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A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule. Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon�s dictatorship. Johnson tells the whole story: his astonishing gift for figures and calculation, his mastery of cannon; his audacious, hyperactive and aggressive generalship and his simple battle tactics; his complete control of propaganda and the success of the cultural presentation of the Empire; the Code Napoleon; his failure as an international statesman, as Europe grew to hate him; his marshals and ministers; his wives, mistresses, personal style and working methods; the British blockade and the Continental System; the mistakes in Spain and Russia. The escape from Elba, the events leading up to Waterloo and the battle itself, which gets a full treatment, is particularly riveting.
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Napoleon, Paul Johnson
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2003
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- Napoleon
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Paul Johnson
- Vydavateľ
- Phoenix
- Rok vydania
- 2003
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 224
- ISBN10
- 1842126504
- ISBN13
- 9781842126509
- Série
- Životy slávnych
- Kategórie
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Francúzsko, Vojny, Osobnosti, Napoleon Bonaparte, cisár, 1769–1821, Napoleonské vojny, 18.-19. storočie, Napoleonova Veľká armáda
- Prvé vydanie
- 2002
- Pôvodný názov
- Napoleon: A Life
- Hodnotenie
- 3,65 z 5
- Anotácia
- A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule. Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon�s dictatorship. Johnson tells the whole story: his astonishing gift for figures and calculation, his mastery of cannon; his audacious, hyperactive and aggressive generalship and his simple battle tactics; his complete control of propaganda and the success of the cultural presentation of the Empire; the Code Napoleon; his failure as an international statesman, as Europe grew to hate him; his marshals and ministers; his wives, mistresses, personal style and working methods; the British blockade and the Continental System; the mistakes in Spain and Russia. The escape from Elba, the events leading up to Waterloo and the battle itself, which gets a full treatment, is particularly riveting.