{"product_id":"napoleon-and-berlin-michael-v-leggiere-9780806133997","title":"Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French dominance in Central Europe, why did he fixate on the Prussian capital of Berlin? Instead of concentrating his forces for a decisive showdown with the enemy, he repeatedly detached large numbers of troops, under ineffective commanders, toward the capture of Berlin. In \u003cem\u003eNapoleon and Berlin, \u003c\/em\u003e Michael V. Leggiere explores Napoleon's almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this strategy ultimately lost him all of Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNapoleon's motives have remained a subject of controversy from his own day until ours. He may have hoped to deliver a tremendous blow to Prussia's war-making capacity and morale. Ironically, the heavy losses and strategic reverses sustained by the French left Napoleon's Grande Armee vulnerable to an Allied coalition that eventually drove Napoleon from Central Europe forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael V. Leggiere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806133996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806133997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.34w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/24\/2002 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2002 pg. 698\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael V. Leggiere","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992459706623,"sku":"9780806133997","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_415ca41e-ac99-4a6f-88dd-6476139085ed.jpg?v=1683319067","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/napoleon-and-berlin-michael-v-leggiere-9780806133997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}