Hardcover Edition, 5 x 7.5 in., 252 pages.
Greenhill Books  ISBN 0947898646

Paperback Editon, 5.4 x 7.93 in.  252 pages.
Da Capo Press  ISBN 0-30680-618-5

Contains 78 military maxims of Napoleon. This classic book brings together the knowledge and wisdom of history's greatest military commander. Napoleon's success was built on practical experience combined with his own study of the great empire builders, from Alexander to Frederick the Great. The essence of what he learned is distilled in the Maxims in this book.

This version of the Maxims was first published in 1901, eighty-six years after the Battle of Waterloo. The original edition included notes commenting on nineteenth-century warfare in the context of the Maxims and also discussed and illustrated them with examples from Napoleon's campaigns and from earlier wars.

Now leading Napoleonic scholar David G. Chandler makes the thoughts of Napoleon readily available to a new generation. Here are Napoleon's own ideas, observations, and insights on a wide range of topics, from organizing a campaign to commanding an army, from battle tactics to the strategies of empire building. Here, too, are Napoleon's thoughts about the lessons he learned from the other great military leaders of history.

Chandler provides an insightful new introduction and commentaries that put Napoleon's ideas in the twentieth century perspective of two world wars, Vietnam, the Falklands, and other conflicts.

These are the principles on which Napoleon's military, politicial, and diplomatic triumphs were build. A unique catalog of tenets of the art of war, this book permits everyone -- history buff, military enthusiast, Napoleonic scholar alike -- to experience the genius of Napoleon in one volume.

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