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- Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:09 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Armies of the Vietnam War 2.
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Armies of the Vietnam War 2.
Lee Russell illustrations by Mike Chappell. Osprey Publishers Men-at-arms series 1983 (reprinted 1995). ISBN 0850455146. Bought because it has a pretty good section on the PAVN and the PLAF which is a focus of my son's. It is a slim volume, better illustrated than volume 1 but with fewer photos I fe...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:19 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: The Last Panther
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The Last Panther
Wolfgang Faust, originally published as Kessel Panzer, translation from German 2015. Subtitled The Breakout from the Halbe Pocket, April- May 1945. First written in the early 1950's by a former Panzer driver then commander but unpublished in his lifetime. It is a first hand account of the last fight...
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:33 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Honour Denied: the truth about Air America and the CIA
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Honour Denied: the truth about Air America and the CIA
Allen Cates. iUniverse Rising Star Books, 2011, ISBN 977-1-4620-5746-7 Written by a former USMC and Air America pilot who now coordinates the efforts of the Air America Organisation to obtain Veteran Status for former members of this semiclandestine airline that for 25 years supported US military pr...
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Arrowstorm:the world of the archer in the HYW
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Arrowstorm:the world of the archer in the HYW
Richard Wadge. ISBN 978-0-7524-4951-7. History Press 2009. There may be better books about the subject out there but I don't know how. Covers how archers were raised and employed by English monarchs and in foreign countries. The social and cultural development of archery as a national obsession. The...
- Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:15 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Sickles in the wars of the roses
- Replies: 5
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Re: Sickles in the wars of the roses
I have mounted a Welsh chopper which looks a bit like a short, straight sickle. More for the novelty and intimidation factor. I think even for the hockey stick fighting we do at reenactment it will prove useless.
- Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: The Monocled Mutineer
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The Monocled Mutineer
William Allison and John Farley. ISBN 0-7043-3287-6, Quartet Books 179 (reprinted 1986). I have wanted to read the book that the rather infamous BBC series of the mid eighties was based on. Needless to say the TV show was quite different from the source material. In the show Percy Toplis made the pe...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 10:19 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Backfire: the CIA's Secret War in Laos and its link to the W
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Backfire: the CIA's Secret War in Laos and its link to the W
Roger Warner. ISBN 0-684-80292-9. Simon&Schuster books, 1995.
An absolutely amazing read. Should be fiction but isn't. If any of you are FB friends of mine I based what I was portraying and talking about at the W&P show on this and other books. Very, very enlightening.
An absolutely amazing read. Should be fiction but isn't. If any of you are FB friends of mine I based what I was portraying and talking about at the W&P show on this and other books. Very, very enlightening.
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:49 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: U.S. Army Long-Range Patrol Scout 1965-71
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5054
U.S. Army Long-Range Patrol Scout 1965-71
Gordon L. Rottman illustrated by Adam Hook. Osprey Publications Ltd 2008. Isbn 978-1-84603-250-9 Written by a Vietnam veteran who served in the Special Forces and part of the Warrior range. It has the same content as other Osprey books in this series so most will know what to expect. It is reasonabl...
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:42 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: US Marine vs NVA Soldier
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6141
Re: US Marine vs NVA Soldier
It does, Sasha, blame Osprey and sixty years of being told its NVA.
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:20 pm
- Forum: Friends and Gossip
- Topic: The Passing of Roger Lankford
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7424
Re: The Passing of Roger Lankford
May he rest in peace.
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:19 pm
- Forum: Friends and Gossip
- Topic: Hello Everyone,
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- Views: 6335
Re: Hello Everyone,
Alright.
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:18 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: The Tunnels of Cu Chi
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- Views: 4843
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
Tom Mangold and John Penycate. Pan Books 1986, isbn 0-330-29191-2. Written following a BBC documentary this is an examination of the remarkable war that was fought underneath the jungle of Vietnam. A series of interviews with tunnel fighters from the PLAF and the so called tunnel rats amongst the US...
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 10:27 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: The Deadly Sisterhood
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The Deadly Sisterhood
Leonie Frieda, Phoenix Non-fiction publishers ISBN 978-0-7538-2844-1, 2012. Focusing upon the 15th century this book is a study of women in Renaissance Italy, most especially those who completely fitted into a male dominated world and more than held their own. One of the best books on Italian mediev...
- Thu May 26, 2016 5:24 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Blood on the Risers
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- Views: 5119
Blood on the Risers
An airborne soldiers thirty five months in Vietnam. By John Leppeleman. Ballantine books, ISBN 0-8041-0562-6. This is the story of the authors three tours of Vietnam where he served with the 173rd Airbourne Brigade taking part in that units only combat jump, with the 9th Division as a member of thei...
- Tue May 17, 2016 7:29 pm
- Forum: Event Announcements
- Topic: Fortress Wales 2016
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10813
Re: Fortress Wales 2016
Nice one, but can you do something about the weather?
- Mon May 16, 2016 4:12 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: World War Two Soldiers 1939-45
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- Views: 4986
World War Two Soldiers 1939-45
Laurent Mirouze, Historic Collections Militaria guide. Isbn978-2-35250-340-8, 2015. A pretty decent go at covering all the uniforms and equipment of the main participants of the Second World War. Useful to show how the equipment evolves, especially amongst the British and Germans, as the war progres...
- Mon May 16, 2016 4:03 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: U.S. forces in Vietnam 1962-67
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U.S. forces in Vietnam 1962-67
Guillaume Rousseaux, Historic Collections Militaria Guide, isbn 978-2-35250-252-4, 2012. The companion to the recent publication that covers the later stages of the Vietnam war. Similar things to say, some very corny poses by models who despite the gruelling nature of Ranger/SF training, the oppress...
- Mon May 16, 2016 3:54 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Review - EBOOK about 15th century Italian Clothing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5879
- Mon May 16, 2016 1:42 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: U.S. forces in Vietnam (1968-75)
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- Views: 4760
U.S. forces in Vietnam (1968-75)
Guillaume Rousseaux. Militeria Guide, Historic Collections 2016, isbn 978-2-35250-287-6 A follow on companion to a book by the same author that covers the years 1961-1967. Apart from the eat-lete nature of some of the reenactors involved who follows the usual reenactment practice whereby the older a...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:17 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Tiger Tracks: 3 days on the Eastern Front
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Tiger Tracks: 3 days on the Eastern Front
Wolfgang Faust, published 1948. My apologies for not having an ISBN (I tea it on my kindle). A firsthand account of the fighting on the Eastern Front by driver of a Tiger 1 in the last year of WW2. Concentrating on the desperate efforts of a diminishing number of panzer men to defend an anonymous br...
- Sat Apr 16, 2016 9:04 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Vietnam: the definitive oral history told from all sides.
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Vietnam: the definitive oral history told from all sides.
Christian G. Appy Isbn 978-0-09-191012-9 Ebury Press 2006. A fabulous book which has interviews from the highest to the lowest serving on every side, antiwar protesters, civilians, diplomats, spies, journalists even James Brown! Over 130 men, women and children give their points of view from the OSS...
- Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:35 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Vietnam Infantry Tactics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5244
Vietnam Infantry Tactics
Gordon L. Rottman illustrations by Peter Dennis. Isbn 978-1-84908-505-2. Osprey publishing (part of the Elite series) 2011. Very poor. A real let down, not least because the author points out almost straight away that there were no set infantry tactics for the Free World forces serving in Vietnam. C...
- Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:13 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Chaperon Hat...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7769
Re: Chaperon Hat...
I would also recommend the above. Although I prefer the one my wife made for sentiment reasons if I was honest the one from cloak d daggered is better quality.
- Thu Mar 17, 2016 9:53 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: The Wars of Atlantis
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The Wars of Atlantis
Phil Masters. Osprey Adventures isbn 978-1-4728-0932-2, 2015. Illustration by Jose Pena and Rocio Pinar. Following the same theme as their War of the Worlds, namely that there really was a Atlantis and that the history of the island and its part in Greek myth was actually also factual this explores ...
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:33 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: US Marine vs NVA Soldier
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6141
US Marine vs NVA Soldier
Vietnam 1967-68. David R. Higgins. Osprey publications 2015. Isbn 978-1-4728-0899-8
Part of the combat series. I wasn't really impressed but my son quite likes it and will have more use for it than I will. Did think the illustrations were poor compared with the usual standard.
Part of the combat series. I wasn't really impressed but my son quite likes it and will have more use for it than I will. Did think the illustrations were poor compared with the usual standard.
- Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:15 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Mobile Strike Forces in Vietnam 1966-70
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Mobile Strike Forces in Vietnam 1966-70
Gordon L. Rottman. Consultant editor Dr. Duncan Anderson. Isbn 978-1-84603-139-7. Osprey publications (part of the Battle Orders series) published 2007. In direct contrast to the last Osprey book I read and reviewed this was a mammoth challenge to tea and understand. The author served with US Specia...
- Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:24 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: War of the Worlds
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5144
War of the Worlds
The Anglo-Martian War of 1895. Mike Brunton with illustrations by Alan Lathwell. Osprey publications 2015, isbn 978-1-4728-1156-1 What if HGWells had been writing a genuine report of a Martian invasion rather then science fiction. That is the premise of this Osprey Adventure (with a nod towards Quat...
- Tue Jan 05, 2016 8:57 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Air America by Chris Robbins
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- Views: 4726
Air America by Chris Robbins
3rd Edition ISBN 978-1-9080-5901-7, Cassell non-fiction (part of Orion Books), 2012 (first published in 1979). Written with close reference to those who flew or serviced Air America and other clandestine airlines in Africa, South America and, of course, Asia from the 1940's with the American Legion ...
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:28 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Chronicles: the writing of history in medieval England
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Chronicles: the writing of history in medieval England
Chis Given-Wilson. Published by Hambledon & London, 2004 ISBN 1-85285-358-1. A concise yet still detailed examination of how history was recorded in England during the middle ages ( focusing especially on the period between the 12th and 15th centuries which saw the flowering and finally the diminish...
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:06 am
- Forum: Event Announcements
- Topic: Fortress Wales 2016
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10813
Re: Fortress Wales 2016
Looking forward to it. Again, as part of Rolling Thunder I plan to display and discuss the role of the Company in South East Asia.