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A biography of the French ruler including his military victories and failures, his exile and escape from Elba, and his final years on St. Helena.

A biography of the man known as Ras Tafari, emperor of Ethiopia during a forty-four year period, who gave that country its first written constitution.

A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.

Describes the life, achievements, rise to power, and influences of the military leader who crowned himself Emperor of the French and established dominance over Europe.

Follows Napoleon Bonaparte from his origins as a lowly soldier to his rise to military power and his conquest of Europe.

Chronicles the life of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, discussing how he ruled his empire for nearly fifty years, his efforts to extend the boundaries of Islam, his political ideas, and other related topics.