Featured battle : Salamanca

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 22 July 1812

Marmont with 49,000 French troops attempted to cut the lines of communication with Portugal of Wellington's 51,000 troops. All Marmont's moves and after he was wounded and his deputy killed General Clausel's moves were predicted and successfully aggressively countered. The French lost over 13,000 men killed or captured. Only a courageous fighting retreat by General Ferrey's division prevented a total rout of the French. Wellington's credentials as an attacking General were established.

Into Battle with Napoleon 1812. The Journal of Jakob Walter

Jakob Walter. Edited & Annotated by Bob Carruthers
This is a re-presentation of the jounal which was first translated and published in America in 1938. Bob Carruthers has done a really good job in bringing this wonderful work up to date. His inspired selection and inclusion of the watercolours of Albrecht Adam, who witnessed many of the same events as Jakob Walter, makes the book even more enjoyable. That is if the brutal reporting of such a train of harrowing events can ever be enjoyed. The reader is left with an understanding of the life of a soldier in Russia in 1812 and thankfulness that Jakob kept a jounal. A must read.
Pen & Sword Military, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013