Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

I see lots of books on Waterloo ( only a few on Wagram ) but am not sure which are worth my hard earned francs..

Thoughts ?

Monsieur le Marechal John Corbin
Chief of Staff
La Grande Armee
NWC Cabinet Member

My favorite book on Waterloo:The Waterloo Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Land Battle by Mark Adkins

I know that Amazon has it. It's about $40.00 USD



BG Ed Blackburn
Commanding 6th Div, II Corps, AAA
3rd Bn / 1st Regiment of Foot Guards

John,

For Wagram, it really depends on what you want in a book. I tend to be more interested in the strategic aspects of a campaign and battle rather than individual unit actions, and on that level I'm very fond of

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

I did see that Rothenburg just did a book on Wagram... don't have it yet.

Waterloo... well, odd to say, that's not a battle that interests me all that much. My library is kind of Waterloo-less.

BTW: Is our turn with you?

FZM Freiherr Gary McClellan
Generalissimus Imperial Austrian Army
Portner Grenadier Battallion
Allied Coalition C-in-C

I also like the Adkins book on Waterloo -- lots of detail for someone new to this topic.

The Osprey Campaign series are also easy reading with enough detail to be useful with the games. I have Waterloo 1815, Aspern & Wagram 1809, and Eggmuhl 1809 (which I assume is an alternate spelling).

Another Book, which is more for researching gaming details not history is Napoleons Campaigns in Miniature by Bruce Quarrie.

For pure reading, I enjoyed two novels - The Limits of Glory by McDonough -- a "killer angels" treatment of Waterloo. The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes by Urban -- sort of like the equivalent of figuring out how to gain the advantage with the HPS game engine.

Brigadier Sir Bob Breen KT

1st (The King's) Dragoon Guards
Commanding 71st Highlanders
Commandant, RMA

John, are you easy in french ?
The most well studied serial books are : "les carnets de la campagne - waterloo 1815 by Bernard Coppens and Patrice Courcelle - Bruxelles".

If you're intersted, you can find below the link to a specialized library in Paris, which send its book everywhere. Its catalog is very impressive. (Books in french and english)

I bought there several times.

http://www.lelivrechezvous.com/web.cfm?lang=%20en

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Outstanding and helpful, especially the discussion of myths and controversies; but the graphics were proof-read poorely. Don't rely on the graphical OOBs, especially, without checking an additional source: there are brigade numbers mixed up and such.

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D.S. "Green Horse" Walter, Maréchal d'Empire
Baron d'Empire, Duc des Pyramides
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Commandant [url="http://home.arcor.de/dierk_Walter/NWC/EdM_start.htm"]L'Ecole de Mars[/url], L'Armée du Rhin
Commandant de la Brigade de Tirailleurs de la Jeune Garde
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Any of the books in the Wagram game bibliography are good - some out of print (like Bowden's book).

I have Rothenberg's book and highly recommend it.

With Eagles to Glory gives you a good look at the Confed of Rhine and other German allies that were in Napoleon's Army of Germany.

Osprey series was very helpful in many cases in the game design - the OBs helped me with some of the commander's names and verify strengths.

Bill Peters

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