Can a book be both overdone and underdone? Yup, this one. Digby Smith aka Otto von Pivka slapped this together to add to his pile of Nappy publications, some 50+ at this point. You wouldn't be able to guess from this book that France under Napoleon beat the crap out of everybody for 12 years and that the French cavalry had a lot to do with it. Even in France's decline the cavalry under Murat performs terrifically at Dresden, but this is not mentioned in this book. A huge amount of space goes into explaining the run up to Marengo, much of which is tangential to the subject of the title.Want to find out how the various participants' cavalries perform at Waterloo? Read Barbero's 'The Battle, a New History of Waterloo'.