Bonaparte's Conquerors - Softcover

Howard, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751518131 ISBN 13: 9780751518139

Publisher: Sphere, 2000

Synopsis

Recalled to Paris for the first time in four years, Alain Lausard and his heroic cavalry unit look on as Bonaparte stages the coup d'etat that dissolves the existing regime. When the Corsican is appointed First Consul of the Republic, and his unit's stay in barracks becomes more prolonged, Lausard senses change in the air. With Bonaparte under pressure to make peace with the enemies of France, Lausard's dragoons are reduced to flushing out conspirators from the Paris gutters.
Bonaparte, however, heeds no man and assembles his massive field army in the first spring of the new century, and prepares to reclaim the territory lost in Italy. But as the French cavalry infantry and artillery emerge through the treacherous St. Bernard Pass across the Alps to meet the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo, Lausard's men face their most daunting challenge yet...

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Review:

The battles and skirmishes, which culminate in the Battle of Marengo, are well portrayed, with Howard's clear grasp of the strategies of the opposing generals transfering lucidly onto the page (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST)

As always there is bags of action, superb plotting and immaculate historical research. (NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE EVENING CHRONICLE)

Will appeal to those who derive both entertainment and interest from historical works...

Book Description:

* It complements Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Sharpe series, chronicling the Napoleonic era from the French perspective.
* The third in this exciting series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0751518131
• ISBN 13: 9780751518139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320