One ebook today but quiet an interesting one
Straight 5/5 star with 26 ratings
Great gift for Vietnam Veterans. They will surely appreciate this eBook.
- Hundreds of unique color photos showing how soldiers decorated their helicopters during the Vietnam War
- Elaborate, colorful, and often comical nose art inspired by Sixties and Seventies pop culture, music, cartoons and comics, psychedelia, and politics, as well as sex and booze
- Features Hueys, Chinooks, and more
- Artwork captures a slice of the Vietnam experience
- Will appeal to Vietnam veterans, modelers, and history buffs
Ill also add this one:
- TAFL: Ancient Board Games of the Norse and Celtic Peoples of Scandinavia and the British Isles (Ancient Games)
Not ratings but looks like a good one when i flipped through it. Recently published this month
Ancient Norse, Celtic and Brito-Saxon board games played by Vikings and others since before 400 A.D. - Eleven different Tafl variant boards, pieces and rules and simple strategies explained, with diagrams. Five board sizes; 7x7, 9x9, 11x11, 13x13, and 19x19 explained.
Games taught in this book include the Scottish Ard Ri, Irish Brandubh and Fitchneal, Welsh Gwyddbwyll and two variants of Tawlbwyrdd, Sapmi Tablut, three variants of Viking Hnefatafl, and the gorgeous and gigantic Alea Evangelii.
Discussions on cultural importance, history, and rule variants as well as easy information how to make a simple game set to play on, with the intention of providing encouragement for all to keep well this rich heritage of games - a real, solid, tangible connection to our ancestors and our history, which no computer screen fantasy can truly provide.
Thx OP, should be a interesting read!