Bonaparte. From the Emperor to Our Days

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