Napoleon: A Life pdf

Il signor Adam ZAMOYSKI è uno storico britannico pluripremiato e autore dell'epica best-seller "1812. Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow" e del suo sequel "Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna". Il signor ZAMOYSKI ha pubblicato molti altri libri acclamati su figure e aspetti chiave della storia europea e mondiale. La sua completa storia della Polonia, "The Polish Way", non solo è apparsa nelle liste dei best seller per diverse settimane quando è uscita nel 1987, ma da allora non è mai stata esaurita. È anche un illustre commentatore e revisore, e ha contribuito a tutti i principali giornali e periodici britannici e ha tenuto numerose conferenze in Inghilterra, Europa e Stati Uniti.

Napoleon: A Life pdf da 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.