Andrew Roberts @ 5x15 - Napoleon the great

Andrew Roberts has written or edited twelve books, and appears regularly on radio and television around the world. He has recently lectured at Yale, Princeton and Stanford Universities and at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He commentated for NBC on the Royal Wedding of Prince William William to Kate Middleton, following his well-received broadcasts at the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the wedding of Princes Charles to the Duchess of Cornwall.

[@charlybear98]

Napoleon Bonaparte was such a great man.

[@caidenkhari5756]

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[@adrianleandro4315]

@Caiden Khari definitely, have been using Flixzone for years myself :)

[@ridgespencer9671]

@Caiden Khari yea, I have been watching on flixzone for since november myself :D

[@henrydupont9181]

Thank you, just read the book, masterful. I loved, amongst many things the reference to Hegel at Jena.

[@Digmen1]

Why only 2,000 views? I really like watching and listening to Andrew, I have some of his books and have just ordered this book, but unfortunately the paper back as the hard back is very expensive and hard to get.

[@erikdb8917]

Napoleon the greatest 👍

[@Leopold5100]

yes, a fantastic book. just finished it and am now buying the hard cover version superb

[@neilpemberton5523]

I've just started reading the book, and I had to laugh out loud at the following about the 21 year old protagonist: " Napoleon spent fifteen months reworking his Corsican history, but he was unable to find a publisher." 😄

[@drstrangelove9455]

In his bio of Napoleon, Roberts notes that Napoleon was skeptical of religion and even questioned if Jesus ever existed. Napoleon said to his secretary on St Helena that "I thought that no contemporary historian has ever mentioned him (Jesus)." Roberts then says Napoleon must have been unaware that Josephus mentioned Jesus in his history of the Jews. (Napoleon, A Life. p. 271) Sorry Mr. ROberts but Josephus was NOT a contemporary of Jesus. It is a common mistake, Many forget that Jesus was long since dead by the time Josephus came along!! So Napoleon was right: NO CONTEMPORARY historian had noted Jesus existed at least as of today's body of evidence.

[@ManForToday]

This is just pathetic anti-Christian revisionism. Even the most sceptical and unbelieving scholars accept the historicity of Jesus's existence and basic life based on a variety of sources. The historical evidence and manuscripts pertaining to Jesus is more than any ancient figure in history. If you're so specifically sceptical in this one instance (can't imagine why...) then you'd have to be sceptical about all the others.

[@Notteriva]

Andrew Roberts
His biography of Napoleon is essentially a ridiculous attempt to exalt
Wellington and the British troops. There are numerous errors typical of
English falsehoods when talking about Napoleon.

[@neilpemberton5523]

Can you provide a good reference to expand on that?

[@Notteriva]

@@neilpemberton5523 Read the book

[@neilpemberton5523]

@@Notteriva I am reading the book. How am I to know the errors and falsehoods unless someone knowing the subject better than me points them out? Thanks for nothing, so far at least.....

[@Notteriva]

@@neilpemberton5523 I don't know what you want to know, since you are reading the book. If you don't understand it or you don't understand what I wrote, it's your problem. The author, whenever he speaks of Wellington or British troops, simply forget to be a historian and becomes a propagandist. If you don't realize it, I repeat, it's your own text understanding problem.

[@robertswanson2417]

@@NotterivaYou make no sense.