The Desktop Toys (Zardoz Head, Bayoncé and Winkie Man) reviewing my latest purchase.
Quite how we'll manage that I haven't really figured out yet.
Thanks for the heads up Driscoles. I've wanted to find some Louis L'Amour since Ifinished The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril. He is one of the characters that shows up, but they never say who he is. I figured it out in the last chapter.
I have never read Mr. L'Amour's work, but had him filed away as a writer catering to middle aged women of a romantic and surpressed erotic disposition.
Should I rethink my position?
sonds intriguing, Chris, just bought that book on ebay (only 3 EUR!)
got something else from another won ebay auction:
"The Fight in the Rufiji Delta" The end of the little cruiser "Königsberg", the German marine and Schutztruppe in Wolrd War 1 in East Africa
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A new "book received" thread :wink:
At the moment I'm seized with a passion for colonial history. Got yesterday two new books, "The german schutztruppe" and "The german colonies" with tons of textes and photos. Great reference material with lots of inspiration
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Prof the English Translation of " The Last Gentleman of War" by the same author on the exploits of the Cruiser Emden is a terrfic read. Well worth the purchase if you are interested in maritime adventures of the Great War.
I've three books on the Konisgberg in English:
"The Germans Who Never Lost" by Edwin P Hoyt, Jr;
"Konigsberg" by Kevin Patience; and
The "Konigsberg" Adventure by E Keble Chatterton.
Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"A new "book received" thread :wink:
At the moment I'm seized with a passion for colonial history. Got yesterday two new books, "The german schutztruppe" and "The german colonies" with tons of textes and photos. Great reference material with lots of inspiration
Prof thanks for showing us the book covers for this period. Of interest as I've a plethora of books for this period and I'd like your opinion in the quality of information contained within the books or are they a rehash?
Quote from: "Helen Bachaus"Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"A new "book received" thread :wink:
At the moment I'm seized with a passion for colonial history. Got yesterday two new books, "The german schutztruppe" and "The german colonies" with tons of textes and photos. Great reference material with lots of inspiration
Prof thanks for showing us the book covers for this period. Of interest as I've a plethora of books for this period and I'd like your opinion in the quality of information contained within the books or are they a rehash?
"The german colonies" is a rehash for sure, just something for the newcomer, but it's a nice issue with many photos and just the right book for my daughters :)
"The german schutztruppe" is a solid one. As far as i know, that's the book about the Schutztruppe, a really fundamental and serious work, can unrestricted recommend that
My latest Pulp-related acquisitions are part 1+2 of Gunsmith Cats revised edition. I'm not a Manga-Fan, but these are real cool! Driving a Shelby GT500 with 160mph while shooting at your prey with a CZ75 is the real thing. I even made Rally Vincent my desktop backgropund...
"The german schutztruppe" is a solid one. As far as i know, that's the book about the Schutztruppe, a really fundamental and serious work, can unrestricted recommend that
Hi Folks, again some interesting books covering the Middle-East.
Quote from: "Helen Bachaus"Hi Folks, again some interesting books covering the Middle-East.
Ah... Let me know if there is anything about the Swedish Gendermerie in that one to the left. *That* is a gaggle of Pulp adventurers if there ever was one. :-)
Story of the italian Mafia. Best book I read this year. Yes, it has gaps, but it's thrilling, disturbing and I went through the 500+ sides in two days.
This doesn't really belong here, but I didn't think we needed a "Latest DVD Received" topic as there wouldn't be enough traffic.
Ken Loach's "Land and Freedom." The best film about the Spanish Civil War I have seen. Admittedly that ain't exactly saying much, as the only other one I've seen is "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Still, I like it a lot anyway.
Finally got my own copy. Very similar tale to Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" actually. More about division and disillusionment in the Republican ranks than it is about fighting Franco. We follow a British volunteer to Spain and watch as he loses his idealism and zeal in the harsh reality of the war.
Sandman is as strange as I remembered it, preacher has quite some cool parts and fables a great idea, but I guess none of them will become favourites. That doesn't mean I don't like them.
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Sandman is as strange as I remembered it, preacher has quite some cool parts and fables a great idea, but I guess none of them will become favourites. That doesn't mean I don't like them.
Loved the Sadman and the Fables but the Preacher wasn't my cup of tea.
Got me FOUNDRYs THE SMALL WARS AND SKIRMISHES 1902-1918, and I must say it's worth every penny of the rather high price!
Strongly recommended.
Rewarded myself a little treat today: the 16 DVD series A World at War. Oh yes, I did!
Quote from: "hammershield"Rewarded myself a little treat today: the 16 DVD series A World at War. Oh yes, I did!
Very nice, I've seen it on the telly but I didn't know it was available on DVD.
Looking at the price I don't think I could sneak that one into the house so easily. :)
Quote from: "revford"Quote from: "hammershield"Rewarded myself a little treat today: the 16 DVD series A World at War. Oh yes, I did!
Very nice, I've seen it on the telly but I didn't know it was available on DVD.
Looking at the price I don't think I could sneak that one into the house so easily. :)
It wasn't so bad. £30 roughly.
bought lots of very nice russian historical books in my vacation.
WW1 Uniform encyclopedia
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WW1 Planes. A beautiful book with hunderts of planes!!
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WW1 Tanks.
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WW1 Sea War
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A Russian Civil War book and another Uniform encyclopedia
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Ospreys in russian :)
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Hi Alex, is there a reason behind buying Russian books? I'm specualting you can read Cryllic.
Quote from: "Helen Bachaus"Hi Alex, is there a reason behind buying Russian books? I'm specualting you can read Cryllic.
yes, i can :)
Is this "The World at War", the famous 70s British documentary about World War Two? The one narrated by Larry Olivier?
That's a great series. That theme music still sends shivers down my spine.
Malamute have ou ever read the cthulluh sherlok holmes crossover book ,I think it can be fun ?
Pioneer Air Fighter? That's the one which is a reprint of the early Great War stories, isn't it? The ones from "Camel Squadron" and "The Camels are coming."
Those are some of my favourite Biggles stories. Biggles was always at his best in the Great War.
Oooh, I'll have to read that one too. At the mo' I have:
Secret Mission
In the South Seas
The Noble Lord
Dark Intruder
The Rescue Flight
Flies South
Defies the Swastika (my favorite title)
In Spain
Flies East
Sorts it Out
In the Jungle
In Australia
Foreign Legionarie
Defends the Desert
of the Camel Squadron
Cruise of the Condor
and the Black Peril
in the Orient
That should keep me busy for a bit!
Quote from: "xeoran"Oooh, I'll have to read that one too. At the mo' I have:
Secret Mission
In the South Seas
The Noble Lord
Dark Intruder
The Rescue Flight
Flies South
Defies the Swastika (my favorite title)
In Spain
Flies East
Sorts it Out
In the Jungle
In Australia
Foreign Legionarie
Defends the Desert
of the Camel Squadron
Cruise of the Condor
and the Black Peril
in the Orient
That should keep me busy for a bit!
What about Biggles Flies undone?
Sorry, I couldnt resist it, its one from my school days :lol:
I've posted this link before, but in case you haven't seen it, Xeoran, I'll post it again:
http://www.biggles.info/
If you click on each book, many of them show the interior illustrations, which are missing in the modern editions.
Rewarded myself a little treat today: the 16 DVD series A World at War. Oh yes, I did!
Postie just came, carrying this:
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Having enjoyed the Babylon 5 version courtesy of my mate Chronoglide, I thought I'd give the non-Sci-Fi spin-off a go.
Time to dig out those old teeny-tiny WWII ships I've got lying around here somewhere. The ones I painted years ago and never played with. River Plate and Denmark Strait for starters, I think.
That looks like Cristiano Ronaldo, that fellow at the top. Smile
That looks like Cristiano Ronaldo, that fellow at the top. :)
WW1 Uniform encyclopedia
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Not one, but eight - the first 8 titles of the French comics 'Les Tuniques Bleues', set in the ACW.
Quite historically accurate too, it seems. In Les Bleus de la Marine the two main characters get transferred from the US Cavalry to the Navy (!) to take part in Hampton Roads.
Got this today. Hellboy 7. Yum.
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Ah, I loved those back in the early 90s... it´s those two, isn´t it?
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My favourite is the one in which they get sent on a secret mission to Charleston to find out what the hell is blowing up the blockading ships... the "David", Hurrah!
My Tank is Fight! (Weird WW2 inventions) by Zack Parsons
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The Life Eaters (comic - Norse mythology and ww2)
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Hi Alex, Many thanks and please keep showing your artistic talents int he African period.
Any questions on the books please don't hesitate to ask.
This one took a bit of tracking down. Had to get this (British published) book via New Jersey. Why does everything seem to come from New Jersey?
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Lovely colour plates. Almost every one had me saying "Ooh, he'd be nice to have in 28mm!" including a camel-mounted Tuareg (in case the Unfeasibly chap is reading this), Sanussi tribesman, Egyptians, Yemenis, Ottoman irregulars (and regulars), Sharifian regulars and Lord knows who else.
Simply put, someone turn this book into a range of figures, please.
very nice collection Helen.
May I ask if you speak german ?
I`ll try to get this german book as well.
Greetings
Björn
Do you think you have quite enough books on the Königsberg, Helen? :) I don't have any specifically on that ship (though I have quite a good one on the Emden), just a few which cover its adventure in a single chapter amongst other topics.
If you had to recommend just one to get, which would you say? The most enjoyable read of the bunch?
Odd title that one: "The Germans who never lost." If I had had my ship sunk from under me in the Rufiji Delta, I may have considered myself to have lost. I could see how one might apply that title to a book about Lettow-Vorbeck and his men, but not really specifically to the Königsberg.
Thanks, Helen. Something inside me foretold that you would say "All of them!" :) Grrr!
Oh, and while we're about it, thank you so much for the John Biggins recommendation. I am enjoying these books immensely. It's that whole feeling of discovering a complete new world, the same as I got when first reading Flashman and Patrick O'Brian. It has truly been an enriching experience, and you are entirely to blame, ur, I mean to be thanked, for it.
Plus it has got me repeatedly going back to my "Ocarina boat" to make changes and upgrades to her, in an effort to make her more like Otto's. The discovery that Habsburg U-Boats carried a triangular sail to give them a little extra help in cruising (whether it is true or not) has left me scratching my head and deciding that despite what I may have thought, "UB40" is not finished, and still needs more modifications!
Glad you like the John Biggins books and its been my pleasure to bring forth to all good folk that love an adventure! 8)
Quote from: "Helen Bachaus"Glad you like the John Biggins books and its been my pleasure to bring forth to all good folk that love an adventure! 8)
btw, I've recently ordered one of the Biggins books, too. "Tomorrow the world". Can't wait for it!
Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"Quote from: "Helen Bachaus"Glad you like the John Biggins books and its been my pleasure to bring forth to all good folk that love an adventure! 8)
btw, I've recently ordered one of the Biggins books, too. "Tomorrow the world". Can't wait for it!
Hi Alex, you will enjoy this one as it has natives within the story! 8)
Of course, I'm assuming that you haven't read the others
I suppose only Helen could tell you that, as I haven't read them all yet.
I don't think it really matters, you will probably enjoy them just as much. But the later books may well assume you already know stuff from the earlier ones (I really don't know enough to say yet).
But the first one sets the scene, really. Otto is an old man in a Welsh (hurrah!) retirement home, and he decides to start telling his memories to local lad who is also an ex-sailor. This framing device is set up in the first book, and you learn quite a bit about his origins and youth in this one, too.
I prefer to read them this way, but I'm sure it doesn't really matter in the long run.
Strange, in that picture he doesn't look quite how I remember him:
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:)
I'm detecting a theme here Helen.
So, are we going to be seeing you on the "Einstein Factor" next year?
(In other news the Lobster Johnson miniseries "The Iron Prometheus" is rather decent.)
Got the Alamo through today for LOTOW a bargain at £9 :D
Have read the first two issues and I think's good so far. Very Pulpy.
Quote from: "Lowtardog"Got the Alamo through today for LOTOW a bargain at £9 :D
Karl, please don't get me started on the Alamo as I've a number of books on that subject too 8)
My friend has scratch built the entire Alamo and I'll try and get a pick of the whole structure when he gets back from holidays as I'm looking at a large piece of the Alamo now as I type.
I'm fielding a 1836 Mexican Army for the WRG competition at Cancon here in Canberra in January 2008.
Best Wishes.
Quote from: "Helen Bachaus"Quote from: "Lowtardog"Got the Alamo through today for LOTOW a bargain at £9 :D
Karl, please don't get me started on the Alamo as I've a number of books on that subject too 8)
My friend has scratch built the entire Alamo and I'll try and get a pick of the whole structure when he gets back from holidays as I'm looking at a large piece of the Alamo now as I type.
I'm fielding a 1836 Mexican Army for the WRG competition at Cancon here in Canberra in January 2008.
Best Wishes.
I look forward to seeing the pictures of that Helen
Regards
Karl
And more - although not recently received. Guess I should publicise the old island :)
British Military Architecture in Malta, by Stephen C. Spiteri. Big thick hardback with hundreds of diagrams, prints and photos, ranging across the span of British rule in Malta right up to the end. The section on the massive artillery installed in the forts is a must - a 100tonner survives to this day and is occasionally fired. http://www.wirtartna.org/od_menu/FortRinella/tabid/257/Default.aspx
Expensive, but a good buy for the Vicotrian military buffs.
The second book is by the same author, and is The Great Siege, chock full of colours and disappointingly including a slew of typographical errors, and no index (although a CD with index is included with the purchase). Nonetheless, it is chock full of diagrams and reconstructions of the fortifications and actions and has some uniform pics too, and is still worth the hefty price. Oh, the siege would be the 1565 siege of Malta by the Ottoman Turks, Malta being defended by the Knight Hospitallers of St. John and their troops with the Maltese.
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that ookshop in Valletta
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that ookshop in Valletta
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.......that is, of course "Bookshop". Unless of course it is run by an orang-utan called The Librarian :lol:
Damn these sausage-fingers & 500 megabite brain :(
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They're a bit expensive, topping the Lm40 mark = 92Euros each, if I remember correctly. And they're big, thick books, so shopping will - in Librarianspeak - be eeek.
If you're determined, and make no headway on orders, contact me.
Quote from: "Lowtardog"Quote from: "Helen Bachaus"Quote from: "Lowtardog"Got the Alamo through today for LOTOW a bargain at £9 :D
Karl, please don't get me started on the Alamo as I've a number of books on that subject too 8)
My friend has scratch built the entire Alamo and I'll try and get a pick of the whole structure when he gets back from holidays as I'm looking at a large piece of the Alamo now as I type.
I'm fielding a 1836 Mexican Army for the WRG competition at Cancon here in Canberra in January 2008.
Best Wishes.
I look forward to seeing the pictures of that Helen
Regards
Karl
Tell me more Helen. I am a huge Alamo fan. I have a library of books and a sizeable collection of figures and an Ian Weekley Alamo complex he made for me in 1987 :)
Star Dreck
Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"Star Dreck
It's crap. Rattrap Productions is a one-trick pony, staffed by hacks and drunks.
Oh hey, Rich and Marc. Didn't see you there. :D
Pete , I can't remember ever writing the words "Star Dreck".... :roll:
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Did you have to order it from the states, Proff? or could you get it at some European online book store?
Than I was lucky Plynkes. I received it two days after I ordered it. Maybe it was so fast because I preordered it nearly a year ago ?
Bjorn
Bummer. I have Blue's Story on pre-order and it still hasn't come. Amazon said it was delayed.
Liars! They're reading my copy! :x
This part of the saga was one of my favourite segments, as it was all about Verdun.
Just checked my emails, Phil: Me too!
My brother and young Siklee will be pleased, and all. It's family tradition that each year I always buy them their own copy of each new Charley's War reprint when it comes out. It was a big part of my brother's and my childhood reading (hell, it was my brother's only childhood reading), so it is great to relive it with the next generation in snazzy hardback form.
Are you working on a new project ? :wink:
It didn't really annoy me.
I don't have part two of the Trench Warfare set yet, as it happens, so you're beating me there.
Believe it or not, I;d never read Conan Doyle's The Lost World... well, I'm putting that right with a copy I bought yesterday.
"Moscow: 1812" by Adam Zamoyski.
This one took a bit of tracking down. Had to get this (British published) book via New Jersey. Why does everything seem to come from New Jersey?
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Lovely colour plates. Almost every one had me saying "Ooh, he'd be nice to have in 28mm!" including a camel-mounted Tuareg (in case the Unfeasibly chap is reading this), Sanussi tribesman, Egyptians, Yemenis, Ottoman irregulars (and regulars), Sharifian regulars and Lord knows who else.
Simply put, someone turn this book into a range of figures, please.
Camel-mounted Tuareg will be ready towars the end of Jan 08.
Regards
Mark
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Having been a lead adventurer for the past few years, it's an absolute age since I did any roleplaying. But I reckon it's time to get back into that, I'll just have to make sure I don't let it scupper all my wargaming plans.
Has a ship combat system designed to use the little ships that come with the collectible game
I finally got this one today.
...
Rumanian Vampire troops on the eastern front... I must start reading now. :love:
Well, I listened to 'Brothers in War' today. They certainly got about, those boys: Suvla, Loos, The Somme, Bullecourt, Cambrai, Salonika, East Africa and more.
Some interesting stuff in there. For instance, I had no idea a Lewis gun team could have at least six men. I bet precious-few wargamers field that many. And the famed admiration for Lettow-Vorbeck by his opponents that historians tell us of obviously didn't filter down to the privates. He is spoken of in letters with spitting hatred, and they vow never to take prisoners thanks to the depredations of the Schutztruppen. Blimey. I liked the one brother complaining of their thanksgiving service in France at the time of the Armistice that it "wasn't a proper Anglican service, for fear of upsetting those heretics that were present!" Complaints of Political Correctness Gone Mad! in 1918!
One minor annoyance. This is another retelling that (if you didn't know better) would have you coming away thinking there were only Australians at Gallipoli. I don't know why I let that get to me, but it does. I suppose it is the local connection. There are boys from my neighbourhood who still lie out there in Turkey, too.
I'm left with a lasting image of an old man sleeping out on his veranda in Western Australia, still writing touching letters about his five lost brothers to his little sister back in Blighty. Having spent half a century in and out of hospital, his body wrecked by a Turkish sniper's bullet, and his heart broken by 52 ANZAC Days, he finally packs it in.
Heart-breakingly moving. Highly recommended.
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Not pulp either but a book i found while looking for a "cheap" Afghanistan Bear trap after reading lowtardogs post a few days ago
Afghan Guerilla warfare.
First glances tells me it's packed with scenario ideas etc..
http://www.amazon.com/Afghan-Guerilla-Warfare-Jalali/dp/190257947X
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It looks a good read, is it similar to the Other side of the mountain. I just got the Bear went over and am awaiting the other side. Amazon had a buy both deal for £46 which was the best price I have seen for new books.
The Bear has 42 vignettes in it each would be ideal as a scenario, this sounds very similar :mrgreen:
You and I need our own Moderns thread :mrgreen: :D
Quote from: "Lowtardog"
It looks a good read, is it similar to the Other side of the mountain. I just got the Bear went over and am awaiting the other side. Amazon had a buy both deal for £46 which was the best price I have seen for new books.
The Bear has 42 vignettes in it each would be ideal as a scenario, this sounds very similar :mrgreen:
You and I need our own Moderns thread :mrgreen: :D
yeah :lol:
It says in Afghan guerilla warfare that it's a companion piece for "Bear over mountain" and tht you should really read both, or all three they may have mentioned the other side too :)
Man! That makes me wish I'd paid more attention in my French lessons. :cry:
I love the artwork, it reminds me a little of Kev Walker's. Very cool.
Quote from: "JollyBob"Man! That makes me wish I'd paid more attention in my French lessons. :cry:
I love the artwork, it reminds me a little of Kev Walker's. Very cool.
Comics are the main reason for learning french. Sadly, I've long forgotten my lessons, too.
I am going to have to check out Le Scorpion. Is it distributed in the US? Probably not. :(
Ooops. Swaztika alert again.
I am very curious about that BPRD 1946 and I'd like to hear what you think of it.
Just picked up a small press printing of House On The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. In the process of reading it to the wife right now. (Hows that for a romantic Valintines day?) Really interesting freudian type stuff under the surface of an ultra-strange story. If mountains full of evil beast gods and lots of marauding pig-men is to your liking I recomend you find this lost tome. One of Lovecrafts biggest influences...and it shows.
Just picked up a small press printing of House On The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. In the process of reading it to the wife right now. (Hows that for a romantic Valintines day?) Really interesting freudian type stuff under the surface of an ultra-strange story. If mountains full of evil beast gods and lots of marauding pig-men is to your liking I recomend you find this lost tome. One of Lovecrafts biggest influences...and it shows.
And... some other less pulpy stuff:
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Ooops. Swaztika alert again.
I am very curious about that BPRD 1946 and I'd like to hear what you think of it.
I'm not sure that the Invisibles is easier to understand...but, I'm not finished the book yet. Let me know what's up with Barbolith will ya? Love the Invisibles to death but I still have no idea what happened... :?:
Nothing with gaming at all.
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What are they to do with? :?:
Murakami's stories have a much more subtle, ephemeral quality to them. It's like comparing being hit with a sledgehammer to being tickled with a feather, or caressed with silk. .
Four chapters in and this looks very good. Whitechapel has been sealed off from the rest of London and is governed over by two Machine gods and their servitors.
Who knew that amid the bearded lady, the wolf boy and the human fly at Barnum and Bailey's circus, there was also a secret agent? After P.T. Barnum saves President Grover Cleveland's life, he becomes the president's newest agent to help thwart an attempt to destroy the Union. Aided by Span the human fly, diminutive powerhouse Colonel Dyna-Mite, Hypnosia the mesmerist, Plastino the rubber man, Primeva the animal mistress and Siamese twins Chang and Eng, Barnum hopes to defeat the evil Nikola Tesla. The traveling sideshow may be America's last hope. Barnum's set-up is the perfect guise to gather information from across the United States and keep tabs on Tesla and his diabolical plans. Circus folk are often depicted as criminals and other undesirables, but in this tale writers Chaykin and Tischman delightfully turn the tables and put the freaks on the same side as the law where they can use their skills of deception and illusion to gain information against Tesla. Also fitting are the illustrations, akin to old Civil War posters or hand-drawn pictures. Henrichon fills each page with a classic art style that is a nod to history. Whereas Chaykin and Tischman have an ear for 19th-century dialogue, Henrichon has a hand in believable renderings of not just the characters, but their dress and environment. This handsome edition will delight enthusiasts of the circus, comics or American history.
(...) Barnum hopes to defeat the evil Nikola Tesla.
Wasn't he Serbian? If so that would explain it all.
Serbs get the blame for everything, including the Great War, and so by extension the Nazis, and World War Two as well. Now they really need some better PR folks.
Just look at him:
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If that picture doesn't say Crna Ruka to you then I don't know what does. He looks ready to pop off any passing Habsburg Archduke without giving it a second thought. I bet he's got a round black fizzing bomb with the word "Bomb" painted on it behind that chair. And you half-imagine he's about to say,
"I've been expecting you, Mr. Bond."
:)
Quote from: "Chairface"(...) Barnum hopes to defeat the evil Nikola Tesla.
What´s all this Tesla-bashing! You never see Edison as the evil genius
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Good things come out of Serbia, too...
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Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"Quote from: "Chairface"(...) Barnum hopes to defeat the evil Nikola Tesla.
What´s all this Tesla-bashing! You never see Edison as the evil genius
Watch "The Prestige", then. Edison never appears in it, but his croonies look evil enough, harassing David Bowie's Tesla, who in turn comes across as the misunderstood genius.
I don't believe it is a remake. And I can't see where anybody here said that it was except you. :?:
I'll admit, when watching the movie I didn't connect the dots either, until the credits started rolling. I kept thinking the actor was someone familiar though, and someone I wasn't used to seeing on the big screen at that. If the name hadn't been in the credits I'd have never guessed "David Bowie" in a million years.
twrchtrwyth: It's a long shot, but maybe you confused The Prestige with The Illusionist? Both came along at the same time and had similar themes of performing wizards in the late 19th or early 20th century. Storylines were different enough, though (and of course, Tesla was only in one of them).
You can't get wrong with Brautigan ; my favourite being So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
I am waiting for a copy of this which a friend in the book trade is getting me.
Flashman meets John Carter?
Colonial Intelligence eyes only
(and that nice chap at the golf club, obviously)
Name: Isembard Smith.
Rank: Captain
Heritage: British
Rumour has it that Smith was marked for greatness at the age of nine, when he consumed a third of his body weight in tiffin - at that time a galactic record. There is a further rumour that the primary source of the original rumour is largely Smith himself.
Since then, he has pursued a career as the British Space Empire's greatest adventurer, but has yet to catch up with it.
He dislikes tyranny, alien invaders and French cuisine. In his free time he builds Airfix kits, drinks tea by the pint and tries to summon the courage to talk to Rhianna Mitchell.
Good news! I will have a manuscript copy of Space Captain Smith shortly, areview will follow :)
I love Murakami. I red an Interview in which he was talking about his passion..he ran 100 km and he ran the historical track from Marathon to Athens..I think he really knows what he´s talking about.
Quote from: "Lt. Hazel"I love Murakami. I red an Interview in which he was talking about his passion..he ran 100 km and he ran the historical track from Marathon to Athens..I think he really knows what he´s talking about.
yes, he does, he ran 26 marathons until today, every day he runs a minimum of 10 km and he is 58...a tough one, really.
Really glad to hear some of us knows and likes Murakami's work. Actually I have lots of his books as audio book but that's not enough for some reason, I'm going to get them all as books.
You're a collector. It gets in the blood.
Quote from: "Argonor"You're a collector. It gets in the blood.
Said Mrs.Witchheimer, too. Looking forward for the next little chat with her about my Murakami crusade. Something like this:
- Darling, what's that?
- Err..Nothing special, just another Murakami book.
- Darling!
- I'm here, sunshine!
- Darling, please stop it.
- Uh-huh.
- Darling, please dont buy Murakami books any more and everything will be all right.
- Err...yeah...I can see your point.
- Darling, I dont want any trouble and you dont want any trouble.
- Sure, you're just the best.
- Darling, do you promise to not buy Murakami any more?
- ....errr...I've just remembered that I've forgotten to switch something off in the cellar.
- Darling!
- Sorry, honey!
running away...
Luckily, my wife is a book-collector herself... she doesn't quite get the gaming-thing, though....
Have I mentioned, that I work at a book-binding/distributing company? (I work as a systems consultant/supporter, but I still get the discounts, and the free-bees twice a year, when we clear out the inventory...)
Gah. I got "Gentlemen of the Road" for Christmas and haven't read it yet! :oops:
Pete, the Sluggard. Takes after Plynkes.
I like Chabon, too. Chabon writes the kind of novels I wish I were writing. Also the cover of the German version beats the US cover by a country mile.
There isn't any German version, this book has not been translated to German, it's US one I've ordered and showed, just another edition.
Chabon is a milestone for me, after reading his books, especially "The mysteries of Pittsburgh" I've started reading much more of American modern literature.
I recently picked up the first two Inspector Montalbano books (The Shape of Water and the Terra-Cotta Dog) by Andrea Camilleri and I'm firmly hooked. Camilleri is sort of a cross between Sciascia and Chandler. Montalbano is an honest cop, but one who can bend the rules when necessary. No gratuitous sex, but there is some "salty" language. A nice bonus for me is that Montalbano is a bit of a foodie, so I get to read about and fondly remember some great Sicilian cuisine.
I have Urban's Fusilier on the way, but I'm not sure I'm ready to leave sunny Sicily for the battlefields of the AWI yet...
He hasn't eaten any arancini yet. Just thinking about them makes my mouth water though. He lives in a fictional town on the southwest coast, so he eats a lot of seafood. Sadly I live too far inland to enjoy fresh octopus year round.
My wife's family are all from Italy and many of the men were chefs, but they are all from the north (Lucca / Montecattini). They are all great cooks (my mother-in-laws bracciole is good enough to kill for!) , but they don't do much with seafood or eggplant (melanzane?) and when we were in Sicily my wife had never heard of most of the food on offer. It didn't stop me from eating anything put in front of me though!
Chabon is kind of unique in the American literature scene. He's writing sort of highbrow pulp. I can't really get fired up about much of the blockbuster stuff of late, mostly because it either seems to be fraudulent "biographies" about people living horrified and depraved childhoods, cookie-cutter women's mysteries, or Chuck Pahuliak's testosterone-scented shock schlock.
Did you read "The Final Solution"? Set in 1944 and around an 89-year-old detective (he's actually the famous Sherlock Holmes).. Really great fun! The only CHabon-disappointment for me was his Sommerland, a sort of Baseball-Fairytale. Sorry to all our American friends, but baseball isnt' my cup of tea at all, generelly i don't like any sort of sport-based novels.
I'm not in the American literary blockbuster scene and have no idea what's going on there but you guys have lots of phantastic writers there like Paul Auster, Jonathan Frantzen, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides (though he lives in Berlin, me thinks?) and lots more; apart from that you have all that Creative Writing schools, I wonder why you all don't write books :)
Hmmm, gaming the franco-prussian war, possibly with a VSF slant, is getting more and more attractive... :p
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"Hmmm, gaming the franco-prussian war, possibly with a VSF slant, is getting more and more attractive... :P
Welcome to the club of VSF Britain invaded 1881 by those dastardly Prussians. :wink: :lol:
So is Westfalen part of Prussia then, Chris? I'm confused.
from Pomerania...
Your next course of action is to purchase a monocle and grow an immense handlebar mustache. I will gladly send you mustache wax if it will further these causes.
And we should start calling you Baron von Steimal.
Yes, and please from now on only communicate using the Gert Fröbe comedy Prussian voice, as it is most amusing to consider a German putting on a fake German accent.
For maximum effect, lay it on thick when answering Triumph and Tragedy questions from Newbies to the forum.
Oh, and Hammershield, of course you´re right, but that´s loooong gone...
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
Oh, and Hammershield, of course you´re right, but that´s loooong gone...
To you maybe... :twisted: ;-)
Quote from: "hammershield"Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
Oh, and Hammershield, of course you´re right, but that´s loooong gone...
To you maybe... :twisted: ;-)
Following that logic, I have to claim Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge. And Norway. And England.... I could rant on.... :lol:
Quote from: "Argonor"Quote from: "hammershield"Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
Oh, and Hammershield, of course you´re right, but that´s loooong gone...
To you maybe... :twisted: ;-)
Following that logic, I have to claim Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge. And Norway. And England.... I could rant on.... :lol:
You can have Skåne.
Quote from: "Argonor"Quote from: "hammershield"Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
Oh, and Hammershield, of course you´re right, but that´s loooong gone...
To you maybe... :twisted: ;-)
Following that logic, I have to claim Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge. And Norway. And England.... I could rant on.... :lol:
You can have Skåne.
Are they the Foundry ones Prof.?
Shogun
I recieved it a while ago but i just began to read it last week. The first three quarters had been quite good, im looking forward to read the last quarter
As for me, I picked up C.S.Foresters African Queen Sunday, and have been reading it every spare moment!
You won't regret the Hopkirk. One of the best historians I have ever read.
Of course he will cause you to attempt to bankrupt yourself on Copplestone, Pulp, et al. Come to think of it, you may regret it after all! :lol:
I just finished the first installment of John Biggin's Prohaska cycle.
Pretty Pictures from GW
Pretty Pictures from GW
You know, those GW guys can put on a nice lookin' book.
Totally "by accident", but what a fortunate twist of fate: I passed by my local "Medium", which is an "Artbook Outlet Store", if you catch my drift - they sell remaining stock, hard-to-get and obscure books, and right there, I found this gem of pulpish weirdness, which I think has featured here before, but what the hell
I been to San Antonio, son, and let me tell you, there ain't no Love-Happy girls there worth a feller's fuss.
I been to San Antonio, son, and let me tell you, there ain't no Love-Happy girls there worth a feller's fuss.
Those are some pretty lurid covers, Chris. I'm jealous. 8)
Nice one Prof 8)
I suppose at some point I'd like to look at this book too.
Nice one Prof 8)
I suppose at some point I'd like to look at this book too.
It's worth it, Helen, it's a new publication, first released some weeks ago, very thorough, yesterday started reading of it and I really like the writing style.
I rediscovered a book I was given at the tender age of 12 and had no appreciation of it at that time. MORENGA by Uwe Timm. It's about the Herero and Nama rebellion in the German south west African colony. Apart from the fact that there are a couple of nice ideas for Triumph and Tragedy in there I also found the description of a German Lieutenant with the archetypical "Graf von" in his name. He is described as a drunkard and morphine user.
That alone wouldn't be any funny if it weren't for the fact that just two years ago I taught two students in my English class with the very same name... I haven't really had teh heart to tell them of their ancestor's reputation... Poor kids. :D
got "Sand, nothing but sand" by Hugo Pratt for 1 EUR :D no Weird War at all, just a short and nice story about some australian soldiers (beer lovers) in the Africa in 1941. Maybe not the level of a Corto Maltese book, though amusing and entertaining(...)
Picked this up, a slightly tatty ex-library copy:The only slightly unsatisfactory aspect is the weird editorial choice about who to include and who to leave out. We have no British Empire forces except ones actually from the UK. So no Canadians, ANZACs, South Africans or Indians. No Turks either. Yet there is room for five pages of US troops, Portugal gets a page, and we also have two pages for Poland (a country which, I was led to believe, didn't actually exist at this time). The subtitle on an inner page is "European and United States Armies and Aviation Services." If you can include the USA, why not Canada? Perhaps the line had to be drawn somewhere, but this seems to me an odd and arbitrary choice.
Still, it is a lovely book to have, despite this perplexing detail, and I am very pleased with it.
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean.
The 'Die-Hards' in Siberia: With the Middlesex Regiment Against the Bolsheviks 1918-19
My copy of Boris Mollo's The Indian Army was waiting for me when I got home from work yesterday. Unfortunately a one-year-old with a fever was also waiting and 20 minutes after I walked in the door the power went out! >:( Needless to say I only got the briefest of looks at it, but it appeared to be well worth the $10 USD. Not only was it heavily illustrated, but the text looked to be very informative.
Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Could you tell us what disaster the books about? The winter battle in the carpathians mountains?
Anybody here no if there are many more in French?
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loved this to bits and cannot wait for part two now.
Also got the latest Jason Goodwin novel about Yashim the eunoch detective in Ottoman Turkey...
Where'd you find them Helen?
There is no prospect of Mr Biggins (can't find his biography anywhere) writing any more books? I was hoping to see something about Prohaskas actions in the interwar and WWII periods.
£5 post free on eBay.
From here, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300249515431&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:VRI
Got a copy of this today:
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More pictures here (scroll down):
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I am amazed that the colours haven't faded although the pictures are 72 years old now.
---and a book qabout military aircraft.
---and a book qabout military aircraft.
Got that very same book 20 years ago. It is a treasure.
Battlefield Evolution Modern Combat..first read and it looks pretty good, think I can pull together lists for historical games from the site ColStone linked me :D
This should be in "Latest Box Received" I suppose, but we ain't got one of those.
Role-playing seems to be resurfacing after a long sleep in our gaming circle (though we haven't actually done any yet). First that pirate thing and now, after a discussion about it on another forum I was inspired to pick up the Dark Continent RPG.
(http://www.leisuregames.com/acatalog/dark_continent_rpg.jpg)
Biggest pic I could find on the net at short notice.
Lately, I have been enjoying reading Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin series. I started by accident when I picked up a copy of The Turkish Gambit in the English language bookstore in Lima (of all places!). The Turkish Gambit in particular will be of interest to LAF members, as it is a spy story that takes place in 1877 in the middle of the Russo-Turkish War (especially as the action starts with heroic Russian cavalry rescuing our heroes from dastardly bashi-bazouks!).
Other books in the series have an almost VS quality to them as Randorin is riding the edge of new technologies. All loads o' fun.
I've read on the interweb thingie that Fandorin even has a series of movies, and that they break all sorts of box office records in Russia. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much chance of seeing any of them here!
I've also been dabbling a bit with el Capitan Alatriste, but again not much chance of seeing his movie here either!
Edit: those books seem interesting. The Prohaska series left a big gaping hole after themselves in my to-read shelf and I am at a lost what to fill it with.
Lately, I have been enjoying reading Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin series. I started by accident when I picked up a copy of The Turkish Gambit in the English language bookstore in Lima (of all places!).
Edit: those books seem interesting. The Prohaska series left a big gaping hole after themselves in my to-read shelf and I am at a lost what to fill it with.
Having enjoyed Prohaska quite a bit myself, this book is now piquing my curiosity:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0977997707/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance
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The only reason I haven't yet ordered it is it's going for list price at Amazon -- LIST PRICE?!
I've recently finished reading "The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Great-1871-1914-Still-Come/dp/0815603584/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223462166&sr=8-2
It's a collection of 16 'future war' stories, written during and just after the victorian era. "The battle of Dorking" is the first story, with others such as "The stricken nation" (British invasion of America) and "The taking of Dover" (French Invasion of the UK). Steam tanks, airships and submarines all feature, with many period drawings etc. If you're into Victorian Science Fiction, I advice you get a copy of this!
I am highly sceptical to C.S. Lewis and his sneaky apologetics. >:D
I have got the entire damned Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series boxed set.
No, I never got past Ionia, and I'm looking forward to going on. In fact, I like them so much that as soon as I got the books, I went back and re-read the stories just so's they'd all be fresh in the mind. I know that at one point I'll pick up the unfinished volume and after that there will be no new stories, but I can accept that in a sort of bittersweet way.
I have to admit disappointment that Aubrey and Maturin didn't turn up in the Chesapeake and wasted the American War in Boston. It seemed to me precisely the kind of campaign that Captain Aubrey was well suited for.
I really can't say enough good things about these books. They're rich, fantastically rich, with characters and stories and allusions galore.
You ain't a foreigner, Hammers. We are the international brotherhood of the LAF, and countrymen all!
Well, I will sail in here and rake Poly from hawse to stern-post. I have got the entire damned Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series boxed set.
...Hate throwing out books though...
Geezers! "Shut It!" arrived this morning. :)Try a Spangle. lol
Now I just can't shift a craving for a bacon sarnie.
Geezers! "Shut It!" arrived this morning. :)Try a Spangle. lol
Now I just can't shift a craving for a bacon sarnie.
Glad to see another Geezer joining the firm. 8)
Glad to see another Geezer joining the firm. 8)
Go on my Son :D
Yes, "Graphic Novel" is not the best phrase we have. But what I meant was they are now available in hard-bound book format, whereas they were originally published in a weekly comic.Well. you can't even use the expression 'trade paperback' when it isn't. A paperback, I mean...
Yes, "Graphic Novel" is not the best phrase we have. But what I meant was they are now available in hard-bound book format, whereas they were originally published in a weekly comic.
I got "The Leader" by Guy Walters Saturday. Kind of what-if based around Edward's abdication (or, in this case non-abdication), and Moseley's rise to power. Gripping reading so far...
How do you know? It's a partial. :)
Nah, you are right. I'll get rid of it.
How do you know? It's a partial. :)
Nah, you are right. I'll get rid of it.
I think that cover was banner earlier from another thread, so I just thought I'd mention it :)
Eragon. I decided to buy it, because I had nothing left to read, but it´s great :).
The 1938, a very british civil war sourcebook.. ooh it's good :)
My wife gave me "Seven Men of Gascony" and "Girty" for Valentine's Day! I've been wanting to read both for a while. Hopefully they don't launch me onto any new projects.
I believe the English word is doublet. Like what they wear in Shakespeare plays.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jub%C3%B3n
I'm reading a Captain Alatriste book: The Cavallier with the Yellow... something (El caballero del jubón amarillo).
Got it from work, should have been thrown out....
I've finished my Captain Alatriste book.
Now I'm reading La Cena Secreta (The Secret Supper) by Javier Sierra
It's about a Dominican Monk investigating the occult in renaissance Italy.
EDIT:
BTW, a freebie from work, too ;)
I've finished my Captain Alatriste book.
Now I'm reading La Cena Secreta (The Secret Supper) by Javier Sierra
It's about a Dominican Monk investigating the occult in renaissance Italy.
EDIT:
BTW, a freebie from work, too ;)
Freebie, eh? Fess up, you nicked it! ;)
For folks interested in the French Army of 1914 this book is for you. May I say that this is a very detailed book an hopefully this year we will see the other volume covering 1915-1918. For me painting early war French this is an excellent resource.Is this part of a series? Where did you get it from?
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For folks interested in the French Army of 1914 this book is for you. May I say that this is a very detailed book an hopefully this year we will see the other volume covering 1915-1918. For me painting early war French this is an excellent resource.Is this part of a series? Where did you get it from?
Thank you. :)For folks interested in the French Army of 1914 this book is for you. May I say that this is a very detailed book an hopefully this year we will see the other volume covering 1915-1918. For me painting early war French this is an excellent resource.Is this part of a series? Where did you get it from?
Hi!
It's part of a series on uniforms and the first on WW1. I bought if from here:
http://livres.histoireetcollections.com/en/publication-2227-french-army-1914-august-december.html
give us a game report ;D
I finally finished The Battle For Spain, by Antony Beevor. I'm probably the last person on the LAF to have read it.
Count me in the haven'ts to. ;)I finally finished The Battle For Spain, by Antony Beevor. I'm probably the last person on the LAF to have read it.
Nope, I haven't ;)
Love to hear what you think of that, I have coveted that one for years!! :P
Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side... ;)
I saw this book in the store
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I saw this book in the store
?? I thought this wasn't out until June?
The Foundry Compendium:I got that too a nice eye candy fest
(http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/books/foundrycomp/9781901543162.jpg)
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/books/foundrycomp.asp
I know I shouldn't encourage them, but ooohh, its so shiney... :-*
I saw this book in the store
?? I thought this wasn't out until June?
I bought it at Borders bookstore. I thought it was odd when I posted the Amazon link and it showed as not having been released yet.
I finally finished The Battle For Spain, by Antony Beevor. I'm probably the last person on the LAF to have read it. It's been a while since I've attacked a nonfiction book, and while it was fascinating reading, it was also slow.
ABOUT TWELVE: The voordalak are a creature of legend, tales of which have terrified Russian children for generations. But for Captain Aleksei Ivanonvich Danilov—a child of more enlightened times—it is a legend that has long been forgotten. Besides, in the autumn of 1812, he faces a more tangible enemy—the Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte.
City after city has fallen to the advancing French, and now it seems that only a miracle will keep them from Moscow itself. In desperation, Aleksei and his comrades enlist the help of the Oprichniki—a group of twelve mercenaries from the furthest reaches of Christian Europe—who claim that they can turn the tide of the war. It seems an idle boast, but the Russians soon discover that the Oprichniki are indeed quite capable of fulfilling their promise.
Unnerved by the fact that so few can accomplish so much, Aleksei remembers those childhood stories of the voordalak. And as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these twelve strangers, he realizes that they’ve unleashed a nightmare in their midst…
A Napoleonic wars vampire novel:
(http://nextread.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/twelve.jpg)QuoteABOUT TWELVE: The voordalak are a creature of legend, tales of which have terrified Russian children for generations. But for Captain Aleksei Ivanonvich Danilov—a child of more enlightened times—it is a legend that has long been forgotten. Besides, in the autumn of 1812, he faces a more tangible enemy—the Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte.
City after city has fallen to the advancing French, and now it seems that only a miracle will keep them from Moscow itself. In desperation, Aleksei and his comrades enlist the help of the Oprichniki—a group of twelve mercenaries from the furthest reaches of Christian Europe—who claim that they can turn the tide of the war. It seems an idle boast, but the Russians soon discover that the Oprichniki are indeed quite capable of fulfilling their promise.
Unnerved by the fact that so few can accomplish so much, Aleksei remembers those childhood stories of the voordalak. And as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these twelve strangers, he realizes that they’ve unleashed a nightmare in their midst…
Future projects (small in size!)
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In what way?Future projects (small in size!)
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I've heard that one is a bit, biased ::)
should have good pictures tho
Very anti-soviet according to almost all reviews i've read, it's also published mid-war,
here are a few
http://www.amazon.com/Russias-Afghanistan-Men-at-Arms-David-Isby/product-reviews/0850456916/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
but for painting etc, it should be fine
for a better read on the war,
The bear went over the mountain &
the other side of the mountain (afghan guerilla warfare)
No problem Helen,
i skipped it myself, but i have plenty of soviet army pictures in other books:)
Lowtardog showed me this link ages ago
http://www.911investigations.net/document836.html
The bear went over the mountain, free PDF version :)
No problem Helen,
i skipped it myself, but i have plenty of soviet army pictures in other books:)
Lowtardog showed me this link ages ago
http://www.911investigations.net/document836.html
The bear went over the mountain, free PDF version :)
Here you go, lots and lots of pdfs from fort Levenworth where Allen worked I believe though I havent a clue what the reference numbers are ;D hours of fun?
http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/carl/docrepository/
also orders of battle and TOEs
http://orbat.com/site/toe/backlist.html
http://orbat.com/site/history/1946-99/index.html
There are others on Soviets etc I picked up from Allen Curtis god bless him. Will see if I stil have the links when at home.
As Col says the two bears/mountain books are very good I think the second has a different name in a re-edited format (you know the one Col where it has the muj on the front.
Ideal for scenarios etc.
One which is a bit bias too is the Beartrap written by a Pakistani Intel officer, very much we won the war and the Muj helped perspective not bad and different point of view but not one I would buy again if I knew before hand.
So Helen is this a new project?
The re-edited book is called
Afghan guerilla warfare,
basically 400+ pages of scenarios.. :-*
ISBN 0-7603-1322-9
No problem Helen,
i skipped it myself, but i have plenty of soviet army pictures in other books:)
Lowtardog showed me this link ages ago
http://www.911investigations.net/document836.html
The bear went over the mountain, free PDF version :)
There are others on Soviets etc I picked up from Allen Curtis god bless him. Will see if I stil have the links when at home.
As Col says the two bears/mountain books are very good I think the second has a different name in a re-edited format (you know the one Col where it has the muj on the front.
Ideal for scenarios etc.
One which is a bit bias too is the Beartrap written by a Pakistani Intel officer, very much we won the war and the Muj helped perspective not bad and different point of view but not one I would buy again if I knew before hand.
So Helen is this a new project?
Just received Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" and "The Caspak Trilogy" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
(And it is all the fault of the LPL Bonus Round Ten ;) )
"Lost World" will be a re-read. "Caspak" I'm pretty sure I have never read it.
Just received Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" and "The Caspak Trilogy" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
(And it is all the fault of the LPL Bonus Round Ten ;) )
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Tell us more. ???
Does Mignola draw anything at all these days (besides covers)?
Not really.
Picked this up today:
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Listed on Amazon for nearly thirty quid, bought mine from The Works for £2.99. :D
A great big book (784 pages!) full of fascinating stuff about prehistoric cultures around the world, plenty of maps and illustrations, a real treasure trove for intersting terrain ideas too.
"Stora Hästen" by Sven Hedin, first edition 1934.
It is an first hand accord of the warlord wars in Sinkiang (Xinjiang, Chinese/East Turkestan, Uyghuristan, whathaveyoustan...). It his own experiences as a cartographer and explorer he is writing about. It's a BoB aficionado's wet dream, it has it all: Ford trucks, Tungans, Mongols, Turkmeniens, corrupt Chinese governors, White Russian settlers. Sven Hedin was quite a character himself, a romantic and Hitlerite, so his style is quite, um, dashing, chosing my words carefully there.
May I also plug another Swedish author who will be published in English a year from now?
[wiki]Peter Englund[/wiki], the chappie who announces the Nobel Price laureate in Litterature, has written the most touching read on WWI what I read so far. I can't stress this enough, it is profoundly touching, and I can see people like Plybkes and Helen enjoying it very much. What makes it stand out is, and which is a bit of his trade mark, that you get a very convincing sense of how the Great War felt to people. It is written in 212 short chapters in about 550 pages, from the perspective of about 20 very different *and* real people. A 13-year old German girl on the home front, a Brazilian adventurer in Ottoman service, a French public servant, a British VC trench raider, a Belgian ace, a Australian ambulance driver in Saloniki, the list goes on...
All these different vies, all first hand accounts, put together into a coherent interpretation by Peter Englund, in a way in which he has proven himself before. Perhaps some of you are familiar with John Prebble who wrote 'Culloden'. PE was very much inspired by him when he wrote a the book 'Poltava' (about the GNW), also translated to English.
"This Quar's War", by Zombiesmith Games. A beautiful book, with high production values, lovely background concept, etc... a real winner for me! I think the game will play beautifully, but the pictures, stories, and letters from the front alone were worth the purchase. I can only hope my own rule writing will come close to being this evocative.I titally agree the "Osprey" feel to it combined with letters form the front make the book a real corker
-Doc
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New Avengers Vol.3 (soft cover)
I only just bought it from WH Smiths. New I think. It is the first one I have read. I may have go and hunt out the other ones.
I've read about four of them, and like them a lot. As I said, however, that one isn't available here yet. I'd appreciate it if you would check the publication date among the first few pages.Sorry just read this I will ckeck it tonight when I get home.
I've read about four of them, and like them a lot. As I said, however, that one isn't available here yet. I'd appreciate it if you would check the publication date among the first few pages.Remembered to check
The book was first published this year 2009
Or you could get it from Amazon.co.uk if you are in a hurry to read it. They are currently listing it. I've bought books and CDs that were unavailable here from the US Amazon site plenty of times with no bother (and using my UK account too, no messing around there), I'm sure it would work the other way round too.
WOW I am impressed all the same :o
OK - it's a travel guide, but it has lots of juicy Sudanese history in it. That's the Mahdi's Tomb on the cover BTW, I asked for that just for you LAFers!
Not often one gets to blow one's own trumpet, but I just got a copy of my new book wot I wrote:
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OK - it's a travel guide, but it has lots of juicy Sudanese history in it. That's the Mahdi's Tomb on the cover BTW, I asked for that just for you LAFers!
OK - it's a travel guide, but it has lots of juicy Sudanese history in it. That's the Mahdi's Tomb on the cover BTW, I asked for that just for you LAFers!
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Not often one gets to blow one's own trumpet, but I just got a copy of my new book wot I wrote:Wow, now that is pretty impressive. Written many others?
Good grief, your username made me think you were a girl!
Did you squeeze lots of useful photos in? The cover pic certainly is!
Really, how so? I never thought is was even remotely feminine!
I would guess because Oxiana ends in an a. That makes it a feminine word form in Spanish.
Worse than this is the way the author in his complex descriptions of the movements in the campaign constantly refers to place-names that aren't on any of the maps provided, making it almost impossible for form a vision in one's mind of what was going on.
I just received "The North-West Frontier, British India and Afghanistan, a Pictorial Hitory 1839-1947" from a Amazon retailer. Well, he just made it to my personal shitlist. Along came a note:You should be able to get all your money back. The wasn't described as cut up, was it?
" Sorry Peder I late to posting your book",
No problem, I've got plenty to read,
"I was in Pakistan from 3/10 to 17/10..."
Well, I am really happy for you, it is supposed to be nice there esp. the Kashmir region, if you can dodge the bullets...
"I did ask my brother to look after my account but he did not do a good job. "
No shit, the book was in fucking *shreds*...
"I have noticed some photos have been cut out so I am going to give some money back to you"
:-[ [Enclosed were two 20 SEK actual bills (about 4 €), where the hell did he get those?
"I hope this is acceptable to you."
Well, sure, I'll just enjoy my shredded book while your brother wipes his ass with the lacking and while you're enjoying your £20 minus 40 SEK.
Short words
Keep an eye on your Ebay retailers. :-[
You should be able to get all your money back. The wasn't described as cut up, was it?At my unveiled threats of physical violence*) the seller has let me keep the book and he'll refund me the money I paid. Decent of him.
Have you boys and girls purchased every copy of Osprey's 'Russian Civil War: The Red Army v.1: The Red Army Vol 1' just to spite me? I can *not* find a copy out ther which a pasty faced Scandinavian with 3 mouths to feed can purchase within the limits of his hobby budget.
I read about half of "The Forgotten Front" and gave up. In a massive contrast to Byron Farwell's works I found it to be very dull going and not too readable at all. Worse than this is the way the author in his complex descriptions of the movements in the campaign constantly refers to place-names that aren't on any of the maps provided, making it almost impossible for form a vision in one's mind of what was going on. I hate it when books do that!
Have you boys and girls purchased every copy of Osprey's 'Russian Civil War: The Red Army v.1: The Red Army Vol 1' just to spite me? I can *not* find a copy out ther which a pasty faced Scandinavian with 3 mouths to feed can purchase within the limits of his hobby budget.
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A translation, obviously. Don't look at me like that, I'm British. What do you think I am, some kind of language perfesser?
Terry Prachetts Nation (I actually wanted Unseen Academicals for my birthday but dear old Mama saw Nation in Tesco for cheaper...)
Osprey Essential History Indian Mutiny. Cant get the third one anywhere for less than a kings ransom, was it Hammers with a similar complaint?, may resort to a download
Saw this curious graphic novel (that's not quite the right phrase, it isn't a novel) and so picked it up. The only connection with Biggles is his name on the cover, which is a little puzzling. Listed on the credits is one M. Uderzo, I presume he's the same fella as does Asterix.
"A Devil of a Whipping" The Battle of Cowpens and
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Like the look of the Balkan Wars book, please let us know what it is like
Hi Phil, Apart from the 16 pages of beautiful colour illustrations covering all the belligerents the book covers all the countries involved including weapons, tactics and operations in a very condensed book.
For the small cost of the book it stands out as one of the better books availble to painters/collectors and gamers.
I just love the beautiful colour illustrations, but that is jsut me.
I'm looking forward to the WW1 book when it's released.
Helen
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an early chrimbo prezzie :)
Oh the lucky little boy !
Those who don't know should have a lot of fun reading the free on line version :
http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/webcomic/stripIndex.php?currentPlate=1
Oh, I am a sucker for ligne claire but I was totally unaware of this one.
I´d like to advise you to check the online version first before buying the book. I´m an LC fan myself, including modern "epigons", but this one felt a bit too stiff and a bit stilted for my taste, so I probably won't be buying the book
Went Christmas shopping today. Saw this in Waterstones (in the "Computing for Seniors" Section... What kind of dickheads are Waterstones hiring these days? ::))
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If they had made this when I was seventeen I would have been SO fucking there, man.
At the end of the day I gave in and bought it as a little treat for myself (a generous discount sticker on it didn't help matters). Not to play, just to quietly read, smile, and fondly recall the days when young Plynkes would have been SO fucking there, man.
Sounds as though you're still so fucking there, man!
Going back to Christmas shopping, I noticed loads of those temporary Pound shops that spring up around Christmas in all the vacant lots that are empty because of the recession. Mostly full of junk, but there were some good things. I was thinking about getting this for my nephew Reg, the subject matter is just his kind of thing...
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But I think that's more of a present for a girl, isn't it? What do you think? I don't want to piss him off. They also had the Jonas Brothers' book on the Thirty Years War, but he's not really into all that 17th Century stuff.
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Though looking round one fo the cheapo xmas book shops today (while allegedly buying crimbo prezzies) found they had a load of the spearhead series of books in, nearly bought the ones on 7th armoured and the condor legion
Going back to Christmas shopping, I noticed loads of those temporary Pound shops that spring up around Christmas in all the vacant lots that are empty because of the recession. Mostly full of junk, but there were some good things. I was thinking about getting this for my nephew Reg, the subject matter is just his kind of thing...
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But I think that's more of a present for a girl, isn't it? What do you think? I don't want to piss him off. They also had the Jonas Brothers' book on the Thirty Years War, but he's not really into all that 17th Century stuff.
If it had decent reference photos I'd buy it o_oDo you mean decent reference photos of Hannah Montana? ;)
I was given that "Vanished Armies" book too. Nice, ain't it?It is. Although I've just spotted quite a glaring printing error in my copy. Is there anything odd about plates 14 & 15 in yours?
been to the cheapo book store again :D
Have you checked out the charity one at the back of the Lanes yet? They have a stack of those Pan/Ballantyne WWII campaign paperbacks for a couple of quid each (upstairs). Picked up an interesting one about the Flying Tigers at the weekend.
Not sure if this counts as I'm getting them from the library, but I am in the midst of C.J. Sansom's excellent "Matthew Shardlake" books. Shardlake is a hunchback lawyer in Henry VIII's London who manages to get involved in all sorts of intrigue. Not exactly wargamer-y, but you could come up with some good Gloire scenarios!
Mordheim rulebook from ebay.
Excellent!
Bonaparte La Campagne d' Egypte by Jean Tranie and JC Carmigniani.
Helen
Helen,
How do you like it? I keep hearing excellent things about the Tranie et Carmigniani books, but they go for a fortune.
Aaron
Otto Prohaskas,
Speaking of this, will there be nothing forthcoming about the honorable Ritter?
Dunno. But they were written one a year, from 1991 to 1994. That would make one think Mr. Biggins is taking an awfully long break, or that he has told all the stories he has in him on that subject. They feel complete to me, but perhaps I'll be proven wrong. Maybe Ottokar did something interesting between the wars, but didn't he spend time in a Nazi concentration camp? Not sure I want to read that one.
Here we are: According to the internet he's working on a series called The Surgeon's Apprentice, which will be available for download to Kindle, whatever the hell that is.
Kindle is one of these tablets you read electronic texts from. It has ties with Amazon.
Oh yes. Aren't those wonderful inventions. It was about time somebody invented a format for literature that you could carry in your hand. I was getting a bit sick of lugging those great long scrolls of vellum and massive leather-bound folios around with me everywhere.
'Ere, hang on a minute...
Got this yesterday:
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Picked it up from The Works for two quid.
A retelling of the Robin Hood story, trying to make it historically believeable rather than the Hollywood nonsense we are all used to. Only about a third of the way through, but very enjoyable so far, very Bernard Cornwell in style.
Not sure if its shaping up to be the first of a series yet, but from what I've read so far it reminds me of Cornwell's Viking books, so could well be.
I was getting a bit sick of lugging those great long scrolls of vellum and massive leather-bound folios around with me everywhere.
Just picked up 4 WAB books in a charity shop for £5! :DOh go ahead and give it a try...you know you want to...isn't terrible how addictive this hobby is...ahhhh I must by more lead, I must but more lead...
Not a WAB player, but still! ;D
Captain Swing and the Electric Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis
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Victorian Undead
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Got 'Aetheric Mechanics' as an unexpected 'Easter egg' from my lovely girlfriend... I liked it, but it didn't tell me as much about Ruritania as I'd like! lol
Just ordred Edison's Conquest of Mars
That's a great book - discovered it had been written last year!
Dum, dum, dum, dum...
Edison...
Ooh ooh...
he saved everyone of us!! ;D
Hellboy 9: The Wild Hunt.
A good one I think, there's been a couple lately that were a bit meh, but this one seems to be back on track. The bridge scene was excellent. The new artist doesn't seem to do too badly.
*) I still think it is a bit shit Mignola is too lazy to draw any full length stories these days.
Found this for a quid in a local second hand shop:Ooh, that movie was a guilty pleasure before I started visiting here. Let alone once I realized how big a inspiration it could be.
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Lots of full colour plates of fantastic machines and terrain for looking at and planning to build and then not doing it.
"Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress"I agree to all that, it got my girlfriend into DnD. :-*
"Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress"
A wonderful book written by Shelly Mazzanoble that desrcibes her getting into D&D-games at the age of 30 something. A "girl's guide" to rpg, a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor but at the same time really raising the banner for the hobby. the perfect gift for all the girlfriends and wives who never understand or understood what it's all about.
Did Mrs Doomhippie read it ?
good book to me ;D with full-color photos, I think it's a very good book (in French: lol)
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My mother plucked this book (among others) from the jaws of some evil mice, and gave it to me recently.
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It's an album for a kind of trading pictures so beloved in former times. This one deals with the German colonies and dates from 1936. As such it has clear tendencies towards revisionist and fashist politics. Anyway, the pictures are quite nice, and the texts provided are very interesting documents of their time.
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That is so true! I always pay the earth for things which are later released publically!
Usually with models, or I wait for them to mature with age for too long they get re-released!!!!
Flintloque: Reloaded, just for the artwork I have never seen before.
Also need one of the pictures for a sculpting project and it has some interesting conversions in it too that I will be taking into account with my own collection! :)
If you keep ranting about Flintloque, I WILL pull out my two boxed set and paint the minis. Now you're warned!
The new John Connolly - The Whisperers. Spooky.
Oooh, ace, I didn't realise he had a new one out. That's Fatha's birthday sorted out then. :)
Have you read his "kids" books? I really enjoyed them.
To [my name], also known as Hammers, for bringing to life the art of Robert E. Howard in miniature as decided upon by his peers at the Lead Adventure Forum.
Shire discovery books on Timber framed buildings, Medieval buildings, farm buildings, cottages.........
Guess what i'm planning ;)
Shire discovery books on Timber framed buildings, Medieval buildings, farm buildings, cottages.........
Guess what i'm planning ;)
Don Troiani's Civil War.
Lots of fantastic art of the American Civil War. :-*
JB, I just read the top one and 3 of the novels are bloody good, especially the ones drawn by Corben and Mignola. It is really a crying shame that Mignola doesn't draw more adventures himself, the Molok short story is one of his best, IMO.
Witchfinder I found a bit lacking but not a shitty read.
I'm expecting Witchfinder to be of similar quality to the Lobster Johnson miniseries, which while enjoyable didn't really add a lot to the Hellboy universe as a whole.
I'm expecting Witchfinder to be of similar quality to the Lobster Johnson miniseries, which while enjoyable didn't really add a lot to the Hellboy universe as a whole.
wow :o what a beaty! have to check Amazon...
or I am sure one of us over here could pick a copy up for you and post it on.
The postman brought me this this morning
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The nice postman delivered WHFB 8th edition this morning. I am a happy chappie. :)Wait, isn't that supposed to take a few more days to come out. Mind I have it pre-ordered as well, but at maelstrom but I suppose they have to wait like everybody else before they can send it out.
Found a wonderful stack of old magazines in a antique store here in Visby. The pamphlets date back to 1908-1909 and is full of illustrations from that boisterous time in the beginning of the last century. Two examples:
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Captition reads: 'Europeans in India inperil'
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'The Prince of Wales opens the new naval port at Dover'
Cool! I have hundreds of Allers Journal bound into hardbacks. with some historicals content, but you seem to have found a more warlike supplement. Congratulations!
Hammers
So..dickheads then?
I think it is safe to say so, yes. I think it was proven by the Great War, don't you agree?
Found a wonderful stack of old magazines in a antique store here in Visby. The pamphlets date back to 1908-1909 and is full of illustrations from that boisterous time in the beginning of the last century.
lol lol We used to have a family doctor who was so old when he took the Hippocratic oath I am sure it was the author he made it to. We did change when he got his birthday telegram from the Queen.
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Italian Parachutist Units 1937/45 - very nice book and great illustrations.
Regio Esercito: The Italian Royal Army in Mussolini's Wars 1935-43.
Helen
Helen, is the Italian Parachutist one in Italian? I picked that up from Strategie E Tactica in 04, so nice to browse an Italian gaming shop! :P
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Really good read, and I really like the Moon/Ba artwork.
Is escape from Innsmouth super rare :o :o
By the way Mattias, did you get your copy of SA from Uncle Mike directly or did you find a European supplier? :)
"Twelve" By Jasper Kent.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twelve-Jasper-Kent/dp/0553819585/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281772085&sr=1-1
Vampires in the service of the Russian army during the retreat from Moscow....... :D
Only 2 more books to come so I will have my set of the The Sundowners novels
Western fiction novels with a steampunk twist by author James Swallow- wrote some 40k, 2000ad stuff
Set in the Old West of the late 1880s, the novels follow the adventures of gunslinger Gabriel Tyler and Native American shaman Jonathan Fivehawk as they fight the plans of Robur Drache, an insane genius in the thrall of an ancient evil known as The Faceless.
A Warhammer bestiary. Anyone know what edition this is? I'm guessing 3rd as I have all the ones from 4th up to 8th.
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...Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles... etc
I received this one from Amazon today ! ;D
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Congo Mercenary by Mike Hoare (hardback).I’d be interested in it Bezzo.
So my old paperback is surplus if anyone wants it. I have done what I normally do and glued in photos from the web on blank pages so it has many more illustrations than usual. Anyone want it?
I do apologize if this book is too "off-topic". I'm such a sucker when it comes to the roaring twenties.
Classic Cocktails of the Prohibition Era
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A 20's-era cocktail recipe book with beautifully photographed hooch. :-*
Now I can mix some Grand Royal Fizzes and Frisco Sours for the gang and the dames when we play "The Bootleggers".
Next time we have a SLAM I suggest we start at Aalborg Coctail and finish when we get to Zuave Longdrink. :)
HOPKIRK ROCKS!! Ooops, didn't mean to yell...His "Foreign Devils on the Silk Road" is chock full of archaeologists fighting bandists and exploring the Taklamakon desert! Talk about scenario ideas! o_o
Got a copy of 'Zombies: A Hunters Guide' in the mail from Osprey. I know what your thinking, "I've had enough of zombies already!"...well, so had I. And then I read this book. Really well done. Some great art throughout, both new and from various zombie stuff that the zombie-fan will love. Mostly I enjoyed the text, a very well written and well thought out take on zombies throughout history. So, if you like zombies or history or high production quality...or all three. You should get this book. :)
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Beautiful artwork and illustrations, as always, but a bit sub-par in the text - words missing, dodgy grammar and/or spelling, picture captions that don't always reflect what is actually illustrated, etc. Minor issues, to be sure, but distracting nonetheless.
Waiting to see their next release, in Feb.2011 - WWI uniforms!
Got a copy of 'Zombies: A Hunters Guide' in the mail from Osprey. I know what your thinking, "I've had enough of zombies already!"...well, so had I. And then I read this book. Really well done. Some great art throughout, both new and from various zombie stuff that the zombie-fan will love. Mostly I enjoyed the text, a very well written and well thought out take on zombies throughout history. So, if you like zombies or history or high production quality...or all three. You should get this book.
I just got a copy of this, too, although have not had much time to look at it. Found it a little odd that, despite being called 'Military uniforms of the 19th century', it begins with the Crimean War, therefore only covering half of the 100 years...
A bit of light reading:
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My copy is identical except for a zebra rather than leopard skin background. Odd, that. Alongside the few two or three pics you see everywhere are quite a few I've never seen before. Interesting in that apart from in two photos (and one of them is specifically of EAMR 'scouts', not ordinary troopers) they look absolutely like regulars (complete with Wolseleys), rather than the rag-tag, leopard-skin slouch-hatted, informal band of eccentrics they are always described as.
Notice on my earlier post of today how on the photo they have mixed their manufacturers with disastrous results. Those two on the left are clearly 32mm, the others are true 25s. ;)
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron. I've started with this and what a great travel journal through Persia and Afghanistan in the 30s this seems to be.
One of my favourite books ever, certainly my all time favourite travelogue. The ex-girlfriend who bought me my copy as a present many years ago was truly inspired. I can only ever think of the Shah of Persia as Marjoribanks.
Thanks. I did also get socks, but somehow I resisted the urge to post about them. ;)
Also thinking of getting "Metro 2033" by Dimitry Gluckhovsky, anyone read it?
Inspired by LAM's Ratnik Stalker Post Apoc range, I bought and read "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, an excellent book, wiith some interesting ideas, I am waiting for the "Stalker" movie by Andrei Tarkovsky on DVD. Also thinking of getting "Metro 2033" by Dimitry Gluckhovsky, anyone read it?
Neither is directly relevant to any of my current projects, but it all goes in the pot!
I just scored the first six books of the Time-Life series on WW2 for $5 at a library sale.
Treated myself rather than digging out my old paperbacks:
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Lovely tome, leather bound, (though not sure which animal......;)).
The Commander
Actually borrowed all three books by Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire.
After reading the first book I read the next two in record time. It has been along time since I've picked up a fiction book and been so drawn into the plot.
Fantasic author an a real loss that he has passed on.
Helen
Actually borrowed all three books by Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire.
After reading the first book I read the next two in record time. It has been along time since I've picked up a fiction book and been so drawn into the plot.
Fantasic author an a real loss that he has passed on.
Helen
felt that we were being asked to spend too much time admiring the author's wish-fulfilment version of himself.
Ayup, that's how most people I know have read them, including those who shape their mouths around the words as they read. According to rumours there is a draft for a fourth book in on a PC not held by the legit heirs.
Oh, I've just read that too. :) A very good read, although I struggled with the first couple of chapters because Cornwell introduced so many characters in trying to present a balanced view of the action.
Some nice detail about a period I didn't really know anything about.
Unlike Michael Moorcock's new Doctor Who novel (which I just posted a lengthy grumble about on Frothers) that I just returned to the library. A very poor do indeed. Only for completists, I fear. :(
Blimey, he's been bitten hard by the colonial bug! :)
Also had the Indiana Jones Omnibus vol. 1, but I've read that one. Still, if its a slow week, I'll probably end up getting it...
Methinks I have an eye for a bargain.
I paid.......one pound sterling. :D
I think this may turn out to be a good buy.
"Istanbul: City of Seven Hills" 1994. It is a big (big) photographic tour of the city, with text by the wonderfully named Cyril Mango. I have checked this out on the web and the cheapest copy for sale is just under £400. One seller wants £1,200! :o
I paid.......one pound sterling. :D
Methinks I have an eye for a bargain.
I just had a cursory insight in Operation Mincemeat and when I saw this book getting great reviews in on TV I figured I had to get it.
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I started to read this and it is a stonking read which give an insight in the 'corkscrew' minds of the secret service. I recommend it to all KKBB fans. Ian Flemming is on of the people described in the book.
I've read Ewen Montagu's book The Man Who Never Was about this story. You're right about it being fascinating. The movie starring Clifton Webb and Stephen Boyd is quite good, too (although there is some fictionalization, being British 'Hollywood' after all and some factual errors due to lack of information at the time) and is available on DVD.
I'll have to look out for this book now.
Osprey Cobra units in Vietnam.
You mean, like this? ;)
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Quite timely in regards to the fact that SKP Models has released 4 WWII female figures in 1/35, including a young Princess Elizabeth.
It must be said though, that unlike some of the American uniforms, there is no way that British battledress can make a woman look feminine! Let's face it, it's ugly enough on the guys!
...Officer and Solider of the Americal Civil War Volume 1 published by Histoire & Collections...
Good luck on getting Volume 2 (if you're after it). The ACW titles have been out of print for a while. I'm trying to catch up on the 3 or 4 Napoleonic ones I'm missing and at least one is getting scarce or at least a little more difficult to find.
"Steampunk Modeller" from the team at Sci-Fi and Fantasy Modeller (Happy Medium Press). It is full of stunning projects with masses of how to information eg. a Martian Exploration Vehicle which has been made from 2 Airfix 1804 steam engines and the tracks from a Revell Jagdpazer and is glorious.
If I say the back cover of the book is a shot of rivets....
I scored some good finds as Borders Books winds down it's life here in the US. First four books of George R.R. Martins A Song of Fire and Ice series for 50% off, a compilation of David Drake's Hammer's Slammers books for 60% off, and a compilation of Naomi Novik's Majesty Service series for 70% off. That should keep me in reading for a little while.
Sounds interesting...
I picked up a book on HMS Warrior at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich today (if you get the chance, go!) which is pretty much a hundred plus pages of full colour photos. Very pleased!
Borders is out? That's too bad, I really liked those stores...
Having been inspired by the forthcoming 28mm range from Gringo, I am now reading "The hand of Captain Danjou" by Colin Rikard, a brilliant account of the Legion at Camerone, unfortunately no plans or photos of the buildings.
Also just acquired "Maximilians Lieutenant" ~Ernst Pitner and "With Maximilian in Mexico" ~Sara Yorke Stevenson.
For rules I just bought Twofatlardies "Sharp Practice"
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A nice collection of colour schemes for our favourite ratmen with plenty of standards, icons and shield designs to keep one busy for a while. Several very interesting possibilities for conversions or scratchbuilding, too. Anyone for a boss type on a two-wheel cart drawn by a rat ogre?
A nice collection of colour schemes for our favourite ratmen
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Naomi Novik's Temeraire.
I enjoyed it, and will hunt out the sequels, but there is something about the writing that struck me as off, a slightly juvenile quality maybe. There's an over-emphasis on how everyone feels that comes from a female author, and some of the language doesn't strike me as right which is probably down to her being American. Generalisations, certainly, but that's just my opinion. It makes the story jar a bit in places, but not enough to spoil it overall.
Not enough background about the world either. We only get snippets of why there are still dragons and how they have been used and bred for war through the ages - hopefully this will be filled out in later books.
I've heard the series described as "Sharpe with dragons", but I think it would be fairer to call it "historical Anne McCaffrey" instead.
7/10
...I picked up An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Uniforms of WWI...
Neverwinter by R.A.Salvatore
WH Gladiator thanks to their 50% off sale, makes it much better value. Nice eye candy and some ideas for revolts etc.
...including my new side-project ;D
Nottingham Castle? :D
"Bronze Age Warfare" by Richard Osgood, Sarah Monks and Judith Toms. Second hand but excellent condition.And is Sarah the same Sarah as one of the authors?
The most curious thing is the handwritten inscription inside the cover which reads:
"For Auntie Edith, Not exactly bedtime reading but I hope you will enjoy it. With much love, Sarah"
I really wonder who Auntie Edith is (or was) and why she was interested in the subject.
...Donald Featherstone's Battles with Model Soldiers...
"Bronze Age Warfare" by Richard Osgood, Sarah Monks and Judith Toms. Second hand but excellent condition.
The most curious thing is the handwritten inscription inside the cover which reads:
"For Auntie Edith, Not exactly bedtime reading but I hope you will enjoy it. With much love, Sarah"
I really wonder who Auntie Edith is (or was) and why she was interested in the subject.
This one is just a loan from a friend, but I've got my hands on a 1972 edition of Donald Featherstone's Battles with Model Soldiers, and it's a fascinating look at the early modern days of our hobby - Airfix conversions with blobby paintjobs, no dice but the d6, all sorts of things you hardly see anymore - sand tables, that sort of thing.
A beat-up public library copy of this book introduced me to the idea of wargaming when I was ten or so, and re-reading it as an adult has been good fun.
I've started to blog about the book, with some excerpts and tidbits that catch my eye; the first of those posts should be on the Warbard by tomorrow morning my time.
lol lol lol lol lol
I managed to lay a bet at 200-1 that Auntie Edith is a huge red-haired amazon, clad in flattened and stapled baked bean tins wishing to give the tumulus and grave circle she is building in her back garden a more authentic look.
The big question now is "what to do with my winnings?" when I collect.
Officers and Soldiers of the French Chasseurs a Cheval Vol I, 1779-1815 (Ludovic Letrun and Jean-Marie Mongin).
Officers and Soldiers of French Guides and Guards of Commanding Generals and Headquarters 1792-1815 Didier Davin and Andre Jouineau).
Published earlier this week. Lots of obscure uniform niceness. Some further uses for Perry Plastic French Hussars!!!
Merry Christmas, all!
Mark
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A reprinted edition of E.W. Barton-Wright's Bartitsu manual, from my folks for Christmas.
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A very well produced little volume, whose gentleman's club style of writing belies the viciousness of some of the techniques it describes. For example, after detailing how to deal with a knife-armed ruffian by throwing your coat over his head and tripping him, it ends the passage with "you will find your opponent now in a perfect position for you to break his leg", or words to that effect.
This is not for the jolly sportsman.
Thanks for sharing that, Jollybob, ordered it right away.
Facsimile edition of "La Guerre au XXeme Siecle" (1887) from Albert Robida, also known as "le Jules Verne du crayon" a real inspiration for any VSF fan.I've read one of his future war stories and seen a few of his drawings, he is indeed an inspiration and has a great sense of humour (well, for a Frenchman ;))
Recently i learned about a limited facsimile edition in 2009 of 250 prints, in spanish, and i have been lucky enough to get one at a sensible price :-)
If you want more info look here
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2005/12/robidas-future.html
"The Steampunk Bible" ... an excellent Xmas giftie!!
"By the acclaimed author of Life Force. "
Cool, Nudie Space Vampire Girls that turn into Patrick Stewart! That book will be good, then. :)
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Cool, Nudie Space Vampire Girls that turn into Patrick Stewart! That book will be good, then. :)
I've been pondering reading that one Plynkes. I'm almost finished with "Insurgent Mexico" by John Reed.
That Madero fellow was a right old nutcase, wasn't he?
The Napoleonic Art of Keith Rocco:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Napoleonic-War-Art-Keith-Rocco/9781780960852
a bargain!
"Malakand Field Force" (with maps) Winston ChurchillExcellent book and a fun read! The scenario possibilities are endless!!
BTW can anyone recommend a good book about the Jacobite Rebellion?
It ends in a semi-satisfactory way
And Zulu Hart, is it good?
Poiter50
:o They're the worst sort of Romans!
Warhammer Armies, 3rd edition hardback, through ebay from a LAF-member after a pointer from Svennn.Straightforward then. ;)
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Rural Architecture of Old Hong Kong. Purchased blind from Abe but its a real gem with buildings photographed from many angles and also plans and elevations. I dont recall being as delighted as this for ages :) :)
The Zombie Survival Guide 'complete protection from the living dead' by Max Brooks.Have that one. It is a great source. I just picked up 'Armies of the Raj' by Byron Farwell & 'The English Civil War Day By Day' by Wilfrid Emberton.
Have that one. It is a great source. I just picked up 'Armies of the Raj' by Byron Farwell & 'The English Civil War Day By Day' by Wilfrid Emberton.
COMRADE FOX: Low-living in Revolutionary Russia
A blast of a novel so far - very much in the spirit of Flashy but with it's own flavour.
Inspired by Mark Hargreaves (of the "Over Open Sights" blog) and a neglected pile of Woodbine figures I searched out and downloaded about 35 books on the British operations in Palestine, Gallipoli, and Salonika during WW1. I doubt I'll get to all of them, but since they are all out of copyright it didn't cost me a dime. It looks like there are some real gems there!
Author & source, please? :P
Lucy Worsley's book on Lord Newcastle. A good read - not mainly on Newcastle's life day-by-day, but a look at the running of stately homes and all it entails during the C17th.
OSPREY
Imperial Roman Legionary AD 161-284
Romans Enemies 5 the desert Frontier
the Roman Army from Caesar to Trajan
Germanic Warrior AD 236-568
Imperial Roman Naval Forces 31BC-AD 500
Teutoburg Forest AD 9
Mons Graupius AD 83
Avgvstvs to Avrelian: Wargameing the Roman Principate
by Phil Hendry
Fire in the East and King of Kings by Harry Sidebottom
Also got a few books, by Stephen Dando-collins and some books on the set up of Roman towns, cites, roads and forts on the way also. :D
Empire, by Niall FergusonEh, beware that one. While he makes a few interesting points (although I can't say I agree with many of them) the actual history behind it is at times quite lacking. (he obviously, for example, did little or no reading on the Anglo-Egyptian War before quoting his facts and figures)
Eh, beware that one. While he makes a few interesting points (although I can't say I agree with many of them) the actual history behind it is at times quite lacking. (he obviously, for example, did little or no reading on the Anglo-Egyptian War before quoting his facts and figures)
A rather good read on the decline and fall of the British aircraft industry
If found Ferguson's misuse of sources and statistics in The Pity of War to be quite shocking, and that was the one he had supposedly researched thoroughly. I get the impression that he is more interested in publicising himself through making controversial and sweeping claims than he is in history itself.
There was a 2-part BBC4 documentary on the subject a month or so back - I imagine that this was the source.
I snagged an (electronic) copy of "Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep" a few weeks ago, and while it 's aimed at the RPG end of the gaming market, it's got some good stuff in it for those of us who do scenario-based wargaming (ie, most of us on LAF!) and not just "line up Xpts on your table edge and advance!" gaming.
Chapters on brainstorming, prep and such, some pointers on knowing your strengths and weaknesses as a GM (and compensating for same, when needed) and all sorts of good stuff on prepping for good, well run games while still fitting in something resembling a real life. I do a lot of miniature games at conventions, and can see a lot of the stuff in Never Unprepared being useful this winter as I get ready for next spring's convention rounds.
Published by Engine Publishing (http://www.enginepublishing.com/), in paper and various electronic (PDF, mobi & epub) formats.
Warhammer Fantasy Battles 2nd edition box, from the Bazar, in excellent condition ;D 8) :-*
From the kickstarter. I have to say that didn't take long to get everything (including some freebie extras).Have you had a chance to have a read?
The Spanish Ulcer - David Gates
Wellington in the Peninsular - Jac Weller
Any ideas what period I'm looking at now?
This:
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Which is both a fantastic book (because it's filled from cover to cover with wonderful detailed colour plates) and a bit of a dissapointment on account of nearly all of the buildings being from France (and a few from other countries), where I was hoping there'd be some UK ones as well since that's the main reason I got it.
I just got a copy of the 2nd edition Paranoia rule book!
Found in Oxfam bookshop in Reading today – Setting the East Ablaze, The Great Game and On Secret Service East of Constantinople – by Peter Hopkirk. £2.49 each.
Now all I need is the time to read them. :)
Blodwin
Grabbed a book at the book store based only on the cover. Devil Dog, a bio of General Smedley Butler. This is part of something called Pulp Histories - serious history books written in a more pulp style with pulp inspired art. The books a bit biased, but rather a fun read,
Trust flying pigs - they always bring home the bacon ;)
Going to have to look for this one. "Jewish pirates of the Caribbean"
http://www.amazon.de/Jewish-Pirates-Caribbean-Swashbuckling-Freedom/dp/0767919521
Band of Brigands; The Extraordinary Story of the First Men in Tanks by Christy Campbell
Bought some while ago, but only just got around to reading it:If you haven't already considered it I can recommend Melvyn Bragg's recent book on the same topic, jolly good.
"A compelling story from those bizarre times when they would burn Christians at the stake for having read the Bible. Quite inspirational really..."
I agree entirely with the sentiment, especially the ones that come a knocking on the weekend proffering copies of the Watchtower. Alas, that sort of thing has fallen into decline and is on the wrong side of the law these days. :)
2 celtos rule books form Andy HoareI was only aware of a rulebook, what's the other one?
Bit of a charity shop haul this week:
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The Plantagenet Chronicles by Elizabeth Hallam. Charts the development of the dynasty from the Counts of Anjou to Bad King John through contemporary accounts, explanatory essays and some frankly gorgeous full colour illustrations. Massive and lovely.
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The Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer. Very interesting book about everyday life in the 14th Century, not just kings and battles. Well written.
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George MacDonald Fraser's The Steel Bonnets, detailing the Border Reivers in his inimitable style.
All from Oxfam, all for two or thee quid each. :)
try the mortal engines series too then. Finished all 4 books and loved it.
The Scorpion looks faboo, WK, makes me wish I could actually speak French.
The story takes place in Rome during the second half of the eighteenth century. Cardinal Trebaldi decides to reinstate the power of the nine families, based on papacy. Armando Catalano, also known as The Scorpion, is a holy relics dealer. He is the son of a heretic who was burnt alive for misdirecting a priest from the church and Christian beliefs. Armando, the bearer the “mark of the devil”, a birthmark in the shape of a scorpion, will challenge the cardinal’s authority. The cardinal, who seems to be filled with hatred for The Scorpion, sends a young gypsy specialized in poisons to kill him.
The adventures of the Scorpion lead him to the treasure of the Templars and to discover an interpretation of what might have happened to it. Between fiction and history, this comic distills Machiavellian theory on religious authority.
They're being translated in English by Cinebook Ltd. The first 6 are out now. So there's no excuse really. ;)
When I was 11, we went on a family holiday to Brittany, and while shopping one day I got bored and spotted some comics on a rack. Picked up one that looked interesting (beautifully drawn cover) and was exposed to twenty odd full colour painted pages of a couple shagging in a barn.
I've seen The Borgia one too - but that ones down right filthy and way too perverse for me!! :o
So my copy at £3 is a bargain?
Or "Latest Book Finished" - my own.
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I also wrote a review of the jousting rules. It's not positive.
Bugger! I was hoping the foot rules would suit rioting mobs. :(
The price is what put me off the purchase when really I only wanted the second part but needed the first part for the basic rules.
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How is it?
Thanks for the review. Sounds like a lot of fun, and perhaps the smaller minis and price would make it a fun pick up game. I sometimes miss Warhammer (never 40k...) but couldn't possibly do Warhammer again.
I think I would be tempted to game it in smaller scale.
I've sold all my 28s. :)
Used to watch the Japanese TV series of that when I was a little tot. I absolutely loved it, but had no idea what was actually going on. lol
The story, set in the Song dynasty, tells of how a group of 108 outlaws gathers at Mount Liang (or Liangshan Marsh) to form a sizable army before they are eventually granted amnesty by the government and sent on campaigns to resist foreign invaders and suppress rebel forces. It has introduced to readers many of the most well known characters in Chinese literature, such as Wu Song, Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen.
Of the later translations, Chinese-naturalised scholar Sidney Shapiro's Outlaws of the Marsh (1980) is considered to be one of the best. However, as it was published during the Cultural Revolution, this edition received little attention then.[24] It is a translation of a combination of both the 70-chapter and 100-chapter versions. The most recent translation, titled The Marshes Of Mount Liang, by Alex and John Dent-Young, is a five-volume translation of the 120-chapter version. [25]
In Her Majesty's Name: Heroes, Villians and Fiends and Sleeping Dragon, Rising Sun
Wargaming on a budget by Iain Dickie
163 pages for just £10.63 inc P&P
First flick through shows:
- No SciFi or Fantasy :(
- Lots of carpentry :o
- A few interesting ideas
what are the rules like? The concept rocks.
what are the rules like? The concept rocks.
Found this review on TMP:
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=399401
It looks interesting.
Tip and Run:The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa by Edward Paice
I think someone likes Battletech ;).
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