Balder Ex-Libris

Author : McNair Wilson Robert
Title : Napoleon The portrait of a king
Year : 1937

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Preface. Three years ago the world learned that all its knowledge about Napoleon was incomplete because the central motive of his career had, during more than a hundred years, remained unsuspected. This discovery followed the publication of the Memoires of Caulaincourt, his Ambassador in Russia; its full implications have not yet, by any means, been understood. This present is the first biography of Napoleon in which the central motive of his life, as declared by himself, is given place. It is the first study, therefore, in which the struggle which involved the whole world between 1800 and 1815 is presete as the Emperor of the French himself saw it. That is no virtue of mine; I have been so fortunate as to learn truth unknown, or at least only partially known, to earlier writers. ...