Generalised Histories and Guides

Hi all,

This has probably been asked before but i'm asking for someone to point me in the direction of any good Generalised guides for the napoleonic era and the 18th century. i'm looking for overviews to keep as a reference guide on the shelf as my uni student budget won't stretch to lots of more detailed but restricted books. i am looking for these in regards to Army and navy, including structure, tactics and basic campaign history. One i'v already found is Cris McNabs Armies of the Napoleonic Wars. Does anyone know anything about this book?

Cheers

AUSSIE11

As an alternative have a look at Philip J Haythornthwaite "The Napoleonic Source Book".

The first book I read on Napoleonic warfare was the 'Campaigns of Napoleon'. That was many years ago and the price was far less than the ridiculous amount I see on Amazon. There are many other decent books on the Amazon site however
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&k...l_4kxoxbp1oa_e

I was thinking of getting the book on Quatre Bras which I've tried replaying in 15mm various times
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&k...l_4nqp0ybdhd_b

Yeah, I'v Already got Chandlers Campaigns and a few others... main problem is i'm a broke uni student and theses books cost a lot... so i'm only trying to get good ones...

These days the internet has millions of words,maps uniforms ,battles on the Napoleonic period. There's no real point buying expensive books when a quick search on google can provide almost anything
like
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nap...w=1920&bih=999

Originally Posted by Jihada

These days the internet has millions of words,maps uniforms ,battles on the Napoleonic period. There's no real point buying expensive books when a quick search on google can provide almost anything
like
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nap...w=1920&bih=999

I would endorse Jihada's comment. Here are some links to help your searching for books:

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=125893 List of books on Napoleonic subjects available for free download.
http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/bibliographic/internetbooks/c_internetbooks1.html Present index lists books digitized by various institutions, but mainly the Google Corp. for its Google Books project. Only full version titles are included and interested parties can search the entire Google Books database at http://books.google.com/. This index represents only a fraction of tens of thousands of books added daily to the Google Books and is continuously updated.
http://www.napoleonica.org/us/index.html Access to lots of original documents, books etc,
http://www.napoleonicassociation.org/research/articles.htm Some useful articles for download.
http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/ Classic Napoleonic literature - books and artwork reproduced here are out-of-copyright.
http://anne.messageboard.nl/29197/viewtopic.php?t=76 Links to downloadable books.
http://bvpb.mcu.es/independencia/es/micrositios/indice_campo.cmd?campo=idtitulo Links to downloadable books in mix of English, Spanish, French & German languages.
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=128566 Links to downloadable drill manuals.
http://www.jeux-histoire.fr/bibliographie.html Lots of links to downloadable copies of books on campaigns, battles etc from the Revolutionary period to Waterloo in mix of English, French & German.
http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/AgeOfNapoleon/BibMenu.html Massive bibliography of Napoleonic Fiction, Poetry & Drama with links to digital texts on this site as well as other sites see below for downloadable text link:
http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/AgeOfNapoleon/E-Texts/Fiction.html Downloadable texts here but unfortunately not all links work.
http://www.historicalnovels.info/Napoleonic.html Most not downloadable, but useful list of Napoleonic novels.
http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Link to Google Books search page.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Links to Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France) search page.
http://www.archive.org/details/texts Internet text Archive: Free Books - Download & Streaming : Ebook and Texts Archive. Very useful for those in the UK & Europe who cannot access full texts that US citizens can on Google Books due to the different limits on expiry of copyright - sometimes blocks do occur. http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/o Link to Gutenberg Project search page.
http://www.napoleon.org/en/napoleonica/library/nouveautes.asp#2 The Fondation Napoléon Digital Collection - digitised documents fully searchable, images can be viewed using zoom feature.

A few useful books to consider for the future when you are earning:
Gunther Rothenburg "The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon"
George Nafziger " Imperial Bayonets"
Brent Nosworthy "Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies"
Paddy Griffith "The Art of War of Revoltionary France 1789-1802"

Wow that's an impressive list and should be stickied.

Originally Posted by Jihada

Wow that's an impressive list and should be stickied.

It is as part of the Useful websites thread