War Classic: The Campaigns of Napoleon

Many thousands of books have been published on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, making him by a wide margin the most extensively studied figure in military history. In the last decade alone, five heavyweight biographies have appeared, by Michael Broers, Philip Dwyer, Alan Forrest, Andrew Roberts, and Adam Zamoyski. Meanwhile, the flow of more specialist studies has continued, especially around the bicentenary of Waterloo in 2015. No writer, however, has superseded a book first published in 1966, David Chandler’s encyclopaedic survey of The Campaigns of Napoleon. Praised by figures as varied as Charles de Gaulle and General Norman Schwarzkopf, in more than 1,000 pages it chronicles in dep