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This classic work is a distillation of the knowledge, intuition and wisdom of one of history's greatest military commanders.Napoleon's success was built upon practical experience combined with his own study of classical warfare and his natural grasp
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Philip Haythornthwaite
In an age when infantry units manoeuvred and fought in rigid blocks, the idea of encouraging initiative and allowing a unit to'skirmish'was regarded as revolutionary and fell out of favour in the years following the French-Indian and American Revolut
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Philip Haythornthwaite
In the two hundred years since the Battle of Waterloo countless studies examining almost every aspect of this momentous event have been published narratives of the campaign, graphic accounts of key stages in the fighting or of the role played by a re
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Philip Haythornthwaite
The Napoleonic Library is an outstanding collection of seminal works on the Napoleonic Wars. It features evocative contemporary memoirs and makes available once again the classic works on the subject by military historians.
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Philip Haythornthwaite
During the Napoleonic era, Russia possessed a vast force of cavalry, forming a greater percentage than that of most European armies. This stemmed partly from their service against the Turks, who had huge numbers of troops, and partly from the fact th
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Philip Haythornthwaite
The mounted troops of the Hapsburg Empire comprised one of the most powerful forces of the Napoleonic Wars. However, from the outset the cavalry's higher command was less capable than its infantry counterpart: appointments were influenced by nepotism
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Philip Haythornthwaite
The most implacable of Napoleon's continental enemies, at the outbreak of war Austria maintained a vast army, but one rooted firmly in the 18th century. Hampered by the inherent conservatism of the hierarchy, the Austrians had to fight the most moder
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Philip Haythornthwaite
A highly illustrated account of the battle of Borodino, the most crucial action in Napoleon's 1812 campaign in Russia.The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Nap
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Philip Haythornthwaite
In January 1794 the French'Army of Italy'was commanded by General Dumerbion and he acknowledged a great debt to his 25-year-old commander of artillery – Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution had resulted in major changes in the military system,
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Philip Haythornthwaite
The concept of the bodyguard is as ancient as the practice of an individual assuming the leadership of a group or tribe. From the Companions of Alexander to the Varangians of Byzantium, bodies of élite warriors, owing personal allegiance to their so