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Featured battle : Ostrach
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 21 March 1799
The French Army of the Rhine commanded by General Jourdan met stiffer opposition than their comrades in the Army of the Danube. Archduke Charles commanded experienced Austrian troops and the French advance was repulsed.
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Transvaal Boer Burgher
Pictured here is a Transvaal Burgher Force volunteer in the Anglo-Zulu War. wearing the civilian clothes that such a volunteer would have worn as he reads his Bible in High Dutch on a Sunday morning. The rifle is a two-band Snider Enfield and next to him on the chair are a rifle holster, a knapsack, a water bottle, a bridle and a saddle holster (the latter for loose kit). Against the chair rest 2 Zulu spears of the 'iklwa' type. On the ground is an oilcloth cape. In most respects, this is much the same gear as used for the Transvaal War of Independence and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, although by 1899 the Snider was obsolete and the Boers would carry a Mauser or Lee-Metford instead. Member of the Heilbron Commando re-enactment group.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Battle of the Bulge. The German View
Danny S Parker Ed.
A book both enjoyable and frustrating. Enjoyable because of its insights into the complexity of planning the campaign and for the remarkable different view one gets of Hitler. In my view worth reading for that alone. The content is all meat, no padding, and rich in depth and width. A thoroughly worthy piece of work. The frustration comes with the paucity of maps for which I had to compensate with a much larger scale map. If I were Prime Minister I would make it a law that in any work of fact every place named in the text must appear on a map in the book. Also frustrating was the lack of a glossary. Many German general staff ranks are mentioned in abbreviated form and lots of formation initials are used which one has to reference elsewhere. This detracts from the enjoyment and makes reading in bed difficult.
Even with those criticisms I would commend this book to anyone interested in a fuller understanding of how wars/battles are planned or with an interest in the Battle of the Bulge.
Frontline Books. Pen & Sword Books \ltd., 2016
Reviewed : 2016-11-28 17:18:40
