![]() 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 War-winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation NapoleonĪusterlitz, 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. ![]()
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