Napoleon Bonaparte

xiv, 418 pp. "J.M. Thompson based his vivid accounts of the life of Napoleon on thirty years' research on contemporary evidence. It is now reissued after an absence of thirty years and will at once be seen to be as fresh and as penetrating as it was then. Napoleon is popularly remembered for his exploits on the field of battle. This book modifies that view. "His greatest conquest was not Europe," argues the author, "but the French Revolution. His lasting monument is not the Arc de Triomphe or the flags at the Invalides, but the laws and institutions in which he adapted the ideas of 1789 to the traditions of the monarchy, and enabled Frank to survive three invasions and a century and a half of political unrest.""--rear wrapper