- Hardcover: 624 pages
- Publisher: Greenhill Books; illustrated edition edition (15 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1853673153
- ISBN-13: 978-1853673153
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 14.3 x 5.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,013,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This addition to Sir Charles Oman''s study of the Peninsular War provides an account of all officers serv ing under British command, including German and French offic ers in British pay, who were killed or wounded during the ca mpaigns. '
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A most interesting and useful reference work.,
By Neil Spalding (neil@spalding42.freeserve.co.uk) (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808-14: Vol. 8 (History of the Penninsula War) (Hardcover)
This book builds on the great body of work by Sir Charles Oman and provides a great deal of background material on the officers who were wounded or died during the Peninsular war. The author has painstakingly gathered material from a number of sources and is to be commended as the result is a work of high quality. Very much a reference book for the historian and well worthy of 5 stars for usefulness to those researching the period.
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This review is from: Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808-14: Vol. 8 (History of the Penninsula War) (Hardcover)
Material in this exellent volume has enabled me to fill in a number of small gaps in information about the Peninsular War. For example as someone who specialises in military engineering in this period I was able to discover the name of the RE office who blew up the Travan bridge at Alcantara in 1809. A very worthwhile addition to any peninsular war library.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Value to Military Students of the period.,
By bmiles@clear.net.nz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808-14: Vol. 8 (History of the Penninsula War) (Hardcover)
John Hall has written perhaps the most complete record of casualties of British and Allied Officers caused by actions in the Iberian Peninsula during the "period". His sources are impeccably presented and must be of great value to military students of the war in that theatre. Being given permission to attach this work to the definitive overall history by Charles Oman is sufficient acceptance in itself to guarantee its place on the shelves of the most august military libraries, however, it must be said that a similar work coming from the "enemy" of the time, "Listes des officers tues et blesses pendant les Guerres de l'Empire" by M Martinien, was in continuous use by Sir Charles throughout his own mammoth compilation, and , although often remarked upon by that author as being "invaluable" was never elevated beyond that rather minor appellation. That criticism apart this work has such a wealth of hitherto "hard to find" information, so easily made accessible, that it would be churlish to deny the author his laurels. The collective history of the war in the Peninsula then has just made a modest leap foward through this publication.
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The Complete Story - The Last Voulme,
By William Hopke - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808-14: Vol. 8 (History of the Penninsula War) (Hardcover)
Sir Charles Oman's comprehensive seven volume history of the Peninsular War is the yardstick by which any other history of this theatre must be measured. However, this eighth volume is only for the hard core. If it happened, it is in one of these volumes.
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