napoleon a life review
A Life is an autobiography book that offers a chronological perspective into the life of the powerful military leader. Protean multitasker decisive surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine.
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All of Europe became enslaved to Napoleons insatiable personal ambition.
. Bonapartes unending thirst for power led to the death of millions. An immensely detail-oriented and opinionated man he was one of the most unrelenting micromanagers in history and yet was able to inspire such emotion in the artists of his time that the founder of Romanticism himself René de Chateaubriand lamented that life after his reign was like falling from the summit of a mountain into an abyss. A Life by Andrew Roberts.
On the other hand Roberts is British and one would expect the scorn reserved for tyrants and demagogues. He was vain pompous arrogant cowardly scornful and corrosively manipulative. He identifies his sources in more than just footnotes I know because audio books dont have footnotes.
As you may expect from the title this hefty audiobook nearly 33 hours gives great detail on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. A Political Life is a worthy edition to the long list of Napoleon biographies. Yes he was a dictator but an enlightened one.
He tells you when accounts contradict. Readers will find this book to be a long but mostly pleasant reading experience although some will doubt that Napoleon saved the best aspects of the Revolution discarded the worst and ensured that even when the Bourbons were restored they could not return to the Ancient Regime. It traces his life from as a youth in Corsica to his developing military career.
At last we see him as he was. A Life by Andrew Robert. Reviewed in the United States on October 10 2015 Verified Purchase Andrew Robertss biography is titled Napoleon the Great in the UK so one would expect nothing but uncritical praise.
Rave Claire Messud Harpers. As pointed out in other reviews the author is an obvious admirer of Napoleon and tries often successfully to put a positive spin on many instances cited by his detractors various decisions his ego etc. Rampant Napoleon Crossing the Alps 1802 by Jacques-Louis.
Those who want to know. Napoleon was a war-time leader and struggled to rule on a long-term basis. This book Andrew Robertss generally positive take on Napoleon shows the falsehood of those claims and proves that what matters is men.
He constantly looked for action. Napoleon has for the most part enjoyed an easy ride from historians who are usually too intoxicated by his daring military victories to notice his serious flaws. Not men in general but a tiny subset of men who make and have always made the world what it is and what it will be good and bad.
A Life by Andrew Roberts. With the exception of the Battle of Waterloothe most significant fighting of which took place over a garden at Hougoumontthe wars in this book occur largely offstage. A review of Napoleon.
The mass of detail about his battles his personal life his relationships and his character are absolutely fascinating. It is tentatively pro-Napoleon which is a contrast to a number of other recent works as the author identifies yet the author has done his best to present a neutral even-handed view of the man and his contemporaries a task at which he usually admirably succeeds. An elegant prose stylist Scurr is above all a fabulous historian and a vivid storyteller with a novelists eye for engaging detail.
What struck me most about the life of Napoleon was his ability to cope no more than cope he thrived. It focuses on the life of Napoleon and his major failure as well as accomplishments as a leader. Andrew Robertss NAPOLEON is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleons 33000 letters which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation.
Its that he was an exceptionally bad human. He used wasted and discarded virtually every living thing of any species he ever encountered in the entire course of his life. Viking 45 926 pages.
The result is a reasonably accurate depiction of a man who transformed Europe even while they were actively fighting against him. I recently finished the audiobook Napoleon. Reviewing one of Andrew Roberts earlier books an English critic wrote.
He once declared Europe is too small for me I must go East He didnt know when to stop himself and this eventually led to his downfall. Zamoyskis research is meticulous his writing sublime but the story suffers because of his admirable refusal to indulge in romantic fantasy.
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