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by David Chandler (Author)
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  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd; New Ed edition (21 July 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 186227195X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862271951
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 15.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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This is a detailed analysis of the Duke of Marlborough as a commander set in the context of the military realities of the eighteenth century. It includes details of the Battle of Sedgemoor, Marlborough's first engagement in which he played a leading role and a description of the art of war at that time including movement, support and armament of field forces, together with a discussion of formalized patterns of attack and defence in the sieges. It also explores continental campaigns: Donauworth, Hochstadt, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet.

About the Author

(Location: Yateley, Hants) Dr David Chandler, previously Head of the Department of War Studies at the R.M.A. Sandhurst, has published 20 books on the 17th, 18th and 19th century warfare and is the leading world authority in these fields.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Best work on Marlborough around methinks, but a tad slow, 25 Mar 2001
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This review is from: Marlborough as Military Commander (Penguin Classic Military History) (Paperback)
The Duke of Marlborough is undoubtedly one of the top five military leaders Britain has ever produced (as to others, I'd say Nelson, Wellington, Cromwell, Richard the Lionheart, but there are other claimants)

Having said that, there is a bit of a dearth of material on him currently available. The War of the Spanish Succession, where Marlborough was able to strut his not-inconsiderable stuff, does not fire the public imagination today like the Napoleonic era, or the 45 or even the Hundred Years War. It seems a very distant conflict played out with arcane rules of engagement.

Nevertheless Chandler, the heavyweight of British military history, starts off at a blinding pace with a potted history of Marlborough as a young man, surviving, plotting and generally having a whale of a time in the late Stuart court, rising as the Duke of York's favourite. (He even manages a couple of good jokes. Chandler that is.)

Then it all gets rather bogged down. There is a necessary - but rather clunky - chapter on "The Art of War" and by the time we get to campaigns in Flanders, the lightness of touch that the book started with is a distant memory. Keep a good map of Belgium by you and read slowly if you want to make sense of what is going on. (This book - a tiddly 335 pages - has taken me two weeks to read!)

The Eighteenth century mode of warfare does lend itself to slow, indecisive manouveres (which is why the Revolutionary French armies had such fun with such organised forces at the end of the century) so maybe a slow narrative is fairly inevitable. But the recently published "Crucible of War" - on the Seven Years War - shows that the juxtaposition of politics and Eighteenthy century war can be fascinating.

This book was first published in the early seventies when military history was, perhaps, destined for a narrower readership (pre 'Stalingrad' and all those TV programmes about History and war) therefore Chandler can make statements like 'the details of the battle of Sedgemoor are well-known and need not trouble us here'. Er....no, actually they're not, so please trouble away.

At the end of it, I certainly felt I knew a lot more about Marlborough and why he was successful. This is not the paciest piece of military history, but patience is rewarded.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Chandler's Magnum Opus, 29 Aug 2004
The classic study of Marlborough's campaigns - clear and well written. Prof Chandler is the foremost authority on the great man - if the book is a bit of a hagiography, based largely on the Blenheim archive and Winston S. Churchill's work, that doesn't detract from its many fine qualities including the useful maps that enhance the text. A must own for the 18th Century historian.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting read from Military view point, 12 Mar 2000
By m.atkinson@which.net (Milton Keynes, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marlborough as Military Commander (Hardcover)
I found this book interesting, it gave sufficient political and personal background to keep the military campaigns in persepctive. The accounts of Marlborough's four great battles are good, but the accounts of some of the sieges is skimpy, almost as if the writer was loosing interest. I would recommend that anyone who wishes to gain a greater understanding of one of the finest British generals reads this book. It shows Marlborough as he is - the greatest military commander of his age, who established the principles which Napoleon & Wellington were to later use to such great effect.
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