Description: 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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EAN: 9781842126509
UPC: 9781842126509
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Book Title: Napoleon (Lives) by Paul Johnson [Paperback]
Item Length: 19.6 cm
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Napoleon
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: History
Item Height: 197 mm
Item Weight: 199 g
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Biographies & True Stories
Author: Paul Johnson
Series: Lives
Item Width: 131 mm
Format: Paperback
