THE WAR OF 1812 RESOURCE GUIDE By John C. Fredriksen. Military bibliographies are important reference tools for the military historian and analyst, and every serious military scholar will acknowledge a great debt to those who perform the much needed but often unrecognized and unremunerative "spade work" so necessary to further military studies. Lately, and especially with the advent of college and graduate programs devoted to military and defense studies, there has been a proliferation of military bibliographies. But, strangely, until John C. Fredriksen compiled this work, there has been no bibliography devoted exclusively to the War of 1812. This book is not strictly a military bibliography, but nearly all of its entries relate to military affairs, and it is a work military scholars interested in the War of 1812 and the early national army will use time and again. The Guide contains 1,674 entries listing books, pamphlets, and articles in 13 topical and geographic categories. There are also descriptions of manuscript holdings in 113 manuscript depositories in the United States and Canada and an appendix listing briefly the wartime service of 100 U.S., British, Canadian, and foreign (Swiss emigre) units in the conflict. The Guide is offset printed, paper-bound, and handsomely presented. There are, occasionally, typoghraphical errors, but these do not detract too much from what is otherwise a capable and useful compilation. More Reviews MiniFigs Superdetailed 15mm Napoleonics (figures) Tin Soldier 15mm Dark Ages (figures) Combat Commander (rules) War of 1812 Resource Guide (bibliography) Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. 2 #2 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1980 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com