My fourth Wargaming in History book

Having read WARGAMING IN HISTORY VOLUME 3: GETTYSBURG 1863 – BRANDY STATION, BARLOW’S KNOLL, SICKLES’S FOLLY AND PICKETT’S CHARGE by John Drewienkiewicz and Adam Poole, and having a great interest in nineteenth century military history, it naturally followed that at some point I would have to buy WARGAMING IN HISTORY VOLUME 8: THE AUSTO-PRUSSIAN WAR OF 1866: THE OPENING BATTLES by John Drewienkiewicz and Andrew Brentnall. This has only recently been published by Ken Trotman Books (ISBN 978 1 907417 43 6) and I have been awaiting its arrival by post for some time.

The book has eleven chapters, five appendices, and has numerous colour photographs and maps:

• Foreword
• Place names then and now
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Opening Engagements of the Bohemian campaign
• Chapter 2: Prussian Army of 1866
• Chapter 3: Austrian and Saxon Armies of 1866
• Chapter 4: Setting up the battles
• Chapter 5: Gitschin 29 June: The Austrians obey
• Chapter 6: Trautenau 28 June: Gablenz show the way
• Chapter 7: Nachod 27 June: Ramming not up to speed
• Chapter 8: Skalitz 28 June: Steinmetz surges forward
• Chapter 9: An alternative Skalitz: Festetics to the rescue
• Chapter 10: Conclusions
• Chapter 11: The Battlefield Today
• Appendix A: Chronology of the Austro-Prussian War
• Appendix B: Further reading
• Appendix C: Outline orders of battle
• Appendix D: The rules for 1866
• Appendix E: Information for wargamers

I bought two small ready-painted 15mm-scale Austrian and Prussian armies some years ago, and now that I have this book I might actually manage to use some of them on the tabletop other than in the guise of one of my imagi-nations.