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" Napoleon on war / "
edited by Bruno Colson ; translated by Gregory Elliott
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BL
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624672
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Works.English.
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| Main Entry
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Napoleon, I,Emperor of the French,1769-1821
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Napoleon on war /\ edited by Bruno Colson ; translated by Gregory Elliott
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First edition
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viii, 484 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780199685561
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: 0199685568
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| Notes
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"Originally published as Napoléon: De la guerre, ©Perrin, 2011"--Title page verso
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-469) and index
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| Contents
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book 1. The nature of war -- book 2. The theory of war -- book 3. On strategy in general -- book 4. The engagement -- book 5. Military forces -- book 6. Defence -- book 7. Attack -- book 8. War plans
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A systematic attempt to put Napoleon's thinking on war and strategy into a single volume. Taken from correspondence, other writings, and especially the notebooks of General Bertrand, the Emperor's companion on St. Helena--published here for the first time--annotated and organized to follow the framework of Clausewitz's On war
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Napoleon, I,1769-1821-- Military leadership
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Clausewitz, Carl von,1780-1831., Vom Kriege
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War
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Strategy
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Military art and science-- France-- History-- 19th century, Sources
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815-- Campaigns, Sources
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Colson, Bruno
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Bertrand, Henri-Gratien,comte,1773-1844
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Elliott, Gregory
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On war
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