About the Author

Gunther Rothenberg was the world's leading authority on the Napoleonic Wars. He served with the British, Israeli and US Military and was Professor of History at Purdue University in the USA. He was the leading English-speaking historian of warfare in the German-speaking lands. His many distinguished works include The Army of Francis Joseph and The Hapsburg Military Frontier. 

Reviews

The originality of the work lies, above all, in its comprehensiveness and synoptic approach. There is nothing comparable to it in English . . . and no single volume in any language, to my knowledge, which would attempt to examine the role of the military against the background of political, diplomatic, economic, and social history. That Professor Rothenberg succeeded is attributable to his thorough familiarity with the Austrian archives and the immense literature relevant to his topic. I found the author's working method meticulous, his scholarship sound, and his line of argumentation impeccably logical."