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August 5th, 2003, 07:31 PM
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go here : www.naval-military-press.com
10% off books till September. many titles, and I have only scratched the surface
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August 5th, 2003, 07:59 PM
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I've seen their advertisement in a Military History Magazine but--I have not bought anything from them yet.
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August 5th, 2003, 08:34 PM
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Yes, I've bought from them and have been on their mailing list for several years now.
If you have to speak to them on the 'phone, the guy who runs it is strangely grumpy. But the service is fast, and I've had some excellent bargains from them in the past.....
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August 5th, 2003, 09:14 PM
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thank you gents
looks like a look through project after the long bike ride today in the headwind......yee haw ! maybe a purchase of a pre birthday gift for myself today ? nothing else anywhere has caught my fancey for new books this month.
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August 5th, 2003, 09:52 PM
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Whoa Erich what did you do to me? There are so many books here I see my bank account shrinking already 
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I think about 30 pages of WW 2 titles alone. Well if the cahp is a grump, no matter as long as I don;t talk with him.......yikes sounds like a close relative to me ! has some outstanding Napoleonic books in his selections. Going back for another look today....
Greg, save your pennies
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August 6th, 2003, 07:14 AM
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I'll explain the 'grump' bit - I had the weird experience of a package of books suddenly arriving that I hadn't ordered - in fact, I hadn't ordered any books at all....
So phoned the guy at N&M who snapped 'Well, send them back then !' as though it was my fault or something  . For a moment I was tempted to bin them but did the decent thing & posted them all back.He did refund the money so alles was klar in the end.
But, as a well-known bookdealer guide used to say, 'There are some funny people in this business'....
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AHA! The forums-detective has pinched through your flimsy statement here, martin! You write:
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I had the weird experience of a package of books suddenly arriving that I hadn't ordered - in fact, I hadn't ordered any books at all....
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For a moment I was tempted to bin them but did the decent thing & posted them all back.He did refund the money (italics mine) so alles was klar in the end.
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Why would he refund the money when you didn't order the books??? [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img] 
It is my guess that your wife found the package; you played the murdered innocence, picked up the phone and let that poor, poor man 'know' that he has sent you a bunch of books, by accident!? probably your wife was standing behind you, slipper at the ready....
Sorry Martin, this story doesn't fly 
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Yes, the "refund" part sounded weird to me as well...
Freud, Freud...
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Martin probably means he got refunded for the postage to send the books back to the dealer.
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August 6th, 2003, 01:02 PM
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Oh yeah, the postage refund, of course!
Sorry about that...
It´s a bit mixing at times because different countries have different habbits. Tend to forget that at times...
Or the old joke that " I´ve got a great memory except that I got the disease that starts with A...."
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Yes, it was like four pounds-worth of postage plus the hassle of packing all the books and queuing at the Post Office - and the books were all about the Punic Wars or something.... 
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Ah, I get it... I assumed you could just sent off the package labeled "return to sender". That's what I was told to do in the past and never heard anything again. Assumed that that worked everywhere.
Ok, fact that they were about the punic wars gives you ample alibi... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Hmmmm...have to brush up on my Sherlock Holmes...
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Between bombing runs the Punic wars might be good for you, Martin,eh? Or us all....
the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage (c.200 BC), both sides used Celtic mercenaries. In fact during one Roman stroke of brilliance, they bribed a merchant to slip a great quantity of wine to the Celts guarding the Carthaginian Elephants. When the Celts were sufficiently drunk, a Roman raiding party attacked and took sixty elephants back to Rome and the amazement of all in the city.
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I know the guys at Naval & Military Press quite well, and can happily recommend them... their overseas postage is one of the best deals in the business, and they have a lot of books at very good prices... one of the few places to get nearly all the DelaForce British divisional histories for less than £10 for example.
They send their catalogues out for free worldwide, and issue them about every six weeks or so.
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this is good news Paul ! thank you, as I still haven't finished plying through all the books this firm has under it's wing.
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