![]() ![]() Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.Īn award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.Īndrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. ![]() The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of WarĪusterlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. ![]() Winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon 2014 ![]()
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