Napoleon's Marshals

by R. F. Delderfield

Overview

The masterful saga of Bonaparte's twenty-six military Marshals by Napoleonic authority Delderfield is set against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise and his conquests, and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815412137
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/04/2002
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

R. F. Delderfield (1912-1972) wrote Imperial Sunset: The Fall of Napoleon, 1813-1814, and the novels God Is an Englishman and Theirs Was the Kingdom.

Table of Contents

	Preface and Dramatis Personae	xi
I	Drumbeat	1
II	The Gage of Battle	21
III	Italian Spring	33
IV	Forty Thousand Castaways	45
V	"Security for All!"	56
VI	Massena Hears Thunder	62
VII	The Unwanted Map	67
VIII	"Soldiers, I am Content with You!"	79
IX	Titles and Triumphs	86
X	The Road to the Raft	98
XI	Throne to Let	106
XII	The Big River	118
XIII	The Road Across the Mountains	134
XIV	The Road Across the Plains	147
XV	The Road Home	158
XVI	"A Set of Scoundrels Going to the Devil"	166
XVII	"He is Deaf to our Calamities"	183
XVIII	"Send no More Men: I Have Enough!"	192
XIX	"We Shall be Hanged if we Live Through This!"	207
XX	"Vive Le Plus Fort!"	214
XXI	To Valhalla	223
	The Sources of This Book	235
	Index	243

Editorial Reviews

A long-needed work.... It is no small accomplishment to relate the details, campaigns and fates of so varied a group of men.

The glory days of France come glitteringly to life.

From the Publisher

A long-needed work…. It is no small accomplishment to relate the details, campaigns and fates of so varied a group of men.

|Los Angeles Times

The glory days of France come glitteringly to life.

Chicago Tribune

A long-needed work…. It is no small accomplishment to relate the details, campaigns and fates of so varied a group of men.

Los Angeles Times

The glory days of France come glitteringly to life.

Chicago Tribune