Product Description: Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its portrayal of one of the world's great generals as a scrambler who never had a plan, strategic or tactical, that did not break down or change of necessity in the field...read more

This classic work on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era has been thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent scholarship on a magnificently complex epoch. The text is appropriate for the upper level history course titled French Revolution and Napoleonic Era. Its primary purpose is to give undergraduate students the generally accepted "story" of the Era and furnish them with the basic knowledge to put in context the more sophisticated works listed in the bibliography.