"The Guard charges" Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid
unit - the Imperial Guard - and it became a sort of little army within
the "Grande Armée". This study of its organisation is here at its most
erudite, like the one on the uniforms and equipment. Discover the
uniforms, the equipment, and the weapons used by all those "Grognards",
who were launched into a battle as a last resort, at the decisive
moment. Explaining how the Guard was organised into Old, Middle and
Young Guards, in this volume, the illustrator-researcher André Jouineau
shows the colonel-generals, the grenadiers, the chasseurs à pied,
fusiliers, velites, flanqueurs, wards, workmen, sappers, doctors,
magistrates and foot gunners; in the second volume he shows the centaurs
of the Guard's cavalry. This small practical, clear, concise, logical
and visual tool is a real vade mecum, intended for imperial history
buffs as well as figurine makers. The third volume - a compilation of
two dossiers published in the fifth and sixth issues of the magazine
"Soldat" - is the new, improved, entirely revised and re-drawn larger
version (more than fifty per cent more characters) than the previous
work published several years ago now by the authors. In this volume: the
last mounted units of the Guard, the follow-up units, the Horse
Artillery, the Artillery trains and teams, the Health Service, the Guard
HQ Staff but also the Emperor's Household, the Emperor and the first
uniforms of the Royal Guard.
