Napoleon & Berlin: The Napoleonic Wars by Michael V. Leggiere - 2004-01

Paperback. Very Good.

Tempus Publishing. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 2002. First Edition. Softcover. 0752423339 . A crisp, clean, tightly bound softcover copy appearing unread, presenting light shelf wear only. .

Tempus Pub Ltd. 368 pages. Paper very lightly browning. Small round private name stamp on title page. Paperback. Napoleon & Berlin: The Napoleonic Wars: The Napoleonic Wars in Prussia, 1813 . Good. Soft cover. 2002.

Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002. 1st edition.. Paperback. Very Good. Very good condition. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was obsessed with capturing Berlin - this book explores this doomed campaign which ultimately derailed his plans for the domination of Europe and lost him the Napoleonic Wars. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps and illustrations. Browning to contents. Cigarette odour present.

Tempus, 2004. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paper Edition. 155mm x 235mm. Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 268pp At 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 Napoleon and Berlin, Michael V. Leggiere explores Napoleon's almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this strategy ultimately lost him all of Germany.Napoleon'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… Read More

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