Posted by William on May 13, 2008
In my previous Salamis post I ventured to disagree with Professor Barry Strauss over his representation of the overnight manoeuvres of the Persian fleet and its position at dawn just before the fighting began. I have been finding his book...
Posted by Phil on May 10, 2008
Nearly everybody will have played the Top Trumps card game at some point in their lives, pitting sportscars, comic book characters or birds of prey against each other by comparing a series of fundamental, arbitrary (and occasionally pointless) categories, such...
Posted by Mike on May 9, 2008
James Holland is a writer and historian. In April 2003, he published his first work of history, Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43 (Orion), which became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. In January 2004, his first novel, The...
Posted by Kate on May 6, 2008
As someone of you might already know I am a bit of a Battle of Britain nut, so I was recently intrigued to hear that the surviving female members of the Air Transport Auxiliary are expected to be honoured with...
Posted by Mike on May 4, 2008
I recently mentioned that at the London Book Fair this year three of the blogging team would be wearing a suit of armour. We each took it in turns. Phil took Monday, Richard the Tuesday and I took the Wednesday....
Posted by Richard on May 2, 2008
In the excitement of last week we missed ANZAC Day on the 25th April. For those of you who don't know, and it can't be many, ANZAC day celebrates the incredible bravery and sacrifice that the Australian and New Zealand...
Posted by William on May 1, 2008
Well, Phil may have started something with his post on April 24; I had a birthday (rather bigger than his) coming up four days later and thought I should see what I could find. If you want to see what...
Posted by Mike on May 1, 2008
A couple of months ago I got an email from the Production Controller workinng on the fifth series of Peep Show, asking for permission to use Stephen Turnbull's book Samurai: World of the Warrior in one of the episodes. For...
Posted by Joe on April 30, 2008
For people interested in their family history, there is little better than discovering your ancestor fought in the war. The specific war doesn’t matter, because any war allows new opportunities to trace where your ancestor was and what he or...
Posted by John on April 29, 2008
Two days ago, April 27th, saw the 1st Annual Gettysburg Toy Soldier Show at the Gettysburg Hotel. It was sponsored by W. Britains, the legendary toy soldier company, which has teamed up with Osprey North America to increase our presence...
Posted by Mike on April 27, 2008
Gordon L Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969–70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and...
Posted by John on April 25, 2008
It has been a busy few days in the New York office of Osprey. On Friday April 11th we learned that the Wall Street Journal had run a review of one of our April new releases the prior day. The...
Posted by Phil on April 24, 2008
Something nearly everybody has done at some point in their life is to look what happened on their birthday throughout history. Now, aside from sharing a birthday with ex-England defender Stuart “Psycho” Pearce, very little of interest happened on my...
Posted by William on April 23, 2008
The BBC aired a short documentary on the Battle of Bosworth the other day. Advance publicity promised revelations about the true location of the battle with the implication that the fine visitor centre was therefore wrongly positioned on Ambion Hill....
Posted by Ed Moore on April 22, 2008
Osprey Publishing will be launching a new website in May 2008. The purpose of this new site is to offer the user a new, exciting online experience. The launch of the new website will allow users to become site members...
Posted by Mike on April 22, 2008
We don't often get the chance to meet our customers face-to-face and gauge their reaction to new books before they are 'officially' released around the world. But that is what we were able to do last weekend at Salute. Armed...
Posted by Mike on April 21, 2008
As I mentioned in a previous post, Fighting High Magazine is a great free aviation e-zine. Steve Darlow has just emailed to tell me that the second issue is available to download here. Once again it is a great read...
Posted by Richard on April 18, 2008
I had certain expectations when I approached Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield. When you see a title like Killing Rommel and a write-up like the following you have a fair expectation of what you are going to see: Autumn,1942: Hitler's...
Posted by Joe on April 17, 2008
Released late last year, Triumph and Tragedy is a simple set of rules for fighting skirmish battles in the “pulp era”, the years between the two world wars. Unlike several other rules sets covering this period, T&T focuses on actual...
Posted by Joe on April 16, 2008
The books are all stacked in the staff room. The shipment of FOG 2: Storm of Arrows reprints arrived this morning. The Angus McBride Poster has been rolled and stored safely. It is almost time for Salute, the wargamer’s shopping...
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