Osprey Campaign Series #113 'Rossbach and Leuthen 1757: Prussia's Eagle Resurgent (2002) By Simon Millar (Author), Adam Hook (Illustrator)
 
From the famed Osprey Military History Collection comes the 'Campaign' Book Collection providing detailed background to the battles of History.
 
A detailed, illustrated account of two significant victories for Frederick the Great: against the Franco-Imperial and Austrian armies.

By the autumn of 1757 Frederick the Great was beset by enemies on all sides. The French had invaded the territory of his Anglo-Hanoverian allies, a Franco-Imperial army was threatening Saxony, an Austrian army 110,000-strong had marched into Silesia and even the ponderous Russians had moved against him.

Then within a month Frederick transformed his fortunes. At Rossbach on 5 November he smashed the Franco-Imperial army in barely 1 1/2 hours. Force-marching to Silesia he won perhaps his greatest victory exactly a month later, crushing the Austrian Army at Leuthen.

Alongside maps and illustrations, Simon Millar explores the lightning campaign that the Emperor Napoleon considered 'a masterpiece of manoeuvre and resolution'.
 
Soft Cover
96 Pages
In Good Condition