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First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd, 2014

First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2014

Published in Penguin Books 2015

Copyright © 2014 by Andrew Roberts

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Map and Bonaparte family tree illustrations by John Gilkes

Other illustration credits appear here .

ISBN 978-0-698-17628-7

Cover design: Brianna Harden

Cover art: Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul , by Joseph-Marie Vien the Younger c. 1803, akgimages/Laurent Lecat

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