Военная история / Napoleon Against Great Odds: The Emperor and the Defenders of France, 1814

Издательство: Praeger
Автор: Ralph Ashby
Название: Napoleon Against Great Odds: The Emperor and the Defenders of France, 1814
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2010
Количество страниц: 246
ISBN: 978-0-313-38191-1
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2 мб

French defeat in 1814 is too often shrugged off as the result of obvious and understandable factors. Napoleon Against Great Odds: The Emperor and the Defenders of France, 1814 challenges the widely accepted notion that war-weariness and internal political opposition to Napoleon were the decisive and direct causes of French defeat. At least as important, it argues, were material shortages, diplomatic missteps, and even faulty strategic planning on Napoleon's part.