US SOLDIER SOLDIER VERSUS BRITISH

◗ Gregg Adams

◗ Osprey (2021)

◗ £13.99

◗ 80 pages (softback)

◗ ISBN:9781472841674

◗ ospreypublishing.com

Osprey’ s‘ combat’ series is an eat little concept of showing the fighting styles of two major protagonists, by means of three illustrative battles – in this case, the Canadian theatre of war and the engagements of Queenston Heights, Crysler’s Farm, and Chippawa. An introductory chapter covers the key aspects of organisation, leadership, weapons, training and logistics, and the final chapters give the orders of battle (including unit strengths), and overall analysis, and the subsequent closing events of the war.

One particular strength of this series is the superb full-page battlefield maps, with accompanying notes on each phase on the neighbouring page. This is far better than the oblique‘ battlefield view’ in the otherwise-excellent Campaign series, where the picture straddles two pages, but with effectively only one page of view and with the core part hidden in the spine of the book...

These engagements would make an ideal set of wargames, with generally one or two brigades per side and of varying qualities: regulars, militia, light infantry, and Indians. Recommended, especially for those with British Napoleonics: it saves painting time!