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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Napoleon
• Author: Frank McLynn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768
• EAN: 9780712662475
• ISBN: 0712662472
• ID: 04117425
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 1014 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 154 × 47 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. November 1998

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