Good stuff, realy good stuff:) Probably gona get most of books but Raid 32 is a must!!!!!!!! OMG finaly some Balkan topic.
Report this comment
I can't wait for Raid 29: The Hunt for Pancho Villa. I like how it's scheduled to come out during the same month as the 95th Anniversary of the raid. It's amazing that almost 100 years we (the United States) still face many of the same threats along our border with Mexico.
Report this comment
An impressive list indeed!
I am looking forward to RAID 31: Gothic Serpent. Ever since the book "Black Hawk Down" came out over ten years ago, new details about the raid have come out and I hope this book covers them.
The cover looks awesome. Seriously, Osprey should release posters of some of its artwork.
Report this comment
Nice!!!
I already saved space on my shelf for "Pebble Island", "The Channel Dash" and "Gothic Serpent". This is just the minimal list. Probably I'll buy more.
Report this comment
You had me at Pancho Villa. I'm getting 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35 and possibly the John Brown one as well.
Report this comment
Great list! In my opinion, better than this year. Raid 28,29,30 (a must if R.Forczyk at the helm),31,32 and 33 will be mine. Sadly for me, I will have to wait at least one more year to see titles on German Granville raid in 1945 and the intervention at Kolwezi in 1978. Keep on the good work.
Report this comment
I'm glad they are doing a book on gothic serpent. I hope they do a good job on the book for the guys ,who done the operation. I wonder who is going to be the author, osprey should get in touch with Mark Bowden who done the book: Black Hawk Down.
Report this comment
Looking forward to Gothic Serpent. I trust the role of the Malaysian APCs and Pakistani M-48s in rescuing the Rangers will be given the prominence most accounts brush over.
Report this comment
What, no Makin, Choiseul in 2012? Thought this series was going to cover "special operations" type raids? Raid 30 is a raid? by a tank Corps?? John Brown would be a terrorist by today's standards. Pancho and the James boys were thieves. Love this series, but how will you define "Raids" for the future. Please get Johnny Shumate for the art he is just Great!
Report this comment
Villa was a revolutionary general and thus military commander, but i agree with you on RAID 35, just because they were partizans during the Civil War doesn't make their post-war career osprey material...on the other hand there's also already an Elite volume on US marshalls in the Old West, which isn't exactly military either... :P
Report this comment
RAID 34: Oldest Allies – Alcantara 1809 (September 2012)
I suppose you mean Burgoyne's raid on Alcantara in 1762?
Report this comment
RAID 34 is covering the Anglo-Portuguese assaults against French border posts in 1809!
Report this comment
Thanks.
Took me a while but I think I just found some info on the action by the Roman bridge at Alcantara in 1809 that gives the book its name. I hadn't heard of it before.
Report this comment