![]() ![]() ![]() Six years later, already a national hero after a brilliant campaign in Italy, he engineered a coup that made him dictator. He fled to France in 1793, a penniless but fiercely ambitious artillery captain. An obscure officer when the revolution broke out in 1789, he left his post to spend most of those years in a complex factional struggle in Corsica, which he ultimately lost. Entirely conventional and mostly admiring, it fills no great need, but few readers will complain.Īfter his early years in the backwater of Corsica, Napoleon’s influential father sent him to France at the age of 9 to learn French and be educated in an elite military academy. More books have been written with Napoleon (1769-1821) in the title than there have been days since his death, writes prolific historian and Napoleonic Institute fellow Roberts ( The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, 2011, etc.) in this 800-page doorstop. ![]()
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