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Napoleon

The Man Behind the Myth

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Napoleon

Von: Adam Zamoyski
Gesprochen von: Leighton Pugh
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A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest.

Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a godlike genius, a romantic avatar, a megalomaniac monster, a compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator?

Whilst he displayed elements of these traits at certain times, Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man and, as Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some phases of his life, but it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he and others had toiled so hard to construct. A brilliant tactician, he was no strategist.

But nor was Napoleon an evil monster. He could be selfish and violent, but there is no evidence of him wishing to inflict suffering gratuitously. His motives were mostly praiseworthy and his ambition no greater than that of contemporaries such as Alexander I of Russia, Wellington, Nelson, Metternich, Blucher, Bernadotte and many more. What made his ambition exceptional was the scope it was accorded by circumstance.

Adam Zamoyski strips away the lacquer of prejudice and places Napoleon the man within the context of his times. In the 1790s, a young Napoleon entered a world at war, a bitter struggle for supremacy and survival with leaders motivated by a quest for power and by self-interest. He did not start this war but dominated his life and continued, with one brief interruption, until his final defeat in 1815.

Based on primary sources in many European languages, this magnificent audiobook examines how Napoleone Buonaparte, the boy from Corsica, became ‘Napoleon’, how he achieved what he did and how it came about that he undid it. It does not justify or condemn but seeks instead to understand Napoleon’s extraordinary trajectory.

©2018 Adam Zamoyski (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
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"Always elegant in style and original in analysis. Zamoyski, a master of the sources and of the culture and politics that created his subject, produces a fresh, nuanced, beautifully written, gripping, and outstanding biography of Napoleon that reveals him to be a triumph of luck and accident as much as the invincible genius of the legend." (Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem: the Biography)

"Napoleon is an out and out masterpiece and a joy to read." (Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad)

"A lifetime’s diligent research and profound thinking about Napoleon and his times has gone into this hugely readable, highly enjoyable and well-balanced biography. Zamoyski is at the top of his game as a biographer." (Andrew Roberts, Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London)

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Probably the best biography I've read.
The narrator does a great job reading the book and also pronouncing the many different names in French, German, Russian, Polish etc..

I've enjoyed the reading very much.

Great book, well read!

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Adam Zamoyski is a splendid biographer, the book is intriguingly interesting and well read! Zamoyskis books on 1812 and 1815 are equally well researched and written.

The best Napoleon biography

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This is a complete and very interesting biography of Napoleon without bias against him from what I could perceive. Napoleon receives a fair trial in this book

Getting to know Napoleon as he really was

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Objectively and well written, a very comprehensive account of Napoleon's life, with a great voice actor.

Great

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Erst dacht das wird Staubtrocken, aber dann kann ich nur Wow sagen, was für eine Geschichte!

Great

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A scholarly, a no nonsense account of Bonaparte’s life and reach on world politics. The author tries not to convey a certain picture or character, instead he gives lots of bits and pieces and weighs them in the light of other evidence. The impressive amount of facts and persons is at times overwhelming. The book nevertheless never gets boring.

a detailed, sometimes lengthy account

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Great summary of the probably most important man in the modern era. Especially interesting and a valuable lesson in these times, with extremist populist movements on the rise.

The Man, the Myth, the Monster.

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On my daily walks with the dog I sometimes walked an extra mile, just to listen more to this great book. Narrator Pugh did a great job, too, with one exception: His pronunciation of French names and words - and there are MANY in this book - is atrocious

Great man, great story

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i did expect a bit more depth to his tactics as general and statesman, but this is still a great story. so I can definitely recommend it for history fans.

it was great

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