书名：Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815公民皇帝：执政的拿破仑
作者：Philip Dwyer
出版社名称：Bloomsbury
出版时间：2001
语种：英文
ISBN：9781408843246
商品尺寸：23.6 x 5.2 x 15.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：816

拿破仑·波拿巴，即拿破仑一世，是十九世纪法国伟大的军事家、政治家，也是法兰西第1帝国的缔造者。他雄心勃勃，又善于将各种军事策略运用到实战之中，30岁就成为法国第1执政，一生缔造了无数传奇。本书Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815《公民皇帝：执政的拿破仑》将神话与历史分隔开来，真实、客观地记录了拿破仑从30岁执政到下台，再到流放的人生，描述了一个有血有肉、魄力十足的传奇人物，让读者对执政期间的拿破仑有更加全面、深入的了解。

Napoleons legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular imagination he himself contributed much towards the construction of his own myth, from his youth even until after he fell from power, when, while in exile, he dictated his memoirs to a group of disciples who took down his every word in the hope that his version of history would prevail such were napoleons skills as a chronicler that much of the legend is still unquestioningly accepted this second volume of Philip Dwyers outstanding biography sheds further fresh light on one of the great figures of modern history after a meteoric rise, a military-political coup in 1799 established napoleon bonaparte in government, aged just thirty this meticulously researched study examines the man in power, from his brooding obsessions and capacity for violence, to his ability to inspire others and realise his visionary ideas one of the first truly modern politicians, napoleon skilfully fashioned the image of himself that laid the foundation of the legend that endures to this day; Philip Dwyers ambitious, definitive work separates myth from history to offer us anew one of history’s most charismatic and able leaders.

Review
Five books about wars impressed me this year: Roger Knight's immaculately researched Britain against Napoleon: the Organisation of Victory 1793-1815; Philip Dwyer's Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815 which gives, in depth, the other side of that coin
(Simon Heffer, New Statesman Books of the Year)

He is very good on the tensions and rows ripping through the Bonaparte family, which was such an important element in the whole enterprise. Here, as everywhere, he produces nice detail and the telling anecdote ... a very fine book, which explains Napoleon's extraordinary rise to power and equally meteoric fall, with great erudition, skill and verve(Adam Zamoyski, Spectator)

Exemplary scholarship ... A book of meticulous research and beautifully detailed descriptions of Napoleon's military adventures, brings home the full horrific cost of the march on Russia
(New Statesman)

Philip Dwyerstudied in Perth (Australia), Berlin and Paris, where he was a student of France's pre-eminent Napoleonic scholar, Jean Tulard. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, and is the editor of Napoleon and Europe, the author of Talleyrand, and has co-edited Napoleon and His Empire: Europe, 1804-1814. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and is working on the second volume of his biography of Napoleon. Napoleon:The Path to Power, 1769-1799 has also been shortlisted for The Prime Minister's Literary Awards.