Napoleon

Résumé : Could a novelist have invented Napoleon ? The answer is no. Only life itself could create a figure so extraordinary - a career so apparently impossible. Emil Ludwig has done what virtually no biographer before him has done - he has written the life of Napoleon, as the romance, almost the fantasy that it is. He has seen the tragedy, the inner drama, of Napoleon's torn life. He has understood the true meaning of the phrase "the man of destiny". For the fulfillment of "his destiny" Napoleon sacrified love, happiness and peace, only to be discarded when Destiny had accomplished its will. In the telling of this story, the historical figure has been completed by this true rendition of its humanity. Every detail, every fact is documented and critics who have marveled at the powerful fascination of this book have also marveled at the depth and the breadth of its scholarship.