Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

La Grande armée, Georges Blond ; translated by Marshall May

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-534) and index

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La Grande armée

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Georges Blond ; translated by Marshall May

This tour de force of Napoleonic study is made available in the English language for the first time since its original French publication in 1979. The author is a respected historian, and this description of one of history's most famous fighting forces is amongst his finest works. From Boulogne and Austerlitz to Spain and Moscow, and the dramatic conclusion at Waterloo, the reader is taken through the career of Napoleon's Grande Armée in thorough, well researched detail. The result is an account that, for completeness and value to a diverse audience, ranks with the best of military literature. - Back cover

Prologue : The old soldiers -- Boulogne : the army turns toward the sea -- Victory by marching : Boulogne to the Rhine -- 1805 : the fog of Austerlitz -- An enormous groan : the army medical services -- Poland : Eylau : enter General Winter -- Tilsit, 1807 : the empire extends to the Niemen -- Spain, 1808 : the disasters of war -- Wagram, 1809 : the last great victory -- Spain, 1811 : the guerrillas will win -- The scorched earth of Russia -- Moscow : the horizon aflame -- 1812 : retreat in a cold hell -- The conscripts of 1813 -- 1814 : the campaign in France -- 1815 : the flight of the eagle : Elba to Paris -- The guard dies -- The last bivouacs : 1840 -- Appendixes. Chronology -- The strengths of Napoleon's armies -- How many died? -- Foreigners in the Grande Armée -- Rates of pay -- The fates of the marshals -- Maps : the theatres of operations