NAPOLEON THE GREAT

Book ID/图书代码： 02630512B54774

English Summary/英文概要： Although a vast amount of fine scholarship is being produced about every conceivable aspect of Napoleon’s life and career, there is still no outstanding single-volume modern biography. There are some that concentrate on his personality to the detriment of his soldiering, there are others that concentrate on his soldiering while down playing his political and administrative achievements, and there are plenty of second-rate, out-of-date or light-weight biographies, but the holy grail of a well-written, comprehensive, one-volume biography of the Emperor has not yet been found. Until now.

For historian Andrew Roberts, this is a period that has fascinated him ever since he was ten years old, and he has been reviewing Napoleonic books for the past fifteen years. As well as having been elected a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society, he is also vice-president of the Guild of Battlefield Guides, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Andrew is visiting 45 of Napoleon’s most important Russian, Czech, Polish, French, Egyptian, Italian and Austrian battlefields as well as St Helena, Elba, Corsica etc. as part of his research. Andrew’s last book, The Storm of War, won the British Army Military Book of the Year Award. There will also be a major BBC2 TV series coming out with the book’s publication.

Just as the world enters the huge, year-long bicentennial commemorations of Waterloo and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, there will at last be an accessible, definitive one-volume biography of one of the truly titanic figures in world history.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 纽约时报畅销作《战争风暴》的英国著名军事历史学家的一段关于一位伟大的政治军事天才的权威传记。
拿破仑在奥斯特利茨（捷克斯洛伐克中部一城市）,（俄罗斯）博罗季诺，（比利时镇）滑铁卢：他的这些光辉历史战记为世人所知，但波拿巴•拿破仑远非只是一个军事天才，和精明的政治领导人。像乔治•华盛顿，和他心中的英雄尤利乌斯•凯撒那样，他也是历史长河中一颗永不落的璀璨明星。
安德鲁•罗伯特的这部《拿破仑》传记利用最近公布的其三万三千封信汇集成篇，从中我们得以了解这位世纪伟人的性格和处世哲学。最后我们可以一探这位军事天才的另一面多才多艺，他的果敢和一心多用，惊奇其能对自己的敌人和迷失的妻子约瑟芬的宽容。像丘吉尔在自己的自传中叙述的那样，他们了解战略对于全局的重要性，从他的回忆录，在流亡孤岛圣赫勒拿的口述中，他便成为了19世纪最为风传的一部畅销书籍。
作为一位获奖历史学家，罗伯特前往拿破仑所参与的六十个战争地点，从而在案卷中发现了新的资料，作者本人甚至不屈舟车劳顿远至圣赫勒拿。他的精确阐释宛如对其军事历史的熟悉程度一样。书中而承载着一个具有价值意义的主题：由我们这个时代最为顶尖的历史学家用其所独有的权威性，富有深刻见解性的一段优美历史记录。(Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 安德鲁•罗伯茨，早年在剑桥大学学习近代历史，其关于哈利法克斯的传记《神圣之狐》（1991）以及随后的《杰出的丘吉尔家族》（1994）得到了评论界的一致好评。此外，他撰写的《维多利亚女王时代的泰坦》使他获得了沃尔夫森历史奖以及詹姆斯•斯特恩非小说银质奖。他的最新著作《拿破仑与威灵顿》多次印刷。他定期为《每日电讯》撰稿，其评论涉猎广泛。作为英国皇家文学协会的成员，他最近正在创作关于美国政治外交家基辛格博士的传记。

Andrew Roberts is a regular columnist for The Sunday Telegraph, reviews widely and broadcasts regularly on history and politics for BBC2 and Channel 4.

He was born in 1963 and gained a first in Modern History and an honorary senior scholarship at Cambridge University.

His career started in corporate finance with the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. However, he left after two years to become a leader writer at The Sunday Telegraph, as well as contributing leaders and articles to The Spectator. At this time he also wrote his first book – THE HOLY FOX: A BIOGRAPHY OF LORD HALIFAX (Viceroy of India & Conservative Foreign Secretary 1938-40) for which he gained excellent review coverage. Chosen by Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP as "Book of the Year", it was described by Philip Ziegler as "a biography of astonishing maturity and distinction", and Kenneth Rose wrote "Andrew Roberts has staked his claim to be more than a promising historian".

Between 1991 and 1994 he became political commentator for The Daily Mail and book reviewer for The Spectator and Sunday Telegraph. He also wrote his second book, EMINENT CHURCHILLIANS, in which he tackles six aspects of Churchilliana, uncovering a plethora of uncomfortable truths and offering an original and often disturbing analysis of Britain’s postwar decline. This further established him as a leading historian - "Not since AJP Taylor gave his legendary lectures...has an historical study given me such intellectual and aesthetic satisfaction", Independent on Sunday; "An elegantly written, thought-provoking book...an essential reappraisal of British myths since 1939", The Times.

Between 1996 and 1999 Andrew wrote a political column for The Sunday Times.

Andrew Roberts was commissioned by the Cecil family to write THE AUTHORISED LIFE OF ROBERT, THIRD MARQUIS OF SALISBURY (1830-1903), Conservative Prime Minister, which was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in September 1999 and won the Wolfson History Prize.

He has also written a novel, a political thriller about a totalitarian Europe of the future, entitled THE AACHEN MEMORANDUM (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1996). The book has been translated into several languages and has been staged as a play in Berlin.

Andrew’s dual biography NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2002 and HITLER AND CHURCHILL: SECRETS OF LEADERSHIP in 2003. THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES SINCE 1900 was published in Autumn 2006.

Andrew’s most recent books have been published by Penguin: MASTERS AND COMMANDERS: HOW CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, ALANBROOKE AND MARSHALL WON THE WAR IN THE WEST in September 2008 and THE STORM OF WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR on 6th August 2009.

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