Featured battle : Tordesillas

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 28 October 1812

A tiny but highly significant engagement. Half a company of Brunswick Jägers were guarding an important bridge over the river Duero. Captain Guingret and 54 men of the French 6th Light Infantry Regiment swam the river and attacked the Bruswickers from their rear. The surprise was complete and caused the commander to panic and abandon the bridge. The massive effect was to turn the line of the Duero and force Wellington to continue to withdraw.

Hill 112, The Key to Defeating Hitler in Normandy

Tim Saunders
This is the story of the battle for one hill in the whole of the Normandy campaign. The content covers all layers of action from Montgomery’s strategic vision to the gritty realism of the individual soldier. Voices from both sides are heard as the positions shift back and forth over quite a small very important hill. Tim Saunders’ extensive research has produced a narrative which takes the reader as close to the truth of a battle as one can get. So close that some of the truth is not for the squeamish. The casualties on both sides were huge but the action succeeded strategically in pulling in most of the Panzer reserves to free up the American sweep to the south.
The gripping narrative is supported by an abundance of maps and a super set of photographs, as far as battle books go you could not get better.
We highly recommend Tim Saunders’ book.

Pen & Sword Military, 2022