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Europe's Fate Was at Stake: Gneisenau and the Development of the Prussian Army, 1806-1815

Europe's Fate Was at Stake: Gneisenau and the Development of the Prussian Army, 1806-1815

Kinross, Stuart

Hardcover

Series: From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815

General Military HistoryGerman HistoryNapoleonic Wars

Publisher Price: $59.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 31, 2026

ISBN10: 180672300X
ISBN13: 9781806723003
Publisher: Helion & Company
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 358
Language: English
A pragmatic strategic thinker and practitioner, this study chronicles how a Prussian field marshal shaped army reform and warfare from Napoleon's defeat to the 1815 campaigns.

Europe's Fate was at Stake is the first comprehensive English-language study of the Prussian field marshal, Count August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760-1831). Using primary source material from archives and personal correspondence, as well as previous German studies, including the foundational biographies of Georg Heinrich Pertz and Hans Delbrück, this work brings Gneisenau's influence on the development of the Prussian army to an English-speaking audience. It shows this development in the context of a life as a practical soldier and military thinker from the army of Frederick the Great through to the Waterloo campaign.

The book takes the reader through the defeat by Napoleon in 1806 and subsequent resistance; the reform of the Prussian army under French occupation until 1812; and the Wars of Liberation between 1813 and 1815, during which Gneisenau served as chief of staff to Prince Gebhard von Blücher.

Overcoming the stereotypical portrayal in pre-1914 German literature of Gneisenau as a dogmatist wedded to decisive battle and the annihilation of the enemy, the work shows how he took a pragmatic approach to the planning and conducting of strategy and operations.

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