William Milligan Sloane’s four-volume biography of Napoleon, first published in the 1890s, remains one of the most thorough American scholarly treatments of the emperor’s career. Volume 3 covers the height of Napoleonic power — the restructuring of Europe after Austerlitz and Wagram, the Continental System and its economic consequences, the Peninsular War, and the first signs of the imperial overreach that would lead to catastrophe in Russia.
Sloane writes with analytical rigour and draws extensively on French and European sources. This volume is invaluable for students of the Napoleonic period and the transformation of early nineteenth-century Europe.