Napoleon roberts5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Roberts contends that these accounts have acted as ammunition for those attempting to portray Napoleon as a kind of “proto-Hitler,” whose governance set the intellectual and moral stage for horrendous tyrannies to come. ![]() The supposed reminiscences and memoirs of many individuals in Napoleon’s entourage were often ghostwritten in an attempt to impugn the memory of him. Roberts opens the book with the observation that most of the source material used in previous biographies of Napoleon can be considered suspect. Using new documents from archives and traveling to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, Roberts paints a new portrait of a well-known historical figure, drastically altering the understanding of Napoleon’s motivation and character. With 33,000 of Napoleon’s recently published letters at his disposal, Roberts allows the reader an insider’s look at the real man considered to be one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Napoleon: A Life is Andrew Roberts’s 2014 biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose battles are among the greatest in history. ![]()
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