Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars

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Summary: A general outline of the dictator Napoleon.
Review: I have been pleased with some of the other books by Albert Marrin. This book is an OK read. It is neither a great nor poor read. One learns about Napoleon Bonaparte and the world he created in France and Continental Europe. Since this is a short book, Marrin had to shorten some of the depth on this book. One thing which I liked in other books by Marrin are the interesting asides about words or phrases. These asides are missing in this book.
Marrin is a good author for historical subjects for the young reader. For this subject, Marrin boils down the substance of Napeleon in a short quick read.

Rating:
Summary: A general outline of the dictator Napoleon.
Review: I have been pleased with some of the other books by Albert Marrin. This book is an OK read. It is neither a great nor poor read. One learns about Napoleon Bonaparte and the world he created in France and Continental Europe. Since this is a short book, Marrin had to shorten some of the depth on this book. One thing which I liked in other books by Marrin are the interesting asides about words or phrases. These asides are missing in this book.
Marrin is a good author for historical subjects for the young reader. For this subject, Marrin boils down the substance of Napeleon in a short quick read.

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Summary: An excellent study of THE MAN OF DESTINY...
Review: Professor Albert Marrin's study of NAPOLEON is excellent. It's a comprehensive,highly readable story of one of the West's peerless, most brilliant military commanders; and radically influential, DANGEROUS political figures.The names John Keegan; Victor Davis Hansen; and Barbara W.Tuchman come to mind in appraising an exceptionally complex yet accessible account of Bonaparte's rise from Corsican cadet appointee to the French Officer Corps; to supporter of The REVOLUTION'S blood thirsty Committee of Public Safety in the Reign of Terror; to "Man of Destiny"--who would pick-up the pieces of the failed Revolutionary Republic and establish himself...in whirlwind succession...Commander of la Grande Armee; First Citizen/Consul and(1804)Emperor of the greatest Empire since Rome; prosecuting a generational war of world-wide conquest lasting almost 20 years.

NAPOLEON & The Napoleonic Wars is scholarship that reads like adventure.Marrin is provocatively ambivalent assessing Napoleon's career. Like one of the "Little Corporals" soldiers,he admiringly describes astounding vistories at Austerlitz; Jena and Auerstadt.Like a defiant enemy he describes defeats at Trafalgar; in Spain, and Egypt. Catastrophic decimation of his Grand Army after pyrrhic conquest of Moscow, and retreat under wrath of the wickedly bitter Russian Winter reads like excerpts from The Apocalypse. Accounts of Leipzig[The Battle of the Nations:October 16-19,1813];the first exile on St. Helena; and whirlwind invasion of Europe, climaxing with decisive defeat by Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo, concludes Albert Marrin's remarkable book. This biography of Napoleon comprises an immense number of facts; anecdotal myth;constructive analysis and sheer excellence in story telling craft. For 6 year olds and above? Give me a break! NAPOLEON and the NAPOLEONIC WARS is history at its finest: for "friends, Romans, countrymen" and anyone interested in astute rendering about an incredible man who's said to have said while dying, "What a story my life has been!"

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Summary: Absolutly Fantastic!
Review: This book was amazing! It captured his personal side, tempered and loony along with the side that everyone was supposed to see, perfect, superior, Napoleon! Albert Marrin had EVERYTHING. This was the best book I have read in a long time....... It went through his ups and downs, his birth to his death. Napoleon was such a exiting political figure anything ABOUT him has to be exiting, but this was a VERY, VERY good book. I would give it 100,000 stars if it was possible!