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Age of Eagles scenarios

The long-awaited Age of Eagles scenarios are now available for pre-order.

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H16508 GRUNWALD 1410 / - Magazine boardwargame (COMMAND 52 - but just game and rules). Mint unpunched. £25.00 GBP

H16509 AGE OF EAGLES SCENARIOS: Napoleon Vs Europe 1813-14. / - Big battle Napoleonic scenarios £17.50 GBP

H16510 BLUE THE GREY & THE BUTTERNUT: Big battle ACW rules. / - Corps & Army level rules. any scale of figures Inc scenarios and free colour flags. £15.00 GBP

H16511 REPORT ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GERMAN ARMY / Schwan, Major Theodore 140p reprint of a very detailed look at the army; supply; admin. etc MINT PBK Published 1894. Inc historical material £17.50 GBP

H16512 HANNIBAL : Rome's Greatest Enemy / Hoyos, D 162p latest study mint pbk £11.50 GBP

17366 BOW VERSUS GUN / Sir John Smythe. Heath, E. G. (Introd. by) 227p Hbk. E/C minor yellowing to DJ. facsimile reprint of £19.50 GBP

17367 KINSMEN OF THE GRAIL / Roberts, Dorothy James 319p pbk. E/C minor shelf wear. vividly rendered tale of Gawin's and Perceval's quest for the Grail. £5.50 GBP

17368 TIME TO STAND The Alamo / Lord, Walter 255p Pbk Book shop Stamp. Maps Illustrations. £4.50 GBP

17370 DUTCH REVOLT / Parker, Geoffrey 326p Pbk Maps. E/C Yellowing to page edges. £6.00 GBP

17371 GREAT SIEGE MALTA 1565 / Bradford, Ernie 255p pbk. E/C minor yellowing. £2.90 GBP

17372 HISTORY OF ENGLISH COSTUME / Brooke, Iris 227p. HBK. 1st Edition. Red Cloth Boards. Extensively Illus with Line Drawings throughout. Illus are from William the Conqueror to Victoria. Quite unique. No D/J but otherwise VGC £5.00 GBP

17373 OVER THE RHINE: LAST DAYS OF WAR IN EUROPE / Jewell, Brian S. 64p pbk Well Illustrated B/W Photo's. VG/C . British push over the Rhine £3.00 GBP

17373 FOUR HOURS IN MY LAI / Bilton, Michael & Sim, Kevin 430p. PBK. Reprint. B/W Illus. By interviewing both American and Vietnamese survivors and analyzing a wealth of material, Bilton and Sim have produced a book that courageously awakens memory and conscience to tell a story that should never be forgotten. Good £3.50 GBP

17374 CHRONICLES OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY / Hallam Elizabeth,Trevor-Roper Hugh 320p Hbk Well Illustrated LF 11 inches x 9 inches. E/C in DJ. £6.00 GBP

17374 CIVIL WAR / Downing, Taylor & Millman, Maggie 192p. HBK. Reprint. Extensively Illus in B/W & Colour throughout. Based upon the Channel 4 TV series and excellent history of the English Civil War. Fine/Fine £4.00 GBP

17375 WELLINGTON'S ARMY In The Peninsula 1808-1814 / Glover, Michael 192p Hbk Illustrated. E/C in DJ price clipped. £18.00 GBP

17375 CAMPAIGNING WITH GRANT / Porter, Horace 546p. HBK. B/W Illus & 36 maps. From April 1864 until the end of the war, Porter served as Lt. Col. attached to Ulysses S. Grant's staff. His is, therefore, a first-hand account of the Wilderness, Cold Harbour and Petersburg campaigns and he was at the final surrender at McLean's house. Fine/Fine £9.00 GBP

17376 VIETNAM: THE TEN THOUSAND DAY WAR / Micael MacLear 368p Hbk Illustrated. VG/C in a worn dust jacket. £4.00 GBP

17376 TUDOR DOLLS' HOUSES / West, Geoffrey 159p. 1st PBK Edition. Extensively Illus in Colour & B/W + Line drawings & Tables. A practical guide to construction, architectural background, interior features, plans and projects. Useful for producing realistic, accurate models as well as children's toys. Nr Mint, unread £5.00 GBP

17377 THUNDER AND LIGHTNING: R.A.F. IN THE GULF - PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF WAR / Allen, Charles 165p Hbk Well Illustrated. Near fine in DJ. £4.00 GBP

17377 EXPLORING PREHISTORIC & ROMAN ENGLAND: Guide to Site, monuments, artefacts and Museums / Marsden Barry M 142p PBK. Extensively Illus in Colour throughout. Near Mint, unread £14.50 GBP

17378 WOOD CALLED BOURLON: The Cover-Up After Cambrai, 1917 / Moore, William 270p. HBK. 1st Edition. Brown Cloth Boards, Gilt Lettering. Includes maps, plans and 25 b/w photographs. Fine/Fine £36.00 GBP

17379 SEVENTY DAYS TO SINGAPORE: The Malayan Campaign 1941 - 1942 / Falk Stanley L 301p. HBK. 1st Edition. X-Library Copy. Falk provides a definitive account of the fall of Britain's greatest fortress and the sinking of the dreadnought Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse. Good/VGC £3.50 GBP

17380 NAPOLEON'S CAMPAIGN IN POLAND 1806-1807 / Petre, F Lorraine 354p. HBK. 3rd Edition A facsimile edition of the book first published 1907. Part of Napoleonic Library series. B/W Illus & Maps. A comprehensive study of Napoleon's campaign in Poland. Describes such key battles as Eylau, Heilsberg and Friedland. Fine/Fine £9.50 GBP

17381 ARMY BADGES AND INSIGNIA: Book 2 Of World War 2 / Rosignoli, Guido 198p. HBK. 1st Edition. Mr. Rosignoli's meticulous illustrations are complemented by a fascinating, detailed text, which includes an historical introduction to the army of each country dealt with; Perhaps the most distinctive of all is a section, hitherto unpublished in English, on the badges, ranks and insignia of the land forces of the U.S.S.R. VGC Laminated D/J otherwise Fine £9.00 GBP

17382 WITH A MACHINE GUN TO CAMBRAI / Coppard, George 173p Pbk Illustrated. VG/C yellowing and some shelf wear. This book is one of the classic memoirs to come out of the First World War - almost unique in that it was written by a private soldier...This book is based on the diaries that the author kept £4.00 GBP

17383 AIR BATTLE FOR MALTA: DIARIES OF A SPITFIRE PILOT / Hamilton, James Douglas 150p Hbk Illustrated Photo's b/w. Near fine in DJ. £6.00 GBP

17384 AT THE SHARP END From Le Paradis To Kohima 2nd Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment 1940-45 / HART, Peter 224p Hbk Well Illust. G/C in DJ inside cover and fly page have damage to lower half. A history of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment, during World War II. £6.00 GBP

17385 PRINCE EUGENE AT WAR: 1809 A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF PRINCE EUGENE DE BEAUHARNAIS IN THE FRANCO-AUSTRIAN WAR OF 1809 / Robert M. Epstein 146p Hbk Illustrated B/W. E/C in Dust jacket minor shelf wear. £45.00 GBP

17386 GREEK AND ROMAN NAVAL WARFARE. A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.) / Rodgers, William Ledyard 570p Hbk Maps. No DJ inVG/C marking to front board. A Study of Strategy and Tactics of the Greek and Roman Navies. £28.00 GBP

17387 FOLLOWING THE DRUM: Women in Wellington's Wars / Page, F. C. G 150p. HBK. 1st Edition. B/W Illus. During the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaigns it was the custom for each regiment to be accompanied by a number of wives. The author unearths a wealth of fascinating detail about these dedicated women, who made a contribution to morale, and hence to victory, that has never before been fully acknowledged. Fine/Fine £17.50 GBP

17388 WITH EAGLES TO GLORY: Napoleon and His German Allies in the 1809 Campaign. / Gill, John H 534p. HBK. 1st Edition. B/W Illus, Maps & Tables throughout. When Napoleon's Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Hapsburg empire in 1809, its forces included over 100,000 allied German troops. From his earliest imperial campaigns, German troops provided by the Confederation of the Rhine played a role as Napoleon swept from victory to victory, but in 1809 their numbers and fighting abilities were crucial to the campaign. Fine/Fine £25.00 GBP

17389 PAGE AFTER PAGE / Page, Tim 241p. PBK. B/W Illus. This is the TV series tie-in paperback, with promotion of the series 'Frankie's House' based on the book. A desirable copy of an outstanding study of the Vietnam war through veteran journalist/photographer Tim Pages's eyes. Good £6.00 GBP

17390 DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER / Walter, Jakob 170p. HBK. 1st U.K. Edition. The only known account by a common soldier of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. Jakob Walter was an 18 year-old German stonemason who was conscripted into the Prussian and Polish campaigns. Edited and with introduction by Marc Raeff, Professor of Russian Studies at Columbia University. Fine/Nr Mint £6.00 GBP

17391 CANNON FODDER : An Infantryman's Life on the Western Front, 1914-18. / A. Stuart Dolden 185p Pbk Illustrated B/W Photo's. E/C . The author, A. Stuart Dolden served with 1st Battalion London Scottish Regiment, this account is based on his day-to-day diary kept from his enlistment in 1914 to demobilisation in 1919. £8.00 GBP

17392 SECRET WAR OF CHARLES FRASER-SMITH / Fraser-Smith, Charles 159p Hbk. Illustrated b/w Photo's. E/C Signed by Author, in DJ. Charles Fraser-Smith tells the story of his very secret war, which was spent supplying various gadgets to secret agents, partisans and escaping prisoners. £5.00 GBP

17393 RETREAT FROM MOSCOW / R F Delderfield 256p Hbk Illustrated maps. VG/C in DJ some yellowing. £4.00 GBP

17394 COURTSHIP AND CONSTRAINT RETHINKING THE MAKING OF MARRIAGE IN TUDOR ENGLAND / O'Hara, Diana 288p Pbk. Near fine. In an age when even the humblest marriage was influenced by material calculation, O'Hara maintains that courtship still played a vital role in securing marriages. Here, the structured nature of Tudor courtship is examined using both historical and anthropological perspectives. £16.00 GBP

17395 WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA, 1812: THE DIARY OF LT H. A. VOSSLER, A SOLDIER OF THE GRAND ARMY 1812-1813 / HEINRICH AUGUST VOSSLER 176p Hbk in slip case. Illustrated maps ect. E/C edges rubbed. £9.50 GBP

17396 APPROACH TO BATTLE: A Commentary Eighth Army, November 1941 to May 1943. / Tuker, Lieut-General Sir Francis 410p. HBK. 1st Edition. X-Library Copy. Laminated Pictorial Boards. 16 maps inc fold-outs. An account of the campaign in the Western Desert by a divisional commander in the Eighth Army. Good £32.00 GBP

17397 BROADVIEW ANTHOLOGY OF RESTORATION AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA / Canfield, J. Douglas (Editor) 1033p. PBK. Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period's laughing comedy. Nr Mint, unread £36.00 GBP

17398 ROAD TO REVOLUTION: Scotland Under Charles I 1625-37 / Lee, Maurice Jr. 258p. HBK. 1st Edition. B/W Illus. Fine/Fine £26.00 GBP

17399 PLEASURES AND PASTIMES IN TUDOR ENGLAND. / Sim, Alison 188p. HBK. 1st Edition. Extensively Illus in B/W throughout. Fine/Nr Mint £17.00 GBP

17400 ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, 1650-1750 : Illustrations and Texts from Original Sources (Dover Science Books) / Martin Jensen 207p Pbk LF 11.25x8.50x0.50 inches Well Illustrated line drawings. E/C minor shelf wear. Highly readable text, over 200 contemporary drawings and detailed engravings encompass engineering projects dealing with surveying, leveling, materials, hand tools, lifting equipment, transport and erection, piling, bailing, water supply, hydraulic engineering, and more. £14.00 GBP

17401 CIVIL WAR IN WALES & THE MARCHES 1642 - 1649 / Phillips, J R Partizan Pbk reprint 2 volume set. Near mint but slightly grubby on the bottom £45.00 GBP