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12 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Napoleon's Wisdom
Here is a distillation in one slim volume of the knowledge and wisdom of history's greatest military commander. Napoleon's unparalleled success was built on practical experience combined with his own study of the great empire-builders, from Alexander to Fredrick the Great--and the essence of what he learned from them is incorporated in this book (from the...
Published on May 7, 2000 by Jonathan H. Skaggs
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Why not all the maxims???????
Napoleon's Maxims totalled more than ninety, and the totality of ALL of these are invaluable to the student of military history. Yet only a fraction of them were translated in the original volume that first appeared in the early 20th century; even worse, Chandler did not complete the job since this would have been a golden opportunity to showcase the previously ommitted...
Published on October 24, 2001
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17 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Why not all the maxims???????,
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This review is from: The Military Maxims Of Napoleon (Paperback)
Napoleon's Maxims totalled more than ninety, and the totality of ALL of these are invaluable to the student of military history. Yet only a fraction of them were translated in the original volume that first appeared in the early 20th century; even worse, Chandler did not complete the job since this would have been a golden opportunity to showcase the previously ommitted and rarely-seen Maxims. Hopefully, some historian will do the complete job the next time.
12 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Napoleon's Wisdom,
This review is from: The Military Maxims Of Napoleon (Paperback)
Here is a distillation in one slim volume of the knowledge and wisdom of history's greatest military commander. Napoleon's unparalleled success was built on practical experience combined with his own study of the great empire-builders, from Alexander to Fredrick the Great--and the essence of what he learned from them is incorporated in this book(from the introduction of the work) |
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The Military Maxims of Napoleon by David G. Chandler (Hardcover - February 19, 2006)
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