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Napoleon the Great (Paperback)
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Napoleon the Great (Paperback)
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'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the
momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Simply
dynamite' Bernard Cornwell From Andrew Roberts, author of the
bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny,
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.
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