New Model Army

In the post this morning: the first two of my author copies of New Model Army (available from all good internet bookshops and so on and so forth). Very handsome volume; good cover, nice type, sits lovely in the hand. I opened it at random on p.128 and found a typo in the first line, which, I choose to believe, is one of those omens like William the Conqueror falling over when he got off the boat at Pevensey -- which is to say, by this typo I seize England with both hands! Certainly...