Books

[snagy]

Let me also join the welcomers - by the way I fulfilled westerday the 61st year.
Best regards-
Sandor

[plyoung]

Belated birthday greetings for yesterday, Willie, from another who has reached 69 (in October).  Now you have Stuart Reid's excellent book "Like Hungary Wolves", you might be considering painting some figures from that era.  I can certainly recommend the Highlanders produced by the Austrian Editor, Scheibert.  These figures are available from http://www.zinnfigurenwelt-katzelsdorf.at     
Marko and Gerhard kindly recommended the site to me when I was looking for information about Scheibert in September.  Peter oo~

[socko47]

Going to take the day off   Today is my 69th Birthday That makes me older then rocks and mud.    . Willie

Happy Birthday Willie I had to work on mine......Yesterday! Older than rocks and mud, eh - now I know why I felt the way I did when I woke up to 69, too.

Joe

[Mike G]

Happy birthday willie

[nmrocks]

Happy Birthday Wilie,
 Your choices in books is excellent!
Ray

[marko]

Funny thing, in the last year I have hunted them all down with the exception of the Somme which I have little interest in.

My favorite was the Zulu Wars though all of them have been exceptionally well written.  This one manages to tell the entire story of the campaign in this one volume with the major focus centered around Rorke's Drift.

I saw and ignored these for years until the Crimea Lancers cousin Charles put out sparked my interest.  Thoroughly impressed on the quality I hunted them down one by one paying far more than if I purchased over time as they were discovered.

Any way one of many guilty pleasures and another wound to my wallet cousin Charles has to answer for...

mark 

[Erich]

Willie, best wishes to your birthday  from Germany too


To the books you have mentioned I can only say, I own Zulu War and The Last Charge (21st Lancers) from this serie
and I can  highly recommend them

Next on my list will be "The frontier Ablaze"

Erich

[Nicholas Ball]

Happy Birthday Willie

[marko]

Happy birthday Willie, hopefully you get a lot of books as presents!


mark 

[willie]

Going to take the day off   Today is my 69th Birthday That makes me older then rocks and mud.    . Willie

[willie]

It has been some time since I wrote about a book but I just got this today it had been on order for ever. .  Like Hungry Wolves Culloden Moor April 16 1746, by Stuart Reid. It explains the battle and the color plates are outstanding . Published by Windrow & Green . These series of books are out standing and well worth the price. The next one will be either Into the Valley of Death The British Cavalry Division at Balaclava 1854 or Zulu Isandlwana & Rorke's Drift. Willie

[willie]

  Well I have two new books to talk about. The first is the Honved Army 1848-1849 By Gyozo Somogyi.  This covers the revolution of 1848 and it has lots and lots of color in the book. I know have 7 books in the series and will be getting the next 3 soon. The next on is a small book in German Reiter, Husaren und Grenadiere  Die Uniformen der Kaiserlichen Armee am Rhein 1754. A lot of the picture are from the time period and the detail on uniforms is not that good but still lots of information .  Willie 

[willie]

Well it came today  Early Iron Age Greek Warrior 1100-700BC  by Osprey publishing . Its a nice little book and for painting early Greeks its great. Now the question is who does Iron age figures. Willie

[willie]

 Well I am back with a new book. Hungarian Military 1758-1848 By Gyozo Somogyi  . Lots and lots of great color stuff Infantry, Hussars, and equipment, Artillery and frontier Guards. I have 4 to go in this series. For the historian I got this book for my Indian Army stuff. The Men Who Ruled India By Philip Mason very interesting. Willie

[willie]

Well the Valley Forge show was great lots of flats. I bought two books while I was there. Justinian's Wars Belisarius Narses and The Reconquest of the West.  The book was printed in 1993 by Montvert Publishing. I have several of this series and they are based on Osprey type books good to use when painting flats.  Second is a Russian book Kiev Ruse AE Russia IX to XII. It covers the history after the acceptance of Christianity. The color work in it is great but a bet light other wise its a great book for knights and armor. So you have Turkmen Mongol Batiya, the civil wars in Sweden Germany to the time of prince Alexander Nevskiy . You will need someone to translate it for you. Willie