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Officers and Soldiers French Carabiniers, 1679-1871
ISBN: PB: 9782352502746, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, July 2013
80 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
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 superior...
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Officers and Soldiers The Swiss in French Service, 1785-1815
ISBN: PB: 9782352502357, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2013
80 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
The Chasseurs a cheval, a type of French light cavalry, date from 1743 when an independent unit (Fischer's Volunteer Company of Chasseurs) was raised during the Austrian War of Succession to counter the pandurs and Croats employed as irregulars by th...
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Officers and Soldiers The French Army of the Victory: from 1941 to 1945
ISBN: PB: 9782352502616, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2013
64 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
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 all...
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Crossing the Berezina
ISBN: HB: 9782352500445, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2011
100 pp., 31.7x23.5 cm, fully illustrated, 10 maps
The Battle of Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus) took place on November 26-29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia, and the Russian armies, under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chicha...
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Officers and Soldiers French Army, Volume 1: 1940
ISBN: PB: 9782352501794, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2011
64 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
This, the thirteenth book in the Officers & Soldiers series, shows the French Army during the Phoney War and the French campaign in May-June 1940. Continuing the work – started two years ago by Andre Joineau in the two volumes dealing with the 1914-...
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Officers and Soldiers French Army, Volume 2: 1918, 1915 to Victory
ISBN: PB: 9782352501053, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, April 2009
68 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
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. Increas...
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Officers and Soldiers French Imperial Guard, Volume 5: Cavalry, 1804-1815
ISBN: PB: 9782352500506, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2008
84 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
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 headq...
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Officers and Soldiers French Hussars, Volume 3: From the 9th to the 14th Regiment, 1804-1818
ISBN: PB: 9782352500377, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, November 2007
84 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
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 whic...
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Officers and Soldiers French Imperial Guard, Volume 4: Cavalry and Horse Artillery, 1804-1815
ISBN: PB: 9782352500025, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, November 2006
80 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
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 Napoleon's will to make out of his Guard a model of a Greater Europe.
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Encyclopaedia of Soviet Fighters, 1939-1951
ISBN: HB: 9782915239607, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, August 2005
192 pp., 32.3x23.4 cm, photos, line drawings and illustrations throughout
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 exhaust...
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