Наполеон: от Революции к Империи

The name of Napoleon has long been synonymous with greatness, and his career has become the envy of ambitious people around the world. He gave more battles than Alexander the Great, Caesar and Suvorov put together. Conquered almost all of Europe. For 15 whole years, he held the fate of the world in his hands, redrawing the map of the European continent at his own discretion, creating kings from nonentities and turning thousand-year-old monarchies into dust. How did a small Corsican become the ruler of a vast empire? What lifted him to an unattainable height? Why did Pushkin and Byron admire him, the mortal enemy of Russia and England? Paolo Cau tried to give his answers to these and many other questions in a fascinating book dedicated to the greatest genius of France.