Patrick O'Brian's series about the Aubrey-Maturin voyages of the Napoleonic period. Again not a lot about small arms (as opposed to cannons, there's plenty about cannons!) but again it's obvious he knows his stuff. There are almost 2 dozen of these and I found each one to be totally engrossing.
Reading is good clean fun and will keep you and your kids off the streets and out of trouble.
Regards, Joe
Best historical fiction I've read to date. Received the first one as a gift and took me a year to finish them all. I was eagerly waiting for the next one when O'Brian passed away a few years ago. A movie was made from combining two of the books,
The Far Side of the World starring Russel Crowe, also well done for that genre and apparently quite authentic.
I also enjoyed the
Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cromwell. While a bit formulaic and not as detailed as O'Brian's books they do contain more about rifles and muskets. For anyone interested they should be read in chronological order of Sharpe's life, not in the order they were written, 21 books in all.
