Latest book received

[carlos marighela]

El Ejercito Cubana 1959, Batista y la revolucion de Fidel Castro.  Osprey style Spanish title on the Cuban Revolution, complete with colour plates. Great little source book. A Jim Hale recommendation, I picked up a copy in a place selling model soldiers in Buenos Aires this week. Cost me around $10. Happy Camper

[myincubliss]

Advance copy of 'A World Aflame' from Osprey by PDE of Empress fame. It's good, I'll stick a review up on the blog when I get a chance now my laptop's working again...

[edit:] 'review' here: http://deadleadproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/world-aflame.html

[carlos marighela]

Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies. Translated first hand account of the Spanish forces in the Americas in the 16th C.  real treasure trove of information. Best thing was it only cost me $10. 

Happy to secure a couple more if anyone is interested.

[Poiter50]

Osprey's British Aircraft Carriers 1939-45.

[Big Martin]

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.
£1 for a spotless hardback found in a Lions charity shop I discovered when I went up the A38 to Thornbury looking for something completely different (citric acid!). I'll have to go back when I've got more time for a good hunt around their shelves as, at 50p and paperback and £1 a harback, it's better value than a lot of the local charity shops and they've got piles of books.

[white knight]

The Empire of the Dead rules.

[Steve F]

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.

I borrowed it from the Library recently, but gave up when it became clear in the second chapter that the whole book was written in the present tense - an annoying enough affectation in newspaper and television journalism, but quite intolerable at greater length.

[white knight]

The quality and number of full colour plates is amazing. This will proove invaluable for future additions to the renaissance dwarf and goblin ranges.

[twrchtrwyth]

Morbid Adventures for Strange Aeons

[Big Martin]

John Julius Norwich's history of the Popes. Although it wouldn't seem an immediately "wargaming" topic, I'm up to the C11th now when the popes were either backed-up by or fighting against the Normans in Italy/Scicily and there's plenty of action between rival factions (and Popes) to inspire a good bit of gaming.

[white knight]

Third (and last?) volume in the French Black Mary graphic novel series. It's a tale set in the Victorian age, with some supernatural elements. Some lovely artwork, though I was a bit disappointed with the ending as it doesn't really explain exactly what happened.









Some more preview pages here:
http://www.finixcomics.de/black-mary-band-3.html

First one was probably the best and has some gorgeous skeletal pirate action going on.

[carlos marighela]

Presumably it's something to do with whatever the French version is of 'there be trouble at mill'

[carlos marighela]

This.... and it's a cracker.

[obsidian3d]

I bought the rule book for Hell Dorado last week and have been reading the ingenious fluff. Great setting idea and some really fantastic looking figures too.

[JollyBob]

Got the last Hellboy collection over the weekend. Bob is a sad boy now.    To quote Big Red himself:

Boom.

That's all for you.