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Chargement... Napoleon & Berlin: The Napoleonic Wars in Prussia, 1813 (2002)par Michael V. Leggiere
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At a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French dominance in Central Europe, why did he fixate on the Prussian capital of Berlin? Instead of concentrating his forces for a decisive showdown with the enemy, he repeatedly detached large numbers of troops, under ineffective commanders, toward the capture of Berlin. In Napoleon and Berlin, Michael V. Leggiere explores Napoleon’s almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this strategy ultimately lost him all of Germany. Napoleon’s motives have remained a subject of controversy from his own day until ours. He may have hoped to deliver a tremendous blow to Prussia’s war-making capacity and morale. Ironically, the heavy losses and strategic reverses sustained by the French left Napoleon’s Grande Armee vulnerable to an Allied coalition that eventually drove Napoleon from Central Europe forever. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The slickest and meanest game was played by Bernadotte in his role as Swedish king. Knowing that his only goal was the capture of Norway, he essentially kept his Swedish army out of the battles, letting the Prussians and Russians do the bleeding. The Swedish-Russian cooperation was hampered by the recent Finnish War: Russia had just wrested Finland away from Sweden and even shortly invaded Sweden's mainland. It is not quite clear whether the author is aware of this war. Overall, a good read about a lesser aspect of the 1813 campaign. ( )