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Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Another game played and an important book

It has been quite here for the last few days. I have not forgotten the password again; just have been busy with work, family, work and a fantastic Pet Shop Boys concert (and after the concert I went clubbing, which is not recommended in my age).

Yesterday we played another game of our Moderate Swedish Conflict. We continued were we finished last time. We were something like 8 people trying to run a unit each, and Dalaupproret was the umpire. It was a very nice and pleasant game!



In the last game the White had a tank. It was a little to brave and drove to far away from the infantry. The tank got stuck in the strawberry patch and the driver was taken prisoner by the socialistic Young Eagles. The army brought forward reserves to take back the tank.
 

Here you can see the soldiers in front and the Young Eagles in the woods at the tank. What happened? Well that is a story I think Dalaupproret want to tell you at his blog. It is the story called: "Gruvettan and A Very Moderate Swedish Conflict #2".



But I have totally forgotten to show you this book! It is the most important book about the Swedish army 1910-1936. Simon Olsson "Svenska arméns uniformer 1875-2000". It lacks details about equipment, helmets and weapons. It is not so detailed about shoes and trousers, but it knows everything, and I mean exactly everything about the jackets, hats and insignia.
Highly recommended!

Monday, 3 June 2013

A new cavalry book

The other day I was at the army museum here in Stockholm looking for books. Then I found this one, which is totally new!



As the title suggests it is about uniforms in the Swedish cavalry; to be exact from the 17th century until the early 20th. The text is both in English and Swedish. There is a lot of pictures, but it is only original drawings from the same time as the uniforms. Some of the pictures are good, many not.

But it is still a very good source book because it covers very much and it is very cheap (150kr).

This is just part one, part two will be about the infantry and book three about artillery and more modern uniforms (m/10 and younger).