Books at On Military Matters
Updated as of 4/25/2024
ABBREVIATIONS: dj-dust jacket, biblio-bibliography, b/w-black and white, illust-illustrations, b/c-book club addition.rct - recent arrival or pending publication, spc - OMM Special Price
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Warlord ABC WARRIORS: Blackbood, Ghengiz, and Raz-Putin
Contains three Warlord Resin Volgan miniatures: General Blackblood, Ghengiz, and Raz-Putin, characters cards, and plastic bases. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted. | Add to Cart |
1-24234002
Warlord ABC WARRIORS: Mongrol and Robo-Paratrooper
Contains two Warlord Resin ABC Warriors miniatures: Mongrol and a robo-paratrooper, plastic bases, character card, and auxiliary card. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted. | Add to Cart |
1-24234003
Warlord ABC WARRIORS: Volgan Yaks
Contains two Warlord Resin Volgan Yak miniatures, flying stands, plastic bases, and auxiliary card. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted. | Add to Cart |
1-24234004
Warlord ABC WARRIORS: Rogue Marsokhods
Contains three Warlord Resin ABC Warriors miniatures with plastic bases and game cards. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted. | Add to Cart |
1-24234005
Warlord ABC WARRIORS: Mek Quake
Contains one Warlord Resin ABC Warriors miniature with plastic bases and game cards. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted. | Add to Cart |
1-24234006
Warlord ABC WARRIORS: Joe Pineapples, Steelhorn, and Ro-Jaws
Contains three Warlord Resin ABC Warriors miniatures with plastic bases and game cards. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted. | Add to Cart |
1-24234099
Warlord ABC WARRIORS: Increase the Peace Starter Set
ABC Warriors: Increase the Peace is a skirmish tabletop miniatures game for two or more players based on the 2000 AD comic series ABC Warriors: The Volgan War written by Pat Mills and illustrated by Clint Langley. Supreme military robots, created for a conflict that ended centuries ago, the ABC Warriors are built to endure warfare in all its deadly forms - atomic, bacterial, and chemical. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted. | Add to Cart |
1-242350
Bonk, David VICTORY OR DEATH: A Wargamers Guide to the American Revolution, 1775-1782
The AWI wargamer guide provides a comprehensive overview of the American War for Independence, 1775-1782. Includes maps showing the locations of major battles by year with accompanying summaries of the major campaigns, major battles, and lesser-known engagements. Offers detailed information on the organization of the American, British, Hessians, and French armies. Covers American Continentals, British regulars, Hessians, American militia, and British provincial and loyalist units. | Add to Cart |
1-242360
Bowers, Guy A WARGAMER'S GUIDE TO THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
Discusses the Hundred Years War armies of the English, French, Welsh, Scottish, Flemish, and Burgundian allies and mercenaries, including recruitment, organization, and tactics as well as strengths, weaknesses, and overall effectiveness. Covers weapons and armor and a brief survey of Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, and other significant battles. Discusses various approaches to wargaming the conflict, including rules and figures, and provides six scenarios, each with a map and clear victory conditions. Contains 20 color illustrations.1 vol, 96 pgs
2024 UK, PEN & SWORD | Add to Cart |
1-916491
various MINIATURE WARGAMES #491
Cover: Island hopping in the Pacific in 1943-45 | Add to Cart |
1-242340
Warlord ABC WARRIORS: The Miniatures Game - Rulebook
Skirmish tabletop miniatures battle game for two or more players based on the 2000 AD series The Volgan War written by Pat Mills and illustrated by Clint Langley. Supreme military robots, created for a conflict that ended centuries ago, the ABC Warriors are built to endure warfare in all its deadly forms -- atomic, bacterial, and chemical. Team up with Hammerstein, Joe Pineapples, Mongrol, Deadlock, Steelhorn, Zippo, and Ro-jaws to take on Volkhan. The Ikon of Ikons and fearsome leader of the Volgan robotic forces is intent on conquering Marineris City with his crazed robot hordes, aided by the treacherous Blackblood and insane Mek-quake. 1 vol, 124 pgs
2024 UK, WARLORD GAMES | Add to Cart |
1-242410
Elliott, Simon VANDAL HEAVEN: Reinterpreting Post-Roman North Africa
The Vandals conquered Roman North Africa in the first half of the 5th century AD. Asserts that post-Roman North Africa thrived under the Vandals. To them, it was Vandal heaven, a place where they found a way as the new incumbent elite to live comfortably alongside the late Roman inhabitants, despite their different interpretations of Christianity. Together, the two cultures flourished. | Add to Cart |
1-242450
Esposito, Gabriele ARMIES OF THE NORMANS: 911-1194
Discusses the armies of the Normans in all their theaters, including Spain, Sicily, Malta, Italy, and Albania. Outlines the major battles and campaigns, with focus on their equipment, weapons and tactics. Supported by numerous color photographs of replica costume, weapons, and equipment. Contains 90 color illustrations. | Add to Cart |
1-242470
edited by Martin, Juan THE BATTLE MAPS OF THE SEVEN YEARS WAR: Volume 1
This spiralbound book is composed of 12 maps from the Seven Years' War. Each map takes up a full page, with the opposite page providing a detailed explanation of what is happening at each battle. | Add to Cart |
1-242480
edited by Martin, Juan THE BATTLE MAPS OF THE SEVEN YEARS WAR: Volume 2
This spiralbound book is composed of 13 maps from the Seven Years' War. Each map takes up a full page, with the opposite page providing a detailed explanation of what is happening at each battle. | Add to Cart |
1-242370
translated by Faithfull, Erik A SWEDISH SOLDIER IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS: The Memoirs of Carl Magnus Hultin, 1807-1814
Memoir by a low-ranking officer first published in 1872 and reprinted in Sweden in 1954 and 1955. Covers his service on campaign from 1808 to 1814 in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and North Germany. Provides a new perspective of little-known actions, small by the standards of continental Europe, but vital to our understanding of Sweden's part in the war. Contains 74 black and white photos and illustrations and five black and white maps. | Add to Cart |
1-242440
Gottfried, Bradley and Linda Gottfried RACE TO THE POTOMAC: Lee and Meade after Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863
Covers the period after Gettysburg, when Robert E. Lee withdrew his defeated Confederate army back to Virginia. Covers the assembly of two wagon trains, one to transport the wounded and the other with tons of supplies, followed by sending infantry and artillery on different roads to speed the journey and protect his command as the Union cavalry set out in pursuit. Discusses the encounters that followed, including several engagements with Jeb Stuart's horsemen, as the Rebels reached Hagerstown, Maryland largely unscathed and began building a strong defensive line while a pontoon bridge was built across the Potomac at Falling Waters. Contains 75 images and 10 maps.1 vol, 192 pgs
2024 US, SAVAS BEATIE | Add to Cart |
1-242380
Lindow, Derrick WE SHALL CONQUER OR DIE: Partisan Warfare in 1862 Western Kentucky
Describes the partisan guerrilla organization and battles in Western Kentucky during the ACW and Union efforts to bring it under control. The raiding and fighting took hundreds of lives, destroyed or captured millions of dollars of supplies, and siphoned away thousands of men from the Union war effort. Covers Confederate Col. Adam Rankin Johnson and his 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers who captured six Union-controlled towns, hundreds of prisoners, and tons of Union army equipment. The Union mobilized regular army troops, militia of the Indiana Legion, temporary service day regiments, and brown water naval vessels. Clearing the area of partisans and installing a modicum of Union control became one of the Northern high command's major objectives. Contains 10 maps and 46 images.1 vol, 240 pgs
2024 US, SAVAS BEATIE | Add to Cart |
1-242460
Keijsper, Gerard F-35 IN SERVICE: With Air Forces Around the World
Explores the long development of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the marketing to various NATO and other countries while retaining technological secrets. Also covers the Short Take off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version. Contains 400 color illustrations. 1 vol, 400 pgs
2024 UK, PEN & SWORD | Add to Cart |
1-242400
edited by Taylor, Daniel BATTLES FOR THE CHANNEL PORTS: Le Havre and Boulogne
After the Allied armies broke out from the Normandy bridgehead in late July 1944, the rapid northward advance sought to capture the channel ports of Le Havre and Boulogne. Hitler declared both to be a 'Festung' (Fortress) to be defended to the last man. Covers the battles to capture the ports, with both suffering German demolitions and Allied bombardments. Le Havre restarted port operations on October 2 and Boulogne on October 12. Both battles are illustrated with 'Then and Now' comparison photographs. The Capture of Le Havre: 76 black and white photos and The Capture of Boulogne: 80 black and white photos.1 vol, 224 pgs
2024 UK, AFTER THE BATTLE | Add to Cart |
1-242420
Harmsen, Peter BERNHARD SINDBERG: The Schindler of Nanjing
Bernhard Arp Sindberg, the Danish supervisor at a cement plant just outside Nanjing (Nanking), opened the factory gates and welcomed in 10,000 Chinese civilians to safety, beyond the reach of the Japanese, who were busy murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war in 1937. Biography examines his life before, during, and after his remarkable achievement, which parallels European factory owner Schindler. Contains 60 illustrations.1 vol, 256 pgs
2024 UK, PEN & SWORD | Add to Cart |
1-242430
McWhorter, Hamilton and Jay Stout THE FIRST HELLCAT ACE
Biography of Hamilton 'Mac' McWhorter III, who trained as a fighter pilot in the robust but technologically outmoded F4F Wildcat and first saw combat with VF-9 in November 1942 against Vichy French forces in North Africa. VF-9 soon converted to the F6F Hellcat and in November 1943, he shot down his fifth Japanese plane to become an ace. He flew through to the end of the war off the shores of Okinawa. He eventually retired as a commander in 1969.1 vol, 240 pgs
2024 US, CASEMATE | Add to Cart |
1-956095
Miranda, Joseph WORLD AT WAR # 95: Khalkin-Gol War 1939 Wargame
Khalkin-Gol War is an operational-level, two-player wargame covering a what-if Japanese-Soviet war in Mongolia in 1939. The historical campaign saw a series of limited actions in the late spring and early summer of 1939 along the Khalka River (Khalkin Gol) on the Manchukuoan/Outer Mongolian border. The campaign ended in a corps-level battle in August 1939 in which the Soviets decisively defeated the Japanese and produced a cease-fire between the two antagonists. The assumption of the game is that both Tokyo and Moscow decided instead to turn this into a full-scale war. | Add to Cart |
1-242500
Debay, Yves ARMOR OF THE WEST: Nato's Afnorth & Northtag
This hard to find book has colored photographs of tanks in use in 1991 by NATO nations. Photos show front or side-views of all of the tanks included -- many of them in camouflage or how they hid in the snow, as well as crew mounted on nearly all tanks. Covers armored forces of Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, USA, Germany, and Great Britain.1 vol, 93 pgs
1992 HONG KONG, CONCORD PUBLICATIONS | Add to Cart |
1-242390
Redding, Tony V BOMBERS: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War
Covers the development and deployment of the V-bombers - the Valiant, Victor, and Vulcan - including their nuclear strike capabilities. Discusses V-Force weapons, war mission, targeting, vulnerabilities, and tactics for attacking targets within the USSR. This core retaliatory threat, centered on the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad, was judged severe enough to undermine Russia's position in relation to the United States. In short, a few British V-bombers had the destructive capacity to destabilize the balance between the superpowers. Service ended with the handover of the strategic nuclear deterrent to the Polaris submarines in 1969. 1 vol, 352 pgs
2024 UK, GRUB STREET PUBLISHING | Add to Cart |
1-242510
Black Dog MONTREAL BY NIGHT
Sourcebook for the Vampire: The Masquerade (VTM) universe. There have been video games, card games, and role playing games based off Vampire: The Masquerade, and even if you've never heard of the series but like gritty horror or vampires in general, there is some fun background material to be gleaned from these pages. Focuses on Montreal personalities and events in VTM. But be warned... it has a label on it that says for adults only! | Add to Cart |
1-242520
White Wolf THE SHADOW COURT
The Shadow Court is a supplement for Changeling: The Dreaming roleplaying game. Even for those unfamiliar with it, it's a great supplement for roleplayers looking to add some flair to the darker creatures that roam their world. This book in its original setting is a guide to Unseelie Changelings, and also details the Shadow Court and introduces the Thallain to Changeling: The Dreaming. | Add to Cart |
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White Wolf KITHBOOK: Trolls
Supplement for Changeling: The Dreaming roleplaying game. Even for those unfamiliar with it, it's a great supplement for roleplayers looking to add some flair to the trolls of their world. This book interestingly blends fantasy with modern day, juxtapositioning knights and farmers next to sports players (baseball players) and eco-terrorists. | Add to Cart |