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This collection of Chandler''s work presents essays, valuable articles and lectures on important aspects of the dramatic Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. '
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Thought-provoking essays on the real "first world war".,
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The name of David Chandler is likely to be familiar to anyone with interests in military history in the English language. His specialities are the campaigns of the first Duke of Marlborough and those of Napoleon Bonaparte. This book contains a collection of essays published on Chandler's retirement from Great Britain's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Several of them have never been published elsewhere, while those which have are only to be found in small-circulation journals. The selection is carefully made to span the full period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, without attempting to be a single-volume history of them. Thus there are articles about the causes of the outbreak of the wars, about the nature of the Battle of Marengo (perhaps the best article of all), about Austerlitz, Maida, the Peninsular War, the Russian campaign and Napoleon's fall. I suppose that a certain degree of knowledge is assumed of the reader; references are made, for instance, to Archduke Charles and the Battle of Wagram, which are not otherwise discussed in this volume. The reader new to this territory should not be deterred, but should probably have the same author's "Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars" to hand while reading this book. Chandler's style is always readable, if occasionally a touch repetitive. His knowledge of history outside his main subjects does seem questionable, as the odd incorrect date or misquotation implies, but on Napoleonic matters he is not merely encyclopaedic, but also deeply considered. His assessment of the role of the partisans in the defeat of the French occupiers of Iberia is excellent in this respect. Chandler is no starry-eyed admirer of Bonaparte and shows that he has little stomach for those who are, but he is not beating a nationalist drum, either. Certainly, he is an admirer of the Duke of Wellington, but he places the British contribution to Napoleon's defeat carefully in its context (if anything, he underestimates it). The book displays a few examples of inept proof-reading, but nothing disastrous. All in all, this collection should appeal to anyone who can read English and has an interest in the Napoleonic Wars.
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Less Than the Sum of it's Parts,
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This review is from: On the Napoleonic Wars (Hardcover)
Sadly, this book is proof that sometimes a thing is less than the sum of it's parts. The essays are drawn from presented papers, speeches, and in one case the foreword of another book. There is some redundancy in the articles as they weren't originally intended to be read one after another, so some of the text in selected articles sets up the same situation as another. There are some gems, the essay on the British invasion of Egypt being one, a subject usually ignored because it was after Napoleon had left. Also the essay concerning Wellington in Spain is very good as an overview.
I would cautiously recommend this book to those who don't mind the extra content and are willing to put in the effort. |
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