This is an account and detailed analysis of the military career of Napoleon: the descriptions of the battles – all the important ones – and all augmented by superb position maps.
About the author:
David Chandler is a British and New American popular and esteemed author. He was awarded two medals: the Gold Cross of Merit of Poland (1979) and the British ' National Service, 1939 – 1960'. Oxford University awarded him the prestigious and rare Doctorate of Letters (D. Litt. in 1991, only five having been rewarded for military history since 1900). He has held three Visiting Professorships in the USA – at Ohio State (1970), at the VMI (1988) and US Marine Corps University (1991). He is highly respected in England, USA, Italy and Russia for military history. For six years he was appointed a Trustee of the Royal Armories of HM Tower of London and Leeds. He is deeply involved into military re-enactments and is a Hon. President of three British and European organizations.
The Campaigns of Napoleon
Author(s) : CHANDLER David
- Year of publication :
- 1973
- Place and publisher :
- Princeton; Scribner
- Number of pages :
- 1172