The Anatomy Of Glory

Author : Henri Lachouque
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526703432
Total Pages : 1235 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Glory written by Henri Lachouque and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 1235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleons Imperial Guard was arguably the most famous military formation to tread the battlefields of Europe. La Garde Imperial was created on 18 May 1804, and from its origins as a small personal escort, the Guard grew in size and importance throughout the Napoleonic era. Eventually, it became the tactical reserve of the Grande Arme, comprising almost a third of Napoleons field forces. The men of the Imperial Guard were the lite of the First Empire, its officers and men the military aristocracy of post-Revolutionary France.Used only sparingly, the Guard acquired a reputation of invincibility. Such had become its prestige, when the attacks of the Guard were repulsed at Waterloo, they signaled not only the defeat of the French army but also the end of an era.In this magnificent study, unparalleled in depth and scope, the renowned French historian Commandant Henry Lachouque has produced a lavish and sumptuous work. It combines vivid narrative with valuable and unique uniform illustrations, including seventy-four full color plates from the Anne S.K. Brown collection, to make The Anatomy of Glory one of the most important and most sought-after books on military history ever published.

Author : Commandant Henri Lachouque
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786255820
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy Of Glory; Napoleon And His Guard, A Study In Leadership written by Commandant Henri Lachouque and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory of the Imperial Guard resounds above all others in the annals of war. Created, built and nurtured as a bodyguard for Napoleon, it grew from a brigade of less than two thousand men into a virtual army, and became ‘a human fortress which no one but he could dominate and no enemy could penetrate’. And, on such battlefields as Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, Wagram and Waterloo, it won the laurels of undying fame. Written by France’s foremost historian of the Napoleonic Wars, Commandant Henry Lachouque, and translated and adapted by Anne S. K. Brown, this sumptuous work is enhanced by over 180 illustrations, including 86 plates in full colour. With its vivid narrative and lavish illustrations, The Anatomy of Glory can lay justifiable claim to be one of the most magnificent books on military history ever published. The critical acclaim that greeted it upon its first publication provides ample testimony to its reputation: ‘This dramatic account of the birth, life and death of the fabulous Imperial Guard tells a stirring story in English for the first time.’-The Saturday Review of Literature. ‘No one but the most presumptuous who wishes to know about the Imperial Guard can afford to ignore this astonishing compilation. The illustrations alone...are reproduced with a clarity, a beauty, and technical perfection which no one can fail to admire.’ Journal of the RUSI. ‘This sumptuous book ... can yield rich rewards to any reader interested in the fabric of leadership. It is a delight to look at and a pleasure to read.’ -The New York Times. `... Not the well-worn history of conquest and defeat, but of the grognards themselves, marching through readable pages.’ -History Today. ‘Anne S. K. Brown has used her knowledge of French history and uniforms to render Lachouque freely and vigorously. Napoleon just happened to be fallible. But the superb apparatus of his fallibility is gorgeously recalled in this volume.’ The Scotsman.

Author : Henry Lachouque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526703422
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Author : Henry Lachouque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
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Author : Henry Lachouque
Publisher : Brown Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780318800240
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Glory written by Henry Lachouque and published by Brown Publishing Company. This book was released on 1962-12-15 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Lachouque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Glory written by Henry Lachouque and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Lachouque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book The Anatomy of Glory written by Henry Lachouque and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Grissom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476748462
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glory Over Everything written by Kathleen Grissom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man’s treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the Underground Railroad on a mission to save the boy he swore to protect. Glory Over Everything is “gripping…breathless until the end” (Kirkus Reviews). The year is 1830 and Jamie Pyke, a celebrated silversmith and notorious ladies’ man, is keeping a deadly secret. Passing as a wealthy white aristocrat in Philadelphian society, Jamie is now living a life he could never have imagined years before when he was a runaway slave, son of a southern black slave and her master. But Jamie’s carefully constructed world is threatened when he discovers that his married socialite lover, Caroline, is pregnant and his beloved servant Pan, to whose father Jamie owes his own freedom, has been captured and sold into slavery in the South. Fleeing the consequences of his deceptions, Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation to save Pan from the life he himself barely escaped as a boy. With the help of a fearless slave, Sukey, who has taken the terrified young boy under her wing, Jamie navigates their way, racing against time and their ruthless pursuers through the Virginia backwoods, the Underground Railroad, and the treacherous Great Dismal Swamp. “Kathleen Grissom is a first-rate storyteller…she observes with an unwavering but kind eye, and she bestows upon the reader, amid terrible secrets and sin, a gift of mercy: the belief that hope can triumph over hell” (Richmond Times Dispatch). Glory Over Everything is an emotionally rewarding and epic novel “filled with romance, villains, violence, courage, compassion…and suspense.” (Florida Courier).

Author : David Sheward
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836700
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rage and Glory written by David Sheward and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and accomplishments of this powerful actor through a review of the roles he has played and awards he has received while delving into his personal life and the dramas he managed off-stage, including a sexual harrassment suit and an affair with Ava Gardner.

Author : Jean D'Ormesson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179668
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glory of the Empire written by Jean D'Ormesson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.