La Grande Armée

Hardback edition, A4 format. 124 full-colour pages. Prologue by Ian Fletcher. An in-depth and highly interesting review of how Lieutenant Bonaparte became Emperor Napoleon. Detailed descriptions of his army units: lancers, line infantry, cuirassiers, hussars, mounted chasseurs, etc. Illustrated with Rousselot plates, contemporary pictures of the Napoleonic era, and previously unpublished plates.