Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 by Michale V. Leggiere. Univ. of Okla. Press, 384 pp., $39.95 Leggiere, a professor of history, devoted seven years to the study of this single campaign. Detailed. Napoleon by Paul Johnson. Lipper / Viking, 190 pp., $19.95 A short, pithy attack on the life of Napoleon, presented as the embodiment of pure, unprincipled ambition. Napoleon: A Biography by Frank McLynn. Arcade, 739 pp., $32.95 McLynn emphasizes the duality of Napoleon's temperament - an exceptionally powerful rational brain at the service of a wildly romantic imagination. Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner by Frank Giles. Carroll and Graf, 206 pp., $26.00 Giles exonerates Sir Hudson Lowe, the governor of St. Helena during Napoleon's captivity, as a decent man doing his best in a very difficult situation. - review excerpts from John Weightman, 'A Soft Spot for Napoleon,' in the New York Review of Books, October 24, 2002. With Napoleon in Russia: The Illustrated Memoirs of Major Faber du Faur, 1812 by Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur. Greenhill Books, 208 pp., $80.00 du Faur brought along a sketch book when he crossed the Niemen River in June of 1812. Accompanying each plate is an excerpt from du Faur's journal. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey. Basic Books, 580 pp., $37.50 Draws on Napoleons correspondence to create a portrait of a master improviser. The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey. Basic Books, 480 pp., $35.00 Asprey shows Napoelon's failure to understand why his behaviors and policies generated such increasing opposition. The Dark Room at Longwood: A Voyage to St. Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann. The Harvill Press, London, 250 pp., paper Meditations by the author during his journey to Napoleon's prison. By 1820, most of his companions had departed; memoirs were no longer being written. The once-proud emperor sits all day with Bertrand, neither of them saying a word. Back to OSG News January 2003 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Operational Studies Group This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com