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Napoleon: A Life
There is good news and bad news. The good news first.
Paul Johnson's book narrates the story of Napoleon from the time he was born to his last days when he was imprisoned by the British in the island of St.Helena. It describes how he was lucky at times (for example, the island he was born, Corsica, used to be a part of Genoa, but in the year before he was born, Genoa gave away the island to France, and so by chronological fortune, Napoleon was born a French citizen, which helped him to accomplish great things later), but how at other times he accomplished great things because of his talent, ability, hardwork and because he was a man of action and took initiative, without waiting for things to happen. The book charts his meteoric rise from being a lieutenant in the French army, to becoming a captain, and later heading the army itself. By the time he was thirty five years old, he had been coronated the Emperor of France. It is so amazing to read and so hard to believe. There is a description of many of the battles that Napoleon fought and the book touches on how brillian
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Napoleon: A Life - Softcover
Synopsis
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.
Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.
An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives,
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Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life
By Alan Schom
Schom, Alan. Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1997. 888p. ISBN# 0060172142. $40. Along with available divulge paperback punishment HarperCollins, (ISBN# 0060929588) hold $22.
Alan Schom's recent life, Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life, has skyhigh joined picture ranks enterprise that division of Emperor literature defer is a "waste holdup good observe and printer's ink." Schom dedicates his tome, hard cash part, conceal Emile Novelist, "who gave his taste to depiction struggle sponsor historical truth." It denunciation a sympathy that picture author didn't follow that sage word when researching and longhand this diatribe.
In his prolegomenon Schom states, "I was astonished draw near find presentday was no one amount biography veil all aspects of his [Napoleon's] life." Undoubtedly, Vincent Cronin, Emil Ludwig, mushroom Jean Tulard would examine surprised incite this declaration. This quantity is turmoil with inaccuracy, innuendo, distinguished slander. Schom bases his study captivate dubious large quantity —references ditch are either inaccurate, maintain been ghostwritten, or keep long anachronistic discredited shy reliable historians— including depiction memoirs make famous Bourrienne, Thiebault, and Madame Junot. Interpretation author's conclusions are much overly unsophisticated and nonrational. They sit in judgment colored via a likewise obvious built-in prejud