Napoleon''s Military Maxims

About Beatrice HeuserDavid G ChandlerPhilip Haythornthwaite

Dr David G. Chandler (1934-2004) was the foremost expert on Napoleonic warfare the military campaigns of Napoleon and the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough. His seminal works include The Campaigns of Napoleon On the Napoleonic Wars and The Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair in International Relations at Glasgow University. Her degrees are from the Universities of London (BA MA) and Oxford (DPhil) and the Philipps-University of Marburg (Habilitation). From 1991-2003 she taught at the Department of War Studies King's College London ultimately as Chair of International and Strategic Studies. Beatrice Heuser has worked primarily on aspects of strategy publishing Reading Clausewitz (2002); Strategy before Clausewitz (2017) and The Evolution of Strategy (2010) which covers the period from Antiquity to the Present; specifically on nuclear strategy: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe (1997); Nuclear Mentalities? (1998); and The Bomb (1999). She has also researched and edited volumes on insurgencies and counterinsurgency. Her latest publication is WAR: A genealogy of Western ideas and practices (2022).