| JimDuncanUK | 04 Sep 2014 3:51 a.m. PST |
A short report on the Battle of Waterloo from a Prussian perspective. link Have a look and please feel free to comment here or on my blog. |
| von Winterfeldt | 04 Sep 2014 4:50 a.m. PST |
A good book, but really an Allied victory – more or less due to incredible blunders by N. |
Frederick  | 04 Sep 2014 5:21 a.m. PST |
I think that Jerome might have had something to do with it – plus some assumptions that Grouchy had about where and what the Prussians were doing |
| JimDuncanUK | 04 Sep 2014 5:54 a.m. PST |
No doubt a great Allied victory but not the British victory that was circulated throughout Great Britain for many decades. |
| Lou from BSM | 04 Sep 2014 6:12 a.m. PST |
Uh oh… You've crossed the line now. They're going to lynch you for that comment!!! :-) |
| JimDuncanUK | 04 Sep 2014 6:16 a.m. PST |
That's OK, I'm hiding in Florida with my specially trained 'gators all around me. |
| Lou from BSM | 04 Sep 2014 6:21 a.m. PST |
Whereabouts? I live near Tampa |
| Doug em4miniatures | 04 Sep 2014 7:12 a.m. PST |
more or less due to incredible blunders by N Just as most of N's victories owed more than a little to incredible blunders by his opponents…. Doug |
| JimDuncanUK | 04 Sep 2014 7:32 a.m. PST |
@Lou from BSM I'm not really in the Sunshine State at the moment, that's only a cover story. When I am there it is usually Kissimmee during May and June avoiding the theme parks. I've been to Tampa a few times, usually Busch Gardens and the Aquarium although I've been to see the Rays play in St Pete. |
| Marcus Maximus | 04 Sep 2014 9:46 a.m. PST |
Hmmmm – the book is very biased, but the detail is very good. I am awaiting more balanced accounts. In the mean time there is a very good balanced read Waterloo Barbero |
| Costanzo1 | 04 Sep 2014 10:13 a.m. PST |
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| JimDuncanUK | 04 Sep 2014 11:37 a.m. PST |
@Marcus Maximus Thanks Have just ordered the Barbero book. I do like to read widely on various subjects. This should help a lot. |
| JimDuncanUK | 04 Sep 2014 12:06 p.m. PST |
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| Marcus Maximus | 04 Sep 2014 12:16 p.m. PST |
@Jim no problem. I don't buy every book on Waterloo – I'm particular but I have read "he whose name can't be named on here" Waterloo volumes (1 & 2) and do find he is one of a select few who opens up Prussian archive material to the wider English audience which is a blessing for those of us whose German is rusty or for those cannot read German. |
| JimDuncanUK | 04 Sep 2014 12:29 p.m. PST |
@Marcus Maximus When I read the Barbero book, and that will be soon, I will probably blog something about it. I might list all my other Waterloo books at that point to show that I'm trying to be as objective as possible and not just mudslinging. Jim |
| 14Bore | 04 Sep 2014 4:48 p.m. PST |
If you look back there is volumes on TMP about this book. Doesn't bother me, I'm a Prussian Army collector. |
| DeRuyter | 05 Sep 2014 10:08 a.m. PST |
How about Andrew Field's "Waterloo from the French Perspective". Very nicely done and he's a British Army Officer to boot. |
| JimDuncanUK | 05 Sep 2014 11:04 a.m. PST |
@DeRuyter I'm tempted, £7.41 GBP for a kindle edition in the UK at the moment. Let me finish the Barbero book first, started it last night! |
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