{"id":9605,"date":"2023-09-17T19:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2023-09-17T19:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:23:52","slug":"book-reviews-military-history-antony-brett-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9605","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEWS & MILITARY HiSTORY: Antony Brett James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m wondering whether I ought to move my military history and mini-military hobbies stuff over to my main sebpalmer.com area?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m finding that I can do WordPress ok on my iPhone, but Google Blogspot stuff is harder to do. And so my activity on AQOS (aquestionofscale.blogspot) has fallen into desuetude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is partly \u2018cause I do very little on my iMac any more. And that\u2019s for two main reasons: a general antipathy to computer based travails; and my iMac being old, and running shite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
The author, c. late 1960s.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* As pictured on the inner dust-jacket of an edition of his work entitled, 1812, which narrates the Russian campaign\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I was looking at AQOS, to see what books by Antony Brett-James<\/a> I\u2019d read and reviewed. And I was mighty surprised to see that, whilst I\u2019ve read two, and I\u2019m now reading a third, I appear not to have reviewed any of them!? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m startled. I usually always review any<\/em> Napoleonic literature I read. It may be that I did reviews but they only went up on Amazon.co.uk. If so, they may be lost forever, as Amazon deleted all my (thousands of) reviews, when they booted me off Vine. No explanation ever given!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering the many hours unpaid work that went in to so many of my reviews – esp\u2019 the stuff on non-Vine things, like music and literature\/military history – I think this was\/is pretty shoddy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did back up some of my reviews. But not all of them, alas. There\u2019s a lesson to be learned there, methinks; always keep my own copy of any such writings! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, last night, I thought reading some Napoleonic history might help me sleep. I chose this book. It didn\u2019t help me sleep! But I did enjoy what little reading I managed to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
A younger Antony, as he was in WWII.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* He knew the cost of war first. Not just fighting in it. But losing his brother, Ivor, two years his junior, who died in the Sicily campaign (I think?), 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve certainly both got and have read Brett-James\u2019 1812<\/em>, subtitled Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon’s Defeat in Russia. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I have both this edition\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\u2026 and<\/em> this one. I best check!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t believe I haven\u2019t written a review of it!? I\u2019ll have to have a root around in my digital archives, and see if I can find anything. Of else read and review it again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had started Europe Against Napoleon, some time back. But – very unusually for me – I\u2019d not finished it. I think this belongs to my fairly recent reading burn-out phase. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m wondering whether I ought to move my military history and mini-military hobbies stuff over to my main sebpalmer.com area? I\u2019m finding that I can do WordPress ok on my iPhone, but Google Blogspot stuff is harder to do. And so my activity on AQOS (aquestionofscale.blogspot) has fallen into desuetude. This is partly \u2018cause I … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “BOOK REViEWS & MILITARY HiSTORY: Antony Brett James”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2uV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9865,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions\/9865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}