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by Alan Schom (Author) "On December 17, 1778, thirty-two-year-old Carlo Maria (or Charles, as he now called himself) Buonaparte boarded a coastal vessel in the Corsican port of Ajaccio..." (more)
Key Phrases: national flotilla, dangerous islander, full army corps, General Bonaparte, Imperial Guard, Napoleon Bonaparte (more...)
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You won't come away from this energetic biography thinking much of the French emperor either as a man or as a general. Historian Alan Schom depicts Napoleon (1769-1821) as a cold-hearted manipulator: Schom's blistering accounts of the 1798-99 Egyptian campaign and the disastrous 1812 retreat from Russia show the French army decimated due to its leader's failure to inform himself about the lands he was invading or to properly plan for provisioning his troops. The fun of this book comes from vigorous prose that vividly evokes Bonaparte's titanic personality and the colorful band of schemers surrounding him. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Until now, there has been no comprehensive, one-volume biography on Napoleon. This book ably fills that gap. Napoleonic scholar Schom (One Hundred Days, Atheneum, 1992) has written an objective account, describing the strengths and weaknesses of his complex subject and his tremendous impact on Europe. Unique to this book are the insightful discussions of Napoleon's relationships with his family, wives, mistresses, and other luminaries of the day and his little-known friendship with a leading French mathematician, Gaspard Monge. The author contends that Napoleon was a paranoiac psychopath, and he uses numerous examples of kidnappings, murders, lies, and wars brought on by the Corsican to illustrate his case. He was also sadistic in his persecution of various individuals, from a simple German bookseller to his own brother Lucien. A wonderful biography; highly recommended.?David Lee Poremba, Detroit P.L.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 944 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial; New Ed edition (August 26, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060929588
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060929589
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars 98 customer reviews (98 customer reviews)
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First Sentence:
On December 17, 1778, thirty-two-year-old Carlo Maria (or Charles, as he now called himself) Buonaparte boarded a coastal vessel in the Corsican port of Ajaccio. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
national flotilla, dangerous islander, full army corps, grand eagle, police minister, grand dignitaries, naval minister, first consul, fleeing northward, royalist plot, reserve cavalry, premier empire, national plebiscite
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Bonaparte, Imperial Guard, Napoleon Bonaparte, Archduke Karl, Czar Alexander, Dawson Collection, Morrab Library of Penzance, Army of Italy, Las Cases, French Republic, Friedrich Wilhelm, Joseph Bonaparte, Confederation of the Rhine, Abukir Bay, Continental System, Admiral Brueys, First Consul Bonaparte, King Louis, Luxembourg Palace, Council of Five Hundred, Great Britain, Royal Navy, Legion of Honor, National Guard, Marshal Davout
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