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Plenty of stuff to tell you about this week with new book releases, latest magazines, and new figures in stock and shipping now.

The latest round of West German releases for Team Yankee: Leopard are due to be in stock later this week, so order now to get yours as soon as they come in! Don't forget we've already got all of these in 10mm scale which we manufacture under the Minifigs brand.

Our range of 1:200 scale modern aircraft is expanding! These are ideally suited for both Team Yankee and aerial combat rules such as the exciting new rules Sidewinder which we have in the pipeline. Check out the website – they're all available now, and weapon packs so you can load them will be available to order within a day or two.


H24737 - French Military Arms and Armor in America 1503-1783/Chartrand, Rene - 216 pages, mint paperback 570+ black-and-white photos. A comprehensive guide to the military weapons and armor used in New France. Includes muskets, swords, pistols, bayonets, pole-arms and much more. From soldiers and sailors to woodsmen and buccaneers. - £29.95 GBP

H24738 - Fortress: The Castles and Fortifications Quarterly: Five random issues – Large format 60-70 pages. Black-and-white photos. Four to six articles per issue. Mostly near fine, all periods, all countries. - £15.00 GBP

H24739 - Painting Wargame Tanks 2nd edition. Torregrosa and Jimenez 90 pages, large format. All full-color photos. Suitable for 10mm, 15mm, 28mm. £25.00 GBP

H24740 - With Count Pahlen's Cavalry Against Napoleon: Memoirs of the Russian General E Von Lowenstein/Lowenstern - Mint hardback. 240 pages, illustrated. A wonderful insight into Russian Light cavalry life and actions during the Napoleonic wars. - £30.00 GBP

H24741 - Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII/Hayward, Maria - Hardback, color illustrated. New in slightly worn slipcase. 460 pages. This book encompasses the first detailed study of male and female dress worn at the court. - £75.00 GBP

H24742 - Monumental Effigies of Great Britain: Selected from our Cathedrals and Churches for the Purpose of Bringing Together, and Preserving Correct Representations of the Best Historical Illustrations Extant, From the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Henry the Eighth/Stothard (C.) KT013 - £45.00 GBP. Facsimile of 1832 edition with introduction and descriptions by Alfre John Kempe, 317 pages, 4to, 144 plates, all original full-color plates reproduced in full-color, sepia monochrome plates reproduced black-and-white, quality hardback. 2016 reissue. Charles Stothard's great work remains one of the most beautiful and authoritative studies of surviving church monuments of the period and of course one of the most important primary references to the developing styles of arms and armour as well as civil and church clothing. - £45.00 GBP

H24743 - Miniature Wargames (with Battlegames) 400 – Congratulations to Duncan Iain, Andrew and Henry on reaching the Landmark 400th issue. - £5.00 GBP

H24744 - Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands in 1815… Comprising the Battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo/Mudford (W.) KT011 - £45.00 GBP. Facsimile of 1817 edition, 368 pages, text, color portrait of officers frontis, color title, two color maps (reduced from the originals which would have been impossible to reproduce), color battle scene (also reduced from the original), 25 color plates, 4to, quality hardback edition. 2016 reissue. Mudford's account of Waterloo is one of the most famous and most sought-after. One of the great features of this account are the series of plates, which follow in sequence (the background of one being the foreground of the next) the journey to the battlefield. The field of battle itself is faithfully recorded immediately after the event, with the correct positioning of bodies and the actual damage to the buildings. - £45.00 GBP

H24745 - Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession 1741-48/Skrine Facsimile of 1906 edition, 394 pages, seven plates, two maps, quality hardback edition. 2016 reissue. This is by far the most famous study of the Battle of Fontenoy and an essential read for the campaign. £25.00 GBP

H24746 - Frostgrave Gnolls – The Frostgrave Gnolls box set contains enough parts to make 20 different figures. There are multiple heads, arms, weapons and accoutrements per frame, no two warbands will ever be the same. Gnolls feature in Into The Breeding Pits as opponents in the scenarios and as random encounters. They should also be used as the soldiers for Warbands of Beastcraft Wizards. Post free worldwide. - £22.00 GBP

H24747 - Into the Breeeding Pits: Frostgrave supplement – latest supplement. - £10.00 GBP

H24748 - Team Yankee – German Marder Zug TGBX02 – Available to order now. 5x plastic vehicles. Post free worldwide. - £27.00 GBP

H24749 - Team Yankee – German Gepard Flakpanzer Batterie TGBX07 – Available to order now. Remember all figures over £17.50 GBP are post free worldwide. - £15.00 GBP

43484 Heart of a Dragon: The VCs of Wales and the Welsh Regiments, 1854-1902/WIlliams large format very well illustrated near mint. - £8.50 GBP

43485 - Warfare in the Classical World/Warry, John An illustrated encyclopedia of weapons, warriors and warfare in the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome. Worn and torn sleeve. Hardback cover evidencing shelfwear along lower edge. Interior neat and tidy. 224 page colour illustrated. - £7.25 GBP

43486 - Thirty Years' War/Parker, Geoffrey A continuous narrative and analytical account of the Thirty Years' War. Used, good condition. Central illustrations, 340 pages. - £1.95 GBP

43487 - Guide to Wargaming/Gush, George (with Andrew Finch) This book surveys the wargame for amateur and expert alike and includes lists of sets of most printed rules available in the U.K.. Adequate quality. Yellowing around page and cover edges. Care worn, but complete. - £1.75 GBP

43488 - Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865/Moore – £0.00 GBP.

43489 - Duel in European History, Honour and the reign of Aristocracy/Kiernan, V.G. The evolution of the duel from its medieval origins to the early 20th century. Hardback, book sleeve worn and slightly torn on top edge. Interior as new. - £8.95 GBP

43490 - More Terrible than Victory North Carolina's Bloody Bethel Regiment, 1861-65/Chapman, Craig S. 358 page, illustrated hardback. Sleeve shows minor shelf wear, interior as new. - £3.00 GBP

43491 - Model Soldiers Airfix Magazine Guide 19/Windrow, Martin and Gerry Embleton A detailed guide to constructing, animating, converting and painting 54mm scale model soldiers from the Airfix Collectors' Series. 1976 original is age worn and faded to exterior with some dirtying to cover edges. Interior is complete and clean. - £1.75 GBP

43492 - Battles with Model Tanks/Featherstone, Donald and Keith Robinson Lays the complete groundwork on the subject of armored warfare in miniature. Paperback, 150 page illustrated printed in England in 1979. - £4.95 GBP

43493 - Maps of War/Baynton-Williams, Ashley and Miles Extremely large hardback, containing 130 maps used to execute or commemorate famous military victories. Spine has come away from covers in upper half, from cover torn 7" from top at join with spine. Sleeve yellowed to upper edges, interior clean and tidy. Same day first class despatch at no extra cost. - £19.95 GBP

43494 - Great Civil War - A Military and Political History, 1861-1865/Weigley, Russell F. A major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity. Hardback, 610 pages, outer corners of rear cover slightly stubbed, sleeve intact and interior clean and tidy. Same day first class despatch at no extra cost. - £14.50 GBP

43495 - Napoleonic Wars: Part of Cassell's History of Warfare series/Rothenberg, Gunther Hardback, 223 pages, color illustrated. As new, price clipped, pen message on first page reads 'To Malcolm with best wishes on your 60th, Brian and Marg'. - £5.50 GBP

43496 - Scottish Pistol - It's History, Manufacture and Design/Kelvin, Martin Hardback, 240 pages, illustrated with some vivid color plates. Hardcover edges slightly worn, sleeve has minor black marks and evidence of erasure of pencil notes inside. Stain to 1 cm of page edges at bottom. - £32.95 GBP

43497 - Voices from the Point - The South Notts Hussars: The Western Desert 1940 – 1942/Hart, Peter Paperback, 2010 reprint, 220 pages with illustrations. Used as new. Veterans memories recorded by Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. - £4.50 GBP

43498 - Charge! Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars/Smith, Digby - Used as new. Hardback 300 pages illustrated. Sleeve unclipped. Age yellowing to page edges. - £4.50 GBP

43499 - British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War - The British Battalion in the International Brigades 1936 – 1939/Baxell, Richard Paperback 2nd ed. 2007. Illustrated 217 pages. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15th International Brigade. - £9.50 GBP

43500 - 1809 Thunder on the Danube Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs/Gill, John H. Hardback, illustrated, 496 pages. Used very good. Sleeve unclipped but with evidence of moisture staining at front upper. Very minor stains to page edges. The first part of an epic three part history. - £16.50 GBP

43501 - Dettingen 1743 Knight's Battles for Wargamers/Orr, Michael 1972 first edition. Hardback 78 pages. Used good. Scuffing to top and bottom of spine. Yellowing of page edges and minor yellow stains to early pages. - £16.50 GBP

43502 - Seize the Fire Heroism, Duty and the Battle of Trafalgar/Nicholson, Adam Hardback, color illustrated. 342 pages. Used – very good. Sleeve unclipped, glue residue to front of sleeve. - £3.95 GBP

43503 - 1809 Thunder on the Danube Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume 1/Gill, John H. Hardback, illustrated. 496 pages. Used – good. Evidence of heavy weight applied to spine from above has crushed upper spine a little. Otherwise interior neat and tidy. - £13.50 GBP

43504 - 1809 Thunder on the Danube Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume 2: The Fall of Vienna and the Battle of Aspen/Gill, John H Hardback, illustrated. 448 pages. Sleeve unclipped, sellotaped at rear spine to middle. Hardcover and interior very good. - £14.50 GBP

43505 - 45 To Gather An Image Whole/Scott-Montcrieff, Lesley 1988 first ed. Used – very good. Hardback 195 pages. Fourteen essays on the Rising of 1745. Sleeve unclipped, but marked to front and age yellowed like the page edges. Clean and tidy inside. - £6.50 GBP

43506 - Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice - The Emperor and his Doctors on St Helena/Howard, Dr Martin Hardback, illustrated. 265 pages. Used – like new. This book addresses the political pitfalls navigated with varying success by the men who were assigned to care for the most famous man in Europe. - £4.00 GBP

43507 - Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794-1914 3:The Yorkshire Hussars/Barlow, L. and R.J.Smith Paperback, illustrated. 17 pages. Illustrations by R.J.Marrion. Used – very good condition. - £4.50 GBP

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