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Post by plasticpanzers on Apr 2, 2017 9:17:35 GMT
How many folks use this author for reference for Napoleonic's. Good source material but I swear I have to hold my nose (I'm American) with the over the top 'France...stout fellows...but we trounce them regularly... where is my glass of port?...'
PS: HAT are there more generic Napoleonic officers in the pipeline?.... the first batch evaporated as soon as they hit online stores...
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Post by Forum Admin on Apr 2, 2017 9:48:06 GMT
PS: HAT are there more generic Napoleonic officers in the pipeline?.... the first batch evaporated as soon as they hit online stores... Soon we will have another thread to ask for restock figures.
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Post by paintdog on Apr 2, 2017 11:11:11 GMT
How many folks use this author for reference for Napoleonic's. Good source material but I swear I have to hold my nose (I'm American) with the over the top 'France...stout fellows...but we trounce them regularly... where is my glass of port?...' PS: HAT are there more generic Napoleonic officers in the pipeline?.... the first batch evaporated as soon as they hit online stores... The received wisdom on Haythornthwaite is that, like certain wines, he doesn't "travel" well. That is, he's sound on British uniforms but makes errors on those worn by foreigners.
As for his speech, I suppose it's a matter of familiarity. I accidently switched the television to some, I believe, quaintly labelled "reality" show. It was set in North Carolina & I watched it for a bit & decided I understood one word in every dozen. I'm assuming it was in English but as Spock put it, "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it".
So I think the best approach to "English as she is spoke" is probably: chacun a son gout
donald
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Post by alanbuckingham on Apr 2, 2017 11:32:48 GMT
Well I do like his writing and let history be the judge....for the best part of a Thousand years the Brits beat the French, the hundred years wars aside, but it did take them over a hundred years to beat us and they were playing at home, and they were unethical and against the rule`s of war in employing the services of a witch. Further more the only time`s they have had a good outcome to a war that we are involved in is when we are on their side , and even then they they surrender early on, then fight again once the outcome is no longer in doubt...:-) PS and as for you guys we leave you the Aussie`s and Kiwi`s to fight one war without us..and look what happens :-)
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Post by garpant on Apr 9, 2017 15:16:12 GMT
I use Haythornewaite quite a bit,he's one of my primary resources.But I also use everybody else too.Chartrand,Hourtelle,Elting,Griffth,too many to mention.We could talk about that all day long.Right now on my want list Barry Van Danzig and Bernard Cornwell both have recent books on Waterloo and I'm anxious to see what they have to say about it.
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Post by Byjove on Apr 9, 2017 15:38:48 GMT
Haythornewaite is for me OK. Great Historian. OK he's British, But so what! As collectors and history-minded people whe (I am) are looking for more then one resource! So after years of reading I am pleased with different sources, nevertheless I am a fan of Haithornewaite. On the same level: Paddy Griffith!!
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Post by pickers on Apr 16, 2017 18:08:27 GMT
Haythornthwaite's English Civil war book suffers a bit from 'same old same old' but the illustrations are worth it, and it makes it an ok general text on the subject.
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Post by fredg on Jul 13, 2017 16:55:36 GMT
If you think Haythornthwaite is a little too British, try these.
How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did - Stephen Clarke 1000 years of Annoying the French - Stephen Clarke The Frog Surrenders: An Amusing & Diverting Account of the Epic Disasters of the French Military - William Palafox and Mark Martel
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Post by Contrarius on Jul 6, 2018 15:36:32 GMT
Haythornewaite is for me OK. Great Historian. OK he's British, But so what! As collectors and history-minded people whe (I am) are looking for more then one resource! So after years of reading I am pleased with different sources, nevertheless I am a fan of Haithornewaite. On the same level: Paddy Griffith!! You cannot seriously put Paddy Griffith on the same level as Haythornthwaite (PJH). Apples and oranges. PJH is/was a bit of a hack at times. But he truly 'lived' his interest in military history and did pretty much nothing else, rarely from what I've heard even leaving his home. Paddy Griffith on the other hand was one if the great minds of recent military history, especially on the simulation side. He taught at Sandhurst and authored numerous studies on the nitty gritty of battle, from Viking times, thru the ACW, to Vietnam. Calling him a genius would probably be accurate. Both are men of the 1970s-90s, and for their time were at the very forefront of research. They were both giants. We know more today perhaps, but only because we are standing on their shoulders.
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Post by Freelancer on Jul 6, 2018 20:26:16 GMT
Well I do like his writing and let history be the judge....for the best part of a Thousand years the Brits beat the French, the hundred years wars aside, but it did take them over a hundred years to beat us and they were playing at home, and they were unethical and against the rule`s of war in employing the services of a witch. Further more the only time`s they have had a good outcome to a war that we are involved in is when we are on their side , and even then they they surrender early on, then fight again once the outcome is no longer in doubt...:-) PS and as for you guys we leave you the Aussie`s and Kiwi`s to fight one war without us..and look what happens :-) Welllllll, irony aside, I suspect you have a somewhat loose interpretation of what defines "Brit" during those "best part of a Thousand years" Shakespeare and the Victorians have a lot to blame for rewriting history... - England was invaded and conquered by the Normans in 1066 - French language and culture but of Norse origin - Succeeded by the Plantagenets for several centuries- also French in language and culture. The 100 Years War was pretty much a French dynastic civil war. Not that nationality meant anything at the time - commoners were simply servants to a king or lord - Various Dutch and German monarchs ever since.
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Post by greentiger on Jul 10, 2018 11:50:20 GMT
Always found him to be rather good...
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Post by plasticpanzers on Aug 14, 2018 5:00:04 GMT
Never found him bad. On the contrary his information is an absolute for painting and organization. Its a bit of the huffy Englishman about him Wellington and Nelson approached like that painting of President Washington be flown to heaven by angels. Its heavy handed and a bit thickly laid on is all.
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