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There are also lots of great napoleonic uniform books out there. Here are a few of my favorites, the funken arms and uniforms napoleonics wars vol#1 and #2 and the blandford color series books have a few on the napoleonic wars, the peninsular,waterloo,and russain campaign and of course osprey publishing has a ton. Histoire and collections has some nice books out and is coming out with a new one that should have been released months ago that I have on back order. I don,t know what the hold up is on that one??? There are some that are out of print ones that are pretty good if you can find them like the armies at waterloo by ugo pericoli.
 
A great four volume book set is " Napoleonic Uniforms " by the late Col. John Elting, illustrated by Herbert Knotel. This is an extensive and expensive group of books. I have the first two volumes, and they alone have over 900 of Herbert Knotel uniform illustrations. Another must have book on understanding the different elements of Napoleon's Grande Armee is John Elting's " Swords Around a Throne ". Elting was probably the most knowledgable American authority on the Armies of Napoleon. He also knew how to write an entertaining book.
 
I,ve tried to find one of those Elting books for a half way resonable price but they always sell for around list price of about $150 bucks wich is a bit high for me but i,m sure they must be really great books if they always sell used for around the same price as new. I just picked up swords around a thrown but have not started to read it yet. Another really great book to get is riffles by mark urban a must read for any napoleonic fans. It the story of the 95th riffles from the soldiers side of veiw with great tales from peninsular war,it gives you a real good idea of what it was really like to fight in the napoleonic wars,from the marches,battles,looting,horrors ect. it,s all in there. A must have!!! Great reading! These are the stories of what the men and had to deal with on a daily basis from floggings to having brain matter spattered all over you because the guy on side of you just had his head taken clean off by a cannon ball. You get a real good feel for what it must have been like.
 
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I,ve tried to find one of those Elting books for a half way resonable price but they always sell for around list price of about $150 bucks wich is a bit high for me but i,m sure they must be really great books if they always sell used for around the same price as new. I just picked up swords around a thrown but have not started to read it yet. Another really great book to get is riffles by mark urban a must read for any napoleonic fans. It the story of the 95th riffles from the soldiers side of veiw with great tales from peninsular war,it gives you a real good idea of what it was really like to fight in the napoleonic wars,from the marches,battles,looting,horrors ect. it,s all in there. A must have!!! Great reading! These are the stories of what the men and had to deal with on a daily basis from floggings to having brain matter spattered all over you because the guy on side of you just had his head taken clean off by a cannon ball. You get a real good feel for what it must have been like.
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The Knoetel illustrations are available from Uniformology. Don't get the disks they are not user friendly. They have packs of loose sheets that you can purchase.I had them bound at Kinkos for 5 bucks each:)
 
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