David Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on theNapoleonic era.^[1]

As a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at theRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst. Oxford University awarded him theD. Litt. in 1991. He held three visiting professorships: atOhio State in 1970, at theVirginia Military Institute in 1988, andMarine Corps University in 1991.^[2]

According to his obituary inThe Daily Telegraph, his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" (The Campaigns of Napoleon) is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals."

General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had, "surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career."^[3]

He was also the author of a military biography ofJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and ofThe Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough, and contributed a number of articles on Napoleonic warfare toHistory Today magazine.^[4]

• 1979 Gold Cross of Merit of Poland^{[citation needed]}
• 1939–1960 British National Service^{[citation needed]}

• 1966 –The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York:Macmillan.ISBN 978-0297748304.
• 1973 –Napoleon. London,Weidenfeld & Nicolson.ISBN 978-0297765691. reprinted 2000, Barnsley,Pen & SwordISBN 978-0850527506.
• 1979 –Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan.ISBN 978-0025236707.
• 1979 –Marlborough as Military Commander. London:Batsford.ISBN 978-0713420753.
• 1980 –Atlas of Military Strategy: The Art, Theory and Practice of War, 1618–1878. London:Arms & Armour.ISBN 978-0853681342.
• 1981 –Waterloo: The Hundred Days. Oxford:Osprey.ISBN 978-0540011704.
• 1987 –Napoleon's Marshals (ed.). New York: Macmillan.ISBN 978-0029059302.
• 1987 –The Military Maxims of Napoleon (ed.). London: Greenhill.ISBN 978-1853675126.
• 1987 –The Dictionary of Battles (ed.). London:Ebury Press.ISBN 978-0852236871.
• 1989 –Battles and Battlescenes of World War Two. New York: Macmillan.ISBN 978-0028971759.
• 1990 –The Illustrated Napoleon. London: Greenhill.ISBN 978-1853670862.
• 1990 –Austerlitz, 1805: Battle of the Three Emperors (Osprey Military Campaign). London: Osprey.ISBN 978-0850459579.
• 1990 –The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough. Staplehurst, UK:Spellmount.ISBN 978-0946771424.
• 1993 –Jena 1806: Napoleon destroys Prussia Osprey Publishing.ISBN 978-1855322851.
• 1994 –On the Napoleonic Wars. London: Greenhill.ISBN 978-1853671586.
• 1994 –The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army. (ed.). Oxford:University Press.ISBN 978-0198691785.
• 1994 –The D-Day Encyclopedia. (ed withJames Lawton Collins Jr.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: HeliconISBN 978-0132036214.

• Napoleon legacy and memory
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