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thanks to Beasts of War for putting me on to this

visit the Osprey Blog here

https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Free_eBooks_week_1

and you can download 5 ebooks for free (remember to use the code they give you)

then come back the following week for the next four weeks to get more


this weeks titles


US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman by Gordon L. Rottman, Illustrated by Johnny Shumate


Bf 109E/F vs Yak-1/7 by Dmitriy Khazanov, Aleksander Medved, Illustrated by Jim Laurier, Gareth Hector, Andrey Yurgenson


Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224–642 by Kaveh Farrokh, Illustrated by Angus McBride


Blackbeard’s Last Fight by Angus Konstam, Illustrated by Mark Stacey, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland


The Martini-Henry Rifle by Stephen Manning, Illustrated by Peter Dennis

even if you don't want to read the text, the illustrations provide useful painting inspiration

Sweet!

Speaking of the art in Osprey books, does anyone know if there has been a collected works of Angus MacBride published?

That is incredible, thank you so much!

Nice , thanks for the heads up.

Been looking into information on the Martini Henry this evening strangely enough so this is very much on the nose in terms of interest, thanks for bringing it to my attention!

I saw them play with one on Combat Dealers which I caught while channel hopping earlier in the week (an aside in the episode where they're looking for german paratrooper stuff)

Absolutely brilliant find. Thanks for the link!

Thanks very much for the heads up! very generous of them!

That's very cool of them. Went ahead and downloaded the books and let my dad know as he's got a veritable Osprey library as it is. Heck, he may already own some of these.

5 books a week! Even one a week would have been generous but that's incredibly generous.

What an amazing offer from Osprey. Thank you for sharing.

Fantastic. Thanks for the heads up!

I chucked a bit of money at them to go with the free books

 Mr Morden wrote:
I chucked a bit of money at them to go with the free books

I have a list, nothing sinister, of those who are being good guys and those who are attempting to profiteer.

Fortunately, no local shops near me are ramping up prices.

I definitely feel more tempted to buy some Osprey hardcopy in the future as a result of the offer they're running here.

Downloaded the freebies. Pointed my father in law in their direction.

Getting Gaslands as well to pass the time with me and my son.

 Mr. Burning wrote:
Downloaded the freebies. Pointed my father in law in their direction.

Getting Gaslands as well to pass the time with me and my son.

You won’t be disappointed in Gaslands. I just wish that they would make their own templates and dice sets. I’ve gotten mine through Etsy (all friends of Gaslands), but it would be great to pick up even a decent quality set along with the book when checking out. Plus none of the stores around me stock those items.

If you have a friendly 3d printer nearby, there are loads of resources for gaslands on thingiverse. Cars,. Weapon packs, templates., scenery and rather nifty 3d dashboard thingies.

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the heads up!

I already have the M-H book, can recommend it

They just dropped Frostgrave and some expansions as well.

https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/free_frostgrave_ebook_2020

thanks for the update

Week 2 selection: https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Free_eBooks_week_2

That's an absolutely ace selection of books!!!

Can't wait to get stuck in on the Hurricane, Waterloo and the Samurai, U.S heavy cruisers is a nice bonus and I know absolutely nothing about Czech Legion so it's going to be nice going in blind and learning something totally new.

edit:- Cheers OrlandotheTechnicoloured, just seen your recommendation. I'll check out combat dealers

Dang it's not working for me this week,

got n error loop of your address isn't in your select country but selecting it sends you back to the begininig again

oh well try again tomorrow

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Dang it's not working for me this week,

got n error loop of your address isn't in your select country but selecting it sends you back to the begininig again

oh well try again tomorrow

Same here!

I suspect they will iron out this glitch pretty quickly...

 Alpharius wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Dang it's not working for me this week,

got n error loop of your address isn't in your select country but selecting it sends you back to the begininig again

oh well try again tomorrow

Same here!

I suspect they will iron out this glitch pretty quickly...

Also here. At least it being a problem for several of us hopefully means it'll get fixed.

It's working, but you need to empty your basket - visit the main site, use the top right corner to pick where you are in the world...then add the books and continue on.

It has three areas I think; UK, US, and The Rest of the World ---- so your mailing address has to match whatever site you selected. Took me a while to get these five as their site is crashing a lot due to traffic, but I got them eventually.

Sadly I've tried that and it still isn't happening, but thanks for the suggestion

The website keeps re-setting to "rest of world" for me too so I suspect only those in "rest of world" might find it works for now. It's clearly a glitch and might just be due to volumes of users right now.