Napoleon the Great

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<p><b>From Andrew Roberts, author of the<i>Sunday Times</i>bestseller<i>The</i><i>Storm of War</i>, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon</b></p><p><b></b></p><p>It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon's 56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life, and the military and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler. This is the Napoleon, Roberts reminds us, whose peacetime activity produced countless indispensable civic innovations - and whose Napoleonic Code provided the blueprint for civil law systems still in use around the world today.</p><p></p><p>It is one of the greatest lives in world history, which here has found its ideal biographer. The sheer enjoyment which this book will give anyone who loves history is enormous.</p><p></p><p><b>Andrew Roberts</b>is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include<i>Salisbury: Victorian Titan</i>(winner, the Wolfson Prize for History);<i>Masters and Commanders</i>; and<i>The Storm of War</i>, which reached No. 2 on the<i>Sunday Times</i>bestseller list. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>,<i>Spectator</i>,<i>Literary Review</i>,<i>Mail on Sunday</i>and<i>Daily Telegraph</i>.</p>

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