THE RISE AND FALL OF NAPOLEON BONAPART

ISBN: 9780349114842

出版社: 7-09999

出版年: 2002-9

页数: 512

定价: 188.0

内容简介

In his early years, Napoleon was a Corsican nationalist who considered the French to be oppressors. Nevertheless, he was sent to military academies in France, and when he graduated in 1785, at the age of 16, he became a second lieutenant in the French army. Napoleon's military career presents a surprising paradox. His genius at tactical manoeuvring was dazzling, and if he were to be judged only by that, he might perhaps be considered the greatest general of all time. In the field of grand strategy, however, he was prone to making gross blunders, such as the invasion of Egypt and Russia, and, because of his eventual defeat in 1815, all of his foreign conquests proved ephemeral. This second volume of Robert Asprey's biography takes Napoleon from the zenith of his powers to their nadir, and places Bonaparte in his full military context.