拿破仑传英文读后感
书名：Napoleon
作者：Felix Markham
两个世纪之前的蒸汽机时代，一本关于拿破仑的传记，出版于二十世纪六十年代。
封底书评：
“The university lecturer in history at Oxford has approached the impossible; he was written a new life of one of the most written-about figures in modern history with freshness, vivacity, fine scholarship, and penetration.” (这位牛津大学的历史学者几近达成了不可完成的标准；他为这位现代历史中最常被人著书立传的人物赋予新生，著作令人耳目一新，人物刻画栩栩如生，史料翔实，分析透彻。）
“Markham has achieved a startlingly vivid and coherent picture of Napoleon’s career, of the social and intellectual influences that molded it, and of the men and forces that opposed it. The millitary events, the political movements, the personal intrigues — all appear, each in its proper place and perspective.” (作者描绘了一幅关于拿破仑的事业及其反对派在内的整体而生动的画面，并将其社交影响力和智慧影响力融汇其中。军事事件，政治运动，个人动因 - 都由适当的角度所展现。）
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引用书中的描写片段：
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By his cat-and-mouse treatment of Ouvrard, Napoleon did not endear himself to the financial fraternity, and Ouvrard considered Napoleon’s knowledge of economics both rudimentary and reactionary. “Credit was to him an abstract idea, in which he saw merely the dreams of ideologists, and the empty notions of economists.”