The Secret War Against Napoleon: Britain's Assassination Plot on the French Emperor

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Tim Clayton

The Secret War Against Napoleon

Britain's Assassination Plot on the French Emperor

Tim Clayton

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Pegasus Books
05 March 2019

History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Napoleonic Wars; Bargains

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 Secret War Against Napoleon tells the story of the British government's determination to destroy the French Emperor 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 epic conflict continued for more than twenty years? At this pivotal moment when it wanted to consolidate its place as the premier world power, Britain was uncompromising.

This dynamic historical narrative plunges the reader into the hidden underworld of Georgian politics where, faced with the terrifying prospect of revolution, the British government used bribery and coercion in an effort to kill the French leader.

By: Tim Clayton
Imprint: Pegasus Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781643130576
ISBN 10: 1643130579
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 05 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Clayton was educated at Cambridge University. He is the Mountbatten Literary Award-winning author of a number of naval and military histories, including the the critically acclaimed Trafalgar and Waterloo. He worked at the British Museum as co-curator of the exhibition Bonaparte and the British, which marked the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

Reviews for The Secret War Against Napoleon: Britain's Assassination Plot on the French Emperor

The best book on the battle. Colorful and revealing. We experience it as Wellington or Napoleon or an ordinary soldier would have done: a series of isolated, terrifying events, shrouded in smoke and confusion.