Author: Strathern, Paul
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2007
ISBN: 9781844139170
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: As New
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description: New book, 480 pages. Napoleon's attack on Egypt in 1798 was the first on a Middle-Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. With 335 ships and 40,000 men, it was also the largest long-distance seaborne force the world had ever seen. Napoleon's assault was intended to be much more than a colonial adventure, however, for he took with him over one hundred and fifty scientists, mathematicians, artists and writers - a 'Legion of Culture' - with a view to bringing Western civilisation to 'backward' Egypt.