The Age of Napoleon

audiobook (Unabridged) ∣ A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 · The Story of Civilization

By Will Durant

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audiobook

Edition

Unabridged

ISBN

9781504658188

Series

The Story of Civilization

Author

Will Durant

Publisher

Blackstone Publishing

Release

01 December 2015

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History Nonfiction
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An engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant

The Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of The Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter

  • the French Revolution—from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the king;
  • the revolution's leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just—all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated;
  • Napoleon's meteoric rise—from provincial Corsican military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history;
  • Napoleon's fall—his army's destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe;
  • the birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new era.

    • Format

    audiobook

    Edition

    Unabridged

    ISBN

    9781504658188

    Series

    The Story of Civilization

    Author

    Will Durant

    Publisher

    Blackstone Publishing

    Release

    01 December 2015

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    Subjects

    History Nonfiction
    The Age of Napoleon