This would have made a great study guide to read simultaneously with Napoleon Wrote Fiction, but was interesting by itself as well. Andy Martin could be mistaken for an American author due to the style in which he writes, if not for his use of the English [U.K] dictionary. Too many authors nowadays will have read less than half a dozen books on a subject & think themselves qualified to write their own on the subject, but Martin is not one of them. His book is as well researched as it is interesting.