Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon 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 w...