Title: Ponderous and Bloated
Product review: This book is indeed "unprecedentedly detailed", in fact, way too detailed. The author is weighed down by far too many details, and trips over them quite frequently. Instead of moving with the lightning speed of Napoleon, he slothfully crawls along like Kutuzov. There is absolutely no need, in the middle of the narrative on the battle of Austerlitz, to tell us the number of effectives in EVERY regiment in the French army, on the day of the crossing of the Rhine, at mid-point in the campaign, and on the day of battle itself. It shows that the author was a good little student, and did his homework, but it weighs down the story of the battle, and slows it to a crawl, and it's the battle itself that most of us want to read about. This is can't see the forest for the trees history. This book might do service as a reference work, but for a taut, exciting account of Austerlitz, pick up Ian Castle's book.
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