We believe we understand the horror of slavery and the oppression of Africans. Brings to life one of history's great forgotten characters - Simon Sebag Montefiore We believe we know the glories of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. A triumph - Amanda Foreman Totally thrilling. Richly detailed, highly researched and completely absorbing. Dumas the novelist would be proud' Independent 'Brilliant' Glasgow Herald By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti to the Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto - Reiss, like the novelist before him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.
Alex Dumas was the stuff of legend' Daily Mail So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops called him? The Black Count uncovers what happened and the role Napoleon played in Dumas's downfall.
He achieved a giddy ascent from private in the Dragoons to the rank of general an outsider who had grown up among slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas's own father, Alex - the son of a marquis and a black slave. Salute and Brotherhood! ALEX.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013 'Completely absorbing' Amanda Foreman 'Enthralling' Guardian 'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course are fiction. I don’t wish any such observation on him, since he would have shit in his pants.
Dumas picked up his quill and wrote to Napoleon a letter of such fantastical insolence it would be cited in every historical account of him as an example of his legendary temper: JanuGENERAL, I have learned that the jack ass whose business it is to report to you upon the battle of the 27th stated that I stayed in observation throughout that battle. “It was no wonder, then, that Dumas lost his temper when he read the official report of the battle, compiled by Napoleon’s aide-de-camp General Berthier, and saw that his role had been diminished to one of “in observation at San Antonio.” Berthier did include a phrase about Dumas’s fighting the enemy “well,” but this did nothing to make Alex Dumas reconsider what he was about to write into the official military record of the Army of Italy.
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