Adam Zamoyski will strip away the lacquer of prejudice and set Napoleon in the evolving context of his times: a young man in the 1790s entering a world at war, whose successes would embroil him in a struggle for supremacy and survival against European leaders spurred by self-interest and the lust for power. He will try to explain how Napoleone Buonaparte, the boy from Corsica, became ‘Napoleon’; how he achieved what he did, how he undid it, how it undid him.
Rather than glorify or condemn, let us seek to understand Napoleon’s extraordinary trajectory – from the inside.
Was he Great? Was he small?
Watch Adam Zamoyski and Andrew Roberts have it out.
DATE AND TIME
Wed 24 October 2018
18:45 – 20:00 BST
LOCATION
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4RL United Kingdom