The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as magnificent by The Economist .
Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context..
This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him.
Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve.
In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant.
The story of Napoleon has been written many times.
His downfall was no less dramatic.
Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history.
The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five.
Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander.
Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general.
What a novel my Life has been Napoleon once said of himself.
The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as magnificent by The Economist
