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A review by ameyawarde
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
4.0
I DID NOT REALIZE THIS (AUDIO)BOOK WAS ~32 HOURS LONG WHEN i STARTED IT. Oh man.
I usually avoid all forms of military history because I hate it and it's boring, but somehow almost all the books I have read in the last couple months have mentioned Napoleon in them, and I realized that I really didn't know but a few things about him/his life, really. So I got this in order to learn. And I certainly did, but wow it was so long. I really wish the Libby app made it easier to fast forward, because I would have FF through all the nearly blow-by-blow accounts of the battles, which I could not be less interested in. At the same time, I appreciated that this book, being the first one to use Napoleon's recently published papers, was able to argue against a lot of assumptions, lies and misinformation about napoleon's life. But I would definitely have appreciated a little more about his personal life and less about his battles.
I usually avoid all forms of military history because I hate it and it's boring, but somehow almost all the books I have read in the last couple months have mentioned Napoleon in them, and I realized that I really didn't know but a few things about him/his life, really. So I got this in order to learn. And I certainly did, but wow it was so long. I really wish the Libby app made it easier to fast forward, because I would have FF through all the nearly blow-by-blow accounts of the battles, which I could not be less interested in. At the same time, I appreciated that this book, being the first one to use Napoleon's recently published papers, was able to argue against a lot of assumptions, lies and misinformation about napoleon's life. But I would definitely have appreciated a little more about his personal life and less about his battles.