The Battle Book 1/3
By (Author) Frederic Richaud
By (author) Patrick Rambaud
Illustrated by Ivan Gil
Cinebook Ltd
Cinebook Ltd
12th November 2020
12th November 2020
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
741.5
Paperback
64
Width 217mm, Height 287mm
Louis-Franois Lejeune, young colonel attached to the emperor's staff, meets his old friend Henri Beyne in occupied Vienna. He also meets the beautiful Anna Krauss, with whom he is madly in love with. Nearby, though, Napoleon is attempting to crush the Austrian army, and organising the crossing of the Danube for his troops on a single pontoon bridge hurriedly erected near Essling. Louis-Franois is forced to abandon his love and return to the front and the coming firestorm
Patrick Rambaud is a veteran author who calculated having written over 100,000 pages over his long career, and now sits on the prestigious Goncourt Academy. Frdric Richaud is a multi-talented individual who's written biographies, novels and several bande dessine scripts. Ivan Gil, a Spanish artist and art teacher, was long a miniature designer.