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The Road to Rivoli
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"Martin Boycott-Brown has produced a pearl of considerable price to set among the groaning shelves of Napoleonic scholarship." -- Allan Mallinson, The Spectator.
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When this work appeared in March 2001, it was over 45 years since a book had been published in English dealing with Napoleon's first campaign.
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Read some comments about The Road to Rivoli.
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 There are now very few copies of the hardback available. A paperback version was published in March 2002. For more information, go to Amazon UK or one of the other sellers mentioned below.
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Features:
- The first English-language book dealing with this crucial phase of Napoleon's career to be published since 1953.
- Describes the major actions in more detail than any previous work in English.
- Presents material from Austrian and Italian sources in English for the first time.
- Extensive quotation from the letters and memoirs of eye-witnesses, including Napoleon himself, generals, officers, soldiers, diplomats, and local civilians.
- Chapters sketching the background to the campaign (the origins of the war, contemporary weapons and tactics, the characteristics of the opposing armies).
- Outlines Napoleon's military education, and where he learned the skills he was to use.
- 560 pages, 12 maps.
- UK cover price: £20
- ISBN 0304353051
Comments by other authors:
'Octave Aubry, when assessing the effect that Napoleon had on France, wrote that "when an achievement ... bears such fruit, it provides its own justification." Martin Boycott-Brown has achieved a wonderful book about the first Italian campaign.' David Chandler.
'The most detailed and coherent account of the campaign that I have ever read ... a truly first-rate study.' Philip J. Haythornthwaite.
Published by:
Cassell & Co
Wellington House
125 Strand
London, WC1R 0BB
Credits:
Maps by S. N. Longland
Edited by Michael Boxall
Layout by David Gibbons
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