About the Author

Digby Smith was born in Aldershot. At the age of 16 he joined the British Army and was commissioned in 1961. He studied at the Federal German Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Hamburg, resigning from the service in 1979. He is well known to students of the Napoleonic era as Otto von Pivka, his pen name for over twenty years. Amongst his major works are Armies of the Napoleonic Era, Navies of the Napoleonic Era, Armies of the Middle East, The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book, Napoleon's Regiments, 1813 Leipzig, Armies of 1812 and Borodino.