To answer my own question - PP also do Polish troops.

Etranger, in Devizes last week I managed to pick up a relatively cheap paperback copy (£10) of a book called 'The British in Vietnam: How the Twenty-five Year War Began' by George Rosie. Haven't read it yet, but it's getting near the top of the pile. It looks like it covers the same territory as the Dunn book. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a resonably priced copy of that Peter Dunn book. Anyway, currently reading 'Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsugency' by Roger Trinquier. It's basically an extended essay on COIN warfare by and old Indochina and Algeria veteran first published in 1964 (with a forward by Bernard Fall incidentally). It does seem a chilling in it's recommendations in some places, as you would expect from a veteran of the Battle of Algiers. It mainly deals with Algeria, but there's enough Indochina stuff in there to make it interesting, and the author seems worthy of a bit of study himself.

Hi Peewee. There are a few books of that type around but they mostly seem to be OOP - the cheapest copy of Dunn that I could find on mazon was $80 or so & they didn't ship outside the US. Fortunately there is a copy in the local University library so I can get hold of it fairly easily. I've seen Trinquier's name mentioned before but I hadn't realised that there were English language editions of his work around. I'll keep an eye out. I guess we forget that militarily the French won the Algerian War. They definitely weren't following The Queensbury Rules though!

I found a copy of the Dunn book on Alibris going for about £20. I'm afraid I couldn't resist...

Yeas it is the Coyle book Duckie. Its quite good so far although I feel he dumbs down a little. Have you got a pic of the bloke on your copy? He looks like one of the Thunderbirds.

Yeah, I've seen the other titles but none of them really appeal to me.

"The Jazz Bass Book- Technique and Tradition" Well, we're not ALL wargaming all the time! Next on the list is history related- I've got to get some minis based and finished first, though. http://serreslesrangs.blogspot.com/2008/08/number-of-exciting-developments-here-at.html

Reading? Looking maybe "Private Paton's Pictures"- a photographic history of things behind the lines with Kiwi soldiers in North Africa 1942- 43. Penguin press. What makes it a bit more special? I happened to talk with one of my patients about a friend of his that I'd played with - an old gent by the name of Harold Paton- "have you read his book" was his question - he subsequently lent it to me As for private Harold Paton himself he was a photographer with an Auckland paper, lied about his age and joined up. He was pulled from the ranks to take pictures when the then NZ PM Peter Fraser visited the troops in North Africa and thereafter became official war photographer for the 2nd NZ Expeditionary force. I didn't know this when I last played golf with around a month ago - he's really quite amazing - around 87 with a lovely fluid swing who regularly shoots under his age and a good all round bloke. I'm going to talk him in more detail and tell him that I've read his book if I get a chance to play with him again soon

Sounds like a top bloke VB, apart from the golfing bit obviously...

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around 87 with a lovely fluid swing So swinging is something else that you two have in common, VB.

Come the revoloution in March 2009 you'll have 2 black eyes in your wedding photos my boy and what's more i'm going to break my oath and tell Shelley that its easy to transport figs to NZ (Giles' remaining excuse to prevent his immigration to NZ)

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