Napoleon at Bay (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783312252)

A classic account - illustrated with 24 detailed maps and plans - of Napoleon's fighting retreat across France in 1814 by the doyen of Napoleonic military historians F. Loraine Petre. Many judge this backs to the wall campaign - during which the Emperor's battered forces fought a battle every few days - to have been the most brilliantly conducted of Napoleon's many campaigns. Harried by enormously superior Russian, Prussian and Austrian armies, depressed and depleted by its devastating losses in Russia and Germany in the years since 1812, what was left of the Grande Armee still managed to keep its enemies at bay until the Emperor bowed to the inevitable and abdicated before departing for his first exile in Elba.

Author: F. Loraine Petre
ISBN-10: 1783312254
ISBN-13: 9781783312252
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2016
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d