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10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:57 am
by Ilkley Old School
Each day I am going to post a hobby related book that I would have on my desert island.

Book 1 - the book that started it all.

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Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:24 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
First wargames book I ever "read" (actually, spent almost an hour ogling in Hamley's to be strictly accurate); the second was Charles Grant's "The Wargame (which I would imagine is also on your list - sorry for the spoiler!).

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:31 am
by grizzlymc
Battle for wargames Charles Grant
The Wargame Charles Grant
Uniforms of the Wellingtonic wars, Funcken and Funcken
Oman can't remember the title
Los Campagnes de San Martin - can't remember the author

Thinking about the rest, but Sydney Jary's book is competing with Bowlby's recollections.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:55 am
by Jeremy
Hustler. January through October.
I might drop October in favour of ‘Concise and easy to understand instructions for escaping a desert island. No tools required. ‘

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:05 am
by Ilkley Old School
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:24 am First wargames book I ever "read" (actually, spent almost an hour ogling in Hamley's to be strictly accurate); the second was Charles Grant's "The Wargame (which I would imagine is also on your list - sorry for the spoiler!).
I originally had this out on loan from the Ham Branch Library before buying my copy for 55 shillings from Tradition in Piccadilly. I worked for a my gap year in the same library in 1975/76. I got to order the books. It probably had the best selection of Wargame books in the whole of London.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:07 am
by FreddBloggs
Desert war, Moorehead
Campaigns of napoleon, Chandler
The American Civil War, Foote
The Hundred Years War, Sumption
Marlborough, Holmes
Operation Warboard, lyall
Solo Wargames, Featherstone
All American, All the Way, Nordyke
Alexander the Great, Lane Fox
Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Engelstein, (currently reading as an ebook, want a hardcopy.)

Ok I cheated there are 16 actual books here, but I count series as one...

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:23 pm
by Purple
That cover.
Has to be the best cover photo of a wargames book? Iconic

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:26 pm
by FreddBloggs
Purple wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:23 pm That cover.
Has to be the best cover photo of a wargames book? Iconic
You are alive!

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:56 pm
by Zenbadger
Jeremy wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:55 am No tools required. ‘
Just as well, it will probably be worn down to a stub!

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 2:24 pm
by Ilkley Old School
FreddBloggs wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:26 pm
Purple wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:23 pm That cover.
Has to be the best cover photo of a wargames book? Iconic
You are alive!
It was the sight of Stadden Prussian Grenadiers, painted as the Erbprinz, that must have woken Purps up.