Napoleon on the Danube

Napoleon on the Danube is a vivid depiction of the battles of Aspern/Essling and Wagram, fought against Austria in the late spring and summer of 1809 by Napoleon I. and the Archduke Charles of Austria. At Aspern/Essling, the myth of Napoleon's invincibility fell, and even Wagram did not end in a convincing French victory. The half-remembered events of the Danube War represented the last victorious campaign of the French Emperor. In non-fiction form and style, which won its author the popularity of his readers, with the help of a series of maps, period illustrations and ordre de bataille, the battle configuration of both armies, the book lets the memoirs do the talking, Marshals, generals, officers and soldiers on both the Austrian and French sides, who experienced that bloody struggle on the battlefields of the left bank of the Danube.