Politics & Power
Napoleon
by Paul Johnson
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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.
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