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4.0
This is just what I wanted, a short book that tells where Napoleon came from, how he took power, and what the consequences were. It doesn't cover the military history which, as the author points out, is covered in the more than 600,000 books on Napoleon. Rather it talks about the effects on life in Paris and France of Napoleon's reign and fall. Esp interesting, the comparisons with the France of 1940s. Lively and well written with a good bibliography.
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