Andre Jouineau - Böcker

This volume covers the last horse troops of the French Imperial Guard: gendarmes, honor guards and horse artillery, not forgetting the Lithuanian tartars, last proof of Napoleons will to make out of his Guard a model of a Greater Europe.

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The First Empire is responsible for giving us the most lasting picture we have of the Hussars. This volume deals with the Hussars (from the 9th to the 14th Regiment) for the period 1804-1812. There is a chapter given over to the 1812 Regulations w...

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The fifth and final volume of this rich saga of the French Imperial Guard, Andre Jouineau presents the last troops in the Garde: the Horse Artillery, the Health Service, the crew trains, the artillery and artillery trains. A chapter about the head...

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In January 1914 the French Army had 47 divisions (777,000 French and 46,000 colonial troops) in 21 regional corps, with attached cavalry and field-artillery units. By 1918 about 40% of all French troops on the Western Front were artillerymen. Incr...

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After the defeat in 1940, the Vichy Government started reforming the army which the occupier had been good enough to let it keep. At the same time in England, General de Gaulle got down to setting up a unit for all the volunteers drifting in from ...

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This book traces the glorious history of the elite French cavalry. Through 61 plates of highly detailed uniform illustrations, Andre Jouineau guides the reader from the first company of carabiniers established within in each regiment-those superio...

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"The Guard Attacks!". The Imperial Guard, this glorious phalange, the fruit of the Emperor Napoleon's greatest attention, was almost an army within the "Grande Armee". This study of the Guard's organisation, uniforms and equipm...

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The Guard Attacks!. The Imperial Guard, this glorious phalange, the fruit of the Emperor Napoleons greatest attention, was almost an army within the Grande Arme. This study of the Guards organisation, uniforms and equipment is fully comprehensive....

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In keeping with their way of presenting History's most beautiful uniforms, the authors in their new book present us with the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Even though the formidable war machine which Napoleon III's army had b...

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The Guard charges Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit the Imperial Guard and it became a sort of little army within the Grande Arme. This study of its organisation is here at its most erudite, like the one on the uniforms and equ...

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If theres one conflict that was remarkable from a lot of points of view, it was the American Civil War, better known in France as the War of Secession. In this war the armies of the South opposed those of the North the Union of the almost hundred-...

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This army of the Kingdom of Italy started during Bonapartes first campaign with the creation of the Lombard and Cisalpine Legions. This army especially featured a greater number of enrolled troops, instead of volunteers. The Italian Royal Guard, f...

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"Honour and fidelity" Very early on, Switzerland set up a real mercenary business. By capitulations each canton could recruit military units on behalf of a neighbouring state with their own officers and rules. The French Revolution encou...

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L'infanterie de Ligne subira tous les chocs des dernieres annees de l'Empire, de la campagne de France a Waterloo, avant de, radicalement, changer de visage en 1815, lors de la seconde Restauration. En effet, momentanement, les regiments d'infante...

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The Soviet aircraft industry of the 1940-1950 period has been incredibly productive, while Russian manufacturers, stimulated by the huge needs stressed by World War Two, competed with each other in design and creativeness. This book offers an exha...

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