An account of the European wars during the rise and fall of Napoleon challenges popular conceptions about his ambitions and achievements while posing an alternative view on the circumstances that motivated long-standing armed conflicts throughout Europe.

A biography that will help make clear the forces that moulded Napoleon's character.

A disaster in the snow - the story of Napoleon's Russian campaign. It was to be Napoleon's Bonaparte's greatest adventure - an invasion of Russia with an army of more than 650,000 men, the largest the world had ever seen.