Napoleon's Marshals (Paperback)

from Schmerguls

1035 Napoleon's Marshals, by R. F. Delderfield (read 29 Nov 1969) The author is British but his admiration for aspects of Napoleon permeates his books and is contagious. I found myself half-consciously "for" Napoleon all the way through this book. I suppose it is a grandeur, an air, a mystique: I...

from Schmerguls

1035 Napoleon's Marshals, by R. F. Delderfield (read 29 Nov 1969) The author is British but his admiration for aspects of Napoleon permeates his books and is contagious. I found myself half-consciously "for" Napoleon all the way through this book. I suppose it is a grandeur, an air, a mystique: I...

from dhmontgomery

A useful, if overwrought, narrative history of Napoleon's famous marshals — Ney, Davout, Masséna, Soult and the rest of them, told more-or-less chronologically. It's written in an old-fashioned, cavalier and opinionated style, with the author's judgments about the behavior of particular men or wo...

from Schmerguls

1035 Napoleon's Marshals, by R. F. Delderfield (read 29 Nov 1969) The author is British but his admiration for aspects of Napoleon permeates his books and is contagious. I found myself half-consciously "for" Napoleon all the way through this book. I suppose it is a grandeur, an air, a mystique: I...

from Schmerguls

1035 Napoleon's Marshals, by R. F. Delderfield (read 29 Nov 1969) The author is British but his admiration for aspects of Napoleon permeates his books and is contagious. I found myself half-consciously "for" Napoleon all the way through this book. I suppose it is a grandeur, an air, a mystique: I...