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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
The War of the Sixth Coalition
There are of course, many histories available on the Napoleonic era
but the first distinction offered by this one must be the widely
acknowledged regard with which its author, F. Loraine Petre is
still held. Petre wrote several histories of the period and all are
recognised as scholarship of the highest order and his contribution
to the subject has rarely been surpassed in the years since their
original publication. Napoleon's German campaign was decisive for
the aspirations of the Emperor, France and the imperial allies that
were resolved to bring him to ruin. All his hubris had brought
about his greatest defeat as a consequence of the debacle that was
the invasion of Russia and the retreat from Moscow. Most
significantly, the avenging Russian army in concert with its finest
ally, the bitter winter had deprived Napoleon, by the usages of
war, disease and lethal cold, of virtually all the resources he had
employed in his venture-a massive Grand Armee that could not be
readily replaced for employment in future enterprises. Now with
only a gallant army of 200, 000 men he had to fight against the
odds in a contest which would prove too much for even his legendary
personal military talents and further demonstrate the weaknesses of
his lieutenants when in independent command. A series of battles
would be fought in Germany at Saale, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden,
Dennewitz and finally at Leipzig and Hanau where defeat would
propel the French into a retreat which would set them on the road
back to the Paris and abdication of the Emperor. These are the
battles of the beginning of the end of the First Empire of the
French recounted by one of its finest historians. Essential for
every student of the period. Available in soft cover and hard
cover.
The War of the Sixth Coalition
There are of course, many histories available on the Napoleonic era
but the first distinction offered by this one must be the widely
acknowledged regard with which its author, F. Loraine Petre is
still held. Petre wrote several histories of the period and all are
recognised as scholarship of the highest order and his contribution
to the subject has rarely been surpassed in the years since their
original publication. Napoleon's German campaign was decisive for
the aspirations of the Emperor, France and the imperial allies that
were resolved to bring him to ruin. All his hubris had brought
about his greatest defeat as a consequence of the debacle that was
the invasion of Russia and the retreat from Moscow. Most
significantly, the avenging Russian army in concert with its finest
ally, the bitter winter had deprived Napoleon, by the usages of
war, disease and lethal cold, of virtually all the resources he had
employed in his venture-a massive Grand Armee that could not be
readily replaced for employment in future enterprises. Now with
only a gallant army of 200, 000 men he had to fight against the
odds in a contest which would prove too much for even his legendary
personal military talents and further demonstrate the weaknesses of
his lieutenants when in independent command. A series of battles
would be fought in Germany at Saale, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden,
Dennewitz and finally at Leipzig and Hanau where defeat would
propel the French into a retreat which would set them on the road
back to the Paris and abdication of the Emperor. These are the
battles of the beginning of the end of the First Empire of the
French recounted by one of its finest historians. Essential for
every student of the period. Available in soft cover and hard
cover.
1907. With seven maps and battle plans and numerous portraits and
other illustrations. Petre recounts Napoleon's crushing defeat of
the Prussians as a cautionary tale to statesmen. Contents: The
Origin of the War; The Armies of the Contending Powers; The Plans
of Campaign; Movements of Both Sides Up to the 10th October; The
Action of Saalfeld (Oct. 10); Operations from the 10th to the 13th
October; The Battle of Jena; The Battle of Auerstadt; Strategy and
Tactics of the First Period of the War; Events of the 15th to 17th
October; From the Action of Halle to the Occupation of Berlin; The
Pursuit of Hohenlohe and His Capitulation at Prenzlau; Blucher's
March to Lubeck and Surrender at Ratkau; The Fate of Magdeburg,
Hesse-Cassel, and Hameln; and Concluding Remarks on the Second
Period of the War. See other titles by this author available from
Kessinger Publishing.
1909. This work presents a history of the Franco-Austrian campaign
in the Valley of the Danube in 1809. The campaign which forms the
subject of this volume is one which received scant notice in
England and has been a good deal misunderstood. The
misunderstanding was mainly due to Napoleon's successful
misrepresentation of the earlier part as one of his greatest and
most successful efforts. The campaign is of special interest as
being the only one, except the Austrian retreat from Italy in 1797,
in which Napoleon was personally opposed to his ablest continental
opponent. Illustrated.
1909. This work presents a history of the Franco-Austrian campaign
in the Valley of the Danube in 1809. The campaign which forms the
subject of this volume is one which received scant notice in
England and has been a good deal misunderstood. The
misunderstanding was mainly due to Napoleon's successful
misrepresentation of the earlier part as one of his greatest and
most successful efforts. The campaign is of special interest as
being the only one, except the Austrian retreat from Italy in 1797,
in which Napoleon was personally opposed to his ablest continental
opponent. Illustrated.
1909. This work presents a history of the Franco-Austrian campaign
in the Valley of the Danube in 1809. The campaign which forms the
subject of this volume is one which received scant notice in
England and has been a good deal misunderstood. The
misunderstanding was mainly due to Napoleon's successful
misrepresentation of the earlier part as one of his greatest and
most successful efforts. The campaign is of special interest as
being the only one, except the Austrian retreat from Italy in 1797,
in which Napoleon was personally opposed to his ablest continental
opponent. Illustrated.
1907. With seven maps and battle plans and numerous portraits and
other illustrations. Petre recounts Napoleon's crushing defeat of
the Prussians as a cautionary tale to statesmen. Contents: The
Origin of the War; The Armies of the Contending Powers; The Plans
of Campaign; Movements of Both Sides Up to the 10th October; The
Action of Saalfeld (Oct. 10); Operations from the 10th to the 13th
October; The Battle of Jena; The Battle of Auerstadt; Strategy and
Tactics of the First Period of the War; Events of the 15th to 17th
October; From the Action of Halle to the Occupation of Berlin; The
Pursuit of Hohenlohe and His Capitulation at Prenzlau; Blucher's
March to Lubeck and Surrender at Ratkau; The Fate of Magdeburg,
Hesse-Cassel, and Hameln; and Concluding Remarks on the Second
Period of the War. See other titles by this author available from
Kessinger Publishing.
A fine work by a highly regarded historian of the Napoleonic Age
Every period in history has-in its turn-produced great scholars to
chronicle it. The names of fine historians are linked with their
subjects by natural consequence of their scholarship, insight and
authorship as they have communicated their research and analysis to
students, both professional and amateur. The Age of Napoleon is no
exception and high in the shortlist of its principal historians
stands the name of the author of this book-F. Loraine Petre.
Petre's work has enjoyed enthusiastic popularity since the time of
its writing. This fine example, which chronicles Napoleon's
campaign into Poland, is no exception. Those familiar with the
subject need not be told that the thorough Petre method has here
been applied to the campaign in its entirety including Pultusk,
Golymin, Eylau, Danzig, the Vistula, Heilsburg, Friedland and
Tilsit. Naturally the leadership of the respective armies, the
theatre of war and the forces themselves are considered with equal
skill. This is, of course, an essential Napoleonic War reference
work-and a true and acknowledged classic. Available in softcover
and hardcover with dustjacket.
A fine work by a highly regarded historian of the Napoleonic Age
Every period in history has-in its turn-produced great scholars to
chronicle it. The names of fine historians are linked with their
subjects by natural consequence of their scholarship, insight and
authorship as they have communicated their research and analysis to
students, both professional and amateur. The Age of Napoleon is no
exception and high in the shortlist of its principal historians
stands the name of the author of this book-F. Loraine Petre.
Petre's work has enjoyed enthusiastic popularity since the time of
its writing. This fine example, which chronicles Napoleon's
campaign into Poland, is no exception. Those familiar with the
subject need not be told that the thorough Petre method has here
been applied to the campaign in its entirety including Pultusk,
Golymin, Eylau, Danzig, the Vistula, Heilsburg, Friedland and
Tilsit. Naturally the leadership of the respective armies, the
theatre of war and the forces themselves are considered with equal
skill. This is, of course, an essential Napoleonic War reference
work-and a true and acknowledged classic. Available in softcover
and hardcover with dustjacket.
The fall of an empire-by a great historian
Every history book offers-inevitably-a perspective. Some historians
are rightly judged to offer more considered analysis and skill in
its explanation than others, and so their names endure. One such
was F. Loraine Petre whose work on the history of the Napoleonic
Wars has endured and is regarded by scholars and students of the
period alike, as being of the highest order. This book is no
exception. Here the author has taken as his subject the campaign
that led to the abdication of the Emperor, a campaign that Napoleon
fought with his back to wall, hard pressed by determined enemies
and woefully under resourced after the Russian debacle. Here we see
a great soldier-still in possession of phenomenal powers as a
battlefield commander-fighting a losing battle with consummate
skill.
The fall of an empire-by a great historian
Every history book offers-inevitably-a perspective. Some historians
are rightly judged to offer more considered analysis and skill in
its explanation than others, and so their names endure. One such
was F. Loraine Petre whose work on the history of the Napoleonic
Wars has endured and is regarded by scholars and students of the
period alike, as being of the highest order. This book is no
exception. Here the author has taken as his subject the campaign
that led to the abdication of the Emperor, a campaign that Napoleon
fought with his back to wall, hard pressed by determined enemies
and woefully under resourced after the Russian debacle. Here we see
a great soldier-still in possession of phenomenal powers as a
battlefield commander-fighting a losing battle with consummate
skill.
Napoleon's lightning conquest of Prussia, accomplished within a
month in the autumn of 1806, was perhaps his most spectacularly
successful campaign. The twin battles of Jena and Auerstadt, won on
the same day, October 14th, by Napoleon himself and his most able
Marshal, Davout, annihilated the Prussian army and on 25th October,
exactly a month after invading Prussia, Napoleon entered Berlin and
enforced a humiliating peace on his beaten enemy. In his classic
account of the campaign, published exactly 100 years ago, F.
Loraine Petre explains how Prussia's once vaunted military might
ossified in the twenty years after Frederick the Great's death,
leading to timidity and political paralysis. What Field-Marshal
Roberts in his foreword calls 'a selfish and suicidal policy' of
ignoring France as she picked off neighbouring Austria led to
defeat and occupation, but ultimately to much needed reform and the
re-birth of the Prussian army with its ultimate revenge on Napoleon
at Leipzig and Waterloo.
The Napoleonic Library is an outstanding collection of seminal
works on the Napoleonic Wars. It features evocative contemporary
memoirs and makes available once again the classic works on the
subject by military historians.
1907. With seven maps and battle plans and numerous portraits and
other illustrations. Petre recounts Napoleon's crushing defeat of
the Prussians as a cautionary tale to statesmen. Contents: The
Origin of the War; The Armies of the Contending Powers; The Plans
of Campaign; Movements of Both Sides Up to the 10th October; The
Action of Saalfeld (Oct. 10); Operations from the 10th to the 13th
October; The Battle of Jena; The Battle of Auerstadt; Strategy and
Tactics of the First Period of the War; Events of the 15th to 17th
October; From the Action of Halle to the Occupation of Berlin; The
Pursuit of Hohenlohe and His Capitulation at Prenzlau; Blucher's
March to Lubeck and Surrender at Ratkau; The Fate of Magdeburg,
Hesse-Cassel, and Hameln; and Concluding Remarks on the Second
Period of the War. See other titles by this author available from
Kessinger Publishing.
This work presents a history of the Franco-Austrian campaign in the
Valley of the Danube in 1809. The campaign which forms the subject
of this volume is one which received scant notice in England and
has been a good deal misunderstood. The misunderstanding was mainly
due to Napoleon's successful misrepresentation of the earlier part
as one of his greatest and most successful efforts. The campaign is
of special interest as being the only one, except the Austrian
retreat from Italy in 1797, in which Napoleon was personally
opposed to his ablest continental opponent. Illustrated.
Written by F. Loraine Petre, one of the most distinguished military
historians of the Napoleonic wars, this huge history of the Norfolk
Regiment, is naturally strong on its role in the Peninsular War
when its battle honours included Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco,
Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, and the Nive. First raised in
1685 in the reign of James II, the Norfolks first saw service in
the Caribbean and, after Napoleon's defeat, in India, the Crimea,
Afghanistan and the Boer War. This detailed and authoritative
history takes the regiment's story up to the outbreak of the Great
War in August 1914.
Napoleon's lightning conquest of Prussia, accomplished within a
month in the autumn of 1806, was perhaps his most spectacularly
successful campaign. The twin battles of Jena and Auerstadt, won on
the same day, October 14th, by Napoleon himself and his most able
Marshal, Davout, annihilated the Prussian army and on 25th October,
exactly a month after invading Prussia, Napoleon entered Berlin and
enforced a humiliating peace on his beaten enemy. In his classic
account of the campaign, published exactly 100 years ago, F.
Loraine Petre explains how Prussia's once vaunted military might
ossified in the twenty years after Frederick the Great's death,
leading to timidity and political paralysis. What Field-Marshal
Roberts in his foreword calls 'a selfish and suicidal policy' of
ignoring France as she picked off neighbouring Austria led to
defeat and occupation, but ultimately to much needed reform and the
re-birth of the Prussian army with its ultimate revenge on Napoleon
at Leipzig and Waterloo.
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