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...the third best Napoleon biography
>>25269107Name the first 2 faggot.
>>25269117- (You)- (OP)Oh wait you meant the books. 1: Castelot, 2:Gueniffey (still waiting for the sequel thoughbeit)
>>25269117See >>25269120Also BloyBainville
>>25269120>>25269676are you guys being fr or do you just want to hate on anything that's popular because im like a hundred pages through this book rn and i really liked it
>>25269757I'm the first anon (who recommend and Castelot and Gueniffey) and I'm being serious. Castelot is the greatest (only flaw being the fact that he really doesn't care about the battles themselves, and that it's pretty old so outdated in some parts) but it's only in French and it's very long (my edition which contains more chapters than the one on amazon is almost 4000 pages long) so you're good. Andrew Roberts is great and he seems much more passionate about the subject than many contemporary French authors. I would recommend Gueniffey over Roberts if it weren't for the fact that he hasn't finished it yet.I haven't read Bainville's yet (it's been sitting on my shelf for like 6 months) but if it's anything like his Histoire de France then you probably need to be acquainted with the subject first as it would gloss over many important events, and be a ardent French nationalist second and enjoy his ramblings about what it means to be French.Same thing for Bloy, it's a short mystic essay and you need to be acquainted with the subject first.Overall you chose the best for a non-French speaker who doesn't wanna commit to an autistically long biography (I would assume anyways, maybe there are better ones I haven't read). I actually read this one before Castelot and Gueniffey myself, and nothing stops from reading these after if you want to know more about Napoleon the man.
>>25269035This is a great book, don't listen to the nerds, OP.
>>25269757Third best for Napoleon biographies is pretty good
>>25269117Frank McLynn and J. Christopher Herold. Roberts is a very talented writer but it's pretty blatant hagiography.
>>25269035One of my favorite biographies. Made me a Napoleon shill.
