{"product_id":"napoleon-lives","title":"Napoleon (LIVES)","description":"A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule.  Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon?s dictatorship. Johnson tells the whole story: his astonishing gift for figures and calculation, his mastery of cannon; his audacious, hyperactive and aggressive generalship and his simple battle tactics; his complete control of propaganda and the success of the cultural presentation of the Empire; the Code Napoleon; his failure as an international statesman, as Europe grew to hate him; his marshals and ministers; his wives, mistresses, personal style and working methods; the British blockade and the Continental System; the mistakes in Spain and Russia. The escape from Elba, the events leading up to Waterloo and the battle itself, which gets a full treatment, is particularly riveting.","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40145402101845,"sku":"9781842126509N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/65deeef9-dddc-4505-a051-4bae47ddcf23.jpg?v=1656581914","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/napoleon-lives","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}