原帖由 iron duke 于 2007-5-22 02:57 发表 
亚马逊给此书只评了三个星,多位评者提到了其反拿破仑倾向性。
http://www.amazon.com/Napoleon-Bonaparte-Life-Alan-Schom/dp/0060929588
我也觉得此书不怎么值得一读,记得以前老兄还引出过该书中一段可笑的记载,大概是讲什么“能征惯战的热罗姆不被重用”一类的
亚马逊上的书评大多人只给1星或2星,有个给5星的家伙的评论倒让我笑了一阵,引用在此:
Napoleon was a butcher, the Hitler of his age. Three million dead from the armies or europe, millions more forced into his armies and taken from their homes, only to return mangled both physically and mentally. He created a police state, with a vast internal spy network, with no real freedom, his enemies siezed and executed. He stole and extorted from everyone, particularly his own people. He destroyed the entire economy of europe and particularly France. He reintroduced slavery to France's colonies. He turned a potential democracy into a dictatorship and used his power for his own glory and enrichment without a thought to the death and destruction he left in his wake. He routinely executed prisoners of war, and despite repeated pleadings from his docotrs, he never established even the most basic care for the wounded, allowing them to die in the ditches and fields where they fell - nothing to him anymore. He lied incessently and constantly overstated his victories and his role in them. He was a coward and deserted his armies at least three times (Egypt, Russia, Waterloo) and in the end he lost far more than he won.
Any psychologist would take at look at this lying, murdering, remorseless monster and quickly brand him a psycopath. Indeed the instances of those around him calling him mad or insane number in the hundreds.
And for what? Every campaign was for his own personal glory and nothing else. Napoleon never fought against an aggressor, nor for any noble cause. It was simply the need of a severly sick mind to prove himself. For this millions died.
Those who glorify this evil man should be ashamed of themselves. Even the French were sick of him at the end, although today many, believing the lies of French 'glory' now are willing to dismiss all the death and destruction. Oh but what about his accomplishments? The Bank of France - he simply copied the Bank of England and then proceeded to use the BOF for his own purposes of financing his aggressive wars, banckrupting the BOF, the French goverment, and France generally several times. The Napoleonic code - developed but not implemented before Napoleon even arrived, and then used when it suited his purposes, but generally ignored by him. And his military genius? Well he night have won a few victories, but he lost the war, twice.
Schom has done an admirable job in presenting the truth about this monster. Those who continue to glorify this mass murderer are morally pathetic.
这段评论几乎浓缩了所有倒拿派的观点,是一个十分值得批判的素材。
另外找到了SERIES对此书的评论:http://www.napoleon-series.org/reviews/biographies/c_schom.html,给此书的评价极为不好,说此书“历史错误无数”。而且根据SERIES的书评,肖姆不仅把皇帝塑造成希特勒,故意不用“拿破仑”,还把他手下的元帅如苏尔特,贝尔蒂埃全都骂了一遍 |