The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0The Storm of War<\/i>\u2014winner of the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/i>Book Prize for Biography and the\u00a0Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Andrew Roberts\u2019s\u00a0Napoleon\u00a0<\/i>is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n