- Published: 29 January 1999
- ISBN: 9780712662475
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 768
- RRP: $45.00
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- Published: 29 January 1999
- ISBN: 9780712662475
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 768
- RRP: $45.00
One of the year's best biographies... A compelling portrait of one of history's greatest figures
Catherine Lockerbie, 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
Brendan Simms, 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
Alan Massie, 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
Colin Cardwell, Scotland on Sunday