10 Desert Island Books

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They are great books aren’t they ? I’ve got the Austria one. Massively useful amounts of detail for the time
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I've got the reprints. Very handy.
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The Greenwood and Ball booklets are a great source of info. I used the Prussian one to paint up my plastic Spencer Smith's in 1975/76.

I think there was a Russian one produced as well.
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Yes, the Russian one came much later I think. They were so much better than the Osprey books.
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Book 7 - Instrument of War and Force if Arms.

There had to be a book by Christopher Duffy and up to a few years ago it would have been the 1st edition of Frederick the Greats army. Then this two volume set came out. The 2nd Volume - by Force of Arms - is the better of the two as it covers the campaigns and battles of the SYW.

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Funny just reading the 2nd ed Frederick book, and waiting for instrument of war to arrive.
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Book One - Charge. The best book ever written. And it still smells great.
Book Two - 1815: The Armies at Waterloo, Ugo Pericoli. A truly awesome book.
Book Three - European Weapons & Warfare 1618 - 1648, Eduard Wagner. Wonderful illustrations.
Book Four - Firepower (with a crafty friend), Major General B P Hughes. Proved to be a bit of an eye-opener.
Book Five - Uniforms of the Seven Years War, Greenwood & Ball. Couldn't believe my luck when these came out.
Book Six - Military Uniforms of the World, Blandford. I could only dream of having armies in these uniforms. Now I can.

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So good I bought it twice. One for reading, one to paint from
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