A splendid study of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard, the most famous part
of his military machine, taking us into their daily life as Napoleon’s
favoured elite, and following its evolution from a small bodyguard for
the Consuls into a massive army within an army, serving as the elite
and the reserve of Napoleons army, and playing an increasingly important
combat role as the wars turned against Napoleon. Follows the wars from
the Guard’s point of view, so we get a fairly uncritical view of
Napoleon, reflecting how they saw him.
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