The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. 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. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Helicon ISBN 978-0132036214.In this “engrossing,” ( The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories-and to his ultimate downfall. 1994 – The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army.1993 – Jena 1806: Napoleon destroys Prussia Osprey Publishing.1990 – The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough.
1990 – Austerlitz, 1805: Battle of the Three Emperors (Osprey Military Campaign).1989 – Battles and Battlescenes of World War Two.1987 – The Dictionary of Battles (ed.).1987 – The Military Maxims of Napoleon (ed.).1980 – Atlas of Military Strategy: The Art, Theory and Practice of War, 1618–1878.1979 – Marlborough as Military Commander.1979 – Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars.He was also the author of a military biography of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and of The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough.
General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career."
Īccording to his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" ( The Campaigns of Napoleon) is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals. He held three visiting professorships: at Ohio State in 1970, at the Virginia Military Institute in 1988, and Marine Corps University in 1991. Īs a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The Campaigns of Napoleon and other books on the Napoleonic eraĭavid Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on the Napoleonic era. Military history, especially the Napoleonic Wars
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