Munro Price: 2 books
Napoleon
The End of Glory
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
On April 20, 1814, after a dizzying series of battles, campaigns, and diplomatic intrigues, a defeated Napoleon Bonaparte made his farewell speech to the Old Guard in the courtyard of the Chateau de Fontainebleau and set off for exile on the island of Elba. Napoleonic legend asserts that the Emperor...
The Road from Versailles
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
What becomes of leaders when absolute power is wrested from their hands? How does dramatic political change affect once-absolute monarchs? In acclaimed historian Munro Price's powerful new book, he confronts one of the enduring mysteries of the French Revolution---what were the true actions and feelings...