![]() ![]() 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. “A thrilling tale of military and political genius… Roberts is an uncommonly gifted writer.” - The Washington PostĪusterlitz, 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. The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America-winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York Times bestseller ![]()
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