Chandler THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON pp 1172 w maps HB/DJ

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Click Double your traffic. Payment | Checkout | Shipping Chandler THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON pp 1172 w maps HB/DJ Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album This is a beautiful hardcover copy in the dust jacket of THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON: THE MIND AND METHOD OF HISTORY'S GREATEST SOLDIER by David G. Chandler. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1966.This is a FINE (Pristine) book in a NEAR FINE (Near Pristine) dust jacket. A clean, bright, tight copy with no previous owner's markings nor signs of previous use. Very clean inside and out. Tips and ends sharp. Immaculate interior including endpapers. Pages and page ends appear unhandled and untouched. In a beautiful bright dust jacket with original price of $75.00 on front flap, some curling at the top of the spine, and a diagonal wrinkle at lower front corner, plus a tiny nick at that corner. A beautiful copy of a wonderful book.Massive tome of 1172 pages illustrated with drawings, diagrams, near 80 maps ( including some fold-out ) maps - Battles, Campaigns, and Tactical Diagrams. With about 60 illustrations in all. "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 an exhaustive analysis and 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'operations ), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. But t were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice. To clarify these underlying methods, as well as the style of Napoleon's fabulous intellect, Mr. Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analyzing the strategies employed, revealing wver possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas. " The book opens with a brief account of Bonaparte's early years, his military education and formative experiences, and his meteoric rise to the rank of general in the army of the Directory. Introducing the elements of Napoleonic "grand tactics" as they developed in his Italian, Egyptian, and Syrian campaigns, Mr. Chandler shows how these principles were clearly conceived as early as the Battle of Castiglione, when Napoleon was only twenty -six. Several campaigns later, he was Emperor of France, busily constructing the Grande Armée. This great war machine is described in considerable detail: the composition of the armies and the élite Guard; the staff system and the methods of command; the kind of artillery and firearms used; and the daily life of the Grande Armée and the all-seeing and all-commanding virtuoso who presided over every aspect of its operation in the field. "As the great machine sweeps into action in the campaigns along the Rhine and the Danube, in East Prussia and Poland, and in Portugal and Spain, David Chandler follows closely every move that vindicates -- or challenges -- the legend of Napoleon's military genius. As the major battles take their gory courses -- Austerlitz, Jena, Fried-land -- we see Napoleon's star reaching its zenith. Then, in the Wagram Campaign of 1809 against the Austrians -- his last real success ... read more

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