Austerlitz: The Story of a Battle

318 pp. "This work is a detailed account of the brillant victory of Austerlitz which confirmed Bonaparte's claim to the title of Emperor Napoleon. Manceron recreates this fateful day of Austerlitz in absorbing fashion. Using contemporary documents, memoirs, letters, orders of battle and other pertinent material, he takes the reader into the smoke and hell of the battlefield, into the clash of heavy calvary, and then along the route of retreat with the vanquished Emperors and their shattered armies."