Andrew Roberts' big, meticulously researched and very readable Napoleon: A Life is aimed at the general reader, but will appeal particularly to those who already know the essentials of his story.

This Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ 1804 portrait of Napoleon shows him as a civilian officer instead of an invading hero. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, France “Ah, if it were only to be done over ...

As an exemplary military leader and self-crowned emperor, Napoleon capitalized on his mastery of manipulating traditional media, says Forrest, director of the Centre for 18th Century Studies in ...

Biographie des premières années de Napoléon Bonaparte : c'est-à-dire depuis sa naissance jusqu'à l'époque de son commandement en chef de l'armée d'Italie... . Tome 2 / par M. le Bon de Coston,... Date ...

Broers’ Napoleon is not a great battlefield general although his ability to motivate men in battle or rally the masses back in Paris is unquestioned. His Egyptian campaign (Napoleon still was in his ...

A few pages into “Napoleon: A Life,” historian Andrew Roberts notes that the great general regarded himself as “of the race that founds empires.” How odd that sounds to modern ears. Of course, in the ...

When it comes to battle tactics, Napoleon Bonaparte (as played by Joaquin Phoenix) is very gun forward. There are few conflicts he marches into that don’t involve the firing of many cannons, an ...