Napoleon by Frank McLynn

This is the best and most balanced biography of Napoleon I have read so far. It contains much excellent scholarship and critical commentary; however, it also contains a lot of amateur Freudian analysis that is pure rubbish. While I am neither a warmonger nor an imperialist, I find it hard to read a biography of Napoleon without rooting for him. For all his faults–and this book discusses them in detail–he remains the outstanding military leader of the gunpowder age.

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