Robert Asprey – The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte (Vol. 1). The Rise. – Little, Brown and Company 2000

Editore: Little, Brown and Company Formato: Copertina rigida con sovracopertina Anno edizione: 2000 Condizioni: Ottimo stato Pagine: 404 Lingua: Inglese Since his untimely death aged fifty-one in 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte has been too often the victim of biographical revisionism that treats him either as a demi-god or as devil incarnate. In the first of this monumental new two-volume biography, Robert Asprey has preferred to treat him as a human being. The Rise and Fall of Napoleon (Volume 1: The Rise) chronicles the beginning of this most extraordinary of lives, from Napoleon’s birth in 1769 to the historic Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, when he brilliantly defeated the Austro-Russian armies. What emerges is both a fascinating and contradictory figure: a child of the French Revolution who grew to be its master; who exploited the national will for what he believed to be the national good; who converted the surging passions of thirty million persons into an irresistible force to challenge

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