November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
5h 26m
English

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
—Author Thomas Mann
In This Chapter
The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who controlled nearly all of Europe for a brief time in the early 19th century, led an army made up of an estimated 600,000 men. Among them was a young corporal who has gone down in history with the unfortunate nickname of “Napoleon’s Idiot.” Whenever Napoleon wrote an order to his commanders or his troops, he would read it to the corporal before issuing it. Bonaparte ...