I apologize for going into the weeds on you but...
I just completed a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel called Uncle Bernac. It's short and quite excellent. Read it if you can. It discusses Napolean in great detail... you'd swaer you are reading about #Putin, #Trump, #Hitler... you get the point.
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Uncle_Bernac