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NAPOLEON'S WATERLOO ARMY - UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT

Autore: Paul L. Dawson

Codice: 220170

€ 58,00

Autorevole e ben documentato studio sull’esercito napoleonico durante la battaglia di Waterloo e soprattutto delle armi degli equipaggiamenti e delle uniformi. La ricca iconografia comprende centinaia di foto di oggetti originali, illustrazioni varie e la riproduzione di numerosi dipinti di Keith Rocco.

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When Napoleon returned to Paris after exile on the Island of Elba, he appealed to the European heads of state to be allowed to rule France in peace. His appeal was rejected and the Emperor of the French knew he would have to fight to keep his throne.

In just eight weeks, Napoleon assembled 128,000 soldiers in the French Army of the North and on 15 June moved into Belgium (then a part of the kingdom of the Netherlands). Before the large Russian and Austrian armies could invade France, Napoleon hoped to defeat two coalition armies, an Anglo-Dutch-Belgian-German force under the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army led by Prince von Blücher. He nearly succeeded.

Paul Dawson’s examination of the troops who fought at Ligny, Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, is based on thousands of pages of French archival documents and translations. With hundreds of photographs of original artefacts, supplemented with scores of lavish colour illustrations, and dozens of paintings by the renowned military artist Keith Rocco, Napoleon’s Waterloo Army is the most comprehensive, and extensive, study ever made of the French field army of 1815, and its uniforms, arms and equipment.

Lingua

INGLESE

Illustrazioni

Riccamente illustrato

Pagine

696

Misure

17 x 25

Rilegato

SI

ISBN
9781526705280