Just finished vol one of John H Gill's 1809 Thunder on the Danube, very very readable and excellently researched, now started volume two. Had some luck the other week I managed to aquire an english edition of the memoires of Mamaluke Ali, he was the Emperor's second mamaluke valet (well acctually he was French born.

Hello all,

I have now comleted the second and third volumes of Gill's seminal work and very well worth it too. If any body needs a book finding that they are after then please let me know the details and a price range and I will see wht I can do.

Hello there.

Do they cover Eckmuhl well?

I have just finished a book called "Home before the leaves fall" which is about the German invasion of 1914 leading up to the battle of the Marne.
A lot of the action takes place over the same ground as the campaign of 100 years earlier - the French army of 1914 was an incredible entity, the same army fighting the Germans in 1940 would have halted them!?

Hello again.

I've just finished reading "The Black count"(Napoleons rival and the real count of Monte Cristo - General Alexandre Dumas) by Tom Reiss - an excellent and interesting read, a lot of insight into the links between the American revolution and the French, the French and British sugar and spice islands and the contrast between an autocratic but incompetent state (France under the Louis) and a, for the era, ruthlessly competent dictatorship under Napoleon.