Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

18 Fog (#litres_trial_promo)

19 The Consul (#litres_trial_promo)

20 Consolidation (#litres_trial_promo)

21 Marengo (#litres_trial_promo)

22 Caesar (#litres_trial_promo)

23 Peace (#litres_trial_promo)

24 The Liberator of Europe (#litres_trial_promo)

25 His Consular Majesty (#litres_trial_promo)

26 Towards Empire (#litres_trial_promo)

27 Napoleon I (#litres_trial_promo)

28 Austerlitz (#litres_trial_promo)

29 The Emperor of the West (#litres_trial_promo)

30 Master of Europe (#litres_trial_promo)

31 The Sun Emperor (#litres_trial_promo)

32 The Emperor of the East (#litres_trial_promo)

33 The Cost of Power (#litres_trial_promo)

34 Apotheosis (#litres_trial_promo)

35 Apogee (#litres_trial_promo)

36 Blinding Power (#litres_trial_promo)

37 The Rubicon (#litres_trial_promo)

38 Nemesis (#litres_trial_promo)

39 Hollow Victories (#litres_trial_promo)

40 Last Chance (#litres_trial_promo)

41 The Wounded Lion (#litres_trial_promo)

42 Rejection (#litres_trial_promo)

43 The Outlaw (#litres_trial_promo)

44 A Crown of Thorns (#litres_trial_promo)

Notes (#litres_trial_promo)

Picture Section (#litres_trial_promo)

Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Adam Zamoyski (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Illustrations (#u8e5d4140-ff47-53a9-9ecb-06e304b52abd)

Napoleon’s mother Letizia Bonaparte in 1800, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. (Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Two sketches of Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David. (Sketches of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1797 (pencil), David, Jacques-Louis (1748–1825)/Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Palais Massena, Nice, France/Bridgeman Images)

Bonaparte during the Italian campaign of 1796, by Giuseppe Longhi. (Paul Fearn/Alamy Stock Photo)

Bonaparte leading his troops across the bridge at Arcole, by Antoine-Jean Gros. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Bonaparte in 1797, by Francesco Cossia. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Josephine Bonaparte in 1797, by Andrea Appiani. (ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

Auguste Marmont, by Georges Rouget. (Wikimedia Commons)

Andoche Junot, by David. (© President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Joachim Murat. (ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

Josephine’s son Eugène de Beauharnais, by Gros. (Hirarchivum Press/Alamy Stock Photo)

Napoleon’s younger sister Pauline, by Jean Jacques Thérésa de Lusse. (flickr/lost gallery/Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese/De Lusse/CC by 2.0)

Bonaparte visiting plague victims at Jaffa during his Syrian campaign, by Gros. (Photo by Archiv Gerstenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Joseph Bonaparte. (Photo by Stefano Bianchetti/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, by Nicolas Joseph Jouy. (Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

Napoleon’s younger brother Lucien, by François-Xavier Fabre, c.1808. (ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)