Napoleon: A Biography
Napoleon Bonaparte's character and accomplishments have constantly partitioned pundits and observers. In this convincing life story, Frank McLynn draws on the latest grant and illuminates this most dumbfounding of men- - as military pioneer, sweetheart, and head. Following Napoleon's phenomenal vocation, McLynn looks at the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, during that time of the French Revolution and his military triumphs, to his crowning liturgy in 1804 and extreme annihilation and detainment. McLynn splendidly uncovers the degree to which Napoleon was both existential saint and toy of Fate; mathematician and spiritualist; scholarly goliath and good dwarf; extraordinary man and profoundly defective person.
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