bases them up.
Most due into the shoppe in early March, except wargame magazines due in late March.
Books…
The Cornfield: Antietam's Bloody Turning Point Fresh view of the battle as a whole, and the cornfield in particular, because of two central facts – Union General George McClellan's linear thinking demanded that the Cornfield must be taken and, because of this, the repeated failure by the generals McClellan charged with fulfilling this task created a self-reinforcing cycle of disaster that doomed the Union's prospects for success – with 22,000 men becoming casualties as Federal and Confederate forces repeatedly traded control of the Cornfield. $35.00 USD
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Ghost Patrol: A History of the Long Range Desert Group 1940 – 1945 The origins of most of the west's Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Desert War from 1940 – 1943. After the defeat of the Axis in North Africa, they adapted to serve in the Mediterranean, the Greek islands, Albania, Yugoslavia and Greece. They became the stuff of legend. Hardback: $33.00 USD
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Ghost Patrol: A History of the Long Range Desert Group 1940 – 1945 Softback: $23.00 USD
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Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite 1956-1990 During the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments of about 100 soldiers were secretly stationed in West Berlin. Their mission, should hostilities commence, was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines, and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city. In reality, it was an ambitious and extremely dangerous mission, even suicidal. Highly trained and fluent in German, each man was allocated a specific area. They were skilled in clandestine operations, sabotage, intelligence tradecraft and able to act if necessary as independent operators, blending into the local population and working unseen in a city awash with spies looking for information on their every move. The U.S. government officially acknowledging their existence in 2014. $33.00 USD
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Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite 1956-1990 Softback: $23.00 USD
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WWII Japanese Ship Photo Albums…
Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship photo album series contains official photographs taken by the Kure Maritime Museum, as well as those taken by private individuals. These pictorial records document the main types of Japanese vessels, from battleships to submarines, based on the best images from Shizuo Fukui, a former Imperial Japanese Navy commander and technician.
These photos include the ones Fukui began collecting as a young boy and continued after he worked as a naval shipbuilder, and those that he was given in order to complete a photographic history of the Imperial Japanese Navy's ships, which include those gathered by Nagamura Kiyoshi, a shipbuilder who proactively collected photos, and the collection of machinist Amari Yoshiyuki. Moreover, with the help of shipbuilder Makino Shigeru, among others, Fukui was able to continue to gather photographs and other items throughout the postwar period. It is not an exaggeration, therefore, to say that Fukui dedicated his entire life to this work. These images are especially valuable because of the massive destruction of official documents at the end of the war. $75.00 USD
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The Battleships Yamato and Musashi Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum$75.00 USD
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Submarines and Submarine Depot Ships: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum $75.00 USD
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Destroyers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum $75.00 USD
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Magazines With Wargames…
World at War # 71: Forgotten Pacific Battles Forgotten Pacific Battles is a solitaire game using the standard Fire & Movement (F&M) rules and a series of exclusive rules covering each scenario. There are individual scenarios for the islands of Engebi, Eniwetok, Parry, Guam, Tinian, and Angaur. Each scenario can be played separately or as part of two different campaign games. Designed as a solitaire game, the scenarios include instructions for a two player version. The unit counters represent company to regimental-sized units that participated or might have participated in the battle. The islands are depicted at a scale of 500 meters to the hex with Guam being depicted at one mile to the hex. Components: 22 x 34-inch map, 280 die-cut counters, and magazine. $40.00 USD
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Strategy & Tactics # 322: Banana Wars Banana Wars: U.S. Intervention in the Caribbean 1898-1935. Banana Wars is a two-player game simulating the period between 1898 and 1935 that saw increased U.S. involvement due to the novelty and growing popularity of what else – the banana. During this period, the U.S. Military participated in over 50 operations in a dozen Caribbean, Central and South American countries. Some interventions lasted for years. The occupation of Haiti lasted 19 years, the occupation of Nicaragua 21 years. In time, the U.S. led seven separate invasions of Honduras. Components: One 17 x 22-inch map, 80 counters, 55 playing cards, and magazine. $40.00 USD
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Modern War # 47: Objective Nuremberg Objective Nuremberg is a two-player alternative history wargame intended to investigate the operational parameters that would have been in place during the first four days of fighting in that border area of West Germany had the Soviet Union decided to try to attack sometime in the early 1980s. It was during that time frame the Warsaw Pact achieved a possible decisive correlation of forces between their militaries and those of the west. This game is the first volume of the 7DR (Seven Days to the Rhine) series. Each single-volume game will use the same system and will be playable alone or mated to other games in the series. Each hexagon on the map represents 2.5 miles (four kilometers) from side to opposite side. The Warsaw Pact regiments, while the units of maneuver on the NATO side are battalions. Air power and electronic warfare counters and rules abstractly represent, the effects of one side or the other gaining temporary superiority within those sub-realms of conflict. Each day consists of one nighttime and two daylight turns. Components: One 22 x 34-inch map on one sheet, 200 counters, and magazine. $40.00 USD
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And Don't Forget the Magazines…
Medieval Warfare: Volume 10.1 The Arthurian Legacy Theme: The Arthurian Legacy: Warfare in Arthurian literature – The Fall of Camelot; and Defending Britain in the Sixth Century – The Historic Arthur. Features: Why did the Scots Really Win at Stirling Bridge – Literal Tides of War; Danish Naval Organization in the Late Twelfth Century – of Ships and Men; The Limitations of Victory – Conquering Cortenova; A Weapon of Commander and Commoner – of Mace and Men; Brothers Fighting in 15th Century Castile – The Second Battle of Olmedo; Trial by Combat in the Middle Ages – Judicial Duels; Atrocities After the Battle of Kleidon – Basil the Bulgar-slayer? $10.00 USD
More on the Website…
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