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Orestes Munn wrote:The New Napoleon biography by Andrew Roberts.
cap10ed wrote:Orestes Munn wrote:The New Napoleon biography by Andrew Roberts.
OM is that the version that puts him in a better light. Social issues and all?
Orestes Munn wrote:The New Napoleon biography by Andrew Roberts.
SloopJonB wrote:Orestes Munn wrote:The New Napoleon biography by Andrew Roberts.
I've always been puzzled by the way Napoleon has been treated by the French and by history. Aside from industrialized genocide, I can see very little difference between him and Hitler yet Napoleon has enormous monuments in his honour and is generally regarded as one of, if not the greatest person in French history.
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SloopJonB wrote:Orestes Munn wrote:The New Napoleon biography by Andrew Roberts.
I've always been puzzled by the way Napoleon has been treated by the French and by history. Aside from industrialized genocide, I can see very little difference between him and Hitler yet Napoleon has enormous monuments in his honour and is generally regarded as one of, if not the greatest person in French history.
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kimbottles wrote:SloopJonB wrote:Orestes Munn wrote:The New Napoleon biography by Andrew Roberts.
I've always been puzzled by the way Napoleon has been treated by the French and by history. Aside from industrialized genocide, I can see very little difference between him and Hitler yet Napoleon has enormous monuments in his honour and is generally regarded as one of, if not the greatest person in French history.
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I have always wondered the same, his tomb in Paris is over the top for a guy who lost the big battle. Bigger than Wellington's or Nelson's both who won their battles.
SloopJonB wrote:Which one of them cause the deaths of a greater percentage of the population of Europe at the time?
Also I would argue against the Napoleonic code being a good thing re: jurisprudence.
Semi give us the skinny on the book once you have read it.SemiSalt wrote:I found Sailing A Serious Ocean by John Kretschmer under the tree. I'm wondering what the blue water sailors among you think of Kretschmer's experiences and advice.
cap10ed wrote:Semi give us the skinny on the book once you have read it.SemiSalt wrote:I found Sailing A Serious Ocean by John Kretschmer under the tree. I'm wondering what the blue water sailors among you think of Kretschmer's experiences and advice.
Jamie I think at a point it doesn't matter the number of miles you put behind your name but the common sence you have brought along with you. After 50,000 miles the next 300,000 and still counting may entice the up and coming but it brings out the WTF in some of us. Most of my generation commercial buddies are over the million mile mark and we are happy to just make it home at night. That's why I ask " What did he have to say" morbid curiosity.Jamie wrote:cap10ed wrote:Semi give us the skinny on the book once you have read it.SemiSalt wrote:I found Sailing A Serious Ocean by John Kretschmer under the tree. I'm wondering what the blue water sailors among you think of Kretschmer's experiences and advice.
I read it sometime last year...but you know what? I forgot most of it already. It's a good read, but I felt strange after reading it. Maybe it was too serious for me.
I would say "pedantic."Maybe it was too serious for me.
BeauV wrote:FWIW, I'm a fore-reach in a storm sort of guy. But, I don't like using a jib alone. Most boats won't head up in a big puff with only a jib flying. This is a BIG deal. I prefer a storm trysail or heavily reefed main so the boat will round up in the big puffs or (and this is really important) if the sails get filled with solid water. SAGA would round up nicely when a big wall of water hit her heavily reefed main. She'd bear off if it hit the storm staysail and lay on her side.
SemiSalt wrote:BeauV wrote:FWIW, I'm a fore-reach in a storm sort of guy. But, I don't like using a jib alone. Most boats won't head up in a big puff with only a jib flying. This is a BIG deal. I prefer a storm trysail or heavily reefed main so the boat will round up in the big puffs or (and this is really important) if the sails get filled with solid water. SAGA would round up nicely when a big wall of water hit her heavily reefed main. She'd bear off if it hit the storm staysail and lay on her side.
Beau, he would stick with a third or fourth reef in the main as long as possible.
I also wonder about a 100 sq ft of sail in a 47+ ft boat with a tall mast, etc. It is not much sail for the windage, but never been there, never done that.
Orestes Munn wrote:The Nuremberg Trial by Ann and John Tusa. A superbly written and extensively researched account of a great (and only partially successful) achievement of civilization.
Beau, he would stick with a third or fourth reef in the main as long as possible.
One thing that may not be conventional is that his preferred approach to a major storm is to fore-reach, i.e. sail under the storm jib only at perhaps 75 degrees from the true wind making 2-3 knots.
BeauV wrote:OM, in the book Bill talks a lot about his grandfather and why he ended up in Russia for precisely that reason. It's really a good read. BV
cap10ed wrote:Beau they had a great interview on CBC with the author. His tales of Russia are not a shock to those with family from the eastern bloc. The sad part of this is all those people with their hopes for a better future dashed. Time to pick up that book. Thanks Beau. Ed