1805: Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition
by Goetz, Robert
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1853676446
- ISBN 13
- 9781853676444
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About This Item
London and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 2005. First Edition . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 3/4" x 10. Sewell, Max - Original Maps. 368 Pages Indexed. Black boards with gold lettering to the spine. Book and jacket in brand new gift quality condition. This is a blow-by-blow account of Napoleon's finest hour. Revealing new study of Napoleon's greatest victory. Dispels many of the myths surrounding the famous battle of the three emperors. Brought to life with numerous eyewitness accounts. The Battle of Austerlitz is almost universally regarded as the most impressive of Napoleon's many victories. The magnitude of the French achievement against a significantly larger army was unprecedented. In this insightful new study the author analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course of the battle hour by hour, describing the fierce see-saw battle around Sokolnitz, the epic struggle for the Pratzen Heights, the dramatic engagement between the legendary Lannes and Bagration in the north, and the widely misunderstood clash of Napoleon's Imperial Guard and Alexander's Imperial Leib-Guard. The author has produced a detailed and balanced assessment of the battle that for the first time places familiar French accounts in their proper perspective and exposes many myths regarding the battle that have been perpetuated and even embellished in recent books. In this book the reader is left with a new appreciation of Napoleon and his Grande Army of 1805, an army that decisively defeated not a hapless relic of the ancient regime but rather a formidable professional army that had fought the French armies on equal terms five years earlier.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20126
- Title
- 1805: Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition
- Author
- Goetz, Robert
- Illustrator
- Sewell, Max - Original Maps
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1853676446
- ISBN 13
- 9781853676444
- Publisher
- Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books
- Place of Publication
- London and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 6 3/4" x 10
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