Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson

375 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, it has also been linked to something as small as a button-a tin button, the kind that fastened everything from the greatcoats of Napoleon's officers...

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