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- English
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The Secret War Against Napoleon
About this book
Between two assassination attemptsâin 1800 and 1804âon Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a propaganda campaign of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper and tyrant. The Secret War Against Napoleon tells the story of the British government's determination to destroy the French Emperor by any means possible. We have been taught to think of Napoleon as the aggressorâa man with an unquenchable thirst for war and gloryâ but what if this story masked the real truth: that the British refusal to make peace, either with revolutionary France or with the man who claimed to personify the revolution, was the reason this epic conflict continued for more than twenty years? At this pivotal moment when it wanted to consolidate its place as the premier world power, Britain was uncompromising. This dynamic historical narrative plunges the reader into the hidden underworld of Georgian politics where, faced with the terrifying prospect of revolution, the British government used bribery and coercion in an effort to kill the French leader.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Cast of Characters
- 3 nivĂŽse, year IX
- 1. Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair
- 2. Responding to Cataclysm
- 3. Bellum Internecinum
- 4. The Modern Alexander
- 5. The English Conspiracy
- 6. The Infernal Machine
- 7. The Character of Bonaparte
- 8. The Peace and the Press
- 9. Rousing the Nation
- 10. Grand Conspiracy
- 11. Reactivating the Spies
- 12. Atrocities of the Corsican Demon
- 13. Landing the Assassins
- 14. Méhée de la Touche
- 15. Paris in Panic
- 16. Worse than a Crime
- 17. The Eagle Does Not Catch Flies
- 18. Trials and Executions
- 19. The Emperor Napoleon
- 20. Epilogue
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Also by Tim Clayton
- Copyright