<?xml version="1.0" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Osprey Publishing Blog</title><description>Osprey Publishing is an illustrated military history publisher, and we see our blog as a place for interested people to come together and talk military history – about anything and everything to do with it.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/</link><item><title>Books back in stock - a November update</title><description>Want to know what books we have reprinted this month? Well, you are in the right place, because here you go, a full list of the most recent reprints to land in our warehouse. As ever, quantities are somewhat limited (last month a number of our reprints were completely snapped up by retailers and customers within days of them arriving) so don't miss out!
</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/books_back_in_stock_november/</link></item><item><title>Future Titles (Part III) - Hitlist meetings!</title><description>You may have gathered from previous posts a bit of the process that a suggestion goes through before it becomes an Osprey book, and that process is about to begin again.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/future_titles_part_iii__hitlist_meetings/</link></item><item><title>The Military Round Up - November 17</title><description>It been another couple of weeks of interesting events in the world of military history, and I’ve got my highlights for you here.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/The_Military_Round_Up_November_17/</link></item><item><title>My Salamis Campaign 9: How an Osprey book was written</title><description>A few weeks ago my manuscript was delivered.  The childbirth metaphor is entirely appropriate and the labour pains have kept me off blogging for a couple of months. Back in January I claimed to "have been making good progress with the writing".  This was three months on from triumphantly blogging that the book had been formally contracted.  Back in February 2008, now feeling like a lifetime ago, my first post on the subject was grandly titled "How to write an Osprey book".  As if I knew......! 
</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/my_salamis_campaigbnc_9_how_an_osprey_book_was_wri/</link></item><item><title>From Seventies Grit to Forties Smut, Battle and Jane!</title><description>Those terribly nice chaps at Titan have sent over a couple of their latest books for us to take a gander at. Both volumes celebrate in their own way gentler, kinder times where neither Guitar Hero or Call of Duty existed, where social networking was something that happened in a pub and Jordan was better known as a country in the Middle East. </description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/the_best_of_battle_and_the_misadventures_of_jane/</link></item><item><title>The Military History Weekend</title><description>As you may have noticed we got very involved recently in putting together the Military History Weekend in Colonial Williamsburg over the weekend of 17/18 October. I had a fantastic time and just wanted to mention a few of the people I was lucky enough to meet and show you a few photos.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/the_military_history_weekend/</link></item><item><title>New evidence from Bosworth Field</title><description>Some interesting archaeological research was published in April last year that located the area of marshy ground which, according to contemporary sources, significantly shaped the battle that brought the reign of Richard III, the Plantagenet era and the Wars of the Roses to an end.  The new evidence strongly suggested that the main fighting was done some distance to the south of the area generally identified as Bosworth Field.  Further investigation and significant finds of artillery shot have now confirmed this interpretation.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/new_evidence_from_bosworth_field/</link></item><item><title>Gordon Rottman at Virginia War Museum</title><description>Looking for something to do in a cold November rain? The Virginia War Museum, located in Newport News, will be celebrating the opening of a new exhibit, Turned Upside Down: The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/gordon_rottman_at_virginia_war_museum/</link></item><item><title>30% off discount extended for 3 days</title><description>Over the weekend, the 30% discount that we were running on the site switched itself off prematurely. I blame some feisty trick or treaters personally - but I know that it caused quite a few of you some problems. To rectify this I have turned the discount back on again, and it will run from today through to Wednesday evening, which will hopefully give anyone who missed out on the offer the chance to buy the books that they are after.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/30_off_offer_extended_for_3_days/</link></item><item><title>A Waterloo Medal</title><description>Just before I went off to Virginia for the Military History Weekend I was lucky enough to go to a reception at Apsley House, the London residence of the Duke of Wellington, laid on by Waterloo 200. </description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/waterloo_medal/</link></item><item><title>30% off offer ends in just 48 hours and possible postal delays</title><description>Throughout October we have been running a hugely popular 30% off discount on all of our Men-at-Arms, Warrior and Elite titles - and now you only have 48 hours left to stock up your collections using this discount. This is the most extensive discount that we have ever done on this site, and it is not likely to be repeated for a very long time, so don't miss out now, or you could be in for a long wait...</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/30_off_offer_ends_in_just_48_hours/</link></item><item><title>Marlborough, Britain's Greatest General</title><description>When reading Richard Holme's biography of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough I was struck by how close we were to not ever seeing the full potential of 'Corporal John'. The court of Charles II in which Churchill and his wife Sarah operated was a wilder, less civilised and more dangerous place than I had imagined (It was also dirtier; Charles II only bothered to shave a couple of times a week). The career path John Churchill would take would eventually lead him to a command of a coalition army in the struggle against the imperial ambitions of Louis XIV but this future was by no means assured.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/marlborough_britains_greatest_general/</link></item><item><title>Singing soldiers support charities</title><description>Here at Osprey we like to do whatever we can to support charities involved with supporting the men and women who have fought for their country. In fact, only last week we held a book launch for In the Heat of Battle, which was held in conjunction with and to support the Not Forgotten Association, a charity which provides entertainment and recreation for disabled ex-service men and women. </description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/singing_soldiers_support_charity/</link></item><item><title>Guest Blog: Conquer or Die! The British Troops who fought with Simon Bolivar</title><description>Over the next few months I will be contributing a series of blogs promoting Conquer or Die!, a forthcoming Osprey title on the British troops who helped Simón Bolívar liberate Venezuela and New Granada (modern day Colombia) in the early nineteenth century. </description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/Conquer_or_Die/</link></item><item><title>Leigh Neville’s Operation Uruzgan by Ambush Alley</title><description>Over the last two years, few of Osprey’s books have been reprinted and sold-out more often than Leigh Neville’s Special Forces Operations in Iraq and Special Forces Operations in Afghanistan. Now, this talented author has turned his prowess to writing one of the year’s best wargaming supplements.</description><link>http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/Leigh_Nevilles_Operation_Uruzgan_by_Ambush_Alley/</link></item></channel></rss>
