The oldest village of Duboye in Pinsk District is a keeper of many legends and is home to many sights. This special place, known since the 15th century, was owned by the Poloz, Sapieha, Oginski, ...

Why go? Corsica, a traveller's paradise, is the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, specifically in the island's capital of Ajaccio. It is filled with elegant, ancestral houses, Tuscan-like beauty, ...

As only French biographers can do, every conceivable motive and alternative scenario is presented at every stage in the astonishing rise of the subject from the petty and parvenu and rather ...

IF THE tremendous accumulation of books about Napoleon seems an argument against reading another, it is an even stronger argument against writing one. Emil Ludwig’s “Napoleon, the Man of Destiny” is a ...

As an exemplary military leader and self-crowned emperor, Napoleon capitalized on his mastery of manipulating traditional media, says Forrest, director of the Centre for 18th Century Studies in ...

Broers’ Napoleon is not a great battlefield general although his ability to motivate men in battle or rally the masses back in Paris is unquestioned. His Egyptian campaign (Napoleon still was in his ...