Adam Zamoyski – Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (history)

Hard on the heels of Ridley Scott’s movie Napoleon, many scenes from which were filmed in Petworth House, Max Egremont interviews Adam Zamoyski, the author of Napoleon, a landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator? Adam Zamoyski argues he was none of these things. He was a man and, as Zamoyski presents him, a strangely ordinary one at that…

‘Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read’ Sir Antony Beevor

In conversation with Max Egremont