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by Russ Lockwood
We received the following press release. --RL F. Loraine Petre wrote five books about the Napoleonic Wars which have been reprinted in the Napoleonic Library by Greenhill, and were reprinted by Arms & Armour Press thirty years ago. Now for the first time an F. Loraine Petre book is to appear in paperback - NAPOLEON'S CAMPAIGN IN POLAND 1806-7. Dr. David Chandler writes in his Introduction:
This republication will be welcomed by all students of the dramatic campaigns of the Grande Armee and its incomparable chief.” After Napoleon’s humiliation of Prussia, on the field of Jena, the French Emperor turned his attention to subduing his Russian foe and marched into Poland in the winter of 1806. Six months later, the Russians had been beaten and brought to the peace table and Napoleon was at the height of his powers. In his detailed study of this remarkable episode of Napoleonic history, F. Loraine Petre follows every move of the campaign. He assesses the defeat of Prussia, analyses the strengths and weaknesses of both Napoleon’s army and that of his Russian opponents, details the bloody battle of Eylau and describes Napoleon’s crushing victory over the Russians at Friedland. F. Loraine Petre’s campaign studies are renowned for their scope, detail and clarity, and NAPOLEON’S CAMPAIGN IN POLAND is a brilliant overview of Napoleon’s vaunted army confronting some of its most worthy opponents. F. Loraine Petre (the surname is pronounced ‘Peter’) was a distinguished military historian and student of Napoleonic tactics and strategy. Other Greenhill paperbacks on the Napoleonic Wars:
THE NOTEBOOKS OF CAPTAIN COIGNET ON THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Dr David Chandler WELLINGTON AT WATERLOO by Jac Weller WELLINGTON IN INDIA by Jac Weller WELLINGTON IN THE PENINSULA by Jac Weller The new paperback edition of NAPOLEON'S CAMPAIGN IN POLAND by F. Loraine Petre is now available. 8.5 x 5.5in (216 x 138mm); 400 pages; 18 illustrations, 8 maps. Pbk. ISBN: 1-85367-441-9. £12.99. Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Ltd
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