Napoleon: The Man Who Shaped Europe - Softcover

Weider, Ben; Gueguen, Emile-Rene

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9781862270787: Napoleon: The Man Who Shaped Europe

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ISBN 10: 1862270783 ISBN 13: 9781862270787

Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers, 2000

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Napoleon: The Man Who Shaped Europe is a controversial and convincing biography about Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most extraordinary political and military leaders the world has ever known. Although Weider has written other books about Napoleon's life, this one explores the mystery and controversy surrounding his illegitimate birth, the reasons for his bad reputation, his civic and military achievements, his philosophy and character, and the recent discovery of the actual circumstances surrounding his murder by poisoning. With new and ground-breaking evidence, Weider shows that there is still much to learn about Napoleon, including his relationship with Louis Charles Rene de Marbuef, Napoleon's true father and Governor of Corsica. The authors assert that Napoleon was not the cruel and emotionless dictator most believe him to have been. Rather, he was a reasonable, self-confident, and intelligent strategist, organizer, legislator, writer, thinker and founder of great institutions.

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Ben Weider has written four other titles about the Emperor Napoleon, including his international bestseller The Murder of Napoleon, in which he contends that Napoleon was murdered by poisoning. Weider makes the same claim in Napoleon: The Man Who Shaped Europe, and his research is backed up by Emile Gueguen, a retired colonel in the French Army and noted Napoleonic historian. Weider, who resides in Canada, is president of the International Napoleonic Society and owns one of the largest private collections of Napoleonic artifacts in the world.

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