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Title: A Pathetic Joke
Review: How starved for attention and recognition can people be! But be careful what you wish for. Schom portrays Napoleon as an incompetent, bungling general who simply stumbled into numerous victories, because his enemies were even less competent and very, very hapless. Bonaparte crushed his enemies and became emperor, during some of the most uncertain times in human history, as a result of luck and some intrigue. Sounds plausible? This book is a perfect example of self-aggrandizing, revisionist scholarship. Schom wants to look big by making Napoleon as small as possible, and it's pathetic. What a waste of knowledge in pursuit of vanity!
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