I just wish you would reprint New Vanguard 32: The Long Range Desert Group 1940-1945. It's been listed on the site for years, but always as out of stock.
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I never heard of the Elite 99, 100, 119 and Warrior 107 titles before and I would be interested in them, even though they're not in my usual fields of interest. My son would really the Warrior title as that is his favorite time period. The cover of Elite 100 is extremely attractive and if the material is good, I would buy it. I hope you and Kate will keep up the good work as history is too important to lose because someone thinks otherwise. Thank you, Jerry
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Mike:
While I do like the new cover illustration of Elite 100, I have to say I also liked the black& white/colour photos in the past booklets. These give both an immediacy as well as reminder to the younger generation that such conflicts and units actually existed.
I hope that you'll continue with the photos for the Warrior, Campaigns and Elite booklets whenever appropriate
xavier
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The new Elite Series cover looks great.
Sorry to read that the US Naval Commando books have been firmly cancelled. Hopefully somebody in the future will write an Elite titles about the Beach Jumpers and UDT's in WWII and Korea, and the SEALS in Vietnam.
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Here's a real mystery...I have to wonder who is making design decisions over there on covers. When you redesigned all your covers back in 2001 or so to go with the (In the Campaign series for example) red & white covers with the nice photo or drawing on the front to replace the older ones with the map and the soldier I was really pleased. All of your series had a nice much more professional look to them. In addition, part of the appeal of your books is that people who buy a lot of them like the way they all look nice together on a shelf. As a collector of your books, I even got rid of a few of my original cover versions to get some of the ones that were reprinted with the new covers. Now that I own 164 of just the Campaign series what do you do? Redesign the cover AGAIN. Sure the new fronts are nicer but the LEAST you could have done for all of us who buy lots of your books is leave the spine alone. In fact I even emailed to ask if the spine would be the same and was told that they would be exactly the same on the spine. So I order 2 (Vienna and Poitiers) and what do I see? The font on the spine is different, it’s smaller, and in all caps. I cannot not for the life of me figure out how such a silly decision to change the font could be made when everything else on the spine matches the previous books. Now I have 164 nice Campaign volumes with nice decent size fonts on the spine and the new ones with silly tiny fonts that don’t match.
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I am glade to hear that you will be printing the missing Campaign books. I have been woundering for some time what happend to them. I hope you guys get them printed. Thanks for looking out for your custumers.
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Any reason why those titles were canceled? They sound interesting/.
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Lets face it, we aint gonna be happy till we get the Warrior Women title
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Most of the time the titles were cancelled because of problems with the material rather than the authors not being able to deliver a product. Sometimes there just is not enough information or illustrations to create a book that we are happy to print.
As for the Warrior Women title, I am afraid that it is probably never going to happen. But, on the plus side, we are doing a Warrior title on female samurai, that might ease the pain slightly!
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Oh, and a bit of an update - Combat 63 Aichi Val Units has been given a new publishing date and is schedule in (still tentatively) for the beginning of 2012. Which might seem a long way off, but that is a big improvement on being permanently pended!
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