拿破仑大帝 安德鲁·罗伯茨 人物传记 英文原版 Napoleon the Great

基本信息

作者: Andrew Roberts

Paperback: 976页

出版社: penguin uk (2015年4月2日)

语种: 英语

ISBN: 9780141032016                                 

产品尺寸及重量: 136 x 201 x 51 (mm) | 710g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《拿破仑大帝》是一本关于拿破仑的叙述体传记，作者安德鲁?罗伯茨基于自身的走访、对多国档案的研究、其他作者出版的关于拿破仑或赞或贬的书籍，以及最重要的拿破仑基金会从2004年开始编辑出版的33000封拿破仑信件等诸多材料，以拿破仑一生的轨迹特别是他参与的60场战役为主线，围绕着“拿破仑是摧毁者还是建设者？是解放者还是专制者？是政治家还是冒险家？”展开论述，其间驳斥了许多围绕在拿破仑身边的“黑色传奇”、不实传说以及许多对其人其事进行诋毁的荒谬之词，如拿破仑对待士兵残忍不人道、炮轰埃及金字塔及斯芬克斯雕像、贬低拿破仑及约瑟芬对法国艺术的贡献、拿破仑是嗜血的独裁者等等，对拿破仑的是非功过进行了较为客观公正的评价。

拿破仑?波拿巴度过了较之所有世人的最不同寻常的一生。从1795年10月时扫荡巴黎街头造反者的年轻炮兵军官，到1815年6月由于严重的指挥失误而遭遇滑铁卢之败，他在短短二十年之内成功改造了法国和欧洲。在雾月政变成功掌权之后，他涤荡了法国大革命之后政府的腐败与无能。在一系列眼花缭乱的战争中，他革新了战争的艺术；在和平时期，他再造了法国的法律，让教育和行政体系现代化，并促进了“帝国风格”艺术的繁荣发展。……为了打败它最顽固的敌人英国，他发动对西班牙和俄罗斯帝国的致命远征，不仅葬送了七十五万法国男儿，更使得他一手缔造的帝国开始瓦解，最终遭遇滑铁卢之败并被流放至圣赫勒拿岛，在远离欧洲世界的孤岛上因为胃癌去世。

考察完他那波澜壮阔、跌宕起伏的一生之后，罗伯茨认为拿破仑不是一位极权独裁者，尽管他行使非常庞大的权力，但他也没有变得暴虐无道、报复心切。他虽算不上伟大征服者，但仍是近代史巨人，从很多方面看他都称得上最后的也是最伟大的开明独裁者，一位马背上的启蒙者。拿破仑曾自夸，他扔下“花岗巨岩”，支撑法国社会。看完本书你会觉得确实如此，他也确实当担得起“大帝”的名号。

'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe.

After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful 'Empire style' in the arts. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel.

More than any other modern biographer, Andrew Roberts conveys Napoleon's tremendous energy, both physical and intellectual, and the attractiveness of his personality, even to his enemies. He has walked 53 of Napoleon's 60 battlefields, and has absorbed the gigantic new French edition of Napoleon's letters, which allows a complete re-evaluation of this exceptional man. He overturns many received opinions, including the myth of a great romance with Josephine: she took a lover immediately after their marriage, and, as Roberts shows, he had three times as many mistresses as he acknowledged.

Of the climactic Battle of Leipzig in 1813, as the fighting closed around them, a French sergeant-major wrote, 'No-one who has not experienced it can have any idea of the enthusiasm that burst forth among the half-starved, exhausted soldiers when the Emperor was there in person. If all were demoralised and he appeared, his presence was like an electric shock. All shouted "Vive l'Empereur!" and everyone charged blindly into the fire.'The reader of this biography will understand why this was so.

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的确是书籍界的拿破仑式胜利，典雅的辞藻、史诗式规模、小说般细节，置身卧室宛如置身疆场，很容易就会不能自已，愿随骑兵冲锋之势一道奔驰。终于，我们有了一本完整的传记。——西蒙?西拜格?蒙蒂菲奥里（Simon Sebag Montefiore），《旗帜晚报》

杰作……这本传记篇幅浩大、内容丰富、见解深刻、语句风趣、观点人道，表达了无可辩驳的倾慕之情……罗伯茨之作当然是又一部杰出的叙述体拿破仑传，可它不止于此——它也是关于治国经纶的论文以及对历史本身的反思……读来愉悦至极。 ——丹?琼斯（Dan Jones），《每日电讯报》

简直令人心潮澎湃……（拿破仑是）一个诸多矛盾的集合体，而罗伯茨之作囊括一切旨在塑造其人光辉形象的证据。此书理应内容丰富，它也的确如此，然而其节奏轻快，从未过分耽于显然渊博的学术研究……罗伯茨提出在欧洲寻觅皇帝的纪念碑，这本出色传记是个不坏的开始。 ——伯纳德?康沃尔（Bernard Cornwell），《星期日邮报》

不可思议的可读性、精妙绝伦的例证……扣人心弦……罗伯茨不知疲倦地追踪其言行记录，造访战场、宫殿和流放地遗迹，所有这一切经充分描绘后融入口吻冷静如资深历史讲述者的叙述……只要人们争论信仰、财产、国王与欧洲的未来，拿破仑就是重要人物，而且仍将是重要人物。关于他究竟为何有此特性，此书开辟了新时代。 ——马克?马佐韦尔（Mark Mazower），《卫报》

作者简介

安德鲁?罗伯茨（Andrew Roberts），英国皇家文学学会和皇家艺术学会会员，杰出的传记作家和历史学家，著有《索尔兹伯里：维多利亚女王时代的泰坦》（获1999年沃尔夫森历史奖）、《战争风云：第二次世界大战新史》等诸多广受赞誉的著作，他还是诸多英国报纸的撰稿人。为撰写本书，他先后走访了位于俄罗斯、白俄罗斯、以色列、比利时、意大利、捷克、奥地利、德国、法国的拿破仑战场（60处中的53处），并去圣赫勒拿岛调研。他关于拿破仑的三集电视短剧也在BBC2台放映。

Andrew Roberts is the bestselling author of The Storm of War, Masters and Commanders, Napoleon and Wellington, and Waterloo. A Fellow of the Napoleonic Institute, he has won many prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book Award, writes frequently for The Wall Street Journal, and has written and presented a number of popular documentaries. He lives in New York City.