First edition. Portrait frontispiece, three folding maps, one of them a large coloured General Map bound at the rear, numerous full-page maps to the text. 8vo. Ex-Boots Library copy, “ghost” of shield to the upper board, ink-stamped date and slight mark from the removal of issue-slip to the rear pastedown only, else a very good copy in the original blue cloth, a little rubbed. xii, 180pp. OUP, 1930.
Account of Napoleon’s early campaigns in Italy by the noted Military Analyst. The final volume of his Napoloenic Trilogy it had “… its origins many years before when Wilkinson furthered his own military education by studying “the way in which Bonaparte had hearned his business.” “ [Luvaas The Education of an Army. p.286]
