To which later in the book he adds: Though the immediate political ... biography is that of the age more than an account of Napoleon’s life, he does well setting Napoleon’s military ventures ...

Andrew Roberts is a British historian and journalist. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including Napoleon: A Life, which won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best biography.

On the other hand, in his analysis of Book II of the Gallic Wars, Napoleon totally misses the fact that Caesar’s near disaster against the Nervi and other Belgic tribes on the Sambre in 57 BC was due ...

Denon returned to France with Napoleon and quickly published a book with his descriptions and drawings, "Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt." That was not enough for Denon, though, who pushed for ...