Napoleon Bonaparte in the uniform of Colonel of Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard

A New Biography Reveals A Hidden Story In the Life of Napoleon

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 24, 2014

Napoleon Bonaparte understood the strategic importance of telling his own story; his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century. Yet his thirty-three thousand letters were published only recently, and Andrew Roberts's new biography, Napoleon: A Life, is the first to take advantage of them, revealing Napoleon’s layers of complexity and uncovering parts of his character and motivation that were previously misunderstood.

Napoleon: A Life

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