Napoleon: A Life (Unabridged) Napoleon: A Life (Unabridged)

Napoleon: A Life (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
JL
John Lee
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
32:55
hr min
RELEASED
2014
November 4
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
2
GB

Customer Reviews

john.allen035 ,

Great book, poor narrator

The history is phenomenal. Napoleon is not at all the Machiavellian my school teachers made him out to be. Great man, ruined by his own ego. The narrator, however, in some cases it is very hard to understand him, as the last word of every sentence, he seems to trail off.

Alpal5000 ,

Excellent Narration

A talented and engaging narrator, which is important for a thirty two hour listen.

payrob21 ,

Not worth $5

Meh meh meh and the narrator is annoying.

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