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Incidently, if you're considering drawing on Osprey books, I fully endorse the rather critical review of 'The British Army in the Far East 1941-45' at Amazon.com. I've leafed through this one a number of times and it's coverage of the theatre is disappointing.
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How 'bout the one on jungle tactics?
Also please post away with useful links!Comment
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I love the Osprey Campaign series but find SOME of their other ranges to be lightweigh, poorly researched and overpriced.
I have not read the Jungle Warfare one but I did get the Elite - WWII Inf Tactics, Co and Bn which was pretty basic! I am sure there is better work out there, me thinks Osprey sometimes like to make a quick buck!!!Comment
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I haven't seen that one yet I'm afraid.Originally posted by Boco
How 'bout the one on jungle tactics?
Some links:
Burma Star Association: http://www.burmastar.org.uk/
Complete OOB of the Pacific Theatre on 7 December 1941: http://orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/600_...07_pacific.htm
Orbat.com has some OOBs of the CBI theatre at: http://orbat.com/site/history/index.html though some of the links are now dead (from memory, they were sourced from the British Official history)
Yeah. I've been less than impressed to find that Gordon Rottman's rather expensive books on US and Japanese OOBs in the Pacific are full of typos and minor errors which should have been picked up before they went to print. For the price they charge for thin books Osprey have no excuses at all for letting those kind of mistakes slip through.Originally posted by Werd100
me thinks Osprey sometimes like to make a quick buck!!!'Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.'
- Neal Stephenson, CryptonomiconComment
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Excellent links, Case!
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Re: Book errors
One thing that always puzzles me is how publishers can put out work with captions for their pictures that have so little info or that are often just completely wrong. An example would be showing German infantry in 1939 with MG42s, that sort of thing. Normally Osprey use very good photos and have informative captions. Lots of documentaries on TV do the same thing, the narator is talking about a certain campaign and the footage is from a different theatre/date/army!
Things like that really tick me off
Boco
I have just noticed a really good campaign map of Kohima and Imphal stuck on my study wall, I suppose I see it every day and just forgot it was there. It is from a magazine collection called Images of War that I collected when I was a boy. I think there are some other Burma related ones. I will fire up the scanner and send you over some high resolution copies
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You have a study wall of documents? Excellent stuff -
A true CIV2 scholar!Comment
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@Curt
My study walls are a mixture of James Bond movie posters, WWII campaign maps, souvenir maps from foreign holidays and some tasteful art (?). I also wear slippers but have not progressed onto the smoking jacket and pipe just yet. Basically it is where I escape from the real world
I have just been experimenting with the scanner which seems to be working, just wanted to see if the resolution is ok. I think I may have to go a bit higher for the text to be readable!Attached FilesComment
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My dad was in Force 136, operating in Malaya, he went in by submarine to set the ground work for an Allied invasion that wasn't needed in the end.
Is that what you guys are referring to as Z-special forces?Comment
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Z-Special Force was roughly the Australian equivalent of Force 136. It specialised in demolition and intelligence work behind Japanese lines.'Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.'
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I think this scan resolution works better.Attached FilesComment
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Hope it is OK to post all this stuff? I don't want it to get in the way of discussions that are going on!Attached FilesComment
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That's pretty impressive!Originally posted by kobayashi
My dad was in Force 136, operating in Malaya, he went in by submarine to set the ground work for an Allied invasion that wasn't needed in the end.
Do you have information about this unit? I've only scratched the surface of google hits on its operations in Burma, let alone Malaya, etc. I thought politics were complex in the Near East during the Great War—it's already clear that I need to learn a lot the evolving alliances in SE Asia during WWII. 
Werd, your study is one helluva resource! Keep it coming. Googling "images of war" and mccormick in books gave me some impressive bibliographies.Comment
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Anyone know where I can find TOE's for any of the formations involved? I'm trying to get an idea of what artillery was used.Comment
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