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Permalink Reply by Kev on April 10, 2013 at 12:49pm

Musket & Pike Period/ 30 Years War / SiA.

Does anyone have a reasonable reference for this period? Ideally an internet resource in the first instance?

Looking for Big Picture and then Battle overviews and tactics of the time. (Yes I have the Wiki based stuff).

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Permalink Reply by Kev on April 10, 2013 at 1:37pm

Saints in Armor.

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Permalink Reply by Kev on April 10, 2013 at 12:50pm

WWII-North Africa/Bir Hacheim/NQoS

Any thing here would be good.

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Permalink Reply by Kev on April 10, 2013 at 1:38pm

ummm Roger ---No question of Surrender ;)

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Permalink Reply by Kev on April 10, 2013 at 5:54pm

Cheers Mark!

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Permalink Reply by Kev on June 26, 2013 at 5:54pm

I did thanks for that. Got the Wilson book. Was unable to track the Wedgwood.

As for NAfrica, I recently read The Battle for North Africa by John Strawson. 1969. Which led me to Desert Generals by Kimber. Wavell Portriat of a soldier is another old book, I dont have it but I think it might cover the period you want.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Trauth on June 27, 2013 at 5:39am

Wedgwood- it is basically the standard in English language on TYW - I doubt it is available online for free but it was first published in (iirc) 1938.  You should be able to find it on the secondary market if you want to chance having a marked up copy.

Pretty much anything on the TYW in English subsequent to this one references it - but ... and this is the kicker, the 2 copies I have seen only have 2 very broad maps -Wilson's comes with a lot of maps (battle maps).

The books at the AWM are pretty decent sources for North Africa- particularly Operation Compass -since the 6th Australian was the infantry component of the operation after the 4th Indian was sent to the East African theater.  Meaning that the 4th Ind was involved in the initial battles for the forts in early Dec 1940, but the Australian 6th did the heavy lifting from January 1941 starting at Bardia and the pursuit through Cyrenaica.  The title covering this period is 'To Benghazi' by Gavin Long (and it also covers the pre-Australian period as well.). You can download it for free off the Australian War Memorial site (although I found the individual pdf files per chapter).

There are several Ospreys relevant to the period but only one specifically on a battle- and that one would be Luetzen.

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Permalink Reply by Kev on June 27, 2013 at 8:37am

Thanks steve. Mark was looking for some stuff. I think he was happy ot buy if possible. I now have more than I need! ;)

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Permalink Reply by Steve Trauth on June 27, 2013 at 8:51am

I found this after sending off that email ...

http://history.wisc.edu/mosse/george_mosse/summaries/history119_lec...

Try this (no need to iTunes -although it is available there as well).

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Permalink Reply by Kev on June 28, 2013 at 12:02am

While Playing a bit of CV, I came across the Admirals! Interesting read.- Walter Borneman.

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