The French Revolution in the 18th century saw the downfall of the French monarchy and the ascension of a prominent figure who played a major role in shaping modern European history. The abolishment of ...

This Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ 1804 portrait of Napoleon shows him as a civilian officer instead of an invading hero. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, France “Ah, if it were only to be done over ...

Andrew Roberts' big, meticulously researched and very readable Napoleon: A Life is aimed at the general reader, but will appeal particularly to those who already know the essentials of his story.

IF THE tremendous accumulation of books about Napoleon seems an argument against reading another, it is an even stronger argument against writing one. Emil Ludwig’s “Napoleon, the Man of Destiny” is a ...

David A. Bell, Napoleon: A Concise Biography (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 152 pp., $18.95. Michael Broers, Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny (New ...

Let’s get this out of the way up front: Napoleon Bonaparte was not short. Most contemporary sources put him at about 5-foot-6, typical of the average 19 th-century Frenchman. He earned that apocryphal ...

From his disastrous invasion of Russia to his infamous defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall – and final years spent in exile – are the stuff of legend. In the second part of our series ...