Featured battle : Schwyz

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 14 August 1799

The casualty figures given are suspect as they are derived from purely French sources. The attack was in part amphibious by eight grenadier companiesacross the Urnersee landing at Brunnen.

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