Michael Broers

Napoleon (eBook, ePUB)

Soldier of Destiny

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of the new version of his Correspondence compiled by the Fondation Napoléon in Paris to replace the sanitized compilation made under the Second French Empire as a propaganda exercise by his nephew, Napoleon III. All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words.

Michael Broers' biography draws on the thoughts of Napoleon himself as his incomparable life unfolded. It reveals a man of intense emotion, but also of iron self-discipline; of acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Tracing his life from its dangerous Corsican roots, through his rejection of his early identity, and the dangerous military encounters of his early career, it tells the story of the sheer determination, ruthlessness and careful calculation that won him the precarious mastery of Europe by 1807. After the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland, France was the dominant land power on the continent.

Here is the first life in which Napoleon speaks in his own voice, but not always as he wanted the world to hear him.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571273447
• Artikelnr.: 40375595

Autorenporträt

Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at Oxford University. He is the author of, among other books about revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814, winner of the Grand Prix Napoléon prize, 2006, and of Napoleon's Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions

Rezensionen

Surely will become the definitive life of Napoleon. The Times