experiments to find a better way to mount aircraft for wargaming.
It seems that this week favors the 20th Century, with most due in the shoppe in a week or so, but the Ospreys due at end of May.
WORLD WAR I
THE ROMANIAN BATTLEFRONT IN WORLD WAR I 42 b/w photos and 17 b/w maps. Account of the heavy fighting during the 1916 campaign and of the renewed attempt by Austro-German forces, including the elite Alpine Corps, to subdue the Romanian Army in the summer of 1917. This latter campaign, highlighted here but ignored in non-Romanian accounts, witnessed reorganized and rearmed Romanian soldiers, with help from a disintegrating Russian Army, administer a stunning defeat of their enemies. $40.00 USD
BLOOD ON THE SNOW: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 Austro-Hungarian forces fought to rescue 130,000 Habsburg soldiers trapped by Russian troops in Fortress Przemysl, but the campaign was waged under such adverse circumstances that it produced six times as many casualties as the number besieged. The campaign consisted of three separate and ultimately doomed offensives. $30.00 USD
AMERICA'S DEADLIEST BATTLE: Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The great battle of the Meuse-Argonne involved 1.2 million American troops over 47 days and was the costliest conflict in American history, with 26,000 men killed and tens of thousands wounded. $30.00 USD
Osprey 042 DH 2 vs ALBATROS D I/D II: Western Front 1916 $18.00 USD
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Osprey 104 NAVAL ACES OF WORLD WAR I: Part 2 $18.00 USD
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WORLD WAR II
THE WEHRMACHT RETREATS: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 Detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein's great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. 35 b/w photos, (15) b/w maps. $35.00 USD
RED PHOENIX RISING: The Soviet Air Force in World War II 105 photographs, eight maps. Revised version of a groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II using an avalanche of declassified Russian archival sources, combat documents, and statistical information made available in the past three decades. $35.00 USD
Osprey 016 THE M1 GARAND $18.00 USD
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Osprey 025 OMAR BRADLEY $18.00 USD
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043 M4 SHERMAN vs TYPE 97 CHI-HA: The Pacific 1945 $18.00 USD
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WWII WARGAME IN MAGAZINE
WORLD AT WAR 24: Sedan 1940 Sedan, May 1940, is a two-player (German versus French) operational-level game. The game includes 228 medium-sized die-cut counters, with the battalion as the primary maneuver unit, and also includes air units, artillery units, blown bridges, pontoon bridges, and command draw chits. The colorful map features the Belgian/French border, centered around Sedan along the Meuse River, with each hex representing approximately two miles across, and includes such prominent locations as the northern extent of the Maginot Line, and the city of Sedan, as well as various charts and tables for easy reference during play. $30.00 USD
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POST-WWII
OPERATION ANACONDA: America's First Major Battle in Afghanistan Account of this thirteen-day firefight waged in mountainous terrain nearly two miles above sea level. They describe how allied troops fought a fierce and well-entrenched enemy to a standstill, close to an old Soviet battlefield, and then drove them completely out of Afghanistan. Also includes a DVD documentary that features interviews with soldiers who fought in Anaconda, provides additional information concerning major phases of the battle, and presents insightful commentary by Grau and by Billingsley, who was on the ground with U.S. forces for the operation. 32 b/w photos and 47 b/w maps. $40.00 USD
Osprey 244 THE FALKLANDS 1982: Ground Operations in the South Atlantic On 3 April 1982, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced that Argentine armed forces had landed on British sovereign territory; had captured the men of Royal Marine detachment NP8901; had run up the Argentine flag; and had declared the islands and their population to be Argentine. Details the major stages of the land campaign to retake the islands, focusing on the San Carlos landings, the battle for Darwin and Goose Green, and the final battles for Mt. Longdon, Tumbledown, and Wireless Ridge, the mountains that surrounded the island's capital, Stanley. $20.00 USD
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TOY SOLDIER CLASSIC REVISED
COLLECTING TOY SOLDIERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY 7.5x10, 200+ color photos. This serves as an update of the author's successful Collecting Toy Soldiers (Collins, 1987; pbk edition, New Cavendish, 1991). In it, James Opie gives the collector the benefit of 30 years' experience as the world's leading authority on traditional toy soldiers (as opposed to model soldiers used in wargaming, etc.) and a lifetime as a collector himself. The book combines authoritative advice on all aspects of collecting, including price trends, and pitfalls to avoid when buying or selling at auction, with informative and often-amusing anecdotes from James' own experiences. $50.00 USD
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AND DON'T FORGET THE MAGAZINES
WARGAMES ILLUSTRATED: Issue #295 May 2012 Theme: Crimean War (Overview, Battle of Alma, General Eyre's Assault at Sevastopol 1845, and new Crimean War ruleset Four Empires). Also: Panzer Brigades on the Eastern Front (post Operation Bagration, for FoW); Maurice (new 18th C. game); Age of Ravens (exhibition Anglo-Danes versus Normans battle using new Dark Age supplement); Battle of Castagnaro 1387 (Sir John Hawkwood in northern Italy); Shooting Stars (FoW decal sheet tips); Battle of Palo Alto (1846, Hasenauer's new Mexican-American War supplement); two painting tips articles, and news about the new film War Game Heroes. $8.50 USD
S & T 275 KONIGGRATZ Battle on 3 July 1866, the armies of Austria-Hungary and Prussia met west of the Bohemian fortress of Koniggratz (now Hradec Kralove). Brigade-sized units, one-fifth-mile hexes, 90-minute turns, 280 counters. $30.00 USD
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