While researching my dissertation in old books like this, I identified the gap in historiography of the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly in southwestern Germany.
The world travels of several regular Bugle editors created a gap in offerings for the October issue, so I offered to step up to write something. My friends and family often ask me why I'm so obsessed with the French Revolutionary Wars. Most of my teaching involves courses in the time period between 1780 and 1914, with particular focus on 1790–1815. The sheer number of books I have on European warfare (generally) and this period (specifically) might eventually cause my house to collapse under their weight. Fortunately, there is now Kindle, which allows me to collect additional titles and store them electronically. The French Revolution is when everything changed. Yes, I know that's the line (and title) of the first episode of Torchwood, and indeed in the 21st century, everything changes (again), but this is the nature of history, and in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a lot of things changed.
