![]() ![]() In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe.Īfter seizing power in a coup d’etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. ![]() ‘A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge’ Simon Sebag Montefiore’Simply dynamite’ Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. ![]()
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