MILITARY LIFE UNDER NAPOLEON: The Memoirs of Captain Elze'ar Blaze [Hardcover]

Translated by John R. Elting (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001

Blaze's colorful memoir concentrates on the daily life of the Grand Army, presenting interesting episodes of the famous battles of the Empire, as well as some surprising observations on the guerrilla war in Spain.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Emperor's Press (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883476062
• ISBN-13: 978-1883476069
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,414,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Boring trivia, October 14, 2000

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kennedy john FORESMAN (Paris, France.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MILITARY LIFE UNDER NAPOLEON: The Memoirs of Captain Elze'ar Blaze (Hardcover)

I am a collector of memoirs of the French Revolution and 1st Empire and hope to use them to rewrite and complement the regimental histories that already exist. Unfortunately, many of these memoirs are vague and picturesque, but none of them are as rambling, disjointed and peppered with idiotic and inconsequential dialogues as this one. Blaze's banter and anecdotes often refer to periods prior to 1789. In all of Blaze's book there is only one interesting uniform detail: Captains and higher grades of the Young Guard flanker regiments wore their former blue Old Guard uniforms while the lower grades wore green.