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Title: Napoleon Bonaparte by J. M. Thompson ISBN: 0-7509-2759-3 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Hubris
Comment: Fortunately for Napoleonic scholars J.M.Thompson's masterful biography has reappeared in a new, affordable paperback edition. Less hagiographic than Cronin, less expensive than Chandler, and more comprehensive than Markham or Ellis, this volume, though first published in 1952, has aged well and remains a sound investment. Its success, no doubt, is owed in part to the author's reliance on primary sources and his decision to base the foundation of the work on Bonaparte's own personal correspondence. Thompson's facile writing ability plays no small part as well.
While chronicling the rise and fall of Napoleon, the author displays a keen apprehension of the repercussions of decisions and actions while finding time to apprise the reader of the roles of those on the sidelines; a Saliceti, a Fouche, a Madame de Stael. The enormous sweep of time is succinctly capsuled by the author and one comes away with a far better understanding of the era thanks to Thompson's critical analysis while being entertained by a master storyteller.
Neither incomparable saint nor inconceivable devil, Napoleon comes through as a tragically flawed genius, unable to rise to true greatness by his own egoism and selfishness.
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Title: Napoleon by Frank McLynn ISBN: 1559706317 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0688169783 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert B. Asprey, Robert Asprey ISBN: 0465048811 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins ISBN: 0452283523 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm ISBN: 0679772537 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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