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Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30^th Regiment 

During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

by Carole Divali

Will be published by Pen &Sword Military in March 2011 (hardcover,
£19.99).

The Peninsular War Atlas
Colonel Nick Lipscombe
Osprey Publishing (2010)
ISBN 9781849083645

Hardback,384 pages,160 maps,£45.00
Reviewed by Paul Chamberlain

This weighty tome has been published in collaboration with Peninsular
200 (www.peninsularwar200.org) and is an impressive academic
contribution to the bicentenary of the Peninsular War.It is impressive
not only in the quality of production (it comes complete with a slip-in
presentation case) but also the quality of information within its pages.

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The author has set out to produce a complete collection of maps of the
campaign that would present a clear and concise history of the war,and
has achieved just that.The 160 colour maps are of a high standard,

and each is supported by an explanatory text that supports the maps
themselves,rather than the maps being there to illustrate the text.Each
section of text provides a concise history of that piece of the conflict,
concentrating on the military aspects of the struggle with minimal
inclusion of the political and strategic angles. The maps are designed to
give a full and clear understanding of the events in Iberia and southern
France from October 1807 to April 1814,and include orders of battle
and where relevant,details of the various Royal Navy commands.

The atlas is not merely a cartographic presentation of the British
involvement in Iberia. It includes the actions of the Spanish and
Portuguese,demonstrating quite clearly that the campaign involved
each nationality,being interlinked and not happening in isolation.
Indeed, this approach emphasises that it was a coalition that forced the
French from Spain,not just the army directly under Wellington.

The maps are beautifully produced,beginning with Junot's invasion of
Portugalin October 1807,in which the maps in this section show the
route of his army across Spain and the dates at which it reached certain

points.All the maps in the atlas are very detailed and present a clear
picture of the campaigns at various stages. Many of the chapters
consist of a series of maps that start with an overview of the conflict,
before zooming in to present the dispositions of the forces involved at
individual actions. I especially like the inclusion of relief maps to give a
clear impression of the position of armies on the terrain,which
demonstrate the battle from a near grounds-eye view.My only criticism
is that there are too few of this type of map,but the atlas is generously
supplied with other maps so this is really only a minor point.

The combination of different map styles adds to the clear and concise
examination of the subject.Chapter 13 Isolation and Retreat December
1808 to January 1809 looks at the retreat to La Coruna,beginning with
a map of the overall strategic situation;followed by the retreat (with
additional information annotated to show orders of battle and dates of
the various stages);a relief map showing the start of the battle;and
then two maps of the battle itself plus the Royal Navy involvement.I
found this series of maps provided a clear approach to studying the
campaign. Other campaigns are given the same .treatment,and there
are maps that detail the many sieges involving all the armies,plus all
the main battles of the Spanish. The siege of Zaragoza evens denote
the buildings in the city that the French captured,such is the attention
to detail the author has adopted.

The Peninsular War Atlas presents a well-researched cartographic
examination of the war,with text and maps that complement each other,
and a wealth of detail that makes this book stand out as an excellent
reference work on the campaign.The maps alone are very informative,
detailing as they do the army dispositions and movements,plus orders
of battle.Extensive appendices further detail the orders of battle of the
various armies,even including a table of the gun allocation to the
batteries besieging 8adajoz.While the price may seem expensive for
any book,when you consider the immense amount of information within
its pages,plus the clear and informative presentation,then this is a
book that any serious student of the Peninsular Campaign will want on
their shelf. 

The Waterloo Archive Volume II: The German Sources 

Gareth Glover

Frontline Books (2010)ISBN 9781848325418

Hardback,272 pages,£25.00

Reviewed by Paul Chamberlain

The Waterloo Archive is going to be one of the most valuable sources
of information available on the campaign of 1815,as Gareth Glover
brings into the public domain much of the hitherto unpublished archival
material written by the various nationalities who took part.Volume I
brought us material from the British participants;this second volurne "
presents a wealth of material from the German perspective of the
campaign -Hanoverian,Kings German Legion,Brunswick and Nassau;
that provides an important non-British version of events.

The role of the King's German Legion,which was an integral part of the
British Army and partly officered by British soldiers has been published
in Enqlish,but to a limited degree.Only a s all proportion of the
material actually available in the German language has been sampled,
and this has resulted in most histories of the Waterloo campaign
sidelining the achievements of the German troops.The Waterloo
Archive Volume II presents over sixty first hand reports and letters fully
translated into English

This book is a valuable source of such information,and Gareth Glover
has derived much of the material fromBelle-Alliance.'Reports and
Information on the Participants of German Troops of Wellington's Army
in the Action at Quatre Bras and in the Baffle of Belle-Allianceby Dr
Julius von Pflugk-Harttung,Privy Archive Councillor at the State
Archive in Berlin,published in German in 1915.Much of the original
material was destroyed in the Second World War so this is an important
collection published in the English language.It is intended to publish
the remainder of this material in anothervolume in The Waterloo
Archive,all of which will complement Siborne'sWaterloo Letters and
Glover's own Letters from the Battle of Waterloo.All these volumes
together will produce a huge reference source on the Waterloo
campaign.

The documents published in Volume" are an enlightening examination
of the role of all the German troops in the campaign,and this comprises

documents from soldiers in the KGL,Hanoverian,Brunswick and
Nassau forces.They provide a fascinating account of the role played by
individual German units,and as many of them give accounts of the
same action but from different viewpoints,we are provided with a
picture of how,for example,the cavalry, infantry and artillery of the KGL
supported each other in both attack and defence.The accounts written
by artillerymen highlight the problem with the lack of ammunition during
the battles,especially as much was expended at Quatre Bras leaving
little for the action two days later. Ammunition wagons were destroyed
by enemy fire and replenishment was difficult during the battle.

Other fascinating stories detail the circumstances surrounding the
capture of General Cambronne; an extract from Reminiscences of a
Soldier of the Campaigns of the King's German Legion by Friedrich
Lindau,a rifleman who was captured when La Haye Sainte fell, and his
treatment at the hands of the French;orders of battle of Nassau units;
and reports by men of the various German medical services.

The Waterloo Archive Volume" is a worthy addition to any serious

library on the Waterloo Campaign,providing as it does a detailed
account from German sources of all aspects of the military operations in
Belgium.This archive will provide a broad view of the campaign from all
the nationalities present,giving us a view of the actions of 1815 not
covered by many general histories. For a different perspective on the
campaign,for details of the actions hitherto not published,and for a
fascinating read,buy this book (and all the other volumes in the archive

as they are published).

January 2011

Nelson's Yankee Captain:The Life of Boston Loyalist Sir Benjamin
Hallowell by Bryan Elson.Formac Publishing Canada, hardcover,
£25.00

Melville Prison and Deadman's Island: American and French Prisoners
of War in Halifax 1794-1816 by Brian Cuthbertson.Formac, paperback,
£19.99

The Very Thing:The Memoirs of Drummer Bentinck,Royal Welch
Fusiliers,1807-1823by Jonathan Crook.Frontline Books,hardcover,

£19.99Wellington's Right Hand:Rowland,Viscount Hill by Joanna Hill.The 

History Press,hardcover,£20.00

February

Battlefield Medicine:A History of the Military Ambulance from the
Napoleonic Wars Through World War 1 by John S.Haller.Southern
Illinois University Press,paperback,£12.20

Waterloo June 18, 1815:The Battle for Modern Europe by Andrew
Roberts.Harper Collins,Kindle edition, £5.99

Armies of the Napoleonic Wars by Gregory Fremont-Barnes (Ed.).Pen
&Sword Military, hardcover, £19.99

March

Napoleonic Foot Soldiers and Civilians:aBrief History with Documents
by Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind.Pal grave Macmillan,
paperback,£18.99

HMS Victory:First Rate 1765by Jonathan Eastland and lain
Ballantyne.Seaforth Publishing,hardcover,£14.99

Life of a Sailor (Seafarers'Voices No.5) by Frederick Chamier.
Seaforth Publishing,hardcover,£12.99

April

Wellington Against Junot:The First Invasion of Porluga11807-1808 by
David Buttery.Pen&Sword Military,hardcover,£19.99

Waterloo:The Battle that Brought Down Napoleon by Jeremy Black.
Icon Books,paperback,£8.99

The Waterloo Collection DVD.Pen and Sword Books, £30.00

May

Frigates,Sloops and Brigs by James Henderson.Pen&Sword
Maritime,paperback,£14.99

To War with Wellington:From the Peninsula to Waterloo by Peter
Snow.John Murray,paperback,£8.99

Wellington's Men in Australia:Peninsular War Veterans and the Making
of Empire 1820-40by Dr Christine Wright.Palgrave MacMillan,
hardcover, £55.00

Waterloo Hanoverian Correspondence:Vol.2Letters and Reports from
Printed Sources (Waterloo 1815) by John Franklin.1815 Limited,
paperback, £20.00

Charging Against Wellington: the French Cavalry in the Peninsular War
1807-1814 by Robert Burnham. Frontline Books,hardcover, £25.00

June

Working with Napoleon:Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by His Private
Secretary by Claude-Francois de Meneval.Enigma Books,paperback,
£16.99

July

The Waterloo Archive: British Sources Vol.IIlby Gareth Glover.

Frontline Books, hardcover,£25.00tt&

Wargamer's Scenarios:the Peninsular War 1808-1814 by Jonathan
Sutherland and Diane Canwell.Pen & Sword Military,paperback,
£12.99

August

Armies of the Napoleonic Wars by Chris McNab.Osprey,paperback,
£16.99

A Brush with Napoleon:An Encounter with Jacques-Louis David by
Laban Carrick Hill.Watson-Gupthill,Kindle edition, £9.99

Britain and Wellington's Army:Recruitment,Society and Tradition 1807-
15 by Kevin Linch.Palgrave Macmillan,hardcover,£50.00

September

The Glorious First of June by Sam Willis.Quercus Publishing,
hardcover, £25.00

Wellington's Voice:The Candid Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John
Fremantle,Coldstream Guards,1808-1821by Gareth Glover. Frontline
Books,hardcover,£30.00

Napoleon's Chicken Marengo:Creating the Myth of the Emperor's 

Favourite Dish by Andrew Uffindell.Frontline Books,hardcover,£19.99

October

Prussian Napoleonic Tactics by Peter Hofschrober.Osprey,paperback, 

£11.99