Notables

Q: What's a Notable?

A: Any particular individual commander, unit, artist, author or commentator of note.

Frederick's beloved comrades, brave compatriots and brilliant commanders.

Their opposites, in the Austrian, Russian, French and Imperial armies.

Their peers, in the Hanoverian and Allied forces.

Any infantry that charges cavalry, or redeems itself, or acts particularly bravely.

Any cavalry of distinguished mettle.

Artillerymen worthy of the name.

A very select list of the most well-known, or academically accepted artists and illustrators.

The half-dozen recognized experts on the military operations of the era.

The oft-quoted authorities of earlier eras: Warnery and de Saxe, Catt and Mitchell.

Q: Why a button for Notables?

A: Just a place for bios and factoids of those soldiers or troopers who I happened to note.

Q: It's kind of a brilliant tag.

A: That's not a question, but Thank You.

King Frederick with IR3 Anhalt-Bernburg after the battle of Liegnitz - Source: Carl Röchling, 1895

 

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.