Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy (Hambledon Continuum): Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy

Jonathon P. Riley

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Language: English

Published by Hambledon Continuum, 2007

1847251803 / 9781847251800

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Photos included in listing. About the book: 'In war, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or peril.' (Sun Tzu The Art of War). We speak of Caesar who conquered Gaul, not the legions; MacArthur who landed at Inchon, not the Marines - and we speak of Napoleon, one of history's most successful generals. Major General Jonathon Riley is supremely well qualified to write on Napoleon's generalship and has written an informed and insightful account. He opens with a short treatise on generalship in order to define Napoleon's achievement before moving on to the man himself. He examines Napoleon as a strategist; as a coalition commander; Napoleon's campaigns and Napoleon on the battlefield. Areas often ignored in the context of pre-industrial warfare - logistics and counter-insurgency - are also examined. Riley proceeds to three specific case studies beginning with Napoleon's first essay in generalship and the conquest of Piedmont; Napoleon at the height of his powers at the conquest of Prussia, to Napoleon's final defeats and the Battle of the Nations in 1813.…

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Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy (Hambledon Continuum): Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy
Author
Jonathon P. Riley
Publisher
Hambledon Continuum
Publication year
2007
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Fine
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Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
1847251803
ISBN 13
9781847251800
Item weight
500 grams
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