The Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleon

New York: American Heritage Pub. Co, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12 inches. 420, [12] pages. Profusely illustrated (some in color). Maps (some in color). Index. Jean Christopher Herold (11 May 1919 - 10 December 1964) was a Czech-American university press editor and author. While holding an editorship for Columbia University Press from 1946 to 1956, Herold edited Columbia Encyclopedia articles about European history. From 1956 to 1960, Herold was the editor of Stanford University Press. As an author, Herold primarily wrote French history books on Napoleon Bonaparte while also covering Joan of Arc and Madame de Staël. He won the 1959 National Book Award for Nonfiction with Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960. Herold was also given fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of American Historians. After moving to New York in 1939, Herold went to Columbia University for a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts in the early 1940s. After completing his studies, Herold was a member of the Military Intelligence Corps from 1942 to 1945. In 1946, Herold started a decade long editorship tenure with Columbia University Press. During this time period, Herold worked on European history articles for the Columbia Encyclopedia. In 1956, Herold was selected by Stanford University Press to become their editor. He held the position until 1960. Herold wrote his first book, The Swiss Without Halos, in 1948. From the 1950s to 1960s, Herold primarily wrote about Napoleon Bonaparte during his literary career in French history. THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects — political, cultural, military, commercial, and social. Napoleon's rise from common origins to enormous political and military power, as well as his ultimate defeat, influenced our modern age in thousands of ways, from the map of Europe to the metric system, from styles of dress and dictators to new conventions of personal behavior.