Napoleon's Polish Lancers of the Imperial Guard (Men-at-arms) (Men-at-arms) |
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Ronald Pawly
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Pages: 48 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1846032563
Pub: Osprey
Pub date: 2007-08-10
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 71930
Reader Reviews:
Not bad at all , but.... (3/3 people found this helpful)
This is the best yet easily accessed book in English about this famous regiment. Of course the limit of space in the Men-At-Arms books also limits the possibility of entering deeper in to the subject. Still, the author Ronald Pawly makes a very good effort in trying to cover all essential info about the regiment. An extra hats off to the author for the (almost) correct spelling of Polish names and surnames, which is no walk in the park for a non-Pole ;-)
Very sadly enough the effort of the illustrator Patrice Courcelle does not match the effort of the author. Hastily done, lacking good detail and a bit shabby, the illustrations seems to have been made under considerable time-pressure. This becomes painfully obvious when compared to Pawly's and Courcelle's previous work on the Polish lancer's sister regiment `The red Lancers' (MAA 389) where Courcelle's work is brilliant.
I'm still waiting for THE book on this regiment, the apple of the Emperor's eye, but nonetheless still consider this publication a nice effort.
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