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Author:  Frank Mclynn

Overview: 

This acclaimed biography of one history's great figures—called "monumental" (Library Journal), "brilliant" (Times, London) and "a rounded and persuasive portrait" (New York Times)—is now available in a new edition.


The character and accomplishments of Napoleon Bonaparte have long divided analysts and pundits. Frank McLynn has drawn on extensive research and the most recent scholarship in this riveting biography to shed shining light on this most paradoxical of men—as military leader, lover, and emperor.
Napoleon's extraordinary career is traced by McLynn from his Corsican roots to his coronation in 1804, through the chaotic years of the French Revolution and his extraordinary military triumphs, to his fateful decision in 1812 to add Russia to his seemingly endless conquests, and his ultimate defeat, imprisonment, and death on Saint Helena.McLynn beautifully illustrates the extent to which Napoleon was both existential hero and plaything of Fate; mathematician and mystic; intellectual giant and moral pygmy; Great Man and horribly damaged human being.