"Books about spesific campaing and battle" Topic

During the TYWs, so I'm reading battles of the thirty years war, but the descriptions of the battles are usualy 3-10 pages, and don't go into much detail, infact the book give the false impression the battle lasted 20 minutes.

So I want a book the goes into detail, more like that of a book about the napoleoinc war, more personal stories, like when private hansen knocked a curassier of his horse with his musket butt. ect. More down and dirty, more about the desparte fight.

The battles I would like to know more about is any of the major swedish battles, but also any of the big battles at the end of the war between spain and france.

Well the problem is that those stories went unrecorded since so few soldiers knew how to read and write compared to the Napoleonic period. A surprisingly large number of officers were semi-literate at best and not a few were effectivly illiterate.

So when you get eyewitness accounts they belong to fairly senior officers who have a bad habit of leaving out the small details or compressing events into a few lines of text. There are some exceptions to this but they are rare.

For the Swedish battles there are "Sveriges Krig 1611-1632" volume IV (Breitenfeld), vol. V (the crossing of the Lech) and vol. VI (Alte Feste & Lützen). It is a rare work but I guess that at least some copies should have made it to Norwegian libraries.

The battle of Jankow is covered by another General Staff study. "Slaget vid Jankow", again a major research library is your best bet.

For Nordlingen 1634 there is an excellent study in German by Peter Engerisser & Pavel Hrncirik.

Thats what I was afraid of, DAMN!!

Thanks for the help, I'll look for the books, there are a few old school books stores around me, selling old and intersting books. I'll have a look at them.

I just got my copy of the Engerisser/Hrncirik book on Nördlingen 1634 cited above. Looks awesome, can't wait to read it.

I suppose in a few years Sveriges Krig will show up as a free Google book.