ASKENAZY Szymon - Napoleon and Poland, 1-3 complete, 1st edition, 1918-1919

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ASKENAZY Szymon. Napoleon and Poland, 1-3 sets. Warsaw/Cracow 1918-1919. 1st edition. publishing society in Warsaw. pp. 327, [2]; 345, [2]; 445, [2]; 23.5cm.

Publisher's softcover. Sufficient condition-, soiling/tears/lack of binding, in vol. 2-3 binding loose, some folds/cards in blocks loose, soiling of margins.

Vol. 1. The fall of Poland vs. France.

Vol. 2-3 Bonaparte and the Legions.

The most important work next to "Lukasinski" in the oeuvre of the eminent historian Szymon Askenazy. The monograph on the Polish Legions in Italy - based on the then unknown Archive of the Polish Legions and Gen. J.H. Dabrowski, supplemented with materials from the Paris, Warsaw, Vienna archives, as well as documents from family archives (Czartoryski, Potocki, Klobukowski), but also foreign literature - was a turning point in the study of the history of Gen. Dabrowski's Legions and remains to this day an indispensable source of knowledge in this area. "This work captivated with the breadth of its treatment, the beauty of its style, giving against the background of the political history of Europe the political history of Polish emigration.[...] Today, after fifty years, this work has lost nothing of its beauty" (J. Pachoński, Polish Legions. Truth and Legend, vol. 1, Warsaw 1969, pp. 38-39).