Униформа / Waterloo 1815, les Carnets de la Campagne 1 - Hougoumont

Издательство: Editions de la Belle Alliance
Серия: Waterloo 1815, les Carnets de la Campagne No 1
Автор: Bernard Coppens, Patrice Courcelle
Название: Hougoumont
Язык: французский
Год издания: 1999
Количество страниц: 88
Формат: pdf
Размер: 97 мб

This booklet is the first in a series of 12, which will explore the Waterloo Campaign from a fresh perspective. Bernard Coppens and Patrice Courcelle combine a number of talents that make them perfectly suited for this. They reside in Waterloo and have researched the period extensively for over twenty years. They are both historians AND illustrators, thus being able to convey graphically what could otherwise lead to lengthy argumentation.
Foremost they always base their works on primary sources, but examining each source to determine if it is truly a primary source. For them, it is not sufficient that a set of memoirs was written by a participant. They also analyze it to see if the author didn't simply "remember" long after the events and is giving what is actually only a testimonial polluted by other secondary works.