Napoleon’s dazzling victories invited a devastating backlash
The second volume of Michael Broers’s biography covers the glory years of 1805–1810; but the triumphs contained within them the seeds of defeat

David Crane

"His business here is to understand Napoleon and not to judge. And if that sometimes makes him more charitable than he need always be — more tolerant of the imperial bling, the ludicrous titles and uniforms, the grubby divorce, the littering of the thrones of Europe with his wretched family, than his subject deserves — empathy, as in his first volume, never gets the better of his critical detachment. This is a biography to trust."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/napoleons-dazzling-victories-invited-a-devastating-backlash/