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Gregory Fremont-Barnes
GREGORY FREMONT-BARNES holds a doctorate in Modern History from Oxford University and has served as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He has written extensively on a broad range of military history, including Battle Story: Goose Green 1982, Waterloo 1815 and The Falklands 1982: Ground Operations in the South Atlantic, as well as editing Armies of the Napoleonic Wars and the three-volume Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars .
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Oh, boy! Osprey starts its new Command range with a stinker of epic proportions. The editors at Osprey should feel ashamed for having published such a shoddy piece of work. Already the blurb about "a military account of Napoleon's martial career" hints at the troubles to come (martial - related to Mars, the god of war, hence synonymous to military).Nobody at Osprey cared enough to actually read the booklet. On p. 20, for instance, general Kienmeyer is spelled both Kienmeyer and Keinmeyer. About Austerlitz, they say on p. 19, "against 89,000 Allied troops, of whom about 16,000 were Russians and the remaining Austrians, ..." No, no, no. Most of the Austrian army had been captured at Ulm. Even a shred of Napoleonic knowledge should prevent such blunders. Even basic reading comprehension might have caught a few.Why they expect lay readers to understand their short accounts of the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo is beyond me. Even their Osprey campaign titles can not do justice to these battles. Trying to condense them further is futile. I challenge anyone to understand the battle of Austerlitz as told in the text.The top of the title page lists "leadership, strategy, conflict". None of this can be found in the table of content. This title is a bastardization of an Osprey Campaign and an Osprey Essential History. What a waste of a concept, as the material exists. One could have taken Colonel Vachée's brilliant account of "Napoleon at work", which shows a real commander at his job, and combine this with Hubert Camon's explanation of Napoleon's strategic tricks of "les manoeuvres sur les derrières" and "la position centrale".To add insult to injury in this train wreck, the man in the commissioned paintings does not even look like Napoleon. Osprey used to be about making military history accessible. It looks like they are trying to make it dumb now. Someone deserves a severe spanking (unfortunately, as they are British, they would probably enjoy it). A painful read. Buyers beware.