Frank McLynn est un auteur britannique réputé pour ses biographies perspicaces et critiques de personnages historiques marquants. Il élabore des récits approfondis qui explorent les complexités de la nature humaine et les événements historiques décisifs. L'approche de McLynn allie une recherche historique rigoureuse à une sensibilité littéraire aiguisée, donnant vie de manière vivante à des personnalités du passé et à leurs actions pour les lecteurs contemporains. Son style distinctif se caractérise par la précision et un talent pour découvrir les facettes moins explorées de la vie de ses sujets.
In this biography of Napoleon, the author gives particular emphasis to the Frenchman's military genius, the feats of his Grande Armee and his civil achievements as ruler of France. The psychology that motivated Napoleon and his relationships with women are also investigated.
Recounting the decade of bloody events that followed the eruption of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Villa and Zapata explores the regional, international, cultural, racial, and economic strife that made the rebels Francisco (Pancho) Villa and Emiliano Zapata legends. Throughout this volume drama colludes with history, in a tale of two social outlaws who became legendary national heroes, yet—despite their triumph and only meeting, in 1914, in the Mexican capital—failed to make common cause and ultimately fell victim to intrigues more treacherous than their own. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs bring this gripping narrative to life. "McLynn ... tells it so well ... you can hear the strains of he Mexican patriotic standard ‘Zacatecas' as you read it."—Austin American-Statesman "An admirably clear account of the chaos of revolution, its rivalries and bloody struggles...."—The Spectator "Informative and insightful ... feels less like a history than a great story, as exciting as a Saturday serial Western."—Publishers Weekly
Profiles the famous navigator, addresses the common colonialist misconceptions about the explorer and his death, and re-creates the voyages that took him from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean.
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
Pohľady do zákulisia dejín-50 listov známych osobností. Obsahuje stretnutia a objavy, ako napríklad Svätého Hieronyma so Eustochiom, mongolského chána Kuyuka s pápežom Inocentom IV., Krištofa Kolumba s Luisom de Santangelom, Hernanda Pizarra s členmi Kráľovskej rady v Santo Domingu, Galilea Galileiho s Belisariom Vintaom, a ďalších významných osobností ako Benjamin Franklin, Louis Pasteur či Albert Einstein. V sekcii autoportréty a obhajoby sú zastúpení Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther, Anna Boleynová, George Washington, Thomas Alva Edison a ďalší, ktorí sa obracajú na blízkych a autority. Politika a výzvy sú reprezentované listami Svätého Pavla, Plinia mladšieho, Jany z Arcu, Ľudovíta XIV., Napoleona Bonaparteho, Karola Marxa a Winstona Churchilla, ktorí sa vyjadrujú k dôležitým historickým momentom. Témy lásky, smrti a priateľstva sú prítomné v listoch Cicera, Abélarda, Márii, kráľovnej škótskej, Horatia Nelsona, Mary Shelleyovej, Abrahama Lincolna a Vincenta Van Gogha, pričom každý z nich ponúka unikátne pohľady na osobné a emocionálne aspekty svojich životov.
Frank McLynn beleuchtet in "Warriors" die Köpfe legendärer Kriegsstrategen wie Spartakus, Attila, Richard Löwenherz, Cortés, Tokugawa Ieyasu und Napoleon. Er untersucht ihre Motive, Stärken und Schwächen und definiert den Begriff „Krieger“. Begleitet von einer BBC-Serie bietet das Buch spannende Einblicke in die Psychologie dieser historischen Figuren.