The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders
Philip Dwyer studied in Perth (Australia), Berlin and Paris, where he was a student of France’s pre-eminent Napoleonic scholar, Jean Tulard. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, and is Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Remarkable ... a satisfying, psychologically convincing account ...
Even-handed and authoritative, this fascinating and highly
enjoyable book will be an eye opener even to those who think they
know the subject well
*Sunday Times*
The work that Dwyer was placed on earth to write ... We are clearly
in the presence of what will be a monumental work ... meticulously
researched and well-written
*Literary Review*
A very fine book, which explains Napoleon’s extraordinary rise to
power and equally meteoric fall, with great erudition, skill and
verve
*Spectator*
Exemplary scholarship ... A book of meticulous research and
beautifully detailed descriptions of Napoleon’s military
adventures, brings home the full horrific cost of the march on
Russia
*New Statesman*
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