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Audiobook: Napoleon BonaparteHow should we remember Napoleon, the man of obscure Corsican birth who rose to become emperor of the French and briefly master of Europe?⁣https://audiobooks.ink/product..../napoleon-a-life-and As the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approached in 2015, Intelligence Squared brought together two of Britain’s finest historians to debate how we should assess Napoleon’s life and legacy. Was he a military genius and father of the French state, or a blundering nonentity who created his own enduring myth? Was his goal of uniting the European continent under a common political system the forerunner of the modern ‘European dream’? Or was he an incompetent despot, a warning from history of the dangers of overarching grand plans?Championing Napoleon was be Andrew Roberts who will argue that if any ruler deserves the epithet ‘the Great’ it should be Napoleon. Not only did he revolutionise warfare, but he transformed Europe by retaining the best parts of the French Revolution – equality before the law, religious toleration, and the end of feudalism. He founded the first modern code of law (the Code Napoleon), instituted the excellent Lycée-based education system, and created a new aristocracy based on talent.By contrast, all mention of Napoleon as ‘great’, ‘hero’, ‘villain’ or ‘monster’ has Adam Zamoyski running for the hills, bemused why - in his opinion - this rather ordinary man excites such passion in otherwise level-head intelligent people. Zamoyski argued that Napoleon is credited with creating civil institutions which were in fact the work of others. He perpetrated some of the greatest military blunders in history, including the disastrous invasion of Russia. He brought about his own downfall through a mixture of incompetence and megalomania. It’s understandable why the French cling to their poetic myth of Napoleon’s ‘greatness’ but to Zamoyski no self-respecting Brit, let alone an historian, should fall for the flim-flam of this shameless self-publicist.
⁣The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America – winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York Times bestseller
A captivating account of military brilliance and political acumen Roberts proves himself an exceptionally talented author” – The Washington Post
From Austerlitz and Borodino to Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte’s battles rank among the most legendary in history. Yet, he was much more than a tactical genius and a shrewd leader of men. Comparable to George Washington and Julius Caesar – his revered hero – Napoleon stands as one of the greatest soldier-statesmen the world has ever known.
Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first comprehensive single-volume biography to incorporate the groundbreaking release of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, fundamentally reshaping our perception of his personality and motivations. For the first time, we see him in full complexity: adaptable, resolute, unexpectedly forgiving toward foes and even his wayward wife Josephine. Like Churchill, Napoleon recognized the strategic value of controlling his narrative, and his memoirs – composed during his exile on St. Helena – became the most widely read book of the nineteenth century.
An acclaimed historian, Roberts journeyed to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battlefields, uncovered vital new documents in archives, and even undertook a sea voyage to St. Helena. His grasp of political intricacies matches his expertise in military history. This biography finally does justice to its subject – authoritative, perceptive, eloquently crafted – by one of the most distinguished historians of our time.

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