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Review title: Terrific handling of complex material
Product review: It would be difficult to praise this book more highly than it deserves. The material that Dallas takes it upon himself to cover is broad and complicated -- the political and diplomatic history of several nations, of course, as well as military, social, and economic material as it bears upon those central issues. Yet Dallas pulls it all off, and makes us care, too, about the personal frailties of the "rich and famous" of Europe almost two centuries ago. The personalities that stuck most to my mind as I closed this book were not quite those of the "headliners" whose names we all remember from school -- Napoleon, Talleyrand, Castlereagh -- though they all get their due. The figures who stick most to my mind are those of the Duchess von Sagan, Benjamin Constant, and Samuel Whitbread. Dallas illustrates a truth sometimes forgotten, that the novelistic touch in the portrayal of character is a great gift for a historian.
