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Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Release : 2004
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Legend of Napoleon by : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Download or read book The Legend of Napoleon written by Sudhir Hazareesingh. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, when his career came to such a disastrous end at Waterloo, has Napoleon's influence on French politics and culture remained so strong?
Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Release : 2014-07-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 238/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Legend Of Napoleon by : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Download or read book The Legend Of Napoleon written by Sudhir Hazareesingh. This book was released on 2014-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'God was bored with Napoleon,' wrote Victor Hugo, and the Emperor was duly defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled to St Helena, where he died an agonizing and horrifying death. The Emperor's real legacy is the modernizing and beautifying of Paris, the official promotion of religious tolerance, the current French legal and educational systems, and the European Union, to name but a few Napoleonic initiatives. And of course, the legend lives on. Drawing on new archival research, Hazareesingh traces not only the emergence of the Napoleonic myth and how it developed into a potent political culture, but also the amazing tenacity of popular affection for the Emperor, manifest in countless busts and portraits in ordinary citizens' homes, grass-roots political activism, miraculous apparitions reported after his death and the memories kept alive by thousands of imperial war veterans. This book is a timely study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries.
Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Legend of Napoleon by : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Download or read book The Legend of Napoleon written by Sudhir Hazareesingh. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries
Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Release : 2005
Genre : France
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 898/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Legend of Napoleon by : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Download or read book The Legend of Napoleon written by Sudhir Hazareesingh. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries
Author : Adam Zamoyski
Release : 2018-10-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Napoleon by : Adam Zamoyski
Download or read book Napoleon written by Adam Zamoyski. This book was released on 2018-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
