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Napoleon’s Wars

Fear and loathing in old Europe

Charles Esdaile
Allen Lane, 621pp, £30,
Allan Mallinson
Wednesday, 5th December 2007

Allan Mallinson

What marks out the Napoleonic wars from what had gone before, the great dynastic clashes of the two earlier centuries? It is by no means the only, or even the predominant, question that Charles Esdaile poses in this sweeping study, but in many ways it is the most challenging.

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