Napoleon of the snows
By: by Major-General Sir John Adye. With an introduction by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby.
Publisher: Nash & Grayson
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Military leadership.; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Italy.; Marengo, Battle of, Marengo, Italy, 1800.
Notes: "A detailed account of Bonaparte's daily movements and activities from the sixth of May 1800 ... to the fourteenth of June in the same year, when he fought the battle of Marengo ... I do not pretend to give a complete history of the operations of that army or a criticism of their conduct; my object is rather to show the workings of the Napoleonic mind in that brief but pregnant period and in the months of preparation that preceded it."--Pref.