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This Dark Business tells the story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte - by any means possible. Acclaimed historian Tim Clayton plunges the reader into the hidden underworld of Georgian politics in this gripping book about propaganda, spying and covert operations - a very modern tale of secret committees, slush funds and assassination.'What an astonishing story it all is, alternately inspiring and disturbing...

The riveting and previously unknown story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible.Between two assassination attempts-in 1800 and 1804-on Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a propaganda campaign 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. The...

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 ...

A richly illustrated catalogue accompanying a major British Museum exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end. Extraordinary though it may seem much about th...

The acclaimed international bestseller, now with a new introduction from the authors telling the full story of their quest for the truth about the life and death of princess Diana.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."-- Winston Churchill, November 10, 1942Spring 1942. Throughout the world, the Allies retreat before the inexorable march of Fascism: Singapore falls to Japan, the Wehrmacht lays siege to Leningrad, captures the Crimea, and advances on Stalingrad, Greece and Yugoslavia fall to the Nazis, the American Pacific Fleet lies in ruins, and in Li...

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Sixty years ago, Europe lay at the feet of Adolf Hitler. Standing between Hitler and world domination was the just-appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill...and a few hundred pilots in the Royal Air Force's Fighter Command. Defeat seemed inevitable. Instead, a legend was born. Taking its readers on a breathtaking journey from open lifeboats in North Atlantic gales to the cockpits of burning fighter planes, Finest Hour re-creates the tens...

A full, honest, and objective biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, that goes beyond the headlines and gossip to reveal a story that "offers more than most of the sensationalized volumes that filled the bookstores following her death . . . a fair-handed reporting of Diana's world--the good, the bad, and the imagined" ("Cincinnati Post"). 16-page color photo insert.