Bonaparte. From Emperor to Our Days

This biography - elegant as a novel and precise as an encyclopedia - chronicles the family of Napoleon Bonaparte, his mother and uncle, four brothers and three sisters, their and his biological and adoptive children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, up to... our days, including Napoleon II and III, an American multimillionaire, the Attorney General of the USA - people, without the slightest exception, original, extravagant, and interesting. So much so that the emperor himself may seem even boring against their backdrop. The author does not spare his heroes, describing them with the mockery of Zoshchenko and the sarcasm of Nabokov.
The book contains many photographs and illustrations (52 pages) - both black-and-white and color, as well as a genealogical tree map.