![]() ![]() But perhaps none has taken to the task with greater zeal than Andrew Roberts, the much-garlanded British historian, whose admiration for his subject infuses and enlivens this brilliant new biography. He may be the most written-about human being in history. Napoleon was a whirling dynamo whose ceaseless energy led Talleyrand, that wily old cynic, to laconically lament, “What a pity the man wasn’t lazy.” And the breathtaking arc of his career has attracted countless chroniclers since his death in 1821, aged just 51. Helena to ponder his battles, his imperial reign in France and his improbable rise from Corsican obscurity. He would have six years on the island of St. ![]() ‘Ah, if it were only to be done over again!” sighed Napoleon Bonaparte about the Battle of Waterloo as he sailed into exile and imprisonment. ![]()
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