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[YPU]

Thanks for sharing that, Jollybob, ordered it right away.

yea, I couldn't resist either.

[answer_is_42]

Facsimile edition of "La Guerre au XXeme Siecle" (1887) from Albert Robida, also known as "le Jules Verne du crayon" a real inspiration for any VSF fan.
Recently i learned about a limited facsimile edition in 2009 of 250 prints, in spanish, and i have been lucky enough to get one at a sensible price :-)
If you want more info look here
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2005/12/robidas-future.html

I've read one of his future war stories and seen a few of his drawings, he is indeed an inspiration and has a great sense of humour (well, for a Frenchman  )

Thanks for the link.

[abhorsen950]

I'm jealous of the Christmas pressies! The book I recieved this Christmas was The Gotrek and Felix Omnibus. I really good read and I've really enjoyed it.

[Red Orc]

"The Steampunk Bible" ... an excellent Xmas giftie!!

Me too. And it is, some great illustrations of all sorts of stuff.

And Philip José (thanks again Plynkes for showing me how to do e-acute) Farmer's hoary old chestnut 'The Other Log of Phileas Fogg' in which it is revealed that... well. I won't spoil it for those who haven't read it.

[Pentaro]

The complete woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer. A big, cheap B/W book loaded with 300+ beautiful renaissance woodcuts, a true gem!

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486210979.html

[inkydave]

Ospreys Queen Victorias enemies (1) Southern Africa
     "      Elite- The Zulus
     "      Warrior- Zulu 1816-1906
and the excellent Battle in Africa 1879-1914 by Howard Whitehouse.

All for £4 each  Yeehaw!!!

[Poiter50]

Armour in Vietnam, an old Squadron Signal paperback.

[Poiter50]

Italian Truck-Mounted Artillery in Action

[DFlynSqrl]

The General and the Jaguar
Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa
by Eileen Welsome.

[starkadder]

Mawson's Huts
The birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage
by the Mawson's Huts Foundation

ISBN:    9781741754360
Australian Pub.:    July 2008
Publisher:    ALLEN & UNWIN

Price: $AU 95.00

I know it's expensive but for anyone interested in modelling Antarctica from the Heroic Age (1880-1940), I can't recommend it highly enough. It is an amazing collection of photographs (colour and b/w), historical and contemporary. A great read about an extraordinary period. See if your local library will order it.

http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741754360

[carlos marighela]

Might just do that later.  I am just going outside and may be some time..... 

[Skyven]

Two Men-at-Arms: The Moors (348) and The Algerian War 1956-62 (312).

Both are given on the copyright pages as being 'print on demand', and they show it. Badly.

Black and white photographs look like the results of crap ink jet printers (you know the kind, where the heads are misaligned and the print looks blocky)

The colour plates. Oh God. This is what I remember Men-at-Arms books for: luscious colour plates which inspire one to do great miniature painting. What is in the books are bland, muted colours. Which in one case, if it hadn't been for a red necktie, I'd have thought was painted in sepia. The edges of figures, especially in 312, are dull and fuzzy.

Very disappointed.

What I take from this: if you want a Osprey book, buy it when it is newly published, 'cos reprints are going to be merde.

[Skyven]

First four volumes of the Official British War Record for The Mediterranean and Middle East by I.S.O. Playfair

v. I The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941)
v. II The Germans Come to the Help of Their Ally (1941)
v. III British Fortunes Reach Their Lowest Ebb (September 1941 to September 1942)
v. IV The Destruction of the Axis Forces in Africa

Amazon dropped the price from £22 to £16.50. Win.

Very pleased with these. Have wanted them ever since I got hold of the equivalent South African war records.

[voltan]

Amphibious operations, worth it just for the picture of a monitor in Vietnam using it's flamethrower

[Plynkes]