Latest book received

[archangel1]

'Deutsche Soldaten' from Casemate.  Superb photos.  Check out their site for some sample pages (about a third of the way down the front page, at the moment).

http://www.casematepublishing.com/cgi/index.pl

[Herr Direktor]

Ah! Just received a copy of Lawrence's "Revolt in the Desert" from The Folio Society!  I believe that I'll be cracking that open this weekend!

[Poiter50]

LOTOW & Alamo supplement
Osprey Revolutionary Wars (2 books)
Osprey Jap Paras of WW2

[Onebigriver]

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.

I'm reading that at the moment, found it last week in an Oxfam bookshop. Only intended to read the build up to the war for my Spanish Innsmouth project, but now I'm nearly halfway through.

[Mancha]

Mostly to use a 15%-off coupon, I just picked up Las Soldaderas, by Elena Poniatowska:



It's got lots of black-and-white pictures of women with crossed bandoleers, as well as images of the men--both federales and revolutionistas, who they accompanied.  Very cool.  I also considered a book about Pancho Villa, by the same publisher, and another on the Mexican Revolution.

[Col.Stone]

Disposable heroes(cf7b) from iron ivan games, hoping that it will inspire me to play some ww2 games

[Plynkes]

Just in the nick of time, from a LPL perspective.  Thanks, Mr. Amazon. You're certainly quicker at this than Mr. Osprey! 

[archangel1]

The followup volume to the superb 'The Spaceship Handbook...



Here's a video synopsis of the contents...

[archangel1]

This one's a real monster! It's 17.25'' X 14.25'' X 1.25'' and weighs 8.2 pounds! Amazing CG artwork, some of which is lifesize! Great colour reference.  One thing, though... I can accept feathers on nestlings or juveniles but, an adult T.Rex with feathers? It just doesn't sit well with me, despite apparent increasing evidence of the fact.  Call me old school but I'll keep mine plain old scaly, thank-you-very-much.

[Aaron]

I got the latest (to me) Montalbano mystery ( Rounding the Mark) and Paddy Griffith's The Art of War of Revolutionary France as anniversary presents from my wife yesterday. The latter will be inspirational reading when I finally dive in to all of the lovely Eureka figures I have been amassing.

[Mr.J]

Just bought a couple of books from one of those Bargain Bookstores that seem to be popping up everywhere in the UK.

I got Rommel's Gold and Where the Eagle Landed

They were only £2 each and I though they would be full of ideas for Pulp games.

[white knight]

A Napoleonic wars vampire novel:

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…

[JollyBob]

Hmmmm, Fiends of the Eastern Front for Sharpe lovers?

That looks like it might be worth picking up. Let's know what you think of it WK? 

[white knight]

Will do. I have another book to finish first, but should be able to start on it sometime next week. 

[Poiter50]

Osprey Warrior British Rifleman 1797 - 1815.