Does anyone know where this can be brought for an affordable price. I've seen it for sale £250 which is way to much. Any help would be appreciated https://www.napoleon-series.org/reviews/military/c_davout.html
You could try Interlibrary Loaning the book through your local library and Xeroxing it. A few US libraries own it. Only the British Library is listed in the UK as owning it in WorldCat, but you could still check with your local library, they might have different info.
Strange - I bought some books from them - though not living in the UK - I am a European living on the Continent, so why the UK is singled out - puzzles me.
@Immo Frese Might be the current health situation--buying books from German book dealers for shipment to the USA, for instance, has been on/off for months...or sometimes on, but only at shipping prices twice the book cost. And the restrictions seem to appear and disappear and shift frequently. UK>USA, on the other hand, seems to work with only minor delays.
Remember @Geraint Thatcher , there is a big difference between speaking and reading. There is also a difference between conversational or academic literary French and the kind of ‘military speak’ we are after.
We have to wait until a conference or a podcast before we expose our pronunciation to ridicule. It’s amazing how far you can get with a combination of Google Translate and a good dictionary. Beware though, I recall Fred MacAulay’s “Führer of the sausage people” address to the haggis translation!
Remember the (probably false) meme ascribed to President George W Bush “The problem with the French is they don’t have a word for entrepreneur”. Many of our accepted militarisms have migrated from French, from rendezvous to reconnaissance.
My advice is give it a go. Just don’t try to book a room or order dinner with what you learn!
@Kevin F. Kiley If only it is just French you need to study Napoleon, the Grande Armee and French military developments! It should be clear that the insufficient ability to read both French, English, German, Russian, Spanish, Italien ect. ect. played a nasty trick. To fully understand what happened in many corners of this fast continent more than just French is needed.
It is fine we have access to translationstools that can be found online.
@Geraint Thatcher, I do not speak French either, but after many months of google translating books and seeing the same word over and over in documents, it has gotten better. I use google translater and it has at least 75% of books that you can read and use the translate function. This can be done by highlighting a section and then pressing translate into whatever language you would like. Is it 100% correct? No, but it is pretty close to the new book in English.
You could try Interlibrary Loaning the book through your local library and Xeroxing it. A few US libraries own it. Only the British Library is listed in the UK as owning it in WorldCat, but you could still check with your local library, they might have different info.
Geraint, try this link: https://www.militaryhistorypress.com/
Remember @Geraint Thatcher , there is a big difference between speaking and reading. There is also a difference between conversational or academic literary French and the kind of ‘military speak’ we are after. We have to wait until a conference or a podcast before we expose our pronunciation to ridicule. It’s amazing how far you can get with a combination of Google Translate and a good dictionary. Beware though, I recall Fred MacAulay’s “Führer of the sausage people” address to the haggis translation! Remember the (probably false) meme ascribed to President George W Bush “The problem with the French is they don’t have a word for entrepreneur”. Many of our accepted militarisms have migrated from French, from rendezvous to reconnaissance. My advice is give it a go. Just don’t try to book a room or order dinner with what you learn!
You can download and then print out the pdf - best investment in the long run, learning French.
You can find it in the original French here:
Opérations de 3e Corps, 1806-1807: Rapport Du Maréchal Davout, Duc d'Auerstaedt (French Edition): Anonymous: 9780270224924: Amazon.com: Books
or here:
Opérations de 3e corps, 1806-1807: rapport du Maréchal Davout, duc d'Auerstaedt : Louis Nicolas Davout : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The book on Amazon is $29.95
The book you're looking for is selling on Amazon US for 255.00:
Napoleon's Apogee: Pascal Bressonnet's Tactical Studies 1806 - Saalfeld, Jena and Auerstadt: Bowden, Scott (trans).: 9780982270349: Amazon.com: Books
If I remember correctly, that was just about the original price when it was first published. I have a copy and it is definitely worth the money.