From the period of his birth and first appointment in the Prussian service, down to his second entry into Paris, in 1815. A comprehensive biography of Field-Marshall Prince Blücher by his army’s Quarter-Master-General, translated from the original German and with considerable additions by J.E. Marston. The text includes numerous eye-witness accounts of the action, accompanied by explanatory maps. Gniesenau was one of the prime architects of the Prussian military reforms 1806-1811. He was made Blucher's chief of staff from 1813 through the Waterloo campaign. Not only the most important life of Blucher, but one of our most valuable primary sources for the latter portion of the Napoleonic Wars.
