An account of the European wars during the rise and fall of Napoleon challenges popular conceptions about the notorious military figure's ambitions and achievements while posing an alternative view on the circumstances that motivated long-standing armed conflicts throughout Europe. 20,000 first printing.
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars.
Duffy, Austerlitz, p. 54. By 1 November, French estimates of Austrian losses totalled 64 300 men. See Colin and Alombert, Campagne, IV, pp. 399– 401. 32. For dispositions of La Grande Armée at this juncture consult Colin and Alombert, ...
General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon, a brilliantly written and researched study that turns our understanding of the French emperor on its head.
One of the leading voices on national-security issues in the US Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history.
Based on extensive research, and including twenty detailed maps, this study is unique in its focus on the wars of both the French Revolution and Napoleon. Owen Connelly expertly analyzes them both to provide a broader context for warfare.
A selection from the work the Economist has called “explanatory history of high order,” Napoleon: Ascent to Power offers a wide-ranging explanation of the circumstances that led the countries of Europe to fight each other so ferociously ...
Napoleonskrigene; Franske revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte, Statsdannelse, Europa;
The Napoleonic Wars
"Analyzes the strategic dimensions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, critiquing Napoleon's broader strategic weaknesses and looking holistically at the strategies of the leading belligerents from a global perspective"--
363–71; Bailey Stone, Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 170; Gilbert, 'The “New Diplomacy”', p. 278. On Ducher, see Frederick L. Nussbaum ...