Napoleon [Audiobook] download free by Paul Johnson
- Listen audiobook: Napoleon
- Author: Paul Johnson
- Release date: 2003/10/12
- Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781842126509
- Rating: 7.67 of 10
- Votes: 394
- Review by: Selene Carl
- Review rating: 9.57 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/6
- Duration: 2H47M15S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, OGG (compression XZ, 7-ZIP, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 18 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M44S (3.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule.Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon?s dictatorship. Johnson tells the whole story: his astonishing gift for figures and calculation, his mastery of cannon; his audacious, hyperactive and aggressive generalship and his simple battle tactics; his complete control of propaganda and the success of the cultural presentation of the Empire; the Code Napoleon; his failure as an international statesman, as Europe grew to hate him; his marshals and ministers; his wives, mistresses, personal style and working methods; the British blockade and the Continental System; the mistakes in Spain and Russia. The escape from Elba, the events leading up to Waterloo and the battle itself, which gets a full treatment, is particularly riveting.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, European History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
- Download servers: Hotfile, FileServe, FreakShare, Volafile, RARBG, MEGA. Compressed in XZ, 7-ZIP, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.31 USD
- Dimensions: 131x197x17mm
- Weight: 216g
- Printed by: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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