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Napoleon: On War (Hardcover)
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Napoleon: On War (Hardcover)
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This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the
will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the
deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the
art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the
destruction of the materials he had collected for the volume. Thus
was lost what would have been one of the most interesting and
important books on the art of war ever written, by one of the most
famous and successful military leaders of all time. In the two
centuries since, several attempts have been made to gather together
some of Napoleon's 'military maxims', with varying degrees of
success. But not until now has there been a systematic attempt to
put Napoleon's thinking on war and strategy into a single
authoritative volume, reflecting both the full spectrum of his
thinking on these matters as well as the almost unparalleled range
of his military experience, from heavy cavalry charges in the
plains of Russia or Saxony to counter-insurgency operations in
Egypt or Spain. To gather the material for this book, military
historian Bruno Colson spent years researching Napoleon's
correspondence and other writings, including a painstaking
examination of perhaps the single most interesting source for his
thinking about war: the copy-book of General Bertrand, the
Emperor's most trusted companion on Saint-Helena, in which he
unearthed a Napoleonic definition of strategy which is published
here for the first time. The huge amount of material brought
together for this ground-breaking volume has been carefully
organized to follow the framework of Carl von Clausewitz's classic
On War, allowing a fascinating comparison between Napoleon's ideas
and those of his great Prussian interpreter and adversary, and
highlighting the intriguing similarities between these two founders
of modern strategic thinking.
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