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Biographies of Napoleon
Napoleon's Memoirs, translated by Somerset de Chair
http://www.amazon.com/Napoleons-Memoirs ... 333&sr=1-6
- apparently Napoleon dictated his memoirs while he was in captivity. But this book is out of print and I can't find any other
translations. I find it bizarre that this wouldn't have been widely translated into English...
Napoleon On Napoleon, translated and edited by Somerset de Chair
http://www.amazon.com/Napoleon-On-Somer ... 1860198767
Napoleon by Vincent Cronin
http://www.amazon.com/Napoleon-Vincent- ... roduct_top
- I found out about this book from some business website that was listing the favorite books of famous entrepreneurs. Oracle's founder (Larry Ellison) apparently listed this book as his favorite.
- 2015 - Napoleon The Great - 4.5 stars, 31 reviews
- 2015 - Napoleon, A Life - 4.5 stars, 458 reviews
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Bourrienne (Napoleon's friend and secretary)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3567/3567-h/3567-h.htm
Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life by Alan Schom (3/5 stars on Amazon)
http://www.amazon.com/Napoleon-Bonapart ... 0060929588
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Shortly after the events, possibly on the 29 July whilst still in Beaucaire, Napoleon wrote a political pamphlet titled Le souper de Beaucaire (The supper at Beaucaire) in which a soldier speaks with four merchants and sympathetic to their opinions attempts to dissipate their counter-revolutionary sentiments. The pamphlet was read by Augustin Robespierre, brother of Maximilien Robespierre, who was impressed by the revolutionary context. The pamphlet itself had little effect against the rebellious forces, but served to advance Napoleon's career. He soon became recognised for his political ambitions by a Corsica-born politician, and family friend, Christophe Saliceti, who arranged to have it published and distributed. Christophe's influence, along with fellow Convention deputy Augustin Robespierre, advanced Napoleon into the position of senior gunner, at Toulon.
- This reminds me a lot of Andrew Carnegie's statement that if you can become the protege of someone who is already successful then you've already won half the battle.
- This also reminds me of Warren Buffett working for Ben Graham.
2007.07.07 - History Today - How Good Was Napoleon?
http://www.historytoday.com/jonathon-ri ... s-napoleon
Napoleon was successful on many battlefields; and he may have been a master of campaigning. However, in strategic terms, he was a failure principally because he never succeeded in transforming a defeated enemy into a willing ally. He won wars, but he never won the peace.
- Right before I skimmed this article I read another article about how these NASA guys had come up with a new method of getting to Mars by aiming the spaceship in a Mars orbit and waiting for Mars to catch up to the spaceship. I feel like that may serve as a good analogy for wars: when fighting, you want to always keep in mind what your desired end-situation is, and aim for THAT, instead of just aiming for the short-sighted goal of killing everyone who is acting against you. In other words, it may be smarter to NOT kill some people if doing so will make it harder for you to "get into orbit" of post-war peace. It would take me some time to smooth over that analogy but I wanted to record it before I forgot it.