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 understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.

An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.

作者简介

安德鲁•罗伯茨（Andrew Roberts），英国皇家文学学会和皇家艺术学会会员，杰出的传记作家和历史学家，著有《索尔兹伯里：维多利亚女王时代的泰坦》（获1999年沃尔夫森历史奖）、《战争风云：第二次世界大战新史》等诸多广受赞誉的著作，他还是诸多英国报纸的撰稿人。为撰写本书，他先后走访了位于俄罗斯、白俄罗斯、以色列、比利时、意大利、捷克、奥地利、德国、法国的拿破仑战场（60处中的53处），并去圣赫勒拿岛调研。他关于拿破仑的三集电视短剧也在BBC2台放映。

译者简介

苏然，1991年生，安徽黄山人，2014年毕业于南开大学，现为中国政法大学在读硕士研究生，拿破仑时代历史的爱好者。