Napoleon's Wars by Charles Esdaile
No other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory - or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges? Napoleon’s Wars is a book which has no doubt about Napoleon’s insatiable greed for military glory, but it is interested in far more than that. Charles Esdaile is profoundly interested in a pan-European context: what was it that made the countries of Europe fight each other, for so long and with such devastating results. The battles themselves he sees as almost side-effects; the consequence of rulers being willing to take the immense risks of fighting or supporting Napoleon - risks which resulted in the extinction of entire countries. This is history on the grandest and most ambitious scale: a superb reassessment of a tumultuous era.
Charles Esdaile is Professor in History at the University of Liverpool. His The Peninsular War was acclaimed by many reviewers including Andrew Roberts and Bernard Cornwell.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713997156 |
| ISBN 10 | 071399715X |
| Title | Napoleon's Wars |
| Author | Charles Esdaile |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 656 |
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