Is Philip Dwyer's biography the number 1 book on Napoleon?
really? none are better?
The consensus seems to be that Chandler's is the best one by far.
I haven't gotten a chance to go through it yet, but it gets a lot of praise here and elsewhere.
>>1054604
Also don't be shitty and be patient. This isn't /b/ we don't have millions of posters on every second of the day.
>>1054355
I haven't read it yet, but Andrew Robert's Napoleon: A Life is apparently up there.
Michael Broers new bio is good.
Georges Lefebvre old bio is great.
A new French bio "Bonaparte" by Patrice Gueniffey is excellent.
what's so good about dwyer's bio?
>>1055112
Well he's me mate. Dwyer is a modern historian who reasonably applies psycho history to an individual subject we are justly interested in.
>>1054355
Will Durant's ''The Age of Napeon'' from his Story of Civilisation collection is one of the greatest english book about him. Not only him but the entire 1789 - 1815 period.
But, Taine's ''Les Origines de la France contemporaine, V'' is really great too. There must be a lot of english translations.
Some contemporary french authors wrote about him too, such as Stendhal in his ''Life of Napoleon'' and Chateaubriand in ''About Buonaparte and the Bourbons.
>>1056321
The more contemporary it is, the purest it becomes
>>1054355
Chandler's is the best.
>>1055181
what does that even mean man
>>1054355
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts is the best, and most up to date.
>>1056321
Fuck off idiot.
>>1057057
have you read any others or are you just standing by this one because you dont want to feel like you wasted your money?
>>1058565
For the military side go with Chandler. Roberts is the best overall unless you want a synography.
