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Olmütz to Torgau: Horace St Paul and the Campaigns of the Austrian Army in the Seven Years War 1758-60 (From… (2018) 8 Exemplare
Lobositz to Leuthen: Horace St Paul and the Seven Years War, 1756-1757 (Reason to Revolution) (2017) 5 Exemplare
Zweybrücken in Command: The Reichsarmee in the Campaign of 1758 (From Reason to Revolution) (2019) 4 Exemplare
Nike and Nemisis, The Journal of Horace St Paul from October 5th 1757 to January 6th 1758 including descriptions of the (2004) 3 Exemplare
1757 : Reichenberg and Malleschitz : the journal of Horace St. Paul from 10th April to 6th May (1997) 2 Exemplare
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If you don’t already know about the causes, strategy, and tactics of the Seven Years War, this book is not very useful; read some background first. However, there are some insights into the ways of warfare in the period. This was the era of wars of maneuver; large armies moved around Europe trying to get in a favorable position to force an enemy to retreat by threatening sources of supply or important strategic locations. That’s well documented here; there are no great battles; instead the armies march from one camp to another to be in position to thwart the enemy – who has also just marched from one camp to another. There are a lot of “affairs of outposts”, though; a few Prussian hussars raid an advanced position, followed by a few Reichsarmee hussars returning the favor. I was struck by the dry accounts of casualties: “a few of the enemy were sabered”, which is a gentle way of explaining that a few of the enemy were slashed with swords such that they died screaming while trying to tuck their exposed entrails back into their abdomen.
I also note the status of artillery; three-pounders are the normal field piece, with a scattering of ix-pounders. By Napoleonic times 12-pounders were the standard. Did gun making improve? Horses get stronger? Mounting become more efficient and easier for the teams to pull? Roads get better? I don’t know.
A few things for military miniaturists; there are contemporary color plates illustrating the uniforms and flags of some of the units, and an appendix describing uniforms (the color of coats, cuffs, collars, lapels, tails, metalwork, waistcoat, and breeches), so if you need to paint a unit of Würtemburg Infantry (dark blue coat, yellow cuffs, collar and lapels, red tails, tin metalwork, yellow waistcoat and breeches) you can. It reminds me that in the days before radio, the only way a commander could identify which troops were which on the battlefield was to examine them through a telescope, so camouflage took second place.
Of some interest if you are already familiar with the Seven Years War; probably boring and confusing if you aren’t. Lots of footnotes, several appendices, line drawings of the various camp layouts.… (mehr)