napoleon a life in gardens and shadows

An elegant prose stylist Scurr is above all a fabulous historian and a vivid storyteller with a novelists eye for engaging detail. A Life in Gardens and Shadows is history at its most enjoyable a discursive ramble along its edges away from matters of power and into its byways.

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In fact he unleashed an era of destruction and war causing millions of deaths across EuropeIn this innovative biography as uniquely fitting its subject as Ruth Scurrs applauded portraits of.

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Historian biographer and literary critic Ruth Scurr throws new light on the life and character of Naopleon by looking at his love of nature and gardens. In this innovative biography as uniquely fitting its subject as Ruth Scurrs applauded portraits of Robespierre and John Aubrey Napoleon emerges a giant figure made human seen through the. Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive Simon Schama Financial Times A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time exploring his love of nature and the.

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Building a cumulative panorama she offers indelible portraits of Augustin Bon Joseph de Robespierre the younger brother of Maximilien Robespierre who used his position to advance.

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