Rear Guard Action

These two Osprey books form a miniseries, with the first describing the growth and zenith of Napoleon’s headquarters while the second focuse...

Mattijs Lok: Windvanen. Napoleontische Bestuurders in de Nederlandse en Franse Restauratie (1813-1820) A study of the political survival o...

Napoleon 1814: The Defence of France by Andrew Uffindell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent book: well written, well researched and ...

The adventures of Albrecht Nicolaas van Aerssen in Russia provide a nice insight into the less glorious part of Napoleonic warfare that is ...

This book is very well written: the story flows, with anecdotes sprinkled liberally but always in the service of the characterisation of the...

Die Eisfestung by Gabriele Hoffmann is a nice piece of history writing in accessible German. It fits in well with the other very reada...

I went to Hamburg last week and was well intentioned to drop money on some books on the Befreiungskriege in 1813 as a context for the Water...

John Keegan´s Face of Battle was major influence on my thinking about warfare as it was for so many others. I read it in university as part...

"My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way The history book on the shelf ...

Also in the mail last week: Erwin Muilwijk's second volume in his history of the Dutch army during the Waterloo campaign: Perponcher...

Given the 200 year anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig Megagames Nederland will be running Master of Europe , a megagame designed by Brian ...