Napoleon: A Life - Couverture rigide

Zamoyski, Adam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465055931 ISBN 13 : 9780465055937

Editeur : Basic Books, 2018

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"It is the outstanding merit of Adam Zamoyski's fine new biography, Napoleon: A Life, that he insists on treating his subject as neither a superman nor a monster, but as a creature of his troubled age...Zamoyski gives us...a vivid sense of Napoleon as a protean chancer, outwardly self-confident as any man who ever lived, inwardly always wondering when his 'star' would finally set."―New York Review of Books

"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 readable Napoleon: 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

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0465055931
• ISBN 13: 9780465055937
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 784