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Napoleon : the man behind the myth
- Title
- Napoleon : the man behind the myth / Adam Zamoyski.
- Author
- Zamoyski, Adam
- Publication
- London : William Collins, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 727 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator? Whilst he displayed elements of these traits at certain times, Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man, and as Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some phases of his life but it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he and others had toiled so hard to construct.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-691) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7245
- ISBN
- 9780008116071
- 0008116075
- 9780008245559
- 000824555X
- OCLC
- 1060614078
- Author
- Zamoyski, Adam, author.
- Title
- Napoleon : the man behind the myth / Adam Zamoyski.
- Publisher
- London : William Collins, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-691) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1789-1815
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7245