BATTLE BOOK GN (2025)
May 1809. Napoleon's Grande Armée has taken Vienna and is preparing to cross the Danube, but the Austrians are waiting for him in Essling. Napoleon is furious. It appears the battle can no longer be won. The French cavalry is so exhausted it can't even gallop when charging. Ammunition is running out, while losses mount horrifically, both in men and in irreplaceable officers. But the Austrians have paid an equally steep price, and a complete defeat may yet be avoided. Louis-François, Paradis, Fayolle - Who will survive the terrible bloodbath?
May 1809. Napoleon's Grande Armée has taken Vienna and is preparing to cross the Danube, but the Austrians are waiting for him in Essling. The battle has been joined. On this first day, Massena desperately holds onto Aspern, the French cavalry charges again and again, but the Emperor cannot seem to break the Austrians. Louis-Francois, stuck on the wrong side of the only available bridge, impatiently waits for repairs to conclude.
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Writer
Patrick RambaudArtist
Ivan GillReading Order
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Battle Book Graphic Novel Volume 01 (Of 3)
At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Louis-François Lejeune, a 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 organizing the crossing of the Danube for his troops on a single pontoon bridge hurriedly erected near Essling. Louis-François is forced to abandon his love and return to the front - and the coming firestorm ...
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Battle Book Graphic Novel Volume 02 (Of 3)
May 1809. Napoleon's Grande Armée has taken Vienna and is preparing to cross the Danube, but the Austrians are waiting for him in Essling. The battle has been joined. On this first day, Massena desperately holds onto Aspern, the French cavalry charges again and again, but the Emperor cannot seem to break the Austrians. Louis-Francois, stuck on the wrong side of the only available bridge, impatiently waits for repairs to conclude.
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Battle Book Graphic Novel Volume 03 (Of 3)
May 1809. Napoleon's Grande Armée has taken Vienna and is preparing to cross the Danube, but the Austrians are waiting for him in Essling. Napoleon is furious. It appears the battle can no longer be won. The French cavalry is so exhausted it can't even gallop when charging. Ammunition is running out, while losses mount horrifically, both in men and in irreplaceable officers. But the Austrians have paid an equally steep price, and a complete defeat may yet be avoided. Louis-François, Paradis, Fayolle - Who will survive the terrible bloodbath?