10 Desert Island Books

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Purple wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:35 am
Etranger wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:24 am I hope you have the companion volume on the Army of Maria Theresa?
Their is some I’m missing though. As some of them are rather expensive
Do you have the Russian one?
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I'm quite fond of this - one of Donald Featherstone's less well known books. And particularly useful at a time like this:

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A wargamer who spent his life with his hand up ladies' thighs. What a life!
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More up Southampton FCs players’, but there you go
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That's more in line with Jeremy fancying sweaty chaps in dresses.
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Last of my AWI trilogy. The text and the selection of battles was aimed unashamedly at an American audience. But the pictures. Just wow. This is why I have AWI armies

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Jeremy wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:40 am A real Freddy Fanboy would sell a kidney. Or even better, his girlfriends kidney
Surely a real Freddy Fanboy wouldn't have a girlfriend?
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goat major wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 7:04 am Last of my AWI trilogy. The text and the selection of battles was aimed unashamedly at an American audience. But the pictures. Just wow. This is why I have AWI armies

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I remember photos very like that in airfix magazine. They are what made me think, there is more than kits and ww2!
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I've got that one too GM. Technically it's my brothers but he's not interested.
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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2020 7:14 am
Jeremy wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:40 am A real Freddy Fanboy would sell a kidney. Or even better, his girlfriends kidney
Surely a real Freddy Fanboy wouldn't have a girlfriend?
We only have Purps word on that particular aspect.
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