The French Imperial Guard t.1 The Foot Troops

The Imperial Guard, this glorious phalanx, the fruit of all the attentions of Emperor Napoleon I, is a form of small army in the "Grand Army"... This study of its organization, like that of its uniforms and equipment, is here taken to its most accomplished degree.
Volume 1: Discover the uniforms, equipment, and armament of all the Grognards, last resort, launched into battle at the decisive moment. Developing the concepts of the organization into Old, Middle, and Young Guards, illustrator-researcher André Jouineau presents here the colonels general, grenadiers, foot hunters, riflemen, velites, flankers, pupils, veterans, workers, sappers, doctors, podestats, and other foot artillerymen; while waiting in volume two of this panorama, the centaurs of the Guard Cavalry. This practical, small, precise, clear, logical and visual tool, a true vade mecum for imperial history enthusiasts, is intended for imperial history enthusiasts as well as figurine artists. This book is the new, completely redrawn, revised, amended and very largely expanded version - nearly 50% of new characters appear - of the book published several years ago by the authors. On nearly 176 pages, a thousand drawings develop the ideas of these two specialists of the period.