 1799-1811Book Three: Britain, 1789-1812Book Four: The Challenged Kings, 1789-1812Part Five: Finale, 1811-1815 In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the French Revolution-from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the king the revolution's leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just-all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated Napoleon's meteoric rise-from provincial Corsican military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history Napoleon's fall-his army's destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe the birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new era. ![]() ![]() An engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel DurantThe Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. ![]()
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