Thanks fsn 

I've already put together a FK&P scenario for Newburn Ford based on somewhat limited information
that I have been able to find online, though those sources vary widely as to who was there and what actually happened.

One of my regular opponents is keen to play and has very kindly made a couple of very nice looking star forts for the English defenders.

So if Reid's book has a full order of battle etc then I'll definitely get the book at some stage. 

Quote from: Radar on 08 September 2026, 05:24:58 PMAs for the new Furgol, I've seen some of it, but in an earlier guise. I think there must be a 'story' why it changed publishers...

I'm thinking that the €180 price tag is a bit steep, which is clearly a bonkers statement when I have all 3 volumes of the fairly new collection of Cromwell's Speeches and Letters. Would be good to hear your impression of it PTS.

The old Furgol SL&C armies book is practically identical to Reid's recent history of the SL&C armies (I've got both, Reid's will be considerably cheaper than a 2nd hand copy of Furgol's)

Not sure what the story is as to why the publisher changed, but it added an extra figure to the price!

I found a good deal through a well known third party seller that was offering free shipping, so that was fairly decisive in my decision to get Furgol's new book.

Release date is given as 16 Sept so I will report once it arrives.

If it's as good as his eariler volume (as I'm sure it is) then I will be in C17th Scots Royalist nivarna     

I see that said well known online seller has it for £153 (which probably translates to €180).

The bits that Ed presented at the Helion Conference were interesting. He admitted that he might have use wargaming miniatures for the illustrations.

I think I am slowly talking myself into buying it. I'm sure that the bald tyres on my car aren't really that bald. An overpriced academic imprint would be a much better use of my bank balance

Finished "Chesty: The story OF Lieutenant general Lewis B. Puller, USMC" by LtCol Jon T. Hoffman, USMCR.

A very well written book on Puller's life.  This book comes after Burke Davis's book "Marine" which was also about Chesty.  It corrects some of the wild stories and takes us to Puller's death.  An incredible warrior, entering the Marine Corps in 1917, too late for WWI; Puller, after Officer's Training Camp, was sent to Haiti and later Nicaragua.   He actually did not get commissioned until 1924.

5 Navy Crosses, but no Medal of Honor. He was a great leader, way out front with his men, no matter his rank.  He fought in the Banana Wars, WWII and Korea, but was retired before Vietnam.  He and his wife had a daughter and then twins, a boy and girl.  Puller was a devoted family man but told his wife he would always march to the sound of the guns.  The Marine Corps was his life.

His son, Lewis B. Puller Jr., did become a Marine Lieutenant.  However, after reporting in Vietnam in August 1968 as a platoon leader, he was wounded in October 1968 by stepping on a 105mm howitzer shell rigged as a land mine.  It blew off both legs, parts of both hands and other injuries.  He survived, but later in life committed suicide.

Finished "The Geographies Of War" by Jeremy Black, a very prolific writer.

The book is pretty dense and discusses more than physical geography.  He says the tactical level is more for the physical geography but strategy relates more to the human geography, as he defines it.  The customs, mores, beliefs and racial is included in the human geography.

Quite a bit on mapping and how that has progressed from land to the sea to the air and now to space.  I didn't realize that the US used drones for mapping in Vietnam - thought they were more recent that that.

I did not get what I wanted from this book, although Black is a gifted writer.  I was hoping it would discuss more tactical themes (always thinking about wargames) but that is not what this book is.