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No other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory - or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges?

Napoleon’s Wars is a book which has no doubt about Napoleon’s insatiable greed for military glory, but it is interested in far more than that. Charles Esdaile is profoundly interested in a pan-European context: what was it that made the countries of Europe fight each other, for so long and with such devastating results. The battles themselves he sees as almost side-effects; the consequence of rulers being willing to take the immense risks of fighting or supporting Napoleon - risks which resulted in the extinction of entire countries.

This is history on the grandest and most ambitious scale: a superb reassessment of a tumultuous era.

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'Deft, authoritative, often strikingly counter-intuitive, this is the definitive word on the subject, giving a clear-eyed view of the great dictator - who, whatever Johnny Frenchman might say, was the most awful scoundrel, and ugly to boot'
-- Dominic Sandbrook, Telegraph Books of the Year
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Charles Esdaile is Professor in History at the University of Liverpool. His The Peninsular War was acclaimed by many reviewers including Andrew Roberts and Bernard Cornwell.

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  • PublisherAllen Lane
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 071399715X
  • ISBN 13 9780713997156
  • BindingHardcover
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  • Number of pages656
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