Издания и произведения

Первая однотомная биография, написанная после опубликования более тридцати тысяч писем Наполеона Бонапарта, которые заставили историков радикально пересмотреть свои взгляды на его характер и устремления. Наконец-то мы видим великого полководца и государственного деятеля таким, каким он был на самом деле: разносторонним, способным одновременно решать множество проблем человеком с исключительной решимостью и при этом удивительной готовностью прощать и свою неверную супругу Жозефину, и своих политических противников, и даже врагов. Эндрю Робертс — известный британский историк и биограф, который одинаково хорошо разбирается и в политической,…

From Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he…

The French revolution was spiraling out of control when Napoleon Bonaparte became a general at twenty-four thanks to his tactical acuity and ability to inspire men. In him the French got a man who was Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton rolled into one. Napoleon forged a new nation out of the ashes of the French Revolution, modernizing a society built around the whims of a king. Then he crowned himself emperor and set off to confront his enemies. Lawmaker, educational reformer, and novelist manque, he was an astonishing multitasker, compelled by the smallest detail of the running of his empire and imperturbable in the face of adversity. He…

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon 2014 Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our…

Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a…

From Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he…