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THE STORY OF NAPOLEON By Harold F. B. Wheeler, F.R.Hist.S.
THE STORY OF NELSON By Harold F. B. Wheeler, F.R.Hist.S.
THE STORY OF WELLINGTON By Harold F. B. Wheeler, F.R.Hist.S.
FAMOUS VOYAGES OF THE GREAT DISCOVERERS By Eric Wood.
THE STORY OF THE CRUSADES By E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, F.R.Hist.S.
STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER By Mr and Mrs William Platt.
HEROES OF THE MIDDLE AGES By E. M. Tappan, Ph.D.
HEROES OF MODERN EUROPE By Alice Birkhead, B.A.
THE CONQUERORS OF PERU Retold from Prescott by Henry Gilbert.
THE NORTHMEN IN BRITAIN By Eleanor Hull.
STORIES FROM DUTCH HISTORY By Arthur H. Dawson.
THE STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION By Alice Birkhead, B.A.
THE CONQUERORS OF MEXICO Retold from Prescott by Henry Gilbert.
STORIES FROM GERMAN HISTORY By Florence Aston.
THE STORY OF LORD ROBERTS By Harold F. B. Wheeler, F.R.Hist.S.
Napoleon I., Emperor of the French
From the painting by David
Fr.
THE STORY OF NAPOLEON
BY Harold F. B. Wheeler F.R.Hist.S.
JOINT-AUTHOR OF ‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ AND ‘THE WAR IN WEXFORD’ AUTHOR OF ‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’ ETC.
‘There was an eye to see in this man, a soul to dare and do. He rose naturally to be the King. All men saw that he was such.’ Carlyle
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