Napoleon as a General

Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy

By: Jonathon Riley

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Hardcover | 1 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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'In war, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or peril...' ("Sun Tzu The Art of War"). We speak of Caesar who conquered Gaul, not the legions; MacArthur who landed at Inchon, not the Marines - and we speak of Napoleon, one of history's most successful generals. Major General Jonathon Riley is supremely well qualified to write on Napoleon's generalship and has written an informed and insightful account. 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 of his powers at the conquest of Prussia, to Napoleon's final defeats and the Battle of the Nations in 1813.

Industry Reviews

"As stated in its introduction, this book is neither a biography nor a chronological history of Napoleon.A It is an insightful treatise on the emperor's generalship, written by an officer in the British army...The author's assessment is fairly objective: in summary, that Napoleon was an innovative general and the best in the field until the attrition of over a decade of conflict caught up with him.A Recommended." -David Lee, Library Journal, December 2007
Library Journal
"Napoleon as a General is a readable addition to existing studies of its subject." -David Longfellow, The Historian, Vol. 71
B'nai B'rith International Jewish Monthly

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