Latest book received

[ushistoryprof]

Just picked up 4 WAB books in a charity shop for £5! 

Not a WAB player, but still! 

Oh 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...

[twrchtrwyth]

Captain Swing and the Electric Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis


Victorian Undead

[Tomsche]

Osprey`s Men at Arms The Italian Army in World War 1 and Men At Arms the Abyssinian Conflict (to further my PULP forces  ), the Battles by GASLIGHT booklet and Planet X from Rattrap

[Red Orc]

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! 

[Spong]

"America's Premier Gunmakers - Remington" by K. D. Kirkland (JG Press).

Picked it up reduced to £4.99 at a military book/miniatures shop in Cardiff. Very interesting read and thorough too, even covers Remington's bicycles, tools, sewing machines and typewriters. Some of the background and 'Remington's story' stuff is a bit fancifully written but considering how easily this could've been purely a picture book I'm impressed with the amount of text.

[Wirelizard]

"The RAF In Camera: 1903-1939, Archive Photographs form the Public Record Office and the Ministry of Defence"

Lots of great interwar photos, which is mostly what I was interested in. Too many military histories skip right over the inter-war years in a rapid blur, but aeronautically speaking, there was a lot of interesting stuff going on. All those really neat biplanes like the Hawker Hart and such, interesting late-colonial actions in the Middle East, NWF & elsewhere. The RAF did some of the first air medevacs and trooplifts with ungainly looking biplane transports, too, which I hadn't realized.

I'm going to try and scan some of the more interesting photos from this book and put them up.

[myincubliss]

Some old-school 70's/80's D&D modules from the YMCA - G1-2-3 (Against the Giants), A1 (Slave Pits of the Undercity), A2 (Secret of the Slavers Stockade), A3 (Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords) & A4 (In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords).

Haven't played D&D in years, but still couldn't resist...

[Svennn]

The Ever Victorious Army - Andrew Wilson (1st published 1868)

The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 & 1281 - Stephen Turnbull (Osprey)

and half a dozen novels, mainly Victorian crime, all for my birthday last Saturday

[JollyBob]

My Amazon order of comics turned up yesterday. I got:

Mark Millar's Kick-Ass: A guilty pleasure so far, not convinced it deserves all the hype yet though.

Garth Ennis' The Boys v6 Self Preservation Society: I think its gone a bit wrong somewhere. 

Mike Mignola's Hellboy v9 The Wild Hunt: In the words of the character Alice, "well, I didn't see that coming..."

Kept me quiet for the evening anyway. 

[Thargor]

The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart.

It's the story of a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders and how he spent WWII.  Basically, how he survived being taken prisoner by the Japanese and why they should be held to account for the atrocities that they deny.

It was bought for me by my wife, as she knows that my grandfather was taken prisoner in Singapore at the same time. 

[archangel1]

Well, I sort of received this book.  Looks like an interesting read.

The Amazing Cruise of the German Raider 'Wolf' from the log of Capt Donaldson, SS Matunga.  It's the same ship that carried the FF-33E that Plynkes mentioned in this post... http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=5890.msg174629#msg174629.  By the way, Plynkes, you never told us the name of the manufacturer of the kit you bought.  Techmod, by any chance?

The book was a free download (link below) I came across while looking for this book, The Cruise of the Raider 'Wolf' by Roy Alexander.  Have to get it through Amazon, I guess.

http://www.archive.org/details/amazingcruiseofg00dona

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Captain Swing and the Electric Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis


Victorian Undead

Those look excellent!

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! 

As does this!!!

[twrchtrwyth]

@Rob:The first one is a 4 parter, only read read the first one so far, I thought it excellent. The second one has some great Victorian anti-zombie gear in it. I have Aetheric Mechanics, also by Warren Ellis, and would recomend that to.

[DFlynSqrl]

"Black Powder" rules and "Regiments & Uniforms of the [American] Civil War" by Don Troiani.

[JollyBob]

Second and third chronicles of Isambard Smith by Toby Frost.

Thought I'd give them a go as people keep saying how good they are and, although I was quite disappointed with the first one, these were really cheap on the Amazon marketplace.

Must admit, I'm halfway through God Emperor of Didcot now, and am really enjoying it. Looks like a series that rewards patience.