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Napoleon And The Hundred Days (2004)

by Stephen Coote

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In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assembled to determine the fate of the continent after the wars of the last twenty years, the news arrives that Napoleon has returned to France. Bonaparte -- the revolutionary turned emperor and 'disturber of the world's peace' -- had been defeated and exiled to Elba, but now he is fast advancing on Paris, gathering troops and taking cities without firing a single shot. Europe's peace is not to last. NAPOLEON AND THE HUNDRED DAYS brilliantly re-lives the rise and fall of Bonaparte's empire, and brings to life the characters who shaped it: Wellington, the Iron Duke; Napoleon's great love, Josephine; the duplicitous Tallyrand, his erstwhile foreign secretary; and, of course, Napoleon himself. Showing where the mistakes were made and how the path to war became inexorable, it culminates in a virtuoso description of the Battle of Waterloo itself. Displaying his customary blend of historian's and novelist's eye, Stephen Coote paints a vivid portrait of the legendary emperor and military genius, whose energy, courage and tenacity won -- and lost -- him a vast empire.… (more)
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Pretty good account of Napoleon's life, mostly the last hundred days and Waterloo. Picked this up at a used book sale and it's worthwhile, but I need to read more, especially about Waterloo. I don't know enough about it. ( )
  kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
Although this purports to concern itself with the Waterloo Campaign, it's really just a once-over-lightly on Napoleon's life and empire by an author who is a good storyteller. He rambles on about this-n-that for over 100 pages before he even gets to 1814, let alone 1815. The half of the book which actually deals with the Hundred Days is best on the politics and diplomacy of the days preceding, and, especially, following, the battle of Waterloo. Like most British authors, Coote is totally unfair to the Emperor; almost every French character who appears is portrayed as a malevolent boob; between this bias and the rather facile yarn-spinning, it's difficult to recommend this book among a crowded field. ( )
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In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assembled to determine the fate of the continent after the wars of the last twenty years, the news arrives that Napoleon has returned to France. Bonaparte -- the revolutionary turned emperor and 'disturber of the world's peace' -- had been defeated and exiled to Elba, but now he is fast advancing on Paris, gathering troops and taking cities without firing a single shot. Europe's peace is not to last. NAPOLEON AND THE HUNDRED DAYS brilliantly re-lives the rise and fall of Bonaparte's empire, and brings to life the characters who shaped it: Wellington, the Iron Duke; Napoleon's great love, Josephine; the duplicitous Tallyrand, his erstwhile foreign secretary; and, of course, Napoleon himself. Showing where the mistakes were made and how the path to war became inexorable, it culminates in a virtuoso description of the Battle of Waterloo itself. Displaying his customary blend of historian's and novelist's eye, Stephen Coote paints a vivid portrait of the legendary emperor and military genius, whose energy, courage and tenacity won -- and lost -- him a vast empire.

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