Posted by
John on November 29, 2008
There’s a story in the Associated Press today about an enterprising pilot and WWII aviation aficionado who has undertaken a truly monumental task. Mark Noah of Florida is using the proceeds from his historic aviation business to fund efforts to identify the remains of 542 sailors and marines who lost their lives in WWIIs bloody battle of Tawara.
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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
Kate on November 20, 2008
Here at Osprey HQ we have just had John, our US Sales and Marketing Director, over for a week. This generally means a chance for us not only to have a catch-up but also an opportunity to brainstorm future titles and plan our publishing programme for the next couple of years.
As you know Osprey is 40 years young this year and this August we published our 450th Men-at-Arms title. In honour of these two milestones I thought I would ask you, our readers, to join in our brainstorming session and help us decide what Men-at-Arms titles you would like to see published.
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Posted by
Kate on November 12, 2008
Squadron Leader Tony Iveson, who flew with the ‘Dambusters’ 617 Squadron made an emotional return to the skies last week as part of a campaign drive to raise funds for a national monument in central London to pay respects to Bomber Command. Together with Flight Lieutenant Mike Leckey, he took the controls of PA 474 ‘City of Lincoln’ Lancaster. Incredibly the Squadron Leader flew more than 20 missions over enemy territory with 617 Squadron and had previously fought in the Battle of Britain as a Spitfire pilot for 616 Squadron.
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Posted by
Mike on November 11, 2008
At 11am today the Osprey office will observe a two minute silence to mark Remembrance Day. This year, the respect paid to the men and women who have given their lives for their country is made even more poignant by the fact that today is the 90th anniversary of the end of The First World War.
Please join us in honouring the fallen.
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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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Posted by
Ed on October 29, 2008
Now that the Osprey member’s area is four months old I’ve decided to see what our Gold and Silver members have been viewing in the map and plane databases. It was quite interesting to see that half of the plane profiles and maps had been viewed by at least one of our members. With a combined database of over 9,000 images I find this very impressive!
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Posted by
Richard on October 22, 2008
If like me, you love the comics of Garth Ennis, in particular his War Stories, you will be very happy to hear that he has returned to the his favourite subject for a new series of gritty, violent tales of war, with Battlefields from Dynamite Publishing.
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Posted by
Phil on October 15, 2008
Recently, I became a member of a very select, very elite club within the hallowed halls of Osprey (it's like the Illuminati, but with more tanks...)
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