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This concise biography is written with great wit and panache, but 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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
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- Titel
- Napoleon
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Paul Johnson
- Verlag
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0297607375
- ISBN13
- 9780297607373
- Reihe
- Penguin Lives
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Geschichte, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Militärgeschichte, Kriege, Frankreich, Persönlichkeiten, Napoleon Bonaparte, Kaiser, 1769–1821, Napoleonische Kriege, 18.-19. Jahrhundert, Napoleonische Grande Armée
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2002
- Originaltitel
- Napoleon: A Life
- Bewertung
- 3,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- This concise biography is written with great wit and panache, but 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.