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Author : John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:N11739418
Author : Patrice Gueniffey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674988385
One of France’s most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history. Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing history, we have lost track of the outsized role that individual will and charisma can play in shaping the world, especially in moments of extreme tumult. Patrice Gueniffey provides a compelling reminder in this powerful dual biography of two transformative leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. Both became national figures at times of crisis and war. They were hailed as saviors and were eager to embrace the label. They were also animated by quests for personal and national greatness, by the desire to raise France above itself and lead it on a mission to enlighten the world. Both united an embattled nation, returned it to dignity, and left a permanent political legacy—in Napoleon’s case, a form of administration and a body of civil law; in de Gaulle’s case, new political institutions. Gueniffey compares Napoleon’s and de Gaulle’s journeys to power; their methods; their ideas and writings, notably about war; and their postmortem reputations. He also contrasts their weaknesses: Napoleon’s limitless ambitions and appetite for war and de Gaulle’s capacity for cruelty, manifested most clearly in Algeria. They were men of genuine talent and achievement, with flaws almost as pronounced as their strengths. As many nations, not least France, struggle to find their soul in a rapidly changing world, Gueniffey shows us what a difference an extraordinary leader can make.
Author : John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069324097
Author : David A. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190262730
This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting wars that changed the shape of the continent and brought death to millions. Then everything collapsed, leading him to spend his last years in miserable exile in the South Atlantic. Bell emphasizes the importance of the French Revolution in understanding Napoleon's career. The revolution made possible the unprecedented concentration of political authority that Napoleon accrued, and his success in mobilizing human and material resources. Without the political changes brought about by the revolution, Napoleon could not have fought his wars. Without the wars, he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary.
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:13415197
Author : Adam Zamoyski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541644557
The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.
Author : Adam Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1989711057
There is no doubt that Napoleon Bonaparte has attracted legions of biographers over the last two centuries, documenting his endlessly fascinating life, associated with some of the most important and controversial events in history. A military general who became France's first emperor, Napoleon's single-minded determination for military expansion would change the world completely and revolutionize military training and organization. As such, Napoleon is considered one of the greatest military leaders the world has ever known. This biography considers a military commander whose military endeavors and sheer personality dominated Europe for over a decade.
Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199394067
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control. Skillfully narrated and deeply researched, here at last is the global history of the period, one that expands our view of the Napoleonic Wars and their role in laying the foundations of the modern world.
Author : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Emperors
ISBN : MINN:31951000779687N
Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 9781611450378
Author McLynn explores the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the chaotic years of the French Revolution and his extraordinary military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804, to his fatal decision in 1812 to add Russia to his seemingly endless conquests, and his ultimate defeat, imprisonment, and death in Saint Helena. McLynn aptly reveals the extent to which Napoleon was both existential hero and plaything of fate, mathematician and mystic, intellectual giant and moral pygmy, great man and deeply flawed human being.
Author : William J. Hillis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011822590
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 159875971X
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was a general of the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic, then Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I. This documentation of his life, military achievements, diplomatic triumphs takes the reader through the Battle of Waterloo, his passionate love affair with Josephine de Beauharnais and the establishment of the Napoleonic Code.
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Emperors
ISBN : OCLC:54974774
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789674310745
This book is suitable for children age 9 and above. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France. He was a very successful military general and he led his army into many victorious battles. This is the story of how a lawyer's son rose to become a powerful emperor.
Author : Charles-Tristan comte de Montholon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDCQH