Napoleon & Wellington

This dual history sets Napoleon Bonaparte and Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, against each other as commanders and as personalities. Roberts follows each man from early campaigns through the wars that made them famous, then concentrates on their contrasting methods of command, politics, and self-presentation. The climax is the 1815 campaign in the Low Countries, treated as the only time the two faced one another in the field. The book compares strategy, logistics, and the use of allies rather than offering two separate full lives. It is a paired military and political study, not a novel.

Bound in metallic grey buckram, cover blocked with a black and silver design by Raquel Leis Allion.