This little work, composed when the former Emperor was in exile on St. Helena, and Englished by retired engineer and British military officer Maguire, offers some interesting criticism of Caesar’s ...

“The heart of Black’s book is his discussions of strategy in the context of the contests for power among states and empires from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars . . . to the Cold War and ...

LIKE Cæsar, like Charlemagne, his truest prototypes, Napoleon was a myriad-minded man. No less great as an administrator than as a soldier, he was a keener diplomat than any minister of the powers ...