Napoleon
Autor Adam Zamoyskien Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 2019
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780008116095
ISBN-10: 0008116091
Pagini: 752
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 50 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția William Collins
ISBN-10: 0008116091
Pagini: 752
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 50 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția William Collins
Notă biografică
Adam
Zamoyskiis
the
author
of
numerous
books
about
Polish
and
European
history,
and
has
written
for
publications
including
theTimes(London),
theTimes
Literary
Supplement,
and
theGuardian.
He
lives
in
London
and
Poland.
Recenzii
"Zamoyski...attempts
to
cut
through
the
fantasy
and
retrospective
exaggeration
to
tell
the
story
of
an
extraordinary,
but
certainly
not
superhuman
life....
Napoleon
emerges
from
Mr.
Zamoyski's
book
a
willful,
self-made
opportunist...gifted,
energetic,
brave,
lucky,
but
also
a
bit
ridiculous."—Wall
Street
Journal
"Magnificent...Napoleon was neither demon nor deity. He was a man, with great talents and great flaws, often intertwined...[Mr. Zamoyski] writes beautifully."—Economist
"Zamoyski tells the personal side of Napoleon's life...his hopes, his dreams, his self-doubts."—New York Journal of Books
"Zamoyski's book is one of the finest biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte ever written."—MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military History
"A lifetime's diligent research and profound thinking about Napoleon and his times has gone into this hugely readable, highly enjoyable and well-balanced biography. Zamoyski is at the top of his game as a biographer."—Andrew Roberts, Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
"A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte that avoids the well-established military details and gives us the story of a singular man...Illuminating."—Kirkus
"Engaging and highly readable.... An inclusive life of a historical dynamo."—Washington Times
"Adam Zamoyski's 700-plus-page but very readableNapoleon: A Life...shows how France's tired post-revolutionary leaders in 1796 recognized they were riding a tiger---but didn't expect him to eat them."—World Magazine
"A superb history of a complicated man and time."—Choice
A success in all respects, rivaling Andrew Roberts'sNapoleon: A Lifein astuteness and thoroughness.... The picture that emerges is of an extraordinarily gifted leader who increasingly sought short-term gain at the expense of long-term stability.... Exhaustively researched and engagingly written."—Library Journal, starred review
"Napoleonis an out and out masterpiece and a joy to read."—Sir Antony Beevor,author ofStalingrad: The Fateful Siege
"Always elegant in style and original in analysis. Zamoyski, a master of the sources and of the culture and politics that created his subject, produces a fresh, nuanced, beautifully written, gripping, and outstanding biography of Napoleon that reveals him to be a triumph of luck and accident as much as the invincible genius of the legend."—Simon Sebag-Montefiore,author ofThe RomanovsandJerusalem: the Biography
"Adam Zamoyski has retold a story that we thought we knew and made it fresh: Stripping away two centuries of mythology, discarding the apocryphal stories and legends, he finally brings us the real Napoleon."—Anne Applebaum,author ofRed Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
"Zamoyski sticks close to verifiable primary sources...What we get is more a historical Napoleon than the colossus of cultural memory, but a figure no less fascinating for that. Napoleon's life was a rollercoaster and Zamoyski takes us along for the ride."—Toronto Star
"A masterful historian, Zamoyski fulfills his task eloquently. Napoleon is often called a military and political genius, but in reading Zamoyski, the question arises: how much of Napoleon's perceived greatness was owing...to timing and circumstance in the stormy political world of 18th-century revolutionary France?"—Winnipeg Free Press
"Magnificent...Napoleon was neither demon nor deity. He was a man, with great talents and great flaws, often intertwined...[Mr. Zamoyski] writes beautifully."—Economist
"Zamoyski tells the personal side of Napoleon's life...his hopes, his dreams, his self-doubts."—New York Journal of Books
"Zamoyski's book is one of the finest biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte ever written."—MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military History
"A lifetime's diligent research and profound thinking about Napoleon and his times has gone into this hugely readable, highly enjoyable and well-balanced biography. Zamoyski is at the top of his game as a biographer."—Andrew Roberts, Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
"A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte that avoids the well-established military details and gives us the story of a singular man...Illuminating."—Kirkus
"Engaging and highly readable.... An inclusive life of a historical dynamo."—Washington Times
"Adam Zamoyski's 700-plus-page but very readableNapoleon: A Life...shows how France's tired post-revolutionary leaders in 1796 recognized they were riding a tiger---but didn't expect him to eat them."—World Magazine
"A superb history of a complicated man and time."—Choice
A success in all respects, rivaling Andrew Roberts'sNapoleon: A Lifein astuteness and thoroughness.... The picture that emerges is of an extraordinarily gifted leader who increasingly sought short-term gain at the expense of long-term stability.... Exhaustively researched and engagingly written."—Library Journal, starred review
"Napoleonis an out and out masterpiece and a joy to read."—Sir Antony Beevor,author ofStalingrad: The Fateful Siege
"Always elegant in style and original in analysis. Zamoyski, a master of the sources and of the culture and politics that created his subject, produces a fresh, nuanced, beautifully written, gripping, and outstanding biography of Napoleon that reveals him to be a triumph of luck and accident as much as the invincible genius of the legend."—Simon Sebag-Montefiore,author ofThe RomanovsandJerusalem: the Biography
"Adam Zamoyski has retold a story that we thought we knew and made it fresh: Stripping away two centuries of mythology, discarding the apocryphal stories and legends, he finally brings us the real Napoleon."—Anne Applebaum,author ofRed Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
"Zamoyski sticks close to verifiable primary sources...What we get is more a historical Napoleon than the colossus of cultural memory, but a figure no less fascinating for that. Napoleon's life was a rollercoaster and Zamoyski takes us along for the ride."—Toronto Star
"A masterful historian, Zamoyski fulfills his task eloquently. Napoleon is often called a military and political genius, but in reading Zamoyski, the question arises: how much of Napoleon's perceived greatness was owing...to timing and circumstance in the stormy political world of 18th-century revolutionary France?"—Winnipeg Free Press