Dimensions
127 x 195 x 41mm
Napoleon Bonaparte has been too often the victim of biographical exuberance, a satanic revisionism that treats him either as a demi-god or as devil incarnate. But in this major new two-volume biography, Robert Asrepy has preferred to treat him as a human being - as a child, a man, a general, a lover, a husband, a king, an emperor, a father, a conqueror, a statesman and, finally, a prisoner.
This first volume chronicles the beginning of this most extraordinary of lives, from Napoleon's birth in 1769 to the historic Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, when he brilliantly defeated the Austro-Russian armies.
