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Image for NAPOLEON'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. A FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, TOGETHER WITH ITS CODICILS, APPENDED INVENTORIES, LETTERS AND INSTRUCTIONS, PRESERVED IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL ARCHIVES.

NAPOLEON'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. A FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, TOGETHER WITH ITS CODICILS, APPENDED INVENTORIES, LETTERS AND INSTRUCTIONS, PRESERVED IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL ARCHIVES.

By: (Bonaparte, Napoleon). Commentaries by Jean-Pierre Babelon and Suzanne D'Huart. Translated from the French and introduced by Alex de Jonge.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Paddington: 1977

Seller ID: 24110

ISBN: 0448221861

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

106 pp, + 6 pages of b&w illustrations, 11" H. " 'France, armee, tete d'armee, Josephine - .' These were the strangely moving, strangely revealing last words spoken by Napoleon Bonaparte as he lay dying on the isle of St. Helena in 1821. Ever since, they have contributed to the popular heroic image of the man who commanded the loyalty of millions, conquered almost the whole of Europe and lost the woman he loved. But his will, reprinted here in facsimile and translated into English for the first time, throws fascinating new light on one of the most enigmatic and extraordinary figures ...
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HOW GREAT GENERALS WIN.

By: Alexander, Bevin.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Avon: 1995

Seller ID: 24258

ISBN: 0380724367

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

320 pp, 7 7/8" H. B&w photographs, maps. "Undaunted by Hannibal's elephants, Scipio Africanus ordered his outnumbered cavlary to charge directly toward the massive beasts - and, by doing so, saved Rome. Stonewall Jackson struck like lightning throughout the Shenandoah Valley, with occasional feints toward Washington - and so frustrated a numerically superior Union Army. Despite few resouces and even less support from the German High Command, The 'Desert Fox', Erwin Rommel, conducted one of the most spectacular and successful campaigns in military history. In wars throughout the centur...
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1812: NAPOLEON IN MOSCOW.

By: Austin, Paul Britten.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Greenhill: 1995

Seller ID: 24849

ISBN: 1853671959

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

264 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w plates, maps. "Napoleon's Grand Armee waits at the gates of Moscow, preparing to enter in triumphal procession. But it finds a city abandoned by its inhabitants - save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incediary fuzes hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burns, while looters dodge the fires to plunder and pillage. And so beings '1812: Napoleon in Moscow', Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric 'word-film' presented through the testimony of more than 100 of the people who witnessed and took pa...
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MR BONAPARTE OF CORSICA.

By: Bangs, John Kendrick.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Mississauga, Ontario, Poniard: 1996

Seller ID: 17383

ISBN: 0968087515

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

265 pp, 7" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w humorous drawings by H.W. McVickar. A comic biography of Napoleon from infancy in Corsica to his new emperorship in Hades. Interior - clean and tight with no previous owner ship marks. Exterior - minor soiling on rear cover, slight soiling to edges of textblock.
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THE UNIFORMS & HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH REGIMENTS: BRITAIN - CANADA - AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND - SOUTH AFRICA. 1625 TO THE PRESENT DAY.

By: Barnes, R. Money, Major. In collaboration with C. Kennedy Allen & Lieut. Thomas B. Beatty, Jnr. Foreword by Gen Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Seeley Service: 1969

Seller ID: 23433

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

351 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H) - red cloth with black title block/gold lettering on spine. Colour plates and b&w drawings. Contents: Introduction; 1625-89. The Lowland Regiments. Killiecrankie. Dunkeld; 1690-1745. Marlborough's Battles. The Union. The '15 and the '45. The Black Watch. Fontenoy; 1755-83. North America. Highland Regiments. Canadian Militia. Minden. American Independence; 1778-99. Highland Regiments. Fencibles. Yeomanry. India. Napoleonic Wars; 1800-14. American War; 1815. Waterloo; 1815-56. Small Wars. India. S. Africa. Canadian Militia. The Crimea; 1857-81. Indian Muti...
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1812: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF NAPOLEON'S DEFEAT IN RUSSIA.

By: Brett-James, Antony, editor.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's: 1966

Seller ID: 24159

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

312 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w reproductions, maps/battle plans. "(The author) has recreated the Russian campaign and the retreat from Moscow through the eyes of those who took part on both sides - some of them leading actors in the tragedy, others writers and diarists whose contemporary accounts reflect the impact of the campaign on the European scene, and still others who suffered the privations and brutality of war without understanding the reasons or meaning behind it all. The result is a narrative of compelling interest." One page with small corner crease, light wrinkling at to...
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THE WARS OF NAPOLEON. THE WEST POINT MILITARY HISTORY SERIES.

By: Britt, Albert Sidney. Thomas E. Griess, series editor.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Avery, Wayne, New Jersey, (1985), 3rd printing.:

Seller ID: 15829

185 pp, 4to (11" H), soft cover. Profusely illustrated in b&w with drawings, reproductions, photographs, battle plans. Contents: The Italian and Egyptian Campaigns; The Empire and the Grande Armee; The Ulm and Austerlitz Campaigns; The Jena and Friedland Campaigns; Defensive on the Danube and in Spain; Offensive Into Russia; Defeat at Leipzig and Napoleon's Abdication; The Downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo; Epilogue; Selected Bibliography; Glossary. Interior - faint cigarette odor, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light rubbing, soft crease on rear...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NAVAL AND MILITARY OPERATIONS IN EGYPT FROM 1798 TO 1802.

By: Burgoyne, John M., Lieut.-Col. Sir.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Mississauga, Ontario, Poniard, Mississauga: 1996

Seller ID: 17391

ISBN: 0968087507

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

181 pp, 7" H. B&w maps, reproductions. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear on rear hinge.
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WATERLOO: BATTLE OF THREE ARMIES.

By: Chalfont, Lord, editor. (William Seymour, Jacques Champagne, Colonel E. Kaulbach.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1980

Seller ID: 23500

ISBN: 394511190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

239 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). 123 illustrations - 15 in full color, 9 maps. "To read the account of Waterloo in the history books of England, France and Germany is to read of three utterly different battles. Each nation has made its own glowing tapestry of martial glory and national heroes out ot this mighty encounter. Can there be a true story of the day when Napoleon, Wellington and Blucher - three of the masters of combat - met on a compact battlefield to decide the fate on an Empire, and when the course of nineteenth-century history was transformed? In this book, from dawn to night...
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JENA 1806: NAPOLEON DESTROYS PRUSSIA. OSPREY MILITARY CAMPAIGN SERIES 20.

By: Chandler, David G.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Osprey: 1994

Seller ID: 20097

ISBN: 1855322854

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

96 pp, 9 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans, uniform studies. Contents: Descent to War - 1806; Plans and Preparations: Prussian War Plans - Napoleon's Operational Plan; 'The Battalion Square' in Action; The Opposing Commanders: The French Commanders in 1806 - Prussian Commanders in 1806; The Opposing Armies: The Grande Armee of 1806 - The Prussian and Saxon Armies of 1806; The Battle of Jena: The Battle Opens at Jena - The Struggle for Rodigen - The Blunders of Marshal Ney - Jena, The Coup de Grace; Auerstadt: The Growing Ba...
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NAPOLEON. GRAND PALAIS. JUIN-DECEMBRE 1969.

By: Chatelain, Jean, preface. Hubert, Gerard, introduction.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Ministere d'Etat Affaires Culturelles / Reunion de Musees Nationaux: 1969

Seller ID: 23616

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

224 pp, 9 1/4" H. FRENCH TEXT ONLY. B&w illustrations. The catalogue of an exhibition mounted to commemorate the bicentennial of Napoleon's birth. "Cette exposition, organisee dans le cadre de la celebration du bicentenaire de la naissance de Napoleon, est placee sous le haut patronage du President de la Republique." Interior - a few small foxing marks on last page and on inside of rear cover, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, foxing marks on top of text block, a few wrinkles on spine, one or two small soft creases on co...
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MESSIDOR: RECITS, ANECDOTES, CONTES ET POEMS SE RAPPORTANT AUX PREMIERES ATTRIBUTIONS D'ARMES ET DE CROIX D'HONNEUR. (LES GROGNARDS DE NAPOLEON.)

By: Coffinier, Andre.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: B.O.R.E., Paris, (1980).:

Seller ID: 11853

176 pp. + 7 reproductions of color uniform studies at rear, small 4to (10 7/8" H), hard cover (dark green boards with gold lettering, decoration), in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, many b&w illustrations + color plates at rear. FRENCH TEXT. Contents: Les armes d'honneur; Les grandes journees de la Legion d'honneur; La croix des braves; D'autres braves; Les femmes et la croix d'honneur; Notes succinctes sur les principaux noms cites dans les textes. Very light browning to pages. Dust jacket has minor edge wear, light edge wrinkling at top of spine area, light rubbing to rear panel. ...
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BLUNDERING TO GLORY: NAPOLEON'S MILITARY CAMPAIGNS.

By: Connelly, Owen.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, 1987, book club edition.:

Seller ID: 23956

250 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Maps/battle plans. " 'You engage, and then you wait and see' - so Napoleon characterized his art of war. The greatest general of his day was a scrambler who never had a plan, strategic or tactical, that did not break down or change of necessity in the field. He was the master of the broken play, so confident of his ability to improvise, cover his own mistakes, and capitalize on those of his enemies that he repeatedly plunged his armies into uncertain, seemingly desperate situations, only to emerge victorious, 'blundering' to glory. I...
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ROUGH NOTES OF SEVEN CAMPAIGNS IN PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE AND AMERICA DURING THE YEARS 1809-1815.

By: Cooper, John Spencer. Introduction by Ian Fletcher.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: Spellmount, Staplehurst, 1996.:

Seller ID: 19400

150 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 187337665 B&w frontispiece. "....one of the very best - and one of the most sought after - of the many volumes of Peninsular reminiscences. Originally published in 1869, 'Rough Notes' is an account of the military career of a man who saw action with the 7th (Royal Fusiliers) at many of the greatest battles and sieges of the Peninsular War, including Talavera, Busaco, Albuera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria and the Pyrenee s . . . . a w o n derful book which combines much detail of the day-to-day life of a soldier in Wellin...
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BRITISH REGULAR CAVALRY, 1644-1914.

By: Cooper, Leonard.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1965

Seller ID: 18474

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, 8vo (8 3/4"). Pictorial endpapers, b&w plates. "Mr. Cooper takes up his story with the formation of Cromwell's New Model Army, which marked a significant change in cavalry tactics, and closes it with a chapter devoted to the South African War and the years up to the beginning of the 1914 War. In addition, he has written an epilogue to cover the period of cavalry's gradual surrender to mechanisation. Between these points lie nearly three hundred years of history and countless battles which depended for their outcome on the ability and efficiency of the cavalry arm. (He) doe...
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THE PENINSULAR JOURNAL, 1808-1817.

By: D'Urban, Benjamin, Major-General Sir. Edited, with introduction, by I.J. Rousseau.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: London, Greenhill: 1988

Seller ID: 23451

ISBN: 0947898875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

355 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Maps. "Whether among the first three to charge the French guns at Medellin, leading his troopers into the enemy ranks at Salamanca, or evolving order out of the chaos that bedevilled the Portuguese Army in 1809, Sir Benjamin D'Urban was not only a brave and resolute soldier but also a painstaking and highly efficient Chief of Staff to Marshal Beresford. Finding, on arrival at Corunna in October 1808, that he had been appointed to that part of the Army left behind in Portugal, D'Urban set out to meet Sir John Moore in the hope of receiving fresh orders. This was...
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NELSON'S FAVOURITE: HMS AGAMEMNON AT WAR 1781-1809.

By: Deane, Anthony.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: London, Caxton: 2003

Seller ID: 29816

ISBN: 184067430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, drawings, maps. "This compelling narrative recounts the 28-year career of HMS Agamemnon, a 64-gun ship of the line which became one of the most famous vessels of the Royal Navy, commanded between 1793 and 1796 by Nelson, who always referred to her as his favourite ship. For three of the most critical decades of British naval history, Agamemnon was at the centre of events, fighting at the Battle of the Saintes, Copenhagen and, of course, Trafalgar. Later she served in the West Indies, participat...
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NELSON'S FAVOURITE: HMS AGAMEMNON AT WAR 1781-1809.

By: Deane, Anthony.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Caxton: 2003

Seller ID: 30592

ISBN: 184067430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

NAPOLEON'S MARSHALS.

By: Delderfield, R.F. (Ronald Frederic Delderfield.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Chilton: 1966

Seller ID: 29230

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

242 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "Napoleon, that master strategist, created twenty-six Marshals of France between the years 1804 and 1815. These men, who held the highest positions in the Empire after Napoleon himself, came from diverse, and often humble backgrounds. Among the twenty-six were officers, sergeant majors, rankers, apprentices, a farmer's boy, a brewer, a poet, a smuggler, an actor, a barber, and a prince. The two qualities they all had in common were courage and ambition. During the years when Napoleon was conqueror of most of Europe, the marshals acquired title...
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LIVING HISTORY. BRASSEY'S MASTER CLASS.

By: Elliot-Wright, Philipp J.C. Series editor: Tim Newark.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Brassey's: 2000

Seller ID: 19960

ISBN: 1574882775

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

144 pp, 4to (11 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "(T)he ultimate how-to book. Taking six of the most popular historical periods, (this book) shows how re-enactors and other history enthusiasts can recreate the uniforms, equipment and life-style of past warriors and their comrades, male and female. The six periods are: Roman; Vikings and Saxons; Medieval; English Civil War; Napoleonic and American Civil Wars; World War One and World War Two. Re-enactment is a growing hobby in Britain, Europe and the United States, with tens of thousands of people recreating the ...
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Category: Military - Napoleonic