Napoleon Dai De, the Vietnamese version of the book Napoleon: The Great, was written by British historian and journalist Andrew Roberts, was presented to the Vietnamese public in Hanoi on September 6 (Photos courtesy of organisers)Hanoi (VNA) -The Vietnamese version of the book Napoleon: The Great, a New York Timesbestseller written by veteran British historian and journalist Andrew Roberts,was presented to the Vietnamese public in Hanoi on September 6.
The book was translated from English into Vietnamese by Le Dinh Chi andpublished by Omega Vietnam Books. With more than 1,000 pages, it is believed tobe the best-ever book about Napoleon published in Vietnam.
“I dreamt of publishing this book in Vietnamese because I have deep admirationfor this great man and a great interest in French history,” Nguyen Canh Binh, Presidentof the book company, said.
“To write this book with more than 1,000 pages about this fascinating andmysterious personality, Andrew Roberts conducted more than 1,000 interviews,”he added.
The book is a definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman, written byRoberts, the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm ofWar -- winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography andthe Grand Prix of Foundation Napoleon.
Following years of study, including visits to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon’s 56battlefields, Andrew Roberts created a portrait of the mind, the life, themilitary and above all the political genius of a fundamentally constructiveruler.
The book is expected to satisfy the Vietnamese people, who are interested inhistory and in knowing more about the life of this emperor of France.Austerlitz, Borodino and the Waterloo battles are among the greatest inhistory, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and anastute leader of men.
Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of thegreatest soldier-statesmen of all times.
Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to makeuse of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters,which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation.
Through the book, readers see him for what he was: a protean multi-tasker,decisive and surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wifeJosephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of tellinghis own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became thesingle bestselling book of the nineteenth century.-VNA
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