From the dj--"Out of Napoleon's twenty-six Marshals, over half served in the Peninsula at one time or another--including Ney, Suchet, Murat, Marmont, Massena, and Soult. This exciting reappraisal of their victories and defeats in the Peninsular Campaign, written with an unusually profound grasp of both French history and military strategy, relates the performance of the Marshals to one another and to their previous and subsequent careers."