NAPOLEON'S MARSHALS by Chandler, David, editor

New York, 1987, Macmillan, US First edition, hard bound in dust jacket, Fine/Fine cond. 7 x10, 560 pp, illus. ----------------------------------- Twenty six chapters by the world's foremost Napoleonic authors, each detailing the career of the 26 Marshals promoted by Napoleon Bonaparte. Twenty years after the publication of the classic The Campaigns of Napoleon, David Chandler has gathered together some of the world's greatest Napoleonic scholars to present the first definitive and comprehensive view of Napoleon's marshals.Here are portraits of the twenty-six men who fought at Napoleon's side from the sweltering heat of the Pyramids of Egypt to the frozen horror of the Retreat from Moscow. Jena, Friedland, Marengo, Ulm, Borodino, and Waterloo-history resounds still with the names of these battles which shaped and reshaped the map of the world.Who were these men, elevated by the Emperor to such rarified positions and showered with vast grants of land, money, and privilege and princely or ducal titles?Noblemen, commoners, and soldiers from the ranks, dashing beaux sabreurs and dull administrators, men who died in battle and men who defected, men who remained loyal to the end, heroes and traitors-the men who received their gold-embroidered batons from the Emperor were a mixed lot indeed.