I really enjoyed Adrian Goldsworthy’s series on the Napoleonic War.
True Soldier Gentlemen (Napoleonic Wars, #1)
The year is 1808, and Hamish Williams is a 'gentlemen v…
thank you! diving back into the Napoleonic Era but land-focused sounds like something I'd enjoy
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Also, give the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell a go, I think you’d enjoy them.
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C.S. Forester's Hornblower novels are worth a go also his two land-based Napoleonic novels - The Gun and Death to the French (which Cornwell acknowledges as the inspiration for Sharpe).
Again they are quite dated and he is no O'Brian (who I adore) but he can tell a cracking story.
