Perhaps my favorite one-volume Napoleon biography is J. Christopher Herold ... To which later in the book he adds: Though the immediate political effects of Napoleon’s action were favorable ...

He is the author of many acclaimed books, including Napoleon: A Life, which won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best biography. His new book is The Last King of America: The ...

On the other hand, in his analysis of Book II of the Gallic Wars, Napoleon totally misses the fact that Caesar’s near disaster against the Nervi and other Belgic tribes on the Sambre in 57 BC was due ...