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Napoleon at Leipzig: The Battle of Nations 1813
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #835575 in Books
- Published on: 1996-12-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Customer Reviews
Essential for detailed data but less good as narrative
Nafziger's books are essential for providing details on the Order of Battle. However with the two that I have read I feel that the books fail to capture or convey any real understanding of the battles, the decisions, mistakes, key moments etc.
This book contains many diagrams that I found less than useful. There are no high level maps showing how the various forces manouevered to arrive at the great battle. There is very lttle discussion on the thoughts of the protaganists, their aims and objectives. Why did Napoleon decide to fight at Leipzig, why did he spend the second day inactive, why did he eventually decide to withdraw?
In summary, love the OOB and detail, not so good as a narrative of the events of the battle.
Detailed Napoleonic battle book
The third in the author's trilogy on the 1813 campaign. He covers the entire period from September to December 1813, and in addition to Leipzig itself, he covers the battles leading up to it in Sept. and early Oct, the French retreat after the battle, the sieges of the fortresses incl Danzig, Glogau, Dresden, Magdeburg and numerous others, plus coverage of the Danes in December. Leipzig dashed the dreams of a French Empire when the armies of Prussia, Russia, Austria, and Sweden converged on Napoleon and his Grande Armee. It was the greatest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, so decisive it would be called "the Battle of Nations." Smaller countries like Poland and Saxony seemed to be submerged in the titanic struggle, and the battle shaped Europe for more than a century. Napoleon at Leipzig not only covers this pivotal battle, but also the maneuvers that led up to it and the retreat that followed. At Hanau, the Bavarians learned to their dismay that Napoleon was still the master of the battlefield. The book includes the campaigns of Marshal Davout in the north, and the fate of the besieged French fortresses. From glittering field marshals to ragged Cossacks, in massive battles or small skirmishes, we see the dramatic campaign unfold. George Nafziger s intensive research into the 1813 campaign shows how the finest general of all time was bought to bay. The greatest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, and the campaign that led up to it, is thoroughly studied for the first time in English in Napoleon at Leipzig 1996, hard bound in dust jacket, 7 1/2, x 10 1/2, 384 pp, numerous illus, maps, orders of battle, notes, index.
