Army list books - who decided the names ?

Switzer · Post by **Switzer** » Thu May 07, 2009 7:49 pm

Hi

Whoever decided some of the army list books names has a decided
pro-turk anti -byzantine bias reminiscent of gibbon at his worst.

Decline and Fall (byzantium at war)
errr no - the lists go to manzikert but the byzantine empire
had a silver age under the comneni only ended by the
crusader sack of constantinople in 1204!!!
Wrong title i think
Legions triumphant (imperial rome)
Not by the end of this book they werent by the patrician period
the legions were basically defensive blocks and the west had
fallen - its legions shattered at adrianople and the internecine
slaughter of the frigidus
Wrong again
Eternal Empire (the ottoman turks at war)
Eternal hmmm - 1300 ad - 1918 ( 600 years)
Byzantium -300 ad - 1453 (1150 years)
Whose eternal in those two ?

So renamed books =
Legions Triumphant becomes decline and fall
Decline and Fall becomes Eternal empire
Eternal Empire becomes Janissaries triumphant ?
Storm of sipahis ?

Only kidding guys - but i think im right
Anyone fancy an argument ?

Steve

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Thu May 07, 2009 7:54 pm

That's 2 doors down on the left.

This is abuse

LambertSimnel · Post by **LambertSimnel** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:28 pm

Where does the title of Immortal Fire come from? Is it a literary allusion that I am missing?

olivier · Post by **olivier** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:34 pm

From the fire of Zoroastrian ... Major religion of the Persians Empires until the Sassanians.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:11 pm

I blame the marketing men

Honestly none of the names of the books are my fault

I can safely say that all my suggestions were rejected, mainly on the grounds of political correctness.

I really liked "Bastion of the Faith", "Cross and Crescent" etc.

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:24 pm

They all sound better than Rome 1 rome 2 Byzantine 1 Byzantine 2 etc

robertthebruce · Post by **robertthebruce** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:31 pm

There is a little discussion to decide the names, JD request opinion to the "Freak group"

, and after no reaching any agreement the name is decided

. Similar procedure for the books covers.

As Hammy says, the political correctness finally wins.

I have to say that the most of names sounds good for my foreing ears, but not when are translated, here we used to hear a lot of titles and product names in English and all sounds similar for us.

David

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Fri May 08, 2009 5:07 am

hammy wrote:I really liked "Bastion of the Faith", "Cross and Crescent" etc.

I can quite honestly say that I didn't think Hammy was thinking "Cross and Crescent" when I heard his book names were disregarded for political reasons. Perhaps I have less faith in him than he deserves

Ian

thefrenchjester · Post by **thefrenchjester** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:54 am

Hi Switzer,

all the names came from my distorted mind, someone should bring the standard and my name came out the Hat ( or a rabbit , I don't remind )

so now you have a name or a guy to blame for that ;

if you search me to blame me I 'm in the Circus just inside the cage with the lions ;

Best Regards

thefrenchjester " FOG onTour even in Portmeirion "

whitehorses · Post by **whitehorses** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:57 am

Just look for No. 6

MadBanker · Post by **MadBanker** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:13 am

whitehorses wrote:Just look for No. 6

I thought it was n°8?

whitehorses · Post by **whitehorses** » Sat May 09, 2009 4:08 pm

He's not a number, he's a free man

MadBanker · Post by **MadBanker** » Sat May 09, 2009 6:18 pm

whitehorses wrote:He's not a number, he's a free man

Thanks for making me spit my coffee on my keyboard!

vercingetorix · Post by **vercingetorix** » Sat May 09, 2009 6:33 pm

Whose side are you on?

whitehorses · Post by **whitehorses** » Sat May 09, 2009 7:20 pm

That.....would be telling

peterrjohnston · Post by **peterrjohnston** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:56 am

hammy wrote:I blame the marketing men

Honestly none of the names of the books are my fault I can safely say that all my suggestions were rejected, mainly on the grounds of political correctness.

I really liked "Bastion of the Faith", "Cross and Crescent" etc.

And my "Riders on the Sand" and "The Book of Smiting" were both rejected in favour of something dull about
a history of birdwatching swifts and eagles in biblical times.

The Scots have no sense of humour, is all I can say

babyshark · Post by **babyshark** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:43 pm

peterrjohnston wrote:And my "Riders on the Sand" and "The Book of Smiting" were both rejected in favour of something dull about
a history of birdwatching swifts and eagles in biblical times.

The Scots have no sense of humour, is all I can say

"The Book of Smiting" would have been a wonderful title.

Marc