"Napoleon’s Last Army" Topic

"This is a groundbreaking series of books in English by author, re-enactor, and equestrian Paul L. Dawson that use thousands of pages of French archival documents, translations of more than 200 French eyewitness accounts, and dozens of new paintings by Keith Rocco to tell the story of Napoleon's final military operations and his defeat at the battle of Waterloo. Napoleon's Last Army (NLA) is the most comprehensive study ever made of the French army in 1815, using primary source information that provides new insights into this famous campaign.

In February 1815 Napoleon escaped from his exile on the island of Elba and landed in the south of France. He then marched to Paris and resumed the throne as Emperor. In March at the Congress of Vienna, representatives of Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain declared Napoleon an outlaw and began raising armies to fight him once again as they had for the past ten years.

In just eight weeks, Napoleon assembled 128,000 soldiers in the French Army of the North and on 15 June moved into Belgium (then a part of the kingdom of the Netherlands). Before the large Russian and Austrian armies could invade France, Napoleon hoped to defeat two coalition armies, an Anglo-Dutch-Belgian-German force under the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army led by Prince von Blücher. He nearly succeeded…"

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Armand

Tango01

More 1815 books! Will it ever end? My shelves are near breaking point.

But from what I can see, they look like having a superior Osprey type format. The price for each volume is £23.00 GBP, which is not completely offputting, even though they only consisting of 128 pages. But to buy the whole series of 5 volumes puts it up to around £115.00 GBP depending on the books retaining the same price being shown at present.

But, the more Napoleonic titles the merrier, I suppose. A shame there isn't a series covering the Allies to go with it.

Agree with you my good friend!.

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Armand

Armand

If they are published on the date given, it will be just in time for my birthday, which follows a week or two later. But the problem will be to come up with a convincing reason as to why I need to spend more money on more titles covering the same campaign, considering how many 1815 related books I have already bought.

You never have enought books for Napoleon Wars! (smile)

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Armand

Amazon.com indicates 128 pages, 35USD, and a 19 March 2016 publication date.

stephen

Another thread running simultaneously………

No harm. Very tempted and would love to know what folk think who may have bought first two vols

Paul Dawson usually knows his stuff – tempting to buy for the text but not for the artwork