Author: SIKORA Radosław, SZLESZYŃSKI Radosław
Title: Hussars of the Republic of Poland
- Place of issue: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 2014
- Publisher: "Erica"Publishing Institute
- Number of pages: 318, [2]
- Illustrations, maps: numerous illustrations (often full-page)
- Size: 30,5 cm
- Binding: hard lacquered with wrapper
- Condition: very good
- ISBN: 9788364185649
Description:
Hussars of the Republic is a unique album. For the first time such rich illustrative material from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries showing the hussars and their equipment has been collected. This allows one to see what they really looked like before 19th century artists falsified their image.
The item is enriched with numerous descriptions of this knighthood, never before collected in a single publication, and written during the era of the hussars' existence. Thanks to this, we learn not only about the appearance of the hussars, but also about their customs, tactics and organization. In addition, we learn how they were perceived. In Europe from the end of the 16th to the end of the 17th century, the hussars were seen as the best and most beautiful cavalry in the world.
The source texts are given in the original language version and in translation into three languages: Polish, English, French. Thanks to this, the fame of Polish knighthood crosses borders.
