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I held off reading this until we had finished the game.  It also continues my Peninsula themed reading at the moment. I enjoyed this book.  ...

Not really a book, more a collection or roll call of facts and figures, still it did make an interesting read and reference source. I did le...

I started reading this at the same time as I was reading the Donald Featherstone book.  This one was more to my liking.  Only very minor cri...

Published in 1991 and I've probably had it since then, but only now got around to reading it as part of my ongoing research into wargami...

I paid $4.95 for this a long, long time ago.  I have dipped into it occasionally for inspiration and now I think it's time has come (alm...

This is a classic and one of my all-time inspirational books for the Napoleonic period.  As part of my research into what is now the 1813-14...

Continuing my research, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Chapters 17 to 22 covering the period after the Battle of Vittoria to Napoleon's ab...

My Orthez inspired research continues. This 2002 publication was an uncorrected proof copy and contained no maps, although it did intend to ...

A GUARDS OFFICER IN THE PENINSULA. The Peninsula War letters of John Rous, Coldstream Guards, 1812-1814. Edited by Ian Fletcher. My reading ...

I've had this book for thirty years, give or take, I may have read it in the past or dipped into it, but a recent post in the Napoleon...

Hot on the heels (or is that tail?) of Bomber, Mark B lent me this book.  It is something different... These two images come from Stella ...

In playing Nightfighter with Mark B he recommended this book to me, even going so far as being prepared to lend me his copy. I was eager fo...

This book has the subtitle "Hell in a very small space" which is certainly a good description of the place under siege. This book ...

To give him his full title that is Captain Donald Macintyre DSO & 2 Bars, DSC RN (Retd), so an authoritative figure with service in WW2 ...

My posts labelled "book review" ain't really book reviews, just me making a note of something I felt relevant to this blog and...

Not sure whose other Iliad it might be, but this was a retelling by Vitezslav Kocourek, translated by Vladimir Varecha and beautifully illus...

Not really a cookery book or a detailed consideration of the campaign and battle, but an insight into myth making, misinformation, maintenan...

This was a book I purchased in April 1984 for $7.95 from Mary Martins in Adelaide.  I have now finished reading it.  I hasten to add I reall...

Excellent read containing two intertwined stories.  There is a good summary with plenty of detail on the Ark Royal's service combined wi...

What the Dark Valley does to understand the roots of WW2 this does for WW1. It is a complex subject and this book certainly doesn't try ...