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Alan Strauss-Schom: The Shadow Emperor [2018] hardback voucher Christian martyrs and civil servantsConsidered one of the pre eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize nominated historian Alan Strauss Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon) overshadowed for too long by his more romanticised forebear. In the first full biography of Napoleon III by an American historian, Strauss Schom uses his years of primary source research to explore the major cultural, sociological, economic, financial,