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Title: Wagram the Apogee of the Empire: The Apogee of the Empire by Francois Guy Hourtoulle, Alan McKay, F. G. Hourtoulle ISBN: 2-913903-33-9 Publisher: Histoire & Collections Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lavishly presented information about uniforms...
Comment: Just the illustrations and quality of edition justifies the 5 stars... If you want a detailed account of the campaign or battle go for the Osprey...
Rating: 2
Summary: Typos detract from what could have been a decent book
Comment: I've seen better editing jobs on high school yearbooks. You can't beat these books for the depictions of the uniforms, but there is a typographical error on nearly every page. Additionally, someone didn't do a very good job on the translation either. For example, page 19, "The Middle and Young Guards, illustrated themselves at Essling." I suppose it's worth the price for the illustrations, but a poor read. Sloppy and unprofessional and a poor companion to Jena, Auerstadt and Borodino. I suppose you need to know how to spell in order to use spell check.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty Pictures, and a lot of gibberish
Comment: This is a beautifully-illustrated coffee-table book about the Wagram campaign. It has virtually no value, however, as a text.
First, the English translation is miserably bad. I was astonished to find that a book would actually be published without even a rudimentary editing job. Simple words are riddled with typos on every page, and some sentences are virtually incomprehensible - even on the back cover!
Second, Hourtoulle's text is standard-issue hero-worship of Napoleon, to the point of silliness. Perhaps it sounded pretty in the original French, but with this translation, what we get is something that a proud ten-year-old might have written, if Napoleon had happened to be his father.
For a lavish display of gorgeous pictures, it can't be beat.
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Title: Austerlitz: The Empire at Its Zenith by F. G. Hourtoulle, Francois Guy Hourtoulle ISBN: 2913903711 Publisher: Histoire & Collections Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Borodino-The Moskova: The Battle for the Redoubts by F. G. Hourtoulle ISBN: 2908182963 Publisher: Histoire & Collections Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Jena, Auerstaedt: The Triumph of the Eagle by F. G. Hourtoulle ISBN: 2908182769 Publisher: Histoire & Collections Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Charge: Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars by Digby Smith ISBN: 1853675415 Publisher: Greenhill Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Soldiers and Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars by Franois-Guy Hourtoulle, Jack Girbal, Patrice Courcelle ISBN: 291390355X Publisher: Histoire & Collections Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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