Posted by
Mike on November 24, 2008
For the last couple of months we have been talking about the imminent arrival of a fabulous, limited edition version of the Men-at-Arms Celebration.
And it has now arrived. Only 40 copies of this fantastic book have been produced. Each book is bound in goat leather, with 23 carat gold embossing. Signed and numbered by the Men-at-Arms editor Martin Windrow, this is the most exclusive Osprey book ever.
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Posted by
Mike on November 10, 2008
Alejandro de Quesada is a Florida-based military history writer, an experienced researcher and collector of militaria, photos and documents and runs an archive as a secondary business.
He has written 12 books and over 50 articles, including Elite 137 The Mexican Revolution 1910–20 and Elite 161 The Us Home Front 1941-45. In 2009 Alejandro is set to publish another two books with Osprey. In January his book Elite 166 The Bay of Pigs is out. Later in the year he will turn his hand to the Warrior series with a book on Roosevelt's Rough Riders. When Alejandro and I went through these questions he also kindly provided me with this photo - of him in the Falklands between two Argentinian mess kitchens.
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Posted by
Richard on October 31, 2008
When we were at Britcon a few months ago Phil and I were sat next to Dave Lanchester's second-hand book stand and in our quiet moments we would both start rummaging through the shelves, drawn by the fantastic smell of old books and the huge range of military history just sitting there whispering to us.
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on October 20, 2008
I read today that Steve Carell, of US Office, 40-Year-Old Virgin and Get Smart fame is to play Brigadier Gerard the fantastic hero of the short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Posted by
William on October 04, 2008
Well, we seem to have stumped quite a few of you with the competition that I ran last month. I asked you to name the eight victories listed around Napoleon's tomb to stand the chance of winning five Napoleonic titles of your choice.
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Posted by
Mike on September 30, 2008
I know it is really early to already be talking about Christmas and Christmas cards...but bear with me! Over the last couple of years we have sent out Christmas cards which feature some Osprey artwork on the front. But last year we ran into a problem. We had narrowed the choice of artwork for the card down to three snow-filled scenes. But we just couldn't decide which was the best. So, we threw caution to the winds and asked you to choose which piece of artwork to use. Then we tallied up the votes, drew a name out of a hat and selected one lucky blog reader who won 50 copies of the completed card.
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Posted by
Mike on September 17, 2008
Whenever the first copies of a book arrive in the office there is always a bit of a buzz. For some of us it is an exciting time, a chance to pick up a book that we probably first heard about two years previously. Sometimes the time between a title being approved for production at what we call a “Publishing Meeting” and the arrival of the book seems to take an age. Sometimes it just seems to fly by...
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Posted by
Phil on August 06, 2008
Given that the so-called ‘Wild West’ lasted a mere quarter of a century at best, it is, after World War II, perhaps the most-filmed period of history. Admittedly, the popularity of the western peaked early, and faded into relative obscurity by the 1980s, while other films maintained or grew in prominence (coming to a cinema near you: my rants about superhero movies…), no-one seemed to care for the classic western anymore. I can quite easily understand the reasoning for this – for a 25-odd year period, hundreds of stories had been crammed into it, probably totalling more runtime than the ‘wild west’ itself actually lasted, and moviegoers were fed up with a stale genre.
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Posted by
Mike on July 29, 2008
Ross Laidlaw was born in Aberdeen and educated at The King’s School (founded 676 by St Etheldreda and refounded 1540 by Henry VIII) and Cambridge University where he read history. He worked and travelled extensively in Southern Africa, and on his return to Britain taught Geography and Science before becoming an archivist. Ross is a qualified archery instructor and currently lives in East Lothian...
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Posted by
Mike on July 22, 2008
Nearly a month ago Osprey shipped me out to my first overseas event - A Weekend of Heroes 2008, which was held in Glendale California on the 21st and 22nd June. Now, I tend to go to most of the Osprey events in the UK - and have done over the last couple of years. I have already clocked up appearances at Salute and Who do you think you are? Live! and I am booked in to visit Military Odyssey and possibly Euro Mil this summer, so I am not new to doing events, but this was a bit of a departure for Osprey, and I was a bit nervous about the reception we were going to get.
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