Napoleon: A Life pdf

M. Adam ZAMOYSKI est un historien britannique primé et auteur de l'épopée à succès "1812. Napoléon's Fatal March on Moscow" et sa suite "Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna". M. ZAMOYSKI a publié plusieurs autres livres acclamés sur des personnages clés et des aspects de l'histoire européenne et mondiale. Son histoire complète de la Pologne, "The Polish Way", figurait non seulement dans les listes de best-sellers pendant plusieurs semaines lors de sa sortie en 1987, mais n'a jamais été épuisé depuis. Il est également un éminent commentateur et critique, et a contribué à tous les principaux journaux et périodiques britanniques et a donné de nombreuses conférences en Angleterre, en Europe et aux États-Unis.

Napoleon: A Life pdf par 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.