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The Campaigns of Napoleon

by David G. Chandler

Napoleon’s campaigns and the making of his art of war

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    Called “a fine book” by The New York Review of Books

    The New York Review of Books calls it “a fine book for the historian, the student, and the intelligent reader.”

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Napoleon’s campaigns and the making of his art of war

David G. Chandler examines Napoleon’s military strategy through the major campaigns of his career, tracing its development alongside the victories and eventual downfall it helped shape. The book places those campaigns in the shifting, complex conditions of Napoleonic warfare and considers how Napoleon’s approach differed from the expectations of his opponents. Its subject is both the conduct of particular campaigns and the evolution of a military method: how strategy was developed, applied, and tested in conflict.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a historical study of the Napoleonic Wars and Napoleon’s major campaigns.
  • Readers interested in military strategy and the development of Napoleon’s approach to warfare.

Themes

Napoleonic WarsMilitary strategyNapoleon’s campaignsVictory and downfall

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Book overview

In this "engrossing," (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories--and to his ultimate downfall.

Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex--an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat.

The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'op
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