Will Hobson
Author
Pub. Date
c2003, c1998
Description
The winner of one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, The Blue Wolf is the epic historical novel of Genghis Khan
At the height of his power, Genghis Khan unified four hundred tribes and was feared by men from Baghdad to Peking. Like Napoleon, he imposed a pitiless regime on the people he subjugated; like Caesar, he led his troops with a merciless code of conduct. But even the greatest of rulers have a beginning.
In Frederic Dion's The...
2) The battle
Author
Series
Napoleonic trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
"The Battle is a book Balzac always wanted to write, mentioning it in his correspondence to friends, but never actually getting beyond the research stage during his lifetime. Balzac wanted to explore how a man such as Napoleon reacted in the heat of battle, and to plunge the reader into the horror and fascination of the battlefield.".
"The only surviving line is "On Tuesday 16th May 1809 ... ' and Patrick Rambaud uses this beginning to write the...
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