To honor the one million Burmese who perished in WWII, historian McLynn (Captain. Napoleon Bonapartes character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45. We learn, in conclusion, that he was poisoned on St Helena by a Bourbon double agent on his own staff. 15.60 28 Used from 12.31 21 New from 14.62. Character sketches of the marshals of the Empire and plans of the great battles abound the reader is made to feel the subject's towering greatness as well as his pettinesses. This long psychobiography is strongest on the sexuality of the Bonaparte family, but ranges also over schooling, revolution, law-making and, above all, war. He acknowledges and displays the extraordinary tale and does not hide the pettiness - Alan Massie * Daily Telegraph * A robust, well-paced biography which pans confidently from the seventeen-year-old child educated by Jesuits to the ruins of the imperial grandeur and death by slow arsenic poisoning on a bleak St Helena - Colin Cardwell * Scotland on Sunday *Īn accomplished biographer attempts the Napoleonic summit. A compelling portrait of one of history's greatest figures - Catherine Lockerbie * Scotsman * McLynn writes with considerable verve: his pithy characterisations of Napoleon's subordinates, the alternating chapters of narrative and analysis, the dramatic set-pieces.all these combine to make his biography pleasurable and highly instructive to read - Brendan Simms * Evening Standard * McLynn offers an admirably clear narrative, neither adulatory nor debunking.
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