Here's our latest list of pre-orders, new releases and second-hand books.
H24750 - Bombardier and Pocket Gunner/Adye (R.) and W. Eliot, with new introductio Facsimile of the most important 7th edition 1813 (and virtually impossible to find in the original) with a new 40 pages, introduction, the original edition 400 pages, quality hardback. 2016 reissue. The finest and rarest edition of the principal artillery manual of the Napoleonic Wars. - £30.00 GBP
H24751 - Military Force of Great Britain During the Napoleonic Wars 1): Organisation of the Army/Dupin (C.) with new intro. S. Summerfield To fully understand the British Army of the Waterloo period, we need to turn to a French scientific genius and spy! Charles Dupin visited the British Isles as soon as practical after the Napoleonic Wars in a fact-gathering exercise and wrote up his technical and organisational study of the British Army in his monumental study Force Militaire de la Grande-Bretagne. This was translated into English in an 1822 edition. Not only is this the closest contemporary study of the administration of the Army, it is also the best technical guide to the ordnance of the period, much of which has been incorrectly described by later authors. Our latest edition is hardbound with color printed covers. New 18 pages, introduction by Stephen Summerfield, plus 395 pages, 20 black-and-white plates. 2016 reissue. - £35.00 GBP
H24752 - Military Force of Great BRritain During the Napoleonic Wars 2) Military Schools, Ordnance and Engineers/Dupin - New 16 pages introduction by Stephen Summerfield, plus 470 pages, c. 60 black-and-white plates. 2016 reissue. - £35.00 GBP
H24753 - Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes of Personal Valour, Bravery, and Particular Incidents Which Occurred to the Armies of Great Britain and her Allies, in the Last Long-Contested War, Terminating With the Battle of Waterloo/Orme Facsimile of the 1819 edition, 96 pages text, plus 40 superb color plates reproduced from the original hand-coloured versions, large 4to, each copy individually quality printed and hand-bound. 2010. Orme's superb work tends to concentrate on Waterloo with a high proportion of the plates referring to incidents in the battle. - £150.00 GBP
H24754 - Milvian Bridge AD 312 – Osprey campaign 296. - £12.50 GBP
H24755 - Gempei War 180-85/Turnbull Osprey Campaign 297. - £12.50 GBP
H24756 - Bradley vs BMP: Desert Storm 1991 – Osprey Duel 75. - £11.50 GBP
H24757 - U.S. Navy Light Cruisers 1941-45 – Osprey NVG 236. - £9.99 GBP
H24758 - L'Esercito Russo 1805/15 Fanteria: Russian Army 1805/15 Infantry/Falzone 60 pages, very well illustrated. Italian/English text, near fine. Yellowing to cover. One only. - £15.00 GBP
H24759 - Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585-1702/Manning mint with shelf wear. One only. - £105.00 GBP
H24760 - Soldier's Life in the English Civil War: Organisation, Clothing, Weapons, Combat and Food/Peachey, Stuart Essential Stuff - Take it From Dave! 208 pages. Very well illustrated including 32 color pages, based on the study of many thousands of original military documents, hundreds of period newspapers, wartime autobiographies, recipe books and 20,000 probate inventories and wills. The information was then used over the last 30 years to reconstruct complete period landscapes within which to test theories experimentally and to produce the materials required for other experiments. Clothing was reconstructed with specially made replica fabrics, dyed in a reconstruction of a period dyehouse using the original methods and dyes. Orchards and gardens were reconstructed to reproduce the soldier's diet. - £29.00 GBP
H24761 - Jane Austen: Zombie Killer – Skirmish Rules for the Age of Regency Zombie Hunters. Glossy full-color set of fast and furious combat against the unmentionables. - £11.50 GBP
H24762 - Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits – £8.50 GBP
H24763 - Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics of Sling Warfare Robertson 132 pages. Very well illustrated. Fascinating study. Includes experimental and modelled tactical scenarios for various defence types. - £25.00 GBP
H24764 - Making Pictures of War: Realia Et Imaginaria in the Iconography of the Ancient Near East/Battini. 90 pages large format paperback. Very well illustrated. Essays on Wars scenes. Detailed look at largely Neo-Assyrian Reliefs, seals etc.. - £25.00 GBP
H24765 - Uniforms of the Russian Army During the Napoleonic War 8) The Grenadiers 1801-1825/Viskovatov 112 pages. 60 plates, many in color, plus detailed text in English. - £25.00 GBP