Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815 - Hardcover

Esdaile, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071399715X ISBN 13: 9780713997156

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; xvii, 621 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm. Subject; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 1769-1821.

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Reseña del editor:

No other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory - or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges?

Napoleon’s Wars is a book which has no doubt about Napoleon’s insatiable greed for military glory, but it is interested in far more than that. Charles Esdaile is profoundly interested in a pan-European context: what was it that made the countries of Europe fight each other, for so long and with such devastating results. The battles themselves he sees as almost side-effects; the consequence of rulers being willing to take the immense risks of fighting or supporting Napoleon - risks which resulted in the extinction of entire countries.

This is history on the grandest and most ambitious scale: a superb reassessment of a tumultuous era.

Biografía del autor:

Charles Esdaile is Professor in History at the University of Liverpool. His The Peninsular War was acclaimed by many reviewers including Andrew Roberts and Bernard Cornwell.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 071399715X
• ISBN 13: 9780713997156
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656