Napoleon's Army - Softcover

Rogers, H. C. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882547097 ISBN 13: 9780882547091

Publisher: Hippocrene Books, 1983

Synopsis

Many books have been written about Napoleon and his campaigns, but very little about the soldiers of his armies and of the organization and conditions under which they lived and served. In this classic study, now reissued in paperback, H.C.B. Rogers examines Napoleon's army in terms of its staff systems, its arms and its supporting services as it existed and changed during the long period that separated the battles of Valmy and Waterloo. This is not another history of Napoleon's campaigns. Apart from the brief narrative of the opening chapter designed to serve as an aide-memoire, military operations are only cited to illustrate organization, tactics, equipment and administration. The author seeks to show how, as Lord Wavell put it, Napoleon inspired 'a ragged, mutinous, half-starved army and made it fight as it did'.

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Review

A worm s eye view of the command structure, organisation and supply of the Grande Armee which Napoleon used so brilliantly to lay all Europe at his feet. Military historian Colonel H.C.B. Rogers painstakingly analyses the organisation, tactics, equipment and organisation of the French soldiers who enjoyed an almost uninterrupted train of triumphs from the cannonade at Valmy to the gates of Moscow. The author seeks to show how the military genius of Napoleon, and the system he presided over turned, in Lord Wavell s words A ragged, mutinous, half-starved army and made it fight as it did . --Naval and Military Press

About the Author

Colonel H.C.B. Rogers was a distinguished military historian and an expert on the campaigns and the armies that contested the Napoleonic Wars. His best-known books are The British Army in the Eighteenth Century, The Confederates and the Federals at War, Wellington's Army, Artillery Through the Ages, Weapons of the British Soldier and Tanks in Battle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882547097
• ISBN 13: 9780882547091
• Binding: Paperback