Good Books?

Hi there,
I was wondering if anybody knew some good books on the units of Napoleonic Armies?

Originally Posted by HeirofAlexander

Hi there,
I was wondering if anybody knew some good books on the units of Napoleonic Armies?

To enable us to assist you in the best way possible please could you explain clearly the type of information you are seeking for example unit histories; uniforms; organisation; etc?

Many thanks

check ospery publications. you will find what you want.
I hope...

By 'Units of Napoleon's Armies' do you mean their order of battle?

Which regiments were in which divisions etc. If so we would need to know which nations and which campaigns you were interested in.

What I am interesting in is like the type of units in NTW so you know more information about POlish Lancers, Dutch Grenadiers etc.

As r3deed has already mentioned, try out the excellent books by Osprey Publishing. They usually provide an indespensible source of information not only on Napoleons armies but every millitary force to have existed. As such they are highly regarded in the Wargaming community.

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/napoleonic/

Does anyone know if theres a good book about napoleonic wars but in Arabic ?

Originally Posted by garudamon11

Does anyone know if theres a good book about napoleonic wars but in Arabic ?

The only books I have comes across is: The Boy Life of Napoleon, Terre Napoleon and When Valmond Came to Pontiac, the Story of a Lost Napoleon, but they are more books, fiction etc then historical info books like the osprey series,

Hi,
I looked in Oprey Publishing and they`ve got some really goodlooking books.

For uniform pictures: John R Elting and Herbert Knotel (Volumes 1-4)
For artillery info: Vanguard Osprey series or Anthony L Dawson's Napoleonic Artillery
Info on infantry and cavalry: Men at arms series (Osprey)
Flags: Flags and Standards of the Napoleonic Era's by Keith Over

Other good reads:
Armies of the Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History by Chris McNab
Soldiers and Uniforms of Napoleonic Wars by François Guy Hourtoulle

See thread at http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=402990

I got a copy of 'The Waterloo Campaign 1815' by William Siborne (Third Revised edition with remarks on Gleigs'Story of waterloo) as published by The Naval and Military Press for Xmas as planned. Its a very thick volume (832 pages) and apparently ought to be thicker but the publishers chose to omit most of Sibournes additional notes.

I've only just begun reading it but so far I'm most impressed with the detail it contains. My old geography teacher always argued that when assessing the accuracy of an Atlas one should begin by looking at the map for the area surrounding your home not Africa, and so I've been finding the sections of the campaign I'm most familiar with and comparing them to what I already know from other histories.

So, far I've been very impressed. For example Hofschroer covers the battle of Gilly in quite a bit of detail in his history and I have used the sad fate of Infantry Regiment Nr 28 on these forums before, but whilst Hofschroer handles the events of this battle at quite a personal level with extracts from journals and regimental diaries to support the facts, Sibourne provides a much more thorough but quite an impersonal account including a detailed explanation of the topography and the dispositions of the forces involved right down to the positioning of each indvidual Prussian artillery piece.

As such its clear already that Hofschroer and Siborne will compliment each other perfectly in providing a well rounded account of events, and I suspect that some of the reports Hofschroer is quoting from in his book must also be the basis for the information provided by Siborne. The main difference being that Siborne does not quote the reports themselves but rather summarizes the information they contain in a precise and accurate manner. The only thing I feel I am lacking at this point is a large scale detailed map of the Belgian frontier (circa 1815) that I can plot all these dispositions on in order to understand them.

The only real disappointment I have with this book, and with the 'Waterloo Letters' the other book based on Sibornes work that I own is that the reproductions of his maps and diagrams are once again virtually illegible. I'm not sure if this is because the originals are illegible, or if the publishers just fail to reproduce them properly but once again I find myself unable to make much sense of them when crammed onto the limted space provided on the pages of the book. Whilst seeing these original maps is important I can't help thinking that it might have been better if they were copied using modern graphic techniques so that they could all least be used by the reader.

Originally Posted by alp12ha

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I aint talking about a band. I am talking about books who have good inforamtion in them, thats what makes it Good Books