Jonathon Riley

Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy

Buch

In this insightful and well informed account, Jonathon Riley, himself a Major General in the British Army, examines Napoleon as a general. He opens with a short treatise on generalship in order to define Napoleon's achievement before moving on to the man himself. He examines Napoleon as a strategist; as a coalition commander; Napoleon's campaigns and Napoleon on the battlefield. Areas often ignored in the context of pre-industrial warfare, logistics and counter-insurgency, are also examined. Riley proceeds to three specific case studies beginning with Napoleon's first essay in generalship and the conquest of Piedmont; Napoleon at the height o… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-84725-180-0
EAN: 9781847251800
Produktnummer: 2934823
Verlag: Continuum 3Pl
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 227 S.
Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.4 cm 531 g
Gewicht: 531

Über den Autor

Major General Jonathon Riley joined the British Army in 1973 and has served peacetime tours of duty in the US, Germany, Kenya and Cyprus. He taught at Sandhurst from 1984-86. He has a number of published works including several military histories and three studies of command including Napoleon and the World War 1813