Alan Schom, Author HarperCollins $40 (912p) ISBN 978-0-06-017214-5
One of the most written-about of men, Napoleon has been portrayed from his dark side before, usually in frankly partisan books. Schom (One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo), his assiduous new biographer, claims: ""I have attempted to...
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Alan Schom, Author Atheneum Books $27.5 (421p) ISBN 978-0-689-12055-8
Schom ( Emile Zola ) argues that England's greatest naval victory, the 1805 battle of Trafalgar, resulted from the breakdown of Napoleon's scheme to invade Great Britain. Linking the French preparations for invasion, the ``Great Terror'' of the...
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Alan Schom, Author Atheneum Books $28 (398p) ISBN 978-0-689-12097-8
Schon ( Trafalgar ) writes of Napoleon's escape from Elba in February 1815 and his return ``like a thunderbolt'' to France. Rallying the nation behind him, he mustered his army and marched off to meet Wellington at Waterloo. Schon describes the...
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The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943: Pearl Harbor Through Guadalcanal
Alan Schom, Author W. W. Norton & Company $28.95 (540p) ISBN 978-0-393-04924-4
This opinionated but cluttered history covers the dramatic slugfest in the Pacific during the first year and a half after Pearl Harbor. Schom's treatment of historiographical issues--the rise of Japanese militarism, the need for raw materials that...
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