The Prussian Army - To 1815 - Couverture rigide

Smith, Digby

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0764319906 ISBN 13 : 9780764319907

Editeur : Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive study of the Prussian army from its inception in the first standing troops, raised as his personal guards by the Elector Johann Georg of Brandenburg in 1571, to the dramatic defeat of the Emperor Napoleon I at Waterloo in 1815. It was an army whose character and capabilities were formed by the Prussian kings Frederick William I and, crucially, by Frederick the Great. The history of each regiment is presented with details of the uniforms worn, down to the regimental lace decorations and the many grenadier cap plates, the various colonels in chief who owned the regiment and the battles and clashes in which each took part. Not only uniform and saddlery details are to be found here; there is also comprehensive information on the colours and standards carried by each regiment, and their fate if lost in battle. The book is copiously illustrated with over a hundred colour and black and white plates, the majority now published for the first time since they were first executed over two hundred years ago. Photographs of contemporary items have been included, many of them from the Military Museum in Rastatt, Germany. Only the best and most reliable German language sources have been used in putting this work together.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Digby Smith is a respected historian of the Napoleonic Wars and the author of a number of acclaimed books on the period. For Greenhill he has produced Napoleon's Regiments, 1813: Leipzig and Charge! Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0764319906
• ISBN 13: 9780764319907
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible