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Summary: The French have invaded the Amazon
Review: First off, let me convey that this is the first time I have purchased a book on military uniforms, so my review will be more of a brief description since Amazon has not posted any info on this book. All text written in this book, is written in French. This is wouldn't be too much of a problem if I understood french, and since the majority of the book is made of pictures, but Amazon "should" have posted info on this, and it would be nice to actually understand the descriptions. But let me remind you again, this book doesn't contain vast amounts of text in the first place. The illustrations are all well done as well. If I understood French, this book would most likly recieve 5 stars. But, because of the french text, and Amazon not posting info on this, the book becomes nothing more then a very nice picture book if you do not understand the french language.
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Summary: A good pictorial book not deserving of 5 stars
Review: Michel Petard is one of the best uniformologists in the world today. He is accurate, thorough, and knows his subject matter completely. This book not only has paintings of troops, but their component uniform parts as well. Here you will see vests, cavalry coveralls, overcoats and capes, pelisse's, dolmans, bearskins, plumes, colpacks, saddle furniture, and the rest of it in full color. The only drawback I can see is that the text is in French. A good French/English dictionary will help, but it does not detract from the impact of the book, which is useful for historians and modelers. It can, and does, serve as a very useful and handy painting guide. I highly recommend this book, fluency in French not really being a requirement. It is much more reliable than some other current and popular uniform guides and is well worth the price asked.
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Summary: Dressed to Kill
Review: Michel Petard is one of the best uniformologists in the world today. He is accurate, thorough, and knows his subject matter completely. This book not only has paintings of troops, but their component uniform parts as well. Here you will see vests, cavalry coveralls, overcoats and capes, pelisse's, dolmans, bearskins, plumes, colpacks, saddle furniture, and the rest of it in full color. The only drawback I can see is that the text is in French. A good French/English dictionary will help, but it does not detract from the impact of the book, which is useful for historians and modelers. It can, and does, serve as a very useful and handy painting guide. I highly recommend this book, fluency in French not really being a requirement. It is much more reliable than some other current and popular uniform guides and is well worth the price asked.
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Summary: A good pictorial book not deserving of 5 stars
Review: This book features some nice (not great) artwork on various bits of uniforms and accessories as worn by French troops from Fontenoy onwards to Waterloo. The artwork, which is illustrative as opposed to being artistic, is unfinished in places, various items are depicted and, would be more useful if the items were named in the illustrations.
Thus, there is no rigorous classifcation of uniform details, merely a random survey of various uniforms and troop types.
For the price, one can get more information elsewhere, and in English, too).
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