Название: Napoleon: A BiographyАвтор: Frank McLynn
Издательство: Pimlico
Год: 1998
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 767
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 15.7 MB
Язык: английский
Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. In this compelling new biography Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men - as military leader, lover and emperor. Tracing Napoleon s extraordinary career, Mc Lynn examines the Promethean legend from the Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and the military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804 and ultimate defeat and imprisonment. Napoleon the man emerges as an even more