Featured battle : Sediman

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 07 October 1798

Murad Bey with around four to five thousand Mameluke and Beouin horsemen had been annoying Napoleon by his threat to small detachment of French troops. Desaix was detached to find Murad Bey. They met at Sediman where the French adopted the square formation so frustrating to the Egyptians who lost a significant number of men and all their guns. Davout with 1,000 cavalry was then detached to break up any remaining formations.

Schnellbootwaffe

Hrvoje Spajic
Anyone familiar with the super series of Images of War books from Pen and Sword may well be disappointed by this edition. True there are many images of war but in the whole book there are only ten pictures of Schnell boats. The narrative on the other hand is full of information from the detail about the boats to their strategic use. What comes across strongly is the bravery and daring of those who commanded and crewed these small warships. They attacked warships much larger than themselves, they laid mines, frequently in harbour approaches, and they sank a significant amount of convoyed shipping in the North sea. Their role in escorting Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugene in their channel dash and their actions around D day also form part of their exploits. Only brief mention is made of the people who designed and built these superb vessels which enabled the crews to use them as they did. The many maps strongly support the text.
Forget it is in the Images of War series and enjoy a jolly good read and on that basis we thoroughly recommend it.

Pen & Sword Military, 2021