Napoleon: the Spirit of the Age, 1805-1810
Michael Broers
Reviewed by Malcolm Crook is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Keele.

"This is the second, stunning installment of what will evidently constitute an outstanding three-volume biography of Napoleon, which explores the extraordinary feats of his central years in command....The greater part of this account comprises a brilliantly written narrative of campaigns and battles, as befits the main focus of this period: ‘Above all, this is a story of a general and his army, of their rampage across the old continent of Europe.’ ...Besides the military and personal dimensions, there is some superb discussion of the situations prevailing in Rome, Naples, Spain and Holland, which reveal an author consummately at ease in different locations, bestriding Europe like his great subject. By contrast there is relatively little on France and the French."

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