Helion I mean. They keep coming out with books I want to read. Seeing the forthcoming book "Every Bullet Has Its Billet" on the Wars of Louis Quatorze blog, I thought "ooh, I'll have a look at that" and tootled off to the Helion website.
Well that led to me registering interest in ten books. So that'll be 250-300 quid by the time they all arrive at some point in 2021. Four ECW titles; one late-seventeenth century; two War(s)* of the Austrian Succession; one SYW; one Colonial (Sikh Wars); and one WWII (Continuation War).
* being a pedantic type I'd incline to the plural because this was really a series of sometimes overlapping wars between many powers, and with each running according to its own logic, the only common connection being that most of the belligerents were trying to take advantage of the accession of Maria-Theresa to the Habsburg inheritance.
Here's the full list with links:
THE ROYALIST WAR EFFORT IN THE NORTH MIDLANDS
THE ARMIES OF SIR RALPH HOPTON
THE BRAVEST BATTELL (Cheriton 1644)
SIEGES IN THE SEVERN VALLEY DURING THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
EVERY BULLET HAS ITS BILLET (wargaming guide to late C17th)
MAURICE DE SAXE AND THE CONQUEST OF THE AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS 1744-1748
YOU HAVE TO DIE IN PIEDMONT! (Assietta 1747)
That'll keep me out of harms way for a while next year. And fortunately, bar the Sikh Wars and late 17th century, I have toys that could be used for most of them.
Also worth noting for budding SYW acolytes is the re-publication of Duffy's great work on the Austrian Army's campaigns of the Seven Years War, By Force of Arms . This won't be cheap (it's sister volume Instrument of War is £49.95) but it'll be well worth the money at over 500 large format (245 x 170mm) pages with detailed maps aplenty.
Finally, spare a thought for us poor Grimsby Town fans. The Holloway Honeymoon is well and truly over. 5:0. Five bloody nil. With one shot on target (which I think my mother would have saved, and we buried her in April). I would have stormed out at half time in disgust but I was watching it at home and there was no where to storm off to.
You have some interesting sounding books marked. Cheriton has always fascinated so this one will go on my Wish List as well as the WAS/SYW books. On the Duffy books, I bought "Instruments of War" thinking it was a revision of the previous addition. It looks like a straight reprint to me. Now I have two!
ReplyDeleteCheriton is to the ECW, what Lobositz is to me for the SYW. Both fascinate me in a way I can’t fully explain.
DeleteBad luck on Instrument of War. Apart from his book on the 45, that’s the only Duffy book that I’ve got I haven’t re-read.
Certainly some interesting titles for sure. I'm awaiting the 'By Force of Arms' for sure and the 'Every Bullet Has Its Billet' looks tempting too.
ReplyDeleteBy Force of Arms is a great book in my opinion.
DeleteGreat book, indeed!
DeleteGreat book choices. A friend sent me the latest newsletter which I had to delete quickly to save me from myself! Instrument of war is a terrific book btw.
ReplyDeleteHeh heh! A case of ‘get thee behind me Satan’ if ever there was one.
DeleteInstrument is a terrific work of scholarship. A bit dry in parts I found. But it gives the background for the later volume.
Lovely looking books, really interesting titles, I shall not go to the site and look because I know too well what happens next!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Best avoid temptation.
DeleteThat book about Maurice de Saxe is not published yet! Therefore I'm not very much sure how these books about the WAS will turn out or will they turn out anyway?
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