In this "engrossing," (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victoriesand to his ultimate downfall.
Napoleonic war was nothing if not complexan ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat.
"Writing clearly and vividly, [Chandler] turns dozens of persons besides Napoleon from mere wooden soldiers into three- dimensional characters" (The Boston Globe) and this definitive work is "a fine book for the historian, the student, and the intelligent reader" (The New York Review of Books).
Eccellente ricostruzione, un capolavoro del genere. Da leggere assolutamente per gli appassionati di storia militare e, in particolare, per quelli del periodo napoleonico.
Fulvio Luzzi Conti - 05/01/2013 12:00