 Flashman14  | 13 Jul 2016 2:21 a.m. PST |
If you could only pick one … 1) War & Peace
2) Seven Men of Gascony
3) Sharpe's Eagle
4) ? |
| Glengarry5 | 13 Jul 2016 2:42 a.m. PST |
I have not read War and Peace yet… so, Seven Men of Gascony… |
| daler240D | 13 Jul 2016 2:54 a.m. PST |
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| SJDonovan | 13 Jul 2016 3:07 a.m. PST |
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| Martin Rapier | 13 Jul 2016 3:31 a.m. PST |
One of the Patrick O'Brian ones. Any will do, but if forced to pick one at random, Desolation Island. |
| Allen57 | 13 Jul 2016 3:42 a.m. PST |
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| Vintage Wargaming | 13 Jul 2016 4:00 a.m. PST |
C S Forester: Death to the French, and the Gun (but not the awful film with Gregory Peck and Frank Sinatra) |
| parrskool | 13 Jul 2016 4:03 a.m. PST |
Brigadier gerard by Conan Doyle |
| 15th Hussar | 13 Jul 2016 4:46 a.m. PST |
Excluding AoFS books (in which Bolitho rules)… The Proud Canaries…which is a fantastic story about General Lasalle during his glory years from 1806-1809. |
| robert piepenbrink | 13 Jul 2016 4:59 a.m. PST |
The Year of the French--unless I start counting Austen and Heyer. That would be something like
Persuasion
The Reluctant Widow
An Infamous Army
Pride & Prejudice Brigadier Gerard is great, but it's a short story collection, not a novel. |
| 21eRegt | 13 Jul 2016 5:14 a.m. PST |
Seven Men of Gascony
Hornblower series
Sharpe series
Count of Monte Cristo |
| bogdanwaz | 13 Jul 2016 6:01 a.m. PST |
Patrick Rambaud's trilogy – The Battle, The Retreat, Napoleon's Exile. |
| mikec260 | 13 Jul 2016 6:01 a.m. PST |
4. Patrick O'Brian's first in the Jack Aubrey series, Master and Commander. |
| 138SquadronRAF | 13 Jul 2016 8:06 a.m. PST |
The memoirs of Baron de Marbot |
| Clays Russians | 13 Jul 2016 8:38 a.m. PST |
War and Peace – that was really a question? Just kidding |
| Reactionary | 13 Jul 2016 11:01 a.m. PST |
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| War Panda | 13 Jul 2016 11:08 a.m. PST |
Number 4 damn your eyes!!! Number 4! Ok firstly I'm right and everyone else is wrong (unless they've already said this) Patrick o Brian: Master and Commander.
So you can start at the beginning of the most amazingly brilliant series of books ever written by man (or beast) They're alright Just get it now ((along with Sea of Words …so if you're a land lubber like me you can understand all the naughty bits) Nautical bits… |
DukeWacoan  | 13 Jul 2016 1:23 p.m. PST |
Hornblower definitely fun to read |
| Flashman14 | 13 Jul 2016 1:50 p.m. PST |
I'll allow Brigadier Gérard however I won't accept whole series'. Pick one. That's easy in the Sharpe stuff, many are tired and lame. |
| Old Peculiar | 13 Jul 2016 2:45 p.m. PST |
Death to the French, it is a great story, after that I would have to go with Gerard, the tale where he ruins a fox hunt! |
| rustymusket | 13 Jul 2016 6:17 p.m. PST |
I plan to read War and Peace in November when I retire. I read a "history" by Claude Manceron (it was about Austerlitz and I read somewhere that it was more novel than history). I found it in the ST. Louis U. library when I was a student there I wish I could read it again just to see. I have read the novel "The Limits of Glory" by James R. McDonough several years ago. It is a novel about Waterloo. I will probably read it again soon. I don't remember how enjoyable the read was. I will let you know. |
| Gunfreak | 14 Jul 2016 6:46 a.m. PST |
I've only tread 2.5 napoleonic novels (first two O'brian books and first half of the 3rd)
So I'll say the first one which i enjoyed alot. So master and commander |
| Flashman14 | 14 Jul 2016 12:02 p.m. PST |
"Death to the French" is Rifleman Dodd in the U.S. I almost just bought it again. |
| John Miller | 14 Jul 2016 1:38 p.m. PST |
Andrew Preziosi: I was not aware of this novel concerning LaSalle. I will have to get hold of a copy of this, ASAP!!! Thank you very much, John Miller |
| Peter Lowitt | 14 Jul 2016 4:18 p.m. PST |
Lots of new novels including McDowells Worthy of their Colours, McGraths the a Emperors American, and Goldworthys Peninsular series. I like Rambaud, Forster, and the Proud Canaries as well as Seven Men of Gascony. |
| stephen phillip | 14 Jul 2016 5:09 p.m. PST |
Anything by either Ian Gale; currently re-reading four days in June or the other author is Adrian Goldsworthy. Both highly recommended |
 miniMo | 14 Jul 2016 9:33 p.m. PST |
An Infamous Army, by Georgette Heyer. |
| miniMo | 15 Jul 2016 12:03 a.m. PST |
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire #1), by Naomi Novik |
| 15th Hussar | 15 Jul 2016 4:58 a.m. PST |
miniMo…that and the Spanish Bride by the same author/authress (?). Two excellent books. John M., it's long out of print but you should be able to get a copy via InterLibraryLoan or Amazon. |
