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MINIATURES…
AZINCOURT: French Army 10mm Figures
Use this hard-plastic army set to refight history. This box will allow you to field over 700 10mm infantry and cavalry, including 351 French Knights/Men-at-Arms on Foot, 108 French Knights/Men-at-Arms Mounted, 246 Genoese Crossbowmen, and casualty figures for every troop type, including 18 horse casualties. Also included are 99 40mm x 20mm hard-plastic bases. Models require assembly and painting. $100.00 USD
OMM Discount 20%: Now $80.00 USD
AZINCOURT: English Army 10mm Figures
Use this hard-plastic army set to refight history. This box will allow you to field over 700 10mm soldiers, including 246 English Knights/Men-at-Arms on Foot, 462 Longbowmen (armed with both bows and melee weapons), 105 Stakes, as well as casualty figures for every troop type. Also included are 72 40mm x 20mm hard-plastic bases. Models require assembly and painting. $80.00 USD
OMM Discount 20%: Now $64.00 USD
TRENCH MISSIONARIES 32mm Figures
Compatible for use in the world of Trench Crusade. Originally slated to release in October 2025, Wargames Atlantic has delayed this box set to now release in 2026 – and they have increased the number of minis from seven to eleven. Now contains two Trench Bishops, one High Priest, two Patriarchs, one Trench Warden, two Trench Deacon, two Trench Missionary, and one Sentinel. Models require assembly and painting. Bases are not included. $45.00 USD
OMM Discount 20%: Now $36.00 USD
BOOKS…
KING GEORGE'S ARMY, BRITISH REGIMENTS AND THE MEN WHO LED THEM 1793-1815: Volume 5 – Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Waggon Train, Royal Veteran Battalions, Garrison Battalions and Battalions of Reserve
Covers in great detail the ordnance (the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers) within the army of King George the Third for the period of the Great War with France, and the men who commanded them. Unit data provided includes short-form lineages, service locations, and dispositions for the era, tables of authorized establishments, demographics of the field officer cohorts and of the men. Focuses on the field officers, the lieutenant colonels, and majors who commanded the units. Contains around 800 mini-biographies of men who exercised such command, including their dates of birth and death, parentage, education, career (including political), awards and honors, and places of residence. $50.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $42.50 USD
A SIGHT NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN: Eyewitness Accounts from Union Chaplains at Gettysburg
Out of the more than 250 Union regiments that fought at Gettysburg, more than 130 were accompanied by chaplains, and about 50 of those chaplains left records of their experiences. This book includes stories of those eyewitness accounts, taken from regimental histories, letters, newspaper articles, and memoirs, that provide a unique view of the Gettysburg campaign, the battle, the soldiers, and the chaplains' role. Contains 134 pictures. $36.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $30.60 USD
SOUTHERN CROSS: A New View of Leonidas Polk and His Clashes with Braxton Bragg
Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk was a distinguished West Point graduate, the first Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, a university founder, and a Confederate commander beloved by his troops, esteemed by the public, and killed on the field of battle. Seeks to analyze if historians' treatment of Polk's generalship and his personal character is fair and accurate. Employs a balanced perspective to shed new light on Polk's military leadership and reveal unexpected truths that explain his conflict with General Braxton Bragg. A seemingly insignificant piece of correspondence, along with an exploration of both men's writings, coalesce into an understanding of the root cause of the command dysfunction and chronic failures of the Army of Tennessee. Contains 48 photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 USD
CONFEDERATES FROM CANADA: John Yates Beall and the Rebel Raids on the Great Lakes
Revisits the history of the South's operations in Canada. One of the most significant raids is covered in detail for the first time: Virginia planter turned Confederate agent John Yates Beall's attempt to liberate 2,700 Confederate officers from a prison camp on Lake Erie. Unable to achieve sustained military success in the Civil War, the Confederacy tried a daring strategy in 1864 – commando-style raids into northern states from Canada. Taking advantage of the undefended border, rebels hit targets along the Great Lakes, where growing antiwar sentiment was an election-year problem for the Lincoln administration. Contains 20 photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 USD
CIVIL WAR SCOUNDRELS AND THE TEXAS COTTON TRADE
During the Civil War, scoundrels from both the Union and Confederate sides were able to execute illicit, but ingenious, schemes to acquire Texas cotton. Using little-known contemporary sources, reveals how they were able to run the blockade, import machinery and weapons, and defraud the state's most prominent political, military and civilian leaders in the process. Details how Harris Hoyt was able to draw most of Abraham Lincoln's inner circle into his web of deceit and even influenced the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Contains 12 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 USD
THE EIGHTH CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY IN THE CIVIL WAR
Details one of the longest-serving Union volunteer regiments in the Civil War that saw action throughout the Eastern Theater, from Burnside's expedition in North Carolina to the battles at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, as well as campaigns throughout Virginia. Drawing on soldiers' letters and diaries, this regimental history of the Eighth chronicles four years of combat service, with maps newly created from historical accounts. Contains 73 photos, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 USD
BIILAACHIA-WHITE SWAN: Crow Warrior, Custer Scout, American Artist
The story of the Apsaalooke (Crow) men who scouted for the Seventh United States Cavalry in 1876 has been told by historians, with details sometimes distorted or fabricated. Biilaachia, better known as White Swan, survived the Battle of Little Bighorn despite severe wounds. White Swan continued to scout off-and-on for the U.S. Army until 1881, and recorded his 22 combat actions in 37 paintings and drawings. Done in traditional Plains warrior biographic style, his complete body of work is presented, along with the history behind each depiction. His life is detailed in photographs, some never before published, and four little-known interviews, as well as extensive research about the Apsaalooke people. Contains 165 photos (53 in color), notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 USD
TOWARDS DISASTER: The Greek Army in Asia Minor in 1921
Details how in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, Prince Andrew of Greece was given command of the 2nd Army Corps during the Battle of the Sakarya. He was commanded to lead his troops in attacking the Turkish positions, but to the consternation of his commanding general, Anastasios Papoulas, he elected to follow his own battle plan. Following three weeks of bitter fighting, Papoulas ordered a retreat, placing the blame directly on Prince Andrew. Details Prince Andrew's own account of the campaign, which he defends his actions in regards to saving lives. Contains 32 mono illustrations. $35.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $29.75 USD
WHEN THE WORLD STOOD ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR: Superpower Face-off, The Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising
Looks at how the 1956 Suez Crisis and Hungarian Uprising exposed the limits of U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. influence, despite their superpower status. Analysis reveals how these crises highlighted the limitations of superpower influence. Despite their nuclear strength, the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. faced challenges they could not overcome, showing their mutual struggles in shaping the post-war world order and assisting their allies. Contains 16 mono illustrations. $40.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $34.00 USD
ON BOARD THE U.S.S. BOISE IN WORLD WAR II: The Battles and Secret Missions of Light Cruiser CL-47
Told through the eyes of Donald Fitch, who witnessed the entirety of WWII on his battle-station on the bridge of the ship. Details how the ship conducted secret missions, and fought at Guadalcanal, Sicily, New Guinea, and the Philippines. Through Fitch's eyes, this book relives the terrors and thrills of naval combat, along with the pranks, shenanigans and the rumors that were the lifeblood of a ship through four years of war. Contains 36 photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 USD
THREE SONS FOR THE KAISER: A German Family's Sacrifice in the First World War
Recounts a German family's tragic sacrifices and personal experiences throughout World War I. Philipp Gercke and his three sons all served, but only Philipp survived. He had been a rising star in the Imperial Navy and a close associate of the Kaiser. Waldemar, the youngest son, was among those spearheading Germany's early, so-called 'war of movement'. He was mortally wounded on the Somme on the last day of 1914. Georg, the middle son, joined one of Berlin's student reserve regiments, and later died at Verdun. The eldest son, Hermann, had three ships sunk under him in the Baltic. In 1917, he volunteered for U-boat service, and his boat was sunk off Gibraltar in May 1918. Draws on Philipp's memoirs, family letters, and author's own research. Contains 30 mono illustrations. $55.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $46.75 USD
OPERATION BAGRATION: 23 June-29 August 1944, The Rout of the German Forces In Belorussia
Covers the Red Army's Belorussian strategic operation, the linchpin of the ten major Soviet offensive efforts launched that year to clear the country of the invader. Compiled and written by professional staff officers, provides a detailed look at the conduct of one of the major operations of the Second World War. Offers another insight into the Red Army's conduct of the war at the operational-strategic level. Contains 4 black-and-white maps and 94 tables. $75.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $63.75 USD
The IASI-KISHINEV OPERATION: The Red Army's Summer Offensive Into the Balkans
Details the Soviet preparation and conduct of the Red Army's massive offensive into Romania in the summer of 1944. The seventh of the ten strategic operations conducted by the Soviet armed forces that year, the operation successfully carried out the task of destroying German forces in northern Romania and taking Germany's Romanian satellite out of the war, and was the first step in Stalin's consolidation of a Balkan empire. Written and published for the purpose of generalizing the experience of the war's experience for training commanders and staffs in the preparation and conduct of multi-front offensive operations. Concentrates on such standard operational indices as the length of the attack front, the density of forces along the breakthrough front, the echeloning of forces for the attack, and cooperation among the combat arms. Contains 3 black-and-white maps and 36 tables. $60.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $51.00 USD
THE BITTER FIGHT TO FREE ITALY: A 'D-Day Dodger's' Experiences of the Italian Campaign in 1943
Tells the story of the early months of the Italian Campaign through the eyes of one 21-year-old private in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, Dennis Neil, who found himself lying severely wounded and near death on an Italian mountain on a bitterly cold day in November 1943. While a surgeon at a field hospital fought to save his life, his family received a telegram notifying them of the death of his elder brother in that same campaign. Traces one soldier's journey to that mountainside, and how his life changed irrevocably as a result of the wounds he suffered that day. Contains 32 mono illustrations. $45.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $38.25 USD
WORLD WAR II BATTLES RECONSIDERED: Game Theory and Decision Science Perspectives on Gazala, El Alamein, Falaise and Arnhem
Written by a former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory, presents original insights on the strategies and tactics undertaken in four major battles of the Second World War. Details the fighting at Gazala in Libya in the late spring of 1942, and compares it to the British reversal of that disaster later that year at El Alamein in Egypt. Credits that to heeding the millennia-old military priority of command unity, which has been analyzed and re-endorsed by modern decision science. Also looks at the Allied setback at Arnhem in the Netherlands, calling into question the value of battlefield surprise. These decisions, approached from an expert perspective on game theory and presented with high-quality maps, are presented in this pioneering application of decision science to the battles of World War II. Contains maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 USD
FINAL BATTLES OF PATTON'S VANGUARD: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, 1945-1946
Covers the final months of combat: the drive to Bitburg; the daring exploitation of the bridgeheads on the Moselle, Rhine and Main Rivers; Patton's ill-fated raid to rescue his son-in-law from a prisoner of war camp deep behind enemy lines; the first liberation of a concentration camp on the Western Front; the drive toward Chemnitz; the controversial push into Czechoslovakia; and the little-known encounter with General Andrey Vlasov's turncoat Russian Liberation Army. Contains 103 photos, maps, bibliography, and indexes. $40.00 USD
27TH BRITISH COMMONWEALTH BRIGADE IN KOREA 1950-1951: The Fire Brigade
Looks at the composition of each of the five countries which made up the Commonwealth Brigade – Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India – and describes their commonalities and differences, as well as how they were brought together to form a single effective unit. Also examines in detail the 'friendly fire' incident at Hill 282 when the Argylls were accidentally bombed by the U.S. Airforce and the first VC of the war was awarded. Looks at the pivotal battle at Kapyong which helped to blunt the Chinese Spring Offensive of 1951. Contains 40 mono illustrations. $50.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $42.50 USD
WAR IN UKRAINE: Volume 11 – The Battle of Chernihiv, February-March 2022
Analyzes Russia's failed February-March 2022 attempt to capture Chernihiv and Kyiv. Reconstructs and analyzes the course of events and the reasons for the defeat of the Russian army in this crucial early battle. The author was present in Chernihiv during the events described and collected hundreds of interviews with military and civic personnel who took a direct part in the battles. Many photographs from the author's archive are shown for the first time in this volume, along with specially commissioned maps and color artworks. Contains 5 black-and-white photos, 3 color illustrations, 70 color photos, 21 color profiles, 4 color maps, and 6 tables. $30.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $25.50 USD
THE ARMED FORCES OF NORTH KOREA, VOLUME 1 PART 1: Korean People's Army Ground Forces Organisation, Strategy and Infantry
Sets out to lift the veil of secrecy and conduct a thorough examination of Pyongyang's unique military machine, looking in depth at their organization, strategy and infantry forces. Looks at how the DPRK fields a uniquely diverse inventory of indigenous weaponry and adheres to a military doctrine unlike any other. Details how due to sparse literature, and available sources often disseminating misinformation more than anything else, there is no definitive framework for placing new information about the KPA's ground forces in its proper context. Contains 2 black-and-white photos, 69 color photos, 6 color profiles, and 1 color map. $30.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $25.50 USD
THE ARMED FORCES OF NORTH KOREA, VOLUME 1 PART 2: Tanks and Artillery
Focuses on the Korean People's Army Ground Forces' tanks, artillery, engineering units, and mobile air defense systems. Looks at how the DPRK fields a uniquely diverse inventory of indigenous weaponry and adheres to a military doctrine unlike any other. Details how due to sparse literature, and available sources often disseminating misinformation more than anything else, there is no definitive framework for placing new information about the KPA's ground forces in its proper context. Contains 3 black-and-white photos, 102 color photos, 14 color profiles, and 1 color map. $30.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $25.50 USD
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