Napoleon the Great

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner! the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The Storm of War! which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph! Spectator! Literary Review! Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph. Klappentext From Andrew Roberts! author of the "Sunday Times" bestseller "The Storm of War"! this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind! the life! and the military and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler. This is the Napoleon! Roberts reminds us! whose peacetime activity produced countless indispensable civic innovations - and whose Napoleonic Code provided the blueprint for civil law systems still in use around the world today. It is one of the greatest lives in world history! which here has found its ideal biographer.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Roberts
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2014
• EAN: 9781846140273
• ISBN: 978-1-84614-027-3
• No. of pages: 936
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 59 mm
• Series: ALLEN LANE
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Napoleon I., Kaiser (Bonaparte), Europa : Geschichte, Frankreich; Geschichte, Französische Revolution