Napoleon's Marshals
by Young, Peter (Colour plates by Michael Youens)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0850451124
- ISBN 13
- 9780850451122
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Reading: Osprey, 1973 0850451124. First Edition. Hardback in red boards. VG/VG. Over 6" by 9.5". DW is price-clipped but otherwise intact and has some slight reinforcement on the obverse side. Book has some slight bumping at the edges but otherwise this is a very clean copy in VG condition. 203 pages including detailed military appendices, a select bibliography and notes on the 16 colour plates which superbly illustrate the variety of costumes worn by the marshals and their staff. Brigadier Peter Young presents factual accounts of the marshals' careers and their personal lives. The reader is invited to decide from the facts whether or not Napoleon created commanders worthy of his military genius. Among the illustrations is an authentic portrait of every marshal. .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1458
- Title
- Napoleon's Marshals
- Author
- Young, Peter (Colour plates by Michael Youens)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0850451124
- ISBN 13
- 9780850451122
- Publisher
- Reading: Osprey, 1973 0850451124
- Place of Publication
- Reading
- This edition first published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Military History Napoleon Ney Massena Bernadotte Murat Suchet War Army Battles Victories Defeats Wellington QSE
Terms of Sale
David Edward Hellawell
I will refund the cost if the book is returned within 7 days with details of where the description was faulty.
About the Seller
David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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