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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
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- Année de publication
- 2003
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- Titre
- Napoleon
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Paul Johnson
- Éditeur
- Phoenix
- Publié
- 2003
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 1842126504
- ISBN13
- 9781842126509
- Séries
- Penguin Lives
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Histoire, Autobiographies et mémoires, Histoire militaire, Guerres, France, Personnalités, Napoléon Bonaparte, empereur, 1769-1821, Guerres Napoléoniennes, 18e-19e siècle, Grande Armée de Napoléon
- Première publication
- 2002
- Titre original
- Napoleon: A Life
- Évaluation
- 3,65 sur 5
- Description
- 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.