Michael Leggiere
Michael V. Leggiereis a professor of history who works at theUniversity of North Texasas deputy-director for theBarsanti Center for Military History.Leggiere's emphasis is on the Napoleonic era, and he deals most specifically with Prussian operations in Germany and France during 1813-14. According to his university profile, Leggiere is "one of the leading historians in the world of the Napoleonic Wars."[1]This is supported by the fact that Leggiere has received the International Napoleonic Society Literary Award two times, once in 2002 and again in 2007.[2]Leggiere also serves on the program committee of theSociety for Military Historyand is on the board of directors for the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe.[1]
Career
[edit]Leggiere is a 1997 graduate ofFlorida State Universityand has previously taught atHawaii Pacific University,Louisiana State University, Shreveportand theNaval War College.While at Louisiana State University - Shreveport, Leggiere served as the chair of the Department of History and Social Sciences from 2005-2008. Leggiere is the author ofNapoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813andThe Fall of Napoleon.He is currently writing a book on the 1815 Waterloo campaign. He has written a biography ofBlucher.
Awards
[edit]In 2002, he received the Société Napoléonienne Internationale's 2002 Literary Award.[3]In 2004, he won theSociety for Military History's Moncado Award, and in 2005 received the Société Napoléonienne Internationale Legion of Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions toNapoleonic Studies.For 2007, the Société Napoléonienne awarded him the First Place Literary Award, for the year's best work on Napoleon.[2][4]
Selected works
[edit]- Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.ISBN0806133996
- The Fall of Napoleon: The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.ISBN9780521875424
- Blücher: Scourge of Napoleon.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.ISBN9780806144092
- Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813. Vol. I: The War of Liberation, Spring 1813.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.ISBN9781107080515
- Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813. Vol. II: The Defeat of Napoleon.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.ISBN9781107080546
- Napoleon and the Operational Art of War: Essays in Honor of Donald D. Horward(editor). Brill Academic Publishing, 2016.ISBN9789004270343