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01-06-2007, 12:06 AM
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| I Like Tanks   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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  | After the Battle. Anyone got or read the 'Then & Now' books on Market Garden? Up to the usual standard?... or maybe the Dday ones?    Being harrased for birthday gift suggestions from the other half. Cheers, Adam.
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02-06-2007, 11:56 AM
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| Ive got the Then and Now Market Garden and have yet to finish reading them! The publications ATB do are always very good so I think You are spoilt for choice really! Regards PS Was it you after Rome 44? Andy
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02-06-2007, 12:17 PM
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Thanks for that Andy, just checking that there wasn't some sort of aberration in the usual quality as it's so rare to get a proper look at them in a shop before buying. You are not alone by the way, I know what you mean about the ATB books taking a rather long time to get through. Well worth the effort though. Cheers, Adam.
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02-06-2007, 01:16 PM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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| Hi Adam - I have both of these. Market Garden is the best of the bunch; in fact, they are my favourite ATB volumes. I get them out every September (and often in between!) around the anniversary and read them through again; would go for them mate.
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02-06-2007, 01:17 PM
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| Sorry VP can't help. I've got 'Battle of Britain, The Blitz 123, Berlin, Airfields of the Eighth and Ninth, Bases of Bomber Command and The Battle of the Bulge. If you need any info on them then let me know, mate.
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02-06-2007, 01:34 PM
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And I've given up on the idea of being able to get a "cheap" copy of the BoB, especially as I'm constantly reminded that I need to get the 4th Revised Edition or is it the 5th? So another expensive book on the wish-list.
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02-06-2007, 03:53 PM
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| I was looking at the Battle of Britain one last night, seems to be on it's 5th revision, quite scary as you'd obviously have to get the most recent. The Bulge one seems to have had the same treatment, but not 'Panzers in Normandy' which could do with it. I think Paul's recommendation might be enough for me to ask her for the Market Garden ones (perhaps optimistically...  ).From what I've seen of all their publications so far from 'Then & Now', through 'Wheels & Tracks' right down to their 'Historic Military Vehicle Directory' it's faintly annoying that all published books aren't this good.
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02-06-2007, 10:19 PM
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PS. VP has suggested he ought to get all the back issues, mmmm wish he hadn't said that! Hello VISA card. Last edited by Owen; 02-06-2007 at 10:42 PM. | |
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04-06-2007, 09:01 AM
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| I did that ! Back issues, found the first copy I'd ever seen in WH Smiths of all places, bought it, read it , thought Bl***y hell these are good! Luckily I worked near to there offices in West Ham when they were there, went in one day with my cheque book and came out a lot poorer financially! but with all the back issues, and now still get them delivered. I dont know how they produce such a good magazine at such low cost They had small dipslays of stuff they'd rescued from various places, and the staff were really helpful. I also have a copy of Panzers in Normandy Then and Now somewhere which I will be getting rid of soon, (when I can sort out all me boxes!) as far as I can recall it has a very good section on the discovery of Michael Wittmans grave. Regards Andy
__________________ In proud memory of Lieutenant James Henry Woods 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th September 1944 Lieutenant William Stewart Donaldson 156th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 21st September 1944 Sergeant John Burge Glider Pilot Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th-26th September 1944 Corporal John Walter Bentley 12th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action on the Rhine 24th March 1945 LEST WE FORGET 'They are free-yes-but not entirely free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you. Whatever this master commands, they do; and his command never varies: it is never to retreat in battle, however great the odds, but always to stand firm, and to conquer or die' (from The Peloponesian War?- Herodotus 490-425BC ) |
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04-06-2007, 10:23 AM
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Thanks for Rome 44, when you find it. Let me now about this book too, might have that off you as well. | |
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