Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Gentlemen,

I am looking for a good history of the 1813 Campaign, one with as much detail as possible. any suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks,

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General de Division Thomas Moore
26ème Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval
Brigade de Cavalerie Légère
4ème Corps d'Armée
La Grande Armée

The most detailed are the works of George Nafziger, of course:

Lutzen & Bautzen. Napoleon's Spring Campaign of 1813
Napoleon at Dresden. The Battles of August 1813
Napoleon at Leipzig. The Battle of Nations 1813

Very helpful also:

Scott Bowden. Napoleon's Grande Armee of 1813
F.Lorraine Petre. Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany 1813

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General-Feldmarshal Prince Vladimir N. Repnin
Imperial Russian Corps Commander
Prince Braine-Le Comte & The Adjutant-General of His Imperial Majesty
Chevalier Guards Regiment

Vladimir nailed it with his suggestions.

If you have a Kindle you can get these at Amazon:

The Leipzig Campaign 1813 [Kindle Edition]
Colonel Frederic Natusch Maude

for $5.00

Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany [Kindle Edition]
Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E.

for $7.50

Leipzig 1813: The Battle of the Nations (Campaign) [Kindle Edition]
Peter Hofschr?er

for $9.99

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

Salute!

Last Fall I read a book I enjoyed very much, Russia Against Napoleon, by Dominic Lieven.
It covers the War of 1812 in great detail, and then carries on into the 1813-14 Campaigns.
The latter are more skimpy, in comparison to the first half of the book, but, the chapter on the Battle of Kulm was dramatically detailed, from strategy to unit tactics/actions. I felt like I was right there with the soldiers struggling through the mountain passes.

The book was published in 2009, by Viking Press.

Regards,

I agree with the previous posts -

Napoleon's Last German Campaign and Leipzig are excellent books (Petre and Maude are both good Napoleonic historians )

Napoleon's Campaigns by Chandler also covers the Germsn Campaigns

If you want less expensive Kindle editions are good (but you lose the maps) or Osprey Publishing put out a Campaign Series and there versions of campaigns are condnesed but they have good OOB information

Gentlemen,

I want to thank you all for all your very helpful suggestions and I now have a very good idea of what is available.

Thank you again

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General de Division Thomas Moore
26ème Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval
Brigade de Cavalerie Légère
4ème Corps d'Armée
La Grande Armée

Apple does not have of these books for the iPad

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Buy a Kindle John.

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

And don't forget to do a search on google play
You can get Napoleons̓ Last Campaign in Germany, 1813 by Francis Loraine Petre for free.
https://play.google.com/store/books/det ... UFJQUFKIl0.

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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