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Napoleon's Road to Glory: Triumphs, Defeats & Immortality. By J. David Markham. London: Brassey's, 2003. ISBN 1-85753-327-5. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 313. L20.00.
In Napoleon's Road to Glory, Napoleonic scholar J. David Markham has produced a superb, one-volume biography of Napoleon Bonaparte that effectively shows how Napoleon came from modest origins to become the dominant force in Europe in the early nineteenth century. The reader may ask why we need a new biography of such as well-documented man as Napoleon. The answer is that Markham's fresh approach to Napoleon may change the way one looks at this great man without compromising anyone's fundamental beliefs about Napoleon's place in history. In short, it is an interesting read...