This dark business : the secret war against Napoleon
Clayton, Tim2018
Books, Manuscripts
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 III'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?
Main title:
This dark business : the secret war against Napoleon / Tim Clayton.
Author:
Clayton, Tim, author
Imprint:
London : Little, Brown, 2018.
Collation:
420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408708644 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.27
Language:
English
Subject:
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Assassination attemptsNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- PropagandaPropaganda, British -- History -- 19th centuryNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Participation, BritishEspionage -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820
BRN:
2680326