useful
books and references for the Napoleonic computer wargamer
[BRA99] Omar N. Bradley,
A Soldier's Story, Modern Library,
1999.
[CHA63] David Chandler,
The Campaigns of Napoleon,
Scribner, 1963.
[CLA12] Carl von Clauswitz,
Principles of
War, 1812.
on-line
[CLA32] Carl von Clauswitz,
On
War, 1832.
on-line
on-line
[DUP87] Trevor N. Dupuy,
Understanding War, Paragon House,
1987.
[DUP90] Trevor N. Dupuy,
Understanding Defeat, Paragon
House, 1990.
[FRE47] Frederick the Great,
Military Instructions for His
Generals, 1747.
on-line
on-line
[FRO] Sextus Julius Frontinus,
The Strategemata, 1st
Century A.D.
on-line
[JOM38] Antoine Jomini,
The Art
of War, 1838.
[HAR67] B H Liddell Hart,
Strategy:
The Indirect Approach, 2 ed., Meridian, 1967.
[HPS]
HPS
Simulation's Napoleonic games:
Napoleon's Russian Campaign (NRC),
Wagram,
Jena-Auerstadt, and
Waterloo.
[LIN85] William S. Lind,
Maneuver Warfare Handbook, 1985.
[LUT01] Edward N. Luttwak,
Strategy The Logic of War and Peace,
Belknap Press, 2001.
[MAC21] Nicollo Machiavelli,
The
Art of War, 1521.
on-line
[MEL56] Maj Gen F. W. von Mellenthin,
Panzer Battles, Univ Oklahoma
Press, 1956.
[MG]
Matrix
Games: soon to re-release the Talonsoft (out of business)
company's game titles. There is disagreement between gamers as to
which system is better TS vs HPS.
[MOL93] Helmuth von Moltke,
Moltke
on the Art of War, edited by Daniel J Hughes, Presidio, 1993.
[MON70] Raimondo Montecuccoli,
Concerning Battle, 1670.
[MUR] Anonymous,
Murphy's Laws
of War.
on-line
[NAPC] Napoleon's Correspondence,
1796-1815.
on-line (in French)
[NAP21] Napoleon,
The
Maxims of
Napoleon, 1821. These maxims were not actually written
directly by Napoleon but were instead recorded by those around him
while at St Helena island.
on-line
[PRA48] Fletcher Pratt,
A Short History of the Civil War,
1948, Dover reprint 1997.
[PIC80] Ardant du Picq,
Battle Studies Ancient and Modern Battle,
1880.
on-line
[ROG57] Major Robert Rogers,
Roger's
Rangers Rules or Plans of Discipline, 1757.
on-line
[SAX57] Maurice de Saxe,
My
Reveries on the Art of War, 1657.
on-line
[SHE12] Captain C.O.Sherrill,
Military Topography for the Mobile Forces,
Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Co., 1912.
on-line
[TS] Talonsoft's Napoleonic Battleground
series
games:
Napoleon in Russia
(NiR),
Prelude to Waterloo
(PTW), and
Battleground Waterloo
(BGW). Alas, the Talonsoft software company is now defunct,
though recently
Matrix Games
has expressed interest in updating and re-releasing these three
titles. You may obtain copies of these CDs through
eBay for example.
[TZU] Sun Tzu,
The Art of War,
6th century B.C.
on-line
on-line
on-line
[USMC89] "Distributed" by USMC General Gray,
Warfighting,
1989.
[VEG] Flavius Vegetius Renatus,
De
Re Militari (The Military Institutions of the Romans), 4th
Century A.D.
on-line
[WIL397] Charles Willoughby,
Maneuver in War, Military Service
Publishing Co, 1939.