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Featured battle : Moshaisk
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 10 September 1812
Marshall Murat commanding the French Advanced Guard caught the Russian II Corps around the town. The Russians although outnumbered fought well, attempting to protect some 10,000 men who had been wounded at Borodino. The Frenc took all these wounded prisoner.
Featured image :
M3A3 Grant Tank 'Monty'
This British version of an American tank was used in the North African desert campaigns of 1941 and fought at El Alamein. It was originally armed with a 75mm gun in the hull, and a 37mm gun in the turret which gave it a fighting chance against the German Panzer III. This particular example was actually used by Field Marshal Montgomery as his command vehicle, and the 37mm gun is in fact a wooden dummy, to allow him more room in the turret for maps and radio equipment.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Global Seven Years War
Daniel Baugh
This book is no lightweight with 665 pages of really 'meaty' text and a further 81 pages of supporting notes and index. The content covers, in depth, the full nine years of the Seven Years War. The military, naval and the political aspects with their necessary interactions are well covered. The character, motivation and machinations of the leading figures are described as are the resultant effects. The book is without illustrations but has seventeen supporting maps. The narrative flows easily and logically and pages once started are difficult to put down because always there is something interesting coming next. The vast majority of the text is free from the author's opinions and comments which are reserved for the long final chapter.
A war of four continents and seven oceans in one excellent readable book.
Routledge, 2014
Reviewed : 2017-08-24 07:11:00
