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Article: The Napoleon Options: Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars.(Review)
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- Parameters
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- March 22, 2001
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The Napoleon Options: Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars. Edited by Jonathan North. London: Greenhill Books, 2000. 208 pages. $34.95.
"Alternate" or counter-factual history usually elicits open contempt from professional historians. They recognize--much as Hollywood has shown us--that historical events are shaped by human beings who act and react based on what they see or believe is happening and that changes in a historical event would inevitably have engendered additional changes as the "actors" reacted to new circumstances. Predicting the nature and effects of these subsequent changes, of course, is impossible, and attempts to do so usually produce ...
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Article: Napoleonic Wars, Espionage During
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...Napoleonic Wars, Espionage During █ ALEXANDR IOFFE The Napoleonic wars pitted France, led by Napoleon Bonaparte ... was a much more intense activity during the Napoleonic wars. This rise in espionage activity resulted ...
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