Wishing all of you, especially past and present members of our military, a pleasant Memorial Day weekend!
Most items here will be in the shoppe in the next couple of weeks.
Rules…
AGE OF VALOR: THUNDER IN THE EAST: Age of Eagles II Expansion Module for Conflict by Blood & Iron – AOE II is needed to play this game, but AOV: TITE includes changes unique to the 1877 Russo-Turkish War and the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. In most cases, all rules changes have been embedded in the Data Charts, as well as the charts and tables on the Quick Reference Sheet. All players need to do is use these new specifications or DRMs with the original rules, and then play as normal. $14.00 USD
Books…
A DANGEROUS SERVICE: A Soldier's View of the Seven Years' War in the Caribbean and North America The Black Watch's John Grant offers eyewitness accounts of military life during the French and Indian War, from the Caribbean in Martinique and Guadeloupe, and later at the siege of Havana, and then to North America. With General Jeffery Amherst's force, he survived shooting the treacherous rapids of the St. Lawrence River to capture Montreal in 1760, completing the British conquest of New France. Includes black-and-white illustrations, maps, notes, appendices, and index. $38.00 USD
THE MONGOL CONQUESTS: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'etei 25 detailed maps showing the operations, supporting the text that saw Genghis Khan and Sube'etei direct more than 40 campaigns, fight more than 60 battles, and conquer all lands from Korea in the east to Hungary and Poland in the west. $60.00 USD
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ITALY 1636: Cemetery of Armies The campaign and battle of Tornavento. One of the best books on 17th-Century warfare, including Thirty Years War and ECW. Analysis of the reason for casualty rates, motivation, tactics, and the effectiveness of the Spanish versus French military methods. Offers a neo-Darwinian interpretation of war and violence as inherent in human nature. Explores many practical aspects of early modern warfare, including personalities, weapons and tactics. Richly illustrated with woodcuts, paintings and maps. Includes 47 illustrations and ten maps. $110.00 USD
RUSSO-TURKISH NAVAL WAR: 1877-1878 The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. The background, operations and outcomes are described in detail. All the ships involved, both Russian and Turkish, are described and illustrated with full technical specifications. Profusely illustrated with scale drawings (side views) and illustrations. $49.00 USD
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STRANGE FATALITY: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813 In 1813, in a field near the hamlet of Stoney Creek, the promise of an American triumph was smashed in a terrifying night action, the outcome of which hinged on a single bayonet charge that carried the American artillery and decapitated the invading army. Little known or appreciated, even by Canadians, Stoney Creek was one of the most decisive reversals of military fortune in the War of 1812, and in no small measure determined the fate of the colony that would become Ontario. $28.00 USD
AUTUMN OF THE BLACK SNAKE: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West Besides a work of military and political history, it is also an original interpretation of how greed, honor, political beliefs, and vivid personalities converged on the killing fields of the Ohio Valley, where the U.S. Army would win its first victory – destroying the coalition of Indians who came closer than any, before or since, to halting the nation's westward expansion. $28.00 USD
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THE BLOODY FIFTH: The 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia: Volume 2 Profile of the 5th Texas Infantry (the Bloody Fifth) – one of only three Texas regiments to fight with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment took part in 38 engagements, including nearly every significant battle in the Eastern Theater, as well as the Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Knoxville campaigns in the Western Theater, before laying down its arms forever at Appomattox. $33.00 USD
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BLOODY APRIL 1917: An Exciting Detailed Analysis of One of the Deadliest Months in WWI A day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of air battles, profusely illustrated with original photographs and expertly told, that was a near-massacre of British and French aircraft and crews. April 1917, the worst month for flying casualties the war had yet seen. $27.00 USD
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THE PANZER IV: Hitler's Rock – Images of War Another in the Images of War series, this volume collects over 150 rare wartime photographs, plus a selection of specially commissioned color photographs, to describe how the initial design of the Mk IV was modified and refined throughout the course of the conflict to counter the threats posed by ever-more-formidable Allied tanks and antitank guns on the battlefield. $23.00 USD
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EASTERN FRONT SNIPER: The Life of Matthaus Hetzenauer Biography of Mathaus Hetzenauer, one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve Battalion 140 at the age of 18, but discharged five months later. He received a new draft notice in January 1943 for a post in the Styrian Truppenubungsplatz Seetal Alps, where he met and learned from some of the best German snipers. Hetzenauer went on to fight in Romania, Eastern Hungary, and in Slovakia. As recognition for his more-than-300 confirmed kills, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on April 17, 1945. After nearly five years of Soviet captivity, Hetzenauer returned to Austria on January 10, 1950. He lived in the Tyrol's Brixen Valley until his death on 3 October of 2004. $33.00 USD
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BLOOD IN THE FOREST: The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket Tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of WWII. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of fields and forests in Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Hunt gathered eyewitness accounts, including Vaira Vike-Freiberga (later President of Latvia), to piece together this account. Includes eyewitness accounts, detailed maps, and expert contributions, alongside rare newspaper archives, photographs from private collections, and extracts from diaries. $50.00 USD
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SS LEIBSTANDARTE ADOLF HITLER (LSSAH) AT WAR 1939 – 1945: A History of the Division on the Western and Eastern Fronts – Images at War Another Images of War volume collects many unpublished photographs with in-depth captions to describe the Division's history, fighting tactics, weapons, and uniforms as it battled its way through Poland, the Low Countries, the Balkans, on the Eastern Front, and then to Normandy and the carnage of the Falaise Pocket, before being transferred back to the Eastern Front. $25.00 USD
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HUE 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam At 2:30 a.m. on January 31, 10,000 National Liberation Front troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. By morning, all of Hue was in Front hands save for two small military outposts. Played out over 24 days of terrible fighting and ultimately costing 10,000 combatant and civilian lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire Vietnam war. $30.00 USD
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Uniform Plates…
329 KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA: Infantry Regiment No.1 Graf Kunheim 1806
330: KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA: Infantry Regiment No.2 Ruchel 1806
And Don't Forget the Magazines…
MEDIEVAL WARFARE: Volume 7.3 Theme: Tournaments and Jousting in the Middle Ages. Articles include: A Short History of Tournaments; The Tournaments of the Four Lands; Jousting on the Frst Crusade; The Holy Roman Empire: Pageantry and Violence: Maximilian I, Tournament Fanatic; He Has Not Abandoned Warlike Custom: Manuel I Komenos and Byzantine Jousting; A Most Marvelous Deed of Arms: The Combat of the Thirty; Single Combat during the Hundred Years' War: When it Wasn't a Game; The Ghent Crossbow Tournament of 1440: Shooting for Prizes and Honor; Their Shields are Pierced and Shattered: The Lance; The Story of a Modern-day Knight: Jousting in the 21st Century; Right in Everything but the Details: Jousting on Film; and No Aiming at Unprotected Parts: Tournament Rules. $10.00 USD
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