Latest book received

[voltan]

Judge Anderson; the psi files volume 1

Forgot how much more intense these stories seemed when you see mega city 1 with a bit of emotion and humanity.

[archangel1]

Another treasure from the misty reaches of my bookshelves.  Produced for the American Bicentennial, it contains several displays of miniatures by the late, great Peter Gilder.

[Plynkes]

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.

Odd to see this war given this treatment. It happened in front of my eyes on TV as a child, and seems "real" to me in a way no other war has before or since, especially as the paratrooper brother of a friend of mine got shot in the head there. He survived, though, and I thought he was the coolest guy in the world. I can remember looking through the bullet holes in his helmet - in through the front and right out the back - I think he was very, very lucky. I would never have imagined seeing the war in comic book form like this. Silly of me, really.

[Westfalia Chris]

Some books I purchased at Recon today:



Three guide books on "modern" (i.e. 1980; does that make them "retro modern"?) guns, ships and aircraft, one on Railways in War (duh!), one on the Soviet Army in 1975 (partially dubious due to the quality of information available then, but nice piccies), and an Osprey.

[Westfalia Chris]

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.

I think M. Uderzo refers to Albert's (the Asterix artist) older brother Marcel.

[Pupikiza]

Very appeal book for Back of Beyon fans 

"Well traveled in Mongolia, one of the settings in this fine history of a bizarre episode from the Russian civil war, Palmer recounts the story of Baron Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921). A military leader on the White side of the conflict, Ungern-Sternberg was many things: an ethnic German, an imperial Russian army officer, an anti-Semitic psychopath, and, as ruler of Mongolia in early 1921, a god incarnate to some traditional Mongolians. Finding hints of an unhinged, violent personality in the baron’s youth, Palmer recounts its gruesome manifestation in the methods he applied to his area of Siberian operations during the civil war. As the victorious Reds approached in late 1920, Ungern-Sternberg, with several thousand troops, decamped for Mongolia, routed a Chinese force, and proceeded to enact an apocalyptic pogrom. Taking no prisoners and killing Jews out of hand, Ungern-Sternberg was actuated, in addition to innate sadism, by his fascination with Buddhism and the occult; his eccentric beliefs, Palmer suggests, were precursors to Nazism. Soundly researched, Palmer’s biography vividly reflects the pitiless extremism of the Russian civil war. --Gilbert Taylor"

[Helen]

"A Devil of a Whipping" The Battle of Cowpens and

[Phil Robinson]

"A Devil of a Whipping" The Battle of Cowpens and

Like the look of the Balkan Wars book, please let us know what it is like

[Helen]

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

[Phil Robinson]

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

Thanks Helen, I think I will get a copy, I saw a couple of pages of the illustrations (I'm a sucker for good colour plates too) on the website which attracted me to it as well as the subject matter.

Phil

[Overlord]

'The Rules With No Name' in the current Foundry £10 book offer:



I've been using an old printed copy I downloaded from their website a long time ago, with various add-ons from the web and my own tinkerings.  Over the years I have used them for a variety of (mostly) participation games, not always for Wild West (especially for Lost World games).
The offer was too good to refuse and now I am happy to have it collected in one volume. 

[Poiter50]

Osprey Assaye 1803

[voltan]

Huey cobra gunships from osprey, nothing at all to do with future purchases from palduron, no no no 

[Svennn]

an early chrimbo prezzie 

[Aaron]

Birthday loot!




I feel another Aventine order coming on!