Mr Craighhead, who served in the Army for 28 years, said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph: “It’s not the book people were waiting for, I know that, but I’m extremely proud of it. This book is not a response to not being allowed to publish another book – this is a different project.” This year the announcement has been delayed due to COVID-19, but today we are pleased to announce that the winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2020 (#BAMBY20) is Professor Anthony King for his book, ‘Command: The Twenty First Century General’.

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 Brave: Param Vir Chakra Stories” by Rachna Bisht Rawat is a book about all the heroes of the Indian armed forces who had to make a sacrifice to keep India safe.

Geigor Fell-hand and Azhek Ahriman were both originally available in the Burning of Prospero boxed set, but this is the first time their models will be available separately – and both heroes will have rules in their respective Liber Astartes books. First up are the two Legiones Astartes army books – one for Loyalists and one for the Traitors.* Each book includes the profiles for shared units, from heroic Praetors to armoured Contemptor Dreadnoughts , as well as weapons, special rules, and guides to building your Legiones Astartes army.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.

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. Starting with the 4th edition rules, individual Army books were published for various races and realms of the Warhammer world that had coinciding miniatures armies to play the Warhammer Fantasy Battles tabletop game. Earlier versions of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Game did not have individual Army books. 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. Yet the Luftwaffe was also in crisis. Short of resources, of fuel, and on properly trained pilots, the strain on those still flying was immense, their losses severe. And despite the chaos of their leadership, they were achieving far more than should have been reasonably expected against the superior numbers of the Allied planes.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. Each Army's 6th edition army book—15 "Get You By" Army Lists for Warhammer - the Game of Fantasy Battles 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. 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. Edition was the final edition of Warhammer: Fantasy Battle. The last army book to be printed was Wood Elves in 2014. The first army book; The Empire was printed for 4th edition rules in 1993 spanning some 21 years of printing of Warhammer army books for The Game of Fantasy Battles (formerly known as Warhammer Fantasy Battle). The original Warhammer World was destroyed in a Warhammer Fantasy novels/in-game event called End Times in 2015.