Osprey Campaign: Poland 1939 - £2 in WH Smiths

[Adam]

Hi everyone. Just thought I'd let you know in case you hadn't seen the advert on the telly. Osprey has started a ww2 collectible book/magazine series. The first one is at an introductory price of £2. When I flicked through it I found out that it is the Campaign series book but with a different, hardback cover. Bloody good deal, if you're interested in that area (which is probably the aspect of ww2 I'm interested in most as my relatives on my Dad's side fought in the Polish forces).

Also, it said that the usual price is £7.99 so if they keep 'repackaging' the Campaign series it'll be a good way to get some of the titles on the cheap (in a sturdier hardback).

[answer_is_42]

I think I might have seen this in my local newsagent. Thanks for the notice, I'll got back and check at some point.

[fastolfrus]

Unusually for a series of books, issue 1 comes with a list of all the other titles in the series (wish more partworks had the courage to do that)

So after issue 1 Poland, issue 2 & 3 (3 should come free with 2) give you Denmark & Norway, plus France (very good price £7.99 for 2 hardback Ospreys).

The rest of the sequence is :

4 Battle of Britain
5 Libya 1940
6 Tobruk.
7 Iraq 1941
8 Crete
9 Moscow
10 Pearl harbour
11 Guam
12 St Nazaire
13 Doolittle Raid on Japan
14 Gazala
15 Sevastopol
16 Midway
17 El Alamein
18 Stalingrad
19 Guadalcanal
20 Dieppe
21 Kasserine
22 Kursk
23 Tarawa
24 Anzio
25 Marshall Islands
26 Cassino
27 Normandy/Omaha
28 Normandy/Utah
29 Normandy/Sword
30 Normandy/Gold & Juno
31 Caen
32 Saipan & Tinian (nearly a typo there as I almost put StTrinians)
33 Bagration 1944
34 Normandy/Cobra
35 Warsaw
36 Falaise
37 Paris
38 Lorraine
39 Siegfried Line
40 Peleliu
41 Arnhem
42 Leyte
43 Ardennes 1
44 Ardennes 2
45 Rhineland 1945
46 Iwo Jima
47 Meiktila
48 Remagen
49 Rhine
50 Okinawa
51 Berlin
52 Hiroshima & Nagasaki

[bobm]

Issue 2 (with 3 free) should be out today.  Hopefully it will get the same widespread distribution as the first.  It's a pity that these things rarely go out "sale or return" as I fancy some but not all of what's to come!

[fastolfrus]

Issue 2 (with 3 free) should be out today.  Hopefully it will get the same widespread distribution as the first.  It's a pity that these things rarely go out "sale or return" as I fancy some but not all of what's to come!

Generally partworks only go out on general release until issue 6, then after that you'd be expected to order. But yes, I'd agree with you fully there are some that are preferable to others.

[Adam]

Thanks for the info on the 2 for the price of one, bobm. Think i'll get that tomorrow.

[former user]

damn, they won't be available in Teutonia

[Kestrel]

Thanks for the heads up, I picked up a couple of sets of the first three issues today and spent my afternoon at work browsing them

[Tacgnol]

The issue list is much appreciated. Think I'll pick up the Iraq 1941 book, it's a campaign I know precious little about.

There is also a part work out right now building an Avro Lancaster in 1/32 scale. No way is anyone going to spend the £1250 (true- work it out!)