The Note-books of Captain Coignet: Soldier of the Empire, 1799-1816: 2 (Napoleonic library) by Coignet, Jean-Roche - 1985T

Greenhill Pr, 1986-06-01. Reprint. Hardcover. Good.

Greenhill Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1985. Hard Cover. 8vo 0947898131 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.292 pages clean and tight. Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two Republics, one Empire, and four Kingships. He writes with transparent truth, of himself and his times in these fascinating memoirs. "The Note-Books of Captain Coignet stand rather alone among french military memoirs", writes Sir John fortescue in introducing this volume. "They are not, according to the English way of thinking, very distinctively french. They are free from boasting and self-glorification, and they say very little about glory or the superiority of France, all of which goes to show that the French soldier can be as simple, modest and straightforward as the English.. . It is indeed his simplicity which is the… Read More

London: Greenhill, 1986. In clean, bright condition with a similar dust jacket which is very slightly sunned on the spine. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Greenhill Books, 1985 Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two republics, one Empire, and four Kingships. Fascinating French military memoirs. First published in 1897. This edition from that of 1928. 292 pages.

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