Napoleon Bonaparteby Vincent Cronin | |
| Category: |
"World History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 505 |
| Year of Publication: | 1971 |
| Date Read: | 11/08/1987 |
| Notes: | Cronin focuses on Napoleon as a person and Emperor, rather than on his military achievements. It covers his rather humble beginnings on Corsica, his education in the military school at Brienne, his feeling after his father's death from stomach cancer (which would later kill him) and his taking over has head of the family. Cronin writes of Napoleon's personality, his friends, what he did and didn't like in other people and his daily personal and professional relationships with those around him. The picture painted is quite different than the traditional 'Corsican Ogre' that has been passed down since the final defeat in 1815. The Consulate and early Empire are thoroughly covered, giving just due to the monumental civil achievements Napoleon accomplished during that period when Napoleon entirely remade France and reestablished law and order after the tumultuous upheavals of the Revolution. |
| My Rating: | 8 |