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This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career.

Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who still styled himself Napoleone di Buonaparte, Holmes examines every facet of his subject's military career: his astonishing victories at the Battle of the Pyramids, Marengo, Jena and Austerlitz, through to defeat and exile under the immense weight of the great powers who were determined to stop the man who would be emperor of Europe.

The Napoleonic Wars

Introduction: The Age of Napoleon * The Revolutionary Background * The Making of a Reputation * Artillery * The Italian Campaign * Infantry * Egypt and Syria * Brumaire and Marengo * Ruler and Lawgiver * Ulm and Austerlitz * War at Sea * Napoleon's Art of War * The Jena Campaign * Grande Armee * Berlin to Tilsit * Cavalry * Napoleon in Spain * Napoleon's Family * The Wagram Campaign * The Spanish Ulcer 1809-11 * The * Imperial Court * The War of 1812 * Russia: The Niemen to Moscow * Russia: Fire and Snow * Military Medicine * The Spanish Ulcer 1812-14 * The Home Front: Napoleonic France * The Battle of the Nations * Napoleon's Greatest Adversaries * The Champagne Campaign * The Congress of Vienna * The Hundred Days: Return and Attack * The Imperial Guard * The Hundred Days: Waterloo * Imperial Twilight: St Helena * Napoleon's Legacy.