Guns in the Desert
Subtitle: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau's Journal of Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition (Contributions in Military Studies)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: December 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780313325120
Subjects: History; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe - General; Middle East - General; Military - Napoleonic Wars; Death and burial; History / Military / General; Kleber, Jean-Baptiste; Military leadership; Ancient - Egypt; 1769-1821; Campaigns; Contemporaries; Egypt; Emperor of the French,; French occupation, 1798-1801; I,; Napoleon; Second Coalition, War of the,; Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801; Sources
First sentence: "Among the dazzling fireworks of the Napoleonic campaigns, the Egyptian Expedition is the rocket that failed to ignite."