Tango01  | 14 Aug 2018 2:16 p.m. PST |
How many do you have? (smile) link
Amicalement
Armand
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 Stosstruppen | 14 Aug 2018 2:35 p.m. PST |
That list needs some work |
| rmcaras | 14 Aug 2018 3:28 p.m. PST |
Bizarre. I was expecting to see a Napoleon Hill title included. |
| nsolomon99 | 14 Aug 2018 3:57 p.m. PST |
I'm with Stoss, a pretty mixed list, it includes the worthless piece by Schom (pure fiction) and of the just 3 books on specific battles 2 are about Austerlitz and 1 is the Osprey on Vitoria!!!??? Oh, and not that I'm counting, but my library already includes many of the better works on this list and, mercifully, many, many better pieces. |
| langobard | 15 Aug 2018 12:39 a.m. PST |
Um, apparently a list created, not by reading the books in question, but by comparing other lists of Napoleonic books and seeing what came up most frequently? |
| Brechtel198 | 15 Aug 2018 2:18 a.m. PST |
Indeed, the list needs a lot of work. Schom, Horne, and many others should not be there at all. In short, the listing is not very discerning as to accuracy and quality of research. |
| MaggieC70 | 15 Aug 2018 3:45 a.m. PST |
Mon Dieu! What a mess. Any book appearing here courtesy of a Goodreads list or, much worse, Wikipedia, is generally suspect. I also recognize some titles I shredded in Amazon reviews… |
| USAFpilot | 15 Aug 2018 9:37 a.m. PST |
How does #7 Napoleon's Marshals by Chandler compare with the book by the same name by Delderfield? I thought Delderfield's book was pretty good. |
| Tango01 | 15 Aug 2018 10:08 a.m. PST |
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| MaggieC70 | 15 Aug 2018 12:19 p.m. PST |
Delderfield's book is what I'd call "amateur history"--fun to read, but not something anyone would use in a scholarly context. Chandler was the editor of #7; the individual biographical sketches of each of the marshals and a synopsis of their most famous--or memorable for one thing or another--battles was written by a Napoleonic era historian. Not as fun to read as Delderfield, but historically heftier. |
| Brechtel198 | 15 Aug 2018 2:19 p.m. PST |
Chandler's Napoleon's Marshals is probably the best of the lot on the marshalate. As Maggie correctly stated, each marshal had his own chapter and each was done by a Napoleonic era historian, Chandler also authoring one chapter as well as being the editor of the book. |
| USAFpilot | 16 Aug 2018 5:41 a.m. PST |
Hey thanks for the review. You have to start somewhere, so why not with simple easy to read. |
| Tango01 | 16 Aug 2018 10:00 a.m. PST |
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| Brechtel198 | 16 Aug 2018 1:19 p.m. PST |
Simple, easy to read is good; simple and inaccurate is not. And you have to be careful with 'simple'-as a British staff officer once supposedly remarked: 'Simplicity, yes-but not the simplicity of an ape with a paintbrush!' |
