Napoleon Bonaparte has been too often the victim of biographical revisionism that treats him either as a demi-god or as devil incarnate. In the first of this monumental two-volume biography, Robert Asprey has preferred to treat him as a human being, chronicling the beginning of this most extraordinary of lives, from his birth in 1769 to the historic Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, when he brilliantly defeated the Austro-Russian armies.
Based on years of research, Robert Asprey tells this remarkable tale with the even-handedness such a major historical figure deserves, presenting him as he was – a man dedicated to his vision of himself and his empire.