The first one-volume biography, created after the publication of more than thirty thousand letters by Napoleon Bonaparte—letters that forced historians to radically reconsider their views on his character and ambitions. At last, we see the great commander and statesman as he truly was: a many-sided man capable of solving numerous problems at once, with extraordinary determination—and yet with an astonishing willingness to forgive both his unfaithful wife Josephine and his political opponents, and even his enemies.