Westport: Praeger, Date: 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 243 pages. In Very good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Red spine with white lettering. Dust jacket has a tiny closed tear on bottom right corner. Text block clean. Note: Shelved in Netdesk Column F, ND-F. 1378587. FP New Rockville Stock. 1995. Praeger ISBN 0275946940 US

Praeger, Date: 1995-07-24. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1995. Praeger ISBN 0275946940 9780275946944 [US]

ISBN10: 0275946940, ISBN13: 9780275946944, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is the first English language account of the 1809 campaign for Vienna to weave stories of individual persons into the larger motif of the struggle to dominate Europe. The book explores three themes: the decline of Napoleon's powers, the rise of German nationalism, the end of the era of cavalry dominance of the battlefield and the ascendance of artillery. The campaign for Vienna led to Napoleon's first defeat on the battlefield. In May, Napoleon sat with his defeated army at the end of a long and imperiled line of communications. At the moment of crisis, he displayed his formidable talents and prepared a masterful counterstroke. The Battle of Wagram-a battle of unprecedented lethality-was a triumph for Napoleon and led to a peace which he dictated.In 1809 the world's undisputed military genius-Napoleon Bonaparte-confronted his implacable continental foe, the Hapsburg Empire. During the Vienna campaign of that year, Napoleon suffered his first defeat since becoming Emperor, but rebounded to win Wagram, a battle of unprecedented lethality. Referring to the strategic importance of the battles he fought, Napoleon reflected: My power is dependent on my glory, and my glory on my victories. My power would fall if I did not base it on still more glory and still more victories. Conquest made me what I am; conquest ...
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