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Butterfield, Herbert. THE PEACE TACTICS OF NAPOLEON 1806-1808.
Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 1929 First Edition
395pp, ex-lib with usual marks. A good reading copy of this exceptionally important work. Napoleon was one of the most resourceful and aggressive diplomats of all time--no one who has studied only his military campaigns can fully appreciate his ruthlessness. This brilliant book traces the diplomatic offensive which accompanied his wars against the Fourth Coalition. On page 144 of this book, during a discussion of the negotiating tactics of the Austrians and Prussians, occurs perhaps the most remarkable passage ever written about Napoleon: 'Looking on what there was of selfishness and ruthlessness in their policy...one begins to think more kindly of this Napoleon who had such men arrayed against him, and view his career of conquest with more equanimity and less pain. Early he had come to an encounter with Austrians and Prussians and the like, and had learned their unfaithfulness and double-dealing and cowardice; and nobility and kindness that had been in the rising youth must have withered at the contact. Little wonder he came to think all the old governments contemptible, and accepted everything in diplomacy as crooked...These people had menaced him with their feigned friendships and secret conspiracies...many of these governments had taught him something of selfishness and treachery; if he hardened his heart against them and became too like themselves, perhaps it is not mere weary waste of pity to reflect on the world that molded him--to recall the youthful Bonaparte who, as a subordinate officer, had been willing to starve for the sake of his family--and to glance, at times, in aside, at the Napoleon who could forgive generously, who was the cherished friend of his soldiers, who organized the welfare of peoples, and who bewitched with charm every person who came near him. In all their ambitions the Prussians had nothing of his grandeur...never for a moment did they display his generous impulses; while along with his passion for rule, his insatiable greed of conquest, there went a gift of efficiency and a reforming zeal that left their mark from Dalmatia to the furthest edge of the German dominions--beside which the Prussian craving for power is a pretension and an offense, and seems selfishness unredeemed.' One of the most interesting books ever written about Napoleon, and as with most of the university press books of the period, extremely scarce.
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