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Part of a sixteen-volume series developed and written by the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point, "The Wars of Napolean takes you from the early years of Napoleon Bonaparte's military career to the Emperor's historic defeat at Waterloo. The text offers brilliant analyses of Napoleon's military strengths and weaknesses. It also provides a penetrating observation of the technology, tactics, logistics, strategy, and outstanding generalship that created an empire stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Russian Steppes, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. Finally, it offers a clear understanding of the Bonaparte's military and political mistakes that led to his eventual downfall.
Complementing this text is a beautiful large-format full-color campaign atlas. These original maps not only highlight Napoleon's key military battles, but also provide dates, unit numbers, troop deployments, and movements of opposing forces, as well as critical geographical information. This atlas is designed to be used with the accompanying text or alone.
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Written by the faculty of The United States Military Academy at West Point, each of the sixteen volumes in this series focuses on specific era of warfare. This volume takes you from the arly years of Naploeon Bonaparte's military career to the Emperor's historic defeat at Waterloo. The text offers brilliant analyses of Napoleon's military strengths and weaknesses, and provides a penetrating observations of the technology, tactics, logistics, strategy and outstanding generalship that created an empire stretching from the Atlantic coasts to the Russian Steppes, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. Finally, it offers a clear understanding of the military and political mistakes that led to Napoleon's eventual downfall.
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This fascinating study takes the reader from the early years of Napoleon's career to his defeat at Waterloo. It is a penetrating look at the technology, tactics, logistics, strategy, and outstanding generalship that created an empire.
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This fascinating study takes the reader from the early years of Napoleon's career to his defeat at Waterloo. It is a penetrating look at the technology, tactics, logistics, strategy, and outstanding generalship that created an empire.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-170) and index.