Democratic Despot; a Life of Napoleon III

by T A B (Thomas Anthony Buch Corley (creator)

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442 pages, Hardcover

Published September 9, 2021

Reviews

[Bob Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

On the one hand I found this to be a book that was quite readable. On the other hand I felt that the author may have been a little too kind in his treatment of Napoleon III. At the beginning of Chapter 23 he writes that the withdrawal of Britain from Europe lead the way to Prussia’s unchecked rise towards supremacy. The disastrous Franco-Prussian War, by contrast almost feels like a postlude in the book.