![]() ![]() One follows the meteoric rise of Napoleone di Buonaparte of Corsica to Captain, General, First Consul and Emperor Napoleon I in barely more than a decade. It is only to be regretted that the style is not more graceful and less the product of academia, perhaps inevitable in a work of such exhaustive scholarship. Chandler has a feeling for and a grasp of time and movement which makes past events readable and relevant. The Campaigns of Napoleon is in many ways a tour de force of historical writing. ![]()
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