Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius

by Alan Sked

History remembers Wellington's defeat of Napoleon, but has forgotten the role of Field Marshal Radetzky in the battles which led to Napoleon's abdication and first exile in 1814. As Chief of Staff to the allied coalition of 1813-14, Radetzky determined the shape of the most decisive campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars by creating the strategy that defeated the Corsican in Germany and then France. Neither Russia nor Prussia had been able to overcome...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848856776
• ISBN13: 9781848856776
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.4"