Good to see a few posts on this thread, great Dave please do "pitch in", Brummie my copy has a different cover but yes a really great read and funny enough one of my early books as well, another good one that got me into the period was Micheal Glovers "Concise History of the Napoleonic Wars" basic stuff now but a great introduction to the Napoleonic Wars.

Another great old book is "Napoleons Army" by col H C B Rogers - probably the earliest serious book I read on the subject.

Nearly finished Waterloo French Perspectives, its been quite interesting and great to see the battle through "French eyes". Also just finished Broers, Napoleons other wars which focuses irregular forces and their conflicts with the French.

Yes Brummie Rogers Napoleons Army has some great chapters, I remember reading about Auerstadt and that fueled my interst in reading more which then lead to Petres Napoleons conquest of Prussia 1806 another brilliant read (as are all his in that series)

I think the best, or perhaps easiest to read of the Petre series is the 1807 Campaign one in which there is a description of the battle of Heilsburg that until I got this book many moons ago I had never heard of!

Its One of Napoleons buried battles as it was a very wasteful stalemate which was just small enough to be overlooked unlike Eylau which was too big and too dramatic to hide.