SCOTTISH REGIMENTS AND UNIFORMS 1660-1914 by A.H.Bowling. (8 x 6"; 64 pages; innumerable line drawings, photographs and coloured plates. Almark Publications - £ l.50; papercover 1.00). This is a new expanded edition of an early Almark book. It includes all the original material plus two new colour plates and 32 additional groups of line drawings covering militia, territorial and disbanded regiments. Over 130 uniforms are shown in colour and there are some most interesting and useful line drawings and photographs. At this price, here is a book that no self-respecting wargamer can be without as its contents provide an invaluable source of information when painting up figures. BRITISH CAVALRY STANDARDS by Dino Lemonofides. (8 x 6"; 55 pages; 7 colour plates; innumerable pictures and line drawings. Almark Publications - £ 1.75, papercover £ 1.25) This is a companion volume to the same authors earlier work on British Infantry Colours and it completes the coverage of British Regimental Standards and their developments. It is beautifully produced and packed with so much material that ones respect for the author's researches must be considerable. There is just no excuse for cavalry cantering around the wargames table without the colourful embellishment of a Standard at their head when this book is available at such a realistic price. TRIBAL CLASS DESTROYERS by Peter Hodges. (8 x 6"; 80 pages; 80 pictures. Almark Publications - £ 1.90, papercover £ 1.25) The Naval wargamer will find this book fascinating in its descriptions of the most famous of the Royal Navy and Commonwealth destroyers of World War II. The ships, their evolution, their armament and their modifications are all clearly described and every single one of them is pictured. There is a panache and glamour about destroyers which even the man with his feet most firmly planted on land finds irresistible - this book will give him some true knowledge about them also. MODEL SOLDIERS by Peter Blum. (9" x 6"; 40 pages with a picture per page. Arms and Armour Press. £ 1.30, 75p papercover). This is an American book reviewed in these pages a few years ago that has now been amended so as to appeal to British and Commonwealth readers. It is an excellent little volume, describing in a clear, concise and understandable manner how to paint model soldiers and artillery; converting; dioramas and displays etc. The line drawings are very helpful and no one can possibly dispute the fact that reading this book will improve the standard of their painting. Wargames figures will usually look good en Masse but it is also nice if the individual figure can be picked up and be a credit to its painter - this book makes such a thing possible. BATTLE HONOURS OF THE BRITISH ARMY by C. B. Norman . (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"; 500 pages; 7 illustrations; 4 maps. David and Charles - £ 4.20p). This reprint of a book originally published in 1911 is an absolute mine of information concerning the British Armies history from Tangiers 1662 up to the Boer War. Each section contains a description of the battle, a list of the units involved together with casualties and Battle Honours. This is an invaluable reference source not orly for the wargamer but for the military collector and historian, having under one cover the sort of information that would take hours to find from other varied sources. THE ALMA 1854 (Battles for Wargamers Series) by Henry Harris. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"; 65 pages; 7 Maps. Charles Knight and Company Ltd. 90p). This is another of the "Battles for Wargamers" series introduced by Brigadier Peter Young and is written by Major Henry Harris whose books on model soldiers are extremely well known. Being a finely detailed and accurate description of a well-known battle of the Crimean War, this book is excellent. But, like the majority of other titles in this series, apart from the introduction by Peter Young, it bears little relation to wargaming except in the overall title. Nevertheless it will ideally serve as a source of information and stimulation for the wargamer who wishes to reconstruct the Battle of the Alma on a table-top terrain. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 119 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1971 by Donald Featherstone. 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