We received the following: The First Sikh War, 1845-46, Order of Battle Book: Will be going to print sometime between January 5 and 12th and is expected to be ready to for shipment by January 15th, 2004. The book numbers some 80 pages, in a 4 x 5.5 soft cover format, and will retail for $16.00 US ($18.00 Canadian). As a bonus to all KPG/ConSimWorld, Yahoo! Groups and Magweb members, all orders post marked by January 31st 2004 will retail for $15/$17 Canadian respectively. On February 1st, the book reverts to its normal $16/$18 price. (Overseas customers, please contact me direct). A sample of this book has already been posted to both the Yahoo! Groups, Colonial Wars folder and “By Jingo” in .pdf Acrobat format, but if you would like a sample, please drop me an Email and I’ll dash a copy off to you. (If you have the current S&T magazine #219, an early proto-type introduction to the book and subject is there in the form of my article on the Sikh War, along with a the first [greatly distilled] Sikh order of battle to see print this side of the Atlantic). This book contains extremely detailed Orders of Battle, for both belligerents, which have not seen the light of day for almost 150 years; along with a concise but detailed account of the war itself, prolific notes on the Orders of Battle and how I tracked them down and corrected errors, an account of the slide to war and a detailed chapter on the Sikh Artillery, to name but a few chapters. There are also orders of battle charting the growth of the Sikh Army (Khalsa) from a cavalry raiding force in 1800 to the juggernaut it became just prior to the war. The Sikh Orders of Battle themselves have not been printed or published in the West for over 160 years and are detailed down to the battalion, regimental and battery level, this fact alone will make the book a must have value for those of you who are interested in the Sikh Wars or British military history on the subcontinent of Asia. Review copies of the book have already been mailed off and I will be sending a copy to several notable publishing houses for future consideration (Osprey being the most likely candidate for now). I am extremely proud of this, my first book, and I can assure you that a copy of this manuscript, along with any good solid history of the (1st) Sikh War(s), will give you almost all the information there is available on the subject (short of me learning to read Persian). Thanks must also go to Aaron Silverman, who not only converted my Word text to Acrobat format, but also took the time to proofread and do the layout of the book. This book wouldn’t make half the splash I hope for if it wasn’t for his efforts. Andrew Preziosi PreziosiA@aol.com Khyberpassgames.com Sample Sections Preziosi, Andrew: First Sikh War 1845-1846: Order of Battle Book [India, 1845-1846] Back to 1st Quarter 2004 List of News Items Back to Master List of News Items Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Coalition Web, Inc. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com