Napoleon by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Napoleon as a man of war was perhaps the cause of more men's deaths than any other warleader before him. The full story of the disruption caused by almost 20 years of warfare will never be told in all its harrowing detail. Across Europe villages were razed by fire and cities destroyed by cannon, monasteries closed and thousands turned into refugees. There were revolts in Ireland, possibly pro-French, and those in Southern Italy, clearly anti-French, all savagely repressed, and the loss of many small states that had dotted the map of Central Europe for centuries. Yet the terrible destruction of wartime does not tell the whole story. The men who eventually brought Napoleon down, chief among them Castlereagh and Metternich, failed to grasp that one of Napoleon's most remarkable gifts was his ability to bring about significant social change that would outlive his own defeat.
Timothy Wilson-Smith is the author of Delacroix: A Life, which won the Yorkshire Post Art Book Award of the Year in 1992, and Napoleon and his Artists.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841195780 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841195782 |
| Title | Napoleon |
| Author | Timothy Wilson Smith |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2002-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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