| ISBN |
9780143127857 (paperback) |
| Classification |
944.05 NAP |
| Personal Name |
Roberts, Andrew, 1963- |
| Title |
Napoleon : a life / Andrew Roberts. |
| Production & Copyright Details |
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2015. |
| ©2014 |
| Physical Description |
xlv, 926 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 23 cm |
| Content type |
text |
| still image |
| cartographic image |
| Note |
Originally published: 2014. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 859-888) and index. |
| Summary Note |
Austerlitz, 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. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Andrew 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. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian, Roberts travelled 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. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians. |
| Subject-Personal Name |
Napoleon -- I,Emperor of the French,1769-1821 |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Emperors -- France -- Biography |
| Subject - Geographic Name |
France -- History -- 1789-1815 |
| Subject - Genre |
Biographies |
