Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

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Six years after the death of Napoleon, Sir Walter Scott wrote the first, hugely successful biography of Napoleon that riveted Britain and the continent and led to him being challenged to a duel by former Napoleon generals. It was probably the first book ever to be extracted in a newspaper. Scott's bracing but fair portrait of his contemporary inspired a new wave of historians to engage with history in a way that we now recognise as modern. Originally a sprawling work of over 1 million words, Dr Michaelis has edited the original text down to create a fresh, succinct contemporary portrait that will rivet the modern enthusiast and scholar. Based on Scott's tour of European battle sites and access to secret Foreign Office records, his is also a lost, pre-nation state snapshot of a Europe that was still a patchwork of different local cultures, cities and regions and sensitivities.

Walter Scott and Napoleon were born two years apart on 15 August (1771 and 1796 respectively). Napoleon single-handedly created modern warfare, but Scott did the same for adventure stories and modern history. He lived in Scotland and was regularly paid US$ 1.5 million per book with books being translated simultaneously in many languages.