Napoleon a life by andrew roberts

2014 book

Napoleon the Great, also known as Napoleon: A Life in the United States, is a non-fiction book authored by British historian and journalist Andrew Roberts.^[1]

Biography of Napoleon

In 2014, Roberts wrote Napoleon the Great (the US edition is titled Napoleon: A Life), which was awarded the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best biography.

Napoleon andrew roberts review

Napoleon andrew roberts review

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Roberts manages to portray the real story, a bit biased to Napoleons favour, in a way that reads like a dramatic and epic novela, maybe its.

In this biography, Roberts seeks to evoke Napoleon's tremendous energy, both physical and intellectual, and the attractiveness of his personality, even to his enemies. The book argues against many long-held historical opinions, including, according to him of the alleged myth of a great romance with Joséphine de Beauharnais, although his views on the subject differ from those of other academics such as Jean Tulard (Sorbonne University) and Thierry Lentz (Fondation Napoléon).

She took a lover immediately after their marriage, as Roberts shows, and Napoleon in fact had three times as many mis