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.

作者簡介

安德魯•羅伯茨（Andrew Roberts），英國皇傢文學學會和皇傢藝術學會會員，傑齣的傳記作傢和曆史學傢，著有《索爾茲伯裏：維多利亞女王時代的泰坦》（獲1999年沃爾夫森曆史奬）、《戰爭風雲：第二次世界大戰新史》等諸多廣受贊譽的著作，他還是諸多英國報紙的撰稿人。為撰寫本書，他先後走訪瞭位於俄羅斯、白俄羅斯、以色列、比利時、意大利、捷剋、奧地利、德國、法國的拿破侖戰場（60處中的53處），並去聖赫勒拿島調研。他關於拿破侖的三集電視短劇也在BBC2颱放映。

譯者簡介

蘇然，1991年生，安徽黃山人，2014年畢業於南開大學，現為中國政法大學在讀碩士研究生，拿破侖時代曆史的愛好者。