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The British Army Military Book of the Year (BAMBY) has been running since 2008. The aim of the Competition is to both encourage reading and informal professional military education in the British Army and to highlight the work of the Army's Library and Information Service (ALIS). Over the course of the next year, a team of judges will read through six short-listed books, in the search for the winner of the #BAMBY20. The book’s dense, detailed narrative opens in 2002 with a veteran specialist giving a virtuoso display of armoured warfare on a Canadian training ground. He receives fulsome praise from his superior officers even though this type of combat is unsuited to the wars his comrades-in-arms are about to fight – and in spite of the Nazi officer’s uniform he is found to be wearing underneath his British one. Hitler's Buzzsaw - German-made machine guns, but in particular the lethal MG42, are vastly superior to their enemies’ and rightly feared by Allied infantrymen. Lord Ashcroft & Isabel Oakeshott - White Flag: An Examination of the UK's Defence Capability - 246 points

The prize-giving will take place in the New Year and we will announce the long-list of books for the #BAMBY21 at the same time. Hobby section - Information on collecting, building and painting an army from the army book. This features outstanding example models painted by the Games Workshop 'Eavy Metal Team as well as Games Workshop's Army Painters and veteran hobbyists. The following is a list of Army Books and Supplements for the various armies released for the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy Battle game. Carried over from the First Edition book, this rule combines with the MG boost brought-in with the Second Edition rules - making German MGs even more lethal...! Gen. V. P. Malik also explains in detail how the Indian political system works and how it coped with the Kargil scenario.An Army Book in the Warhammer Fantasy tabletop wargame, is a rules supplement containing information concerning a particular army, environment, or worldwide campaign. Once a reader completes reading it, he or she is left with a feeling of empathy and great gratitude for those who sacrifice their lives by going to war. BAMBY was established in 2008 and is in its 14th year. Previous winners have included the Late Lord Ashdown, Professor Andrew Roberts, and Doctor Aimée Fox. The aim of the prize is to encourage reading and study about the profession of arms amongst our soldiers and this year’s offering will not disappoint.

The British Army Military Book of the Year (#BAMBY) is the Army's own annual literary prize. Each year, a shortlist of books is considered by ten judges, Regular and Reserve. The process begins in January each year with the winner announced in October, and presented with the prize at the Army’s own library, Prince Consort’s Library, Aldershot in December. This offers a bonus for German officers when they use the '‘You men, snap to action’' Special Rule, giving them more influence. I drove into a small town called Majar al Kabir where, just months after the 2003 invasion, six British military policemen on a training mission had been lynched. I heard what people had to say about the murders, and it became clear that the British army’s confidence in its supposed know-how was utterly misguided. In the end, the US had to come in. Akam has also done a thorough job on the alleged abuses committed by British troops during the conflict. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. The Liber Hereticus contains rules for all nine Traitor Legions, including Rites of War, Primarchs, Legion-specific units and wargear. If you’re of a more Loyalist bent, the Liber Astartes contains the same for the nine Loyalist Legions.David Patrikarakos - War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century - 326 points However, it is of high moral and educational value to any reader. It provides significant historical value and expounds the threats the Indian military faces to protect the nation from rogue neighbours. From hostage rescues to ambushes, from sabotage to jungle warfare and from pitched battles to reconnaissance, it hasn’t always gone according to plan but the courage and devotion to duty revealed within show just what it takes to be an SAS soldier. The British Army Military Book of the Year (BAMBY) is an annual book prize which aims to encourage soldiers to read as part of an informal approach to professional military education. The prize has been running since 2008, with a gap in 2017. The competition is judged by serving personnel of all ranks from Trooper to Colonel, they read all seven books over six months and hand in their judgement in September each year. Previous winners have been:

Another reason, which author Simon Akam explores in great detail in his excellent and valuable book, is that the British army has made great and often very effective efforts to close down any criticism, constructive or otherwise. The publication of the book was fraught with difficulty as the military establishment closed ranks. (The original publisher was Penguin Random House, which put the book on hold, telling Akam there was a “quite unprecedented level of withdrawal of support and co-operation for the book from multiple sources”). This alone goes a long way to substantiating the author’s powerful accusation that the army, a reflexively defensive, instinctively conservative and opaque institution, has limited ability to adapt to change, whether military, social or political. And this means things go wrong. New Units - We've also compiled the German Additional Units and Special Rules which we published elsewhere (in other books, and/or online) into the book - including the likes of Night Fighting Units, and more!

Mr Craighead, who was also awarded an MBE by the late Queen earlier in his SAS career, says the book is a metaphorical story about a wolf who becomes a sheep dog. At the same time, we are also looking for serving Judges. To be eligible, individuals must be serving soldiers of any rank from Private to Colonel. The Judging Panel will be chosen in February 2020 and will reflect the diversity of the modern British Army.