Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal

A masterful biographer with a gift for capturing flawed heroes in all their vitality and self-delusion, Andrew Roberts invites us into the lives, loves, victories and crushing defeats of Napoleon's most elite warriors.

In the midst of the age of revolution, as Europe's monarchs combined forces in a bid to destroy France's radical republican government, a young Corsican artillery officer blazed a path onto the world stage. Bold, decisive, seemingly without fear or scruples, Napoleon Bonaparte...