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HistWar (English zone) => General discussions => Discussion démarrée par: paswin le 11 décembre 2009, 20:48:41 pm
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Sorry ! ignore my entry under Rifleman , sent in error.
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One suggestion would be the other websites where this has been addressed before.
Two I would start with are the Napoleon Series and TMP and just search for reading lists.
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I really liked this book. It gives a grand overview of the period, has lots of lovely campaign maps, and is very easy to read:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PS8N2R34L._SS500_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Historical-Atlas-Napoleonic-Angus-Konstam/dp/1904668046/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260562846&sr=8-5)
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(Replied to the wrong thread so I'll re-post here.)
Here's what I consider to be the best from my own collection:
"Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon" - Rory Muir.
A bit anglo-centric but nevertheless very good.
"The Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies" - Brent Nosworthy.
An in-depth look at not just Napoleonic tactics but how they evolved from the tactis of the 18th Century. Can be a bit heavy in spots - this is a proper academic treatment of the subject - but excellent all the same.
"1815 - The Waterloo Campaign: The German Victory" - Peter Hofschroer (2 volumes).
In-depth examination of the German contribution to the Waterloo campaign. Not very flattering to Wellington.
"The Campaigns of Napoleon" - David Chandler.
A real classic. Some of the information is said to be out-of date, but it's nevertheless a good starting point and very comprehensive. The title is indicative of the contents, though, which means there isn't much about Spain.
"A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars"- Vincent Esposito & John Elting
An excellent companion volume to Chandler . Well-written and with exquisite maps. Pricey but worth it.
"Imperial Bayonets" - George Nafziger
An in-depth look at the tactics of the time. More granular than Muir or Nosworthy, I think. That's just an observation, of course - not a value judgement. Includes a very interesting transcript of some of Ney's writings on the subject of grand tactics. Before reading this I had never imagined him to be so tactically sophisticated.
"The Battle" - Alessandro Barbero.
A real gem of a paperback. If "Gettysburg" is the best movie made about a battle (IMO), this must surely be a candidate for the best-written book about one. Without a doubt the most masterfully-crafted history of Waterloo that I've ever read - and I've read a few. How to learn about history without feeling like you're learning at all. A bonus too to have another account of Waterloo that's not written by an Englishman. Mark Adkin's beautiful "Waterloo Companion" complements it superbly.
"The Napoleonic Wars Data Book" - Digby Smith
Like the title says, data: lots of it and in a fairly raw format. Details of every battle you've ever heard of between 1792 and 1815 and hundreds you haven't. Gives commanders, strengths, orders of battle (level of detail here can be variable). An excellent resource for the scenario designer. Not a good source of historical narrative though.
In addition, Osprey has books on the following battles/campaigns:
* Marengo
* Austerlitz
* Jena
* Aspern & Wagram
* Busaco
* Salamanca
* Leipzig
* Waterloo
Holdit
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(Replied to the wrong thread so I'll re-post here.)
"The Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies" - Brent Nosworthy.
An in-depth look at not just Napoleonic tactics but how they evolved from the tactis of the 18th Century. Can be a bit heavy in spots - this is a proper academic treatment of the subject - but excellent all the same.
This is a must for anyone who wants to really understand what happened on a battle field in the napoleonic era.
"The Campaigns of Napoleon" - David Chandler.
A real classic. Some of the information is said to be out-of date, but it's nevertheless a good starting point and very comprehensive. The title is indicative of the contents, though, which means there isn't much about Spain.
Imho, there are far better websites that can help the "newbie" on his first journey in the years of Napoleon than this "classic". Half of the tactics and ideas behind Chandler's writing are not merely outdated, but simply wrong. This was (like for many out there) my first nappy book, and it took me years to correct the wrong informations that I learned from it.
"The Battle" - Alessandro Barbero.
A real gem of a paperback. If "Gettysburg" is the best movie made about a battle (IMO), this must surely be a candidate for the best-written book about one. Without a doubt the most masterfully-crafted history of Waterloo that I've ever read - and I've read a few. How to learn about history without feeling like you're learning at all. A bonus too to have another account of Waterloo that's not written by an Englishman. Mark Adkin's beautiful "Waterloo Companion" complements it superbly.
From the best italian historian at the moment, one of the best books about a napoleonic battle. Similar, Gioannini/Massobrio's "Marengo".
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Imho, there are far better websites that can help the "newbie" on his first journey in the years of Napoleon than this "classic". Half of the tactics and ideas behind Chandler's writing are not merely outdated, but simply wrong. This was (like for many out there) my first nappy book, and it took me years to correct the wrong informations that I learned from it.
That's a good point, and I hadn't thought of it like that. By the time I obtained this book I'd already read several others, so that I automatically disregarded anything I found to be dubious.
From the best italian historian at the moment, one of the best books about a napoleonic battle. Similar, Gioannini/Massobrio's "Marengo".
My only observation about Barbero's book that come seven remotely close to a complaint is that I wish he'd covered Ligny, Quatre Bras and Wavre too.
Holdit
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~1792-1797~
The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802 by T. C. W. Blanning, haven't read it myself.
The French Revolutionary Wars by Gregory Fremont-Barnes, just scratches the surface as most Ospreys.
The Road to Rivoli by Martin Boycott-Brown.
The Art of War of Revolutionary France by Paddy Griffith, focuses on the French revolutionary war machine rather than the campaigns itself.
~1799-1802~
Eagles over the Alps by Christopher Duffy.
Marengo and Hohenlinden by James R. Arnold.
Marengo by David Hollins.
~1805~
Several books to choose from, 1805: Austerlitz - Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition by Robert Goetz would be the most popular afaik.
~1806~
Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia, 1806 by Francis Loraine Petre.
The translation and revision 'Napoleons Apogee' got very good feedback at theminiaturespage.com lately, but yeah 225$...
~1807~
Napoleon's Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807 by F. Loraine Petre.
Crisis in the Snows by James R. Arnold.
Napoleon’s Triumph by James R. Arnold (will be released in 2010).
~1809~
The Thunder on the Danube books by John H. Gill, the last Volume will be released in March 2010 afaik.
Crisis on the Danube by James R. Arnold
~1812~
I have only read German books on the campaign so far, dunno which English book is the most popular here.
~1813~
Same as above.
~1814~
The Fall of Napoleon by Michael V. Leggiere, don't know when the 2. Volume will be released.
~1815~
I don't really have a overview over the available books here, only read 'The Battle' and the Waterloo Companion so far.
~Peninsular War~
The Spanish Ulcer by David Gates and...
Peninsular War: A New History by Charles Esdaile are the most popular afaik.
~War of 1812~
Several books to choose from, have only read Amateurs to Arms by Elting so far.
~War in the Colonies~
Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower by Michael Duffy.
There are several books about the Haitian Revolution.
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Ok a good book to get a great view on it all:
A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars by Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito and Colonel John R. Elting
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The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book by Digby Smith
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This is a good site with some free books written by characters of the period
http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/index.html (http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/index.html)
I like the eye-witness accounts, whilst sometimes subjective or jingoistic they nonetheless convey the spirit of the time very effectively.
I especially liked the memoirs of Captain Coignet & Sir Harry Smith.
The site also has links to other resources.
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Pardon for the last, i've pressed a wrong letter :oops:
I've also this book it's very difficult to "place" on the maps but It is right.... Just one problem few diagrams and it is poor of maps but military correct: NAPOLEON'S BATTLE a history of his Campaigns by Henry Lachouque ed: George Allen and Unwin ltd 1966 from the original French:
Napolèon 20 ans de campagnes ed: Arthaud Paris 1964..
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Here is a very good website with tactics, commanders, infantry, battles, campians, etc
http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/index.html
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Many thanks to all that replied to my request.
Armed with the large selection given plus the purchase of HG and add ons in future (Peninsular War :D ) I have enough to keep me going for Birthdays ,Fathers Days, Christmas for several years to come. I just wish that my pension were large enough to cover them all in one go !
Once again thanks for the time given to answer my question
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Pardon my ignorance but what about Cahndler's book is wrong or is there somewhere that has a outline of his errors?
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Pardon my ignorance but what about Cahndler's book is wrong or is there somewhere that has a outline of his errors?
Pick a page, any page. I cringe every time I read his name. I don't know if he got the strategic stuff right as I wasn't studying that. But there are tactical level errors galore. At one time I could trace, through a variety of authors, who had copied his errors or each other. This was when I was in the Pentagon and had access to their extensive library and was reading everything they had on Napoleon. (Except Silborne, and I skimmed that. :) )
Hook
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Not sure if these have already been mentioned, but I would certainly recommend them: Scott Bowden's The Glory Years: Napoleon and Austerlitz, and the works of George Nafziger on 1812, and his trilogy on the 1813 campaign.
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Pardon my ignorance but what about Cahndler's book is wrong or is there somewhere that has a outline of his errors?
The problem with Chandler (and with many historians unfortunately) is that he had a strong and clear idea of what warfare was in the napoleonic age, and disregarded every fact or study that said the contrary. So, many statements that you can find in his books are usually more based on his conceptions than what really happened on the battlefield. Wrong OOBs, wrong maps (!!), wrong comments on armies strenght, misconceptions on Napoleon's tactics and "systems", and so on. Mind that, even with these, "The Campaigns of Napoleon" is still one of the few complete history about the napoleonic age, so it's something that, sooner or later (better later), every scholar must read.
As I said, this kind of things are quite frequent among historians so it would not be so terrible, if Chandler had not become the "guru" of most of the english napoleonic scholars.
Imho, for the beginner, the Osprey Campaigns Series (the post-Chandler ones better than the first), Scott Bowden's books and Nazfiger's "Imperial Bayonets" are the way to go, followed by "The Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies" by Nosworthy.
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Don't get me wrong he may be as wrong as has been posted but without any back up of facts I'm left to wonder. It's a bit like John Toland and his Pacific War books.He got almost all of his " inside " the Japanese government history wrong even though he is still quoted religiously. It's just like the book " The Battle " historians either hate it or love it according to their tastes.
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Are there any good books about Italian campaign :?:
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Are there any good books about Italian campaign :?:
There were many Italian campaigns, which one exactly?
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There were many Italian campaigns, which one exactly?
1796
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1796
The Road to Rivoli, by Martin Boycott Brown.
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1796
In Italian:
- Mauro Minola, Napoleone in Piemonte.
The war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Sardinia, probably the only book (or one of the few) that focus on the skirmishes and battles fought on the Alps and in the piedmontese plains in 1792-1796.
I'm always surprised to see how much credit has been given to some of the german states in their "tiny" efforts for/against Napoleon, and no mention is given to the piedmontese army, that fought nearly alone (the Austrians were not really useful allies in that war) against Nappy and the Army of Italy. This book finally describes how the piedmonteses performed, from the Battle of the Authion to the siege of Cosseria.
In English:
I must have a book somewhere, but I cannot find it anywhere now. "Napoleon's Campaigns in Italy" or somwthing like that...
Btw, if you search in google you can find dozens of decent articles about that war, even if usually quite brief and with little details on the early phases of the war.
I'll have to write that book myself ;)
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Maybe it's already been posted but has anyone already read the new book on Austerlitz 1805 by Robert Goetz, by Greenhill Books?... I mention this because I've read many, very general books on the era and this is quite different, as it gives not only a fine introduction on the preceeding events which led to Austerlitz but also tells the battle on a hour by hour basis, clarifying many things for myself...
As I'm not an expert on this particular battle maybe someone of you guys can state if this is really a well-researched book or not? :mrgreen:
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A couple of good books on the subject of napoleonic warfare which haven't been mentioned:
The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon by Gunther E. Rothenberg
Mammoth Book of Soldiers at War : Firsthand Accounts of Warfare from the Age of Napoleon by Jon E. Lewis also more recently:
Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age 1789-1815 by Michael Pavkovic, Iain Dickie, Kevin F. Kiley, and Frederick C. Schneid
Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age 1792-1815: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics by Robert B. Bruce, Iain Dickie, and Kevin Kiley
As for the Peninsular War there is always the classic accounts by William Napier in 6 volumes (an eyewitness to the war) or Charles Oman's 7 volume magnum opus from the 1900s (still in print and available from Greenhill books), but the best recent accounts in English are those of Charles Esdaile and those of Ian Fletcher.
There are of course loads of books on specific battles, particular campaigns and the different armies of the period and their uniforms as a browse on amazon will confirm! I particularly liked the books by Elting and the recent one by C.E.Franklin:
Napoleonic Uniforms 4 Volumes by John R. Elting based on paintings by Kopel (v.expensive!)
British Napoleonic Uniforms: A Complete Illustrated Guide to Uniforms, Facings and Lace: A Complete Illustrated Guide to Uniforms and Braids - Hardcover (12 May 2009) by C.E. Franklin (bit of a bargin this one)
there are countless osprey publications for individual units but the recent compilations are reasonably priced:
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars: Detailed Information on the Unifroms of the Austrian, British, French, Prussian and ... with Additional Material on the Minor Forces - Hardcover (26 May 2006) by Digby Smith
Armies of the Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History (General Military) by Chris McNab (Hardcover - 10 Jun 2009)
And what happened to the poor bloody wounded?......Three graphic accounts by medical practicioners
Men of Steel: Surgery in the Napoleonic Wars by Michael Crumplin
A Surgical Artist at War: The Paintings and Sketches of Sir Charles Bell 1809-1815 - Paperback (Jun 2005) by M K H Crumplin and P Starling
Larrey:Surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard. Robert G Richardson
Then there are the amazing battle paintings of Francois Lejeune which are filled with detail he had seen as an eyewitnes to many of the famous battles (he was aide de camp to Berthier): crossing of the Rhine 1795, Lodi 1796, Battle of the Pyramids 1798, Battle of Mount Tabour in Syria 1798, Aboukir 1799, Marengo 1800, Austerlitz 1805, Semoiserra 1808, seige of Saragossa 1808, Barrosa (Chiclana) 1811 , Ambushes of french convoys by spanish guerillas, Borodino 1812... The paintings are in the collection at Versailles but are often reproduced and images can be seen on line at http://www.photo.rmn.fr then look up Lejeune Louis Francois (1775-1848)....
Lejeune also wrote a memoir which recounts many of the incidents which he had portraid. It is still in print in 2 paperback volumes published by leonaur:
Lejeune: the Napoleonic Wars Through the Experiences of an Officer of Berthier's Staff
by Louis-Francois, Lejeune
well you did ask :oops:
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Anybody read 'Russia against Napoleon' by Lieven? It appears to give a Russian point of view towards the Napoleonic Wars.
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Anybody read 'Russia against Napoleon' by Lieven? It appears to give a Russian point of view towards the Napoleonic Wars.
Yes, highly recommended. Especially because the book emphasizes Economics, Domestic and Foreign Policy, things which are so heavily bound to military matters and yet often not considered in military history.
Here's a podcast in which Lieven talks about his book:
http://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/publicLecturesAndEvents/20091008_1830_theTsarLiberatesEuropeRussiaAgainstNapoleon1807-1814.mp3
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A couple of books I enjoyed
The Iron Marshal: Biography of Louis N. Davout by J. G. Gallaher
Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee by John R. Elting
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
Imperial Sunset: The Fall of Napoleon, 1813-14 by R.F. Delderfield
Napoleons Viceroy by Carola Oman
Napoleons Conquest of Prussia 1806 - F. L. Petre
The Road to Rivoli by Martin Boycott Brown
Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo by Peter Hofschroer
Tom
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Many of you may not know the efforts by Google and the Bill Gates foundation to preserve works of the past by electric scanning and then having those books on line for reference. France has a wonderful site at:
http://www.jeux-histoire.fr/bibliographie.html#1805
with works in English and in French. One of the finest works of the period is that of BRESSONNENT covering the campaign of 1806. He not only covers the whole campaign well, he places almost every individual regiment on the battlefield telling you why or how it ended up there. A marvelous incite to the way Napoleonic battles came about. Most of these works are just locked up today and we could never see them. Thanks to Bill and Google, we can read and re-read. Downloads are free in pdf format. Napier's works are here. Every campaign from 1796 to 1815.
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:D what a brilliant site thanks for the reference to it! Wellington's dispatches, many campaign histories by the generals who fought them, Even the infantry regulations 1791 are there! :p
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Some more related Google scans:
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=125893
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GunnerJim that's GREAT! Thanks a million.
I can recommend John Gill's popular 1809: Thunder on the Danube v.1 which I've been ploughing through. Fairly good job with maps in it.
I've jsut started Charles Esdaile's provocative 'Napoleon's Wars'. It's proving a welcome revisioning of the wars from outside the charmed circle of Nappy-philes and phobes which a larger contextual view of international relations throughout the 18th century through to Nappy.
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"The war of the two Emperors" by Curtis Cate. Covers Napoleons invasion of Russia. Found it to be a very good read although it didn't go into nearly the detail or depth I prefer about the various battles but provided some very interesting insights into the reasons behind the invasion and Napoleons mind set at the time as well as the problems encountered by the French in terms of weather and resupply.
" Artillery of the Napoleonic wars" By Kevin F. Killey. A decent starting point for a study of the Artillery of the era.
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Another very interesting book is, if you are interested in the Peninsular War:
"La Corogne-Les Aigles en Galice" de N. Griffon de Pleineville (ed. Le Livre Chez Vous, in French, 609 pages; I don't know if an English edition is avalaible).
A complete description of the organisation of the British and French Armies, the political background, the fighting retreat of Sir J.Moore and the battle of Corunna, with very detailed OOBs (the French OOB of Corunna battle is the most detailed and complete I've ever seen) with lot of very high quality illustrations, very good maps and photos of battlefields at present days (for instance Sahagun, Benavente, Cacabelos, Corunna). The book is interesting because it's the first extensive one by a French author!!! A bit expensive, but according of me it' a must! :)
Bye
EylauHurricane
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I cannot recall where I read it but Napier's six volumes on the Peninsula WAr were said to be unreliable as to fact sand were written some time after the events described.
Missing from the list is Haythornthwaite's "Weapon and Equipment of the Napoleonic Wars" and slightly less relevant "The Armies of Wellington"
I have only read the first and it is excellent detail - including the warning about first hand narratives which view a very small portion of a battle, and memoirs written decades after the event!
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Napier was said by some of the Tory establishment of his time to be too much of an admirer of Napoleon and to be promoting a too liberal interpretation of events in his histories. He did consult extensively with Soult and correspondeed with other french generals of the war when writing his own work. His first volume was published in 1828, 20 years after the events but this is like saying a history of the second world war published in the 1960s is unreliable becasuse of that time delay. It is true the history sparked some controversies at the time as the reputations of certain officers who were still alive were brought into question by the work. In general it is a good read and as a primary source document of someone who fought in the war it is important. As are the other memoirs which were published at this time. But then they must be read with attention to possible biases and misrememberings and compared with works such as diaries written close to the time of the action, as must any works of history: Unfortunately there is no such thing as the definitive true account as far as the history of the war is concerned!
check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Patrick_Napier for useful background info
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Did so. Thanks. Very interesting.
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I must add for you English speaking guys surely the best book ever written on 1806 campaign by the French infantry captain Pascal Bressonnet (in 1909), translated in English and annotated by Scott Bowden :
"Etudes tactiques sur la campagne de 1806 (Saalfeld, Jena, Auerstaedt)" or "Napoleon's Apogee: Pascal Bressonnet's Tactical Studies 1806 - Saalfeld, Jena and Auerstadt"
This book is one of the major written on a napoleonic campaign. On the other hand, it is very expensive.
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But beautiful. Someone also posted a link to a google copy of the book in french. The maps are very detailed and I expect you can get online translators to give you a rough translation of the french too! I'll try and find it after work.
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http://www.archive.org/
and try
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=napoleonic wars&page=1
The Archive has over 7 pages of relevant material and some is in Italian, German, Russian and French - a huge resource. There is also an audio lecture in multiple parts on Napoleon and a charge sounded by a survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade on a Battle of Waterloo trumpet. Sent shivers down my spine.
There are some novels also but not many.
If someone has already highlighted this resource my apologies.
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One of the finest works of the period is that of BRESSONNENT covering the campaign of 1806.
This GREAT book has been translated into English and published by The Military History Press.
I own a copy and it is wonderful. WELL WORTH the money.
http://militaryhistorypress.com/Apogee.php
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Can I also recommend the three books written by Maude - Leipzig, Jena and Ulm. I bought the Jena volume recently and the Leipzig and Ulm books are available online. Excellent read from a very practical military critic of the tpre-WW1 era (who therefore had some idea of the practical realities of what cavalry was all about).
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I am now reading Dominic Lieven's "Russia Against Napoleon" that covers the 1812-1814 period. He is a bit of a russophile but it is a brilliant work and a huge corrective to all the francophile accounts of the campaign I've read. It clarifies so much regarding Russian attitudes & policies --- and fundamentally that Europe was essentially an annoying but unavoidable distraction from the main southern axes of Russian expansion (vs Persion, the Ottomans & the Balkans). HUGELY recommended.
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Two of Peter Hofschroer's books:
1815 The Waterloo campaign...... Wellington his German allies and the battles of Ligny and Quatre Bra
1815 The Waterloo campaign.....The German Victory
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I have them both, excellent books.
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Can anyone suggest an excellent source for the Italian campaigns?
Also, can anyone suggest a goodie for non-Napoleon revolutionary campaigns? Recently listened to Hilaire Belloc off www.librivox.org - http://librivox.org/the-french-revolution-by-hilaire-belloc/ - and it piqued my interest.
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For me would be very interesting to have avaliable some historical maps and a set of icons to use in this forum to speak of strategy in campaigns.
For to view movements of troops with images and comment these.
Just put historical map how desktop background , put icons on map , rename icon with name CC and strength and with capture image take image for post,maybe with some draw.
Is better to understand Napoleonic strategy.
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Can anyone suggest an excellent source for the Italian campaigns?
Alas, only in french, as far as I know :
"Bonaparte en Italie, naissanced'un stratège" from Stéphane Béraud, éditeur Bernard Giovanangeli.
94 pages 25,5 x 28,5 cm. 24 maps and illustrations in color. Very clear explanations. Easy french, in my opinion.
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"The Road to Rivoli: Napoleon's First Campaign" from Martin Boycott-Brown.
640 pages,9.1 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches,very good book.
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Thank you count. On your excellent recommendation I went out and purchased Boycott-Brown and have been enjoying the early chapters. :)
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any of you guys know wats a good map that got a good combo of maps and batle info?? More like overview I have the napoleonic campaign by chandler it jst it lacks maps
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I might have missed it but one book I don't think has been mentioned is: 'The Napleonic Source book'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Napoleonic-Source-Book-Philip-Haythornthwaite/dp/1854092871
It's not as in depth about specifics and details, as most of the other titles mentioned in this thread, but as a semi-detailed overview of most aspects of the Napoleonic wars; from the armies, weapons and tactics, to the leaders and battles, it's very good. In fact of all the books I've got/read on the Nepoleonic period that's the one I'd most recommend as a starter to someone just setting out to gain some knowledge of the period.
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of all the books I've got/read on the Nepoleonic period that's the one I'd most recommend as a starter to someone just setting out to gain some knowledge of the period.
Hello Ant1815,
I agree with you when you state it is an excellent starter for beginners :!:
Philip Haythornthwaite is a prolific author with a deep interest in the Napoleonic Wars ( and military history.....) and a practical sense to explain and vividly demonstrate what it was , how and why :D
As such, he is one of the best friends for wargamers and deserves our gratefulness ;)
My only quibble is with some publishers who never mind of saling books ( not usually cheap ) with almost the same text and illustrations, minor changes and a new cover....... :evil:
This is not specific to P.H. ( idem for many D.Featherstone, etc ...) and when money is scarse* -specially for youngsters starting their library- warning from seasonned gamers may help :!:
*and don't forget to watch second hand and softcover editions for good savings....
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This site is well worth visiting as GunnerJim mentioned back in 2010. A must visit.............
http://www.jeux-histoire.fr/bibliographie.html#1805
S!
Many of you may not know the efforts by Google and the Bill Gates foundation to preserve works of the past by electric scanning and then having those books on line for reference. France has a wonderful site at:
http://www.jeux-histoire.fr/bibliographie.html#1805
with works in English and in French. One of the finest works of the period is that of BRESSONNENT covering the campaign of 1806. He not only covers the whole campaign well, he places almost every individual regiment on the battlefield telling you why or how it ended up there. A marvelous incite to the way Napoleonic battles came about. Most of these works are just locked up today and we could never see them. Thanks to Bill and Google, we can read and re-read. Downloads are free in pdf format. Napier's works are here. Every campaign from 1796 to 1815.
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Andrew Roberts Waterloo
It is a small book but I was impressed by the amount of info that i did not know and what a good read it was - finished it a couple of sittings
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Audio book.....Can be interesting to run in the background.
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol 1, Audiobook, by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWo85czwafk
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Audio book. 7 hours :D
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Hilaire Belloc - FULL AudioBook | Greatest Audio Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fifFpepzT_c