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  • Stopping Napoleon: War and Intrigue in the Mediterranean

    Tom Pocock

    John Murray, pp. 262

The Age of Napoleon
by Alistair Horne
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99, pp. 182, ISBN 029760791X

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