Chapter 1: Young Bonaparte: Character, Education, and Early
Triumphs
Chapter 2: The Scrambler Emerges: The First Italian Campaign,
1796–1797
Chapter 3: Flirting with Oblivion: Egypt, 1798–1799
Chapter 4: Over the Alps: The Second Italian Campaign, 1800
Chapter 5: The Scrambler on the Danube: The Ulm-Austerlitz
Campaign, 1805
Chapter 6: Overkill in the East: The Jena-Auerstadt-Friedland
Campaign, 1806–1807
Chapter 7: The "Affair of Spain": The Peninsular War, 1808–1813
Chapter 8: The Wagram Campaign: The Austrian War, 1809
Chapter 9: The Fattening: Compromises with the Old Order European
Empire, 1809–1812
Chapter 10: Heat, Ice, Snow, and Disaster: The Russian Campaign,
1812
Chapter 11: The Kill: From Lutzen to Elba, 1813–1814
Chapter 12: The Glorious Irrelevance: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815
Owen Connelly is McKissick Dial Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of On War and Leadership, Napoleon's Satellite Kingdoms, and The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University and past president of the Society for French Historical Studies. He served as an infantry officer in the Korean War and as an instructor at the U.S. Army Florida Ranger Camp.
Connelly's summaries of the action are clear and concise; his
description of the social and political context in which Napoleon
fought is exquisite; his portrayal of the personalities of
Napoleon's marshals is lively and insightful; and his portrait of
Napoleon's ambition and drive to win is superb.
*Military Review*
A thoroughly stimulating and enjoyable volume. Connelly examines
all the campaigns with exemplary conciseness, and the same is to be
said of his treatment of the battles. . . . Whether this book
entertains or (occasionally) infuriates, it makes a reader
think.
*Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research*
This is a concise, clear, authoritative account presented in a
felicitous literary style. Of the many works on Napoleon's
thirty-year career, this is the best brief account.
*Canadian Military History*
Readers will find this book useful to have in their library.
Connelly gently but surely draws the readers into questioning
whether or not Napoleon ever had a strategic aim.
*Journal of the Royal Artillery*
Owen Connelly, one of the leading American historians of the French
Revolution–Napoleonic Era, has that rare gift of being able to take
complex and complicated information and produce a tight,
smooth-flowing narrative. What is unique about this study is that
it is both scholarly, based upon excellent research with good maps
and a fine bibliography, and also written in a language [students]
will appreciate and understand. Highly recommended.
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