I have just bought a few books on the French Indian war and noticed that both were from the same publisher so I googled them and have found a gold mine for any wargamer.
leonaur Publishing what these guys do not cover in military history is not worth looking at.
Press release:
Leonaur – A new publisher for military readers
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click here to download this press release in pdf format
Leonaur, a new publisher for military history titles released its first
ten titles in December 2005.
Using ‘print on demand’ technology the company is able to simultaneously offer its titles in softback and hardcover with a dust jacket.
New titles are proposed to be released at a rate of about ten per month giving purchasers 20 choices. Most are military history subjects.
The paperbacks are all in common large format (140 mm x 216 mm)
and the hardbacks are slightly larger being cloth bound with a nice feeling cream paper stock. All typesetting is new – Leonaur will not be offering facsimiles.
Most importantly, Leonaur are able to offer their paperbacks from between £7.99 (U.S. $12.99) to £9.99 (U.S. $15.99) and hardcovers from £16.99 (U.S. $25.99) to £19.99 (U.S. $29.99) which it hopes readers will recognise as attractive prices compared to many books in the specialist market and (of course) substantially less than hard to find books on the antiquarian market.
“There has been a resurgence in interest for popular history’ said John Lewis of Leonaur “and though there are some fine titles available on the general market we hope that our collection – also at low to normal paperback or hardback prices will encourage causal readers to buy. We also hope that keen military history readers will plunge in and try books simply because the prices are so keen!”
Leonaur will publish across the range of subject material. Books are formed into collections such as ‘Eyewitness to War’, ‘Recollections of the Great War’ etc. and numbered for series collectors.
In the first month there are two Napoleonic titles ‘Rifleman Costello’ and Jonathan Leach ‘Captain of the 95th Rifles’ which are both first hand accounts of war in the Peninsular campaign.
Robert Rogers of the Rangers is the original journal of this famous French and Indian war guerrilla leader. For those interested in Victorian era wars – The Khakee Ressalah by Dunlop is an account of irregular forces during the Indian Mutiny.
Two First World War titles ‘Steel Chariots in the Desert’ by Rolls and ‘With the Imperial Camel Corps’ based on the collected writings of Inchbald take the reader to the Palestine Campaign and Arabia with T.E. Lawrence.
For those who enjoy historical fiction Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s ‘Napoleonic War Stories’ are a must for fans of Cornwell and Mallinson.
Second month titles are (at time of writing) ready for release and these include two more Napoleonic first hand accounts, another Mutiny period cavalry account, a Sikh War first hand account, another from the Camel Corps and a novel about Australian Light Horsemen in the First World War.
There is also a superb reader – ‘Tommy Atkins’ War Stories’ giving 14 first hand accounts of Victorian era warfare.
In short, something for everyone at close to irresistible prices.
Readers can buy Leonaur books just about everywhere including amazon.co.uk and amazon.com and a host of other online suppliers.
News of future releases and passages from each book are available on Leonaur.com
the books I picked up are show below:
RC18 Regiments & Campaigns Series
Musket & Tomahawk
Francis Parkman
A Military History of the French & Indian War, 1753-1760
Francis Parkman's history Montcalm and Wolfe, originally published in two volumes is, possibly, the finest history book to come out of America and is the definitive account of the Seven Years War in the New World. It sets the conflict in an historical context and includes both biographies of its principal characters and much about its political consequences. This book, Musket and Tomahawk, has been adapted from Parkman's more expansive work by the Leonaur Editors, especially for those students of military history-both serious and casual-who are primarily concerned with the war itself. This was a war fought under blazing suns and driving snows. It was fought in the deep forests, on lakes and rivers and on the slopes of mountains. It was a war of ambuscade, sieges, massacres and the storming of palisades and burning blockhouses. It brought collisions in full battle between the regular troops of Britain and France, but it also embraced militias drawn from the settlers of both sides including famous backwoodsmen and scouts who became the Rangers. Not least of those embroiled were the deadly indigenous people of the land-the Indian tribes of the Eastern Woodlands-who fought according to their individual loyalties to each side and who brought a colour and savagery which was unique to this frontier conflict. Musket and Tomahawk is a riveting story of a war that has always fascinated students of military history because of its very diversity.
Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers
by Robert Rogers
The exploits of Rogers & the Rangers in his own words during 1755-1761 in the French & Indian War
The thrilling true account of a famous woodsman, scout & guerilla leader during the formative years of the American Natio In the evocative pages of Rogers own journal we are taken through a landscape of dark untrodden forest where danger from hostile indians and the French Army threaten every step. Famous exploits of guerilla