Napoleon Bonaparte

Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds

Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene

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Napoleon sold short

On Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and the challenge of biopics

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A magisterial study of war and strategy

Jeremy Black deals a fatal blow to Napoleon’s reputation as a military genius

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The regal rise of le petit caporal

Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution

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Gods and monsters

Even in secular regimes, theology always has its revenge

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Germany in the shadow of Napoleon

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands

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The Napoleonic Wars

Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815

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Napoleon’s shifting reputation

Professor Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart about Napoleon’s reputation

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Napoleon Bonaparte: The man behind the myth

Olivia Hartley and Dr Arabella Byrne talk about Napoleon’s legacy and why the French love anniversaries

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Napoleon Bonaparte: A PR nightmare

On the bicentenary of his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains a curiously stubborn rampart of cultural history in France and beyond

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