Szymon Askenazy Napoleon a Poland 1-3t. [1st edition, 1918]

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Szymon Askenazy
Napoleon a Poland
I Upadek Polski a Francya
II Bonaparte a Legiony
III Bonaparte a Legiony

Warsaw Kraków 1918 - 19 first edition
Twarzystwo Wydawnicze w Warszawie
327, [2]; 345, [2]; 445, [2] p.
o. contemporary
p. bdb, stamps

For. ca: 21x15 cm

"Dabrowski's Legions - wandering soldiers - played quite a scene of human drama. Italian landscapes, heirlooms and ruins were the decoration for it, that it was long to look for better ones. The greatness of the main character - Napoleon - is beyond debate. But only a talent for research, intertwined with a passion for writing, builds from such material a work of true mastery. Not only for the adornment of library shelves, but also for reading with taste.

During the reign of the young Napoleon, Polish interests reached - for the first but, unfortunately, not the last time - the very bottom. It was heroic to do something for Poland. Fatal realities: political, military and financial? It is not an art to act in good conditions. The ruthlessness of Napoleonic Europe, coupled with the brutality of the partitioners? That's what life is like. And this is what real politics looks like. It's easier to explore this on issues past and gone. If they provoke readerly reflections, so much the better, although it's long too late to inspire Napoleon, Dabrowski, Kosciuszko, Kniaziewicz... with them.

But in Polish affairs, there is no bad time to ponder how to act "with the wind in one's eyes." Our realities are changeable, but very difficult. A classic author of a classic book on Polish fate should be one of the guides on our path.

B. Skaradzinski"

CONTENTS

Szymon Ashkenazy - Napoleonist

Preface

Introduction

Volume I

The Fall of Poland and France

Chapter I. Facing the First Partition

Chapter II. Facing the Second Partition

Chapter III. Facing the Third Partition

Chapter IV. The day after the partition

Footnotes to Volume One

Volume II

Bonaparte and the Legions

Chapter I. General Bonaparte

Cha pter II.Founding of the Legions

Chapter III. Leoben - Campoformio

Chapter IV. Bonaparte's departure

Footnotes to Volume Two

Volume III

Bonaparte and the Legions

Chapter I. The arrival of Kosciuszko

Chapter II. Legions without Bonaparte

Chapter III. The First Consul

Chapter IV. The End of the Legions

Footnotes to Volume Three

Bibliographical notes

Index of names