Napoleon: On War
(Sprache: Englisch)
The first ever systematic and authoritative compilation of Napoleon's thinking on war, this is as close as we will ever get to the great book on war that Napoleon contemplated but never had the time or the will to complete in his last years in exile on Saint-Helena.
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The first ever systematic and authoritative compilation of Napoleon's thinking on war, this is as close as we will ever get to the great book on war that Napoleon contemplated but never had the time or the will to complete in his last years in exile on Saint-Helena.
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This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the destruction of the materials he had collected for the volume. Thus was lost what would have been one of the most interesting and important books on the art of war ever written, by one of the most famous and successful military leaders of all time.
In the two centuries since, several attempts have been made to gather together some of Napoleon's 'military maxims', with varying degrees of success. But not until now has there been a systematic attempt to put Napoleon's thinking on war and strategy into a single authoritative volume, reflecting both the full spectrum of his thinking on these matters as well as the almost unparalleled range of his military experience, from heavy cavalry charges in the plains of Russia or Saxony to counter-insurgency operations in Egypt or Spain.
To gather the material for this book, military historian Bruno Colson spent years researching Napoleon's correspondence and other writings, including a painstaking examination of perhaps the single most interesting source for his thinking about war: the copy-book of General Bertrand, the Emperor's most trusted companion on Saint-Helena, in which he unearthed a Napoleonic definition of strategy which is published here for the first time.
The huge amount of material brought together for this ground-breaking volume has been carefully organized to follow the framework of Carl von Clausewitz's classic On War, allowing a fascinating comparison between Napoleon's ideas and those of his great Prussian interpreter and adversary, and highlighting the intriguing similarities between these two founders of modern strategic thinking.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Napoleon: On War “
- Introduction
- 1: On the Nature of War
- 2: The Theory of War
- 3: Strategy
- 4: Combat
- 5: Military Forces
- 6: Defence
- 7: Attack
- 8: Military Planning
- Conclusion
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Bruno Colson
Bruno Colson is professor at the Université de Namur, Belgium. He has published numerous books on strategy and military history and is currently writing a biography of Clausewitz, the great military theorist. He originally worked in the field of strategic studies before going back to his first interest in military history, specializing both in the history of military thought and the Napoleonic wars. His current teaching includes the history of war and strategy (1792-1945) and the history of modern and contemporary international relations.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bruno Colson
- 2015, 496 Seiten, Maße: 17,1 x 24,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Bruno Colson
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199685568
- ISBN-13: 9780199685561
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This book will remain the essential work of reference for Napoleon's maxims, judgements, thoughts, and analyses of war in almost all its aspects. Bruno Colson's edited volume, first published in French in 2011, is an impressive achievement because of its meticulous scholarship. Mike Rapport, War in History Book Reviews
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