- Hardcover
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (1964)
- ASIN: B0006DMS8I
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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A trend emerges when reading this book. It concerns who won and lost wars and battles, what I got from this book was a sense of why they were won and lost. The qualities of generalship are plain to see, who deserves praise and who does not. One arguable flaw is an unjust bias towards the french, but when the lack of talents of many of the allied commanders are made clear I don't feel sympathetic. Also the same can be said of French commanders. That the book is told trough the view of napoleon is not unfair. Frequently are French offenisves to be seen, the book is meant to deal with the Gereralship of Napoleon firstly, it even says so on the cover.
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This is a unique and valuable work of reference that maps out the battlefields most of the major conflicts during the Napoleonic Wars. My only regret was to discover that it does not cover the costly invasion of Saint Domingue, although fair to say that Europe was temporarily at peace at the time. Definitely a book to have for anyone trawling through that period.
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A thoroughly researched encyclopedia of the napoleonic campaigns, with an enormous number of maps illustrating their development. Unfortunately the text is violently partisan: every action is viewed in the most favourable light for Napoleon, and his enemies are mostly portrayed as blundering and ineffectual. Since I live in a country where the churches and palaces looted and destroyed by the troops of Napoleon are still painfully obvious, I dislike this whitewashing. For a balanced account of the career of Napoleon, read Corelli Barnett's Bonaparte.
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