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42) Fortune: a novel
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Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Beginning on the very day Napoleon leads his triumphant Grande Armee into Berlin through the Brandenburg Gate, Fortune traces the fates of a handful of souls whose lives briefly touch on that momentous day and then diverge across the globe. Spanning more than a century, the novel moves from the Napoleonic Wars to South America, and from the early penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land to the cannons of the First World War, mapping the reverberations...
43) The passion
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Pub. Date
1989
Description
Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice's compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny.
44) Vienna, 1814: how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna
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Details the 1814 Congress of Vienna, offering portraits of the participants and discussing the political intrigues, illicit affairs, tangled alliances, and bitter rivalries that marked the occasion that transformed the face of nineteenth-century Europe
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
Thanks to the thousand of years of domestication, dragons have come to be useful as fighting forces around the globe. England's own aviators can outfly any other nation, but Napoleon's dragons outnumber theirs two to one. So Cap. Will Laurence is pleased when his ship captures a French frigate and its precious cargo. a dragon egg... until the black hatchling unexpectedly chooses to bond with him. As master of the noble dragon he names Temeraire, Laurence...
46) Beyond the reef
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Pub. Date
2000.
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March 1806: Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally Spain. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is dispatched once more to the Cape of Good Hope to establish a permanent naval force.
48) Lord Hornblower
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
This book concludes Hornblower's private war with Napoleon. As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
Description
History comes dangerously alive in this "New York Times" bestseller as Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, to battle against Napoleon's invasion.
50) Second to none
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Series
Richard Bolitho stories volume 26
Pub. Date
1999, 2001
Description
In the days immediately following Waterloo, the British fleet confronts a new threat: Algerian pirates preying on hapless merchant ships. Adam Bolitho, Admiral Richard Bolitho's nephew and heir, finds himself in command of Unrivalled, a new kind of frigate-sleek, fast, and heavily armed.
53) Colours aloft
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Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Amiens in ruins, he must leave the safety of Falmouth.
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Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
June 1809. Soon after taking part in the dramatic capture of Martinique in the Caribbean, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is next despatched to the African coast to gather a flotilla and stop French attacks on British trade routes. But Bolitho must contend with more than Britain's old enemy - he must also face the hatred of his flag captian and betrayal by a man he once counted on as his friend. In the dangerous waters off South Africa, Bolitho hunts...
55) The only victor
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Series
Richard Bolitho stories volume 20
Pub. Date
Chicago, Illinois :
Description
In 1806 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho "carries the news of Trafalgar to southern Africa, where he is to aid British ground forces in any way he can to retake Cape Town from the Dutch. ... [Then] he undertakes a secret mission to Denmark, which nearly ends in disaster and further damages his sight."--Cover.
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Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Napoleon's surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.
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Series
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.
Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and...