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The Napoleonic Wars

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Napoleonic Wars
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Prof Richard Holmes
SeriesThe Compact Guide
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreWorld history
Napoleonic wars
ISBN/Barcode 9780233005942
ClassificationsDewey:940.27
Audience
General
Edition With flaps
Illustrations 20 b&w photos and illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Welbeck Publishing Group
Imprint Andre Deutsch Ltd
Publication Date 8 August 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who still styled himself Napoleone di Buonaparte, Holmes examines every facet of his subject's military career: his astonishing victories at the Battle of the Pyramids, Marengo, Jena and Austerlitz, through to defeat and exile under the immense weight of the great powers who were determined to stop the man who would be emperor of Europe.

Author Biography

Richard Holmes was one of the UK's leading military historians. As well as being the General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History, he presented several documentary series for the BBC. His books include The First World War in Photographs, The Second World War in Photographs, D-Day Remembered, as well as Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front and Wellington: The Iron Duke and Redcoat.

Reviews

"The ultimate Napoleonic book." --Military Illustrated