Latest book received

[Poliorketes]

After more than a month Peter Hopkirks SETTING THE EAST ABLAZE finally arrived. Just having finished his GREAT GAME, I guees I'll finish this one before X-mas

[Aaron]

You have some good reading ahead of you. I think I've managed to track down and read everythig he's done now.

[Plynkes]

Only one gaming-related present this year (it's just as well, as God knows what I'd end up with if my friends and rellies were set loose in a gaming shop). My niece (Sickers' eldest sister) got me this:


Having been a lead adventurer for the past few years, it's an absolute age since I did any roleplaying. But I reckon it's time to get back into that, I'll just have to make sure I don't let it scupper all my wargaming plans.

Has a ship combat system designed to use the little ships that come with the collectible game (though the system is different). Happily I have loads of those little things thanks to Pete's pesky meddling.

[Skrapwelder]

Not gaming related but I received this from my girlfriend for my birthday.



She made my whole birthday a serial killer theme. Throughout the day I received telephone calls from her giving me the location of each present. Several books and a DVD on H H Holmes, America's first recorded serial killer and as it so happens my Great-great Uncle. The evening was capped off with a trip to see Sweeney Todd. Truly a great day.

[Argonor]

Having been a lead adventurer for the past few years, it's an absolute age since I did any roleplaying. But I reckon it's time to get back into that, I'll just have to make sure I don't let it scupper all my wargaming plans.

Has a ship combat system designed to use the little ships that come with the collectible game

Wasn't aware of this. I have a whole lot of those little buggers (several shoe-boxes, actually....). Let's have a review, please, please, please!!!  

[Plynkes]

Okay, once I've read it all. Don't see anything that really irks me so far, and a fair bit that's pretty cool.

[twrchtrwyth]

Got Super Science Tales and Contemptible Little Armies Army Lists Part 1. Recomended.

[Vanvlak]

Il Corsaro Nero (i.e. The Black Pirate) by Emilio Salgari - 16th century Pirates of the Tortugas - a small souvenir of a very brief holiday in Modica, Sicily.

[Heldrak]

It was a Pulp extravaganza for me yesterday- My very indulgent girlfriend bought me some Shadow & Doc Savage re-issues and my big Alex Raymond Flash Gordon order from Amazon.com arrived the same day!

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Golden-Vulture-Nostalgia-Ventures/dp/1932806482/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199636144&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Chinese-Disks-Malmordo/dp/1932806520/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199636268&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/Doc-Savage-Fortress-Solitude-Paperback/dp/1932806245/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199636405&sr=1-22

http://www.amazon.com/Doc-Savage-Resurrection-Day-Repel/dp/1932806547/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199636594&sr=1-1



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097416643X

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193316025X

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933160268

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933160276

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933160284

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933160209

[PeteMurray]

Since we don't have a category for "Latest Art Recieved," I thought I'd stick these here.

First up: A prototype laser print of some Quar art.



But the real treasure (to me), the original cover artwork to Gloire, straight from the artist himself.



I am thrilled to finally have it in hand. I can't wait to get it framed!

[Driscoles]

It is really a beautiful piece of cover art. I know how you feel Pete.
Björn

[Plynkes]

Lovely. Looks kind of nude without the words though, somehow.

[dominic]

Not really a latest book "received", but useful for all Lead Adventurers interested in WW2.

The US Army official history, "From Utah Beach to Cherbourg", is available free of charge online at the following website.  Interesting reading for all who are interested in US Airborne operations on D-Day and the following weeks:

http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/utah/utah.htm

[Hammers]

Got this isn the mail right after Christmas:



Not the best print but wonderfully drawn and told accounts of the occult Wild West. Some of the stories can be read on line here, including one hereto unpublished:
http://www.texarcana.com/

[Lowtardog]

Hoho, this is some inspiration for my Brazilian Indian project



Red Gold covers the history of the Brazilian Indians from 1500 to 1760, from the point of first contact through to the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries. The first contacts between Europeans and indigenous peoples aroused mutual wonder and even admiration. The Indians appeared to the Portuguese as 'people good and of pure simplicity' who embodied the myth of the 'noble savage'. The whites seemed god-like beings whose metal knives and axes helped them clear the forest and carve canoes. However, this uneasy friendship was not to last. The colonists revealed themselves as brutal, greed-fuelled men who abused the hospitality of the Indians, using their women as concubines and their men as slaves. European diseases, slavery, gruelling forced labour and fierce battles decimated the tribes in a demographic catastrophe. This terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement, details the subjugation of almost 2,500,000 people, and starts a historical trilogy of breathtaking ambition