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This Dark Business - The Secret War Against Napoleon (Paperback)
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This Dark Business - The Secret War Against Napoleon (Paperback)
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List price R405
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Discovery Miles 3 700
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Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon
Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black
propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George
III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the
death against one man: the Corsican usurper and tyrant. This Dark
Business tells the story of the British government's determination
to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible. We have been
taught to think of Napoleon as the aggressor - a man with an
unquenchable thirst for war and glory - but what if this story
masked the real truth: that the British refusal to make peace
either with revolutionary France or with the man who claimed to
personify the revolution was the reason this Great War continued
for more than twenty years? At this pivotal moment when it
consolidated its place as number one world power Britain was
uncompromising. To secure the continuing rule of Church and King,
the British invented an evil enemy, the perpetrator of any number
of dark deeds; and having blackened Napoleon's name, with the help
of networks of French royalist spies and hitmen, they also tried to
assassinate him. This Dark Business plunges the reader into the
hidden underworld of Georgian politics in which, faced with the
terrifying prospect of revolution, bribery and coercion are the
normal means to secure compliance, a ruthless world of spies, plots
and lies.
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