Napoleon: A Life Hardcover – November 4, 2014 Author: Andrew Roberts | Language: English | ISBN:
0670025321 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Napoleon: A Life – November 4, 2014
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- Hardcover: 976 pages
- Publisher: Viking Adult (November 4, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670025321
- ISBN-13: 978-0670025329
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.9 x 9.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > Europe > France
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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.
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".
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