This book traces the glorious history of the elite French cavalry. Through 61 plates of highly detailed uniform illustrations, Andre Jouineau guides the reader from the first company of carabiniers established within in each regiment those superior marksmen equipped with a rifle, the gauge of precision par excellence sought after by Louis XIV in 1690, to the fiery carabiniers of Napoleon III s Imperial Guard who disappeared in defeat in 1870. The authors primary emphasis, however, is given to the First Empire.REVIEWS an excellent colour reference for modellers as it continues to tackle the...

French Text At the beginning of the Great War, assault units did not exist. If one was to compare the Caslow assault detachment (Sturmabteilung Caslow) with the assault detachment then battalion (Sturmbattalion) Rohr which succeeded it, it is easy to maintain that the former - an experimental detachment - gave rise a year later to the latter, a remarkable combat and training unit. The book offers among other things an exceptional number of illustrations in a small format. Indeed, it allows a closer look at this assault unit, showing different aspects over a period of about three years. The...