Napoleon the Great

Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.

出版者:Allen Lane

作者:Andrew Roberts

页数:976

出版时间:2014-10-2

价格:GBP 30.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781846140273

图书标签:历史拿破仑拿破仑战争传记Napoleon_Bonaparte人物传记NonFictionEnglish

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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful 'Empire style' in the arts. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel.

More than any other modern biographer, Andrew Roberts conveys Napoleon's tremendous energy, both physical and intellectual, and the attractiveness of his personality, even to his enemies. He has walked 53 of Napoleon's 60 battlefields, and has absorbed the gigantic new French edition of Napoleon's letters, which allows a complete re-evaluation of this exceptional man. He overturns many received opinions, including the myth of a great romance with Josephine: she took a lover immediately after their marriage, and, as Roberts shows, he had three times as many mistresses as he acknowledged.

Of the climactic Battle of Leipzig in 1813, as the fighting closed around them, a French sergeant-major wrote, 'No-one who has not experienced it can have any idea of the enthusiasm that burst forth among the half-starved, exhausted soldiers when the Emperor was there in person. If all were demoralised and he appeared, his presence was like an electric shock. All shouted "Vive l'Empereur!" and everyone charged blindly into the fire.'

The reader of this biography will understand why this was so.

读后感

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...  

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会打仗还会政治的人确实少之又少(比如华盛顿), 拿破仑很显然不是其中的一个.

会打仗还会政治的人确实少之又少(比如华盛顿), 拿破仑很显然不是其中的一个.

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目前英语世界最全面、最权威的一卷本拿破仑传记，没有问题吧？