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For years, critics have celebrated best-selling author Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures for their magnificent blend of swashbuckling excitement and historical accuracy. With The Hundred Days, he transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era when the French demagogue is making a desperate attempt to control the European world. While Napoleon pursues the British across Europe, rumors fly about him forging a secret link with the forces...

"A crocodile seeks revenge on Napoleon for taking him from his home, but instead becomes the talk of Venice high society."--

In these lectures, Professor Donald M.G. Sutherland explores the life and times of Napoleon, one of history's most brilliant strategic thinkers. But despite his inarguable brilliance, Napoleon has also been denounced as unscrupulously ambitious and as alone responsible for the wars that bear his name. With his scholarly eye, Professor Sutherland imparts a fuller understanding of this polarizing figure and deftly shows how Napoleon fit into the sweep...

"In 1795 he was an unpaid general consumed with ambition. In 1816 he was a bitter exile on the remote island of St. Helena. In the years between he was the most powerful main on earth. From the campaign that transformed the Corsican outsider into a French hero to his bitter, final defeat at Waterloo, "Napoleon" charts the course of the man who defied centuries of tradition and forced his will upon a continent ... This epic production explores the...