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A New York Times Notable Book Fair-minded and well written . . . McLynn sketches in context and milieu and, after a slow start, brings his subject to life. Napoleon's paradoxes, his extraordinary energy, his mercurial temperament all form part of a rounded and persuasive portrait. --New York Times Book Review Monumental . . . [and] clearly one of the most pleasurable [Napoleon biographies] to read . . . Using an interesting mixture of narrative and analysis, McLynn explores aspects of Napoleon's life often ignored by other authors. . . . What results is a less psychopathic, more human view of this much mythologized European. Strongly recommended for all collections. --Library Journal Extremely interesting . . . detailed and expansive. McLynn is much interested in the psychological compulsions and motivations underlying Napoleon's performance. --Raleigh News & Observer A well-researched, convincing portrait. --Publishers Weekly McLynn's study is for readers wanting a more in-depth analysis. . . . Written with great stylistic flourish, McLynn's full embrace of his subject's life, which benefits from exhaustive research resulting in a comprehensive picture of the Napoleonic era, is a rich reading experience. --Booklist Solidly crafted and seemingly balanced . . . Napoleon on the battlefield. Napoleon in the bedroom. Napoleon in spectacular triumph and shameful defeat--McLynn shows us all the countless Napoleons in their inexplicable inconsistency. --Book Magazine A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon. --The Times (London) One of the year's best biographies . . . A compelling portrait of one of history's greatest figures. --Scotsman McLynn writes with considerable verve: his pithy characterisations of Napoleon's subordinates, the alternating chapters of narrative and analysis, the dramatic set-pieces . . . all these combine to make his biography pleasurable and highly instructive to read. --Evening Standard McLynn offers an admirably clear narrative, neither adulatory nor debunking. He acknowledges and displays the extraordinary tale and does not hide the pettiness. --Daily Telegraph A robust, well-paced biography which pans confidently from the seventeen-year-old child educated by Jesuits to the ruins of the imperial grandeur and death by slow arsenic poisoning on a bleak St. Helena. --Scotland on Sunda

A New York Times Notable Book ""Fair-minded and well written . . . McLynn sketches in context and milieu and, after a slow start, brings his subject to life. Napoleon's paradoxes, his extraordinary energy, his mercurial temperament all form part of a rounded and persuasive portrait.""--New York Times Book Review ""Monumental . . . [and] clearly one of the most pleasurable [Napoleon biographies] to read . . . Using an interesting mixture of narrative and analysis, McLynn explores aspects of Napoleon's life often ignored by other authors. . . . What results is a less psychopathic, more human view of this much mythologized European. Strongly recommended for all collections.""--Library Journal ""Extremely interesting . . . detailed and expansive. McLynn is much interested in the psychological compulsions and motivations underlying Napoleon's performance.""--Raleigh News & Observer ""A well-researched, convincing portrait.""--Publishers Weekly ""McLynn's study is for readers wanting a more in-depth analysis. . . . Written with great stylistic flourish, McLynn's full embrace of his subject's life, which benefits from exhaustive research resulting in a comprehensive picture of the Napoleonic era, is a rich reading experience.""--Booklist ""Solidly crafted and seemingly balanced . . . Napoleon on the battlefield. Napoleon in the bedroom. Napoleon in spectacular triumph and shameful defeat--McLynn shows us all the countless Napoleons in their inexplicable inconsistency.""--Book Magazine ""A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon.""--The Times (London) ""One of the year's best biographies . . . A compelling portrait of one of history's greatest figures.""--Scotsman ""McLynn writes with considerable verve: his pithy characterisations of Napoleon's subordinates, the alternating chapters of narrative and analysis, the dramatic set-pieces . . . all these combine to make his biography pleasurable and highly instructive to read.""--Evening Standard ""McLynn offers an admirably clear narrative, neither adulatory nor debunking. He acknowledges and displays the extraordinary tale and does not hide the pettiness.""--Daily Telegraph ""A robust, well-paced biography which pans confidently from the seventeen-year-old child educated by Jesuits to the ruins of the imperial grandeur and death by slow arsenic poisoning on a bleak St. Helena.""--Scotland on Sunda

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Fair-minded and well written . . . McLynn sketches in context and milieu and, after a slow start, brings his subject to life. Napoleon's paradoxes, his extraordinary energy, his mercurial temperament all form part of a rounded and persuasive portrait. --The New York Times Monumental . . . [and] clearly one of the most pleasurable [Napoleon biographies] to read . . . Using an interesting mixture of narrative and analysis, McLynn explores aspects of Napoleon's life often ignored by other authors. . . . What results is a less psychopathic, more human view of this much mythologized European. Strongly recommended for all collections. --Library Journal Extremely interesting . . . detailed and expansive. McLynn is much interested in the psychological compulsions and motivations underlying Napoleon's performance. --Raleigh News & Observer A well-researched, convincing portrait. --Publishers Weekly McLynn's study is for readers wanting a more in-depth analysis. . . . Written with great stylistic flourish, McLynn's full embrace of his subject's life, which benefits from exhaustive research resulting in a comprehensive picture of the Napoleonic era, is a rich reading experience. --Booklist Solidly crafted and seemingly balanced . . . Napoleon on the battlefield. Napoleon in the bedroom. Napoleon in spectacular triumph and shameful defeat--McLynn shows us all the countless Napoleons in their inexplicable inconsistency. --Book Magazine A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon. --The Times (London) One of the year's best biographies . . . A compelling portrait of one of history's greatest figures. --Scotsman McLynn writes with considerable verve: his pithy characterisations of Napoleon's subordinates, the alternating chapters of narrative and analysis, the dramatic set-pieces . . . all these combine to make his biography pleasurable and highly instructive to read. --Evening Standard McLynn offers an admirably clear narrative, neither adulatory nor debunking. He acknowledges and displays the extraordinary tale and does not hide the pettiness. --Daily Telegraph A robust, well-paced biography which pans confidently from the seventeen-year-old child educated by Jesuits to the ruins of the imperial grandeur and death by slow arsenic poisoning on a bleak St. Helena .--Scotland on Sunday

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Frank McLynn was educated at Oxford and the University of London. A full-time writer, he won the 1985 Cheltenham Prize for Literature for The Jacobite Army in England, and is the author of a number of acclaimed biographies, including Richard and John: Kings at War; Villa and Zapata; 1066; and Heroes & Villains.

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