Eyewitness Accounts of the Battle of Ostrolenka May 26th 1831. Compiled by Stuart Penhall. Available from Preziosi. $10.00

I have a slight interest in this Russo-Polish War as some of it took place near ancestral grounds. This is a highly readable booklet and well worth the money. I'm not going to recount the battle(s) described. The information is more than sufficient to recreate the Battle of Ostrolenka and most of the campaign. Coincidentally, I received several color xeroxs of period Russian uniforms. I may actually have enough information now to undertake recreating the campaign.

There are interesting accounts about generalship that one could easily use in campaign situations. I enjoyed reading both accounts, one Polish and one Russian. What I would liked to have seen would have been a sentence or two concerning regimental organization and numbers.

Penhall says he kept the original spellings of the names, which at first I had no problem with until I looked at the OBs and it took awhile to figure out who was who. One or two I never did. But that is not material really to the flow or usefulness of the text. Highly recommended.

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