Which battle do you have most books on?

[holdfast]

Slightly embarrassed to report, now that I have had 45 foot run of book shelves built in for the purpose of concentrating them from 6 sites throughout the house, that 40 feet of the shelves are occupied by ACW books. Of these, about 7 feet are Gettysburg which adds up to 58 books, since some are rather bulky. But then so are we all with advancing years.

[Leman]

Yes, I appear to have more Gettysburg than anything else, including a doorstop tome entitled 'Gettysburg July 1st' - with Antietam coming a close second.

[Maenoferren]

Got a couple of 2nd hand books from the local charity shops over the holiday period. Putting them on the bookshelves today I realised I do have a very slim volume on Waterloo, a tie-in with the 1970 film. Part of my purchases using the book tokens I got for winning the school History Prize and Poetry Prize. Nostalgia ... it ain't what it used to be

I have that one (well I think it is the same one )

[Leman]

I believe there's another one out there that just covers July 2nd.

[Subedai]

I remember there were two books tied to the film that came out at roughly the same time. There was the slim one 'the field of Waterloo' by Paul Davies and the uniform guide by Ugo Pericoli titled '1815 The Armies at Waterloo' with a pic of Brit infantry on the cover with a smoke enshrouded La Haye Sainte(?) in the background. Both currently on the bookshelf.

Note: The book by Davies is a replacement picked up at a show because the first copy was ruined when I used the picture of Blucher as a basis for a clay figurine being made at school in 1970. I still have the figure, he has pride of place on the shelf along with busts of me made by two of my smalls at school and a rather more accurate depiction of Beethoven.

[mollinary]

I believe there's another one out there that just covers July 2nd.

If I recall correctly Harry Pfanz produced two doorstops on 2nd July, and a somewhat slimmer volume on Day 1. I think the true tome on day 1 is by David Martin, and a damn fine book it is too! All grace my groaning shelves, along with a legion of others on this battle.

Mollinary

[Leman]

Priest's is my favourite book on Antietam as it has marvellous maps showing the unfolding of the battle. This encouraged me to write my only "commercially" available scenario concerning the skirmish between the Bucktails and the Texas Brigade on the evening before Antietam, in the East Woods. It originally appeared in 'The Zouave.'

[cameronian]

Slightly embarrassed to report, now that I have had 45 foot run of book shelves built in for the purpose of concentrating them from 6 sites throughout the house, that 40 feet of the shelves are occupied by ACW books. Of these, about 7 feet are Gettysburg which adds up to 58 books, since some are rather bulky. But then so are we all with advancing years.

Presumably none of these shelves are more than 4` from the ground or do you stand on a box ... just asking.

[Ithoriel]

I remember there were two books tied to the film that came out at roughly the same time. There was the slim one 'the field of Waterloo' by Paul Davies and the uniform guide by Ugo Pericoli titled '1815 The Armies at Waterloo' with a pic of Brit infantry on the cover with a smoke enshrouded La Haye Sainte(?) in the background. Both currently on the bookshelf.

Yep, the one by Paul Davies is the one I have.

I discovered it next to "Mastering Witchcraft" by Paul Huson. Another of the books bought with the school prize money. Was pleasantly surprised to find I was allowed to choose this one!

[holdfast]

Ooh, Cam, you are a card.

[Leman]

Presumably none of these shelves are more than 4` from the ground or do you stand on a box ... just asking.

How rude!

[holdfast]

It's not Cam's fault. He was attached to the Gunners and it sort of rubbed off on him. Underneath he has real potential to be a decent human being.

[cameronian]

 

[Fenton]

Although I havent used books as hills on my wargames table for a long time we did use them for big and little round top a lot. So I would have to the say the book most used would have been Wisden as its quite thick

[Luddite]

It was a surprise to me to find that when i looked, the battle i have most books on is Colenso.