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Title: Don't Read This If You Want A Balanced Look At Napoleon
Review: This book is just absolutely ridiculous and is proof that ANY Napoleon book can be published because he's such a popular subject. Napoleon more than any other figure in history has been the victim of a 200 year smear campaign and is held to a double standard that no other figure in history is held to. It's almost as if he was so good at everything that people treat him as some sort of demigod and judge his actions as if he wasn't a normal human being. Nowhere can that be found more than in this "book". It's obvious that Alan Schom is in awe of the emperor but feels embarassed of that fact so wrote a book in order to convince himself that Napoleon was in fact a mortal man and not the superman of his dreams. Alan Schom is just a kid writing a book and to those of us who are well versed in the Napoleonic story this is just laughable fodder.In other words its a VERY unbalanced look at Napoleon which should be avoided by....everbody.
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