| Prince Alberts Revenge | 14 Feb 2010 4:04 p.m. PST |
Are there any good english-language books on the Mexican Adventure? I did a quick search on Amazon and only found an osprey…anything else? Thanks! |
Frederick  | 14 Feb 2010 5:35 p.m. PST |
The Osprey is pretty good With Maximilian in Mexico: A Lady's Experience of the French Adventure is a period account of the Adventure written by an American in Mexico at the time The Company of Military Historians has some of this in their book on US military uniforms |
 Wolfshanza | 14 Feb 2010 6:47 p.m. PST |
Yeah, the Osprey book is pretty good. |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 14 Feb 2010 7:45 p.m. PST |
Look up "Maximilian And Juarez" by Jaspar Ridley, and/or "The Crown of Mexico" by Joan Haslip for two popular histories. Both should be available through Amazon, Alibris, or AbeBooks, and probably very inexpensively. The real story is far better than any fiction of almost any kind. Only the real world can be as bizarre as the history of the French Intervention, and must be read to be believed. Oh, and for a great good "watch," rent or catch on TCM "Juarez" with Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne (as "Maxel"), and a perfectly oily Claude Raines as Nappy III himself. Some hokiness, and short-cuts, but more accurate than not, and a great mood maker. TVAG |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 14 Feb 2010 8:29 p.m. PST |
Major Dundee always good value |
| Corporal Steiner | 15 Feb 2010 3:02 a.m. PST |
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Hardcover)
by C. M. Mayo and SHELBY'S EXPEDITION TO MEXICO: AN UNWRITTEN LEAF OF THE WAR (Civil War in the West) (Hardcover)by JOHN EDWARDS is a decent read – one more obscure fictional book The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (Paperback) Andrew F. Rolleis is also fun! Simon |
| Shedman | 15 Feb 2010 8:44 a.m. PST |
The Maximilian War Yahoo group has a good list of books under the Database link See link |
| 15th Hussar | 15 Feb 2010 9:10 a.m. PST |
Go to Google Books…there is a tonne of material there just by searching under various keywords. |
| Gallowglass | 15 Feb 2010 2:17 p.m. PST |
If you want to game the Mexican Adventure, then you want to save this link: link |
| Wizard Whateley | 16 Feb 2010 4:51 p.m. PST |
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| onmilitarymatters | 26 Feb 2010 3:01 p.m. PST |
For wargame scenarios… Item: 84014
Fastoso, Mark
MAXIMILIAN IN MEXICO
10 Wargame Scenarios1 vol, 64 pgs 2006 FAIRAFX, J&D PUBLICATIONS NEW-softcover $20.00 USD In stock at onmilitarymatters.com Dennis from OMM
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looks at a multi-period building.
