Simon Schama on Napoleon, the horticultural strategist
Ruth Scurr’s glorious biography gives the French emperor an unusually fresh look — revealing the conquest-junkie to be a keen botanist
Francophobe Schama can't write a review without over-the-top insults in almost every sentence.
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