THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON: THE MIND AND METHOD OF HISTORY'S GREATEST SOLDIER by Chandler, David G - 1966

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1966. 8th printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. 8th printing. 9 5/8 x 7 inches: pp. xliv, 1172. Dark green dust jacket with photograph of the shako plate of the Young guard on front panel, and gold, blue and black type. White circle encased by blue circle encased by red, ridged circle design on spine. Burgundy cloth with black oval design circled by gold with flag design on top, gold gilt titles in black oval. With numerous illustrations, and battle, campaign and tactical maps. Includes explanatory key of military symbols used on maps and diagrams, appendices, reference notes, bibliography, glossary of military terms and indexes of persons and military formations and treaties.

Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Price clipped on inner flap. Dust jacket has been taped on to boards with library grade tape. Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight.

From the inner flap of the dust jacket - "The Campaigns of Napoleon is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula..., but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. But there were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice. To clarify these underlying methods, Mr. Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analysing the strategies employed, revealing wherever possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas."