Chandler, David G.

David G. Chandler is Head of the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and a Fellow of both the Royal Historical and the Royal Geographical societies. He is President of the British Commission for Military History and a Vice- President of the Commission International d'Histoire Militaire.

During his researches for "The Campaigns of Napoleon, " Mr. Chandler made considerable use of primary sources -- including the thirty-two volumes of "Correspondence de I'Empereur Napoleon Iier" -- and consulted many contemporary memoirs and military commentaries. (This he di...