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#2All book links are shrouded affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20).
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#3All book links are shrouded affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20).
who cares
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#4All book links are shrouded affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20).
I don't see why this is an issue. The affiliate relationship is disclosed in the footer, the recommendations are coming from a legitimate historian (Andrew Roberts) instead of from the site itself, and the site is adding value both by reaching out to Roberts to get his recommendations and by interviewing him to get context on why he recommends them. It's definitely not one of those "we searched for this word on Amazon and here are the first five books that came back" blogspam pages.
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#5I haven't read Andrew Roberts's book but picked up and enjoyed an even more recent bio by Adam Zamoyski also titled Napoleon: A Life. It's much less focused on the military details and is framed more like the story of an ambitious Corsican family, centered on its very successful son.
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#6If anyone here wants more info regarding the French Revolution, I heartily recommend listening to the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. He really goes into detail into the French Revolution and of course covers the period
Of Napoléon.
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#7If anyone here wants more info regarding the French Revolution, I heartily recommend listening to the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. He really goes into detail into the French Revolution and of course covers the period Of Napoléon.
For that matter, the Napoleon podcast itself is also really good - although at 60 hours, it’s perhaps too in-depth for anyone other than true fans.
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#8Napoleon is underrated not only as a military general, but as a builder of civilization and a visionary of what it could be. Too often he's just seen as another general who was pretty good during that time when warfare was very orderly and everyone wore garish uniform. But countries were scared of him, deftly scared of him (especially Great Britain, but mainly because they didn't want another country that wanted to conquer the world as much as they did). There's a reason why Europe went ~100 years without another continent-wide war.
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#9> Britain and France are continuously at war from 1803 onwards until Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815, a period of war unmatched in any of the other coalitions. What do you think is the main motivation for why the Brits are so uncompromising?
This actually short-changes how much Britain and France actually fought during this time. This is the tail end of what some historians call the Second Hundred Years' War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Hundred_Years%27_War
Here is the list of conflicts during that time
Nine Years' War (1688–1697)
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)
War of the Austrian Succession (1742–1748)
Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755)
2nd Carnatic War (1749–1754)
Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)
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#10If anyone here wants more info regarding the French Revolution, I heartily recommend listening to the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. He really goes into detail into the French Revolution and of course covers the period Of Napoléon.
I tried listening to that, but found it incredibly dull. I much prefer Hardcore History, and it's a pity Dan Carlin hasn't yet done a series on the French Revolution.