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This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context.David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting wars that changed the shape of the continent and brought death to millions. Then everything collapsed, leading him to spend his last years in miserable exile in the South Atlantic.Bell emphasizes the importance of the French Revolution in understanding Napoleon's career. The revolution made possible the unprecedented concentration of political authority that Napoleon accrued, and his success in mobilizing human and material resources. Without the political changes brought about by the revolution, Napoleon could not have fought his wars. Without the wars, he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary.

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Covers his subject well.But some of his interpretations do smack of pre-conceived bias. For instance he does not give the background to rhe 'massacre at Jaffa'. Napoleon had earlier freed Turkish prisoners of war, but after a later battle discovered his new prisoners of war included men he had freed earlier, who had vowed not to take up arms again. With no extra rations, this time around the circumstances of war left him with no choice but to put this new batch of POWs to the sword. Otherwise he would keep swelling the ranks of his enemies.The author also liberally quotes the discredited Bourrienne. Making you wonder about his other sources.It is quite strange how some historians keep painting Napoleon as a war monger while excusing the 'Allies who raised seven coalitions against France after the revolution. Napoleon was not even in power when the first two were launched. It is pretty clear that Napoleon or not, these 'Allies would not have rested until a Bourbon was placed back on the French throne. Napoleon's 'crime' was continually defeating these coalitions in battle, until eventually overcome by British money and Russian, Prussian and Austrian manpower.It is also ironic that Napoleon is continually referred to as a 'dictator, as if his enemies were modern liberal democracies. There is no question that the French under Napoleon enjoyed greater rights than any other country of the time except arguably Britain. Who can doubt that Russians - especially serfs - would have been far better off had they been conquered by the French and granted the Code Napoleon?His enemies were all hereditary monarchs who ruled by decree. Which other ruler of the time - Britain again accepted - gave the public a chance to vote for or against him? As for the dismissal by some historians of Napoleon's 'loaded plebiscites', well surely his acclamation by the people on the return from Elba was concrete proof of his genuine popularity among the French masses?Perhaps there can be no greater calumny against Napoleon than to compare him to Hitler. Hitler the architect of the holocaust was the butcher of the Jews. Napoleon was greatest liberator of the Jews in European history, freeing them from the ghettos wherever he went. This was one of the main reasons why his enemies like Russian Czar dubbed him 'the anti-christ'. When he fell, the laws freeing the Jews were reversed.Historical what ifs can only speculative. But had Napoleon succeeded in creating a Europe governed by the Code Napoleon, the odds of a Stalin and Hitler coming to power would surely have been greatly reduced.Napoleon was in Lord Acton's words 'the ablest of historic men'. And yet in the end, perhaps it was for the better that even such a humane and tolerant genius did not attain the control he would have wished for? As Lord Acton also wrote, power corrupts even the best of men.

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