well I have ended my recent spending spree with a trip to the annual? town rotary book sale, fair, thing. so I roved the tables full of thousands upon thousands of books and then made a bee-line to the History/war section and there in front of me, the first things I saw, were some books anyone with an interest in the cold war would jump for, I didn't though I did grab them quick :-) then I decided to buy my sister (who came with me) 2 books on dog breeds because she loves dogs and she chose a book for my mum! Then I went off to the Sci-fi section to see if they had for some strange reason some books in Isak Asimov foundation series, I have foundation and prelude to foundation, I looked for a while and almost gave up but then! there they were foundation and empire, second foundation and foundation and earth, I decided not to get foundation and earth because I only had $2 left. So how much did all this cost? I hear you ask....
$10 that's right just 10 New Zealand dollars, not bad for... 4 cold war comics (both in terms of subject and age) + 2 dog related items (one BIG magazine? or book from 1998 and a little book) + 2 smallish Sci-fi novels + one Book for mum. I will not show you all the books, just the cold war comics.
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| they are very similar to the Soviet war power book I can get out from school |
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| they are old - for books 1976 they were published! at the time they cost $3.15 for all except the weapons and Uniforms book which cost $2.35 I got them for $1 each :-D take that inflation |
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| the soviet war power book at school is from 1980 so these are slightly older |
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| this one might be of use then it comes to doing more in depth structuring for my Oronegrean forces |
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| this is a very useful book, its funny to see the prototype Apache though and the Hind A-B instead of the Hind F (totally different cockpits). |
well there you go. these are just another useful source of information and if any of you cold war gamers are interested I can give you some facts from these books. OK spending over now to save as much as possible for the future, well until Christmas and birthday and then I can stock up on some more stuff if necessary.
I have a few WW2 copies of these books. My favorite is probably 'The Desert War'. Although brief it was informative and a good place to begin capturing one's interest in this campaign.
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I am almost through the uniforms and weapons book which has had a few phrases that either I did not understand or were odd. but on the whole I agree brief but informative... interesting to compare the facts in this book to the Soviet war power book of 1980 large changes in tanks and the hind as I said... in these books the T-72 is breifly noted as the "new" soviet tank in the war power book it dicusses how the T-80 is being planned for!
Deletein the uniforms book it talks about "walking out/parade" dress/ uniform and "parade on duty" uniform... what does it mean? I can uderstand every day and field, though field seems a little odd and if it means more than just battlefield I would like to know.
so many stange expressions :-(
"Walking out" uniform I've always inferred as the uniform you wear when on leave - a weekend or evening pass, say. I don't know how the military really works, but I can imagine the sort of thing where in the evening you're off duty, and are permitted to go off base of an evening. Maybe.
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Step outs are a smarter uniform rather than field camoflage! Parade and dress uniform is the very much smarter uniform used for official dinners and military parades.
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