title: Napoleon and Wellington
author:  Andrew Roberts 
description: Andrew Roberts took a first in Modern History at Cambridge. He has been a professional historian since the publication of his life of Lord Halifax , The Holy Fox, in 1991. He contributes regularly to the Sunday Telegraph. Lives in Knightsbridge, London, and has two children. His Salisbury won the Wolfson History Prize in 2000. He published Napoleon and Wellington in 2001.
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  ‘Andrew Roberts’s magisterial study… Roberts sets out to explore each man’s
  contrasting qualities and their opinion of each other. In the process he has
  uncovered a number of corporeal connections: some enchanting, some mysterious,
  and others unsavoury’
  
  
  ###### Roger Hutchinson, Scotsman
  
  
  ‘Andrew Roberts’ Napoleon and Wellington is lively and controversial, like all
  his writing, as well as being extremely readable’
  
  
  ###### Antonia Fraser, Irish Times
  
  
  ‘The sheer energy of Andrew Roberts is enough to make lesser historians weep…
  this sparkling, elegant study of Wellington and Napoleon… This book explores
  the relationship between two military heroes, two of the most famous opponents
  of history… It’s part comparative biography, part study of a rivalry. The
  thesis is that in spite of all their differences, Napoleon and Wellington were
  more alike than either they or their partisans cared to admit… Roberts has a
  good eye for detail and anecdote, a