The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon 2014
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.
Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.
An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.
作者简介
安德鲁•罗伯茨(Andrew Roberts),英国皇家文学学会和皇家艺术学会会员,杰出的传记作家和历史学家,著有《索尔兹伯里:维多利亚女王时代的泰坦》(获1999年沃尔夫森历史奖)、《战争风云:第二次世界大战新史》等诸多广受赞誉的著作,他还是诸多英国报纸的撰稿人。为撰写本书,他先后走访了位于俄罗斯、白俄罗斯、以色列、比利时、意大利、捷克、奥地利、德国、法国的拿破仑战场(60处中的53处),并去圣赫勒拿岛调研。他关于拿破仑的三集电视短剧也在BBC2台放映。
译者简介
苏然,1991年生,安徽黄山人,2014年毕业于南开大学,现为中国政法大学在读硕士研究生,拿破仑时代历史的爱好者。
皇帝戎马一生与勤勉治国的战绩政绩自不必说,但是悲剧英雄也格外吸引人。皇帝的最终失败,是众多因素共同作用的结果: 底层贵族或小资产阶级出身,可用之人时有,但心腹无多,过于倚重亲属及部分有才无德的下属导致政权结构不稳,政治根基过于浅薄; 在一次次的传奇胜利后将机...
评分With this book, one can comprehensively understand the greatness of this historical figure, within an even bigger painting of that era. But along side of the general information, my major goal of reading this book was to figure out what separated napoleon w...
评分拿破仑是历史上最伟大的人物之一。在军事上,他是继亚历山大、汉尼拔和恺撒之后最伟大的军事统帅,通过其永驻史册的光辉战例,发展和丰富了战争艺术。在政治上,他结束了法国大革命之后的恐怖、混乱与腐败的政局,建立了法国兰西第一共和国(后改制为法兰西帝国),上任之初即...
评分On July 22, 1789, a week after the storming of the Bastille in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to his older brother, Joseph, that there was nothing much to worry about. “Calm will return. In a month.” His timing was off, but perhaps he took the misjudgmen...
评分首先说说作为国王的拿破仑吧。 拿破仑首先是一个老兵,其次才是一个国王,他会亲自站在前线。他不仅有陆战上的军事知识和实践经验,同时还有超过同时代绝大多数将帅的战术天分。因此相较于同时代那些远离炮火的君王们,他在战争方面的优势是碾压级别的。 但是他对海权一窍不通...
时势造英雄啊。里面生词挺多的
评分“He showed us what one little human creature like ourselves could accomplish in a span so short.” Most enjoyable reading experience for a book 800+ pages long. Vive l’Empereur!
评分With this book, one can comprehensively understand the greatness of this historical figure, within an even bigger painting of that era. But along side of the general information, my major goal of reading this book was to figure out what separated napoleon with other military and political strongmen, say Hitler. I found out my answer...
评分时势造英雄啊。里面生词挺多的
评分学渣读得好辛苦
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