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
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
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
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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Posted by
Richard on December 03, 2007
As a military history enthusiast it is your duty to spread your love of uniforms, campaigns and hardware as far as you can. Your grown-up non-warfare obsessed friends are probably far too used to you now. When you start talking about the importance of Basil Liddell Hart to German tank strategy and tactics they probably roll their eyes and head for the bar...
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Posted by
Mike on November 16, 2007
In our continual quest to discover exactly what is it about military history that stimulates us we decided to widen the net and ask a few others. So we talked to Osprey authors and artists, the great and the good of military history and anyone we could find really. We asked them a set of carefully crafted questions, a mix of the serious, stupid and bizarre and this is what they came back with. First to go: Garth Ennis...
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Posted by
John on November 13, 2007
I am on a quest to locate every Osprey spinner rack in North America. If you're on this side of the pond I would love to hear where you shop for your Ospreys and whether or not your favorite retail outlet has an Osprey spinner. If it does...
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Posted by
Richard on October 26, 2007
Having spent time with Pete Scholey a few weeks ago and read bits of his new book Heroes of the SAS, in which he recounts the stories of so many of the men he regards as unsung heroes, I got to thinking about what makes a hero. In the book Warriors, Max Hastings recounts some of the stories of the great heroes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
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