'Dr Griffith writes with admirable clarity and with flashes of ironic humour. He also combines a formidable accuracy of detail with some new and penetrating insights into our present day view of an historical cataclysm ... Dr Griffith identifies a number of facts and trends that force us to re-examine many of our received views of the period ... The whole book is splendidly illustrated with a series of excellent 'tables' ... this is an excellent book and is an important addition to the bookshelf of any student of the period or the general reader ... every student of Napoleon should read this book; it contains some important, and uncomfortable, revelations to the myth of the Great Man.' – Colonel John Hughes-Wilson reviewing The Art of War in Revolutionary France by Paddy Griffith in the Royal United Services Institute Journal. 'There is a lot of detail to be found from careful examination of the pictures which will be of value to scale modellers and the reasonable price suggests that the books will find a place on many library shelves.' – Prop-Wing, Journal of the Shuttleworth Veteran Aeroplane Society reviewing Stuka Spearhead by Peter C. Smith and Focke Wulf 190 by Morten Jessen in the Luftwaffe at War Series. 'One for those that thought they had everything on the German jets of WW2, some very original photos and colour schemes. Both come highly recommended for content and price.' – BMFA News reviewing Stukas Over the Steppe by Peter C. Smith andGerman Jets by Manfred Griehl (in the Luftwaffe at War Series). 'Compelling.' – Windsock International reviewing The Red Air Fighter by Manfred von Richthofen (Greenhill Military Paperbacks). 'This monumental work is an absolute must for those that delight in detail; the degree to which this book has been researched is quite staggering! ... As a research tool the book is of immense value, enabling the course of the conflict to be traced almost blow by blow ... Through the creation of this landmark work, Digby Smith has made a significant contribution to the study of the Napoleonic conflict.' – The Waterloo Journal reviewing The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book by Digby Smith. 'Those engaged in research and those addicted to Pensinular War detail will find this book to be of immense value ... It is, without doubt, a most important and fitting addition to Oman's original volumes ... an eminently practical source of reference to be dipped into, although I found that my dips often became wholesale plunges. Once picked up, the initial enquiry leads to another and another, and so on. I found it to be the type of book that you can quite easily immerse yourself in.' – The Waterloo Journal reviewing A History of the Peninsular War, Volume VIII by John A. Hall. 'A valuable insight into the campaigns endured by the British Army from the perspective of a Commissary ... The text is alive with the kind of minute detail that brings to life the events of some 190 years ago.' – The Waterloo Journal reviewing On the Road with Wellington by A. L. F. Schaumann. '... a superb pictorial work of reference on the American Army.' – Military Modelling reviewing Uncle Sam's Little Wars by John P. Langellier and Custer and his Commands by Kurt Hamilton Cox in the G.I. Series. 'Comprehensive ... definitive.' – Military Modelling reviewing Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050–1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States by David Nicolle. 'Exhaustively researched by the author, this is a comprehensive directory to a key element of the Wehrmacht and of German military forces ... the most complete organisational study of the history ... an authoritative contribution to our understanding of the forces that played a key role in the Third Reich's drive to conquer Europe. There are no illustrations, just over 460 pages of solid, well researched information.' – Military Modelling reviewing The German Order of Battle: Panzers and Artillery in World War II by George F. Nafziger. 'This is an important addition to our appreciation of the war, the men who fought it and its impact on Napoleonic imperial ambitions. This volume brings to a conclusion the republication of Sir Charles Oman's seven volumes, plus two complementary volumes, which Greenhill Books started in 1995. The publishers must have a certain sense of achievement at having been able to undertake – and complete – this contribution to military history, bringing Oman's work to a new readership and adding to it in a significant way.' – Military Modelling reviewing A History of the Peninsular War, Volume IX: Modern Studies of the War in Spain and Portugal 1808–1814, edited by Paddy Griffith. 'This fine book ... is profusely illustrated with 109 photographs relating to Gneisenau and 137 relating to Scharnhorst. The photographs, which show the ships at all stages of their lives from construction to their final demise, are absolutely fascinating ... this well-researched reference work, which is superbly illustrated with numerous rare photographs, is a highly recommended record of the lives of two formidable German warships.' – Warship World reviewing Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class by Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke. 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