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ABOUT THIS PRODUCT
Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in
history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Throughout the first decade of the 19th
century he won battle after battle by wielding the Grande ArmÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃée decisively
against the other powers of Europe - Prussia, Austria and Russia. Yet his
fortunes changed in 1812 when the invasion of Russia wrecked his forces, and
Napoleon suffered his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Gregory Fremont-Barnes holds a doctorate in Modern History from the
University of Oxford and serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. A prolific author, his
books include Waterloo 1815: The British Army's Day of Destiny and many
others on military and naval subjects covering the 18th to the 21st
centuries. Holding a particular interest in insurgency and
counterinsurgency, his wider work for the UK Ministry of Defence on these
subjects regularly takes him to Africa, the Middle East and South America.
As an academic advisor, Dr Fremont-Barnes has accompanied many groups of
British Army officers and senior NCOs in their visits to numerous
battlefields of the Peninsular War, the Waterloo campaign, Normandy and the
Falklands.
