Note 448 — BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS (continued 3)
Reading edition
Two very useful books have been Holland Rose’s Personality of Napoleon and his Life of Napoleon I. A compact and convenient biography, with good battle maps, is R. M. Johnston’s Napoleon. Thomas Hardy’s great epic-drama, The Dynasts, is a magnificent picture of Napoleon’s career, historically very exact. It is one of the great stars of English literature, too little known as yet to the general public.