Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

I'm getting ready to start on Oman's "A History of the Peninsular War Volume I". Has anyone read any of the volumes? Care to comment?

Major General Ed Blackburn
Commanding Second Div, II Corps, AAA
3rd Bn / 1st Regiment of Foot Guards

If you want the details then this is the best source. There are more modern treatises on specific battles but no body covers the entire war in the peninsula like Oman.

FM Sir 'Muddy' Jones, KG
2nd Life Guards, Household Cavalry

I have read several volumes and found the detail of the whole war in the the Peninsular to be excellent and a very readable historian.Well worth the time.

Capt.Thomas Moore
23rd Chasseurs a'Cheval,AdN

Only note I can think of about Oman - he advocated that the British firepower was the reason why the British line beat the French column.

Nosworthy has it right when he says it was the British countercharge.

Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)

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Ed,

I would suggest that you begin by reading "Volume IX: Modern Studies of the War in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814" first[;)]. It's a companion volume, edited by Paddy Griffith and published in 1999, with a marvelous collection of essays "reassessing Oman's contribution in the light of modern scholarship, while also explaining something of their own new findings."

Regards,

Paco

<i>Maréchal</i> M. Francisco Palomo
<i>Prince d'Essling, Grande Duc d'Abrantes et
Comte de Marseille
Commandant - Ecole Militaire
Commandant - Division de Cavalerie de la Vieille Garde </i>