| Au pas de Charge | 07 Jul 2020 11:34 a.m. PST |
Just finished reading these books: link link They're a good, light approach to the period and have a good blend of Personalities, anecdotes, strategy but are basically a tactical treatment of a battle or battles. And they're well written. Any other well written books you've come across that are basically tactical either about a battle, campaign or an army or arm of an army sprinkled with other elements/tidbits of facts,stats/personalities for color? |
| Widowson | 07 Jul 2020 4:30 p.m. PST |
WAAAAAY too expensive. Forty bucks for two hundred pages on the first one. Fifty six bucks for 126 pages in the second case. Rip off! |
| Brechtel198 | 07 Jul 2020 5:42 p.m. PST |
The first one costs $8.23 USD if you look closely. And it's a good and useful book. |
 Artilleryman  | 08 Jul 2020 1:05 a.m. PST |
Definitely worth having. I managed to buy the cavalry book when it was first published and others in the Waterloo series by Bryan Fosten when I came across them at conventions and markets. If you look carefully you can usually find such books for a reasonable price. |
| Redcurrant | 08 Jul 2020 1:10 a.m. PST |
Recommend both books, have had them in my collection for years. |
| SHaT1984 | 08 Jul 2020 4:07 a.m. PST |
Have the firsts edition since new, second book not my campaign so heartily recommended.
Limited scope but brought matters out that us amateurs couldn't know about 40 odd years ago. Recently re-read so I could gen up on Bessiéres and his ADC's for a command structure. I don't do single figures! Others:- I'm on Copernics, P.Charrié, Fosten as above, and many other 'factual' rather than opinionated books, But since I haven't indulged in two decades, call me a dinosaur.
Oh yeah, 19thC. first editions excepted of course,
Regards davew |
| Florida Tory | 08 Jul 2020 4:21 a.m. PST |
Johnson's book on Napoleon's cavalry is my favorite book on the period, out of collection acquired over the past 50+ years. Rick |
| Garryowen | 08 Jul 2020 10:05 a.m. PST |
Johnson is fantastic. He did two books on the French Napoleonic cavalry: Napoleon's Cavalry and Its Leaders
French Cavalry 1792-1815 They are two separate and different books. Well worth having. I have read both multiple times. Tom |
| Brechtel198 | 08 Jul 2020 2:03 p.m. PST |
Johnson's books are excellent, and the story of General Marulaz and the Marquis de Sorans is entirely typical of one of Napoleon's general officers. |
| Au pas de Charge | 20 Jul 2020 9:13 a.m. PST |
I am enjoying Johnson thoroughly and also Haythornwaite. I am currently reading the latter's "Die Hard" book. link |
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