Napoleon

In this book,Jean Tulard,a distinguished historian of the napoleonic empire with many other books on the subject,gives us a very penetrating and elucidative view of Napoleon's political position inside France. Most english and american historians center their attention on Napoleon's military and foreign achivements,forgetting the internal,domestic french political picture which is vital to the understanding of the whole saga.Reading this book you begin to understand the real weakness of the napoleonic empire and how Napoleon,inflated by his successes,forgot why he was put into power in the first place. I strongly recomend this book,especialy to people who focus too much on Napoleon the general and conqueror,for after all,the first and most important people Napoleon had to subdue were the french.