Andrew Roberts — Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal - with Michael Bishop — at Conn Ave

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The award winning, New York Times bestselling author of Churchill vividly captures the team of rivals who propelled history's greatest warrior to victory. Napoleon appointed twenty six men Marshals of the Empire, a position he created to honor his most important Generals. He encouraged competition among them for titles, for wealth, but above all, for glory. Only instead of creating a team of rivals, as Lincoln so famously did, he forged a nest of vipers. A masterful biographer with a gift for capturing flawed heroes in all their vitality and self delusion, Andrew Roberts invites us into the lives and loves of these elite warriors, whose rivalries shaped the fate of Europe. The marshals were the swords behind Napoleon's throne. Their valor burnished his aura of invincib…

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