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5 de dic. de 2014 · A Life. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 926 pp. $45. 'Ah, if it were only to be done over again!" sighed Napoleon Bonaparte about the Battle of Waterloo as he sailed into exile and imprisonment. He ...
Napoleon: A Life. Paperback – Illustrated, Oct. 20 2015. “A thrilling tale of military and political genius…. Roberts is an uncommonly gifted writer.”. Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men.
- Andrew Roberts
10 de nov. de 2005 · A life of Napoleon Bonaparte; with a sketch of Josephine, empress of the French. Illustrated from the collection of Napoleon engravings made by the late Hon. G. G. Hubbard, and now owned by the Congressional library, Washington, D.C., supplemented by pictures from the best French collections. by Tarbell, Ida M. (1857-1944.)
Napoleon: A Life. Andrew Roberts is the bestselling author of The Storm of War, Masters and Commanders, Napoleon and Wellington, and Waterloo. A Fellow of the Napoleonic. Institute, he has won many prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book Award, writes frequently for The Wall Street Journal, and has written ...
Stendhal served with Napoleon's army in the campaign in Russia in 1812, which helped inspire the famous war scenes in his novel The Red and the Black (1831). After Napoleon's fall, Stendhal lived for six years in Italy, a country he loved during his entire life. In 1821, he returned to Paris for a life of literature, politics, and love affairs.
But Napoleon’s faults are also laid bare in Roberts’s narrative. Throughout his life, he generally showed a lack of great integrity and a willingness to break rules to suit his own purposes. He clearly had a view of women that was not progressive, and did much to undermine the freedoms women gained during the Revolution.
22 de nov. de 2023 · Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general and emperor of France from 1804 to 1815. Read about his height, rise to power, quotes, exile, death, and more.
