This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.In exile on the island of SaintHelena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the destruction of the materials he had collected for the volume. Thus was lost what would have been one of the most interesting and important books on the art of war ever written, by one of the most famous and successful military leaders of all time.In the two centuries since, several attempts have been made to gather together some of Napoleons military maxims, with varying degrees of success. But not until now has there been a systematic attempt to put Napoleons thinking on war and strategy into a single authoritative volume, reflecting both the full spectrum of his thinking on these matters as well as the almost unparalleled range of his military experience, from heavy cavalry charges in the plains of Russia or Saxony to counterinsurgency operations in Egypt or Spain.To gather the material for this book, military historian Bruno Colson spent years researching Napoleons correspondence and other writings, including a painstaking examination of perhaps the single most interesting source for his thinking about war the copybook of General Bertrand, the Emperors most trusted companion on SaintHelena, in which he unearthed a Napoleonic definition of strategy which is published here for the first time.The huge amount of material...

Binding: Paperback;494 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 712 g; Dimensions: 135 x 215 x 28

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