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This concise biography is written with great wit and panache, but also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon#65533;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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780297607373 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0297607375 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.11 x 5.59 x 1.02 In |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 208 pages |
| Publisher | George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd |
| Published On | 2002-07-25 |
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