The Campaigns of Napoleon
Eliot Fremont-SmithBooks of the TimesA massive and absorbing -- one is tempted to say definitive -- account and detailed analysis of the military career of Napoleon....The descriptions of the battles -- all the important ones, and all augmented by superb position maps -- have perhaps never been done with greater clarity.The New York Review of BooksChandler can hold up his head with the best of them. His prose is as clear as his intellect....his scholarship is excellent...this is a fine book for the historian, the student, and the intelligent reader.Los Angeles TimesChandler's analysis is so thorough that there is hardly an area untouched.The New YorkerThe book is engrossing, and...amounts to a first-rate general account of Europe in the Napoleonic era....brilliant, unremittingly attentive to detail and sparkling with insights into a man, a nation, and an epoch.The Boston GlobeWriting clearly and vividly, [Chandler] turns dozens of persons besides Napoleon from mere wooden soldiers into three- dimensional characters.John BarkhamBook WeekIn every way...a pleasure to read...a remarkable work which comes as close to dissecting the ingredients of Napoleon's military genius as any I have read...[it is] that rare combination -- a book impeccable in its expertise, penetrating in its analysis, and attractive in its presentation. No matter how numerous your books on Napoleon, make room for this one.St. Louis Post-DispatchFew works equal the scope and scholarship of Chandler'sThe Campaigns of Napoleon...a masterpiece in the truest sense of what military history ought to be.