Machine generated contents note: Part One
Napoleon I and the First Empire
Chapter 1: Roots : Martinique and Corsica
Chapter 2: Parents
Chapter 3: Birth (1808)
Chapter 4: Early childhood (1808-15)
Part Two
The path to power
Chapter 5: Growing up in exile (1815-29)
Chapter 6: The call to destiny (1830-32)
Chapter 7: Preparing the response (1832-6)
Chapter 8: Strasbourg (1836)
Chapter 9: Farewell to Arenenberg (1837-8)
Chapter 10: A new life in London (1838-40)
Chapter 11: Boulogne - Not such a fiasco (1840)
Chapter 12: 'Perpetual Imprisonment' (1840-46)
Chapter 13: The great escape (1846)
Chapter 14: Enter Miss Howard (1846-8)
Part Thress
Power at last
Chapter 15: Return to France (1848)
Chapter 16: Prince-President (1848-52)
Chapter 17: Coup D'Etat and almost Emperor (1851-2)
Part Four
The Second Empire
Chapter 18: Choosing an empress (1852-3)
Chapter 19: Consolidating his throne (1853-6)
Chapter 20: Fulfilment (1856-60)
Chapter 21: Marking time (1860-65)
Chapter 22: The turn of the tide (1865)
Chapter 23: Running on borrowed time (1865-70)
Chapter 24: The beginning of the end (1870)
Chapter 25: The empire falls (1870)
Part Five
The end
Chapter 26: Going into exile (1870-71)
Chapter 27: The last exile (1871-3)
Chapter 28: An unnecessary death (1873)
Epilogue
Bibliography and other sources
Index.