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| Tango01 | 08 May 2023 7:40 p.m. PST |
… Great Campaigns
Of Possible interest?
Free to read
PDF link
Armand
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| arthur1815 | 09 May 2023 1:11 a.m. PST |
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rustymusket  | 09 May 2023 5:06 a.m. PST |
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| Brechtel198 | 09 May 2023 1:41 p.m. PST |
The author does use some suspect sources in his essay including Jomini's various 'histories', Nosworthy's With Musket, Cannon and Sword…, Marshal Macdonald's Recollections, Weigley's The Age of Battles, Britt's Wars of Napoleon, this last being a replacement text in History of the Military Art at West Point, the text it replaced being much superior to this one. Further, Chandler's Campaigns of Napoleon is overused and Owen Connelly's Blundering to Glory is not helpful, nor is Esdaile's Napoleon's Wars. |
| Tango01 | 09 May 2023 2:28 p.m. PST |
A votre service mes amis… Armand |
| Valmy92 | 09 May 2023 4:03 p.m. PST |
I read it when it was new and thought it was quite interesting at the time. Are the sources suspect? Depends on what you're using them for.
Is everything that uses "suspect" sources useless? Not really IIRC it's more a synthesis of secondary sources rather than primary research. |
| Brechtel198 | 10 May 2023 1:35 p.m. PST |
If a book, et al, has inaccurate or incorrect information, then its value lessens considerably. That makes the book or other source suspect and it shouldn't be used as a source. |
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