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:[[Frans Gunnar Bengtsson|Frans G. Bengtsson]] was a good novelist but he was not a historian. [[User:Narking|Närking]] ([[User talk:Narking|talk]]) 20:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Dear Närking. Thank you for the correction, he was a proffessor of philosophy. For a novelist he did a great work on his double volume of Karl XII Livnad, and if you have read it you can see he took great pains in detailing the swedish battles and in trying to give a clearer picture of just who Karl XII was.
Herman Lindqvist follows Professor Bengtsson quit closely but gives more in his pictorial plates. His explination for the reasons for the Karl XII Norwegian Campain was very forthcomming as Bengtsson brushed over it a bit too lightly.
Peter Englands Poltava I found was lacking in accuracy in a few points:
pg. 60 "Karl was affraid of the dark and often slept with his men" true he slept with his men but where is the documentation that the king was affraid of the dark! He also claims Sigroth told the king his men would not fight? were is this statement too be found?
Or that the army was starving! yes the army had starved on it´s march from Smolansk to the Ukrain, but from there it was restocked, "Every pain has it´s scream, but full belly´s remain silent" if there was a supply shortage at this time it would have been mentioned in letters and diaries.
pg 75 he claims that the last coloum was led by G. M. Lagercrona! Lagercrona hade icka kommando i detta battali, nor did any officers who served under General Lowenhaupt.
There are others I have found in his book, and this from a historian?
Ryttar 8 July 2009
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