David G. Chandler

David Geoffrey Chandler (born January 15, 1934 - October 10, 2004 ) was a British military historian. He specialized in particular in the time of Napoleon and was head of the War Studies Department at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst for fifteen years .

Live and act

Chandler was the son of a clergyman who lost a leg in World War I. He went to Marlborough College and studied at Keble College ( University of Oxford ). In military service he was in the Royal Army Educational Corps in Nigeria and made it a captain. He then went to the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, where Peter Young established a department of military historians. In addition to Chandler, John Keegan , Richard Holmes , Keith Simpson , Christopher Duffy and Antony Brett-James studied there .

He wrote a standard work on Napoleon's campaigns (which earned him praise from Charles de Gaulle ) and was also an expert on the Duke of Marlborough .

In 1991 he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. He was visiting professor in the USA several times: Ohio State University (1970), Virginia Military Institute (1988) and Marine Corps University (1991).

As a hobby, he was a member of Peter Young's Sealed Knob Society , which re-enacted battles during the English Civil War. He also occasionally liked to give lectures in period uniforms from Napoleonic times or the Marlboroughs .

He has also been involved in several BBC series on military history topics and a. Consultant for the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's " War and Peace " in the early 1970s. He also conducted battlefield tours and was the editor of the series of monographs on individual battles at Osprey .

Honors

• 1979 Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Golden Cross)

Fonts (selection)

Essays

• Armies and Navies, Part 1: The Art of War on Land . In: John S. Bromley (Ed.): The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715 / 25 ( The New Cambridge Modern History , Vol. 6). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1970, ISBN 0-521-07524-6 , pp. 741-762.

Monographs

• Campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1998, ISBN 0-297-74830-0 (EA New York 1966)
• Napoleon . Leo Cooper Books, Barnsley 2002, ISBN 0-85052-750-3 (EA Barnsley 1973)
  • German translation: Napoleon . Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1978, ISBN 3-404-00697-6 .
• Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars . Greenhill, London 1993, ISBN 1-85367-150-9 (EA New York 1979).
• Marlborough as Military Commander . Penguin, London 2000, ISBN 0-14-139043-3 (EA London 1979).
• Atlas of Military Strategy. The Art, Theory and Practice of War, 1618-1878 . Arms & Armor, London 2000, ISBN 1-85409-493-9 (EA London 1980).
• Waterloo . The Hundred Days . Philip Publ., London 1988, ISBN 0-540-01170-3 (EA Oxford 1981).
• Battles and Battlescenes of World War Two . Arms & Armor, London 1989, ISBN 0-85368-936-9 .
• The Illustrated Napoleon . Greenhill, London 1990, ISBN 1-85367-086-3 .
• Austerlitz 1805 . Battle of the Three Emperors (Osprey Military Campaign Series; Vol. 2). Michelin House, London 1994, ISBN 0-85045-957-5 (EA London 1990).
• The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough . Spellmount Books, Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1990, ISBN 0-946771-42-1 .
• Jena 1806 . Napoleon destroys Prussia (Osprey Military Campaign Series; Vol. 20). Osprey Publ., London 2005, ISBN 1-85532-285-4 (EA London 1993).
• On the Napoleonic Wars. Essays . Greenhill, London 1994, ISBN 1-85367-158-4 .

As editor

• Napoleon 's Marshals . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1987, ISBN 0-297-84275-7 .
• Auguste A. Grouard (arrangement): Maximes de guerre de Napoleon Ier. Stratégie Napoléonienne . New edition. Baudoin, Paris 1898.
  • English translation: The military maxims of Napoleon . Greenhill, London 1987, ISBN 0-947898-64-6 (EA London 1901)
  • German translation: Napoleon's "Principles of War" . Michelsen Ponthieu, Leipzig 1828.
• The Dictionary of Battles. The world's key battles from 405 BC to today . Ebury Press, London 1987, ISBN 0-852236874-5 .
• The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army . OUP, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-19-869178-5 .
• with James L. Collins: The D-Day Encyclopedia . Helicon Books, London 1994, ISBN 0-09-178265-1 .

Web links

• Obituary for David G. Chandler in The Daily Telegraph, November 9, 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Awarded by the Polish government in exile .