Getting into Napoleonics

[count_zero99uk]

Thanks again for the advice on this, like i said the urban ones are on tehre way so ill read them before ordering anymore.  General concensus is that there pretty good, so if i like what i see ill start getting more

[sultanbev]

Essential Napoleonic reading:
The Napoleonic Source Book by PJ Haythornthwaite
Dreams of Empire by Paul Fregosi (covers all the obscure theatres like Japan, Haiti)
Tangier to Tehran by Mark Bevis (if you can find a copy of that I'll buy you a beer or two!)

+400 others we could think of! Occupy your library and grab everything Napoleonic. Chandler is generally considered the best general work, although he only goes where Napoleon went apparently.

Anything by Histoire and Collections is excellent on individual battles.

Lots of free OOB in the Nafziger collection. Lots of purchasable ones in the MicroMark collection, including unique middle east and Asian army lists.

The beauty of the Napoleonic period is the sheer depth of confllict going on around the world, and variety of troop types used: war elephants, flamethrowers, poison arrows, repeating air rifles, 1000lb cannon, barded cavalry, mule mounted cannon, doublle-headed spears, camel guns, not to mention a million men with muskets and bayonets in a little place called Europe 

[count_zero99uk]

thanks when i have got the current ones ill look out for those  though i will be looking for your book as a mission now

[SV52]

Bruce Quarry - Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature - Patrick Stephens 1977.  Broad brush history of the wars, descriptions of major combatants and of the major battles.  Ancient now but 'net search or e-bay should turn it up cheap.