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...Marisa, who as the goddaughter of Napoleon's first wife Josephine de Beauharnais might be expected to live a somewhat sheltered life, is violated twelve times on three continents by five men. On top of that, she gives a command performance for Napoleon, suffers a miscarriage, undergoes captivity in a Turkish harem and is sold as a slave in Louisiana. Why is the heroine subjected to all these horrors? Cynics might imagine that Marisa's martyrdom is merely intended to offer the bored middle-class female a succession of vicarious masochistic thrills, but Author Rogers seems to think...
...France's Socialist-Communist coalition of gaining a parliamentary majority in the next nationwide elections. These former gaullists and their sympathizers dubbed the movement the Assembly for the Republic. At its head they proclaimed a new heir to what one commentator called the French "political strong-man tradition" of Napoleon and deGaulle: a smooth 44-year old operator and former Prime Minister named Jacques Chirac...
...dealing with Waterloo, Keegan argues that the battle was decided less by Wellington and Napoleon than the enormous confusion that enveloped the 70,000 troops on each side: blinding smoke, choking fumes, ear-shattering noise. Again and again, French cavalry attacked standing squares of British infantry and were driven off because their horses shied from crossing living barriers. But what caused the British soldiers to stand their ground? Keegan notes that they were safer in masses; to break and run was to become an easy target for French horsemen. Also, the leaders were in the thick of the fighting, where...
Microbes, like people, are always in a process of evolution. They have also proved marvelously mobile. They have marched with every army ever fielded, and claimed more victims than bronze spears, muskets or machine guns. From 1803 to 1815, Napoleon lost more of his men to typhus than he did to bullets or bayonets. During the Crimean War in 1854-56, disease killed ten times as many British soldiers as did Russian cannons. Even at the turn of our present century, British combat deaths during the Boer War were only a fifth as high as losses due to disease. Indeed...
Turkish Yoke. The volunteers were of several sorts. The first, writes David Howarth in this wry and lively short history, consisted of officers left over from the Napoleonic wars of the previous decade. Each had at least one fine uniform, one sword and a brace of pistols. A few were what they said they had been; others actually had fought at grades several degrees below their announced ranks. A large number were simply counterfeit, like the Italian named Tassi, who said he had been Napoleon's engineer in chief but who confessed, when it became explosively clear...