Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• List of Plates
• Maps and Plans
• Introduction
• Translator's Preface
• November Night
• I. THE GUARD IS BORN
• 1. The Ancestors
• 2. The Guard of the Consuls
• 3. Marengo
• 4. The Guides of Bonaparte
• 5. 'The Guard'
• 6. Savages and Sailors
• 7. The Fledgings
• II. THE GUARD KEEPS WATCH
• 1. The Imperial Guard
• 2. Coronation
• 3. The March to Vienne
• 4. Austerlitz
• 5. A Packful of Glory
• 6. Precarious Peace
• 7. Jena
• 8. Berlin
• 9. Eylau
• 10. The Household Troop
• 11. Friedland
• 12. Paris
• III. THE GUARD SUFFERS
• 1. South by Stealth
• 2. Madrid
• 3. The Marines at Baylen
• 4. The Poles at Somosierra
• 5. Benavente
• 6. The Young Guard
• 7. The Long Black Road
• 8. Essling
• 9. Wagram
• 10. Schonbrunn
• IV. THE GUARD IN SPLENDOR
• 1. Imperial Bridgegroom
• 2. The Gilded Phalanz
• 3. The Fetes of 1810
• 4. Days of Anxiety
• 5. The 'Baby Guard'
• 6. The School of the Guard
• 7. Cavaliers and Guns
• 8. The Music of the Guard
• V. THE GUARD IN ACTION
• 1. The 'Majestic Migration'
• 2. Poland
• 3. Smolensk
• 4. Borodino
• 5. Moscow
• 6. The Retreat
• 7. Krasny
• 8. Crossing the Berezina
• 9. The Remnants
• VI. THE GUARD TAKES CHARGE
• 1. Improvisation
• 2. The New Guard
• 3. Lutzen
• 4. Bautzen
• 5. The Armistice
• 6. Dresden
• 7. The Battle of the Nations
• 8. The Retreat
• 9. Invasion Threatens
• VII. THE GUARD AT BAY
• 1. Alarm and Confusion
• 2. Bar-sur Aube
• 3. Brienne
• 4. Montmirail
• 5. Chateau-Thierry
• 6. Mind over Matter
• 7. Craonne
• 8. Rheims
• 9. Arcis-sur-Aube
• 10. The Eleventh Hour
• VIII. THE GUARD STAGGERS
• 1. The Fall of Paris
• 2. Fontainebleau
• 3. Betrayal
• 4. A Dynasty in Liquidation
• 5. 'Farwell, My Children'
• IX. THE GUARD FALLS
• 1. The Dissolution of the Guard
• 2. The Royal Grumblers
• 3. The Guard at Elba
• X. THE GUARD DIES
• 1. The Flight of the Eagle
• 2. The Restoration of the Guard
• 3. The Last Muster
• 4. The Last Campaign
• 5. Waterloo
• 6. The Death of the Guard
• 7. The Aftermath
• APPENDICES
• Notes on Illustrations
• Notes on Artists
• Author's Bibliography
• Index of Names of Persons
• Acknowledgements