Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns 1798-1801 (Men-at-Arms) - Softcover

Barthorp, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850451264 ISBN 13: 9780850451269

Verlag: Osprey Publishing, 1978

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Texto en inglés. Historia militar. Profusamente ilustrado con dibujos b/n y color. Soldados. Uniformes. Equipamiento. Militaría. MEN AT ARMS SERIES TITLES IN PRINT. 40 pp. 25 x 19. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Perfecto estado de conservación. The imaginative strategic plan of Revolutionary France to cut Britain's lifeline to India by seizing Egypt and the Levant was an epic adventure, set amongst some of the most ancient places of history, then almost unknown to Europeans. The conflicts proved once again the supremacy of the British fleet and furthermore that a reformed British Army was a force to be reckoned with. This fascinating book by Michael Barthorp provides an outline of the campaigns and examines in greater detail the armies which marched and fought amid the desert sands and relics of earlier civilisations.

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The imaginative strategic plan of Revolutionary France to cut Britain's lifeline to India by seizing Egypt and the Levant was an epic adventure, set amongst some of the most ancient places of history, then almost unknown to Europeans. The conflicts proved once again the supremacy of the British fleet and furthermore that a reformed British Army was a force to be reckoned with. This fascinating book by Michael Barthorp provides an outline of the campaigns and examines in greater detail the armies which marched and fought amid the desert sands and relics of earlier civilisations.

Biografía del autor:

Michael Barthorp was educated at Wellington College and was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1946. Demobilised in 1948, he served as a Territorial with The Royal Hampshire Regiment before rejoining the Regular Army in The Northamptonshire Regiment to continue a family tradition, ending his career with the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1968. He has since published numerous books on the British Army history and costume, including nine titles for the Men-at-Arms series. He lives in Jersey, Channel Islands.

Gerry Embleton has been a leading historical illustrator since the early 1970s specialising in the 18th and 19th centuries. An illustrator, and author, of a number of Osprey titles he has lived in Switzerland since the early 1980s.

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• Verlag: Osprey Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0850451264
• ISBN 13: 9780850451269
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48
• Zeichner: Embleton Gerry