Wellington Army 18091814 Charles Oman Books
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Wellington's Army 1809-1814 is an expansive overview of the Duke of Wellington's army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Wellington Army 18091814 Charles Oman Books
Although this is the last book of Sir Charles Oman's multi volume history of the Peninsular War, it may be a good idea to read this book first, before starting on the series. There is a wealth of information here about the generals, organization, modus operandi, and daily life of Wellington's Army, as well as on alliance management, especially with Portugal. There is also a great deal about Wellington, and the author was not shy about criticizing England's hero of the Napoleonic Wars. The Peninsular War was the UK's greatest land war until World War I, and the UK's fascination with it is attested by hundreds books written in the XIX Century. Oman's series came after Napier's, but both are worth reading.As other reviewers have noted, the Kindle version is deplorable, but it is readable, and for $1 it is certainly a fair value. Absent the more recent scholarship and literature on the topics Oman covers in this book, i would have rated it at five stars.
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Wellington Army 18091814 Charles Oman Books Reviews
British historian Sir Charles Oman spent thirty years researching and writing his magnificent seven volume "A History of the Peninsular War." In the process, he gained an close familiarity with the British Army famously led by Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington. Some of his findings made their way into a separate book associated with his "History." "Wellington's Army 1809-1814" is a well-written and fascinating collection of short essays.
Oman opens the book with a bibliographic chaper before discussing Wellington himself, an experienced field commander who became one of Britian's Great Captains during his time in the Iberian Peninsula. Successive essays cover his strategy, tactics (including line versus column) and some of his leading subordinates. Other chapters explore the organization of his army, the integration of foreign troops, and matters of supply and military justice.
This book was first published in 1913; modern readers will have to adjust to Oman's narrative style of an older era. However, the contents of the book will be well worth the effort to students of the British Ary and in particular of the Peninsular War. "Wellington's Army" is highly recommended to that audience.
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This book is of a series with Oman's multi-volume "History of the Peninsula War". Sir Charles Oman (b. 1860, d. 1946) is the pre-eminent historian of the British army in this war. Between 1808 and 1814, led by the Duke of Wellington and allied with with Spanish and Portuguese troops, this British army forced Napoleon's armies out of Portugal and Spain and back into France. The British army as a whole was by no means an army of supermen, but Wellington and his veterans eventually became Napoleon's most formidable opponents on land. This volume is a companion to the "History", and answers many questions that a reader of these volumes would want to ask about the British army - who were the Generals, who were the ordinary soldiers, and what were the characteristics that made Wellington's army so formidable?
Oman wrote this volume in 1912, and although many researchers have since uncovered large amounts of detailed information that was simply not available at that time, any modern researcher into the subject ignores Oman's work at his peril. "Wellington's Army" is enjoyably written, well set-out, and full of anecdotes from officers and private soldiers who served under Wellington. Not only does it show how Wellington's army was recruited, trained, administered and led, it also opens a wide, clear window onto just what it was like to be a soldier on the march, in camp and in battle during the Napoleonic Wars.
Indispensable, not only to historians but also to anyone who regularly reads historical novels such as Cornwell's "Sharpe" series or classics from the time of Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, or even "War and Peace".
My comments regard the Edition. Do NOT buy it if you do not want to struggle with reading it.
The editing is atrocious (if it was edited at all). Paragraphs run together, sentences run together, words are missing, etc..
Perhaps one would expect a product this poor in the early days of ebooks, but not now that they are a lot more common.
Thiwhers book would get a 5 star simply because it's written by Charles W.C. Oman and is packed with information that is hard to find elsewhere. But a word of warning it would get a 1 star for its formatting. It's too bad nobody took the time to do anything more that run this older book through OCR, which simply can't do an adequate job deciphering the type in really old books. And nobody made any attempt to separate the footnotes and headers from the rest of the text, which means constant interruption and confusion, and they appear willy-nilly in the middle of pages. It might not be so bad if the OCR errors didn't also mis-interpret footnote symbols and numbers. So this wonderful book is a mess. Some parts are just plain un-decipherable. Okay, I understand there is an exttremely small market for this genre, and no, this book, even spruced up, would probably not make the publishers a profit. So that's why I say if you want the nitty-gritty info on Wellington's Army, gird up your patience and get it from this book.
Although this is the last book of Sir Charles Oman's multi volume history of the Peninsular War, it may be a good idea to read this book first, before starting on the series. There is a wealth of information here about the generals, organization, modus operandi, and daily life of Wellington's Army, as well as on alliance management, especially with Portugal. There is also a great deal about Wellington, and the author was not shy about criticizing England's hero of the Napoleonic Wars. The Peninsular War was the UK's greatest land war until World War I, and the UK's fascination with it is attested by hundreds books written in the XIX Century. Oman's series came after Napier's, but both are worth reading.
As other reviewers have noted, the version is deplorable, but it is readable, and for $1 it is certainly a fair value. Absent the more recent scholarship and literature on the topics Oman covers in this book, i would have rated it at five stars.
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