{"product_id":"9781842126509-secondhand-napoleon","title":"Napoleon","description":"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":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49176476942555,"sku":"9781842126509-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/027997e3-4b6c-4c07-bd95-128f3ea02355.jpg?v=1787572011","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781842126509-secondhand-napoleon","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}