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ST. MARTIN'S PRESS DECEMBER 2012 Napoleon Life, Legacy, and Image: A Biography Alan Forrest From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend HISTORY / EUROPE St. Martin's Press | December 2012 9781250009036 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.25in H | 6.13in W Plus one 8-page color insert Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250018151 MARKETING * Online Promotion * Promotion on commandposts.com * Academic Marketing Campagin * Available as an E-book: 978-1-250- 01815-1 On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead emperor’s corpse from the island of St. Helena was a moment that Paris had eagerly awaited, though many feared that the memories stirred would serve to further destabilize a country that had struggled for order and direction since he had been sent into exile. In this book Alan Forrest tells the remarkable story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose charisma and legacy endured after his lonely death many thousands of miles from the country whose fate had become so entwined with his own. Along the way, Forrest also cuts away the many layers of myth and counter myth that have grown up around Napoleon, a man who mixed history and legend promiscuously. Drawing on original research and his own distinguished background in French history, Forrest demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a product of his times as their creator. PRAISE "A comprehensive, uet alwaus thoroughly accessible account...Forrest sets out to write for a broad audience and succeeds admirably...not the least of this book's virtues is to help us understand why, 200 years on, Napoleon still matters." —BBC History Magazine "A book of supreme confidence and reflection." —Daily Express (UK) "A valuable and entertaining addition to the vast and still burgeoning Napoleonic oeuvre." —Literary Review (UK) ALAN FORREST is a professor of modern history and director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. He works on modern French history, especially the period of the French Revolution and Empire, and on the history of modern warfare. He serves on the editorial boards of French History and War in History, and is a member of the advisory committee for Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise. He lives in York, UK. 96
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS DECEMBER 2012 Chinese Whiskers Pallavi Aiyar A charming fable set against the landscape of contemporary Beijing, seen through the eyes of two cats Soyabean is a middle class cat looked after by a grandmother who embodies traditional Chinese morality. Tofu is born to a stray cat mother in a backyard dustbin. They are brought together when they are adopted by foreigners, who live in a traditional style courtyard house in Beijing’s traditional hutong neighborhoods. Then Soyabean is offered a job as a model for a new brand of cat food while at the same time a mysterious virus is sickening people across the city. Cats are blamed for it and are being rounded up, and Soyabean and Tofu's idlyllic lives as pampered pets come to an abrupt end. FICTION / GENERAL St. Martin's Press | December 2012 9781250014481 | $22.99 Hardback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 8.25in H | 5.50in W Includes 10 b&w illustrations throughout Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250014597 MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Promtion * Library Marketing Campaign * Author Website: PallaviAiyar.com * Available as an E-book: 978-1-250- 01459-7 Interweaving real episodes in recent Chinese history such as the Olympic Games, the SARS virus, and tainted pet-food scandals with a richly imagined world, this heartwarming story of cats and humans does what W. Bruce Cameron's A Dog's Purpose did for canines. It will make you laugh and tear up, while showing the battles fought between the corruption of modern living and the ideals of traditional life. PRAISE "A lovely novel . . . with a lightness of touch that is sustained from beginning to end." — The Sunday Guardian "The well paced and heart-warming animal story about courage, modesty and justice . . . makes for entertaining and endearing reading." —South China Morning Post PALLAVI AIYAR is a journalist and author of the award-winning memoir Smoke and Mirrors. She lives in Brussels where she reports on Europe for the Business Standard. 97
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