also provides a 500-book bibliography. This is a calm, thorough study, highly praised by academic and general reviewers, and won second place in the Los Angeles Times Annual National Book award (1997) in the field of biography. Schom's history of the first two years of World War II, The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943: Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal has received the highest acclaim from senior military officers, including former First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Henry Leach (Falkland's War). Selected works As Alan SchomLyautey in Morocco, Protectorate Administration 1912-1925 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970) As Alan SchomEmile Zola, A Biography (New York: Henry Holt, 1987); Emile Zola: A Bourgeois Rebel (London: Queen Anne Press, 1987)Trafalgar, Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 and London, Penguin Books)One Hundred Days, Napoleon's Road to Waterloo (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 and London: Penguin Books)Napoleon Bonaparte, A Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 1997)The Eagle and the Rising Sun—The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943 (NY: WW Norton, 2005) As Alan Strauss-SchomThe Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III'' (US edition: St. Martin's Press, 2018 / UK edition: Amberley, 2018) Notes References External links Booknotes interview with Schom on Napoleon Bonaparte, October 26, 1997. Living people 1937 births American biographers University of California, Riverside faculty Southern Connecticut State University faculty People from Sterling, Illinois Historians from Illinois Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham Historians of France Beverly Hills High School alumni Jewish American academics University of California, Berkeley alumni 21st-century American Jews