- Joined
- Aug 25, 2012
Some of the earlier Osprey Men-at-arms were two books published in 1971; The Iron Brigade and The Stonewall Brigade. John Selby provided the text while Michael Roffe provided the color uniform plates. By today's standards these books leave a lot to be desired. Still they were the start of a total of 24 Osprey books covering Civil War uniforms with a total of 434 full color uniforms shown in the uniform plates. The books have improved over the insuring 50 years.
Still some Civil War uniform buffs are not enamored with these Osprey Publishing Men-At-Arms books. The positive thing about them is they are colorful and inexpensive. There are some questions about the quality of the representations. No one can really complain about the total number of uniforms shown.
I think one of my favorite books are the 6 books in The Confederate Army 1861-65 series.
Ron Field did a good job with the text which was very informative. The 144 full color uniforms by Richard Hook and very well done as well. The down side is that Osprey Publishing wants to keep the books short so does not have proper end notes. The reader just has to trust Ron Field is a well known expert on Civil War uniforms. Still I think this 6 book series is worthy of anyone interested in Confederate uniforms to have on their book shelves.
Still some Civil War uniform buffs are not enamored with these Osprey Publishing Men-At-Arms books. The positive thing about them is they are colorful and inexpensive. There are some questions about the quality of the representations. No one can really complain about the total number of uniforms shown.
I think one of my favorite books are the 6 books in The Confederate Army 1861-65 series.
Ron Field did a good job with the text which was very informative. The 144 full color uniforms by Richard Hook and very well done as well. The down side is that Osprey Publishing wants to keep the books short so does not have proper end notes. The reader just has to trust Ron Field is a well known expert on Civil War uniforms. Still I think this 6 book series is worthy of anyone interested in Confederate uniforms to have on their book shelves.