Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts (Hardcover, 2014)

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Napoleon the Great [Hardcover] Roberts, Andrew. even to his enemies. He has walked 53 of Napoleon's 60 battlefields, and has. absorbed the gigantic new French edition of Napoleon's letters, which allows a.

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AWARDED THE PRIX DU JURY DES GRANDS PRIX DE LA FONDATION NAPOLEON 2014 From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful 'Empire style' in the arts. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel. More than any other modern biographer, Andrew Roberts conveys Napoleon's tremendous energy, both physical and intellectual, and the attractiveness of his personality, even to his enemies. He has walked 53 of Napoleon's 60 battlefields, and has absorbed the gigantic new French edition of Napoleon's letters, which allows a complete re-evaluation of this exceptional man. He overturns many received opinions, including the myth of a great romance with Josephine: she took a lover immediately after their marriage, and, as Roberts shows, he had three times as many mistresses as he acknowledged. Of the climactic Battle of Leipzig in 1813, as the fighting closed around them, a French sergeant-major wrote, 'No-one who has not experienced it can have any idea of the enthusiasm that burst forth among the half-starved, exhausted soldiers when the Emperor was there in person. If all were demoralised and he appeared, his presence was like an electric shock. All shouted Vive l'Empereur! and everyone charged blindly into the fire.' The reader of this biography will understand why this was so. Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-101846140277
ISBN-139781846140273
eBay Product ID (ePID)209631916

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Book TitleNapoleon the Great
AuthorAndrew Roberts
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicBiographies & Autobiographies, History
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Number of Pages976 Pages

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Weight1620g
Height240mm
Width162mm
Item Weight1620g

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Title_AuthorAndrew Roberts
Spine61mm
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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  • A heavyweight read with many previously unknown details - brilliant

    Very interesting read about Napoleon the man rather than just all his military conquests. Gives you a very good insight into life in these times & the turmoil that France went through with the revolution..

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  • Napoleon.

    Andrew Robert is a gifted and thoughtful historian. I have read the paperback and would strongly recommend it. The hardback book with his signature is now in the Saethon Library. Thank you.

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