In 1814, after two successive years of defeat in Russia and central Europe, Napoleon was faced with the ultimate disaster - an Allied invasion of France itself. The conduct of the intense, fast-moving campaign that followed has been widely hailed as one of his greatest feats as a commander, yet it has rarely been described fully and objectively. Andrew Uffindell, in this gripping and original study, reconstructs the campaign, reassesses Napoleon's military leadership and provides a masterly account of a campaign that helped shape modern Europe. AUTHOR: Andrew Uffindell is a leading British military historian and one of the outstanding modern writers on the Napoleonic Wars. His most recent books include Napoleon's Immortals, a major reassessment of the Imperial Guard using previously unpublished material from the French archives, and The National Army Museum Book of Wellington's Armies, which was part of a series that collectively won the Royal United Services Institute's Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature. Among his many other books are Waterloo Commanders; Great Generals of the Napoleonic Wars; and The Eagle's Last Triumph, a study of Napoleon's final victory at Ligny. SELLING POINTS: * Exciting, new account of the pivotal 1814 campaign * Demolishes the popular myths * Uses unpublished archive material * Reassesses Napoleon as a commander * Reveals the untold stories of the campaign * Fully illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs of the battlefields today ILLUSTRATIONS 30 illustrations
