ebooks Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Jr. Vine Deloria in History

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At a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French dominance in Central Europe; why did he fixate on the Prussian capital of Berlin? Instead of concentrating his forces for a decisive showdown with the enemy; he repeatedly detached large numbers of troops; under ineffective commanders; toward the capture of Berlin. In Napoleon and Berlin; Michael V. Leggiere explores Napoleon’s almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this strategy ultimately lost him all of Germany. Napoleon’s motives have remained a subject of controversy from his own day until ours. He may have hoped to deliver a tremendous blow to Prussia’s war-making capacity and morale. Ironically; the heavy losses and strategic reverses sustained by the French left Napoleon’s Grande Armee vulnerable to an Allied coalition that eventually drove Napoleon from Central Europe forever.