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The Campaign of Leipzig 1813
40 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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Jeff Parker
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January 10, 2014
Jeff Parker's "The Campaign of Leipzig 1813" is a summary of the 1813 Napoleonic War Campaign. At 40 pages, it truly is short. And it does make a valiant effort to enlighten the reader.
My compliments to the author for his hard work. And there is no question that writing a book is hard work.
However, the book would have benefited from a few more rewrites and better editorial and author attention. Additionally, from the writing, this reader did not get a sense that the author had a full command of the history or how the author wanted to present the history to the reader. The material is uneven. Sometimes some details are provided, and other times none are.
At the end of the book, one does not gain a full sense of how this Campaign so profoundly affected the fortunes of Europe for the next century and how it effectively ended 20 years of Revolutionary and Imperial French hegemony.
My compliments to the author for his hard work. And there is no question that writing a book is hard work.
However, the book would have benefited from a few more rewrites and better editorial and author attention. Additionally, from the writing, this reader did not get a sense that the author had a full command of the history or how the author wanted to present the history to the reader. The material is uneven. Sometimes some details are provided, and other times none are.
At the end of the book, one does not gain a full sense of how this Campaign so profoundly affected the fortunes of Europe for the next century and how it effectively ended 20 years of Revolutionary and Imperial French hegemony.
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