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

by Jonathon Riley

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847251803
• ISBN13: 9781847251800
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"