Napoleon's wars : an international history, 1803-1815

Author(s)

• Esdaile, Charles J.

Bibliographic Information

Napoleon's wars : an international history, 1803-1815

Charles Esdaile

Allen Lane, 2007

• : hbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-602) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

No other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory - or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges? Napoleon's Wars is a book which has no doubt about Napoleon's insatiable greed for military glory, but it is interested in far more than that. Charles Esdaile is profoundly interested in a pan-European context: what was it that made the countries of Europe fight each other, for so long and with such devastating results. The battles themselves he sees as almost side-effects; the consequence of rulers being willing to take the immense risks of fighting or supporting Napoleon - risks which resulted in the extinction of entire countries. This is history on the grandest and most ambitious scale: a superb reassessment of a tumultuous era.

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Details

• NCID: BA86028095
• ISBN:
  • 9780713997156
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 621 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DC151
  • DC22 : 940.27
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Influence
  • LCSH : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
  • LCSH : Europe -- History -- 1789-1815