SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Bradley, K & Chappell, M., International Brigades in Spain 1936-1939, OB, 19
Cardozo, H., March of a Nation, Right Book Club, 1937.
Scurr, J & Fosten, B., The Spanish Foreign Legion, OB, 19??
Turnbull, P & Burn, J., The Spanish Civil War, OB, 19??
WORLD WAR TWO
• EUROPEAN THEATRE
Adams, J., The Doomed Expedition – The Campaign in Norway 1940, Leo Cooper, 1989.
D’Este, C., Bitter Victory, Fontana, 1989.
Dear, I., Ten Commando 1942-1945, Grafton Books, 1989.
Deighton, L., Blitzkrieg, Triad / Granada, 1988.
Divine, D., The Nine Days of Dunkirk, White Lion, 1976.
Fonvielle-Alquier, F., (trans. E. Ashcroft), France and the Phoney War, Tom Stacey, 1973.
Grinell-Milne, D., Silent Victory, CB, 1959.
Hart, P., The Heat of Battle, Leo Cooper, 1999.
Hodges, M A., Prepared for Battle, Christchurch Printing, 1982
Mason, D., Raid on St. Nazaire, Macdonald, 1970.
Millar, G., The Bruneval Raid, The Bodley Head, 1974.
Neave, A., The Flames of Calais, Coronet Books, 1974.
Young, P., Commando, Macdonald, 1970.
Crete
Buckley, C., Greece and Crete 1941, Efstathiadis, 1984.
Clark, A., The Fall of Crete, NEL, 1974.
Macdonald, C., The Lost battle, Papermac, 1995.
• D-DAY
Ambrose, S. E., Pegasus Bridge, Pocket, 2003
Belfield, E & Essame, H., The Battle for Normandy, Pan Books, 1970.
Bruer, W B., Operation Dragoon, Jove Books, 1988.
Bryant, A., Triumph in the West, Collins, 1959.
Collier, R., Ten Thousand Eyes, Fontana Books, 1966.
Gardiner, J., D-Day Those Who Were There, BCA, 1994.
Hastings, M., Overlord, BCA, 1984.
Howarth, D., Dawn of D-Day, Companion Book Club, 1959.
Leasor, J., Green Beach, BCA, 1975.
Mitcham, S W Jr., Rommel’s Last Battle, Jove Books, 1991.
Moorhead, A., Eclipse, Sphere Books, 1968.
Perrault, G., The Secrets of D-Day, CB, 1966.
Tsouras, P., Disaster at D-Day (alternative reconstruction), BCA, 1994.
Turner, J F., Invasion ’44, CB, 1960.
Whiting, C., ’44, Century, 1984.
Young, P., D-Day, Bison Books, 1981.
• AFTER D-DAY
Ambrose, S E., Citizen Soldiers, Pocket Books, 2002.
Bahm, K., Berlin 1945 The Final Reckoning, Amber, 2001
Blaxland, G., Alexander’s Generals, William Kimber, 1979
Bryant, A., The Turn of the Tide, Reprint Society, 1958.
Currey, C B., Follow Me and Die, Jove Books, 1991.
Delaforce, P., Monty’s Iron Sides, Chancellor Press, 1999.
Delaforce, P., The Polar Bears, Chancellor Press, 1999.
Dupuy, T N., Hitler’s Last Gamble, Airlife, 1994.
Elstob, P., Bastogne, the Road Block, Macdonald, 1968.
Featherston, A., Saving the Breakout, PP, 19??
Hibbert, C., Arnhem, The Windrush Press, 1998.
Kessler, L., The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, Mandarin, 1990.
Manvell, R., The Conspirators: 20th July 1944, Pan Ballantine, 1972.
Moulton, J L., Battle for Antwerp, Ian Allen, 1978.
Powell, G., The Devil’s Birthday, Leo Cooper,1992.
Ryan, C., A Bridge Too Far, BCA, 1974.
Shulman, M., Defeat in the West, Pan Books, 1986.
Turner, J F & Jackson, R., Destination Berchtesgaden, Ian Allen, 1975.
Whiting, P., Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, Pan Ballantine, 1972.
Ziemke, E F., Battle for Berlin, Macdonald, 1968.
• EASTERN FRONT
Adair, P., Hitlers Greatest Defeat, Brockhampton Press, 1998.
Beevor, A., Stalingrad, Viking, 1998
Cross, R., The Battle of Kursk Operation Citadel 1943, Penguin Books, 2002.
Jukes, G., The Defence of Moscow, Macdonald, 1969.
Ripley, T., SS Steel Storm, Sutton Publishing, 2000.
Salisbury, H., The 900 Days The Siege of Leningrad, Pan, 2000.
Wykes, A., The Siege of Leningrad, Macdonald, 1968.
• INVASION OF BRITAIN
Macksey, K., Invasion, BCA, 1980.
• AFRICA
Bates, P., Dance of War, The Story of the Battle of Egypt, Leo Cooper, 1992.
Glover, M., An Improvised War The Ethiopian campaign 1940-1941, Leo Cooper, 19??.
Whiting, C., Kasserine, Jove Books, 1991.
• FAR EASTERN THEATRE
Attwell, K., The Singapore Story, Frederick Muller, 1959
Blair, J & C., Return from the River Kwai, Futura / Jade, 1980.
Bruer, W B., Retaking the Philippines, St. Martins Press, 1986.
Caffrey, K., Out in the Midday Sun, NEL, 1977.
Campbell, A., The Siege, George Allen & Unwin, 1956.
Collier, B., The War in the Far East 1941-1945, Heinemann, 1969.
Colvin, J., Not Ordinary Men, Leo Cooper, 1994.
Coox, A., Nomonhan Japan Against Russia, 1939, (2 Vols.), Stanford University Press, 1985.
Foucar, E C V., I Lived in Burma, Dobson 1956
Frank, B M., Okinawa: Touchstone to Victory, Macdonald, 1969.
Fuller, R., Shōkan –Hirohito’s Samurai, AAP, 1992.
Grant, I L & Tamayama K., Burma 1942 The Japanese Invasion, Zampi, 1999.
Gregg, C T., Tarawa, Jove Books, 1991.
Kennedy, P., Pacific Onslaught, Pan / Ballantine Books, 1972.
Legg, F., War Correspondent, Angus and Robertson, 1965
Lucas Philips, C E., Springboard to Victory, Pan,1966.
Mayo, L., Bloody Buna, Purnell Book Services, 19??.
Perrett, P., Tank Tracks to Rangoon, Hale, 1992.
Rawlings, L., And The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder, Futura, 1975.
Sayce, A M., Island Invasions-The Japanese Expansion Programme, HM, 1998.
Schultz, D., Wake Island, Playboy Paperbacks, 1978.
Seaman, H., The Battle at Sangshak¸ Leo Cooper, 1989.
Shaw, H I Jr., Tarawa: A Legend is Born, Macdonald, 1969.
Slim, Field Marshal Viscount, Defeat Into Victory, Pan, 1999.
Swinson, A., Kohima, Arrow Books, 1968,
Tsouras, P., (ed), Rising Sun Victorious (alternative reconstruction), Greenhill, 2001
Tsuji, M., Singapore, The Japanese Version, Mayflower-Dell. 1960.
Whiting, C., America’s Forgotten Army, Sarpedon NY, 1999
Yahara, Col. H., The Battle for Okinawa, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1995.
• CHANNEL ISLANDS
Mayne, R., Channel Islands Occupied, Jarrold & Sons, 1978.
Toms, C., Hitler’s Fortress Islands, NEL, 1971.
Wood A & Wood, M S., Islands in Danger, Streamline, 1960.
• AIR WARFARE
Braddon, R., Cheshire VC, Companion Book Club, 1956.
Brickhill, P., The Dam Busters, Pan Books, 1955.
Caidan, M., A Torch to the Enemy, Bantam. 1992.
Clostermann, P., Flames in the Sky, Vanguard, 1954.
Deighton, L., Fighter, BCA, 1977.
Dupuy T N., The Air War in the West: June 1941 – April 1945, Franklin Watts , N Y, 1965.
Gunston, B., Japanese and Italian Aircraft, Salamander, 1985.
Gunston, B. (forwd.), Janes Fighting aircraft of WW II, Studio Editions, 1994.
Hoyt, E P., The Kamikazes, Granada Books, 1985.
Irving, D., The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe, Futura, 1976.
Koenig, W., Over the Hump: Airlift to China, Pan / Ballantine, 1972.
Lucas, L., (edit.), Out of the Blue, Grafton Books, 1987.
McKee, A., Strike from the Sky, Grafton Books, 1990.
Merrick, K A., German Aircraft Markings 1939-1945, Ian Allen, 1977.
Mondey, D., Axis Aircraft of WW II, Chancellor Press, 1997.
Mondey, D., British Aircraft of WW II, Chancellor Press, 1997.
Nagatsuko, R., (trans. from the French by N Rootes), I was a Kamikaze, NEL, 1974.
Poolman, K., Faith, Hope and Charity, NEL, 1974.
Rawnsley, C F & Wright, R., Night Fighter, CB, 1969.
Shepherd, C., German Aircraft of WW II, BCA, 1976.
Shores, C., Ground Attack Aircraft of WW II, Macdonald & James, 1977.
Sims, E H., The Fighter Pilots, CB, 1970.
Tubbs, D B., Lancaster Bomber, Pan / Ballantine, 1972.
Weal J., Junkers Ju87 over the Mediterranean, Osprey Aviation, 1996.
• NAVAL WARARE
Brinkley, W., Ninety and Nine, Magnum, 1978.
Bull, P., To Sea in a Sieve, CB, 1973.
Cooper, B., The Battle of the Torpedo Boats, Pan Books, 1970.
Croizet, V J., Across the Reef, Blandford, 1989.
Cutler, T J., The Battle of Leyte Gulf, Harper Collins, 1994.
Detmers, Capt. T., The Raider Kormoran, Tandem Books, 1975.
Hough, R., The Big Battleship, Michael Joseph, 1966.
Lund, P & Ludlum, H., PQ 17 Convoy to Hell, NEL, 1972.
Macintyre, D., Narvik, Pan Books, 1971.
McKee, A., The Coal-Scuttle Brigade, CB, 1958.
Poolman, K., Ark Royal, NEL, 1978.
Preston, A (forwd.), Jane’s Fighting Ships of WW II, Studio Editions, 1994.
Robertson, T., The Ship with Two Captains, NEL, 1974.
Webster Smith, B., The Navy Strikes, Blackie & Son, 1942.
Winton, J., The War at Sea, BCA, 1974.
Woodward, D., The Tirpitz, NEL, 1975.
• UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT
Chamberlain, P. and Ellis, C., British and American Tanks of World War Two, Cassell, 2004.
Chamberlain, P. and Doyle, H., Encyclopaedia of German Tanks of World War Two, Cassell, 2004
Davis, B., German Army Uniforms and Insignia 1933-1945, Brockhampton Press, 1992.
Dilley, R., Japanese Army Uniforms and Equipment, Almark, 1971.
Ellis, C. (edit.), Wheeled Vehicles of the Wehrmacht, Ducimus, 1974.
Forty, G., British Army Handbook, 1939-1945, Chancellor Press, 2000.
Holzman, W K, Manual of the Waffen SS, Bellona, 1976.
Isby, D (intro.), Handbook on Japanese Military Forces, Greenhill Books, 1991.
Lefèvre E., Panzers in Normandy Then and Now, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 1983.
Lucas, J., German Army Handbook, 1939-1945, Chancellor Press, 2000.
Macksey, K., Panzer Division, Macdonald, 1968.
Macksey, K., Tank force:Allied armour in the Second World War, Macdonald, 1970.
Mollo, A., The Armed Forces of WW II, Orbis, 1981.
Steven, A & Amodio, P., Waffen SS, Windrow and Greene, 1995.
Windrow M & Roffe, M., Luftwaffe Airborne and Field Units, OB, 1972.
Zaloga, S & Ness, L S., The Red Army Handbook, Sutton Publishing, 1998.
• FORMATION HISTORIES
Anon, Paiforce, HMSO, 1948.
Bishop,E., Better to Die, NEL, 1977.
Cooper, L. The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Leo Cooper, 1972
Graber, G S., History of the SS, Granada, 1980.
Hamilton, S., Armoured odyssey, Tom Donovan, 1995
Hamilton-Hill, SOE Assignment, William Kimber, 1973.
Hills, R J T., The Royal Dragoons, Leo Cooper, 1972
Longley, M., The East Surrey Regiment, Leo Cooper, 19172
Longmate, N., The Real Dad’s Army, Arrow Books, 1974.
Lucas, J., Das Reich, BCA, 1991.
Lucas, J., Battle Group, BCA, 1994.
Mann Dr. C., SS-Totenkopf, Spellmount, 2001.
McGilvray, E., The Black Devils’ March – A Doomed Odyssey - , Helion, 2005
Myatt, F., The Royal Berkshire Regiment, Hamish Hamilton, 1968
Nafziger, G F., The German Order of Battle Panzers and Artillery in World War II, Greenhill, 1999.
Nafziger, G F., The German Order of Battle Infantry in World War Two, Greenhill, 2000.
Nafziger, G F., The German Order of Battle Waffen SS and Other Units in World War Two, Greenhill, 2001.
Perrett, B., Knights of the Black Cross, Grafton Books, 1990.
Peters, G W H., The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Leo Cooper, 1970
Powell, G., The Green Howards, Hamish Hamilton, 1968
Reitlinger, G., The SS: Alibi of a Nation 1922-1945, AAP, 1981.
Reynolds, M., Steel Inferno, Spellmount, 1997.
Ruby, M., F Section SOE, Grafton Books, 1990.
Quarrie, B., Hitler’s Samurai, Guild Publishing, 1986.
Thomas N & Andrew S., The German Army 1939-1945 (3) Eastern Front 1941-43, Men-at-Arms Series, OB, 1999.
Thomas N & Andrew S., The German Army 1939-1945 (4) Eastern Front 1943-45, Men-at-Arms Series, OB, 1999.
Thomas N & Andrew S., The German Army 1939-1945 (5) Eastern Front 1943-45, Men-at-Arms Series, OB, 1999.
Williams, P & Wallace D., Unit 731, Grafton Books, 1990.
Williamson, G., SS: The Blood-Soaked Soil, Blitz Editions, 1995.
Wykes, A., The Royal Hampshire Regiment, Hamish Hamilton, 1968
• WEAPONS
Barker, A J., Suicide Weapon, Macdonald, 1971.
Barker, A J & Walter, J., Russian Infantry Weapons of WW II, AAP, 1971.
Chamberlain, P., & Ellis C., Axis Combat Tanks, Macdonald and Jane’s, 1977.
Grove, E., World War Two Tanks, Orbis, 1976.
Guderian, H., (trnas. Duffy C.), Achtung Panzer, Arms and Armour Press, 1996
Hogg, I V., The Encyclopaedia of Infantry Weapons of WW II, AAP, 1978.
Orgill, D., T34, Russian Armour, Macdonald, 1970.
Ledwoch, J., Wojna na Pacyfiku Daleki Wschód (Tanks of the Pacific War), Wydawnictwo, Warszawa, 1996.
Price, A., Luftwaffe, Pan Ballantine, 1973.
Various, Weapons in Action, Marshall Cavendish, 1978.
Zaloga S & Magnuski, J., Soviet Mechanized Firepower 1941-1945, AAP, 1989.
• BIOGRAPHIES
Beamish, J., Burma Drop, Bestseller Library, 1960.
Blaxland, G., Alexander’s Generals, William Kimber, 1979.
Chapman, F S., The Jungle is Neutral, Triad / Granada, 1977.
Forrester, L., Fly for your Life, Panther Books, 1969.
Foucar, E C V., I Lived in Burma, Dennis Dobson, 1956.
Frost, Maj-Gen. J., One Drop Too many, Cassell, 1980?
Gibson, G., Enemy Coast Ahead, Pan Books, 1955.
Gunther, J., D-Day, Hamish Hamilton, 1944.
Hart Dr. R & Dr S., SS Weapons and Fighting Tactics of the Waffen-SS, Spellmount Limited, 1999.
Hersey, J., Into the Valley, Schockcen Books, 1970.
Holman, D., The Man They Couldn’t Kill, NEL, 1970.
Howarth, D., Escape Alone, Fontana, 1977.
Irving, D., The Trail of the Fox, BCA, 1977.
Johns W E & Kelly R A., No Surrender, Mayflower, 1970.
Keith, A., Three Came Home, CB, 1971.
Law, B., Viscount Montgomery, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery, Collins, 1958.
Lucas, J., Hitler’s Commanders, Cassel, 2000.
Manchester, W., American Caesar, Arrow, 1979.
Maule, Spearhead General, CB, 1963.
Pöppel, M., Heaven and Hell, Spellmount, 2000
Quarrie, B & Burn J., Waffen SS Soldier 1940-1945, Warrior Series, OB, 1993.
Reynolds, M., The Devil’s Adjutant, Spellmount, 1999.
Robertson, T., Walker RN, Pan Books, 1958.
Schmidt, H W., With Rommel in the Desert, Panther Books, 1968.
Teare, T D G., Evader, Viking Press, 1956.
Young, D., Rommel, The Desert Fox, Fontana / Collins, 1972.
• GENERAL
Anon., The War’s Best Photographs, Odhams, 19??
Arnold-Foster, M., The World at War, Thames Methuen, 1981.
Bacon, Adm. Sir, R, Fuller, Maj-Gen. J F C & Playfair, Air Marshal Sir P., (edit’s.), Warfare Today, Odhams Press, 19??
Churchill, W., The Second World War (School Edition), Cassell, 1960.
Churchill, W., The Second World War (Vol. 1), Cassell, 1964.
Churchill, W., The Second World War (Vol. 9), Cassell, 1964.
Churchill, W., The Second World War (Vol. 12), Cassell, 1964.
Cross, R., World War Two in photographs, Paragon, 1996.
Downing, D., The Devil’s Virtuoso’s: German Generals at War 1940-1945, BCA, 1977.
Ellis, J., The Sharp Edge of War, David and Charles, 1980
Ellis, J., The World War Two Databook, BCA, 1993.
Farrar-Hockley, A H., Infantry Tactics 1939-1945, Almark, 1976.
Gilbert, A,. Germany’s Lightning War, David and Charles, 2000.
Hogg, I V., The Guns 1939-45, Macdonald and Co., 1970.
Johnson, D E., East Anglia at War, Jarrold & Sons, 1978.
Kahn, D., Seizing the Enigma, Arrow, 1996.
Keegan J. (edit.), Who’s Who in WW II, AAP, 1978.
Liddell-Hart, B H., History of the Second World War, BCA, 1973.
Marshall, B., The White Rabbit, Pan Books, 1966.
Macleod, Col. R and Kelly, D. (ed.’s), The Ironside Diaries 1937-1940, Constable, 1962.
Mee, C L Jr., Meeting at Potsdam, Dell, 1976.
Overy, R., Why the Allies Won, Johnathon Cape, 1995.
Pape, R., Boldness be my Friend, Pan Books, 1957.
Perisco, J., Piercing the Reich, Sphere Books, 1980.
Ravenscroft, T., The Spear of Destiny, Sphere Books, 1990.
Saunders, H St. George, The Red Beret, NEL, 1971.
Stevenson, W., A Man Called Intrepid, Sphere Books, 1977.
Various, The New Yorker Book of War Pieces, Bloomsbury, 1990.
Various, The Second World War (Vols 1 and 2), Trident Press International, 2000
Various, The World At Arms, Readers Digest, 1989.
Whiting, C., Britain Under Fire, Guild Publishing, 1986.
Young, Brig. P. (edit.), Decisive Battles of the Second World War, W H Smith, 1988.
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Library -Part-Six- Zulu War - First World War
ZULU WAR
Becker, P., Path of Blood, Panther Books, 1972.
Knight, I., Zulu, Windrow & Greene, 1994.
Lloyd, A., The Zulu War, Purnell Book Services, 1973.
McBride, A., The Zulu War, OB, 1988.
Morris, D R., The Washing of the Spears, Sphere Books, 1978.
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BOER WARS
Baring Pemberton, W., Battles of the Boer War, Pan Books, 1964.
Pakenham, T., The Boer War, Futura, 1988.
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RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
Sayce, A M., The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, HM, 1999.
Sayce, A M., The Battle of Ya-lu River (Russo-Japanese War Vol. 1), HM. 1999.
Sayce, A M., The Battle of Nan Shan (Russo-Japanese War Vol. 2), HM. 1999.
Sayce, A M., The Battle of Te-li-ssu (Russo-Japanese War Vol. 3), HM. 1999.
Walder, D., The Short Victorious War, Hutchinson, 1973.
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WORLD WAR ONE
• WESTERN FRONT – 1914
Anon, Battlefields of the Marne 1914 An illustrated history and guide, Michelin Tyre Co Ltd, 1919.
Ascoli, D., The Mons Star, Harrap, London, 1981.
Ascoli, D., The Mons Star, Berlinn, 2004.
Bloem, W., The Advance from Mons 1914,Helion, 2004
Farrar-Hockley,A H., Ypres 1914, Death of an Army, Pan Books, 1970.
Macdonald, L., 1914: The Days of Hope, Penguin, 1987.
Tuchman. B W., The Guns of August – August 1914, Four Square, 1965.
Terraine, J., Mons, Pan Books, 1972.
• WESTERN FRONT – 1915
Bristow, A., A Serious Disappointment, Leo Cooper, 1995.
Cave, N., Hill 60 Ypres, Leo Cooper, 1998.
Macdonald, L., 1915, BCA, 1993.
McWilliams, J. & Steel, R., GAS! The Battle for Ypres 1915, Vanwell, Canada, 1985.
• WESTERN FRONT – 1916
Ellis, J., Eye Deep in Hell, BCA, 1979.
Farrar-Hockley, A H., The Somme, Pan Books, 1970.
Horne, A., The Price of Glory, Macfadden Books, 1964.
McCarthy, C., The Somme The Day-by-Day Account, Brockhampton Press, 1998.
Norman, T., The Hell They called High Wood, William Kimber, London1984.
Reed, P., Courcelette, Leo Cooper, 1998.
• WESTERN FRONT – 1917
Cave, N., Passchendaele, Leo Cooper,1997.
Cave, N., Polygon Wood, Leo Cooper,1999.
Cooper, B., The Ironclads of Cambrai, Pan Books, 1967.
Doyle, Sir A C., The British Campaigns in France and Flanders 1917, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919
Mckee, A. Vimy Ridge, Pan Books, 1966.
• WESTERN FRONT - 1918
Cowley, R., 1918: Gamble for Victory, Macmillan, 1964.
Brereton, Capt. F S., Under Foch’s Command, Blackie and Son, 19??.
Middlebrook, M., The Kaisers Battle, Penguin Books, 1983.
Mitchinson, K W., Riqueval, Leo Cooper, 1998.
• WESTERN FRONT - OTHERS
Anon, The Marne Battlefields, Michelin, 1919
Barrie, A, War Underground, Star Books, 1981.
Fletcher, D. (edit.), Tanks and Trenches, Grange, 1996.
Foley, J., The Boilerplate War, Star, 1981.
Lloyd, A., The War in the Trenches, BCA, 1976.
Wood, E & ‘Tank Major’, Tank Tales, Cassell, 1919.
• EASTERN FRONT
Solzhenitsyn, A., August 1914, BCA, 1974.
Solzhenitsyn, A., August 1914, Penguin Books, 1974.
Stone, N., The Eastern Front, Purnell Book Services, 1976.
• PALESTINE
Bullock, D L., Allenby’s War, Blandford, 1988.
• GALLIPOLI
Haythornthwaite, P J., Gallipoli 1915 Frontal Assault on Turkey, OB, 1991.
Laffin, J., Damn the Dardanelles, Budding Books, 1997.
Liddle, P., Men of Gallipoli, David & Charles, 1986.
Moorehead, A., Gallipoli, NEL, 1974.
Steel, N., Gallipoli, Leo Cooper, 1999.
• AFRICA
Hoyt, E P., The Germans Who Never Lost, Sphere Books, 1970.
Sibley, Major J R., Tanganyikan Guerrilla, Pan Ballantine, 1973.
• AIR WARFARE
Angelucci, A & Matricardi, P., World Aircraft, Origins – World War One, BCA, 1977.
Bishop, W A., Winged Warfare, Bailey Bros. & Swinfen, 1975.
Bowen, E., Knights of the Air, TLB, 1980.
Clark, A., Aces High, Fontana / Colllins, 1973.
Jackson, R., Aces Twilight, Sphere Books, 1988.
Mckee, A., The Friendless Sky, Granada Books, 1984.
Neumann, G P., The German Air Force in the Great War, Portway, 1921.
Saxon, P., The Unfeeling Sky, CB, 1968.
Sykes, C W., French War Birds, Greenhill Press, 1987.
Taylor, J W R., (Fwd.), Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War I, Studio Edition, 1990.
• NAVAL WARARE
Dupuy, T N., Naval and Overseas War, 1914-1915, Franklin Watts, NY. 1967.
Hoehling, A A., The Great War at Sea, CB, 1967.
Hoehling, A A & M, The Last Voyage of the Lusitania, Pan Books, 1959.
Hough, R., The Big Battleship, Michael Joseph, 1966.
Macintyre, Capt. D., Jutland, Pan Books, 1966.
McKee, A., Black Saturday, NEL, 1966.
Moore, Capt. J., Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I, Random House, 2001
• UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT
Fitzsimmons, B (edit.), Tanks and Weapons of World War One, Phoebus, 1973.
Fosten, D S V, Marrion R J & Embleton G A., The British Army 1914–1918, OB, 1995.
Fosten, D S V, Marrion R J & Embleton G A., The German Army 1914–1918, OB, 1995.
Funcken, L & F., L’uniforme et les Armes des Soldats de la Guerre 1914-1918, (2 Vols.) Casterman, 1971.
Nash, D., German Infantry, Almark, 1971.
Nash, D., German Artillery, Almark, 1971.
Nash D (edit.), German Army Handbook, April 1918, AAP, 1977.
Sumner, I & Embleton, G., The French Army 1914-1918, OB, 1995.
• FORMATION HISTORIES
American Intelligence Section of the General Staff, Histories of the 251 Divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918), London Stamp Exchange, 1989.
Dudley-Ward, C H., The History of the Welsh Guards, The London Stamp Exchange Ltd., 1988.
Gibbon, F P., 42nd Lancashire Division 1914-1918, Country Life Library, 1920.
Westlake, R., Kitcheners Army, Nutshell Publishing, 1989.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Vol 1 Britain), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Vol 2 Germany), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Vol 3 France), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Compilation Vol), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I Eastern Front, HM, 1998.
• BIOGRAPHIES
Burgess, A., The Lovely Sergeant, Companion Book Club, 1963.
Glubb, J., Into Battle, BCA, 1978.
Graves, R., Goodbye to All That, Penguin, 1972.
Home, Brig-Gen Sir A., Diary of a WW I Cavalry Officer, Costello, 1985.
Jones, D., Bullets and Bandsmen, Owl Press, 1992.
Lloyd George, D., War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, (Vol. 1), Odhams, 1936.
Lloyd George, D., War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, (Vol. 1), Odhams, 1938.
Lintier, P., My 75, Tandem, 1967.
Scott, P T., Dishonoured, Tom Donovan Publishing, 1994.
Smith-Dorrien, Sir H., The Judgement of History, Tom Donovan Publishing, 1993.
• GENERAL
Ashworth, T., Trench Warfare 1914-1918, Pan, 2000.
Banks, A., A Military Atlas of the First World War, Purnell Books, 1975.
Boraston, J H. (ed.), Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches, J M Dent and Sons, 1979.
Brown, M., The Imperial War Museum of the Western Front, BCA, 1993.
Flower, N., (ed.), The History of the Great War (8 Vols. 1914-16), Waverley Book Co. 19??.
Glidden, G., The Battle of the Somme-A Topographical History, Alan Sutton, 1996.
Gould, R W., Epic Actions of the First World War, Tom Donovan, 1997
Gwyn, S., Tapestry of War, Harper Collins, 1992.
Haigh, R H & Turner, P W., Not for Glory, Robert Maxwell, 1969.
Hammerton, Sir J A (edit.), A Popular History of the Great War (6 Vols.), The Fleetway House, 19??.
Haythornthwaite, P., World War One: 1918, AAP, 1990.
Haythornthwaite, P., The World War One Source Book, BCA, 1992.
Haythornthwaite, P., A Photohistory of World War One, Brockhampton, 1998.
Holmes, R., Tommy, Harper Collins, 2004
Keegan, J., The First World War, Hutchinson, 1998.
Laffin, J., Panorama of the Western Front, Grange, 1996.
Laffin, J., British Butchers and Bunglers of WW I, Alan Sutton, 1996.
Liddell Hart, B H., History of the First World war, BCA, 1973.
Livesy, A., The Viking Atlas of World War One, Viking, 1994.
Moynihan, M., Black Bread and Barbed Wire, Leo Cooper, 1978.
Simkins, P., Chronicles of the Great War, Bramley Books, 1997.
Simpson, A., The Evolution of Victory, Tom Donovan, 1995
Smyth, Sir J., Leadership in Battle 1914-1918, David & Charles, 1975.
Terraine, J., White Heat The New Warfare 1914-1918, BCA, 1982.
Turner, E S., Dear Old Blighty, Michael Joseph, 1980.
Various, (forwd. By J Keegan), A Nation in Arms, Tom Donovan Publishing, 1990.
Woodward, Sir, L., Great Britain and the War of 1914-1918, University Paperbacks, 1972.
Wren, J., The Great Battles of World War One, Hamlyn, 1971.
Becker, P., Path of Blood, Panther Books, 1972.
Knight, I., Zulu, Windrow & Greene, 1994.
Lloyd, A., The Zulu War, Purnell Book Services, 1973.
McBride, A., The Zulu War, OB, 1988.
Morris, D R., The Washing of the Spears, Sphere Books, 1978.
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BOER WARS
Baring Pemberton, W., Battles of the Boer War, Pan Books, 1964.
Pakenham, T., The Boer War, Futura, 1988.
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RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
Sayce, A M., The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, HM, 1999.
Sayce, A M., The Battle of Ya-lu River (Russo-Japanese War Vol. 1), HM. 1999.
Sayce, A M., The Battle of Nan Shan (Russo-Japanese War Vol. 2), HM. 1999.
Sayce, A M., The Battle of Te-li-ssu (Russo-Japanese War Vol. 3), HM. 1999.
Walder, D., The Short Victorious War, Hutchinson, 1973.
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WORLD WAR ONE
• WESTERN FRONT – 1914
Anon, Battlefields of the Marne 1914 An illustrated history and guide, Michelin Tyre Co Ltd, 1919.
Ascoli, D., The Mons Star, Harrap, London, 1981.
Ascoli, D., The Mons Star, Berlinn, 2004.
Bloem, W., The Advance from Mons 1914,Helion, 2004
Farrar-Hockley,A H., Ypres 1914, Death of an Army, Pan Books, 1970.
Macdonald, L., 1914: The Days of Hope, Penguin, 1987.
Tuchman. B W., The Guns of August – August 1914, Four Square, 1965.
Terraine, J., Mons, Pan Books, 1972.
• WESTERN FRONT – 1915
Bristow, A., A Serious Disappointment, Leo Cooper, 1995.
Cave, N., Hill 60 Ypres, Leo Cooper, 1998.
Macdonald, L., 1915, BCA, 1993.
McWilliams, J. & Steel, R., GAS! The Battle for Ypres 1915, Vanwell, Canada, 1985.
• WESTERN FRONT – 1916
Ellis, J., Eye Deep in Hell, BCA, 1979.
Farrar-Hockley, A H., The Somme, Pan Books, 1970.
Horne, A., The Price of Glory, Macfadden Books, 1964.
McCarthy, C., The Somme The Day-by-Day Account, Brockhampton Press, 1998.
Norman, T., The Hell They called High Wood, William Kimber, London1984.
Reed, P., Courcelette, Leo Cooper, 1998.
• WESTERN FRONT – 1917
Cave, N., Passchendaele, Leo Cooper,1997.
Cave, N., Polygon Wood, Leo Cooper,1999.
Cooper, B., The Ironclads of Cambrai, Pan Books, 1967.
Doyle, Sir A C., The British Campaigns in France and Flanders 1917, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919
Mckee, A. Vimy Ridge, Pan Books, 1966.
• WESTERN FRONT - 1918
Cowley, R., 1918: Gamble for Victory, Macmillan, 1964.
Brereton, Capt. F S., Under Foch’s Command, Blackie and Son, 19??.
Middlebrook, M., The Kaisers Battle, Penguin Books, 1983.
Mitchinson, K W., Riqueval, Leo Cooper, 1998.
• WESTERN FRONT - OTHERS
Anon, The Marne Battlefields, Michelin, 1919
Barrie, A, War Underground, Star Books, 1981.
Fletcher, D. (edit.), Tanks and Trenches, Grange, 1996.
Foley, J., The Boilerplate War, Star, 1981.
Lloyd, A., The War in the Trenches, BCA, 1976.
Wood, E & ‘Tank Major’, Tank Tales, Cassell, 1919.
• EASTERN FRONT
Solzhenitsyn, A., August 1914, BCA, 1974.
Solzhenitsyn, A., August 1914, Penguin Books, 1974.
Stone, N., The Eastern Front, Purnell Book Services, 1976.
• PALESTINE
Bullock, D L., Allenby’s War, Blandford, 1988.
• GALLIPOLI
Haythornthwaite, P J., Gallipoli 1915 Frontal Assault on Turkey, OB, 1991.
Laffin, J., Damn the Dardanelles, Budding Books, 1997.
Liddle, P., Men of Gallipoli, David & Charles, 1986.
Moorehead, A., Gallipoli, NEL, 1974.
Steel, N., Gallipoli, Leo Cooper, 1999.
• AFRICA
Hoyt, E P., The Germans Who Never Lost, Sphere Books, 1970.
Sibley, Major J R., Tanganyikan Guerrilla, Pan Ballantine, 1973.
• AIR WARFARE
Angelucci, A & Matricardi, P., World Aircraft, Origins – World War One, BCA, 1977.
Bishop, W A., Winged Warfare, Bailey Bros. & Swinfen, 1975.
Bowen, E., Knights of the Air, TLB, 1980.
Clark, A., Aces High, Fontana / Colllins, 1973.
Jackson, R., Aces Twilight, Sphere Books, 1988.
Mckee, A., The Friendless Sky, Granada Books, 1984.
Neumann, G P., The German Air Force in the Great War, Portway, 1921.
Saxon, P., The Unfeeling Sky, CB, 1968.
Sykes, C W., French War Birds, Greenhill Press, 1987.
Taylor, J W R., (Fwd.), Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War I, Studio Edition, 1990.
• NAVAL WARARE
Dupuy, T N., Naval and Overseas War, 1914-1915, Franklin Watts, NY. 1967.
Hoehling, A A., The Great War at Sea, CB, 1967.
Hoehling, A A & M, The Last Voyage of the Lusitania, Pan Books, 1959.
Hough, R., The Big Battleship, Michael Joseph, 1966.
Macintyre, Capt. D., Jutland, Pan Books, 1966.
McKee, A., Black Saturday, NEL, 1966.
Moore, Capt. J., Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I, Random House, 2001
• UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT
Fitzsimmons, B (edit.), Tanks and Weapons of World War One, Phoebus, 1973.
Fosten, D S V, Marrion R J & Embleton G A., The British Army 1914–1918, OB, 1995.
Fosten, D S V, Marrion R J & Embleton G A., The German Army 1914–1918, OB, 1995.
Funcken, L & F., L’uniforme et les Armes des Soldats de la Guerre 1914-1918, (2 Vols.) Casterman, 1971.
Nash, D., German Infantry, Almark, 1971.
Nash, D., German Artillery, Almark, 1971.
Nash D (edit.), German Army Handbook, April 1918, AAP, 1977.
Sumner, I & Embleton, G., The French Army 1914-1918, OB, 1995.
• FORMATION HISTORIES
American Intelligence Section of the General Staff, Histories of the 251 Divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918), London Stamp Exchange, 1989.
Dudley-Ward, C H., The History of the Welsh Guards, The London Stamp Exchange Ltd., 1988.
Gibbon, F P., 42nd Lancashire Division 1914-1918, Country Life Library, 1920.
Westlake, R., Kitcheners Army, Nutshell Publishing, 1989.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Vol 1 Britain), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Vol 2 Germany), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Vol 3 France), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I (Compilation Vol), HM, 1998.
Sayce A M., Orders of Battle from WW I Eastern Front, HM, 1998.
• BIOGRAPHIES
Burgess, A., The Lovely Sergeant, Companion Book Club, 1963.
Glubb, J., Into Battle, BCA, 1978.
Graves, R., Goodbye to All That, Penguin, 1972.
Home, Brig-Gen Sir A., Diary of a WW I Cavalry Officer, Costello, 1985.
Jones, D., Bullets and Bandsmen, Owl Press, 1992.
Lloyd George, D., War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, (Vol. 1), Odhams, 1936.
Lloyd George, D., War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, (Vol. 1), Odhams, 1938.
Lintier, P., My 75, Tandem, 1967.
Scott, P T., Dishonoured, Tom Donovan Publishing, 1994.
Smith-Dorrien, Sir H., The Judgement of History, Tom Donovan Publishing, 1993.
• GENERAL
Ashworth, T., Trench Warfare 1914-1918, Pan, 2000.
Banks, A., A Military Atlas of the First World War, Purnell Books, 1975.
Boraston, J H. (ed.), Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches, J M Dent and Sons, 1979.
Brown, M., The Imperial War Museum of the Western Front, BCA, 1993.
Flower, N., (ed.), The History of the Great War (8 Vols. 1914-16), Waverley Book Co. 19??.
Glidden, G., The Battle of the Somme-A Topographical History, Alan Sutton, 1996.
Gould, R W., Epic Actions of the First World War, Tom Donovan, 1997
Gwyn, S., Tapestry of War, Harper Collins, 1992.
Haigh, R H & Turner, P W., Not for Glory, Robert Maxwell, 1969.
Hammerton, Sir J A (edit.), A Popular History of the Great War (6 Vols.), The Fleetway House, 19??.
Haythornthwaite, P., World War One: 1918, AAP, 1990.
Haythornthwaite, P., The World War One Source Book, BCA, 1992.
Haythornthwaite, P., A Photohistory of World War One, Brockhampton, 1998.
Holmes, R., Tommy, Harper Collins, 2004
Keegan, J., The First World War, Hutchinson, 1998.
Laffin, J., Panorama of the Western Front, Grange, 1996.
Laffin, J., British Butchers and Bunglers of WW I, Alan Sutton, 1996.
Liddell Hart, B H., History of the First World war, BCA, 1973.
Livesy, A., The Viking Atlas of World War One, Viking, 1994.
Moynihan, M., Black Bread and Barbed Wire, Leo Cooper, 1978.
Simkins, P., Chronicles of the Great War, Bramley Books, 1997.
Simpson, A., The Evolution of Victory, Tom Donovan, 1995
Smyth, Sir J., Leadership in Battle 1914-1918, David & Charles, 1975.
Terraine, J., White Heat The New Warfare 1914-1918, BCA, 1982.
Turner, E S., Dear Old Blighty, Michael Joseph, 1980.
Various, (forwd. By J Keegan), A Nation in Arms, Tom Donovan Publishing, 1990.
Woodward, Sir, L., Great Britain and the War of 1914-1918, University Paperbacks, 1972.
Wren, J., The Great Battles of World War One, Hamlyn, 1971.
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MARLBURIAN
Chandler, D., Marlborough as Military Commander, Batsford, 1973.
----------------- (ed.), Military Memoirs of Marlborough’s Campaigns 1702-1712, Greenhill, 1998.
Hussey, J., Marlborough, Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 2004.
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‘45 REBELLION
Prebble, J., Glencoe, Penguin Books, 1970.
Prebble, J., The Highland Clearances, Penguin Books, 1970.
Prebble, J., Culloden, Penguin Books, 1976.
Tomasson, K & Buist, F., Battles of the ’45, Pan Books, 1967.
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SEVEN YEARS WAR
Funcken, L & Funcken, F., L’uniforme et les Armes des Soldats de la Guerre en Dentelle, Casterman, 1975.
Mollo, J., Uniforms of the Seven Years War, Blandford, 1977.
Palmer, A., Frederick the Great, BCA, 1974.
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AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Bass, R A., The Green Dragoon, Alvin Redman, London, 1957.
Bicheno, H., Rebels and Redcoats, Harper Collins, 2004
Dupuy Col. T N., The Military Life of George Washington: American Soldier, Franklin Watts, NY, 1969
Dupuy Col. T N., The Military History of Revolutionary War Land Battles, Franklin Watts, NY, 1970.
Havighurst, W., Proud Prisoner, Holt, 1964.
Johnson, C., Battles of the American Revolution, Sampson Law, 1975.
Hogg, I V & Batchelor, J B., Armies of the American Revolution, Leo Cooper, 1975.
Williams, J., (edit.), The American War of Independence 1775 – 1783, Invasion Publishing, 1974.
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NAPOLEONIC
• PENINSULAR WAR
Foy, Gen. M., Junot’s Invasion of Portugal 1807-1808, Worley, 2000
Glover, M., Wellington’s Peninsular Victories, Pan Books, 1963.
Hibbert, C., Corunna, Pan Books, 1972.
Lawford, J P & Young, P., Wellington’s Masterpiece, Allen & Unwin, 1973.
Parkinson, R., The Peninsular War, BCA, 1973.
Tranie, J & Carmigniani, J –C., Napoleons War in Spain, AAP, 1993.
Wilkinson-Latham, R J., Discovering Famous Battles The Peninsular War, Shire, 1973.
• BATTLES
Duffy, P., Borodino, Napoleon against Russia 1812, Sphere Books, 1972.
Duffy, P., Austerlitz 1805, Seeley Service & Co., 1977.
Jansson, P-E., Leipzig, Almark, 1975.
Rothenberg, G. The Emperor’s Last Victory, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
• CAMPAIGNS
Britten Austin, P., 1812, The Great Retreat, Greenhill, 1996.
Britten Austin, P., 1812, Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia, Greenhill, 2000.
Chandler, D., The Campaigns of Napoleon, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
Clausewitz, Gen C von, The Campaign of 1812 in Russia, Greenhill, 1992.
Fain, Baron, Memoirs of the Invasion of France 1814, Ken Trotman, 1991.
Lawford, J., Napoleon: The Last Campaigns 1813 – 1815, BCA, 1977.
Oman, Sir C., A History of the Peninsular War Volume V, Greenhill, 2005.
Oman, Sir C., A History of the Peninsular War Volume VI, Greenhill, 2005.
Parker, J & Gilder, P., The Campaign of Leipzig 1813, OB, 1979.
Petre, F L., Napoleons Conquest of Prussia – 1806, AAP, 1977.
Petre, F L., Napoleon at Bay - 1814, AAP, 1977.
Petre, F.L., Napoleon’s Campaign in Poland 1807, Wren’s Park, 2001
Wilson, Sir R, Campaigns in Poland 1806-1807, Worley, 2000
• WATERLOO
Chandler, D., Waterloo: The Hundred Days, OB, 1992.
Dobson, J., They were at Waterloo, Heinemann, 1979.
Foster, J T., The Hundred Days, Franklin Watts, 1972.
Grant, C., Waterloo, Argus Books, 1990.
Hamilton- Williams, D., Waterloo: New Perspectives, BCA, 1994.
Herold J C., The Battle of Waterloo, Cassell Caravel, 1967.
Hofschröer, P., The Waterloo Campaign Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, Greenhill, 1998.
Hofschröer, P., The Waterloo Campaign The German Victory, Greenhill, 2004
Howarth D., A Near Run Thing, Literary Guild, 1969.
Müffling, F C F von, History of the Campaign of 1815, S R Publishers, 1970.
Naylor, J., Waterloo, Pan Books, 1971.
Siborne, Maj-Gen H. T. (ed), Waterloo Letters, Greenhill Books, 1993
Uffindel, A & Corum M., On the Fields of Glory, Greenhill, 1996.
• UNIFORMS
Bukhari, E., French Napoleonic Line Infantry 1796-1815, Almark, 1973
Funcken, L & Funcken F., L’uniforme et les armes des Soldats du Premier Empire,Casterman, 1968.
Haythornthwaite, P. & Chappell, M., Uniforms of Napoleon’s Russian Invasion, Arms and Armour, 1976.
Mantle, R., Prussian Reserve Infantry 1813-1815, Napoleonic Association, 197?.
Nash, D., The Prussian Army, Almark Publications, 1972.
Pivka, O. von, Armies of 1812 (Vol. 1), Patrick Stephens, 1977.
• BIOGRAPHIES
Bowle, J., Napoleon, BCA, 1973.
Bourgogne, Sergeant, The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, Constable, 1996.
Chandler, D., Napoleon, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1973.
Coignet, Capt., Notebooks of Captain Coignet, Peter Davis, 1929.
Glover, M., Wellington as Military Commander, Sphere Books, 1973.
Gneisnau, Gen. Count A., The Life and Campaigns of Field Marshal Prince Blücher, Constable, 1996.
Hayman, P., Soult, Napoleons Maligned Marshal, AAP, 1990.
Hibbert C.(ed.), recollections of Rifleman Harris, Military Book Society, 1970.
Longford, E., Wellington, The Years of the Sword, World Books, 1971.
Longford, E., Wellington, The Years of the Sword, World Books, 1971.
Marbot, J-B de, (ed. Summerville C.), The Exploits of Baron de Marbot, Constable, 2000.
Parkinson, R., The Hussar General, Purnell Book Services, 1975.
• NAVAL WARFARE
Howarth, D., Trafalgar The Nelson Touch, The Windrush Press, 1998.
• GENERAL
Bryant, A., Years of Victory, 1802 – 1812, Reprint Society, 1945.
Fletcher, I., (ed), In the Service of the King, Spellmount, 1997
Haythornthwaite, P J., The Napoleonic Sourcebook, Guild Publishing, 1990.
Horne, A., How Far from Austerlitz?, Papermca, 1996.
Hunt, E., Charging Against Napoleon, Leo Cooper, 2001.
Johnson, D., The French Cavalry 1792-1815, Belmont, 1989.
Lachouque, H & Brown A S K., Anatomy of Glory, AAP, 1978.
Leggiere, M V., Napoleon and Berlin, Tempus, 2002
Nafziger, G., Imperial Bayonets, Greenhill, 1996.
North, J., Napoleon’s Army in Russia The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam – 1812, Pen & Sword Military, 2005.
CRIMEAN WAR
Baring Pemberton, W., Battles of the Crimean War, Pan Books, 1972.
ffRench Blake, R L V., The Crimean War, Sphere Books, 1973, 1973.
Thomas, D., Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah! Omega Books, 1974.
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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Bailey, R H., The Bloodiest Day, TLB, 1993.
Cannan, J., (edit.), War in the West, Gallery Books, 1990.
Cannan, J., The Antietam Campaign, Gallery Books, 1990.
Channing, S A., Confederate Ordeal, TLB, 1992.
Clark, C., Gettysburg, TLB, 1987.
Davis, W C., Brother against Brother, TLB, 1991.
deKay, J T., Monitor, Pimlico, 1999.
Field, R., American Civil War Confederate Army, Brassey, 1998.
Hogg, I V., Weapons of the American Civil War, Bison Books, 1987.
Horn, S F., The Robert E Lee Reader, Smithmark, 1995.
Katcher, P., The American Civil War Source Book, AAP, 1994.
Katcher, P., The Army of Robert E Lee, AAP, 1995.
Lewis, L., Sherman, Smithmark, 1994.
Nofi, A A., (edit.), The Opening Guns, Gallery Books, 1988.
Nofi, A A., (edit.), The Bloody Struggle, Gallery Books, 1988.
Porter, H., Campaigning with Grant, Smithmark, 1994.
Smith, R., American Civil War Union Army, Brassey, 1998.
Various, Battles and Generals of the Civil War (Vol. 2), Castle, 19??
Various, Battles and Generals of the Civil War (Vol. 3), Castle, 19??
Various, Battles and Generals of the Civil War (Vol. 4), Castle, 19??
Various, Annals of the War, The Blue and the Grey Press, 1996.
Chandler, D., Marlborough as Military Commander, Batsford, 1973.
----------------- (ed.), Military Memoirs of Marlborough’s Campaigns 1702-1712, Greenhill, 1998.
Hussey, J., Marlborough, Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 2004.
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‘45 REBELLION
Prebble, J., Glencoe, Penguin Books, 1970.
Prebble, J., The Highland Clearances, Penguin Books, 1970.
Prebble, J., Culloden, Penguin Books, 1976.
Tomasson, K & Buist, F., Battles of the ’45, Pan Books, 1967.
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SEVEN YEARS WAR
Funcken, L & Funcken, F., L’uniforme et les Armes des Soldats de la Guerre en Dentelle, Casterman, 1975.
Mollo, J., Uniforms of the Seven Years War, Blandford, 1977.
Palmer, A., Frederick the Great, BCA, 1974.
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AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Bass, R A., The Green Dragoon, Alvin Redman, London, 1957.
Bicheno, H., Rebels and Redcoats, Harper Collins, 2004
Dupuy Col. T N., The Military Life of George Washington: American Soldier, Franklin Watts, NY, 1969
Dupuy Col. T N., The Military History of Revolutionary War Land Battles, Franklin Watts, NY, 1970.
Havighurst, W., Proud Prisoner, Holt, 1964.
Johnson, C., Battles of the American Revolution, Sampson Law, 1975.
Hogg, I V & Batchelor, J B., Armies of the American Revolution, Leo Cooper, 1975.
Williams, J., (edit.), The American War of Independence 1775 – 1783, Invasion Publishing, 1974.
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NAPOLEONIC
• PENINSULAR WAR
Foy, Gen. M., Junot’s Invasion of Portugal 1807-1808, Worley, 2000
Glover, M., Wellington’s Peninsular Victories, Pan Books, 1963.
Hibbert, C., Corunna, Pan Books, 1972.
Lawford, J P & Young, P., Wellington’s Masterpiece, Allen & Unwin, 1973.
Parkinson, R., The Peninsular War, BCA, 1973.
Tranie, J & Carmigniani, J –C., Napoleons War in Spain, AAP, 1993.
Wilkinson-Latham, R J., Discovering Famous Battles The Peninsular War, Shire, 1973.
• BATTLES
Duffy, P., Borodino, Napoleon against Russia 1812, Sphere Books, 1972.
Duffy, P., Austerlitz 1805, Seeley Service & Co., 1977.
Jansson, P-E., Leipzig, Almark, 1975.
Rothenberg, G. The Emperor’s Last Victory, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
• CAMPAIGNS
Britten Austin, P., 1812, The Great Retreat, Greenhill, 1996.
Britten Austin, P., 1812, Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia, Greenhill, 2000.
Chandler, D., The Campaigns of Napoleon, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
Clausewitz, Gen C von, The Campaign of 1812 in Russia, Greenhill, 1992.
Fain, Baron, Memoirs of the Invasion of France 1814, Ken Trotman, 1991.
Lawford, J., Napoleon: The Last Campaigns 1813 – 1815, BCA, 1977.
Oman, Sir C., A History of the Peninsular War Volume V, Greenhill, 2005.
Oman, Sir C., A History of the Peninsular War Volume VI, Greenhill, 2005.
Parker, J & Gilder, P., The Campaign of Leipzig 1813, OB, 1979.
Petre, F L., Napoleons Conquest of Prussia – 1806, AAP, 1977.
Petre, F L., Napoleon at Bay - 1814, AAP, 1977.
Petre, F.L., Napoleon’s Campaign in Poland 1807, Wren’s Park, 2001
Wilson, Sir R, Campaigns in Poland 1806-1807, Worley, 2000
• WATERLOO
Chandler, D., Waterloo: The Hundred Days, OB, 1992.
Dobson, J., They were at Waterloo, Heinemann, 1979.
Foster, J T., The Hundred Days, Franklin Watts, 1972.
Grant, C., Waterloo, Argus Books, 1990.
Hamilton- Williams, D., Waterloo: New Perspectives, BCA, 1994.
Herold J C., The Battle of Waterloo, Cassell Caravel, 1967.
Hofschröer, P., The Waterloo Campaign Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, Greenhill, 1998.
Hofschröer, P., The Waterloo Campaign The German Victory, Greenhill, 2004
Howarth D., A Near Run Thing, Literary Guild, 1969.
Müffling, F C F von, History of the Campaign of 1815, S R Publishers, 1970.
Naylor, J., Waterloo, Pan Books, 1971.
Siborne, Maj-Gen H. T. (ed), Waterloo Letters, Greenhill Books, 1993
Uffindel, A & Corum M., On the Fields of Glory, Greenhill, 1996.
• UNIFORMS
Bukhari, E., French Napoleonic Line Infantry 1796-1815, Almark, 1973
Funcken, L & Funcken F., L’uniforme et les armes des Soldats du Premier Empire,Casterman, 1968.
Haythornthwaite, P. & Chappell, M., Uniforms of Napoleon’s Russian Invasion, Arms and Armour, 1976.
Mantle, R., Prussian Reserve Infantry 1813-1815, Napoleonic Association, 197?.
Nash, D., The Prussian Army, Almark Publications, 1972.
Pivka, O. von, Armies of 1812 (Vol. 1), Patrick Stephens, 1977.
• BIOGRAPHIES
Bowle, J., Napoleon, BCA, 1973.
Bourgogne, Sergeant, The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, Constable, 1996.
Chandler, D., Napoleon, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1973.
Coignet, Capt., Notebooks of Captain Coignet, Peter Davis, 1929.
Glover, M., Wellington as Military Commander, Sphere Books, 1973.
Gneisnau, Gen. Count A., The Life and Campaigns of Field Marshal Prince Blücher, Constable, 1996.
Hayman, P., Soult, Napoleons Maligned Marshal, AAP, 1990.
Hibbert C.(ed.), recollections of Rifleman Harris, Military Book Society, 1970.
Longford, E., Wellington, The Years of the Sword, World Books, 1971.
Longford, E., Wellington, The Years of the Sword, World Books, 1971.
Marbot, J-B de, (ed. Summerville C.), The Exploits of Baron de Marbot, Constable, 2000.
Parkinson, R., The Hussar General, Purnell Book Services, 1975.
• NAVAL WARFARE
Howarth, D., Trafalgar The Nelson Touch, The Windrush Press, 1998.
• GENERAL
Bryant, A., Years of Victory, 1802 – 1812, Reprint Society, 1945.
Fletcher, I., (ed), In the Service of the King, Spellmount, 1997
Haythornthwaite, P J., The Napoleonic Sourcebook, Guild Publishing, 1990.
Horne, A., How Far from Austerlitz?, Papermca, 1996.
Hunt, E., Charging Against Napoleon, Leo Cooper, 2001.
Johnson, D., The French Cavalry 1792-1815, Belmont, 1989.
Lachouque, H & Brown A S K., Anatomy of Glory, AAP, 1978.
Leggiere, M V., Napoleon and Berlin, Tempus, 2002
Nafziger, G., Imperial Bayonets, Greenhill, 1996.
North, J., Napoleon’s Army in Russia The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam – 1812, Pen & Sword Military, 2005.
CRIMEAN WAR
Baring Pemberton, W., Battles of the Crimean War, Pan Books, 1972.
ffRench Blake, R L V., The Crimean War, Sphere Books, 1973, 1973.
Thomas, D., Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah! Omega Books, 1974.
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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Bailey, R H., The Bloodiest Day, TLB, 1993.
Cannan, J., (edit.), War in the West, Gallery Books, 1990.
Cannan, J., The Antietam Campaign, Gallery Books, 1990.
Channing, S A., Confederate Ordeal, TLB, 1992.
Clark, C., Gettysburg, TLB, 1987.
Davis, W C., Brother against Brother, TLB, 1991.
deKay, J T., Monitor, Pimlico, 1999.
Field, R., American Civil War Confederate Army, Brassey, 1998.
Hogg, I V., Weapons of the American Civil War, Bison Books, 1987.
Horn, S F., The Robert E Lee Reader, Smithmark, 1995.
Katcher, P., The American Civil War Source Book, AAP, 1994.
Katcher, P., The Army of Robert E Lee, AAP, 1995.
Lewis, L., Sherman, Smithmark, 1994.
Nofi, A A., (edit.), The Opening Guns, Gallery Books, 1988.
Nofi, A A., (edit.), The Bloody Struggle, Gallery Books, 1988.
Porter, H., Campaigning with Grant, Smithmark, 1994.
Smith, R., American Civil War Union Army, Brassey, 1998.
Various, Battles and Generals of the Civil War (Vol. 2), Castle, 19??
Various, Battles and Generals of the Civil War (Vol. 3), Castle, 19??
Various, Battles and Generals of the Civil War (Vol. 4), Castle, 19??
Various, Annals of the War, The Blue and the Grey Press, 1996.
Library -Part Four- English Civil War
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Adair, J., The Roundhead General, Macdonald, 1969.
Adair, J., John Hampden the Patriot, Macdonald and Jane’s, 1976.
Asquith, S & Warner, C., New Model Army 1645 – 1660, OB, 1982.
Barbary, J., Puritan and Cavalier, Thomas Nelson Inc., 1977.
Bence Jones, M., The Cavaliers, BCA, 1977.
Buchan, J., Oliver Cromwell, Reprint Society, 1941.
Downing, T & Millman M., Civil War, BCA, 1992.
Ede-Borrett, S & McGarrigle, B., Flags of the English Civil War Book 2, Raider Books, 1989.
Foard, G., Naseby The Decisive Campaign, Pan & Sword Military, 1995.
Fraser, A., Cromwell Our Chief of Men, BCA, 1974.
Gush, G & Windrow, M., The English Civil War (Airfix), Patrick Stephens, 1978.
Miller, A C., Sir Richard Grenville of the Civil War, Phillimore, 1979.
Morris, R., The Battle of Babylon Hill Yoevil 1642, Stuart Press, 2000.
Ollard, R., This War Without an Enemy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1976.
Peachey, S & Turton, A., Old Robins Foot, Partizan Press, 1987.
Ridley, J., The Roundheads, BCA, 1977.
Rogers, Col. H C B., Battles and Generals of the Civil Wars, Seeley Service and Co., 1968.
Scott, C. L., Turton A. & Arni, Dr E. G. von, Pen & Sword Military, 2004.
Sherwood, R E., Civil Strife in the Midlands 1642 - 1651, Phillimore, 1974.
Verney, F P & Verney, M M., Memoirs of the Verney Family, (2 Vols.), Longmans, Green & Co., 1925.
Young, Brig. P., Edgehill 1642, Roundwood Press, 1976.
Young, Brig. P., Marston Moor 1644, Roundwood Press, 1970.
Wedgewood, C V., The Kings Peace 1637 – 1641, BCA, 1974.
Wedgewood, C V., The Kings War 1641 - 1647, BCA, 1974.
Wedgewood, C V., Montrose, Sutton Publishing.1998.
Woolrych, R., The English Civil War, Pan Books, 1971.
Adair, J., The Roundhead General, Macdonald, 1969.
Adair, J., John Hampden the Patriot, Macdonald and Jane’s, 1976.
Asquith, S & Warner, C., New Model Army 1645 – 1660, OB, 1982.
Barbary, J., Puritan and Cavalier, Thomas Nelson Inc., 1977.
Bence Jones, M., The Cavaliers, BCA, 1977.
Buchan, J., Oliver Cromwell, Reprint Society, 1941.
Downing, T & Millman M., Civil War, BCA, 1992.
Ede-Borrett, S & McGarrigle, B., Flags of the English Civil War Book 2, Raider Books, 1989.
Foard, G., Naseby The Decisive Campaign, Pan & Sword Military, 1995.
Fraser, A., Cromwell Our Chief of Men, BCA, 1974.
Gush, G & Windrow, M., The English Civil War (Airfix), Patrick Stephens, 1978.
Miller, A C., Sir Richard Grenville of the Civil War, Phillimore, 1979.
Morris, R., The Battle of Babylon Hill Yoevil 1642, Stuart Press, 2000.
Ollard, R., This War Without an Enemy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1976.
Peachey, S & Turton, A., Old Robins Foot, Partizan Press, 1987.
Ridley, J., The Roundheads, BCA, 1977.
Rogers, Col. H C B., Battles and Generals of the Civil Wars, Seeley Service and Co., 1968.
Scott, C. L., Turton A. & Arni, Dr E. G. von, Pen & Sword Military, 2004.
Sherwood, R E., Civil Strife in the Midlands 1642 - 1651, Phillimore, 1974.
Verney, F P & Verney, M M., Memoirs of the Verney Family, (2 Vols.), Longmans, Green & Co., 1925.
Young, Brig. P., Edgehill 1642, Roundwood Press, 1976.
Young, Brig. P., Marston Moor 1644, Roundwood Press, 1970.
Wedgewood, C V., The Kings Peace 1637 – 1641, BCA, 1974.
Wedgewood, C V., The Kings War 1641 - 1647, BCA, 1974.
Wedgewood, C V., Montrose, Sutton Publishing.1998.
Woolrych, R., The English Civil War, Pan Books, 1971.
Library -Part Three- Renaissance
RENAISSANCE
• EUROPE
Attard, J., The Knights of Malta, PEG Ltd., 1995.
Bradford, E., The Great Siege, Malta 1565, Penguin Classics, 1970.
Brzezinski, R & McBride A., Polish Armies, 1569 - 1696, (Vol. 1), OB, 1987.
Brzezinski, R & McBride A., Polish Armies, 1569 - 1696, (Vol. 2), OB, 1988.
Ellul, J., 1565 The Great Siege of Malta, Guttenberg Press, 1992.
Fussero, C., The Borgias, Pall Mall Press, 1972.
Mattingly, G., The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Reprint Society, 1961.
Pickles, T., Malta, 1565, OB, 1988.
Polisensky, J V., (trans. R. Evans), The Thirty Years War, NEL, 1971.
Rabb, T K., (editor), The Thirty Years War, D C Heath and Co., 1968.
• THE NEAR EAST
Nicolle, D & McBride, A., Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300 – 1774, OB, 1983.
• THE FAR EAST
Jones, M., The Takeda, Dai Sho Publishing, 1993.
Levathes, L., When China Ruled the Seas, Oxford University Press, 1976.
Turnbull, S & Hook, R., Samurai Armies 1500 – 1615, OB, 1979.
Turnbull, S., The Book of the Samurai – The warrior Class of Japan, AA, 1982.
• EUROPE
Attard, J., The Knights of Malta, PEG Ltd., 1995.
Bradford, E., The Great Siege, Malta 1565, Penguin Classics, 1970.
Brzezinski, R & McBride A., Polish Armies, 1569 - 1696, (Vol. 1), OB, 1987.
Brzezinski, R & McBride A., Polish Armies, 1569 - 1696, (Vol. 2), OB, 1988.
Ellul, J., 1565 The Great Siege of Malta, Guttenberg Press, 1992.
Fussero, C., The Borgias, Pall Mall Press, 1972.
Mattingly, G., The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Reprint Society, 1961.
Pickles, T., Malta, 1565, OB, 1988.
Polisensky, J V., (trans. R. Evans), The Thirty Years War, NEL, 1971.
Rabb, T K., (editor), The Thirty Years War, D C Heath and Co., 1968.
• THE NEAR EAST
Nicolle, D & McBride, A., Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300 – 1774, OB, 1983.
• THE FAR EAST
Jones, M., The Takeda, Dai Sho Publishing, 1993.
Levathes, L., When China Ruled the Seas, Oxford University Press, 1976.
Turnbull, S & Hook, R., Samurai Armies 1500 – 1615, OB, 1979.
Turnbull, S., The Book of the Samurai – The warrior Class of Japan, AA, 1982.
Library -Part Two- Dark Ages and Medieval
DARK AGES
Almedingen, E M., Charlemagne a Study, The Bodley Head, 1968.
Anon. (trans. Sayers, D L), The Song of Roland, Penguin Classics, 1965.
Green, C., Sutton Hoo The Excavation of a Royal Ship Burial, Merlin Press, 1963.
Haldon J., The Byzantine Wars, Tempus, 2001.
Heath, I., Armies of the Dark Ages, WRG, 1980.
Various, (edit. Ashe, G), The Quest for Arthur’s Britain, Paladin, 1977.
Wood, M., In Search of the Dark Ages, Ariel Books, 1985.
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MIDDLE AGES (MEDIEVAL)
• EUROPE
Allday, H., Insurrection in Wales, Terence Dalton, 1981
Barker, J., Agincourt, Little, Brown, 2005
Fabre, L., Joan of Arc, ???, 19??.
Heath, I., Armies and Enemies of the Middle Ages, (Vol. 1), WRG, 1982.
Heath, I., Armies and Enemies of the Middle Ages, (Vol. 2), WRG, 1984.
Hibbert, C., Agincourt, Pan Books, 1971.
Lindholm, D., Nicolle, D. & McBride, A., Medieval Scandinavian Armies (1) 1100-1300, Osprey, 2003
Nicolle, D., & McBride, A., Lake Peipus Battle of the Ice, Osprey, 2003
Rowse, A. L., Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
Unstead, R J., The Medieval Scene, A & C Black, 1972.
Volborth, C –A von, Heraldry: Customs, Rules and Styles, New Orchard Edns., 1981.
Wise, T, Hook, R & Walker, W., Medieval Heraldry, OB, 1984.
• THE NEAR EAST
Foss, M., People of the First Crusade, Michael O’Mara, 1997.
Gabrieli, F., Arab Histories of the Crusades, Routledge, 1989.
Heath, I., Armies and Enemies of the Crusades, 1096- 1291, Wargames Research Group, 1978.
Jones, T & Ereira, A., Crusades, BBC, 1994
Nicolle, D., & Hook, C., Knight Hospitaller (1) 1109-1306), Osprey, 2004.
Nicholson, H., & Reynolds, W., Knight Templar (1) 1120-1312, Osprey, 2004
• THE FAR EAST
D’Ancona, J., (trans. Selbourne, D., The City of Light, Little, Brown and Co., 1997.
Belloni M, (trans. Waugh), The Travels of Marco Polo, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1984.
Brent, P., The Mongol Empire, BCA, 1976.
Chambers, J., The Devils Horsemen, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
-Genghis Khan, Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999.
Curtin, J., The Mongols-A History, Combined Books, 1996.
Gabriel, R. A., Genghis Khan’s Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
Hildinger, E., Warriors of the Steppes, Spellmount, 1997.
Hoang, M., (trans. I. Cranfield), Genghis Khan, Saqi Books,1990.
Howarth, Sir H. H., History of the Mongols, Burt Franklin New York,1888.
Hsiao, Ch’i-ch-ing, The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Harvard University Press, London and Mass., 1978.
Humble R., Marco Polo, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1975.
Juvaini, (trans. Boyle J A), The History of the World Conqueror, (2 Volumes), Manchester University Press, 1958.
Manz B F., The rise and rule of Tamerlane, University Press Cambridge, 1989.
Martin, H D., The Rise of Chingis Khan and his Conquest of Northern China, John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1950.
Nicolle D & McBride A., The Age of Tamerlane, OB, 1990.
Nicolle, D., & Shpakovsky V., Kalka River 1223, Osprey Publishing, 2001
Onon, U,. The Secret History of the Mongols, The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan, Curzon, 2001.
Orlandi E., (ed.), The Life and Times of Genghis Khan, Hamlyn, 1970.
Peers, C & Sque, D., Medieval Chinese Armies 1260-1520, OB, 1992.
Phillips, E D., The Mongols, Thames Hudson, 1969.
Ratchnevsky, P., (trans and ed Haining T N), Genghis Khan and his Legacy, Blackwell, 1991
Rashid al-Din, (trans. Boyle J A), Successors of Genghis Khan, Columbia University Press, NY, 1971.
Ronay, G.,The Tartar Khan’s Englishman, Phoenix Press, 2000
Turnbull, S & McBride, A., The Mongols, Osprey Publishing, 1980.
Turnbull, S., Samurai Warfare, Arms & Armour, 1999.
Turnbull, S., Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests, Osprey Publishing, 2003
Turnbull, S., Mongol Warrior 1200-1350, Osprey Publishing, 003
Waley, A., The Secret History of the Mongols, George Allen & Unwin, 1963.
• MIDDLE AGES –GENERAL
Bennett, M., Bradbury, J., DeVries, K., Dickie,I. & Jestice, P. G., Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World, Spellmount, 2005.
Norman, V., The Medieval Soldier, Arthur Baker, 1971.
Oman, Sir C., The Art of War in the Middle Ages, (Vol. 1), Greenhill, 1998.
Oman, Sir C., The Art of War in the Middle Ages, (Vol. 2), Greenhill, 1998.
Almedingen, E M., Charlemagne a Study, The Bodley Head, 1968.
Anon. (trans. Sayers, D L), The Song of Roland, Penguin Classics, 1965.
Green, C., Sutton Hoo The Excavation of a Royal Ship Burial, Merlin Press, 1963.
Haldon J., The Byzantine Wars, Tempus, 2001.
Heath, I., Armies of the Dark Ages, WRG, 1980.
Various, (edit. Ashe, G), The Quest for Arthur’s Britain, Paladin, 1977.
Wood, M., In Search of the Dark Ages, Ariel Books, 1985.
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MIDDLE AGES (MEDIEVAL)
• EUROPE
Allday, H., Insurrection in Wales, Terence Dalton, 1981
Barker, J., Agincourt, Little, Brown, 2005
Fabre, L., Joan of Arc, ???, 19??.
Heath, I., Armies and Enemies of the Middle Ages, (Vol. 1), WRG, 1982.
Heath, I., Armies and Enemies of the Middle Ages, (Vol. 2), WRG, 1984.
Hibbert, C., Agincourt, Pan Books, 1971.
Lindholm, D., Nicolle, D. & McBride, A., Medieval Scandinavian Armies (1) 1100-1300, Osprey, 2003
Nicolle, D., & McBride, A., Lake Peipus Battle of the Ice, Osprey, 2003
Rowse, A. L., Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998
Unstead, R J., The Medieval Scene, A & C Black, 1972.
Volborth, C –A von, Heraldry: Customs, Rules and Styles, New Orchard Edns., 1981.
Wise, T, Hook, R & Walker, W., Medieval Heraldry, OB, 1984.
• THE NEAR EAST
Foss, M., People of the First Crusade, Michael O’Mara, 1997.
Gabrieli, F., Arab Histories of the Crusades, Routledge, 1989.
Heath, I., Armies and Enemies of the Crusades, 1096- 1291, Wargames Research Group, 1978.
Jones, T & Ereira, A., Crusades, BBC, 1994
Nicolle, D., & Hook, C., Knight Hospitaller (1) 1109-1306), Osprey, 2004.
Nicholson, H., & Reynolds, W., Knight Templar (1) 1120-1312, Osprey, 2004
• THE FAR EAST
D’Ancona, J., (trans. Selbourne, D., The City of Light, Little, Brown and Co., 1997.
Belloni M, (trans. Waugh), The Travels of Marco Polo, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1984.
Brent, P., The Mongol Empire, BCA, 1976.
Chambers, J., The Devils Horsemen, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
-Genghis Khan, Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999.
Curtin, J., The Mongols-A History, Combined Books, 1996.
Gabriel, R. A., Genghis Khan’s Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
Hildinger, E., Warriors of the Steppes, Spellmount, 1997.
Hoang, M., (trans. I. Cranfield), Genghis Khan, Saqi Books,1990.
Howarth, Sir H. H., History of the Mongols, Burt Franklin New York,1888.
Hsiao, Ch’i-ch-ing, The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Harvard University Press, London and Mass., 1978.
Humble R., Marco Polo, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1975.
Juvaini, (trans. Boyle J A), The History of the World Conqueror, (2 Volumes), Manchester University Press, 1958.
Manz B F., The rise and rule of Tamerlane, University Press Cambridge, 1989.
Martin, H D., The Rise of Chingis Khan and his Conquest of Northern China, John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1950.
Nicolle D & McBride A., The Age of Tamerlane, OB, 1990.
Nicolle, D., & Shpakovsky V., Kalka River 1223, Osprey Publishing, 2001
Onon, U,. The Secret History of the Mongols, The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan, Curzon, 2001.
Orlandi E., (ed.), The Life and Times of Genghis Khan, Hamlyn, 1970.
Peers, C & Sque, D., Medieval Chinese Armies 1260-1520, OB, 1992.
Phillips, E D., The Mongols, Thames Hudson, 1969.
Ratchnevsky, P., (trans and ed Haining T N), Genghis Khan and his Legacy, Blackwell, 1991
Rashid al-Din, (trans. Boyle J A), Successors of Genghis Khan, Columbia University Press, NY, 1971.
Ronay, G.,The Tartar Khan’s Englishman, Phoenix Press, 2000
Turnbull, S & McBride, A., The Mongols, Osprey Publishing, 1980.
Turnbull, S., Samurai Warfare, Arms & Armour, 1999.
Turnbull, S., Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests, Osprey Publishing, 2003
Turnbull, S., Mongol Warrior 1200-1350, Osprey Publishing, 003
Waley, A., The Secret History of the Mongols, George Allen & Unwin, 1963.
• MIDDLE AGES –GENERAL
Bennett, M., Bradbury, J., DeVries, K., Dickie,I. & Jestice, P. G., Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World, Spellmount, 2005.
Norman, V., The Medieval Soldier, Arthur Baker, 1971.
Oman, Sir C., The Art of War in the Middle Ages, (Vol. 1), Greenhill, 1998.
Oman, Sir C., The Art of War in the Middle Ages, (Vol. 2), Greenhill, 1998.
My persoanl library -Part One- Ancient
Others have done it, so I'm not averse to a bit of band-waggoning. Here it is, the first part of my collection, only military volumes are included.
ANCIENT
• PRE-GREECE AND ROME
Healy, M & McBride A., The Ancient Assyrians, OB, 1991.
Stillman, N & Tallis, N., Armies of the Ancient Near East, WRG, 1984.
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND GREECE
Barker, P., Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars, WRG, 1971.
Connelly, P., The Greek Armies, Macdonald, 1977.
Fox, R L., Alexander the Great, Omega Books, 1973.
Fuller, J F C., The Generalship of Alexander the Great, Wordsworth, 1998
Head, D., Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars. WRG, 1982.
Lonsdale, D. J., Alexander Killer of Men, Constable, 2004.
Plutarch, (trans. I Scott-Kilvert), The Age of Alexander, Penguin Classics, 1982.
Plutarch, Lives, (Vol. 2), Dryden, 19??.
Sekunda, A & McBride, A., The Ancient Greeks, OB, 1989.
Thucydides, (trans. R. Warner), The Peloponnesian War, Penguin Classics, 1979.
Warry, J., Alexander 334 -323 BC, Osprey Publishing, 1991
Xenophon, (trans. W H D Rouse), The March up Country, Mentor, 1964.
Xenophon, (trans. R Warner), The Persian Expedition, Penguin Classics, 1979.
• ROME AND ITS ENEMIES
Barker, P., The Armies and Enemies of Ancient Rome, WRG, 1972.
Barrow, R H., The Romans, Pelican, 1967.
Caesar, J., The Conquest of Gaul, Penguin Classics, 1976.
Caesar, J., (trans. J F Mitchell), The Civil War, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Chadwick, N., The Celts, Pelican, 1972.
Connolly, P., The Roman Army, Macdonald Educational, 1976.
Connolly P., Hannibal and the enemies of Rome, Macdonald Educational, 1978.
Cottrell, L., Enemy of Rome, Pan Books, 1962.
Dobson, B & Breeze, D., The Army of Hadrians Wall, Frank Graham, 1981.
Gibbon, E., (abridgement by D M Low), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, BCA, 1974.
Grant, M., Julius Caesar, BCA, 1974.
Josephus, (trans. G A Williamson), The Jewish War, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Livy, (trans. A de Selincourt), The War with Hannibal, Penguin Classics, 1968.
Mannix, D P., Those About to Die, Mayflower Books, 1976.
Massie, A., The Caesars, Secker and Warburg, London,1983.
Peddie, J., The Roman War Machine, Alan Sutton, 1988.
Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of Athens, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Robinson, H R & Embleton, R., The Armour of the Roman Legions, F Graham, 19??.
Sallust, (trans. S A Handford), Jugurthine War, Conspiracy of Cataline, Penguin Classics, 1977.
Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania, Penguin Classics, 1976.
Webster, G., The Roman Army, Grosvenor Museum, 1973.
• THE FAR EAST
Greer, J P., The Armies and Enemies of Ancient China, WRG, 1975.
Cotterel, M., The Terracotta Warriors- the Secret Codes of the Emperor’s Army, Headline, 2003
• OTHERS
Anglim, S., Jestice, P. G., Rice, R. S., Rusch, S. M. and Serrati, J., Fighting Techniques of the Ancient Wordl, Spellmount, 2005.
Anon. (trans. M. Magnusson), Njals Saga, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Lehmann J., The Hittites, Collins, 1977.
Stillman, N & Tallis, N., Armies of the Ancient Near East 3,000 BC to 539 BC, WRG, 1984.
Warry, J., Warfare in the Classical World, Salamander Books, 1980.
ANCIENT
• PRE-GREECE AND ROME
Healy, M & McBride A., The Ancient Assyrians, OB, 1991.
Stillman, N & Tallis, N., Armies of the Ancient Near East, WRG, 1984.
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND GREECE
Barker, P., Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars, WRG, 1971.
Connelly, P., The Greek Armies, Macdonald, 1977.
Fox, R L., Alexander the Great, Omega Books, 1973.
Fuller, J F C., The Generalship of Alexander the Great, Wordsworth, 1998
Head, D., Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars. WRG, 1982.
Lonsdale, D. J., Alexander Killer of Men, Constable, 2004.
Plutarch, (trans. I Scott-Kilvert), The Age of Alexander, Penguin Classics, 1982.
Plutarch, Lives, (Vol. 2), Dryden, 19??.
Sekunda, A & McBride, A., The Ancient Greeks, OB, 1989.
Thucydides, (trans. R. Warner), The Peloponnesian War, Penguin Classics, 1979.
Warry, J., Alexander 334 -323 BC, Osprey Publishing, 1991
Xenophon, (trans. W H D Rouse), The March up Country, Mentor, 1964.
Xenophon, (trans. R Warner), The Persian Expedition, Penguin Classics, 1979.
• ROME AND ITS ENEMIES
Barker, P., The Armies and Enemies of Ancient Rome, WRG, 1972.
Barrow, R H., The Romans, Pelican, 1967.
Caesar, J., The Conquest of Gaul, Penguin Classics, 1976.
Caesar, J., (trans. J F Mitchell), The Civil War, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Chadwick, N., The Celts, Pelican, 1972.
Connolly, P., The Roman Army, Macdonald Educational, 1976.
Connolly P., Hannibal and the enemies of Rome, Macdonald Educational, 1978.
Cottrell, L., Enemy of Rome, Pan Books, 1962.
Dobson, B & Breeze, D., The Army of Hadrians Wall, Frank Graham, 1981.
Gibbon, E., (abridgement by D M Low), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, BCA, 1974.
Grant, M., Julius Caesar, BCA, 1974.
Josephus, (trans. G A Williamson), The Jewish War, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Livy, (trans. A de Selincourt), The War with Hannibal, Penguin Classics, 1968.
Mannix, D P., Those About to Die, Mayflower Books, 1976.
Massie, A., The Caesars, Secker and Warburg, London,1983.
Peddie, J., The Roman War Machine, Alan Sutton, 1988.
Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of Athens, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Robinson, H R & Embleton, R., The Armour of the Roman Legions, F Graham, 19??.
Sallust, (trans. S A Handford), Jugurthine War, Conspiracy of Cataline, Penguin Classics, 1977.
Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania, Penguin Classics, 1976.
Webster, G., The Roman Army, Grosvenor Museum, 1973.
• THE FAR EAST
Greer, J P., The Armies and Enemies of Ancient China, WRG, 1975.
Cotterel, M., The Terracotta Warriors- the Secret Codes of the Emperor’s Army, Headline, 2003
• OTHERS
Anglim, S., Jestice, P. G., Rice, R. S., Rusch, S. M. and Serrati, J., Fighting Techniques of the Ancient Wordl, Spellmount, 2005.
Anon. (trans. M. Magnusson), Njals Saga, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Lehmann J., The Hittites, Collins, 1977.
Stillman, N & Tallis, N., Armies of the Ancient Near East 3,000 BC to 539 BC, WRG, 1984.
Warry, J., Warfare in the Classical World, Salamander Books, 1980.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
It's back!!
Yahoo! My figure painting mojo has returned from wherever it disappeared off to for the last couple of months!
Today, being off work with a ear infection that affects my sense of vertical balance and makes me feel a tad Uncle Dick unless I am sitting down, I finished off the first 18 of the 3rd Sassy Levy unit and undercoated the remaining 12. Still got to work out what standard I am going to give them yet.
I also finished off the second hill. A few passes with a can of extra strong hair spray keeps the flock on. Pics soon.
Next project update: Still haven't found the box of 15mm ACW figures yet.
Today, being off work with a ear infection that affects my sense of vertical balance and makes me feel a tad Uncle Dick unless I am sitting down, I finished off the first 18 of the 3rd Sassy Levy unit and undercoated the remaining 12. Still got to work out what standard I am going to give them yet.
I also finished off the second hill. A few passes with a can of extra strong hair spray keeps the flock on. Pics soon.
Next project update: Still haven't found the box of 15mm ACW figures yet.
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
More armies
First up we have Imperial Romans on the left and Carthaginians on the right. In the centre of the box are some Carthaginian elephants and near them are the Roman onager and ballistae. 6mm Irregular.
ACW Union in a bit of a mess. 6mm Irregular.
WW I 1914 Germans. Loads of infantry, a few cavalry and a shedload of artillery. 6mm Irregular.
In the middle is the artillery while above them are 1914 French and below are 1916 French. Some Renault tanks in the bottom right. The reason for the different types is because the French changed uniform colour from dark blue coats and red trousers to horizon blue in about 1915. Even in 6mm this change is noticeable.
British 1914. I decided to use them all through the war because in that scale the difference between a cap and a helmet is not that noticeable especially if the uniform colour is the same. A shot down aircraft of indeterminate pedigree and some male tanks complete the force. 6mm Irregular.
Modern Polish Army from a variety of manufacturers. Not painted by yours truly.
WW II Japanese. This army includes some home made Landing Craft at the top left. Lots of not very good tanks and loads of infantry.Most if not all Irregular. tried some small conversions in this army and made a few destroyed tanks; one losing a track and another 'brewing up' with its turret on the ground next to it.
One of my earliest and biggest 15mm armies, that of ECW Parliamentarian. Began painting in 1981 and finished in 1983. thorough mix of manufacturers including Mini Figs, Mikes Models, Warrior and others. The command figures in the lower centre are Naismith.
Han Chinese 15mm mostly Essex. The majority painted by me including the chariots. this army was painted in 1984-5. The dirty brown colour on the bases is proper dried dirt -I was in my 'keep it natural' phase of wargaming at the time. Never used it before or since.
Still not dry I trust?
Mick
ACW Union in a bit of a mess. 6mm Irregular.
WW I 1914 Germans. Loads of infantry, a few cavalry and a shedload of artillery. 6mm Irregular.
In the middle is the artillery while above them are 1914 French and below are 1916 French. Some Renault tanks in the bottom right. The reason for the different types is because the French changed uniform colour from dark blue coats and red trousers to horizon blue in about 1915. Even in 6mm this change is noticeable.
British 1914. I decided to use them all through the war because in that scale the difference between a cap and a helmet is not that noticeable especially if the uniform colour is the same. A shot down aircraft of indeterminate pedigree and some male tanks complete the force. 6mm Irregular.
Modern Polish Army from a variety of manufacturers. Not painted by yours truly.
WW II Japanese. This army includes some home made Landing Craft at the top left. Lots of not very good tanks and loads of infantry.Most if not all Irregular. tried some small conversions in this army and made a few destroyed tanks; one losing a track and another 'brewing up' with its turret on the ground next to it.
One of my earliest and biggest 15mm armies, that of ECW Parliamentarian. Began painting in 1981 and finished in 1983. thorough mix of manufacturers including Mini Figs, Mikes Models, Warrior and others. The command figures in the lower centre are Naismith.
Han Chinese 15mm mostly Essex. The majority painted by me including the chariots. this army was painted in 1984-5. The dirty brown colour on the bases is proper dried dirt -I was in my 'keep it natural' phase of wargaming at the time. Never used it before or since.
Still not dry I trust?
Mick
Old Figures - new pictures.
The other day as I was having a rummage, trying to find those errant ACW 15mm figures I was speaking about earlier when I had a thought. This is a golden opportunity to get some pictures of other armies. Now bearing in mind that time was a bit limited in that I had to go to work later so I only managed to get some of them done.
All pics are of course clickable.
First off is my 6mm ECW Royalist army with Rupert's infantry 3rd up on the left. all are Irregular. Not painted by me, all other armies in this post are.
Sassanid Persians. From top left to bottom right: Light cavalry, Levy infantry, clibs and catties mix then half a dozen pachyderms. General is on a base at the front. 6mm by Irregular.
Next up, Renaissance Turks with Spahi's of the Porte and other spahi's on the top left. Janissaries bottom left, next to them is the artillery contingent made up of 4 big bu**ers and then some generic light cavalry. On the right of the Spahi's are some mad light cavalry in tigerskin cloaks. Top right is a collection of levies/ basic fighting troops. General out front. 6mm Irregular.
Confederate ACW army. Loads of infantry, cavalry and a few guns. Even got some wounded markers for these. Organised a la Fly and Furry Ruleset. Again 6mm Irreglar.
Mongols. Light cavalry on left, heavies on the right. This may seem a tad small against other armies but don't forget I can cull quite a few of the others to make up numbers if I so wish. Guess what...6mm Irregular.
That's it for this time.
All pics are of course clickable.
First off is my 6mm ECW Royalist army with Rupert's infantry 3rd up on the left. all are Irregular. Not painted by me, all other armies in this post are.
Sassanid Persians. From top left to bottom right: Light cavalry, Levy infantry, clibs and catties mix then half a dozen pachyderms. General is on a base at the front. 6mm by Irregular.
Next up, Renaissance Turks with Spahi's of the Porte and other spahi's on the top left. Janissaries bottom left, next to them is the artillery contingent made up of 4 big bu**ers and then some generic light cavalry. On the right of the Spahi's are some mad light cavalry in tigerskin cloaks. Top right is a collection of levies/ basic fighting troops. General out front. 6mm Irregular.
Confederate ACW army. Loads of infantry, cavalry and a few guns. Even got some wounded markers for these. Organised a la Fly and Furry Ruleset. Again 6mm Irreglar.
Mongols. Light cavalry on left, heavies on the right. This may seem a tad small against other armies but don't forget I can cull quite a few of the others to make up numbers if I so wish. Guess what...6mm Irregular.
That's it for this time.
The Irons - Half the job done.
Good result for the Hammers last night. First half was all WH with only the Blues keeper managing to limit the score to 1-0 to the Irons; the rest of the team just couldn't cope. McLeish must have put a rocket up their collective ar**s in the interval coz they came out like a different team. Good header but cr*p defending by the Hammers led to the equaliser. Then Obinna, in a fit of stupidity kicked back at Larsson who like most players nowadays went down as if he'd been wellied in the nads by a baseball bat. (Strange though, less than a minute later he was taking a free kick on the other side of the pitch. What do they put in that spray, eh?) Straight red, off he went, no argument from anybody. Grant brought on Cole who scored probably one of the softest goals of his career. It was going so slowly that when it hit the net there was only a slight bulge. That doyen of football punditry Alan Hanson -a man I have disliked as a player ever since 1976-7 when Southend hosted Liverpool in the FA Cup and Hanson pulled the Southend striker down when he was clear through- reckoned the ball was traveling at no miles per hour as it crossed the line?? The one moment when Foster got it wrong. I felt for the bloke; made some cracking saves in the first half and it looked as though he was a bit unsighted as the ball trickled under his trailing leg. So it ended 2-1 to the Hammers.
MO said he had to take deep, calming breaths when Blues scored otherwise it could have been lampshade time for the poor so-and-so. I will probably have to do the same on the 26th.
Everything still to play for. Should be good as long as WH don't come up here to defend a tenuous one goal lead.
Bring it on! Can't wait!
PS Roots Hall, Southend's home ground usually had anywhere between 4-6,000 supporters at a match. On that particular cold night during the worst snow for donkey's years there were over 30,000 crammed into the place -at that time probably most of the local population of the town! I'm telling you, sardines in a tin have more breathing space. 0-0 it finished but the Shrimpers got bladdered in the replay.
MO said he had to take deep, calming breaths when Blues scored otherwise it could have been lampshade time for the poor so-and-so. I will probably have to do the same on the 26th.
Everything still to play for. Should be good as long as WH don't come up here to defend a tenuous one goal lead.
Bring it on! Can't wait!
PS Roots Hall, Southend's home ground usually had anywhere between 4-6,000 supporters at a match. On that particular cold night during the worst snow for donkey's years there were over 30,000 crammed into the place -at that time probably most of the local population of the town! I'm telling you, sardines in a tin have more breathing space. 0-0 it finished but the Shrimpers got bladdered in the replay.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
A woodland pond
This is really a WIP just to show the stages of construction.
The first picture has already got all of the basic elements in place. The observant reader will have noticed that the tops of two stones have been left uncovered.
The reason for the lack of wood glue and sand is because I have a weighty piece of steel that I lay across things to stop them warping.
The water is now done and varnished with a single coat of Ronseal Gloss varnish, the base colour is on and the reeds have been a coat of ochre. This was a learning exercise for me in that I have not made such a large area of water before.
HINT. If possible paint and varnish the water BEFORE you wood glue and sand the thing because the sand gets everywhere, even when you thought it was all stuck down!
The first picture has already got all of the basic elements in place. The observant reader will have noticed that the tops of two stones have been left uncovered.
The reason for the lack of wood glue and sand is because I have a weighty piece of steel that I lay across things to stop them warping.
The water is now done and varnished with a single coat of Ronseal Gloss varnish, the base colour is on and the reeds have been a coat of ochre. This was a learning exercise for me in that I have not made such a large area of water before.
HINT. If possible paint and varnish the water BEFORE you wood glue and sand the thing because the sand gets everywhere, even when you thought it was all stuck down!
Who's been a busy little chappie, then?
Recently, I have been mostly making terrain. So far I have several single trees, two pieces of broken ground using old cd's as the base, two small woods/copses/spinney's on card bases and a woodland pond (currently unfinished but just needing a bit of drybrushing and some foliage glued on).
I thought I would share my method of construction. The basic construction is the same for everything, it's just the materials and the application that occasionally differ.
1. First off there is the broken ground on a cd base as mentioned on the post before last.
Simply done.
A) Scratch a cd base with some glass paper to increase the adhesion.
B) Using some propriety adhesive such as Hard as Nails or Sticks like S**T, glue various sized stones on the base.
C) Fill in the gaps around the bottoms of the stones with filler.
D) At this point you can stick down some home made tufty things (as outlined earlier in the blog).
E) Cover with wood glue and sand, then paint.
2. Next the small wood. For this I used twigs cut from the last of the seasons hedge trimmings as the trunks.
A) Glue some random stones down as outlined above and, using a contact adhesive such as Evostick or UHU, stick down the trunks in a previously arranged dry run. Put glue on both surfaces and leave it to go tacky before pushing the two together otherwise you will have to prop up the trunks so that they don't fall over.
B) Once the glue has dried thoroughly slop some Hard as Nails all around the bottom of the trunks as another layer of adhesion. Once this is solid then add the filler; a further covering around the trunk bases, gap filling on the stones and some random lumps to break up the flatness of the base.
C) Once that has dried cover with wood glue and sand.
D) I now paint all my bases in exactly the same way with the same colours. First off is a coat of a mid earth brown -mixed at Homebase- followed by areas of a wash of burnt umber.
E) This is followed with dry brushed Antique Gold and then Cream, both acrylics from Anita paints. Attach some patches of flock and shrubs and the base is finished.
F) In the summer I saw some dyed sisal used by people who make their own hanging baskets and thought it may work for tree canopy. If it worked then at £4.99 for a big bag it should make about 20-30 trees -cheap as chips. The 'branches' of the twigs are now coated in contact adhesive and clumps of the stuff are glued on. Trim off any errant string and that's it.
The figures have been included for scale. They are the small diorama of some 15mm Sassanid levy preparing to defend themselves against an enemy threat.
There are four layers of gunk around each of the trre trunks so that should hold them securely in place. The only thing with these is that you have to wait for each layer of gunk to dry before you can slap on the next. But I think it's worth it.
Another method I thought of was using pipe cleaners for tree trunks. This method involved twisting three or four together, leaving about an inch at the bottom to splay out for the 'roots' and make them as tall as you like. Glue the roots using a hot glue gun to a piece of thick card or one of those custom made circular bases. I have added a couple of small stones for a bit of added weight.
(In the background you can see the next unit of levy half done as well as some more undercoated Hunnic Mongols.)
Paint the trunk with a reasonably thin mix of wood glue, filler and water and when dry paint and add the foliage.
Keep yer bristles moist.
Mick
I thought I would share my method of construction. The basic construction is the same for everything, it's just the materials and the application that occasionally differ.
1. First off there is the broken ground on a cd base as mentioned on the post before last.
Simply done.
A) Scratch a cd base with some glass paper to increase the adhesion.
B) Using some propriety adhesive such as Hard as Nails or Sticks like S**T, glue various sized stones on the base.
C) Fill in the gaps around the bottoms of the stones with filler.
D) At this point you can stick down some home made tufty things (as outlined earlier in the blog).
E) Cover with wood glue and sand, then paint.
2. Next the small wood. For this I used twigs cut from the last of the seasons hedge trimmings as the trunks.
A) Glue some random stones down as outlined above and, using a contact adhesive such as Evostick or UHU, stick down the trunks in a previously arranged dry run. Put glue on both surfaces and leave it to go tacky before pushing the two together otherwise you will have to prop up the trunks so that they don't fall over.
B) Once the glue has dried thoroughly slop some Hard as Nails all around the bottom of the trunks as another layer of adhesion. Once this is solid then add the filler; a further covering around the trunk bases, gap filling on the stones and some random lumps to break up the flatness of the base.
C) Once that has dried cover with wood glue and sand.
D) I now paint all my bases in exactly the same way with the same colours. First off is a coat of a mid earth brown -mixed at Homebase- followed by areas of a wash of burnt umber.
E) This is followed with dry brushed Antique Gold and then Cream, both acrylics from Anita paints. Attach some patches of flock and shrubs and the base is finished.
F) In the summer I saw some dyed sisal used by people who make their own hanging baskets and thought it may work for tree canopy. If it worked then at £4.99 for a big bag it should make about 20-30 trees -cheap as chips. The 'branches' of the twigs are now coated in contact adhesive and clumps of the stuff are glued on. Trim off any errant string and that's it.
The figures have been included for scale. They are the small diorama of some 15mm Sassanid levy preparing to defend themselves against an enemy threat.
There are four layers of gunk around each of the trre trunks so that should hold them securely in place. The only thing with these is that you have to wait for each layer of gunk to dry before you can slap on the next. But I think it's worth it.
Another method I thought of was using pipe cleaners for tree trunks. This method involved twisting three or four together, leaving about an inch at the bottom to splay out for the 'roots' and make them as tall as you like. Glue the roots using a hot glue gun to a piece of thick card or one of those custom made circular bases. I have added a couple of small stones for a bit of added weight.
(In the background you can see the next unit of levy half done as well as some more undercoated Hunnic Mongols.)
Paint the trunk with a reasonably thin mix of wood glue, filler and water and when dry paint and add the foliage.
Keep yer bristles moist.
Mick
Saturday, 25 December 2010
Only about football, this one.
MO came up from the smoke for the festivities, got turfed off the train at Coventry with no explanation only that trains weren't going any further, (found out later power lines were down between Coventry and Brummagem International), on the day before all the white stuff fell from the sky. While he has been up here he has already bought my birthday present, wait for it, wait for it...a ticket to see the Blues v the Hammers in the second leg, Carling Cup semi-final. So on 26th January, MO, my Bluenose mate across the road and myself will be going to St Andrews for the match. Outnumbered again, and I will have to sit with the Blues fans but I'm going, that's the main thing. Can't wait. Meanwhile MO, the lucky so-snd-so, has a mate darn sarth who is also a Hammers fan and the git is also going to the first leg at Upton Park on 11th January.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Swining weather!
Well, since the last a fair bit has happened -some of it may even be interesting.
You know how sometimes you don't fancy painting but want to watch the telly even less? I had one of those evenings a few weeks ago, so just for the craic I typed my name into Google to see what I had been up to on the tinterweb. I found an item that said some bloke had got a set of WWI Rules from me some 30 years ago. I traced the link and found him on the WD3 Wargaming Community. Sent a message via the forum and found out that we went to the same wargames club in Southend decades ago. Still chatting every so often. How small the electronic world can be.
The most amazing thing happened to me at work the other week. I was talking to a colleague about nothing much when he said he noticed that I was always reading in the canteen and that he had a book I might be interested in. I thought nothing more of it until a week later when he gave me a carrier bag. I opened it to find a hand written diary from his missus' grandfather who was in the RGA in WWI and it was an account from early 1917 to mid 1918 when he was sent back to Blighty. Hand drawn maps and all. Court martial offence if discovered of course, but what a read. What I have is actually a copy made by him immediately on his return to England while the original, apparently covered in muck and who knows what else, currently resides in the Imperial War Museum.A contemporary account that is over 90 years old. Fantastic stuff!
Made some trees using twisted pipe-cleaners for the trunks and some hanging-basket-filler-stuff I bought from Homebase (a DIY chain here in the Old Country). Took some each-stage pictures then, by accident, promptly deleted them all- Muppet. I'm quite impressed by them. Got some dried privet twigs left over from the last hedge trim of the year on the worktop so I'm going to try them out next. Probably not as versatile as the pipe-cleaners for bendiness but will be finished a lot faster. I also tried out the method of using old CD's as terrain bases and made a couple of rocky outcrops which look pretty good as well. Once again, due to my mechanical ineptitude I lost those pics as well. Sphericals!
I've made a decision to integrate the two blogs into this one, so all further writeups about the Sassy's and the Byz Boys will be on this one along with everything else.
The weather here -either rain, cold, overcast, wind, snow or a combination of all of them-hasn't really been conducive to external photography which is all well and good because I haven't really got anything new to show you. The 3rd unit of Sassy Levy, (Donnington Figures), is more than half finished but I had a minor Sabbatical on them while terrain building. Not much left for them now, then I might make a more serious start on the Byz Boys.
or
I might just start a new project.
Bit of historical background here. Years ago that nice Mr Macfarlane run a show at Birmingham Uni in Edgbaston. I was in a club that offered to help the traders to move their wares in and out of the venue and as a thank you we were given chits that were redeemable at various manufacturers. Now with my chits and some judicial swapping I managed to acquire enough credit wonga to purchase a whole mess of figures. To date those figures have sat in a box somewhere in the manse. When I can find the little monkeys they will be the start of my new period...15mm ACW. Now this is different because all I need to buy is the Rebs because I believe I already have all the Bluebellies in the shape of inf. cav. and art. I will need. I also have a copy of Fly & Furry Rules so I might use them although I'm unconvinced of 20 x 20 bases with 3-5 figs on each. Yes, alright, thats the ruleset standard but I don't want RSI from shifting all the bl**dy bases around. At the other end of the scale my usual 60 x 40's are just too big -an 8 base brigade comes in at a huge 480mm or over 18" frontage; far too much for my board. Hmmmmm, needs a bit of thought.
The other thing that has stopped me in the past is that, years ago, there was a book-shop in Brum from a nationwide chain called County Books. From the Military Section I purchased a bout 15 imported books on the ACW -the usual fare, battles, biographies etc- including books II, III and IV from the definitive Battles and Leaders of the Civil War for about £7.99 apiece. I obviously asked about the first book and was told that it would be in at some time. Well, that was about 10 years ago, the Bull Ring has been pulled down and rebuilt and you guessed it, the shop went with it. No bl**dy book. Then, last month on whim, I checked Amazon. It was there, Book I of the Battles and Leaders. So that is my Crimble pressie from YO this year. Now all things considered, in early 2011 I will finally get round to reading the whole set.
You know how sometimes you don't fancy painting but want to watch the telly even less? I had one of those evenings a few weeks ago, so just for the craic I typed my name into Google to see what I had been up to on the tinterweb. I found an item that said some bloke had got a set of WWI Rules from me some 30 years ago. I traced the link and found him on the WD3 Wargaming Community. Sent a message via the forum and found out that we went to the same wargames club in Southend decades ago. Still chatting every so often. How small the electronic world can be.
The most amazing thing happened to me at work the other week. I was talking to a colleague about nothing much when he said he noticed that I was always reading in the canteen and that he had a book I might be interested in. I thought nothing more of it until a week later when he gave me a carrier bag. I opened it to find a hand written diary from his missus' grandfather who was in the RGA in WWI and it was an account from early 1917 to mid 1918 when he was sent back to Blighty. Hand drawn maps and all. Court martial offence if discovered of course, but what a read. What I have is actually a copy made by him immediately on his return to England while the original, apparently covered in muck and who knows what else, currently resides in the Imperial War Museum.A contemporary account that is over 90 years old. Fantastic stuff!
Made some trees using twisted pipe-cleaners for the trunks and some hanging-basket-filler-stuff I bought from Homebase (a DIY chain here in the Old Country). Took some each-stage pictures then, by accident, promptly deleted them all- Muppet. I'm quite impressed by them. Got some dried privet twigs left over from the last hedge trim of the year on the worktop so I'm going to try them out next. Probably not as versatile as the pipe-cleaners for bendiness but will be finished a lot faster. I also tried out the method of using old CD's as terrain bases and made a couple of rocky outcrops which look pretty good as well. Once again, due to my mechanical ineptitude I lost those pics as well. Sphericals!
I've made a decision to integrate the two blogs into this one, so all further writeups about the Sassy's and the Byz Boys will be on this one along with everything else.
The weather here -either rain, cold, overcast, wind, snow or a combination of all of them-hasn't really been conducive to external photography which is all well and good because I haven't really got anything new to show you. The 3rd unit of Sassy Levy, (Donnington Figures), is more than half finished but I had a minor Sabbatical on them while terrain building. Not much left for them now, then I might make a more serious start on the Byz Boys.
or
I might just start a new project.
Bit of historical background here. Years ago that nice Mr Macfarlane run a show at Birmingham Uni in Edgbaston. I was in a club that offered to help the traders to move their wares in and out of the venue and as a thank you we were given chits that were redeemable at various manufacturers. Now with my chits and some judicial swapping I managed to acquire enough credit wonga to purchase a whole mess of figures. To date those figures have sat in a box somewhere in the manse. When I can find the little monkeys they will be the start of my new period...15mm ACW. Now this is different because all I need to buy is the Rebs because I believe I already have all the Bluebellies in the shape of inf. cav. and art. I will need. I also have a copy of Fly & Furry Rules so I might use them although I'm unconvinced of 20 x 20 bases with 3-5 figs on each. Yes, alright, thats the ruleset standard but I don't want RSI from shifting all the bl**dy bases around. At the other end of the scale my usual 60 x 40's are just too big -an 8 base brigade comes in at a huge 480mm or over 18" frontage; far too much for my board. Hmmmmm, needs a bit of thought.
The other thing that has stopped me in the past is that, years ago, there was a book-shop in Brum from a nationwide chain called County Books. From the Military Section I purchased a bout 15 imported books on the ACW -the usual fare, battles, biographies etc- including books II, III and IV from the definitive Battles and Leaders of the Civil War for about £7.99 apiece. I obviously asked about the first book and was told that it would be in at some time. Well, that was about 10 years ago, the Bull Ring has been pulled down and rebuilt and you guessed it, the shop went with it. No bl**dy book. Then, last month on whim, I checked Amazon. It was there, Book I of the Battles and Leaders. So that is my Crimble pressie from YO this year. Now all things considered, in early 2011 I will finally get round to reading the whole set.
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