Victory

The early days of the Grand Armee was hugely successful. Napoleon’s military strategy was impeccable. Together Napoleon and his Marshals triumphed.

But already Napoleon was beginning to undermine his own meritocracy with favouritism and disgrace.

Written by Andrew Roberts
Read by Ben Cura
Producer Lu Kemp

Andrew Roberts (Lord Roberts of Belgravia) is an award-winning historian whose prize-winning books include Salisbury, Masters and Commanders, The Storm of War, Napoleon the Great, George III and Churchill: Walking with Destiny. An Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College, London.