Description: Further DetailsTitle: Napoleon's Enfant TerribleCondition: NewSubtitle: General Dominique VandammeEAN: 9780806169057ISBN: 9780806169057Publisher: University of Oklahoma PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/15/2021Description: A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander, Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed the emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command time and again. In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John G. Gallaher traces the career of one of Napoleon’s most successful midrank officers. He describes Vandamme’s rise from a provincial youth with neither fortune nor influence to an officer of the highest rank in the French army. Gallaher thus offers a rare look at a Napoleonic general who served for twenty-five years during the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. This was a time when a general could lose his head if he lost a battle. Despite Vandamme’s contentious nature, Gallaher shows, Napoleon needed his skills as a commander, and Vandamme needed Napoleon to further his career. Gallaher draws on a wealth of archival sources in France-notably the Vandamme Papers in Lille-to draw a full portrait of the general. He also reveals new information on such military events as the Silesian campaign of 1807 and the disaster at Kulm in 1813. Gallaher presents Vandamme in the context of the Napoleonic command system, revealing how he related to both subordinates and superiors. Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible depicts an officer who was his own worst enemy but who was instrumental in winning an empire.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 535gAuthor: John G. GallaherGenre: BiographyBook Series: Campaigns and Commanders SeriesTopic: Military History, Law & Politics, HistoryRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Napoleon's Enfant Terrible
Title: Napoleon's Enfant Terrible
Subtitle: General Dominique Vandamme
EAN: 9780806169057
ISBN: 9780806169057
Release Date: 07/15/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Biography
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 380 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Napoleon's Enfant Terrible : General Dominique Vandamme
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Europe / France, Historical, Military
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: John G. Gallaher
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
