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Q: Any history buffs here?
Completely un-china related.
I'm just curious if anybody on this forum likes to read about history and could recommend a decent book on Napoleon. Realize I dont really know much about that era and it sounds really exciting.
Not any kind of big long series just like a one-volume reasonable length book covering that time period.
8 years 32 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
2 books I would recommend:
Napoleon Bonaparte
by Alan Schom
Napoleon
And a TV series: Napoléon (2002)
Stars: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu
coineineagh:
the miniseries was really well made. entertaining if you have an evening to spare.
2 books I would recommend:
Napoleon Bonaparte
by Alan Schom
Napoleon
And a TV series: Napoléon (2002)
Stars: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu
coineineagh:
the miniseries was really well made. entertaining if you have an evening to spare.
Check out from Dawn to Decadence. Best single volume European History Book in the World. Written by a French American so plenty of Napoleon.
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
coineineagh:
that coffin looks a bit stumpy. i know he was short, but they could have compensated. people have expectations after all. they came to see a great man's mausoleum, not a dwarf's coffin.
rasklnik:
Not a good picture...that thing is huge...I could fit in there...
diverdude1:
yeah, the photograph perspective gives the appearance that it is foreshortened, this is actually not the case, the mausoleum is very large. I know, I have visited twice.
coineineagh:
Those statues in the background give a bad reference for size, then. The architect should have thought of that.
