Napoleon's Jailer: Lt. Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, A Life.

History Today | December 1, 1997| | Copyright

Desmond Gregory Fairleigh Dickinson 234 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0 8386 3657 8

Of the specious parallels which continue to be drawn between the lives of Hitler and Napoleon only one has any historical validity: they both exercise a fascination which no number of books, whatever their merits -- or lack of them -- can dispel. In anticipation of the bicentenary of Napoleon's coup d'etat in 1999, the spate of new publications already inundating the bookshops is set to become a torrent. For those interested in Napoleonic history this will present a perilous voyage ...

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