Adam Zamoyski is the author of numerous books about Polish and European history, and has written for publications including the Times (London), the Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian. He lives in London and Poland.
"Napoleon is an out and out masterpiece and a joy to read."--Sir
Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege
"A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte that avoids the well-established
military details and gives us the story of a singular
man...Illuminating."--Kirkus
"A lifetime's diligent research and profound thinking about
Napoleon and his times has gone into this hugely readable, highly
enjoyable and well-balanced biography. Zamoyski is at the top of
his game as a biographer."--Andrew Roberts, Visiting Professor,
Department of War Studies, King's College, London
"A masterful historian, Zamoyski fulfills his task eloquently.
Napoleon is often called a military and political genius, but in
reading Zamoyski, the question arises: how much of Napoleon's
perceived greatness was owing...to timing and circumstance in the
stormy political world of 18th-century revolutionary
France?"--Winnipeg Free Press
"A superb history of a complicated man and time."--Choice
"Adam Zamoyski has retold a story that we thought we knew and made
it fresh: Stripping away two centuries of mythology, discarding the
apocryphal stories and legends, he finally brings us the real
Napoleon."--Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine: Stalin's War on
Ukraine
"Adam Zamoyski's 700-plus-page but very readable Napoleon: A
Life...shows how France's tired post-revolutionary leaders in 1796
recognized they were riding a tiger---but didn't expect him to eat
them."--World Magazine
"Always elegant in style and original in analysis. Zamoyski, a
master of the sources and of the culture and politics that created
his subject, produces a fresh, nuanced, beautifully written,
gripping, and outstanding biography of Napoleon that reveals him to
be a triumph of luck and accident as much as the invincible genius
of the legend."--Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and
Jerusalem: the Biography
"Engaging and highly readable.... An inclusive life of a historical
dynamo."--Washington Times
"It is the outstanding merit of Adam Zamoyski's fine new biography,
Napoleon: A Life, that he insists on treating his subject as
neither a superman nor a monster, but as a creature of his troubled
age...Zamoyski gives us...a vivid sense of Napoleon as a protean
chancer, outwardly self-confident as any man who ever lived,
inwardly always wondering when his 'star' would finally set."--New
York Review of Books
"Magnificent...Napoleon was neither demon nor deity. He was a man,
with great talents and great flaws, often intertwined...[Mr.
Zamoyski] writes beautifully."--Economist
"Zamoyski sticks close to verifiable primary sources...What we get
is more a historical Napoleon than the colossus of cultural memory,
but a figure no less fascinating for that. Napoleon's life was a
rollercoaster and Zamoyski takes us along for the ride."--Toronto
Star
"Zamoyski tells the personal side of Napoleon's life...his hopes,
his dreams, his self-doubts."--New York Journal of Books
"Zamoyski...attempts to cut through the fantasy and retrospective
exaggeration to tell the story of an extraordinary, but certainly
not superhuman life.... Napoleon emerges from Mr. Zamoyski's book a
willful, self-made opportunist...gifted, energetic, brave, lucky,
but also a bit ridiculous."--Wall Street Journal
"Zamoyski's book is one of the finest biographies of Napoleon
Bonaparte ever written."--MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military
History
A success in all respects, rivaling Andrew Roberts's Napoleon: A
Life in astuteness and thoroughness.... The picture that emerges is
of an extraordinarily gifted leader who increasingly sought
short-term gain at the expense of long-term stability....
Exhaustively researched and engagingly written."--Library Journal,
starred review
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