Napoleon: The decline and fall of an empire, 1811-1821 Michael Broers

REVIEW BY ANDRÉ VAN LOON Napoleon: the decline and fall of an empire is the compelling, if partial, closing volume of Michael Broers’ Napoleon trilogy. It marks the end of more than a decade of Napoleon-centred writing for Broers, Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the period or person. After Napoleon: soldier of destiny, narrating origins and first power grabs, and Napoleon: the spirit of the age, covering the exercise of European domination, this third volume takes us through the horrors of the 1812 invasion of Russia, the ruthless repression of Napoleon’s ability to fight by ever more united allies,