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  Napoleon (Lives S.) (Paperback) By (author) Paul Johnson

  

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  Short Description for NapoleonA short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule.
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  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 07 August 2003
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | European History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
  • ISBN 13: 9781842126509 ISBN 10: 1842126504
  • Sales rank: 241,858

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• Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon's dictatorship. Johnson tells the whole story: his astonishing gift for figures and calculation, his mastery of cannon; his audacious, hyperactive and aggressive generalship and his simple battle tactics; his complete control of propaganda and the success of the cultural presentation of the Empire; the Code Napoleon; his failure as an international statesman, as Europe grew to hate him; his marshals and ministers; his wives, mistresses, personal style and working methods; the British blockade and the Continental System; the mistakes in Spain and Russia. The escape from Elba, the events leading up to Waterloo and the battle itself, which gets a full treatment, is particularly riveting.