The Notebook of Captain Coignet Soilder of the Empire 1799-1816 by Jean-Roche Coignet - 1989

Frontline Books, 2017-03-03. Hardcover. Used: Good.

London: Greenhill Books, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Red hardcover with gilt spine lettering, lacking dustjacket. A good only copy with bumping to the corners and spine ends. Solid binding but lacking in tightness. Some upper page corners dog-earred and some sporadic underlining and marginalia in red ink - maybe 10-15 pages. 292 pp., a reading copy only. 1989 reprint of this amazing military biography.

Paperback. Good.

Greenhill Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1985. Hard Cover. 8vo 0947898131 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.292 pages clean and tight. Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two Republics, one Empire, and four Kingships. He writes with transparent truth, of himself and his times in these fascinating memoirs. "The Note-Books of Captain Coignet stand rather alone among french military memoirs", writes Sir John fortescue in introducing this volume. "They are not, according to the English way of thinking, very distinctively french. They are free from boasting and self-glorification, and they say very little about glory or the superiority of France, all of which goes to show that the French soldier can be as simple, modest and straightforward as the English.. . It is indeed his simplicity which is the… Read More

Greenhill Books, 1985T. hardcover. Very Good. 3.1726 in x 22.2081 in x 14.5939 in.

London: Greenhill, 1986. In clean, bright condition with a similar dust jacket which is very slightly sunned on the spine. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Greenhill Books, 1985 Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two republics, one Empire, and four Kingships. Fascinating French military memoirs. First published in 1897. This edition from that of 1928. 292 pages.

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Greenhill Pr, 1998. trade paperback in fine condition. Soft cover. Fine.

Frontline Books, 2017. Hardcover. New. 292 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.

Greenhill, 1985. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Multiple copies available this title. Category: Military & Warfare; .