(Ebook) This Dark Business: The Secret War against Napoleon by Tim Clayton ISBN 9781408708644, 1408708647

(Ebook) This Dark Business: The Secret War against Napoleon by Tim Clayton ISBN 9781408708644, 1408708647

[front flyleaf:] "Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George Ill's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper and tyrant.*This Dark Business* tells the story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible. We have been taught to think of Napoleon as the aggressor -- a man with an unquenchable thirst for war and glory -- but what if this story masked the real truth: that the British refusal to make peace either with revolutionary France or with the man who claimed to personify the revolution was the reason this great war continued for more than twenty years? At this pivotal moment when it consolidated its place as number one world power, Britain was uncompromising. To secure the continuing rule of Church and King, the British invented an evil enemy, the perpetrator of any number of dark deeds; and having blackened Napoleon's name, with the help of networks of French royalist spies and hitmen, they also tried to assassinate him.*This Dark Business* plunges the reader into the hidden underworld of Georgian politics. Faced with the terrifying prospect of revolution, bribery and coercion are the means to secure compliance in this ruthless world of spies, plots and lies."[rear flyleaf:] "TIM CLAYTON was educated at Cambridge University, where he specialised in the graphic satire of James Gillray. He is the award-winning and bestselling author of a number of books on naval and military history, including the winner of the 2008 Mountbatten Literary Award, *Tars*, and the critically acclaimed *Waterloo*. He is also an associate fellow at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He was co-curator of the British Museum exhibition *Bonaparte and the British*, which marked the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo."[rear dustwrapper:]"PRAISE FOR WATERLOO."The best book on the battle ... colourful and revealing". -- SAUL DAVID, *EVENING STANDARD*"Clayton makes the fog of war central to the narrative; we are pitched into the chaos and din of Waterloo and, crucially, the three days of manoeuvring and fighting that preceded it. We experience it as Wellington or Napoleon or an ordinary soldier would have done: a series of isolated, terrifying events, shrouded in smoke and confusion." -- *DAILY TELEGRAPH*"A quite brilliant piece of meticulous historical detective work ... I have no doubt that this book will become a classic." -- *SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY*[Views regarding Napoleon I - from another source:]" 'The league against Napoleon I, which was instrumental in shattering his dream of universal empire, was a Jewish organization' (Walter Hurt, 'Truth About The Jews', p . 323)"; cited on p.45 of "The Secret World Government -- Or 'The Hidden Hand' " (1926) by Maj.-Gen. Count Cherep-Spiridovich." 'Another Rothschild carried the whole burden of the conflict which overthrew Napoleon' (July 22, 1924)" [New York Evening Post], cited on p.47 of Cherep-Spiridovich, supra."Do not many Jewish writers call Trozky -- a 'Napoleon'?" -- op. cit. supra