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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
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2003
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- Título
- Napoleon
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Paul Johnson
- Editorial
- Phoenix
- Publicado en
- 2003
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 224
- ISBN10
- 1842126504
- ISBN13
- 9781842126509
- Serie
- Vidas Británicas
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Autobiografías y memorias, Historia militar, Francia, Guerras, Famosos, Napoleón Bonaparte, emperador, 1769–1821, Guerras Napoleónicas, Siglo XVIII-XIX, Gran Ejército Napoleónico
- Primera publicación
- 2002
- Título original
- Napoleon: A Life
- Calificación
- 3,65 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.