![]() ![]() ![]() In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful 'Empire style' in the arts. After seizing power in a coup d'état he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. ![]() Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. 'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefioreįrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. ![]()
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