Cheiftains - Bob Forrest Webb

BadersBusCompany · July 09, 2010, 05:58:11 PM

Just got a copy of 'Chieftains' by Bob Forrest - Webb off Amazon for £28! I am well chuffed

BillSlim · July 10, 2010, 05:14:10 AM

£28! They saw you coming, Mark! I got my copy for less than a Fiver, also from Amazon.
It's a great book with lots of whiffing potential. I've seen it compared favourably to Team Yankee, though with a somewhat different ending (won't give it away).

BadersBusCompany · July 10, 2010, 07:00:17 AM

I had a copy years ago Jan but when I left home it disappeared, I tried to get it last year off Amazon and the cheapest one I could find was £250+!!! So I'm keeping this one safe, and its ok I know the ending

thedarkmaster · July 10, 2010, 07:25:19 AM

Got my copy a couple of years ago for 50p from a charity shop, i never trealised it was so sort after !

BillSlim · July 11, 2010, 05:10:03 AM

I noticed that it had gone up in price last time I looked. It must be getting quite rare now.

The big difference between it and TY is:

Team Yankee: almost everyone lives (except if you live in Birmingham, or Minsk).
Chieftains: almost everybody dies.

I've always thought that the ending of Chieftains was pretty sudden and quite shocking.

Nick · January 07, 2012, 12:21:08 PM

Good News!!!

Bob Forrest Webb has released Chieftains for the Kindle. You can now download this work for just £6.60. Even more amazing is the sheer number of what-if books out there purely online!
Haven't got a Kindle? No worry, get the Kindle Reader for your PC for free!

I've ordered a proper copy through my library which might arrive this year.....

Nick · February 06, 2012, 04:53:29 AM

Get this: A copy of Chieftains has arrived at my library via the InterLibrary Loan Scheme. It's for libaray use only meaning I have to sit in the library and read it there $:-\$ . But what really got me was where it came from....

Put it this way, the lending library is not in England. Who wants to guess where it came from?

BillSlim · February 06, 2012, 05:47:56 AM

Somewhere else in the UK? America? Germany? Russia?

I remember wanting to read ACM Sir Hugh Dowding's book and having to do it in the library because if was an ILL from the National Library of Scotland.

Steel Penguin · February 06, 2012, 07:41:31 AM

managed to get the kindle copy, ( thanks for the heads up). a nice riveting read. but oh the ending..
i was a more than a touch disappointed. Evan with the hint above, i did expect more to it before the end.
still its re invigorated me for my 28mm 80s stuff, more Berlin brig stuff, more chally 1s, etc.