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Tag: World War I

Sign spotted in the trench at Tracks to the Trenches

Tracks to the Trenches 2016

Posted on 19th May 201610th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
For my birthday this year, my wife gave me a family ticket to this year’s Tracks to the Trenches event. We went to the event on Sunday, and it was an interesting day. There were several narrow g... Read More
SMLE Mark III

Smelly: The British SMLE and No.4 Bolt Action Rifles

Posted on 17th December 201510th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
Smelly: The SMLE The SMLE (sometimes pronounced “smelly”), or “Rifle, Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield”, to give its full designation, entered British army service in 1904. This re... Read More

Win a copy of A Fleet in Being in paperback

Posted on 1st June 201519th May 2015 by Russell Phillips
I’m giving away two paperback copies of A Fleet in Being. Everyone on my mailing list will be entered into the draw. If you’re not already on my list, you can join here. You will also get ... Read More
1924 Rolls-Royce Armoured Car with modified turret, in the Bardia area of the Western Desert, 1940

AFV Alphabet: R is for Rolls-Royce Armoured Car

Posted on 18th May 201510th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) created the first British armoured car squadron in September 1914, requisitioning all Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost chassis for the new vehicle. The design had a fully ar... Read More
Deutschland

SMS Deutschland, the Civilian U-Boat

Posted on 19th January 201510th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
The idea of merchant submarines, a variation on standard merchant ships, has been suggested on multiple occasions, but has only been put into practice once, during WWI. In 1916 a class of seven u-boat... Read More

A Fleet in Being: Austro-Hungarian Warships of WW1

Posted on 26th November 201429th December 2017 by Russell Phillips
The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine – The Austro-Hungarian Navy – was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state abord its flagship,... Read More
Damn Close-Run Thing (large print)

Large Print, Free Books, Translations

Posted on 29th September 20144th December 2014 by Russell Phillips
I have several news items to pass on. A Damn Close-Run Thing is now available in large print. This is something of an experiment – if sales figures suggest that large print is in demand, then I&... Read More
Wargame Vault bundle

Save Up To 40% With These Bundles

Posted on 3rd September 20144th December 2014 by Russell Phillips
My publishing company, Shilka Publishing, has set up two bundles on Wargame Vault (they aren’t available anywhere else). The bundles represent savings of 33-40%, compared to buying the individua... Read More
Candle

Lights Out

Posted on 4th August 201426th August 2014 by Russell Phillips
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” The above words were spoken by Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, as World War I began, 100... Read More
Gavrilo Princip

Gavrilo Princip and the Mythical Sandwich

Posted on 27th June 201410th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
It is generally accepted that the First World War was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip. In recent years, however, an extra twist has been ... Read More
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