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by: Translated by John R. Elting
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.27092
EAN: 9781883476069
ISBN: 1883476062
Label: Emperor's Press
Manufacturer: Emperor's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 2001-02
Publisher: Emperor's Press
Sales Rank: 1655972
Studio: Emperor's Press
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Blaze's colorful memoir concentrates on the daily life of the Grand Army, presenting interesting episodes of the famous battles of the Empire, as well as some surprising observations on the guerrilla war in Spain.
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Rating:  - La Vie Militaire
This is one of the classic memoirs of the Napoleonic period, and one of the most accurate. Blaze started his military career as a student, ended up an officer, and as the author/translator, John Elting, informs us, ended up deserting from Hamburg before the war was over. This was new information uncovered by Col Elting as he was translating the book.
This is also the most complete translation of Blaze's book and it offers an insider's view of the Grande Armee, how it fought, how it ... Read More
Rating:  - Boring trivia
I am a collector of memoirs of the French Revolution and 1st Empire and hope to use them to rewrite and complement the regimental histories that already exist. Unfortunately, many of these memoirs are vague and picturesque, but none of them are as rambling, disjointed and peppered with idiotic and inconsequential dialogues as this one. Blaze's banter and anecdotes often refer to periods prior to 1789. In all of Blaze's book there is only one interesting uniform detail: Captains and higher grades of ... Read More
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