In his new novel, Edward Radzinsky never ceases to amaze us with incredible historical facts. The novel is written in the form of notes from Emperor Napoleon, dictated by him to his secretary on the island of St. Helena. In them, the emperor spoke about his childhood and the beginning of his military career, victorious battles and love adventures, about the path to power - first in France, then in Europe... But was the emperor completely truthful? And why did he dictate his notes - for himself, for posterity... or for a completely different purpose? A new, completely unexpected version of the life and death of the great Napoleon Bonaparte is in the novel “Napoleon: Life After Death.” A new book by Edward Radzinsky from the famous series of historical studies about great rulers. The books “Nicholas II” and “Stalin” occupied first places among bestsellers for a long time. And now these books are of keen interest to both the younger and older generations, they are still read and are in incredible demand. The defeats of Napoleon, the Emperor of France, were forgotten - only victories remained. And although he failed to enter the host of immortals as the ruler of the greatest empire, he entered it much more firmly - as a genius and sufferer. And his old enemy Chateaubriand was forced to write: “This is Charlemagne and Alexander the Great, as the ancient epics portrayed them. This fantastic hero will remain now, after the death of the emperor, the only real one...”