In Napoleon and the Operational Art of War , the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure in a work that features the very best of campaign military history. About author(s): Michael V. Leggiere , Ph.D. (Florida State University, 1997), is Professor of History and Deputy Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. He is an award-winning author of five monographs on the history of the Napoleonic Wars.