Synopsis:
In 1993 The Macmillan Publishing Company set the Napoleonic enthusiast community alight when it produced the major two volume work, Napoleonic Uniforms by John R. Elting, featuring the superb works of the famous illustrator Herbert Knotel. Now, in an unprecedented transatlantic co-operation, Greenhill Books in London and Casemate Publishing in the USA are together bringing these books back into print after some 14 years.
This new edition, as before, will be sold as a two volume set. In addition, the new edition will be presented in a cloth bound slipcase. Pagination and an index have been added, significantly enhancing its reference value.
Napoleonic Uniforms is the only reference work of its kind to depict accurately the entire Grande Armee in detail. It portrays the French armies as seen by their contemporaries, and combines authoritative text with lavish illustrations, enabling the reader to experience the spectacle first hand.
Napoleonic Uniforms also depicts the various types of soldiers within the various regiments of the Grande Armee - officers, sergeants, color-bearers, bandsmen, drummers and trumpeters, privates and surgeons. In addition the volumes contain material on lesser-known formations such as the Army of Egypt (1798 - 1801), the pre-Revolutionary French Army, and Napoleon's police and internal security organizations.
Nine hundred and eighteen original watercolors by Herbert Knotel, an internationally acclaimed authority on military uniforms, with a special talent for depicting men and horses in action, bring the nineteenth-century French soldier to life. Together with the late Colonel John R. Elting's definitive captions, they preserve a significant aspect of this famous era for historians, researchers, teachers, students, model makers, "uniformologists," and the general reader interested in this historical period.
REVIEWS
Along with the striking artwork by Herbert Knotel, Elting's tome provides the background and history of each uniform of the various types of soldiers in the Grand Armee (who would have thought there could be so many?). Besides historians, toy soldier buffs will love this title. A stunner.
9/15/07 Library Journal
This edition is quite stunning! From its gold embossed red cloth covers with stitched binding to its beribboned red slip case it is destined to be a collector's item very quickly!
R. Burnham, The Napoleonic Series, 09/2007
A Major Upgrade of an Outstanding Work!...Anyone interested in Napoleon and/or military art in general will want a copy of this truly outstanding set. Knotel captured the soldiers in a unique and fascinating way that makes the viewer feel he is seeing them as they really were. Congratulations to Greenhill and Casemate for bringing this important work back to life. I am certain that John would be very pleased!
J. David Markham, Historian/Author, www.NapoleonicHistory.com"
Review:
Indispensable to anyone seriously interested in the subject --Library Journal (USA)
Colonel Elting's, Napoleonic Uniforms is possible one of the most complete and finest visual representation of the Uniforms of the First Empire epoch. Elting's annotations to each print contain some very interesting and useful information. I highly recommended the publication, which should be in every Napoleonic enthusiasts collection --Dave Watkins, First Empire magazine
The name of Knötel is synonymous with the study of the history of military uniforms. Richard Knötel (1857-1914) was among the first, and greatest, scholars who sought to research and record the military uniforms of the past, derived from contemporary sources . . . John Elting commissioned the watercolours that represent Herbert Knötel's great work, superbly presented in this Greenhill edition . . . Not only was Herbert Knötel an expert uniform historian, but he had himself served as a soldier in the Tannenberg campaign during World War I, and subsequently as a cavalry officer on the Eastern Front, experiences which must have informed his depiction of the soldiers from an earlier age. Combined with the expert commentary of Col. Elting, these volumes represent a remarkable view of the soldiers and armies of this renowned period --Philip Haythornthwaite
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