Friday, February 20, 2015
Book Review: Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts
There are few, if any, people about whom more books have been written
than Napoleon Bonaparte. Given the man's appropriately lauded
sociopolitical and legal achievements contrasted against the nearly
unimaginable brutality of the wars bearing his name, unsurprisingly
Napoleon's myriad biographers are divided between admirers and
detractors, the latter outnumbering the former. However, Andrew Roberts'
book, Napoleon: A Life, places the author firmly among Napoleon's
devotees. The linchpin of this book, as stated on its jacket, is that
Roberts "take[s] advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's
thirty-three thousand surviving letters, which radically transform our
understanding of his character and motivation." Roberts interweaves his
subject's vast written commentary covering the entire spectrum from
mundane to meaningful against the backdrop of Napoleon's improbable rise
and meteoric collapse as militarist and politician in a short life that
still resonates loudly in our world today. Roberts paints the end of
Napoleon's career as attributable less to a clearly flawed character
than to trusting the wrong people and fighting the wrong battles badly.
("When Waterloo is war-gamed, France usually wins," says a footnote on
page 766.) Either way, the result reduced Napoleon from Emperor of
France and ruler of nearly all Europe to Britain's lonely prisoner, left
to die an outcast on a barren, isolated volcanic rock in the South
Atlantic, light years from Paris.
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