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Title: Napoleon's Marshals by R. F. Delderfield ISBN: 0-8154-1213-4 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: captures the spirit of Napoleonic France
Comment: Most of the time when you find something this interesting covering an historical period, it turns out to be 'faction' a la Michener. The fun part about Delderfield is that this is *true*.
The foot soldiers and horsemen of Napoleonic France were good, to be sure, but it was their leadership that shaped their character. Delderfield gives a fair account of them all, in their finest hours and weakest moments, and enables the reader to consider what it might have been like to follow such men to war.
None are overglorified and none are overmaligned. Ney is present with skill, naivete and honour. Massena's piercing eyes coolly look over advancing grenadiers and heaps of plunder. Augereau begins as a lion and ends as a mouse. Lannes fears nothing and no one. The Emperor is irascible but has that special touch that drew men to his side and held them. To be French and to read this book would surely evoke national and cultural pride, and it would be small-minded indeed to quarrel that a descendant of France's arch-enemies of the period wrote it. He did them fine justice.
If, to you, war is Napoleon, then you simply must dig up a copy, even if you must charge into grapeshot to get it.
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Title: Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee by John Robert Elting ISBN: 0306807572 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Imperial Sunset: The Fall of Napoleon, 1813-1814 by R. F. Delderfield ISBN: 0815411197 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Iron Marshal: A Biography of Louis N. Davout by John G. Gallaher ISBN: 185367396X Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon by Gunther E. Rothenberg ISBN: 0253202604 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: December, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars by Vincent J. Esposito, John R. Elting ISBN: 1853673463 Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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