Peter Hofschröer

Peter Hofschröer

Peter Hofschröer is a historian who specialises in the Napoleonic Wars.

Education

He gained a BA (Hons) in German and History from King's College London.

Career

He has written books and contributed articles to magazines and journals such as the BBC History magazine, Military History, War in History, the Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research, First Empire, Military Illustrated, Age of Napoleon and the Osprey Military Journal, and to the BBC History website.

He has been a historical advisor to various TV companies, and to the makers of the computer game based on the Waterloo Campaign, Fields of Glory, published by MicroProse. He used to present papers at gatherings such as the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, the Wellington Congress, at the National Army Museum, Royal United Services Institute, and give talks at events such as the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and the International Napoleonic Fair.

Awards

His awards include a Fellowship of the International Napoleonic Society and the Memorial Medal of the League of Bismarck, once in bronze, once in silver.

Works

Sole author

Pub Date	Volume	Publisher
1984	Prussian Light Infantry 1792–1815	Osprey Men-at-Arms
1984	Prussian Line Infantry 1792-1815	Osprey Men-at-Arms
1985	Prussian Cavalry 1792–1807	Osprey Men-at-Arms
1985	Prussian Cavalry 1808-1815	Osprey Men-at-Arms
1987	Prussian reserve, militia & irregular troops 1806-15	Osprey Men-at-Arms
1989	Hanoverian Army of the Napoleonic Wars	Osprey Men-at-Arms
1993	Leipzig 1813	Osprey Campaign Series
1998	1815 – The Waterloo Campaign Vol. 1 (Wellington his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras)	Greenhill
1999	1815 – The Waterloo Campaign Vol. 2 (The German victory, from Waterloo to the fall of Napoleon)	Greenhill
2001	Lützen & Bautzen (1813)	Osprey Campaign Series
2003	Prussian Specialist Troops 1792-1815	Osprey Men-at-Arms
2004	Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker, and the Secret of Waterloo	Faber & Faber
2005	Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker, and the Secret of Waterloo (pbk)	Faber & Faber
2005	Waterloo 1815 – Quatre Bras & Ligny	Pen & Sword
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2011	Prussian Napoleonic Tactics 1792–1815	Osprey Elite

As contributor

Pub Date	Volume	Publisher
1987	Napoleon's Marshals	Weidenfeld & Nicholson
2000	Napoleonic Options	Greenhill
2004	Dictionary of National Biography	Oxford UP
2007	Encyclopaedia of the French Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars	ABC – Clio

Editor

Carl Von Clausewitz (2010). Peter Hofschroer. ed. On Wellington: A Critique Of Waterloo. ISBN 978-0-8061-4108-4. 

External links

• "Peter Hofschröer", Preußische Heeresbibliothek 15/11/99