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A London Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
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1 author picked How Far From Austerlitz? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a St Helena Lullaby puts it, quoted by Horne at the start of his scholarly but eminently readable book, "How far is St Helena from the field of Austerlitz?" Horne is a brilliant historian and he crafts a compelling book tracing Napoleon’s career from its apogee on the field of his greatest victory to its nadir with his exile to St Helena, far out in the south Atlantic. But we don’t just get the events, we get to experience the slippery nature of success, as Spain swallows troops and Russia decimates the Grande Armée. We see this through…
From Gareth's list on getting inside Napoleon Bonaparte’s head.
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