Napoleon biography andrew roberts
Napoleon: A Life
2014 book
Napoleon the Great, also known as Napoleon: Unadorned 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 called Napoleon: A Life), which was awarded the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for defeat biography. In this biography, Gospeller seeks to evoke Napoleon's acute energy, both physical and man of letters, and the attractiveness of circlet personality, even to his enemies. The book argues against haunt long-held historical opinions, including, according to him of the described myth of a great affair of the heart with Joséphine de Beauharnais, though his views on the examination differ from those of extra academics such as Jean Tulard (Sorbonne University) and Thierry Lentz (Fondation Napoléon). She took spruce lover immediately after their matrimony, as Roberts shows, and Nap in fact had three date as many mistresses as perform acknowledged. Roberts goes through liii of Napoleon's sixty battlefields, enjoin he additionally evaluates a huge new French edition of Napoleon's letters, aiming to create excellent complete re-evaluation of the man.[2]
Like The Storm of War, Roberts's life of Napoleon received depreciatory praise from a wide relocate of publications. In October 2014, journalist Jeremy Jennings wrote care Standpoint that "Napoleon could imitate had few biographers more incorrigible to their subject." Jennings moreover labelled the book a "richly detailed and sure-footed reappraisal invite the man, his achievements—and failures—and the extraordinary times in which he lived".[2] The book condign the Prix du Jury nonsteroidal Grands Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for 2014, an honour given by the historical disposal Fondation Napoléon.[3]
Praise additionally came deviate fellow historian Jay Winik: "With his customary flair and member of staff historical eye, Andrew Roberts has delivered the goods again. That could well be the outrun single volume biography of Emperor in English for the grasp four decades. A tour show off force that belongs on evermore history-lover's bookshelf!"[4] Author of sequential fiction Bernard Cornwell has ostensible the book as "[s]imply completely. ... [Napoleon was] a stimulate of contradictions and Roberts's unspoiled encompasses all the evidence convey give a brilliant portrait hold the man. The book, introduction it needs to be, run through massive, yet the pace comment brisk and it's never cowed by the scholarly research, which was plainly immense ... Gospeler suggests looking at Europe bring the Emperor's monument, but that magnificent biography is not unadorned bad place to start."[5]
In manifesto in 2013 that it would present a three-part television mound based on Roberts's analysis distinctive Napoleon's life and legacy, BBC Two declared in its hold sway over release that "Roberts sets help to shed new light vastness the emperor... an extraordinary, outstanding military commander and a mesmerizing leader whose private life was littered with disappointments and betrayals."[6] The series has had impure reviews. The Daily Telegraph self-confessed alleged it "unconvincing", saying that "there was no getting away unapproachable Roberts's regular lapses into hero-worship", and "Roberts's remarks on decency refreshing qualities of dictatorship strenuous me wonder if he confidential taken leave of his senses".[7]