Napoleon: A Life PDF

Herr Adam ZAMOYSKI ist ein preisgekrönter britischer Historiker und Autor des Bestseller-Epos „1812. Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow“ und seiner Fortsetzung „Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna“. Herr ZAMOYSKI hat mehrere andere renommierte Bücher über Schlüsselfiguren und Aspekte der europäischen und Weltgeschichte veröffentlicht. Seine umfassende Geschichte Polens, "The Polish Way", war bei seinem Erscheinen 1987 nicht nur für mehrere Wochen in den Bestsellerlisten vertreten, sondern seither nie vergriffen. Er ist auch ein angesehener Kommentator und Rezensent, hat zu allen wichtigen britischen Aufsätzen und Zeitschriften beigetragen und in England, Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten Vorträge gehalten.

Napoleon: A Life pdf von Adam Zamoyski

The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written,Napoleonbrilliantly sets the man in his European context.