"The War Drama of the Eagles" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2017 10:43 p.m. PST |
Excellent Reading…. I have finished to read it now… link
Hope you enjoy!.
Amicalement
Armand |
 deadhead  | 22 Dec 2017 3:29 a.m. PST |
This is a brilliant find. It is over 100 years old and may be packed with errors for all I know…but, at a glance, it is a superb account of the eagles as carried throughout the Napoleonic Era. |
| Brechtel198 | 22 Dec 2017 4:46 a.m. PST |
I first read it when I was in my first year at West Point (they have a world-class library) and years later bought a used copy of my own. Well-worth having, errors or not. |
| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2017 11:35 a.m. PST |
Agree… it's great…. Amicalement
Armand |
| deadhead | 22 Dec 2017 12:02 p.m. PST |
I love any intro that starts with "when I was in my first year at West Point"……. That carries respect from me, as one who never served and was thrown out of school cadets for wearing my (very, very, long) hair tied back in a ribbon. Swapping my blackened Rifles' beret badge, on a red felt base, for a simple Commandante's gold star did not help. It is a long story…… |
| Brechtel198 | 22 Dec 2017 3:22 p.m. PST |
You ought to see the library. It is now in a new building. Years ago when I was doing Napoleonic research I was allowed in the special collection, which when you use it they actually lock you in the large cage it is in. I was in a historians' paradise and when I thought it was time for lunch, I called out to be let out for lunch, and the librarian told me it was 5 o'clock, and I'd been there since 0900. And I found some great material. This was in the days before laptops and personal computers, so I had taken voluminous notes which I still have. |
| marcstorch | 22 Dec 2017 6:47 p.m. PST |
A wonderful book as others have said. Added it to my library years ago and see it as inspiration for my brave (but often defeated) French! |
| deadhead | 23 Dec 2017 7:43 a.m. PST |
"I'd been there since 0900." What a great and inspiring tale……… |
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