Word: napoleonism
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Elisabet was a grandniece of that intrepid Marshal of Napoleon who led a premature charge at Waterloo and who was known as the Bravest of the Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...
Before he became the most readable of living sea-storytellers, C. S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower) wrote two novels still scarcely known to U.S. readers.* Both are about the war against Napoleon's legions in Spain and Portugal. They are not quite up to the best of his seagoing stories, but thanks to Forester's interest in the men and minutiae of military tactics, they are well out of the class of most "historical novels...
Wendell Willkie's quotation from William McKinley (TIME, Feb. 22) started me on a little political sleuthing in search of half-remembered words which I finally found in the Preface to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Napoleon III in Italy, dated Rome...
...first school thinks Joseph Stalin may be playing a sly, lone, isolationist hand. It points out parallels, such as Kutuzov's reply to the British observer Wilson when the latter urged the Russian to destroy Napoleon instead of merely pursuing him. "Kutuzov told him plainly," says Eugene Tarle (Napoleon's Invasion of Russia), "that his aim was to eject Napoleon from Russia and that he did not see why Russia should waste her forces on the complete destruction of Napoleon, since the harvest of such a victory would be reaped by England, not Russia...
...World War II, no single fact had held such enormous possibilities. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, Rommel's retreat from Egypt in 1942 involved the fate of continents; the Wehrmacht's retreat involves the fate of the world. When the full extent and meaning of the retreat are clear, the world will be better able to judge the winner of World War II, better able to gauge its length...