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Books > Humanities > History > European history
At a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French
dominance in Central Europe, why did he fixate on the Prussian
capital of Berlin? Instead of concentrating his forces for a
decisive showdown with the enemy, he repeatedly detached large
numbers of troops, under ineffective commanders, toward the capture
of Berlin. In "Napoleon and Berlin, " Michael V. Leggiere explores
Napoleon's almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this
strategy ultimately lost him all of Germany.
Napoleon's motives have remained a subject of controversy from
his own day until ours. He may have hoped to deliver a tremendous
blow to Prussia's war-making capacity and morale. Ironically, the
heavy losses and strategic reverses sustained by the French left
Napoleon's Grande Armee vulnerable to an Allied coalition that
eventually drove Napoleon from Central Europe forever.
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