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The Napoleonic Wars

By: Alexander Mikaberidze
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.

©2020 Alexander Mikaberidze (P)2020 Recorded Books 19th Century Military Modern War Imperialism Africa Royalty British Empire Middle East Napoleon Bonaparte Middle Ages Russia Latin American Self-Determination Interwar Period
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Very thorough history of the napoleonic wars. Moves through each nation in its subject matter moving from the early to late period as relevant. Narrator’s voice was excellent. Though I have to admit that his intonation was odd at some points, suggesting sarcasm, irony or ridicule in ordinary sentences

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the narrator sounds like a southern version of Ringo Starr reading Thomas the tank engine, He's got such a weird flow he sounds like he's reading a children's story

terrible narrator let's it down I had to refund it

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Don’t get this book if you want a purely military history. It’s more economic and social. Nice to fill in the blanks around the more global aspect of the conflicts but wanted to hear about austerlitz etc and not the Iranian empire and the Spanish empire in the americas or two hour Ottoman Empire chapters

Not bad

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At least for the casual listener, i got lost so many times in all the exact dates in mm/dd/yyyy, all one after the other, the insistence of having all the sometimes 4-5 word names read one after the other. If i were to have read the book, i would probably only have glaced at this information, but being read to me i could not avoid. i found myself getting lost bc of that.

Otherwise, the content was fantastic. Loved the global approach to the book, though at times i feel like it lacked a clear structure. Felt i was being led back and forth through time and place.

The reader also employed a somewhat difficult to follow speech bc of the insistence of using all sort of accents and verbal flourishings.

Great, but not quite.

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I got this when I suddenly took an interest in the Napoleonic wars and its impact on the world, overall it was great with an amazing story but honestly how can 1 person emphasise something so much that does just not need to emphasised. The narrator seems so surprised when he reads ever line which is good some of the time but not all the time. Any way It was amazing and really informative.

Great story but hard to Listen to

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