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Napoleon The Man Behind The Myth - Adam Zamoyski [KSIĄŻKA]

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Kategoria Biografie, wspomnienia
Autor Adam Zamoyski
Ilość stron 728
Okładka miękka
Opis 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. 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.
EAN 9780008116095
Dział KSIĄŻKA
ISBN 9780008116095
Autor Adam Zamoyski
Rok wydania 2019
Język angielski
Ilość stron 728
Okładka miękka
Liczba nośników [1xKSIĄŻKA]
Wymiary 13.0x20.0cm
Długość (razem z opakowaniem) 200
Szerokość (razem z opakowaniem) 130
Wysokość (razem z opakowaniem) 50