{"product_id":"napoleon-a-life","title":"Napoleon A Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Storm of War\u003c\/i\u003e--winner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Andrew Roberts's \u003ci\u003eNapoleon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55363695083593,"sku":null,"price":28.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/14926753482426.jpg?v=1766446640","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/napoleon-a-life","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}