Andrew Roberts is the bestselling author of The Storm of
War, Masters and Commanders, Napoleon and Wellington, and Waterloo.
A Fellow of the Napoleonic
Institute, he has won many prizes, including the Wolfson History
Prize and the British Army Military Book Award, writes frequently
for The Wall Street Journal,
and has written and presented a number of popular documentaries. He
lives in New York City.
Praise for Napoleon
“An epically scaled new biography . . . Roberts brilliantly conveys
the sheer energy and presence of Napoleon the organizational and
military whirlwind who, through crisp and incessant questioning,
sized up people and problems and got things done. . . . His
dynamism shines in Roberts’s set-piece chapters on major battles
like Austerlitz, Jena, and Marengo, turning visionary military
maneuvers into politically potent moments.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Roberts is a masterly storyteller. . . . I would recommend his
book to anyone seeking an accessible chronicle, rich in anecdote,
of Napoleon’s fantastic story.”
—Max Hastings, The Wall Street Journal
“With his customary flair and keen historical eye, Andrew Roberts
has delivered the goods again. This is the best one volume
biography of Napoleon in English for the last four decades. A tour
de force that belongs on every history lover’s bookshelf!”
—Jay Winik, bestselling author of The Great Upheaval and April
1865
“Is another long life of Napoleon really necessary? On three
counts, the answer given by Andrew Roberts’s impressive book is an
emphatic yes. The most important is that this is the first
single-volume general biography to make full use of the treasure
trove of Napoleon’s 33,000-odd letters, which began being published
in Paris only in 2004. Second, Roberts, who has previously written
on Napoleon and Wellington, is a masterly analyst of the French
emperor’s many battles. Third, his book is beautifully written and
a pleasure to read.”
—The Economist
“Napoleon remade France and much of Europe in his fifteen years in
power and proved himself one of history’s greatest military
commanders. Roberts’s access to Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand
letters, only recently available, allowed him to create a fully
human portrait of this larger-than-life figure.”
—The Wall Street Journal, Holiday Gift Guide
“A huge, rich, deep, witty, humane and unapologetically admiring
biography that is a pleasure to read. The Napoleon painted here is
a whirlwind of a man—not only a vigorous and supremely confident
commander, but an astonishingly busy governor, correspondent and
lover, too. . . . To dive into Roberts’s new book is to
understand—indeed, to feel—why this peculiarly brilliant Corsican
managed for so long to dazzle the world.”
—Dan Jones, The Telegraph
“Roberts in his Napoleon achieves the near impossible by writing on
this extravagantly well-covered subject with a freshness and
excitement that makes readers think they have stumbled on something
entirely new.”
—Philip Ziegler, The Spectator, Books of the Year
“Truly a Napoleonic triumph of a book, elegantly written, epic in
scale, novelistic in detail, irresistibly galloping with the
momentum of a cavalry charge, as comfortable on the battlefield as
in the bedroom. Here, at last, is the full biography.”
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year
“Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is a brilliant example of ‘great man’
history, brimming with personality and the high-octane Bonapartist
spirit.”
—John Bew, New Statesman, Books of the Year
“Entertaining, even addictive . . . Roberts writes with great
vigor, style, and fluency.”
—Sunday Times (London)
“Magnificent . . . Roberts’s fine book encompasses all the evidence
to give a brilliant portrait of the man. The book, as it needs to
be, is massive, yet the pace is brisk and it’s never overwhelmed by
the scholarly research, which was plainly immense.”
—Mail on Sunday
“Roberts not only brings the Napoleon story up to date but, with
new evidence from the archives and an original spin on the present,
makes a compelling case for why we should all read anew about the
little Corsican in the 21st century.”
—The Observer (London)
“Magisterial and beautifully written . . . A richly detailed and
sure-footed reappraisal of the man, his achievements—and
failures—and the extraordinary times in which he lived.”
—Standpoint
“A definitive account that dispels many of the myths that
surrounded Napoleon from his lifetime to the present day.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A compelling biography of the preeminent French general that
stands apart from the rest, owing to the author’s thoroughness,
accuracy, and attention to detail. Roberts relies on his military
expertise, Napoleon’s surviving correspondence (33,000 items in
all), and exhaustive on-site studies of French battlegrounds. . . .
This voluminous work is likely to set the standard for subsequent
accounts.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
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