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We're still taking pre-orders for Falkirk and as a nice Bank Holiday treat, here's our latest round of releases.

We've also got another cheap books list at the bottom of the message! They're all £7.50 GBP post-free within the U.K. or £8.50 GBP post-free outside the U.K..


H24616 - Casques a Pointe: Coiffures Armée Allemande 1842-1918 Volume 1 Troupes a Pied (Pickelhaubes 1) Infantry/Larcade, J-L 160p. Large format, very well illustrated, including color. French text. Includes shakos and other headgear. Excellent condition, but spine faded. £145.00 GBP

H24617 - Casques a Pointe: Coiffures Armée Allemande 1842-1918 Volume 2 Troupes a Cheval (Pickelhaubes)/Larcade 200 pages, large format, near fine, fading to spine background. £120.00 GBP

H24618 - Wargames Soldiers & Strategy 84 Norman Special – £5.00 GBP

H24619 - Commands & Colors: Great War Tanks Expansion – In stock and shipping now. Contains 36 double sided terrain tiles, nine fortified position markers, four bridge tokens, 20 tank tokens, 15 bogged down markers, four captured tank tokens, two German 105mm howitzers and…two Mk IV male tanks, two Mk IV female tanks and two A7V tanks! Plus rules and scenarios. £36.50 GBP

H24620 - Commands & Colors: Great War Tanks Expansion – Whippet Expansion – An expansion to the expansion to the Commands & Colors: Great War game. 3x pre-painted Whippets in a box. Not just useful for playing the game, but great for WWI gaming in 15mm as well. £15.00 GBP

H24621 - Wargames Research Group: C16th Naval Warfare – near mint – great for the Skull and Crown MDF ships one only £9.50 GBP.

43312 - Reminiscences of William Verner (1782-1871) 7th Hussars/Verner 55 pages. Amy historical research series special. Covers The Peninsular and Waterloo. Good condition. £7.00 GBP

43313 - Moodie's Zulu War/Moodie 250 pages VGC hardback. Reprint of the classi 1879 account. £13.99 GBP

43314 - Crossfire Rules: Original printing – near fine. Sticker marks to cover. £15.00 GBP

43315 - 1756 The War in Bohemia – The Journal of Horace St Paul/St Paul and Cogswell large format, very cood condition. Includes maps. £15.00 GBP

43316 - Pengel & HURT – 3 volumes; Swedish Army in Pomerania: Austro Hungarian Hussars: France Troupe Legeres – 3 volumes. Good condition A4. £19.50 GBP

43317 - Field Grey Uniforms of the German Army 1914: Die Grauen Felduniformen Der Deurschen Armee - The Field Grey Uniforms of the German Army - Les Uniformes Gris De Campagne De L'armee Allemande 1914/Friese eight full-color plates in a folder with a plethora of detail. Reprint from the original 1914 artwork. Three language captions. £25.00 GBP

43318 - Fifty Years of Yeomanry Uniforms/Harris 100 pages, large format, 32 full-color plates. Very good condition, hardback. £14.50 GBP

43319 - Europe Had No Better Soldiers: The Army of the Eastern Association and the York Campaign 1644/Gray large format hardback. 200 pages. Includes color uniforms and flag plates. Mint. Scratches to rear cover. £30.00 GBP

43320 - Splendeur Des Uniformes De Napoleon/Herissey, Charles near mint slight shelf wear, hardback, 234 pages illustrated. £27.00 GBP

43321 - Napoleon at L'autriche, La Campagne De 1809/Carmigniani, J Tranie et J C good condition scruffy jacket, hardback, 239 pages, illustrated. £50.00 GBP

43322 - Junkers 87 From 1936 to 1945/Leonard, Herbert and Jouineau, Andre near mint slight shelf wear, paperback, 82 pages illustrated. £8.00 GBP

43323 - Hitler's Forgotten Armies: Combat in Norway and Finland/Carruthers, Bob near mint slight shelf wear, paperback, 382 pages, some illustrations. £7.00 GBP

43324 - Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815/Kiley, Kevin F. near mint slight shelf wear, hardback, 318 pages, some illustrations. £17.00 GBP

43325 - World War One German Army, Brassey's History of Uniforms/Bull, Stephen near mint slight shelf wear, hardback, 144 pages, illustrated. £12.00 GBP

43326 - Scots in Uniform, The Military Costume of Scotland's Horse and Foot/Anderson, Douglas N. good condition cover is aging, hardback, 102 pages illustrated. £10.00 GBP

43327 - British Yeomanry Uniforms/Simkin, Richard and Archer, Laurence V. good condition slight shelf wear, hardback, ten pages of text, 32 plates. £27.00 GBP

43328 - German Uniforms, Insignia and Equipment 1918-1923, Freikorps. Reichwehr. Vehicles. Weapons/Woolley, Charles near mint slight wear, hardback, 183 pages illustrated. £50.00 GBP

43329 - Thin Red Line, Uniforms of British Army Between 1751 & 1914/D.S.V. and B.K. Fosten near mint slight wear, hardback, 127 pages, illustrated. £15.00 GBP

43330 - German Army Uniforms of World War II in Color Photograph/Krawczyk, Wade good condition slight shelf wear, hardback, 128 pages illustrated. £7.00 GBP

43331 Warfare in the Seventeenth Century/Childs, John near mint slight shelf wear, hardback, 224 pages illustrated. £9.00 GBP

43332 Dogfight: Juego de Batalla Aeras En La 2a Guerra Mundial – simple glossy spanish set of WWII aerial rules. Grab your dictionary (if you need it). £10.00 GBP


And here's our cheap list!


Gallipoli, The Dardanelles Campaign - Williams, John. &ndash Hardback. Published 1969. 80 pages. Illustrations, black-and-white throughout. Condition ex-library, slight shelf wear to cover and small tear to plastic rap in centre and bottom corners, fine inside

General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865 - Taylor, Walter H. – Paperback. Published 1994. 314 pages. A few black-and white maps. Very good. Some shelf edge wear. Slight marking on back cover.

German Army on the Western Front 1917-1918 (Images of War) - Bilton, David – Paperback. Published 2007. 160 pages. Black-and-white plates throughout. New. Mint condition.

German Parachute Forces, 1935-45 - Davis, Brian L. – Paperback. Published 1974. 32 pages. Illustrations, black-and-white throughout some color. Condition u/g slight shelf wear.

German Tanks Of World War II (Airfix magazine guide eight) - Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter – slight shelf wear, hardback, 64 pages, black-and-white pictures and illustrations.

German War Art 1939-1945 - Yenne, William P. with Dills, Dr. Keith W – Missing a few starter page seems nothing important with light edge wear, hardback, 160 pages illustrated.

Gloucester and Newbury 1643: The Turning Point of the Civil War Day – 250 pages. Mint, hardback, slight tear to one page not affecting the text.

Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers, 1798-1883 David F. Long 1988 first edition. Like new, very minor shelf wear.

Gommecourt: Somme (Battleground Europe) - Cave, Nigel – Paperback. Published 1998. 144 pages. Black-and-white plates throughout. Some black-and-white maps. Some shelf edge wear. A few external markings. Internally excellent.

GOTHS in the Fourth Century (Translated Texts for Historians) - Peter Heather, John Matthews – Near mint, very slight shelf wear. First edition 1991.

Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture) - E S Redkey – Paperback, pages 302, published 1992, condition new (slight shelf wear).

Great Raids in History: From Drake to Desert One - Southworth, Samuel, A. – Hardcover. Published 1997. 338 pages. Some black-and-white illustrations. New book. Ex-display copy.

Great Regiments - Melegari, Vezio – Hardback, 256 pages. Very good condition. 160 Color Illustrations. Dust jacket has shelfwear.

Great Wars of Europe 1853-1871: A Comprehensive Bibliography - Brown, JW – Spiral bound, published 1994. 40 pages. A pre-internet goldmine of information sources. Very good condition, only slight reading wear.

Greek and Roman Naval Warfare - Rodgers, William – Hardback, published 1983, 555 pages, in really good condition, but has lost its jacket.

Guns and the Rifles of the World - Blackmore, Howard L. – slight shelf wear, hardback, 134 pages illustrated.

Gunslingers in Action Aircraft No. 14 - Drendel, Lou – near mint, paperback, 50 pages, black-and-white pictures.

Handgun Muzzle Flash Tests: How Police Cartridges Compare - R Olsen – Paperback, pages 128, published 1993. Condition new with shelf wear.

Hannibal's Lieutenant - unique biography of the brilliant hannibal - Capps. S Robert – Hardback. Published 1994. 349 pages. Condition like new, ex-display copy.

Hell on Wheels: The Men of the U.S. Armored Forces, 1918 to the Present (G.I.: The Illustrated History of the American Soldier, His Uniform & His Equipment) - Anderson J. Christopher – Paperback with 72 pages and black-and-white illustrations. Condition like new.

Henry Marten and the Long Parliament Water, Ivors – Paperback. Published 1976. 79 pages. A few black-and-white plates. Condition Very good. Some shelf edge wear. Slight marking on front cover. Internally excellent.

Heroes and Warriors, Fionn Mac Cumhail. Champion of Ireland - Matthews, John – near mint slight shelf wear, paperback, 48 pages, illustrated.

Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Uniforms, Arms and Equipment, Vol. 1: Yeomanry and Light Horse - Sainsbury, J.D. – Creased cover, used copy, paperback, 84 pages, mostly black-and-white pictures.

History of Armour 1100-1700 - Walker, Paul F – Hardback. Pages 128. Fully illustrated throughout. Author's signature inside the book. Like new.

History of Corsets in Pictures - Crawford, M.D.C and Guernsey, Elizabeth A. – near mint slight shelf wear, paperback, 40 pages, illustrated.

History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages: 1278-1485 Vol. 2 - Sir Charles Oman – Slight shelf wear, pages are immaculate. 1991, first edition.

History of the Dress of the Royal Regiment of Artillery - MacDonald, Captain R.J – slight shelf wear, hardback, 104+ lots of colored plates.

History of the Life of Leonard Torstenson - Peyster – 350 pages, reprint of the 1855 ed. Swedish Marshall and military Engineer of the Thirty Years War. Not a light read-nor the best edited of scans, but complete.

History of the Ostrogoths - Thomas Burns – Book is near mint, but the dust jacket has some wear. First edition, 1984.

Hitler: Study of a Revolutionary?: Biography of a Revolutionary? - M Housden – Paperback, pages 220. Published 2000. Good condition.

Hitler: Study of a Revolutionary?: Biography of a Revolutionary? - Housden, Martyn – Paperback. Published 2000. 220 pages. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Condition like new with minor shelfwear.

Hitler's Armies History Of The German War Machine 1939-45 - Chris, McNab – Hardback. Published 2011. 424 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Condition like new.

Hitler's Light Panzers at War (Images of War) - Thomas, Paul – Paperback. Published 2015. 137 pages. Black-and-white plates throughout. New. Mint.

Household Cavalry Regiment – Hardback. Published 1975. 80 pages. Illustrations some color black-and-white throughout. Condition slight shelfwear, tear to dust jacket.

If Rome Hadn't Fallen: How the Survival of Rome Might Have Changed World History - Venning, Timothy – Hardback. Published 2011. 184 pages. Very good. Some shelf edge wear. Dust jacket has slight tear in corner. Internally excellent.

Images of War Fallschirmjager Elite German Paratroops in World War II - Sutherland, Jon and Canwell, Diane – Slightly worn, paperback, 139 pages, black-and-white pictures.

Imperial German Army Handbook - Nash D.B – slight shelf wear, hardback, 143 pages, fully-illustrated.

Imperious Laird: John Campbell Fourth Earl of Loudoun - Foard, Douglas W. – Paperback. 86 pages. Some black-and-white plates. A few black-and-white maps. Good. Some shelf edge wear. Some markings on front cover. Internally excellent.

Impetus Rules: Supplement 3 -0 – mint, but cover rubbed.

In Hell Before Daylight: The Siege and Storming of the Fortress of Badajoz 16 March to 6 April 1812 Ian Fletcher 1st edition 1984. 135 pages. very good condition, dust jacket has some shelf wear, pages are clean.

In Hell Before Daylight: The Siege and Storming of the Fortress of Badajoz 16 March to 6 April, 1812 (Hardcover) - Ian Fletcher – 1st edition 1984. 135 pages. Near mint, dust jacket has slight shelf wear.

Into The Mindfields British Destroyer Minelaying 1916 – 1960 Smith C. Peter Hardback. Published 2005. 213 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Condition like new.

Invasion of the Third Reich War and Peace Operation Eclipse - Delaforce, Patrick – Mint. Hardback, 447 pages, black-and-white pictures.

Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45 - Holland, James – Hardback. Published 2009. 606 pages. Some black-and-white plates. Condition very good. Light wear, internally excellent. Binding is tight. Slight shelf edge wear.

Jacobite Spy Wars: Moles Rogues and Treachery - Douglas, Hugh – Hardcover. Published 1999. 269 pages. New book, but minor external display wear.

Jeep Genesis - Rifkind, Herbert R. – Hardback, 112 pages, mint condition.

JENA 1806 - Chandler – Osprey campaign, but in hardcover. Mint, but slight stain inside cover and a crease to spine.

Johnnie Johnson: Part 1: Spitfire Top Gun - Dilip Sarkar – Paperback Slight shelfwear to cover, great throughout.

Joshua & Chamberlain; Life in Letters - Desjardin, Thomas – slight shelf wear. Hardback: containing 312 pages, with no illustrations.

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign - G C Mercer – excellent.

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