The Napoleonic Wars (Cassell History of Warfare)

About this book

He inherited the armies of the French Revolution that had overthrown a monarchy--and used them to conquer a continent on a scale never seen before. Napoleon developed what was perhaps the worlds first "superpower " setting a pattern that would come to fruition in the twentieth century. From descriptions of Bonapartes rise; through the years of the Second Coalition and the Grande Arme; to the heights of victory and the depths of defeat at Waterloo a fascinating portrait emerges of a man and his methods. 224 pages 70 color illus. 80 b/w illus. 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.