Napoleon
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`Napoleon is an out and out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir
Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that
presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English
to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's
portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest.
Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting
visions.Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac
monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator?
Whilst he displayed elements of these traits at certain times,
Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man, and as Adam
Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary
one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some
phases of his life but it is hard to credit genius to a general who
presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military
history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he
and others had toiled so hard to construct.A brilliant tactician,
he was no strategist. But nor was Napoleon an evil monster. He
could be selfish and violent but there is no evidence of him
wishing to inflict suffering gratuitously.His motives were mostly
praiseworthy and his ambition no greater than that of
contemporaries such as Alexander I of Russia, Wellington, Nelson,
Metternich, Blucher, Bernadotte and many more. What made his
ambition exceptional was the scope it was accorded by circumstance.
Adam Zamoyski strips away the lacquer of prejudice and places
Napoleon the man within the context of his times.In the 1790s, a
young Napoleon entered a world at war, a bitter struggle for
supremacy and survival with leaders motivated by a quest for power
and by self-interest. He did not start this war but dominated his
life and continued, with one brief interruption, until his final
defeat in 1815. Based on primary sources in many European
languages, and beautifully illustrated with portraits done only
from life, this magnificent book examines how Napoleone Buonaparte,
the boy from Corsica, became `Napoleon', how he achieved what he
did, and how it came about that he undid it.It does not justify or
condemn but seeks instead to understand Napoleon's extraordinary
trajectory.
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Adam Zamoyski
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HarperCollins Publishers,
Adam Zamoyski
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