Napoleon #1

Napoleon strides front and center on this sweeping cover by Fabrizio Fiorentino — saber drawn, French tricolor billowing behind him, soldiers pressing forward through the smoke and dust of battle while the Egyptian desert, camels, and the Sphinx loom on the horizon. It's a visually ambitious opening to this 2017 biographical series, capturing the dual theatres of Napoleon's ambition — European warfare and the legendary Egyptian campaign — in a single dramatic composition. A handsome start to what promises to be a grand historical portrait.