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NAPOLEON'S IMMORTALS: THE IMPERIAL GUARD AND ITS BATTLES 1804-1815
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Author: Andrew Uffindell
Publisher: Spellmount
Year published: 2007
Pagination: 368pp. Illustrations, maps.
Condition: Good in protected dw
Previous owner name and date on endpaper. Highlighting in bibliography. Explores the life and battles of Napoleon's Imperial Guard and in doing so, it throws new light on Napoleon and contributes to the ongoing debate about the value of elite military units. The author argues that it also was essential to Napoleon politically as a pillar of his regime, a means of integrating his Empire and a tool of patronage. He also explores the life of an Imperial Guardsman. Using important new research and photographs of the battlefields today, the author examines the charge at Somosierra in 1808 and the Battles of Dresden (1813) and Montmirail (1814).