NAPOLEON A LIFE ADAM ZAMOYSKIPevná vazba
NAPOLEON A LIFE ADAM ZAMOYSKIPevná vazba The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army…
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NAPOLEON A LIFE ADAM ZAMOYSKIPevná vazba
The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. "What a novel my life has been " Napoleon once said of himself.
The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. 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.
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