Borodino 1812 (Moscow 1987) in Russian DC 235.5.B7B72 1987. An important, fantastic source for the 1812 Russian army. It has tons of prints, all in color, in its 380 large format pages. The text is in Russian. The title is Borodino 1812 (Moscow 1987). The authorship is by a fairly large editorial board. Uniforms of the World by Knotel, Knotel & Sieg. Osprey's guide to Italian and Neapolitan Troops L. and F. Funcken, The Napoleonic Wars, Part 2. Otto von Pitka, Armies of 1812 (Cambridge 1977), vol. I. UA 646. P582 V.1. von Pitka Armies of the Napoleonic Era Luigi Franco Imperatore, uniformi degli stati italiani dell'Ottocento (milano, 1982), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Napoleone e l'Italia (Roma 1973), vol. I, Otto von Pitka, The Armies of 1812, vol. 1. Rawkins, W.J. "The Bavarian Army 1805-14" (1982rev.ed., Norwich England) a detailed if dubious source, von Pikva, Otto (pseud.) "Napoleon's German Allies (4): Bavaria" (1980: Osprey) as scketchy as usual. ========================================================================== 1809 campaign "The Armies on the Danube". Bowden. "Crisis on the Danube". J. Arnold. It covers the first half of the campaign and provides plenty of maps and info upon which you can base scenarios. Arnold is also a wargamer and there is even an appendix which details how to game the campaign! "With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1809 Campaign". John Gill. It covers each allied contingent in detail and provides info on the battles they participated in. A great place to start if you want to paint and play Hessians, Bavarians, etc! Good info on Linz, Eckmuhl, etc. The maps could have been a little more detailed however. "Prince Eugene at War: 1809". A description of the book from the EHQ catalog reads as follows: First complete treatment of Eugene's campaign in Italy and Austria. The book is filled with details of little-known engagements, as well as the Prince's major battles. Excellent analyses of the engagements are also included. ========================================================================== From: dye4minis@aol.com (DYE4MINIS) Date: 22 Feb 1996 00:03:33 -0500 "Military Flags of the World 1618-1900" by Terence Wise and Guido Rosignoli (Arco Color Series), ISBN 0-668-04472-1 (HB); 0-668-04483-7 (pbk), was really good! Many color plates with explanations for flags, not generally available elsewhere. Tom Dye ---- Flags of the Napoeonic Wars by Keith Over Authoritative , out of print, but well worth hunting down. ------------------------------------------------ Novi order of battle, 1798-99 Italian campaign Duffy's "Russia's Military Way to the West" discusses the campaign. Zweguintzow L'Armee Russe v. 3 contains an OB for Novi. ------------------------------------------------------ From: jedgarbuf@mail.utexas.edu (James Bufkin) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 08:31:01 CDT One book: Ray Johnson. Napoleonic Armies. A wargamer's campaign Directory. 1805-1815. Fwd. by David Chandler. Arms and Armour Press. London. 1978. For NB, it is ideal with strengths and organizations for each nationality by chapter. There are several OBs, French 1812, 1815 and Russian 1812, but many more OB are available through studying the body of the text. Very little about the battles and the campaigns and lots of hard data on Armies. This might not be the ideal historical reading, but for a wargamer especially NB, this is like a bible. I don't play NB, but I have the books and know the organizational requirements. Some of the other good works in my library, Crisis on the Danube-Good recount of the early 1809 campaign. Lacks OBs. Napoleon and Archduke Charles-Excellent overall work with great maps. Campaigns of Napoleon-Common..w/ the West Point map book. Encyclopedia of the Nap.- Good overview Marshal Ney. The Romance and the Real. Very Good The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier-Outstanding little book of a Wurttemburger in the Russian 1812 Camp. The Napoleonic Wargame-Jeffrey's old 1974 rulebook. Pretty wild stuff. Wargaming in History-Grant's little book on Waterloo The Grand Expedition-Good work on the British invasion of Holland in 1809. OBs and Maps Borodino 1812-Duffy does a great job with this battle. OBs and Maps. 1812 Napoleons Russian Campaign-Good Overview. VG OBs Waterloo. Knopf. Great Book Basic OBs with excellent images and photos. Osprey Campaign Series. Excellent books for their size. Armies on the Danube The Grand ARmee 1813-Both by Tarbox and Bowden. Excellent The Art of Warfar..Napoleon. Rothenberg's good overview of tactics and logistics Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature. Quarrie's excellent little book. Napoleon 1812. Nicholson. Very Good. Lacks OBs and maps Lutzen and Bautzen Poles and Saxons of the Napoleonic Wars The Wurttemburg Army-all by Nafziger. Outstanding books. Worth having. History of the Waterloo Campaign-Siborne. Very Good. with OBs maps and detailed casualty lists by battalion. The French Army in Portugal 1810-1811. By Adjutant Pelet. Very good book with fair OBs on the actions taken by Ney and Massena against Wellington. With Eagles to Glory-Great account of Napoleon's German Allies Numerous Biographys on Napoleon-Pretty political and generally more concerned with other things. Other Rulebooks-Get your hands on any rulebook you can. They are usually good as another source for comparison. Napoleon the Last Campaigns 1813-1815. Good overview. Problems of Coalition Warfare-Little 10 page military study. WOrth reading if you are interested in that. Europe against Napoleon. The Leipzig campaign 1813. Personal accounts of the battle and other events. Great book. Others, The Adventures of Colonel Gerard-A must read!!!!! by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle no less.(work of Fiction) Historiche Uniformen-Funcken's complete set from Fredericks time to WWI.(If you had to get one book for painting, I would recommend this one). James B. From: SPATEJAK@MAIL.LOC.GOV (STEFAN PATEJAK) Date: 2 May 1995 11:23:23 -0500 As promised here is the second part of the posting. I apologize for my clunky e-mail system that necessitates this. Books on the Peninsula: Featherstone, D.-Peninsular Campaigns of Wellington and Featherstone Gates, D- Spanish Ulcer Glover, M.- Wellington's Army in the Peninsula Lachouque, H.- Napoleon's War in Spain Napier, W.- History of the War in the Peninsula (5 vols. or 1 vol abridg.) Oman, C.- History of the Peninsular War (7 vols. possibly 1 vol. abridg.) Books on Waterloo: Becke, A.- Napoleon at Waterloo Brett-James, A.- The Hundred Days Chalfont, L.- Waterloo; Battle of Three Armies Fortescue, J.- Campaign of Waterloo(abridged from his 14 vol. History of the British Army) Keegan, J.- Face of Battle Nofi, A.- Waterloo Campaign Siborne, H. T.- Waterloo Letters Siborne, W.- History of the Waterloo Campaign (Hamilton Williams claims it is full oferrors) Greenhill books publishes the Napoleonic Library it includes a lot of the older histories like Siborne and Petre and a lot of memoirs. If you can read French or German there is a lot in those languages. Also read the Sharpe novels by B. Cornwell. He really manages to capture the atmosphere of the army under Wellington. Stefan Patejak spatejak@mail.loc.gov From: kmillar@gssec.bt.co.uk (Kenneth Millar) Date: Tue, 2 May 95 11:40:22 CDT I am posting this on behalf of Stefan Patejak who sent this to me as email but he is having problems with the "Network Super Highway" and the posting got lost. Can I say thank you to Stefan and all the others who have sent posts and email on this subject. I think I will still be reading through the list when I am 60. Perhaps this is why there are less historical posts to this newsgroup. Everyone is reading the background material. If I manage to make up a scenario then I will post it for review. I would also like to see any Napoleon's Battles scenarios that others have constructed. Stefan's post is enclosed below:- -------------------------- Chandler's "Campaigns" is probably the best single book on Napoleonic warfare. (See also his Waterloo: the Hundred Days.) Anything by Weller is worth reading.I haven't read Hamilton Williams yet, but it looks good. He claims to demolish everything you've read about Waterloo Other books to consider: On Napoleonic wargaming: Grant, C.-Waterloo, Wargaming in History (I believe that there is a companion volume on the Peninsula.) Griffith, P.- Napoleonic Wargaming for Fun Hurren, B.- Waterloo, Background Book for Wargamers Quarrie, B.- Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature On Napoleonic warfare in general: Elting- Swords Around a Throne Glover, M.- Napoleonic Wars Greiss, T.(ed.)- Wars of Napoleon w/atlas, West Point Military History Haythornthwaite, P.-Napoleonic Sourcebook --Weapons and Equipment of the Napoleonic Wars --Wellington's Armies Lachouque, H.- Anatomy of Glory --Napoleon's Battles Longford, E.- Wellington, Years of the Sword Marshall-Cornwall, J.- Napoleon as Military Commander Parker, H.- Three Napoleonic Battles (including Waterloo) Petre, F. L.- Napoleon at War (an anthology of his extensive and excellent works) Pivka, O von- Armies of the Napoleonic Period Rothenberg, G.- Art of War in the Ageof Napoleon Wellington at War (a collection of his dispatches) Stefan Patejak spatejak@mail.loc.gov -------------- Kenneth Millar | kmillar@gssec.bt.co.uk | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: aubin@AdminBldg.Lan1.UManitoba.CA Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 13:23:49 CST In article holmes@lobby.dseg.ti.com (David Holmes) writes: >Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 13:31:04 GMT >Where can you get good orders of battle for Napoleonics. In particular, I'm >interested in some of the smaller battles between the French and Austrians. >Something on the order of Rivoli and Arcola. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >David C. Holmes The views expressed by the >holmes@lobby.dseg.ti.com not necessarily those of the > author. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, if you read French , i would hardly recommend : 1) NAPOLEON 1IERE CAMPAGNE D'ITALIE 2) NAPOLEON 2IEME CAMPAGNE D'ITALIE. LAVAUZELLE EDITEUR. Very detailed and extremely serious work around 350/400 pages each. Also in this collection are NAPOLEON CAMPAGNE D'EGYPTE, CAMPAGNE D'ALLEMAGNE 1813, CAMPAGNE DE RUSSIE 1812, CAMPAGNE DE FRANCE1814. i dont know if you can buy these books in north america (i buy them in France) but i can give you the Editor adress if you want. ================================================================================== In article <4m3fuo$fkk@news7.erols.com> ltcgray@erols.com (LTC Wilbur E. Gray) writes:>Subject: Napoleon French Battle Honor Question >Date: 29 Apr 1996 22:30:48 GMT >Organization: HMGS East >OK Sports Fans, here's one for ya. I have been doing some research into >the 1807 battle of Eylau and it seems pretty evident that Nansouty's >Heavy Cavalry Division (it had the brigade of Carabinier a Cheval) was >NOT at the slugfest just mentioned. I even got material from the French >Army's Military History Office that validates this. >The question then becomes why were the regiments that constituted >Nansouty's Division awarded the "Eylau" battle honor for display on >their tricolors (both Over and Wise-Rosignoli say they were)? Anybody >out their got a definitive answer for this with reference? Heck, even if >you got a theory, I'd like to hear it. Its tough to believe this might >have simply been a bureaucratic blunder. PANZERI REPLIES: now bill, your french is better than mine, i am quite sure, but if you should try: Dumas Comte, Precis des envenments militaires, Paris 1826, Vol XIX; or Camon, H. "Quand et Comment Napoleon. . . Systeme de Bataille," Paris 1935. or in english try those archives of "Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research" - urnear the Libof Congress? well even Phipps R. W. "The Armies of the First French Republic" Oxford, 1939. you might find a ref. but it raises a Q back 2U: does part of the rgt's participation qualify it for honors, regardless of division participation? (in the campaign? or the battle itself?) although the french use of habitual 'permanent' div and corps command structure was at the time 'an innovation' still, wasn't squadron detachment frequent on and off campaign? (especially dragoon type, but others also?) we'll, i am deep into a paper on "HEGEL undt NAPOLEON" and can't stray much, curious to know what you finally get best, pete panzeri ================================================================================== From: wkeyser@aol.com (WKeyser) Subject: Re: Nap:Battles of Montenotte and Dego Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 06:07:21 CDT The best sources I could find in English are Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte 1796-1797 by Colonel G. J. Fieberger published 1911 by West Point. Napoleon in Italy 1796-1797 by Elijah Adlow puplished 1948, and Napoleon Bonaprte's First Campaign by H Sargent publised 1899. These are hard to find but your library might have them if they do not you might contact On Military Matters, Dennis has a copy of one of these now and then. William ================================================================================== From: suvoroff@aol.com (Suvoroff) Subject: Re: Reading recomendations (long) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 98 00:36:28 CDT For a wargamer, my number one choice would be Tactics and Grand Tactics of the Napoleonic Wars, by George Jeffrey. This book really shows you what is going on at the tactical level; unfortunately it is probably very difficult to obtain any more. A good general study is The Art of War in the Age of Napoleon, by Gunther E. Rothenberg. The best single history of the French army in this period is Swords Around a Throne, by John Elting, an excellent book (though flawed in an appraisal of the Russian army through Cold War eyes). For uniforms, it is hard to recommend a single source, for the 1812 Campaign, Waterloo, or the Peninsula there are the old Blandford books which have been reprinted recently and pack a lot of information in a small volume. (I recommend these.) The Ospreys have more information, but you have to buy multiple expensive volumes, the Russian army will take at least four volumes, the Austrians five, and the French many more, so the total price is astronomical. For the lives of specific generals, The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler is good, but some have questioned some of the conclusions and it costs about $60 for the most recent reprint. Still it is the most complete coverage you will find. Napoleon as Military Commander by James Marshall-Cornwall is not as good but easier to obtain and on sale at Barnes and Noble for 1/6th the price. Soult: Napoleon's Maligned Marshal, by Peter Hayman and The Iron Marshal [Davout] by John G. Gallaher are worth getting. In the Revolutionary era, Alexader Suvorov by K. Osipov and The Art of Victory by Philip Longworth cover the life of the Napoleonic era's greatest general. Recommended memoirs include With Napoleon in Russia, by Armand de Caulaincourt, The Notebooks of Captain Coignet, by Captain Coignet, Journal of the Waterloo Campaign, by Cavalie Mercer, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, by Jakob Walter, Retreat from Moscow by Adrien Bourgogne and Life in Napoleon's Army by Elzear Blaze. Especially the last one, it gives a good account of what it was really like. Good accounts of individual battles/campaigns include; Armies on the Danube 1809, by Bowden and Tarbox, anything written by F. Loraine Petre (he covers the 1806, 1807, 1809, 1813 and 1814 campaigns in separate volumes and in detail) Napoleon's Invasion of Russia by George F. Nafziger has lots of information but is no fun to read, 1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Richard Reihn is less detailed but much easier to read, Napoleon & Iberia by Donald D. Horward, Austerlitz 1805 & Borodino and the War of 1812 by Christopher Duffy are really good, and War to the Death [about the sieges of Saragoza] by Raymond Rudorff. Books to treat with caution; The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot are a good read but many aspects seem to have more to do with the Baron's aged imagination than reality, Banners of the King by Michael Ross [on the wars of the Vendee] is the only book on it's subject but is both a bad read and a vague history, Imperial Bayonets by George Nafziger has lots of good information but is deadly dull, and finally With Musket, Cannon and Sword by Brent Nosworthy is well researched but reaches many conclusions I find highly questionable, I recommend you skip it. Finally, there is some good battle history in the recent books on Waterloo and the 1814 campaign by David Hamilton-Williams, but these are somewhat spoiled by his obsession with the conspiracy theory of history. Yours, A.V. Suvoroff ================================================================================== From: mattdlm@aol.com (Matt DLM) Newsgroups: rec.games.miniatures.historical Subject: Re: Reading recomendations (long) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 98 07:20:56 CDT I agree with those who plug Elting's Swords Around a Throne, now available in paperback. It is tremendously well-written and thoroughly entertaining. Also, for the best general military history, Elting and Esposito's Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars is probably superior to Chandler's Campaigns in its overall coverage of the battles. The best books on tactics are all relatively new: 1) Nosworthy's With Musket, Cannon and Sword 2) Rory Muir's Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon (anglo-centric but not biased) 3) Nafziger's Imperial Bayonets. Less of a good read but chocked full of useful information 4) Also, see Paddy Griffith's articles in the old EE&L or his chapter on Napoleonics in Forward into Battle. 5) George Jeffrey's out-of-print book is highly useful, despite being dated. For a detailed campaign, I recommend: Jim Arnold's Crisis on the Danube Christopher Duffy's Borodino and Austerlitz Scott Bowden's Napoleon at Austerlitz Also, Greenhill has reprinted Oman's History of the Peninsular War. This is an absolute treasure. Matt DeLaMater ==================================================================================