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Napoleon
Examines the life of the French emperor known as a military genius, political giant, and social revolutionary.
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- http://worldcat.org/entity/person/id/2737403036
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/908898
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204289
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- http://worldcat.org/entity/person/id/2636664577
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1151664706#Event/1789_1815
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114924
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- "Examines the life of the French emperor known as a military genius, political giant, and social revolutionary."@en
- "The very name, Napoleon Bonaparte, still enthralls. Ever since this towering and terrible genius conquered Europe, he has been endlessly debated, compared, and made an icon. [In this book, the author] profiles "the grandest possible refutation of those who hold that events are governed by forces, classes, economics, and geography rather than the powerful wills of men and women." With masterly eloquence, Napoleon charts Bonaparte's career from the barren island of Corsica and his early training in Paris - he was a bold soldier with an uncanny gift for math, maps, and strategy-through high-profile victories in Italy, military dictatorship, and campaigns across Europe to his end on the forsaken isle of St. Helena. In Napoleon's insatiable hunger for power, [the author] sees a realist unfettered by patriotism or ideology, [an] opportunist and propagandist who fulfilled his ambition in the aftermath of the French Revolution. He interprets Napoleon's life in the trajectory of his times, revealing how his complex and violent legacy seeded totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century and sounds an alert to us in the twenty-first.-Dust jacket."
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