Napoleon: A Biography
10 best books like Napoleon: A Biography (Frank McLynn): iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, Long Walk To Freedom, The Science of Getting Rich, You Were Born Rich: Now You Can Discover And Develop Those Riches, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle For Modern Europe, Bismarck: A Life, The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
| Author | Jeffrey S. Young |
| ISBN | 0471787841 |
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 0349116024 |
From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...
The Science of Getting Rich
| Author | Wallace D. Wattles |
| ISBN | 1585426016 |
As featured in the bestselling book The Secret, here is the landmark guide to wealth creation republished with the classic essay “How to Get What You Want.” Wallace D. Wattles spent a lifetime considering the laws of success as he found them in the work of the world’s great philosophers. He then...
You Were Born Rich: Now You Can Discover And Develop Those Riches
| Author | Bob Proctor |
| ISBN | 0965626415 |
So how did a book change my life? Well, I was a school teacher in Toronto, Canada, and had no idea who Bob Proctor was, or what the personal development movement was. It was a chance meeting with a neighbor, who was Proctor's Director of Sales, that inspired my passion for personal development and youth...
Get your stories off to a roaring start. Keep them tight and crisp throughout. Conclude them with a wallop.
Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?
Translating...
| Author | John R. Elting |
| ISBN | 0306807572 |
This authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon's most powerful weapon—the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines every facet of this incredibly complex human machine: its organization, command system, logistics,...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | Andrew Roberts |
| ISBN | 0060762152 |
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions clashed with the Anglo-Allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington...
| Author | Jonathan Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0199782520 |
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's...
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330
| Author | Ian Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0224062492 |
When one thinks of a scandalous love affair in English monarchial history; the immediate response is Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII. Believe it or not, a century prior, a similar indignity played out in medieval England but with a queen taking the lead. The queen – Queen Isabella, consort to King Edward...
