Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Two essential bibliographical resources

Noncommissioned officer shako of grenadier regiments, 1811. Grenadier shakos, 1812-1816While surfing through the Napoleon-Series Forum, I have found two posts for Steven H. Smith (of course!), giving two essential bibliographical resources for the Napoleonic era in general, and the Campaign of Leipzig in particular.

The first is related with one of the translations found in the
Mark's Conrad page about Russian Military History: the Volume X of Viskovatov , covering the uniforms of 'Grenadiers, Musketeers, Jägers, Marines, and Carabiniers' from 1801 to 1825. The plates are located here, hosted in Memorandum, a Russian site that can be viewed through Babelfish.
The original Steven's post in Napoleon-Series Forum can be also found
here.

The other resource are several links to 'Der Krieg in Deutschland und Frankreich in den Jahren 1813 und 1814' by Carl von Plotho. 3 vols. Published by C. F. Amelang, 1817. You can find all the links
here, or copy and paste the followings addresses

Vol 1:
http://books.google.com/books?id=IRYLVfK-rgUC
http://books.google.com/books?id=0HkuAAAAMAA
http://books.google.com/books?id=KmsIAAAAQAAJ
http://books.google.com/books?id=xksUAAAAYAAJ

Vol 2:
http://books.google.com/books?id=lnouAAAAMAA
http://books.google.com/books?id=vzRttj9l4AEC
http://books.google.com/books?id=O2sIAAAAQAAJ
http://books.google.com/books?id=4lMUAAAAYAAJ

Vol 3:
http://books.google.com/books?id=UnsuAAAAMAAJ
http://books.google.com/books?id=tdJaWOJqkZkC
http://books.google.com/books?id=iWsIAAAAQAAJ
http://books.google.com/books?id=604UAAAAYAAJ

The books are printed in gothic characters and are not easy to read (at least for me!), but the OOB, located at the end of each book, are easier to follow.

Enjoy!

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