Andrew Roberts: Napoleon and his marshals

Historian Andrew Roberts reveals a story of military greatness, vaulting ambition, rivalry, and destruction that speaks both to the struggles of Napoleon’s era and the challenges of leadership in our time.

In 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some of his most outstanding generals, who played leading roles in his extraordinary campaigns – including the brave Ney, the flamboyant Murat, the vain Massena, the iron Davout and the logistics master Berthier.

For all his inspiring qualities as a leader, he manipulated and controlled those whose loyalty he most needed to survive, and ultimately only two of them rode beside him at Waterloo.

Don’t miss this chance to hear the dramatic, hugely enjoyable story of these brilliant figures and their fiery relationships with their master.

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