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...well-written...shows how a megalomaniac reshaped Europe into his own image -- Collected Miscellany Napoleon is usually remembered for his military conquests and triumphs, but he was also a consummate statesman who demonstrated considerable diplomatic skills throughout his career. Napoleon's diplomatic finesse decreased as he amassed more power and became willing to use force when restraint and diplomacy might have delivered greater benefits. William R. Nester's Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy delves deeply into this aspect of Napoleon's overlooked career. His lucid and engaging study is indispensable for anyone interested in the Napoleonic Era--Alexander Mikaberidze, author of The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against Kutuzov and The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815

Napoleon is usually remembered for his military conquests and triumphs, but he was also a consummate statesman who demonstrated considerable diplomatic skills throughout his career. Napoleon's diplomatic finesse decreased as he amassed more power and became willing to use force when restraint and diplomacy might have delivered greater benefits. William R. Nester's Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy delves deeply into this aspect of Napoleon's overlooked career. His lucid and engaging study is indispensable for anyone interested in the Napoleonic Era--Alexander Mikaberidze, author of The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against Kutuzov and The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815 ...well-written...shows how a megalomaniac reshaped Europe into his own image --Collected Miscellany

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Dr. William R. Nester is a professor in the Department of Government and Politics at St. John’s University in New York and the author of more than a score of books on a wide variety of international relations topics including The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775 and Haughty Conquerors: Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763. He has spent nearly a dozen years living overseas doing research and traveling in more than eighty countries.

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