Napoleon at Bay – 1814

Following on from the Author's "Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany", Petre's closely researched and well argued account of the 1814 campaign, which would see some of the finest strategical manoeuvres of Napoleon's entire career. As the wreck of the last Grande Armée created in 1813, retreated home from Germany to France it was a pale shadow of its former glory. Marched into the ground as Napoleon struggled to pin down his enemies, and then beaten at Leipzig in the "battle of Nations" as faced b