"The Grande Armee in 1805 - new book" Topic

This looks a must for anyone interested in the 1805 campaign (and will be added to my Christmas present list).

The Grande Armee in 1805: The Organisation, Orders of Battle, Uniforms, Flags and Campaign Atlas
Stephen Summerfield
2024, Ken Trotman Publishing
"This is not a narrative history of the Ulm and Austerlitz campaign of 1805. There are many of these available. This is the superbly illustrated reference book you will keep alongside any other history and refer to time and time again. In this one volume you will find 360 uniforms, 260 uniform schema and details, 55 flags, 58 orders of battle, 31 maps and 85 tables. In all there are over 700 illustrations. My dear friend Stephen Summerfield and I meet up only on infrequent occasions where we have the chance to chat together and plot the sort of books we love and want to publish. Last August (2023), in the middle of a large and open field, whilst walking my dog "Mopsa" (who shows little interest in military history and would rather we write about sticks and rabbits), I suggested a way of developing what we had achieved with our books on Hanau 1813, Friedland 1807 and most particularly the Russia 1812 campaign studies based upon orders of battle and uniforms leaving the campaign narrative to other books. He was unusually left speechless for some minutes and you could see the cogs turning. Finally, he replied, "Brilliant, simple and elegant idea." Then for rest of the walk described the content of the books I had proposed in detail. I had rarely seen him so animated about a project. In his usual way, Stephen took my inarticulate attempts to describe a style and content and turned them into pure magic. This is the result, much more than a simple book, more a compendium of all the useful information you would like in one place to study what was according to David Chandler, "Napoleon's finest campaign and battle." Here, within these pages, are exhaustive orders of battle from August to December 1805, the composition of corps and divisions and how units evolved from their Revolutionary formations, essential details of the working structure of Napoleon's army, how and where they marched towards their famous victory, maps galore, and of course their flags, eagles and their uniforms. When I say uniforms, I do not just mean the obvious infantry and cavalry, but where else are you likely to find such as the Gendarmes, Invalids, the Chasseurs d'Orient, the Regt. de la Tour d'Auvergne, Italians, German States (Baden, Bavaria and Württemberg) and so many others. This is a book not to put on the book shelves but to keep handy, where you can refer to it time and time again. You may be simply studying the campaign, or you may be planning your own campaign game or raising your own model army…."
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Sounds cool!

While what's there is useful….be aware it isn't the entire book….rather just many select pages.

If you look on the right hand side, there are loads of papers and theses for free download. I also use the following site for free downloads…….loads of history books there, search by general or specific title or key words…

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