Napoleon's Men and Methods: the Rise and Fall of the Emperor and His Men Who Fought by His Side - Couverture souple

Kielland, Alexander L

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 085706410X ISBN 13 : 9780857064103

Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The history of Napoleon is of inexhaustible interest. When the English government decided to send him to St. Helena, after the battle of Waterloo, Lord Liverpool wrote to the Duke of Wellington, that in that island he would soon be forgotten; he even repeated this remark in another letter. Yes, he said, he will soon be forgotten. Yet at the present time there is no individual about whom more is written in all languages and in a Ubranches of literature. Histories, novels, plays, are never tired of his story, and a serious student finds that there is no personality about whom more discoveries are constantly being made and with regard to whom it is more necessary to reconsider his judgment. At the dawn of the XTX th century, two great names, one in literature and one in the world of action arrest the attention of mankind: Goethe and Napoleon. Their careers have been so minutely studied that we are acquainted with what they did every day, almost every hour of their lives. Yet subjected to this fierce light of publicity, which few could endure, they both gain by it, and Napoleon not the less. The more we know about him the more we admire him, the more reasonable do his actions appear, the less well founded the stories which are told to his discredit. Napoleon was boma French subject, in Corsica, of a noble family of Italian descent. He received an excellent education in military colleges.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Leonaur Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 085706410X
• ISBN 13: 9780857064103
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212