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Napoleon - The End of Glory (Paperback)
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Napoleon - The End of Glory (Paperback)
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Napoleon: The End of Glory tells the story of the dramatic two
years that led to Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. Though
crucial to European history, they remain strangely neglected, lying
between the two much better-known landmarks of the retreat from
Moscow and the battle of Waterloo. Yet this short period saw both
Napoleon's loss of his European empire, and of his control over
France itself. In 1813 the massive battle of Leipzig - the
bloodiest in modern history before the first day of the Somme -
forced his armies back to the Rhine. The next year, after a
brilliant campaign against overwhelming odds, Napoleon was forced
to abdicate and exiled to Elba. He regained his throne the
following year, for just a hundred days, in a doomed adventure
whose defeat at Waterloo was predictable. The most fascinating -
and least-known - aspect of these years is that at several key
points Napoleon's enemies offered him peace terms that would have
allowed him to keep his throne, if not his empire, a policy
inspired by the brilliant and devious Austrian foreign minister
Metternich. Napoleon: The End of Glory sheds fascinating new light
on Napoleon, Metternich, and many other key figures and events in
this dramatic period of European history, drawing on previously
unused archives in France, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Through
these it seeks to answer the most important question of all - why,
instead of accepting a compromise, Napoleon chose to gamble on
total victory at the risk of utter defeat?
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