One of the most famous historians in Europe wrote this short but exceptionally vivid biography of the great French strategist, commander and dictator, who managed to conquer almost all of Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. Although Bonaparte was in power for only a decade and a half, his influence on the future was felt until the end of the twentieth century, almost two hundred years after his death. The author consistently outlines the path of the great emperor from the moment of his birth in Corsica to his exile on the island of St. Helena, where Napoleon Bonaparte ingloriously ended his days in complete loneliness and oblivion.