David Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on the Napoleonic era. ^[1]

As a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Oxford University awarded him the D. Litt. in 1991. He held three visiting professorships: at Ohio State in 1970, at the Virginia Military Institute in 1988, and Marine Corps University in 1991. ^[2]

According to his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" (The Campaigns of Napoleon) is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals.

General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career." ^[3]

He was also the author of a military biography of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and of The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough, and contributed a number of articles on Napoleonic warfare to History Today magazine. ^[4]

Awards

• 1979 Gold Cross of Merit of Poland^{[ citation needed]}
• 1939–1960 British National Service^{[ citation needed]}

Works

• 1966 – The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Macmillan. ISBN  978-0297748304.
• 1973 – Napoleon. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN  978-0297765691. reprinted 2000, Barnsley, Pen & Sword ISBN  978-0850527506.
• 1979 – Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan. ISBN  978-0025236707.
• 1979 – Marlborough as Military Commander. London: Batsford. ISBN  978-0713420753.
• 1980 – Atlas of Military Strategy: The Art, Theory and Practice of War, 1618–1878. London: Arms & Armour. ISBN  978-0853681342.
• 1981 – Waterloo: The Hundred Days. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN  978-0540011704.
• 1987 – Napoleon's Marshals (ed.). New York: Macmillan. ISBN  978-0029059302.
• 1987 – The Military Maxims of Napoleon (ed.). London: Greenhill. ISBN  978-1853675126.
• 1987 – The Dictionary of Battles (ed.). London: Ebury Press. ISBN  978-0852236871.
• 1989 – Battles and Battlescenes of World War Two. New York: Macmillan. ISBN  978-0028971759.
• 1990 – The Illustrated Napoleon. London: Greenhill. ISBN  978-1853670862.
• 1990 – Austerlitz, 1805: Battle of the Three Emperors (Osprey Military Campaign). London: Osprey. ISBN  978-0850459579.
• 1990 – The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount. ISBN  978-0946771424.
• 1993 – Jena 1806: Napoleon destroys Prussia Osprey Publishing. ISBN  978-1855322851.
• 1994 – On the Napoleonic Wars. London: Greenhill. ISBN  978-1853671586.
• 1994 – The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army. (ed.). Oxford: University Press. ISBN  978-0198691785.
• 1994 – The D-Day Encyclopedia. (ed with James Lawton Collins Jr.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Helicon ISBN  978-0132036214.

See also

• Napoleon legacy and memory
• Jean Tulard
• Fondation Napoléon

References