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Chosen as Book of the Year by:
John Crossland, Sunday Times
Sarah Bradford, Independent
Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
Eric Jacobs, The Times
Nicholas Fearn, Independent on Sunday
Melvyn Bragg, BBC History Magazine
Antonia Fraser, Irish Times
Iain Duncan Smith, Sunday Telegraph
Paul Johnson, Sunday Telegraph
Peter Lewis, Daily Mail
Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph
'Andrew Roberts' excellent book strips away the clichéd
public statements and looks at the real relationship between
the two greatest commanders of their age. It is a fascinating
tale. The core of this splendid and thoughtful book is ultimately
his judgment on the two men and their record.'
David Chandler RUSI
Journal
'Andrew Roberts, the political biographer
whose life of Lord Salisbury won him the Wolfson Prize for
1999, now brings the same qualities of insight and judgment
to the field of military history.'
Correlli Barnett The
Sunday Telegraph
'It is one of Andrew Roberts's merits that,
as well as being intelligent, hard-working and opinionated,
he gets great fun out of his writing. His books are consequently
not only genuinely important but also a pleasure to read.'
Philip Ziegler The Daily
Telegraph
'Andrew Roberts has entered the lists of
Napoleonic historians, tilted at champions and sent many away
with bruised and broken bones. Some of them may never recover.'
Allan Mallinson The
Times
'Well written and well organised, his study
of the relationship between the emperor and the Duke of Wellington
is as entertaining as it is instructive, and is original and
judicious both as military and personal history.'
Christopher Hibbert The
Sunday Times
'Roberts does his best throughout this thoughtful
and absorbing book to hold the balance between his protagonists
both as soldiers and men.'
John Spurling The Times
Literary Supplement
'He writes so well that his new book will
find a ready audience among admirers of both his protagonists.'
Max Hastings The Evening
Standard
'Roberts has assembled a rare wealth of
material, and his love for his venture is evident.'
George Lucas The Financial
Times
'The book is thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully
written and meticulously researched.'
Jason Bourke The Observer
'This is narrative history, readable, well-researched
and lively as dry
champagne.'
Jane Ridley The Spectator
'Andrew Roberts may remind one of the young
Bonaparte - only wielding a pen rather than a cannon.'
Claus von Bulow The
Literary Review
'A must-have for anyone interested in Napoleonic
history, Napoleon and Wellington is an easy read, containing
a wealth of information. Highly recommended, this work is
destined to become a classic.'
The Napoleonic Alliance
Gazette
'Roberts sets out to explore each man's contrasting qualities
and their opinion of each other. In the process he has uncovered
a number of corporeal connections: some enchanting, some mysterious,
and others unsavoury.'
Roger Hutchinson, The
Scotsman
'Roberts offers a master class in how to
write a historical magnum opus; filled with anecdotes and
observations to inform and entertain the general reader, yet
with the structure and academic rigour to satisfy the most
demanding Napoleonic scholar . intellectual tour de force.'
Frank Harris Waterstone's
Quarterly
'What Mr Roberts has done so admirably is
uncover the human responses between two men who might otherwise
be just dry political or military figures, and he has added
a new and valuable dimension to our understanding of the Napoleonic
age in doing so.'
Simon Heffer Country
Life
'This brilliant double portrait.'
Philip Mansel The Mail
on Sunday
'History
has just replaced cooking and gardening as the sexiest and
most bankable contemporary subject in publishing. If that
is so, the prolific and consistently brilliant historian Andrew
Roberts must take much of the credit.'
Robert Beaumont The
Yorkshire Post
'Roberts has done the study of the Napoleonic
era a tremendous amount of good by opening up the minds of
the rivals to public gaze. It is true to say that having read
'Napoleon and Wellington', you will look at the great struggle
in a very different light.'
Richard Moore The Napoleonic
Guide
Andrew Roberts's 'Napoleon and Wellington'
draws us right into the minds of two of the world's greatest
generals. Roberts is an excellent non-academic historian.'
Melvyn Bragg BBC History
Magazine Books of the Year
'Andrew Roberts has given us a double biography, written with
tremendous pace and verve.'
Desmond Seward BBC History
Magazine
'Truly a brilliant work, sparkling with
the reflected fascination of the
subject interspersed with the judicious comments of the author.'
Jeremy Black History
Today
'Roberts gives his reader a wonderful account
of a relationship that
occurred in two men's heads.'
Timothy Wilson-Smith
The Tablet
'In Roberts' sensitive hands the two men
come fully alive, along with their campaigns and their battles.
He understands military matters as he does human - a rare
accomplishment.'
Eric Jacobs Broadway
Ham and High
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REVIEWS
OF THE AMERICAN EDITION,
‘THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO AND THE GREAT COMMANDERS
WHO FOUGHT IT’
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'Andrew
Roberts has justly made a reputation for himself as one of
today’s leading young British historians, the author
of biographies of Lord Salisbury and Lord Halifax. Now one
feels Mr Roberts is enjoying the repos du guérrier,
and he shares his enjoyment most pleasurably with the reader.’
Alistair
Horne The Wall Street Journal
‘What
Roberts has delivered is a thoughtful, witty and authoritative
study that focuses on the relationship between the two great
soldiers and how they regarded each other, as soldiers and
as men.’
Richard
Pearson, The Washington Post
‘Roberts
is an excellent writer, with a thorough knowledge of the mass
of literature pertinent to his difficult subject. His understanding
is as good as his knowledge.’
John
Lukacs The Los Angeles Times
‘Roberts,
one of Britain’s most talented and stylish young historians
has written a brilliant work.’
Benjamin
Schwarz The Atlantic Monthly
‘Roberts’
subtle comparisons [of Wellington] with the more mercurial,
exciting – and less moral – Napoleon achieve their
affect.’
Benjamin
Schwarz The New Criterion
‘Readers
interested in the rivalries of the period will find it thoroughly
absorbing.’
Publishers
Weekly
‘The
shelves groan complainingly with studies of the Iron Duke
and the Little Corporal. Room should be found for this one.’
Kirkus
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