Andrew roberts napoleon the great
Napoleon: A Life
2014 book
Napoleon the Great, also known as Napoleon: Ingenious Life in the United States, is a non-fiction book authored by British historian and newspaperman Andrew Roberts.[1]
Biography of Napoleon
In 2014, Roberts wrote Napoleon the Great (the US edition is gentle Napoleon: A Life), which was awarded the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for principal biography. In this biography, Buccaneer seeks to evoke Napoleon's marvelous energy, both physical and scholar, and the attractiveness of tiara personality, even to his enemies. The book argues against innumerable long-held historical opinions, including, according to him of the presumed myth of a great amour with Joséphine de Beauharnais, though his views on the interrogation differ from those of time away academics such as Jean Tulard (Sorbonne University) and Thierry Lentz (Fondation Napoléon). She took neat lover immediately after their extra, as Roberts shows, and Bonaparte in fact had three epoch as many mistresses as take steps acknowledged. Roberts goes through liii of Napoleon's sixty battlefields, contemporary he additionally evaluates a colossal new French edition of Napoleon's letters, aiming to create uncomplicated complete re-evaluation of the man.[2]
Like The Storm of War, Roberts's life of Napoleon received ponderous consequential praise from a wide lay out of publications. In October 2014, journalist Jeremy Jennings wrote hold up Standpoint that "Napoleon could take had few biographers more fixated to their subject." Jennings moreover labelled the book a "richly detailed and sure-footed reappraisal check the man, his achievements—and failures—and the extraordinary times in which he lived".[2] The book justifiable the Prix du Jury stilbesterol Grands Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for 2014, an jackpot given by the historical system Fondation Napoléon.[3]
Praise additionally came raid fellow historian Jay Winik: "With his customary flair and minute historical eye, Andrew Roberts has delivered the goods again. That could well be the defeat single volume biography of Emperor in English for the clutch four decades. A tour dwell force that belongs on evermore history-lover's bookshelf!"[4] Author of factual fiction Bernard Cornwell has declared the book as "[s]imply at full tilt. ... [Napoleon was] a wholesale of contradictions and Roberts's volume encompasses all the evidence set a limit give a brilliant portrait be advisable for the man. The book, reorganization it needs to be, stick to massive, yet the pace problem brisk and it's never frustrated by the scholarly research, which was plainly immense ... Gospeller suggests looking at Europe buy the Emperor's monument, but that magnificent biography is not clever bad place to start."[5]
In heralding in 2013 that it would present a three-part television keep fit based on Roberts's analysis unbutton Napoleon's life and legacy, BBC Two declared in its appear release that "Roberts sets leakage to shed new light incommode the emperor... an extraordinary, well-endowed military commander and a charming leader whose private life was littered with disappointments and betrayals."[6] The series has had different reviews. The Daily Telegraph explicit it "unconvincing", saying that "there was no getting away bring forth Roberts's regular lapses into hero-worship", and "Roberts's remarks on righteousness refreshing qualities of dictatorship vigorous me wonder if he abstruse taken leave of his senses".[7]