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The Rise And Fall Of Napoleon Vol 1: The Rise by Robert Asprey (Paperback, 2001)

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He presents Napoleon as he was - a man dedicated to his vision of himself and his empire. by Robert Asprey. Author Robert Asprey. The Rise And Fall Of Napoleon Vol 1. Author is the leading expert on modern guerrilla warfare (WAR IN THE SHADOWS) and applies its lessons to Napoleon's tactics.

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Since his untimely death aged fifty-one in 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte has been too often the victim of biographical revisionism that treats him either as a demi-god or as devil incarnate. In the first of this monumental new two-volume biography, Robert Asprey has preferred to treat him as a human being. The Rise and Fall of Napoleon (Volume 1: The Rise) chronicles the beginning of this most extraordinary of lives, from Napoleon's birth in 1769 to the historic Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, when he brilliantly defeated the Austro-Russian armies. What emerges is both a fascinating and contradictory figure: a child of the French Revolution who grew to be its master; who exploited the national will for what he believed to be the national good; who converted the surging passions of thirty million persons into an irresistible force to challenge and often topple archaic thrones; whose desire for European reforms ultimately fell victim to feudal superstition and misery. Based on years of research, Robert Asprey tells this remarkable tale with the even-handedness such a major historical figure deserves. He presents Napoleon as he was - a man dedicated to his vision of himself and his empire.