Help me choose my next project

Started by mmcv, 27 July 2022, 09:08:45 PM

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FierceKitty

Every Lace Wars fan swears by Duffy's books, esp. The Military Experience in the Age of Reason, which is super-readable.
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mollinary

The Wars of Frederick the Great by the late lamented Dennis E Showalter. Available in paperback, a brilliant overview. All of Duffy's books.
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mmcv

QuoteEvery Lace Wars fan swears by Duffy's books, esp. The Military Experience in the Age of Reason, which is super-readable.
Thanks I'll take a look. Edit: had a look, it appears to be very expensive!



QuoteThe Wars of Frederick the Great by the late lamented Dennis E Showalter. Available in paperback, a brilliant overview. All of Duffy's books.
Was Showalter's Fredrick the Great A Military History I got, can't tell if that's just a reprinting of the wars of or not. Got it on audiobook for some painting listening. Will check out the others.

fsn

30 July 2022, 04:06:45 PM #33 Last Edit: 30 July 2022, 04:12:12 PM by fsn


Not a fan of the 7YW, but this is a useful book for uniforms and organisation of 17 nations, as well as some OOBs. Got to love a book with OOBs. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Armies-Seven-Years-War-Commanders/dp/0752459236/ref=sr_1_2?crid=7LGLDM1GA339&keywords=armies+of+the+seven+years+war&qid=1659197115&sprefix=armies+of+the+seven+years+war%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-2
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FierceKitty

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mmcv


QuoteIt's available in paperback.
Even the paperback and Kindle edition are around forty quid! There's some second hand ones for much less that I'll maybe pick up bit it's a pain about the Kindle edition as that's what I mostly read on.

Westmarcher

... and, unless you wish to voluntary contribute an amount you feel is warranted, Kronoskaf is free.  :)

http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Main_Page


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mmcv


Quote... and, unless you wish to voluntary contribute an amount you feel is warranted, Kronoskaf is free.  :)

http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Main_Page
Thank you, added to my research bookmarks.


Found a cheaper ebook version of military experience and a second hand copy of seven years... Though neither exactly cheap either!

fsn

Sometimes you have to pay for quality!  :P

Why do I have a £40 book about a period I have no interest in? No idea.

Maybe one day, when I have completed projects for all the really interesting periods, I will take Digby Smith off the shelf and ponder the army of Lippe-Detmold.

I'd still go for ACW.
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mollinary

QuoteThank you, added to my research bookmarks.
Yes, Kronoskaf is quite simply, magnificent. For SYW uniforms, OOBs and battle maps you need nothing more.
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mmcv


Quoteabout a period I have no interest in? No idea.

I'm not sure I understand this concept? I was unaware that was an option! A period you have no interest in. What a strange notion!

mmcv

Okay so that's a couple of bits on SYW sorted.

Anything WAS specific I should consider? Have a couple of overview books which might be enough. Doesn't seem to be a period with too much written on it. 

Also any Peninsular must haves from the oodles written on it?

sultanbev

30 July 2022, 06:18:36 PM #43 Last Edit: 30 July 2022, 06:24:58 PM by sultanbev
The classics for the Peninsula War are the Charles Oman series A History of the Peninsula War, I managed to pick up the first 4 volumes for £24 at Barter Books in Alnwick a couple of week ago, so you might be lucky and find 2nd hand ones for those kind of prices. Lots of OOB, casualty reports, etc in the appendices.

The campaign is too big to be covered well in one volume, and most sources are Anglo-centric, so it's specialist volumes on individual battles and forces. Be prepared to be overwhelmed!
Check out Helion & Company and Ken Trotman for individual works of quality;
there are several Osprey Campaigns on Peninsula battles. The individual MAA books are sort of okay.

Peruse this website, which for example shows individual British unit strengths at different dates
https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-information/organization-strategy-tactics/

Raider4


QuoteThe classics for the Peninsula War are the Charles Oman series A History of the Peninsula War . . .

Available electronically