TY - BOOK ID - 3495754 TI - On war AU - Napoléon AU - Colson, Bruno AU - Elliott, Gregory AU - Oxford University Press PY - 2015 SN - 9780199685561 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - War KW - Strategy KW - Guerre KW - Stratégie KW - Napoleon KW - Stratégie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3495754 AB - In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the destruction of the materials he had collected for the volume. Thus was lost what would have been one of the most interesting and important books on the art of war ever written, by one of the most famous and successful military leaders of all time. In the two centuries since, several attempts have been made to gather together some of Napoleon's 'military maxims', with varying degrees of success. But not until now has there been a systematic attempt to put Napoleon's thinking on war and strategy into a single authoritative volume, reflecting both the full spectrum of his thinking on these matters as well as the almost unparalleled range of his military experience, from heavy cavalry charges in the plains of Russia or Saxony to counter-insurgency operations in Egypt or Spain. ER -