Featured battle : Nashville

Part of American Civil War

Date : 25 February 1862

Following the Confederate defeat at Fort Donelson, the troops at Nashville found themselves outnumbered and out positioned. Johnston ordered the retreat. While he and Hardee withdrew with their commands, Generals Floyd and Forrest were left to attempt to save the badly needed stores in the city. Floyd had trouble with the city's civilians when it became plain the city was being given up, so fell back himself, but Forrest and his men stayed until the Union troops under Buell actually started arriving in the city before they withdrew south, taking important and irreplaceable machinery with them.

Salamanca 1812. Wellington's Year of Victories.

Peter Edwards
A high level of research is presented in a most readable way. The book has a pervading quality in its insights which can only come from an experienced 'military mind'. Throughout the author uses appropriate and varied selection of original text providing both colour and veracity. The maps are few and lacking in detail, in Further Reading the author recommends Ian Robertson's Atlas of the Peninsular War which I would have found most useful in this case. That said however this book is difficult to put down once started and thoroughly recommended.
The Praetorian Press, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013