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BIOGR APHY
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'A brilliant
biography
which will surely become a classic life
of
Napoleon.' Lawrence James,
The Times
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, McLynn examines the
Promethean legend from the Corsican roots, through the years of the
French Revolution and the
m
i
l
i
ta
ry
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 ro which he was both existential hero and
plaything of Fate; mathematician and mystic; intellectual giant and
moral pygmy; Great Man and deeply Aawed human being.
'One of the year's best biographies...A compelling portrait of one of
history's greatest figures.' Catherine
Lockerbie,
Scotsman
'McLynn writes with considerable verve: his pithy characterisations of
Napoleon's subordinates, the alternating chapters
of
narrative and
analysis, and dramatic set pieces...all these combine to make his
biography pleasurable and instructive
to
read.'
Brendan Simms,
Evening Standard
'McLynn
offers
an admirably clear narrative, neither adulatOry nor
debunking. He acknowledges and displays the extraordinary tale and
does nor hide the pettiness.' Allan Massie,
Daily Telegraph
'A robust, well-paced biography which pans
confidently from
the seven­
year-old child educated by Jesuits to the ruins
of imperial
grandeur and
death by slow arsenic poisoning on a bleak Sr Helena.'
Colin Cardwell,
Scotland on Sunday
FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION
jacket Painting: Napoleon at
Borodino.
Courtesy of Proctor Jones
ISBN
0-7126-6247-2
Pimlico
Random House
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Vauxhall
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£12.50
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Biography/History
The legend in the making: Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole,
1796
D
e
v
io
us
manipulative,
,
pessimistic: Madame Mere
(Maria Letizia Bonaparte)
The acme of lubricious beauty:
Pauline Bonaparte
Joseph,
Napoleon's 'complex' elder brother
Louis,
the reluctant accomplice
Lucien,
the enemy within
Jerome,
Napoleon's 'Benjamin'

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