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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 976 pages
  • Publisher: Viking (November 4, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0670025321
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670025329
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.9 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (324 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsWell done... and Thought Provoking!
By Ed Morgan on November 4, 2014
Format: Hardcover
This is not only the first one-volume history of Napoleon but also THE book on Napoleon to read if you are new to his life-history or looking for a fresh take. Thanks to the recent release of his private letters (33,000+) and a fellowship at the Napoleonic Institute, Roberts has a far wider and deeper look into this infamous leader than any other author has had before. I sometimes find one-volume efforts unwieldy, but Roberts has been providing this style of high-quality history reading ever since "The Storm of War" and "Masters and Commanders", and this book simply follows suit! To say it simply, he knows the material and shares it well. I wouldn't call myself an expert of western history, really an amateur aficionado at best, even though I've read a lot about world politics of the time including biographies of the personalities and memoirs by the participants. This book sets a great foundation for Kissinger's "A World Restored", which picks up after the fall of Napoleon.

For far too long, Napoleon has been subjected to over-sized myths and slanderous libel. Roberts' thesis is that Napoleon was not at all some kind of proto-Hitler dictator but rather the last and greatest leader of the Enlightenment who had many admirable qualities. A surprisingly sympathetic view from a Brit! Of course he had an ugly side (responsibility for wars that killed 4-6 million isn't easily forgotten or forgiven) but I was impressed to learn of his involvement in the regeneration of post-Revolution France, patronage to the arts, and establishment of equality under the Napoleon Code.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsDefending Napoleon
By Paul Krause on November 9, 2014
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In 1841, Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle penned On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History. One of the first histories to bring forth the "Great Man" tradition of history--the view that certain individuals are driving forces of history, and simply knowing about such individuals would give one a good command of the history of that era, Andrew Roberts, an English historian, joined this small but notable rank of Anglosphere historians to laud Napoleon as such a figure. What makes this work even more incredible, all things considered, is that an English historian would write and publish a biography of Napoleon that is certainly apologetic and positive on the eve of the bicentennial of the over mythologized Battle of Waterloo where British Nationalists have long wanted to assert that this event, rather than the terrible campaigns of 1813-1814 where Britain played a minimal role, as the Gotterdammerung of Napoleon's life and empire.

Therefore, the biography written by Andrew Roberts stands drastically apart from the majority of scholarship in the last 40 years of Anglosphere scholarship that has undeniable attempted, with vigor, sometimes very eruditely, and at other times poorly--to destroy the "great man" historiographical tradition and with it, any attempt to view Napoleon as "Great" in the same tradition of the other "Great" leaders in world history.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant and masterly!
By Paul Gelman on November 4, 2014
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Why do we need another book on Napoleon? After all, as Mr Roberts admits right at the very beginning of his book, every aspect of Napoleon's life "has now been documented, explored and picked over in the most astonishing detail". Yet, for someone who is interested in the life of Napoleon, he had had an advantage over those biographers of previous generations; because he could use over a third of the 33000 letters which have recently been published and which serve as a template for this new amazing and hightly entertaining examination of Napoleon's life.
In addition, Mr Roberts has personally visited fifty-three battlefields where the French Emperor has commanded his troops and has been regularly "astounded by his instinctive feeling for topography, his acuity in judging distance and choosing ground, his sense of timing".
The reader approaching this book may think that the military aspects are the central theme of it, but this assumption is wrong. For the author offers a vast and panoramic depiction of almost all the possible angles of Napoleon's life, sometimes doing this in a microscopically examined way. Some examples of this include the various menus used by Napoleaon or anecdotes about his vivid experiences in the bedroom or his amorous conquests.
It is at this point where the author destroys the myth of a great romance with Josephine, because she took a lover immediately afyer their marriage and her husband had three times as many mistresses as he acknowledged.
The central question of this volume is as follows: can Napoleon be called "the Great"? What are the criteria that win a ruler this sobriquet? To quote again,"Alexander, Alfred, Frederick and Catherine were huge figures who decisively influenced the history of their times".Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsIf I could dine with only one famous person, it might be Napoleon

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Published 13 hours ago by anthony g villa
4.0 out of 5 starsWhat a Life

What a life Napoleon lived and told by Andrew Roberts. In my view this book can lay claim as the definitive biography. Read more

Published 11 days ago by adeamus
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Published 11 days ago by Levi A Hill
5.0 out of 5 starsA terrific read!

A terrific read!! Highly informative with new information on both the public and private lives of the French emperor, statesman and national icon.

Published 23 days ago by J. L. Lambert
3.0 out of 5 starsDon't bother

Not a fun read. Tedious

Published 24 days ago by E30m3sm
2.0 out of 5 starsA modern fairy tale, charmingly told

In the early 1990s, Paul W Schroeder published a seminal article comparing Napoleon's foreign policy, from the early 1800s up to 1814, to the machinations of a "criminal",... Read more

Published 24 days ago by Mr. S. Koller
5.0 out of 5 starsWhat a Great find !

This is a very good book , we ordered two . We have kept one a gave the other as a gift. The books were in excellent condition. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent, detailed view of Napoleon

Just to set some groundwork, I've never read a biography of Napoleon before. And like many average people, I knew very little about him other than remembering a few key things from... Read more

Published 25 days ago by Robert L
5.0 out of 5 starsFantastic and thorough review of an enigmatic and influential life

Fantastic and thorough review of an enigmatic and influential life. This book neither neglects the influence of various Napoleonic changes in society nor simply lionizes a general. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Reid Monaghan
5.0 out of 5 starsAn absolutely brilliant piece of work

An absolutely brilliant piece of work. His research is deep and thorough but particularly the various battles that delve into strategy and the genus of Napoleon. Read more

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