Forty-Four Months in the Alps

Forty-Four Months in the Alps describes how the Piedmontese army resisted the tricolour tide that spread across the continent in the wake of the French Revolution from 1792 to 1796. The book outlines how Victor Amadeus III of Savoy had to reorganise his army to face the French threat and details the often heroic and stubborn resistance of the troops in the high passes of the Alps. Piedmontese units, uniforms, flags and weaponry are described and richly illustrated with contemporary artwork and new works by Emanuele Manfredi.

"[Forty-Four Months] revisits an episode now largely unknown during the French Revolutionary Wars. History has indeed focused on the first Italian campaign, led on the French side by an ambitious young general, Napoleon Bonaparte, while neglecting the operations conducted from September 1792 onwards, when the French invaded Savoy and Nice, possessions of the Kingdom of Sardinia, ruled by Victor Amadeus III. This 180-page booklet happily fills this gap. The Italian author offers a study of the Sardinian army, examining its organization, uniforms, and flags (with some thirty full-color plates) and its actions from 1792 to 1796, when the defeated Piedmontese troops were forced to definitively cede access across the Alps to the French. A remarkable work; all that remains is to find suitable miniatures..." Vae Victus Magazine No182 (translated from French)