So many books, so little time

So... like most people I picked up this book because I saw the oversimplified Napoleon videos and really liked it. The book cover looked good so that's a plus, the number of pages not so much.

But the book kind of sucked me in. Perhaps because I found a kindred spirit in the young Napoleon due to our shared love for history and its great conquerors like Caesar, both being social outcasts and him going to military school and me now enrolling into military school. Caveat, I am not insinuating that I am a conqueror in the making in any way.

Any way, I think the parts I liked the most was the first Italian Campaign, Austerlitz and then Liepzig.

In many ways, the story of Napoleon is more akin to a Greek tragedy than a story of any real person. I think the defeat at Leipzig, the 6 days Campaign, the heartwarming welcome back to France by his troops and the inevitable downfall were all quite poetic, beautiful and yet tragic series of events.

I think I will be rereading this book and especially certain parts that I have marked out again and again when I am down and out or feeling weak and undecisive.