The Short List of Big Books

I'm reading some of the "classic" recommended books on these subjects, the ones written like textbooks, with annotation and attribution. There is a sort of Short List of Necessary Titles, to which one may add the Longer List of Useful Additions, if one so desires.

On this page, we'll start with the Nosworthy and the Duffy and the Showalter, and proceed to the Szabo and Anderson, the Warnery and the Catt, the General Staff and the Military Archives.

This was a list for me, a rank beginner, interested chiefly in the tactics and operations of the forces on the ground from the perspective of the campaigning army commander, as recommended to me by other hobbyist war gamers from their experience for much the same reasons, viz, unit frontage and effective action range, per unit time, as might be experienced in a game turn. Use accordingly.

Osprey titles have their own page, as do works of a more scenic nature. This page is for textbooks.

List to follow, as always. This is a stub. Maybe a stem. Definitely a start.

Cheers.

Uniforms and Action: The Artists and the Scholars

The beginnings of a list of artists and scholars for the study of the uniforms of the period.

Uniform Artists/Scholars

 

Richard Knötel

Carl Röchling

Günter Dorn

Hugo Ungewitter

Adolph Menzel

Wojciech Kossak

Guiseppe Rava

 

Hans Bleckwenn

Daniel Hohrath

Christopher Duffy

Englemann

To be updated with examples, bios, titles, availability, some formatting and a little order.

The Relevant Osprey Titles

As always, when I want to study a certain era, I begin with a reading list. One immediate list is always the relevant Osprey titles. From there one can usually find some good leads on a bibliography for the subject.

It also pays to ask on a useful website, if others can recommend useful books on the subject. Later, a listing of some of the more academic titles. Herewith, for now, some of the relevant Osprey titles.

Pictures of the covers, for reference, to follow. Cheers.

Prussia:

 

MAA16

FtG's Army (old)

 

MAA236, 240, 248

FtG's Army 1, 2, 3

 

MAA460

FtG's Allies

 

Austria:

 

MAA6

Austro-Hungarian Army of the SYW (old)

 

MAA271, 276, 289

Austrian Army 40-80 1, 2, 3

 

MAA413

Austrian Frontier 40-98

 

WAR81

Hungarian Hussar 56-15

 

Russia:

 

MAA297, 298

Russian Army of the SYW 1, 2

 

France (European Theater):

 

MAA296, 302, 304

Louis XV's Army 1, 2, 3

 

Britain (European Theater):

 

MAA285, 289, 292

King George's Army 40-93 1, 2, 3

 

MAA261

18th-Century Highlanders


Campaigns and Battles:


Campaign 91
Kolin 1757


Campaign 113
Rossbach and Leuthen 1757


Campaign 125
Zorndorf 1757