The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book

There is some very detailed data in "The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book:Actions and Losses in Personnel" for buffs who like to keep track of who won what battle. I received it in good time and condition and I got it for a good price. I am very satisfied - Thank Yoiu

Fast delivery, great condition, reasonable price. Very satisfied.

This is NOT a book you read straight through. It's handy for looking up any fight's numbers in order to wargame, especially if you use miniatures, or really are doing a study on the Napoleonic Wars with the Revolutionary Wars tossed in. Essentially, you get this book, The Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars by Elting, a book on how (like Featherstone's) and you can wargame pretty much any size engagement, while learning how all the little fights can bleed one as dry as a big one. It is certainly revealing just how much fighting, and casualties, actually gets ignored in writing history of campaigns, and this book shows it.

Very detailed but not for the casual reader

I REALLY wanted to like this book. I use it ONLY for its LIST of battles and nothing more. Here is why:1. As Mr. Kiley points out in his review the information is often incorrect. You would think that the author would have compared his information with other sources. I get the idea that he was just looking for whatever he could find on the action and just posted it into the listing.2. The names of the actions do not always match the name that most historians use. No, this is not a case of "Sharpsburg" vs. "Antietam." This is a case of the author again just using whatever name came to hand.3. The author himself is not open to suggestion. In a comment on a Napoleonic forum I noted that I used "Mr. Smith's information" to which he responded that it wasn't his information but the sources. That is the usual cheap excuse/cop out of an author to sidestep the obvious - we paid our hard earned money for HIS work. The entries are based on what HE felt was best for the action. You can find ten sources for most any given Napoleonic engagement. And often more than that. So HE chose to put that entry in there and thus it becomes HIS perspective of it as well as that of the source. Come on Digby - wake up and quit making excuses.4. To my comments he said "grind away." No, I will just not buy your books anymore. Your Leipzig book was just filled with one page after another of quotes that filled entire sections of the text. Instead of giving us more information on the battle you filled your pages with comments about how a priest escaped the rain! Now I like a human interest story but come on. The Battle of Leipzig is rarely written on and is the largest land battle in European history up til World War One. It deserved better treatment.5. When I asked the author if a revision would be forthcoming his response was that Greenhill would not re-publish the work. This leads me to believe that Greenhill has little to no confidence in Mr. Smith's works. Also when I asked him if he would then consider using the web to publish an errata for the work he said no. Sheesh, that is just lame.Lots of well known historian's names are used in the beginning of this book to prop it up but I am thinking that if ANY of them had written the work they would have put forth a superior product. I really want to give this book a five out of five stars but I cannot. It simply is not worth your money unless you just want it for the list of battles or a boat anchor.

Together with Digby Smiths' Napoleon's Regiments, the Quintins' Dictionnaire des Colonels de Napoleon, and George Six's well-known Dictionnaire Biographique des Généraux, this is a must have for anyone researching the period and tracking down French military individuals of the period.

This one is hard to rate on a star system. This book will tell the reader a little bit about every action that took place during the period covered. You will learn hard facts relating to the commander of each side, the units present,the total number of troops present, and the number of casualties. On occasion there will be a small section relating to the afteraffects of each action. The battles are in chronological order, telling the reader of the preceding and following actions in a particular theatre. Gripping reading it is not. It is after all a reference book. You will read about many lesser known actions which I feel is the best part of this tome. Overall, a good place get a start when seeking to begin research on any particular battle or campaign.

This book has been criticized for being a resource, not an easy read. That's correct. It is intended to be a reference source, and such criticism is like saying "I started on the Chambers English Dictionary, but couldn't get past B". Any book like this will have issues. I have books on, say, the 1809 Danube campaign that mentions engagements that are not in Smith's Data Book. Despite that, it's a great resource. If I had the time, I'd like to systematically annotate the lists to insert events that are missing. I don't expect Digby Smith to respond, but as a basis for my own research, it's been invaluable. My one real gripe is the dust cover claim that there are over 2,000 actions listed. I've been building a data set in order to improve my understanding of both the Napoleonic Wars and data visualization, and can't get the total above 1,175. That's a massive discrepancy.

Excellently laid out. Easy to locate any clash or battle. Good links and index.

Nicht perfekt, aber legendär. Ein Muss im Bücherschrank eines jeden an der napoleonischen Zeit interessierten Hobbyhistorikers, und dieser Kauf füllt die Lücke, nachdem ich mein Exemplar vor 11 Jahren an unbekannt auslieh.

Testo che descrive dai grandi scontri , alle scaramucce ; in ogni singolo scontro , l'elenco delle unita' e addirittura gli organici ( riportati dai narratori dell'epoca )Consigliatissimo

Tout d'abord il faut savoir que l'auteur est autant historien qu'Etienne Daho est un chanteur lyrique. Une accumulation d'erreurs impardonnables (confusion de personnage entre Kellerman père et fils par exemple, de grades avec Marmont maréchal avant Wagram etc...) En soi, cela n'est pas grave si ce n'est que ce Mr prétend détenir l'unique vérité et que le "palmarès" français est systématiquement remis en cause. Quand on voit le nombre d'erreurs et de confusions contenues dans cet ouvrage, on se peut se poser légitimement la question de la pertinence et de la véracité des conclusions de l'auteur (ex le corps de Suchet gagne 200 cavaliers entre le 17 et le 18 juin 1809, sans renfort de cavalerie, entre la bataille de Maria et celle de Belchite, un bel exemple de reproduction spontanée...).Si le texte est accessible (c'est essentiellement des données chiffrées), il n'y a aucune carte, aucune analyse (en dehors de critiques systématiques sur l'armée français). L'intérêt, que soit pour le wargammer ou l'historien (amateur ou non), est donc limité.Bref un de ses livres écrits par un anglais qui a oublié que la guerre de 100 ans était terminée.

Together with Digby Smiths' Napoleon's Regiments, the Quintins' Dictionnaire des Colonels de Napoleon, and George Six's well-known Dictionnaire Biographique des Généraux, this is a must have for anyone researching the period and tracking down French military individuals of the period.