?A thrilling tale of military and political genius . . . Roberts is an
uncommonly gifted writer." ?The Washington Post
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history,
but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and an astute leader
of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the
greatest soldier-statesmen of all time.
Andrew Roberts's New York Times?bestsellingNapoleonis the first single-volume,
cradle-to-grave biography to take advantage of the recent publication of
Napoleon's thirty-three thousand surviving letters, which radically transform
our understanding of this extraordinary man. At last we see him as he was:
protean multitasker, inspired