looks great, I have all the campaignbooks and not one disappointed me.
Please also consider to publish more of battles of the times from year 1000 to 1700.
Only with the thirty years war and the wars between France and the Habsburgers you woukd have plenty to coose.
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Absolutely amazing. So many good titles, and I'm looking forward to reading them all.
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An excellent selection guys!!!
I’m particularly looking forward to CAM 241: The Fall of English France 1449–53, CAM 244: The Falklands 1982, CAM 248: Coronel and Falklands 1914 and CAM 250: The Mareth Line 1943 but will also be looking out for CAM 245: Demyansk 1942–43.
Nice to see Borodino 1812 there as well. This was a massive gap in your Napoleonic coverage.
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Really nice titles, especially Demyansk 1942-43
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A very impressive lineup indeed!
I'm looking forward to Vercors 1944. The OSS sent in an Operational Group to help the French Maquis before they were overrun by the Germans.
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Nice list:
CAM 234: Nomonhan 1939;
CAM 239: Plataea 479 BC;
CAM 244: The Falklands 1982;
CAM 246: Borodino 1812;
CAM 247: Santa Cruz 1942
CAM 243: The Philippines 1941–42...
... are already on my buy list. I've noticed with great pleasure that Osprey has started to consider seriously the pacific war Battles!
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As a ww2 fan, I have everything I could wish for. Regularly, many readers on the forum ask for more titles covering the Eastern front and the PTO. With n° 243, 245 and 247, Osprey takes these requests into consideration. Well done!
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Surely I will buy CAM 239: Plataea 479 BC and CAM 241: The Fall of English France 1449–53. For the rest, too much WW2 for my taste.
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The philippines and santa cruz and metz and the falkland seems interesting. I would have liked it if they had done one about the chosin reservoir.
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I think I'll be getting all of these, and I'm far from being a collector. So yes, for once grumpy me is happy.
Demyansk 1942-1943 will be by Dr. Forczyk and therefore 100% pure ownage and Metz 1944 I assume is by Steven Zaloga.
The Fall of English France (Formigny + Castillon) I assume will be from David Nicolle - I bash (and stopped buying) his Muslim stuff, but his books about the 100 Years' War have all been top notch, plus France wins, so that's also a yes.
Santa Cruz 1942 - Mark Stille, right? I thought his next Campaign book would be about the Battle of the Philippine Sea in 1944 and was already anticipating it, but I suppose it will also be covered in due time (2013?).
I assume the Mareth Line book will cover all British/Commonwealth forces' operations in Tunisia like Zaloga's Kasserine Pass title did with the American ones.
From what you've said in another blog post the Borodino title will cover the whole of the 1812 campaign, which is near impossible to do in 96 pp. (I assume the end result will be something like the Petersburg title, with Borodino in lieu of The Battle of the Crater). But considering that you haven't published a book about the campaigns of Napoleon as Emperor (which rules out Dr. Forczyk's superb Toulon book) since 2002, I'll take it. It's a tricky field; not very popular these days from what I've heard, only remaining fans are hardk0re nerds who will label any new book a crime against civilisation if it gets the number of cuff buttons on the uniforms of the Westphalian Jäger Karabiniers wrong.
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Glad to see cam 248 thought I'd mention a cople of other cam titles I would like to suggest,on the second battle of Ypres, which would not only have a special interest for Canadian readers, being the Canadian army's baptism of fire, but also being the first mass use of gas on the western front, it is a key point in the development of warfare at that time. The book would also offer the opportunity for some great but frightening artwork by say, Peter Dennis. A sequel of sorts could be the Battle of Passchendaele, a gap I feel that exists in your coverage of 1917. I'm aware of some good books on both battles, although the quantity about the latter doesn't equate to quality. I think both would benefit from the "osprey treatment" and be good additions to your collection.
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