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The Emperor's Last Victory: Napoleon and the Battle of Wagram
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The Emperor's Last Victory: Napoleon and the Battle of Wagram By Gunther Rothenberg £20.00, 352 pages Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004 ISBN: 0297846728
The campaign of 1809, culminating with the battle of Wagram near Vienna on 5-6 July 1809, is often seen as simply one in a string of Napoleonic victories. To Gunther Rothenberg, however, it is the last of the string, the last of the great Napoleonic victories. And while it provided Napoleon with what he needed, namely a victory complete enough to cause the enemy to lose hope and the will to continue the fight, it also revealed a critical ...
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