Munro Price is a historian of modern French and European history, with a special focus on the French Revolution, and is Professor of Modern European History at Bradford University. His publications include The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil, which won the 2002 Franco-British Society Literary Prize, and The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions (2007. His most recent book (with Stanley Price), The Road to Apocalypse: the Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way (2011) was shortlisted for the Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Prize. A regular reviewer for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, History Today, and BBC History Magazine, he has also appeared on Radio 4, on French radio, and on BBC2's Reputations series.

an exciting story and it is one to which Munro Price has devoted himself with consummate skill

• Prologue ; 1. Napoleon and his empire, December 1812 ; 2. Plots and alarms, 1812-1813 ; 3. Russia, Austria and Napoleon, 1812-1813 ; 4. War and diplomacy, spring 1813 ; 5. Napoleon and Metternich ; 6. The congress of Prague ; 7. From Dresden to Leipzig ; 8. The battle of the nations ; 9. Natural frontiers ; 10. Challenge from within ; 11. The congress of Chatillon ; 12. The beginning of the end ; 13. Talleyrand ; 14. Abdication ; Epilogue: The hundred days ; Index ; Notes

Munro Price is a historian of modern French and European history, with a special focus on the French Revolution, and is Professor of Modern European History at Bradford University. His publications include The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil, which won the 2002 Franco-British Society Literary Prize, and The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions (2007. His most recent book (with Stanley Price), The Road to Apocalypse: the Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way (2011) was shortlisted for the Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Prize. A regular reviewer for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, History Today, and BBC History Magazine, he has also appeared on Radio 4, on French radio, and on BBC2's Reputations series.

an exciting story and it is one to which Munro Price has devoted himself with consummate skill

• Prologue ; 1. Napoleon and his empire, December 1812 ; 2. Plots and alarms, 1812-1813 ; 3. Russia, Austria and Napoleon, 1812-1813 ; 4. War and diplomacy, spring 1813 ; 5. Napoleon and Metternich ; 6. The congress of Prague ; 7. From Dresden to Leipzig ; 8. The battle of the nations ; 9. Natural frontiers ; 10. Challenge from within ; 11. The congress of Chatillon ; 12. The beginning of the end ; 13. Talleyrand ; 14. Abdication ; Epilogue: The hundred days ; Index ; Notes

Munro Price is a historian of modern French and European history, with a special focus on the French Revolution, and is Professor of Modern European History at Bradford University. His publications include The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil, which won the 2002 Franco-British Society Literary Prize, and The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions (2007. His most recent book (with Stanley Price), The Road to Apocalypse: the Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way (2011) was shortlisted for the Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Prize. A regular reviewer for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, History Today, and BBC History Magazine, he has also appeared on Radio 4, on French radio, and on BBC2's Reputations series.

an exciting story and it is one to which Munro Price has devoted himself with consummate skill

• Prologue ; 1. Napoleon and his empire, December 1812 ; 2. Plots and alarms, 1812-1813 ; 3. Russia, Austria and Napoleon, 1812-1813 ; 4. War and diplomacy, spring 1813 ; 5. Napoleon and Metternich ; 6. The congress of Prague ; 7. From Dresden to Leipzig ; 8. The battle of the nations ; 9. Natural frontiers ; 10. Challenge from within ; 11. The congress of Chatillon ; 12. The beginning of the end ; 13. Talleyrand ; 14. Abdication ; Epilogue: The hundred days ; Index ; Notes