A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe (Wordsworth Military Library)

400 pages | 1999-03 | PDF | 7.3 Mb Professional soldiers have always displayed considerable interest in the sites of battlefields, whether ancient or modern, hoping to improve their military education by attempts to relate historical events to the actual ground. Sometimes their application to this pastime has had special significance. Napoleon, for example, developed an obsession with Marengo