The Story of Napoleon Bonaparte by Arthur O. Cooke

The Story of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Arthur O. Cooke

(Little Stories of Great Lives edited by Herbert Strang)

Oxford University Press, 1920, illustrated colour plate at frontispiece, illustrated title page, black and white illustrations in text, illustrated endpapers, illustrated colour plate on front cover, embossed decorations to front cover, gilded lettering to cover, hardcover

Fair Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, spine repaired and re-enforced with clear tape, cracked hinge, text block separate from cover boards, notes in red ink on front endpapers, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“The story of Napoleon is that of a man perhaps more wonderful than any other whom the world has seen.  He was not even a Frenchman, though we seem to think of him as such; he was a Corsican, a man of the Italian race.  Though he came of an old family his parents were quite undistinguished and comparatively poor.  Yet by the time that he was thirty years of age he had restored order in France, which for many years had been distracted by the atrocities and terrors of the Revolution.  Five years later he was chosen as her Emperor.”