This is the first English language account of the formative years between Napoleon's birth in 1796 and when he first established himself on the world stage at the siege of Toulon in 1793. "in The Boyhood and Youth of Napoleon Browning tells the story of Napoleon from his antecedents in Italy through the siege of Toulon in an easy, readable style. Browning tells the reader that his goal is to put Napoleon “in a human light.” " The Napoleon Series