"A startling new perspective on Napoleon's rise and fall." ––Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"A well-researched and original history...Hamilton-Williams tells a stirring story, revealing much new material." ––Kirkus Reviews
In this riveting study, acclaimed Napoleonic expert David Hamilton-Williams offers a bold new assessment of the real causes of the emporer's decline. He sheds new historical light on the well-organized deceit and betrayal that riddled Napoleon's military and political campaigns.
DAVID HAMILTON-WILLIAMS (West Sussex, England) is one of the world's foremost Napoleonic researchers. His acclaimed Waterloo: New Perspectives, available from Wiley, was chosen as a Military Book Club main selection.
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The second book in Hamilton-Williams' Napoleonic trilogy provides a fascinating study and fresh assessment of the cause and effects of Napoleon's decline. Traces his illustrious career and diplomatic intrigues involving Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia, the combined forces--friend and foe--ranged against him, as well as self-inflicted problems. Discloses previously unknown secret terrorist organizations and attempts to assassinate Napoleon. Includes scores of illustrations and maps.
Praise for The Fall of Napoleon
"A well-researched and original history. . . . Hamilton-Williams tells a stirring story, revealing much new material." --Kirkus Reviews
"[Hamilton-Williams] is a fine writer and a ferocious logician. He has written a fascinating, if controversial, book." --Washington Times
"A dedicated Bonapartist, British historian Hamilton-Williams spares no one in exposing the double and triple crosses perpetrated." --Library Journal
In The Fall of Napoleon, David Hamilton-Williams offers a fresh and striking new assessment of the cause and effects of the Emperor's decline. Using substantial new research, the acclaimed author calls into question many of the views established in Napoleonic literature to date. Filled with fascinating details on the diplomatic intrigues linking Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia in the quest for Napoleon's demise, this riveting account reveals surprising new information on previously unknown secret terrorist organizations, assassination attempts, and the unbridled political duplicity that led to the French ruler's fall from power.
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