Posted by
Phil on July 07, 2008
Recently, with one of my typical flights of fancy, I started to ponder on some of the military sayings and quotes that have achieved fame throughout history. My personal favourites are:
"The sun will never set on the British Empire – God does not trust the English in the dark" – Anon
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Posted by
Mike on June 19, 2008
To celebrate the fact that the Osprey Blog is now a year old, we are running The Osprey Blog Birthday Competition where one lucky reader can win a book from every month that the Blog has been running...
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Posted by
William on April 23, 2008
The BBC aired a short documentary on the Battle of Bosworth the other day. Advance publicity promised revelations about the true location of the battle with the implication that the fine visitor centre was therefore wrongly positioned on Ambion Hill. However, this is very widely accepted as the site of Richard III’s camp and of his initial position, attacked or at least advanced upon by Henry Tudor...
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Posted by
John on February 21, 2008
heard a report on National Public Radio this morning that among the belongings of a recently deceased man in the Czech Republic was found a map that may lead treasure hunters to find the priceless Amber Room...
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Posted by
Richard on February 20, 2008
We recently had a hit-list meeting here at Osprey where Editorial, Marketing, Sales and anyone who knows anything about anything sit down and talk through future titles. We take a look at submissions from Authors both old and new, ideas from all our Editors, feedback from shows and bookshops, the results of the monthly poll and then we sit down and start bickering (amicably)...
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Posted by
William on February 01, 2008
Back in July Richard set off a lively discussion about the place, desirable and actual, of military history in education with his post "When did military history go out of fashion?" In the course of this discussion I mentioned that we had invited a distinguished military historian to write a short article making the case for military history...
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Posted by
Mike on January 11, 2008
Born in 1944, David Nicolle worked in the BBC’s Arabic service for a number of years before gaining an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a doctorate from Edinburgh University. He has written numerous books and articles on medieval and Islamic warfare, and has been a prolific author of Osprey titles for many years...
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Posted by
Richard on January 07, 2008
The 10th Military History Carnival is taking place at Walking the Berkshires from today. Dedicated to the late George McDonald Fraser it summarises the best writing on military history in the 'blogosphere' this month...
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Posted by
Mike on December 28, 2007
Harry Pearson has produced five books, contributed to a dozen more, written a weekly sports column in the Guardian for ten years and helped make the football magazine When Saturday Comes half-decent for nearly two decades. When not painting toy soldiers, building a Wild West town in 1/72 scale...
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Posted by
Richard on December 17, 2007
There is some suspicion of Alternate History - the exercise of looking at the past and asking "what if"? - as it can stretch to the most ludicrious situations. Personally I love it, all of it, from serious scholarly counter-factual history to Lizards invading Earth during the Second World War...
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