Landships II

James H · Legend

Softskins 1897-1927

baldwin · Hero

James
Any chance of getting me one as well.????

James H · Legend

Loads here.

Rob · Legend

Will have to pick a copy up - there's another Blandford, as well as the WW1 AFV book, about WW1 softskins (which actually covers from 1850 or so up until 1939), 'Military Transport of WW1'

LincolnTanker · Commander in Chief

Another good Blandford book is

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Railways-War-Before-1918-Blandford-Colour-Series-/200540197851

It covers alsorts from trench monorails to standard gauge railways.

James H · Legend

I hadn't noticed that. Here's the full list:

http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/blandford.html

Rob · Legend

Brilliant, thanks Chris - really enjoy these old books, the illustrations are wonderful and really evocative. They don't make 'em like that anymore!

baldwin · Hero

The book on Railways if it going for that price then buy it it's amazingly cheap.

alfisherjr · Colonel

Yes, the Blandford�colour series�appear to be excellent, but I sometimes wonder about the accuracy of their drawings and information.� Any comments?

Bosun Al

James H · Legend

Here's a tantalising glimpse:

http://vive.moy.su/shop/675/desc/railways-and-war-before-1918

I think they're generally pretty good - not 100% but not bad at all. Found a couple of misinterpretations in Uniforms of WWI but the vehicle books seem to be mostly on the ball.

P.S. Because of a computer catastrophe, I can't access my Paypal account. Long story, but I can't receive emails sent to my old address, and I need to in order to change it to the new one, if you follow me. Does anyone fancy investing 1.83 euro to download the book from the above site?

-- Edited by James H on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 01:40:23 PM

Paul Bonnett · Hero

James, you can get it at the following site

http://rapidshare.com/#!download|668dt|254893638|Railways_and_WAR_before_1918.pdf|69247

-- Edited by Paul Bonnett on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 02:22:34 AM

alfisherjr · Colonel

Paul . . . The Rapidshare site didn't work for me.� Could you give me the original site and I can try and work from there?

Bosun Al

baldwin · Hero

Re railways at war. All the pictures have been done from original photos. The accuracy is very good,the mistakes (few) are in the description of the vehicles.Since it was published a lot more info has come out and with on going research even more. My main interest is the narrow gauge railways (light railways) of the Great War and I could go on for ever. I am compiling a booklist for PDA.As usual for a small part of the Great War story there is a lot of info out there.

Paul Bonnett · Hero

http://rapidshare.com/#!index You have to register (free) first .
Paul

compound eye · Colonel

Thanks for the heads up on the railway and softskin books. I did have the Blandford Colour Series collectors page, but am only personally acquainted with a mere handful of titles.

Next ones on my List -

Military Transport of World War I
Tanks and other Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1900-1918
Railways and War before 1918

I do love the 'sketch + ink or watercolour' looking colour plates of the Ellis/Bishop 1971 volumes to the truly awful 'oil' colour plates of the two BT White WWII Tank & AFV books, which take some incredible liberties with detail & accuracy. The BT White WWI Tank & AFV book isn't quite so bad, but I still wish Dennis Bishop had done the plates.

Artillery in Colour 1920-1963 is a great book too, if you don't know it... and has a LOT of 1900-1918 artillery pieces in it, that seem to have crept in somehow.