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Von Stroheim:
Not sure where to post this but it encompasses the Interwar period including the Banana wars etc. Latin American wars during the first half of the 20th Century
https://ospreypublishing.com/store/military-history/upcoming-books/preorder-3-months/latin-american-wars-1900-1941
Arlequín:
41 years of the history of the wars of an entire continent in one Osprey, that's err... ambitious to say the least. :?
carlos marighela:
--- Quote from: Arlequín on March 14, 2018, 06:10:34 PM ---41 years of the history of the wars of an entire continent in one Osprey, that's err... ambitious to say the least. :?
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Ambitious? Thoroughly fucking pointless if you ask me. What’s the typical Osprey? Forty-eight pages, including an intro, a summary, eight pages of colour plates, typically a couple more as plate commentaries. You’re lucky if you get fifteen pages of text and into that they want to cram sixteen conflicts? Of course, that’s not even the entirety of conflicts for the time period in the region.
I bear Phillip Jowett no ill will but it would be a massive, multi volume task to give any value, even as an introductory piece to all of those conflicts and I’m betting he speaks neither Spanish or Portuguese. Missed opportunity, several times over.
Arlequín:
I know, but I'm trying to get into practice of being a role-model for my grandson, in the "if you can't say anything nice..." way. Ospreys tend to fall short when they only cover one conflict and even if the author speaks the language concerned, or is even a nativo, it's no guarantee of quality research in any case.
;)
carlos marighela:
--- Quote from: Arlequín on March 14, 2018, 10:29:36 PM ---I know, but I'm trying to get into practice of being a role-model for my grandson, in the "if you can't say anything nice..." way. Ospreys tend to fall short when they only cover one conflict and even if the author speaks the language concerned, or is even a nativo, it's no guarantee of quality research in any case.
;)
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I’m going with the ‘call a spade a spade’ model with my children. :D
I agree that Ospreys are really introductory primers, the Ladybird Books of wargaming/military history and one’s expectations should never be set too high but this is really taking the piss. It looks like a quick and nasty grab for cash. The Jowett co-authored volume on the Chaco War was a huge disappointment.
Not that there’s a lot of competition for the subject matter in English. There is a fairly awful, US published, almanac type affair covering much of the same terrain* that came out a few decades ago and then there are the somewhat spotty Adrian English tomes but English is, apparently, at least able to read the original or at least second hand source material. His short works on the Leticia War and the Peru-Ecuador conflict are reasonable primers and I’d recommend those over this.
It does make me giggle to see that have included an illustration of a cangaceiro on the front cover, despite there being no reference to the subject in the list of topics and despite the cangaço phenomenon not being a war or even a civil conflict in the strictest sense. Almost certainly a nod to the Foundry volume on Inter-war conflicts.
* It’s a hefty two-volume work for what it’s worth, which isn’t much but it does show you how ‘ambitious’ the Osprey title is.
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