Napoleon’s nest of vipers

Napoleon appointed a total of 26 Marshals between 1804 and 1815, and they became crucial to his military success. Yet only two of them fought alongside him at the Battle of Waterloo. Andrew Roberts sits down with Paul Lay to discuss his new book, ‘Napoleon and his Marshals’.

Image: Napoleon near Borodino, by Vasily Vereshchagin (1897). Credit: Wikimedia Commons