Andrew Roberts.
ANDREW ROBERTS: NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BIOGRAPHY
NAPOLEON THE GREAT (2015)
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Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1769) was a military commander who rose during the French Revolution, and achieved great success during the Revoltionary Wars. In 1799 he became the leader of the French Republic, then Emperor from 1804 to 1814. He was an extremely successful general, and is considered to be one of the greatest of all time; with his campaigns stilll being studied at military colleges around the world. Napoleon’s first setback was when a coalition army defeated him at the Battle of Leipzig in 1814. He was exiled to Elba, which lies between Corsica and Italy, and the Bourbon royal family was restored to power. In February 1815 he escaped back to France where he raised an army. He was, however, defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and was exiled again, this time to the remote Atlantic island of St.Helena, where he died in 1821.
The Guardian wrote of the book: ‘Roberts has been indefatigable in tracking down memorabilia and visiting the sites of battles, palaces and places of exile. This is all richly depicted and woven into a narrative that is told with the aplomb of an accomplished historical storyteller.’ Simon sebag Montefiore described it as: 'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge'.
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Andrew Roberts (born 1963) is a distinguished historian and journalist, who was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer by Boris Johnson. Roberts read history at Caius College, Cambridge, where the chaired the Cambridge University Conservative Association. He worked as an investment banker at Robert Fleming from 1985 to 1988, publishing his first book, a biography of the politician Lord Halifax, in 1991. His many further books focus particularly on politics and war in the 20th century.
