"Paraguayan War Book Review" Topic

"On 29 February I took advantage of the Foundry Leap Day 20% off sale and ordered "The Paraguayan War" book. I had heard good things about this work, but my expectations of presentation was not high – probably a low cost print with maybe a spiral binding, despite a relatively high price – you know what most books outside of the Osprey range are like. When I unpacked the parcel today I was very pleasantly surprised.

I was presented with an A4 sized hard bound book of 188 pages, printed on quality paper, with hundreds of black and white line drawings, detailed uniform descriptions, orders of battle, maps, sketches of gunboats, descriptions of campaigns and battles. Too often I find that with similar books that the content order is so muddled that you have to look in several places within the book to find what you need and even then some important detail will be missing. Since my day job is presenting and publishing technical documentation I can say with a degree of professional appreciation that this book appears very well structured, delivering the right information in the right order…"

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Amicalement
Armand

I bought that book years ago and loved it. It is THE book for anyone interested in that barely known war.

Thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand

It's interesting.

Glad you like it my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

I own the Osprey Campaign book on the war which came out in October. It's really good but this one looks good too.

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