Napoleon in Egypt
A story of war, adventure, politics, and a clash of cultures, Paul Strathern's Napoleon in Egypt is history at once relevant and impossible to put down.
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New York
Bantam Book
2007
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The song of departure
- The origins of the Egyptian campaign
- "The liberator of Italy"
- The cream of France
- Outward bound
- "A conquest which will change the world"
- The march on Cairo
- The battle of the Pyramids
- Cairo
- "Josephine! ... and I am 600 leagues away!"
- The battle of the Nile
- "We are now obliged to accomplish great things"
- The Institute of Egypt
- Life in exile
- The perils of diplomacy
- Insurrection
- Love and dreams
- A Suez adventure
- Pursuit into upper Egypt
- Into the unknown
- A turn for the worse
- The Syrian campaign
- The siege of Acre
- The battle of Mount Tabor
- "That man made me lose my destiny"
- The retreat from Acre
- Sensational discoveries
- The decision of a lifetime
- An abandoned army
- Aftermath.