Greenhill have combined two of their key interests – alternate history and the Napoleonic Wars – to produce a dramatic new book on Napoleon's campaigns: THE NAPOLEON OPTIONS Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars Edited by Jonathan North This compelling alternate history, brilliantly written by ten leading international authors, presents the great 'maybes' of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleon Options focuses on some of the pivotal episodes of those catastrophic wars, gives them a resounding twist and explores in detail an alternate sequence of historical events. Rooted firmly in reality, and projected from entirely factual events, these dramatic and plausible possibilities are played out as though they actually happened in vivid and dramatic narratives. The Napoleon Options presents ten scenarios spanning the years between 1796 and 1815. Paddy Griffith examines the results of a full-blown French invasion of Ireland, a very real danger in the 1790s; Charles Grant studies the results of a successful French occupation of Egypt and the Middle East, and the impact of this new French empire on the British in India; Philip Haythornthwaite refights the battle of Vimeiro, a pivotal moment of the Peninsular War; John H. Gill imagines the effect of an early Austrian offensive in 1809; Digby Smith presents an alternate Borodino and its disastrous effect on Napoleon's 1812 campaign; Jonathan North examines how the French could have reversed the retreat from Moscow and looks at the results of a successful French invasion of Russia; John Gallaher analyses how the 1813 campaign in Germany might have been different had Napoleon pursued successfully after Dresden; Peter Hofschröer considers the consequences of an Allied blunder very early on in the Waterloo campaign; Andrew Uffindell investigates an alternate – and more bloody – engagement on the field of Waterloo itself; and John Elting suggests what could have happened had the French recovered and fought back after Waterloo. These captivating scenarios colourfully illustrate how alternate events might well have shaped a radically different world and demonstrate the far-reaching consequences of minor changes upon the surging course of events. The Napoleon Options will be published in February, in time to be the focal book of the Napoleonic Fair, and has 224 pages, 11 maps and 27 illustrations. The Napoleon Options follows on from other successful Greenhill alternate histories such as For Want of a Nail (American War of Independence), Gettysburg: An Alternate History (American Civil War), Invasion: The Alternate History of the German Invasion of England, July 1940 (World War II), Disater at D-Day (World War II) and The Hitler Options (World War II). Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 96 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com