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Napoleon

A Biography

Frank McLynn

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Lithuanian
Pimlico
29 January 1999
'A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon.' The Times

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 fascinating character than previously imagined, and McLynn brilliantly reveals the extent to which he was both existential hero and plaything of Fate; mathematician and mystic; intellectual giant and moral pygmy; Great Man and deeply flawed human being.
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Imprint:   Pimlico
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 56mm
Weight:   944g
ISBN:   9780712662475
ISBN 10:   0712662472
Pages:   749
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Language:   Lithuanian
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Napoleon: A Biography

An accomplished biographer attempts the Napoleonic summit. This long psychobiography is strongest on the sexuality of the Bonaparte family, but ranges also over schooling, revolution, law-making and, above all, war. Character sketches of the marshals of the Empire and plans of the great battles abound; the reader is made to feel the subject's towering greatness as well as his pettinesses. We learn, in conclusion, that he was poisoned on St Helena by a Bourbon double agent on his own staff. (Kirkus UK)


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