'A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon. ' The Times.
Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian, who specializes in biographies and military history. He has written over 20 books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon and Richard the Lionheart. Other books include 1066, Stanley, 1759, Marcus Aurelius and, most recently, The Road Not Taken- How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution. He is a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate.
One of the year's best biographies... A compelling portrait of one
of history's greatest figures
*Scotsman*
McLynn writes with considerable verve: his pithy characterisations
of Napoleon's subordinates, the alternating chapters of narrative
and analysis, the dramatic set-pieces...all these combine to make
his biography pleasurable and highly instructive to read
*Evening Standard*
McLynn offers an admirably clear narrative, neither adulatory nor
debunking. He acknowledges and displays the extraordinary tale and
does not hide the pettiness
*Daily Telegraph*
A robust, well-paced biography which pans confidently from the
seventeen-year-old child educated by Jesuits to the ruins of the
imperial grandeur and death by slow arsenic poisoning on a bleak St
Helena
*Scotland on Sunday*
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