Napoleon : a life

Summary: "The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend. 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." --

Record details

ISBN: 9780465055937 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 764 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018 "--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 671-728) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	A reluctant messiah -- Insular dreams -- Boy soldier -- Freedom -- Corsica -- France or Corsica -- The Jacobin -- Adolescent loves -- General Vendémiaire -- Italy -- Lodi -- Victory and legend -- Master of Italy -- Eastern promise -- Egypt -- Plague -- The saviour -- Fog -- The consul -- Consolidation -- Marengo -- Caesar -- Peace -- The liberator of Europe -- His Consular Majesty -- Toward empire -- Napoleon I -- Austerlitz -- Emperor of the west -- Master of Europe -- The sun emperor -- The emperor of the east -- The cost of power -- Apotheosis -- Apogee -- Blinding power -- The rubicon -- Nemesis -- Hollow victories -- Last chance -- The wounded lion -- Rejection -- The outlaw -- A crown of thorns.