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1805 Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition
By Robert Goetz
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This in-depth study of The Battle of Austerlitz, considered Napoleon’s greatest victory, won the Napoleon Foundation’s History Grand Prize.
Sometimes called The Battle of Three Emperors, Napoleon’s victory against the combined forces of Russia and Austria brought a decisive end to The War of the Third Coalition. The magnitude of the French achievement against a larger army was met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
In 1805: Austerlitz, historian Robert Goetz demonstrates how Napoleon and his Grande Armée of 1805 defeated a formidable professional army that had fought the French armies on equal terms five years earlier. Goetz analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course of the battle hour by hour, describing the fierce see-saw battle around Sokolnitz, the epic struggle for the Pratzen Heights, the dramatic engagement between the legendary Lannes and Bagration in the north, and the widely misunderstood clash of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard and Alexander’s Imperial Leib-Guard. Goetz’s detailed and balanced assessment of the battle exposes many myths that have been perpetuated and even embellished in other accounts.
Sometimes called The Battle of Three Emperors, Napoleon’s victory against the combined forces of Russia and Austria brought a decisive end to The War of the Third Coalition. The magnitude of the French achievement against a larger army was met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
In 1805: Austerlitz, historian Robert Goetz demonstrates how Napoleon and his Grande Armée of 1805 defeated a formidable professional army that had fought the French armies on equal terms five years earlier. Goetz analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course of the battle hour by hour, describing the fierce see-saw battle around Sokolnitz, the epic struggle for the Pratzen Heights, the dramatic engagement between the legendary Lannes and Bagration in the north, and the widely misunderstood clash of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard and Alexander’s Imperial Leib-Guard. Goetz’s detailed and balanced assessment of the battle exposes many myths that have been perpetuated and even embellished in other accounts.
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Reviews for 1805 Austerlitz
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent study using primary sources.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I don’t know how I missed this one, but it’s a superb history of the Austerlitz campaign. Robert Goetz is an amateur historian. I would look forward to his next work, but, alas, 1805 Austerlitz seems to be the only book he has written.In retrospect, Austerlitz appears to have been an almost inevitable triumph of a dynamic military leader against the tired, old leaders of monarchist Europe. In fact, it was very much a near-run thing, and if the monarchist leaders of Russia were defeated, it was because they were too young and frivolous, not because they were old and tired. Oh, and Napoleon was a skillful military leader after all, not merely an “average” general.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An excellent review of the battle, without going too deeply into detail. There are quite a few situation maps, which is a definite plus for trying to follow the flow of the action within the text. The book includes a lengthy discussion on trying to establish troop strengths and losses, which tends to presume familiarity with the books cited. Fortunately, this is presented as an appendix, which can be skipped without detracting from the enjoyment of the book and the acquistion of knowledge about the campaign and battle.