New beginnings are cheerful in theory. Three new books — “What Napoleon Could Not Do,” by DK Nnuro; “Dyscalculia,” by Camonghne Felix; and “A Country You Can Leave,” by Asale Angel ...

WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA—General de Caulaincourt—Morrow ($3.75). General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a ...