POLISH ARMY UNDER NAPOLEON: Polish Legions in Italy -- Danube Legion, Polish-Italian Legion, and North Legion.

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Oversized at 9.5x13 inches, the book includes 116 full color/full page illustrations. Polish text, but English captions and summary. Also includes three maps that show the areas where Polish soldiers entered into combat: Italian Peninsula, Danube area and Santo Domingo.

Color plates painted by Ryszard Morawski illustrate the uniforms and the equipment of the Legion's infantry, cavalry, and artillery. Morawski used in his work two previously unknown iconographic sources from a private collection in Italy and from the New York Library. Each color plate is captioned in Polish, French, English and Italian. The final section of the book contains additionally the bibliography, alphabetical index of names, and extensive summaries in French, English, and Italian.

This is the last volume of the series dedicated to the Polish formations financed by the French and presents the history of the Polish Legions that fought in Italy under the command of General Henryk Dabrowski. Earlier volumes covered the Vistula Legion and the Polish units in the Napoleon's Guard.