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By Raymond Hewitt
A real page turner & great introduction to the life & times of Napoleon Bonaparte. Very definite account, thoroughly researched & referenced. Although Andrew Roberts may be biased towards Napoleon, controversial & unsettling events during the period are dealt with in a balanced approach. Ultimately, a fair & balanced account of a very unique period of human history. Chapters are set-pieces, almost stand alone segments, for a reader who may want to specialise in a specific area they are a great starting point.For the general reader & specialist, a masterly & epic account of Europe's greatest tactician since Julius Caesar.
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By Andrew Yale
History writing at its very best. What I loved about the book was the historical detail and the fact Mr Roberts had been to so many of the places that mattered in Napoleon's life.
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By Yehezkel Dror
Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New EpochReading this book as a case study of leadership, historic processes and their intersections, the following lessons emerge:On leadership, Napoleon was unique, far above accepted classifications, such as "transformative leadership." He is a prime example of what I call in my recent book "prototype avant-garde politician." "He had transformed the art of leadership" (p. 802). However Napoleon, as some other history-swerving political leaders (and other types of "future makers") should be viewed as a "mutant": what made him uniquely "great" cannot be learned, such as outstanding multitasking and a unique combination between radically innovative generalship and revolutionary enlightenment reforms.Still, many useful lessons on leadership are provided by Napoleon, such as: reading a lot in history and political philosophy, being very inquisitive, hard-working, insisting on meritocracy, being interested in science and a patron of art, and relating personally to subordinates.Not less so, many lessons on what to avoid are provided by Napoleon's persistent errors, such as nepotism and engaging too much in micromanagement. Striking is the strange combination between interest in science and gross neglect of its military uses.Thus, he disbanded the military balloonist unit (p. 795, note) and did not develop a rockets capacity, despite their proved efficacy when used by the British (p. 682). This may well show that his interest in science was not profound.More important are two fundamental flaws which led to his ultimate personal failure: (1) Napoleon misread a critical feature of reality, namely Great Britain and its strength; and (2) he did not knowing when to stop, refusing reasonable peace opportunities, such as at the Congress of Prague (after his retreat from Russia) - apparently because of self-conceited imagining himself as a new Caesar (who was his main role model) . As stated in the text "... almost every other statesman of the day would have agreed to [the] terms. But the Emperor of France, the heir to Caesar and Alexander, simply could not bring himself to accept what he saw as a humiliating peace." (p. 661).On historic processes: Napoleon's career demonstrates the critical role of various forms of "luck," much more so than implied in the view of history as "contingent," or the treatment of Fortuna by Machiavelli. The author provides some examples (p. 269), but much more was at stake: All of his becoming Emperor was a result of counter-probabilistic chains of events, starting with the match between his basic traits and the situation into which he was born (fitting the contingency theory of leadership.On the intersection between leadership and historic processes: Napoleon was clearly a "Hero" impacting strongly on the future of Europe and beyond, being not only the last but the most important of the Enlightenment absolutist beneficent rulers (pp. 527-528). As put by the author "To large numbers of people across Europe Napoleon seemed to represent the ideas of progress, meritocracy and a rational future" (p. 529). And British historian H. A. L. Fisher was right in judging, as quoted in the book, that "Napoleon`s Empire shattered the obdurate crust of habit and substituted wide ideas...for narrow, slovenly, lethargic provincialism." (pp. 527-518).Given the many merits of this book, still it does not succeed to "re-enact history," as proposed by the philosopher of history R. G. Collingwood. Despite extensive reliance on letters by Napoleon no real insights into his mind are arrived at. Shorter discussion of the battles (from which no valid lessons for modern military affairs can be drawn), and more concentration on the interiority of Napoleon would have made the book more interesting, at least for me.As it is, the book makes good reading on a "grand adventure" and an important historic episode. But its lessons on leadership and the processes of history could have been better presented in 400 instead of 810 pages of text.Professor Yehezkel DrorThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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