Supposed to be on a moratorium but it doesn't count when you're buying to complete a series right?? Just ordered. South Pacific Air War Volume 2 : Michael Claringbould : 9780994588975
Why do they keep doing this? Another one for the list ..... From Tankograd in January 2019 The First T-34 Birth of a Legend : The T-34 Model 1940 216 pp https://www.tankograd.com/cms/websit...-2018-Dezember Tankograd do good work and the excerpts look good. Content also looks promising as well,
Oh dear... That is really tempting. Edit: Can't find it on their UK supplier pre-order link. Maybe the urge will dissipate before it appears.
As I've intimated previously, buying books is not a problem - there are so many out there to choose from.....
Gordon Beccles - Tanks Advance! 1942 Pitman's Pocket Handbook - Tanks 1943 Peter Doyle - Remembering Tommy. Mildly irked as I got the Beccles nonsense largely for a garish cover, but it arrived without. The Pitman is funny. Printed on that wartime toilet paper, & the Axis tanks look like drawings of recognition models. Nice, slightly irritable preface too. (I paid 99p for it - do not pay much more! It's on some sellers for c.£15... Just no.) Got the WW1 one on a whim, as Mr Reed & others have mentioned it often elsewhere. Really very good. What 'Tanks advance' is supposed to look like. Harumph.
Whoops. Cosham still not the nicest place, but a brilliant bookshop that used to be in Southsea has re-emerged there. I had not set out to buy anything on either beute T34s or Kubels, but the man offers deals when he sees you umm-ing & ah-ing... The bugger.
'New-To-You Books', Tom. You may recall a fine little place on Albert Road in Southsea. Seems the same. New stuff in the front. Second-hand round the back. New to You Books 56B High St, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3AG 023 9232 1089 https://g.co/kgs/8VxmXE
My BBP was eased this week when a friend popped round and gave me two books he had in his collection. King Rat, by James Clavell and With the Jocks, by Peter White.
Not sure I'd want to divert an international trip to Cosham! (Though a brief stop on the way into Pompey's military sights makes sense.} There is a military bookshop down the coast in Lewes, though. Was always a bit special. If it's still open. Not been for years. Ah, still there: Lewes Book Centre 38 Cliffe High St, Lewes BN7 2AN 01273 487053 https://g.co/kgs/A1R5qh If you want to actually handle all the stuff you wonder about online to see if it's any good, I've never been to better outside of Beltring.
General, related, headsup Naval and Military Press sale is back. I've totally not trawled it and spent a few pennies. On a side, there's been a marked decline in quality of booksellers at Belters.
Only one temptation for me. Anybody looked at this? Earlier edition had a different title & reviews suggest it was an academic paper, not a biography. Is it the same text or a re-edit? Orde Wingate: Unconventional Warrior - from the 1920s to the Twenty-First Century
Indeed! If I'm travelling on a rail pass I don't think it should be too onerous to get off the train at Cosham station to walk to the shop and I could then get back on again. I'll be taking in the harbour and the D-day museum in Pompey.