Book description
In the spring of 1796 the 26-year-old Napoleon took command of the Army of Italy - a collection of some 45,000 ill-fed, poorly-clothed and disillusioned men. He had only ever participated in one campaign and had never been involved in a major battle, much less conducted one as the commanderā¦
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This is a detailed and meticulously researched book focusing on Bonaparteās first independent command. The Army of Italy is little more than an afterthought but he forges his rag-tag troops into a force that expels the Austrians from most of northern Italy. I loved the eye-witness accounts and the authorās ability to evaluate events such as those at the bridge over the Arcole. It became part of the Napoleonic legend, immortalised in Grosā painting, that the young general was in the thick of the fighting but this has been denounced as blatant propaganda. We learn from Boycott-Brown that both thingsā¦
From Gareth's list on getting inside Napoleon Bonaparteās head.
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