Casemate Publishers Spring 2016 Catalog

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In this latest edition of our catalog, we are pleased to present an extraordinary selection of military history titles from Casemate Publishers as well as our distributed lines from around the world.

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1. By phone on 610-853-9131 2. Complete and send this order form to: Casemate Publishers, 1950 Lawrence Road, Havertown, PA 19083 3. On our secure website at www.casematepublishers.com

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In the following pages, you will find all of our new and upcoming releases for the Spring 2016 season. Thanks to the expertise of our associated editorial teams, we are proud to consider this lineup of titles the best and most expansive we have yet seen. We hope that this season’s releases will pique your interest as much as it has ours.

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Featured in this catalog for the first time are the two newest publishers on Casemate’s team—AFV Modeller (UK) and Lombardy Studios (US). With illustrated titles ranging from armored vehicles to the Civil War and Napoleonic Wars, we are sure that these vibrant new publishers will be a welcomed addition to our line.

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Fighting High Publishing / Harpia Publishing

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Fonthill Media

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We are also excited to announce the launch of our newly enhanced website. Please visit and take a look at our full array of titles from past seasons as well as the present at www.casematepublishers.com.

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Helion and Company

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Histoire and Collections

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As always, we welcome your questions and comments, so feel free to contact us for more information about forthcoming titles, our backlist, and our eBook selection. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Casemate A Shau Valor American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963–1971 Thomas R. Yarborough Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and U.S. armies repeatedly fought head-to-head. A Shau Valor is a thoroughly documented study of nine years of American combat operations encompassing the crucial frontier valley and a 15-mile radius around it—the most deadly killing ground of the entire Vietnam War. Beginning in 1963 Special Forces A-teams established camps along the valley floor, followed by a number of top-secret Project Delta reconnaissance missions through 1967. Then, U.S. Army and Marine Corps maneuver battalions engaged in a series of sometimes controversial thrusts into the A Shau designed to disrupt NVA infiltrations and to kill enemy soldiers.

The various campaigns included Operation Pirous in 1967, 1968’s Operations Delaware and Somerset Plain, 1969’s Operations Dewey Canyon, Massachusetts Striker, and Apache Snow— which included the infamous battle for Hamburger Hill—culminating with Operation Texas Star and the vicious fight for and humiliating evacuation of Fire Support Base Ripcord in the summer of 1970, the last major U.S. battle of the war.

By 1971 the fighting had once again shifted to the realm of small Special Forces reconnaissance teams assigned to the ultra-secret Studies and Observations Group—SOG. Other works have focused on individual battles or units, but A Shau Valor is the first to study the nine-year campaign—for all its courage and sacrifice—chronologically and within the context of other historical, political, and cultural events.

$32.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 16pp photos • 978-1-61200-354-2 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-355-9

Pathfinder Pioneer The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II Colonel Raymond E. Brim, USAF (ret.)

In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America’s air counteroffensive in Europe.

Like thousands of other young Americans, Ray Brim was plucked by the U.S. Army to be a combat flyer, and was quickly pitted against the hardened veterans of the Luftwaffe. Brim turned out to have a natural knack for flying, however, and was assigned to the select squadron developing lead Pathfinder techniques, while experimenting with radar. He was among the first to test the teeth of the Luftwaffe’s defenses, and once those techniques had been honed, thousands of other bomber crews would follow into the maelstrom, from which 80,000 never returned.

This work gives us vivid insights into the genesis of the American air campaign, told with the humor, attention to detail and humility that captures the heart and soul of our “Greatest Generation.” Brim was one of the first Pathfinder pilots to fly both day and night missions leading bomb groups of 600-plus bombers to their targets. At the onset of his missions in the spring of 1943, B-17 crews were given a 50-50 chance of returning. Each of his raids were nerve-wracking forays into the unknown; with struggles to survive the damage to his plane due to flak and German fighter attacks, in order to bring his 10-man crew home, often wounded but still alive.

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$32.95 • 312 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • photos • 978-1-61200-352-8 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-353-5

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Casemate The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Intelligence Network that Decoded Enigma Paul Paillole Ten years after the publication of his Services Spéciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first English edition of The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle, Paillole brings us to the very heart of the world of espionage and counterintelligence, providing unique insight into the key figures that led to the decoding of the Enigma machine at Bletchley and the ultimate collapse of Hitler’s Third Reich, most notably through Hans-Thilo Schmidt, France’s German spy embedded in the very heart of the Third Reich.

$32.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61200-371-9 • eISBN: 978-161200-372-6

In compelling narrative style Paillole details how Schmidt delivered intelligence to France right from the source of the German Cipher Office. Schmidt, whose brother Rudolf occupied one of the highest postings in the Third Reich, commander of 2nd Panzer Army in Russia, created an intelligence network between France, Poland and England, and successfully transmitted crucial details about Hitler’s strategic plans. From information about Germany’s rearmament and the reoccupation of the Rhineland, to fundamental technical intelligence about the Enigma machine, Schmidt’s contributions are key to the Allied victory in the intelligence war, despite the fact that France largely ignored his communications.

Revealed here are the most secret aspects of the ‘secret war,’ the ‘war of numbers.’ By way of HansThilo Schmidt Paillole sheds further light on the interaction of secret agents working inside the German government, bringing attention to the cooperation between the French, English and Polish agencies surrounding the challenges of decoding the Enigma machine.

And the World Went Dark An Illustrated Interpretation of the Great War Steven N. Patricia This beautiful and evocative book gives an illustrated overview of the First World War, on land, on sea and in the air. With original drawings in full color, Steven Patricia uses 30 years’ experience as a historical illustrator to give an informative and insightful account of the war, portraying the human faces of the participants and capturing moments in time with a vividness and immediacy that brings home both the emotional impact and the tragedy of war.

$25.00 • 96 pages • 8 x 11.7 • May 2016 • hardback • color illustrations throughout • 978-1-61200-348-1 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-349-8

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Accompanied by soldier’s diary extracts and other contemporary literature, there are many drawings of the hardware of war: aircraft and airships, submarines and ships, guns and grenades. We also get a glimpse of weary officers relaxing in an RAF mess; see panicking sailors swimming desperately away from a sinking ship, soldiers stumbling across no-man’s land, and the dramatic scene of one of last great cavalry charges of any war, in Egypt. The role of animals is featured, including the importance of horses and rescue and messenger dogs. The text gives a concise introduction to the events of the war and why it started, with maps of the different fronts where fighting took place and a diagram of a trench system. Designed for readers with little familiarity of the conflict, this is a unique and unmissable book in the centenary of the ‘war to end all wars’.

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Casemate Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861–1865 Thomas Phillips In the first years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield; however, the Confederacy recognized the industrial weight against them, and counted on British intervention to even those scales in order to deny the United States victory. Bluff, Bluster Lies and Spies is a wild ride through the State Department of William Henry Seward to the work of Lords Palmerston, Russell and Lyons in the British Foreign Office. Fearful that Great Britain would recognize the Confederacy and provide the help that might have defeated the Union, the Lincoln administration was careful not to upset the greatest naval power on earth.

At the same time, Great Britain needed to retain influence on American foreign policy, because her very existence as an empire depended upon it. In face of the growth of the Union navy, she turned out to be a paper tiger that relied on bluff and bluster to preserve the illusion of international strength. Britain had its own continental rivals, and the question of whether a truncated United States or a reunited one was most advantageous was a vital question. Ultimately Prime Minister Palmerston decided that Great Britain would be no match for a Union armada.

In addition to the naval arms race between Britain and France, Europe was covered with the spies, arms dealers, detectives and publicists who struggled to buy guns and to influence opinion about the validity of the Union or Confederate cause. This book describes how the Civil War in the New World was ultimately left to Southern battlefield prowess alone to determine, as the powers of the Old World declined to intervene.

$32.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • photos • 978-1-61200-362-7 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-363-4

Sons of the White Eagle in the American Civil War Polish Officers on Both Sides of the War Between the States Mark F. Bielski This book describes nine transplanted Poles who participated in the Civil War. They span three generations and are connected by culture, nationality and adherence to their principles and ideals.

The common thread that runs through their lives—the Polish White Eagle—is that they came from a country that had basically disintegrated at the end of the previous century, yet they carried the concepts of freedom they inherited from their forefathers to the New World to which they immigrated.

Once in America the pre-war political feuds, ferocious ensuing battles, captures, prison camp escapes and privations of war—often in the words of the soldiers themselves—are fully described. More highly trained in warfare than their American brethren—and certainly more inured to struggles for nationhood— the Poles made a more significant contribution to Civil war combat than is usually described.

The first group had fought in the 1830 war for freedom from the Russian Empire. The European revolutionary struggle of the 1840’s molded the next generation. The two of the youngest generation came of age just as the Civil War began, entered military service as enlisted men and finished as officers. Of the group, four sided with the North and four with the South, and the other began in the Confederate cavalry and finished fighting for the Union side. All but one came from aristocratic backgrounds. In a war commonly categorized as a “brother against brother,” a struggle between two American regions, history has not devoted a great deal of attention to the participation of Poles, and foreigners in general.

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$32.95 • 312 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 16pp photos • 978-1-61200-358-0 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-359-7

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Casemate Team Yankee A Novel of World War III Revised and Expanded Edition Harold W. Coyle For 45 years after World War II, East and West stood on the brink of war. When Nazi Germany was destroyed, it was evident that Russian tank armies had become supreme in Europe. In 1945 US and UK bombers sent a signal to the advancing Russians at Dresden to beware of what the Allies could do. Likewise when the Russians overran Berlin they sent a signal to the Allies what their land armies could accomplish. Thankfully the standoff continued on either side of the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.

During those years, however, the Allies beefed up their ground capability, while the Soviets increased their air capability. The focal point of conflict remained in central Germany—specifically the Fulda Gap—through which the Russians could pour all the way to the Channel if the Allies proved unprepared to stop them.

$32.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 16pp photos • 978-1-61200-365-8 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-366-5

Team Yankee posits a conflict that never happened, but which very well might have, and for which both sides prepared for decades. Harold Coyle presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the Allied soldiers who would have had to meet a relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions.

It takes the view of a US tank commander, who is vastly outnumbered during the initial onslaught, as the Russians pull out all the cards learned against Germany. Meantime Western Europe has to speculate behind its thin screen of armor whether the New World can once again assemble its main forces to rescue the bastions of democracy in time.

In the Shadows of Victory America’s Forgotten Military Leaders, 1776–1876 Thomas D. Phillips History plays tricks sometimes. During the course of America’s experience it has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in our collective consciousness as “great,” while ignoring others often equally as deserving. In the Shadows of Victory takes a look at an array of American battlefield commanders who were as responsible for triumph as their more famous peers, yet have often gone unsung.

For example, few of the thousands who pass by the traffic square between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan each day realize that it houses a tomb. Fewer still understand that beneath the obelisk rests one of America’s best military commanders—William Worth—a hero in not one but two of the nation’s wars. Similarly, the Civil War general who never lost a battle and who many military historians believe fought one of the two most perfect battles in history was not Grant, Sherman, Lee, or Jackson; it was Thomas—who never extolled his own cause but in all likelihood saved his nation’s.

$32.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 16pp photos • 978-1-61200-360-3 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-361-0

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From the War of Independence, through the Mexican War and Civil War, and during the numerous Indian wars throughout, great combat leaders have emerged across America’s battlefields, yet have just as suddenly slipped through the cracks of history once the guns went silent. At the same time conflicts themselves have often disappeared from consciousness, the public forgetting the fights the country waged against the Barbary Pirates, the British in 1812, and against the Seminoles and Apaches. In the Shadows of Victory describes the heroics and command acumen of 25 superb military leaders whose sacrifice and skill have often been neglected.

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Casemate Escape to Pagan The True Story of One Family’s Fight to Survive in World War II Occupied Asia Brian Devereux A gripping true story of survival set in Hong Kong and Burma, as one family struggles against overwhelming odds in World War Two. Hong Kong, 1941. The Japanese have invaded the island.

Leading an attack on Golden Hill, Jack Devereux of the Royal Scots Regiment is shot through the head. A Japanese officer attempts to decapitate him, in order to blood his samurai sword; waking momentarily, Jack kills his would-be executioner. His head swarming with maggots, he survives capture as Japanese soldiers are fascinated by his wounds. Alive, he then goes on to experience and escape the horrific sinking of the Lisbon Maru, in which hundreds of POWs drown or succumb to the sharks, and he goes on to experience the mines of Nagasaki and the atom bomb.

Burma, 1942. Jack’s wife Kate Devereux, her infant son (the author) and mother Harriet try to avoid the unstoppable advance of the Japanese; they flee their home and walk the jungles foraging for food while avoiding predators. Terrified that Kate’s marriage certificate to a Scotsman will be discovered, they adopt the guise of the Mons Burmese tribe. The once prosperous family becomes destitute and starving. Their chance of survival was slim; multitudes of people like the Devereux’s fleeing the Japanese died of exposure and starvation, or were waylaid by bandits or killed in bombing raids.

They are kept alive by the author’s incredible grandmother, a strong-willed woman able to speak fluent Japanese as well as pass herself off as native Burmese. Their destination is the deserted city of Pagan—deep in the jungle where the Japanese have declined to invade.

$32.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • March 2016 • hardback • 6pp b/w photos • 978-1-61200373-3 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-374-0

Eyes All Over the Sky Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War James Streckfuss After the first successful flight by the Wilbur brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, no-one could yet possibly know how significant a role they would play in the fighting. Aerial reconnaissance, observation and photography impacted the fighting in many ways, but little has been written about it.

Balloons and airplanes regulated artillery fire, infantry liaison aircraft followed attacking troops and the retreats of defenders, aerial photographers aided operational planners and provided the data for perpetually updated maps, and naval airplanes, airships, and balloons acted as aerial sentinels in a complex anti-submarine warfare organization. Reconnaissance crews at the Battles of the Marne and Tannenberg averted disaster. The story told here involves the early American Lafayette Escadrille pilots who were looking for heroic deeds and romantic adventure in aerial combat, as well as the German, British and French aces of popular imagination. But the real value of military aviation lay elsewhere; balloonists, unsung heroes, were an essential part of the observation chain, and forever altered the nature of artillery operations. Observation spotters from planes further enhanced the benefit of being able to extend the target range well out of the line of sight and direct artillery fire, though communicating information was far from easy and systems from weighted message bags through light flashes, smoke signals and wireless messages were tried and honed. Eyes All Over the Sky fully explores all the aspects of aerial reconnaissance, and its previously under-appreciated significance. Also included are the individual experiences of British, American and German airmen; true pioneers of aviation warfare.

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$32.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61200367-2 • eISBN: 978-161200-368-9

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Casemate Kleinkrieg The German Experience with Guerrilla Wars, from Clausewitz to Hitler Charles D. Melson In recent years the great powers of the West—primarily the US and UK—have most often been relegated to fighting “small wars,” rather than the great confrontational battles for which they once prepared. It has been a difficult process, with some conflicts increasingly being seen as unwinnable, or at least not worth the effort in treasure and blood, even as the geopolitical structure of the world appears to slip. It is thus worth paying heed now, to the experiences of another power which once encountered the same problems.

This work examines the German analysis to the problem, covering their experiences from the Napoleonic era to the Third Reich. Though the latter regime, the most despicable in history, needed to be destroyed by US/UK conventional force, as well as that of the Soviets, the German military meantime provided analysis to the question of grassroots—as opposed to greatpower—warfare.

$32.95 • 216 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61200-356-6 • eISBN: 978-161200-357-3

This work is built around the historical analysis titled Kleinkrieg, provided to the German High Command by Arthur Earhardt in 1935 (republished in 1942 and 1943) which examined insurgencies from French-occupied Spain to recurrent problems in the Balkans. It also calls upon the Bandenbekampfung (Fighting the Guerilla Bands) document provided to Germany’s OKW in 1944. In both, conditions that were specific to broader military operations were separated from circumstances in occupation campaigns, and new background in the German experience in suppressing rebellion in World War II is presented. Edited and annotated, along with new analysis,

by Charles D. Melson, former Chief Historian for the U.S. Marine Corps, Kleinkrieg expands our knowledge of the Western experience in coping with insurgencies.

The Lafayette Escadrille A Photo History of the First American Fighter Squadron Steven A. Ruffin The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I. One hundred years later, it is still arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to take to the skies. In this work the entire history of these gallant volunteers—who named themselves after the Marquis Lafayette—is laid out in both text and pictorial form. In time for the centennial celebration, this work not only tells the fascinating story of the Lafayette Escadrille, it shows it.

$37.95 • 288 pages • 7 x 10 • May 2016 • hardback • b/w and color photos • 978-161200-350-4 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-351-1

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Already a student of the squadron, the author spent a full year sifting through university and museum archives in the United States and France for photographs and documents relating to the famed unit. To complement these images, he traveled extensively, taking snapshots of existing markers and memorials honoring the men of the Lafayette Escadrille. In France, he specifically sought out locations where the squadron operated and its pilots frequented. In several cases, he was able to match his present-day color photos with contemporary images of the same scene, thus creating a jaw-dropping then-and-now comparison. To add even more color, the author included artwork and aircraft profiles by recognized illustrators, along with numerous full-color photographs of artifacts relating to the squadron’s men and airplanes, as they are displayed today in various museums in the United States and France.

The result is undoubtedly the finest photographic collection of the Lafayette Escadrille to appear in print. Along with the expert text revealing air-combat experiences, it is a never-before-seen visual history that both World War I aviation aficionados and those with a passing interest in history will appreciate.

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Casemate Saving MacArthur The Story of America’s Most Daring Naval Rescue, and of the Men It Left Behind Rudy Tomedi A photo in the New York Times on June 10, 1942 depicted a young naval officer, John Duncan Bulkeley, and his wife in the back of an open touring car as they were being treated to a New York ticker tape parade. Hundreds of thousands of people were cheering him in a hero’s welcome not seen since Charles Lindbergh returned from his solo flight across the Atlantic. The 26-year-old Bulkeley was just back from the Philippines, where he had pulled off one of the most spectacular rescues in U.S. naval history by taking General Douglas MacArthur out of the besieged islands aboard a PT boat.

MacArthur’s escape from the Philippine death trap was front-page news not only in the U.S. but all over the world. America’s most illustrious soldier had been a hairbreadth away from being killed or captured by the Japanese. Both MacArthur and Bulkeley were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and commentators nationwide joined in the adulation. But no mention was ever made of the nearly 80 officers and men of Bulkeley’s squadron who were left behind, a tragic sacrifice that no one at the time would admit was totally unnecessary.

Saving MacArthur is the story of the fateful friendship of two otherwise very different men who shared an unquenchable thirst for fame and a willingness to turn history into myth, a story that is as much about the nature of human beings as it is about a glorious moment in our past. But above all it is the story of the men history has forgotten—the crews of the PT boats whose only reward was to be abandoned and left at the mercy of the Japanese.

$32.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 16pp photos • 978-1-61200-317-7 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-318-4

The Dragon’s Teeth The Chinese People’s Liberation Army—Its History, Traditions, and Air Sea and Land Capability in the 21st Century Benjamin Lai When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People’s Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s, when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result was that in the past quarter-century China has grown to be the second largest economy in the world, and its military has grown proportionately.

Successive decades of economic growth have transformed China—in addition to the weapons revolution during the computer age—so that by now the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has become a modern fighting force. No longer having to rely on massed infantry attacks, it now features a formidable arsenal including nuclear submarines, ICBMs, stealth fighters, and modern battle tanks. Perhaps ominously for other maritime powers, the Chinese have also focused on beyond-the-horizon missile technology, as well as anti-aircraft systems, and have also explored the possibilities of cyber-warfare.

What is today’s PLA really like? What are its traditions and histories, and how is it armed and equipped? How does it recruit and train? This book describes some of the lesser known battles and wars the Chinese have undertaken, and the development of their key weapons systems. The United States, having opened the door to “drone warfare,” have had an attentive audience for such technologies in Beijing. The last chapter provides thoughts on how the Chinese view matters of security.

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Casemate Instruments of Battle The Fighting Drummers and Buglers of the British Army from the Early Seventeenth Century to the Present Day James Tanner Instruments of Battle examines in detail the development and role of the British Army’s fighting drummers and buglers, from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal weapon of war was the drum and bugle (and the fife), these men and boys were not musicians as such but fighting soldiers who took their place in the front line. The origins of the drum and bugle in the Classical Period and the later influence of Islamic armies are examined, leading to the arrival of the drum and fife in early Tudor England.

$32.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • black and white and color illustrations • 978-1-61200-369-6 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-370-2

The story proper picks up post-English Civil War and the drum’s period of supremacy through much of the eighteenth century army; certain myths as to its use are dispelled. The bugle rapidly superseded the drum for field use in the nineteenth century until developments on the battlefield consigned these instruments largely to barrack-life and the parade-ground. But there are surprising examples of the use of the bugle in the field through both World Wars and the story is brought up to most recent times and relegation to an almost exclusively ceremonial role. This is all set against a background of campaigns, battles, changing tactical methods and the difficult processes of command and control on the battlefield. Interwoven is relevant comparison with other armies, particularly American and French. The wider roles of drummers, especially, as battlefield heralds, as adjuncts to recruiting and dispensers of punishment are considered, as well as the other roles they and buglers assumed, out of practicability, on the modern battlefield.

Stories of the drummers and buglers themselves provide social context to their place in the army.

Hitler’s Atlantic Wall Yesterday and Today Leo Marriott, Simon Forty, and George Forty Masters of the continent, the Nazis realized that they would have to defend their gains, and once the United States entered the war, redoubled their efforts. Using forced and slave labor they built a chain of defensive positions, coastal batteries, and beach defenses from the top of Norway to the Franco-Spanish border.

However, as was so typical of the Nazis, while the bunkers and batteries seem impressively constructed, and the Atlantic Wall has left a permanent reminder of the years of Nazi domination, it was crippled by lack of strategic planning, internal bickering, and a multitude of command structures that did not communicate with each other effectively. In June 1944 the Allies burst through the wall, and while it took many lives to break the crust of the German defenses, the vaunted Atlantic Wall proved ineffective save for the fortresses the Allies bypassed and subdued later.

$29.95 • 192 pages • 8.27 x 11.7 • June 2016 • hardback • color photos throughout • 978-161200-375-7 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-361-0

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Using the same formula as in their books on The Normandy Battlefields and Race to the Rhine, Leo Marriott and Simon Forty combine bespoke aerial photography with old photographs, maps, and current illustrations to provide a pictorial analysis of the subject—Around 500 illustrations ensure the subject is well covered. After opening sections on the construction of the wall, the defensive plan, and the different structures that were built, Hitler’s Atlantic Wall provides a survey of the key locations and what can be seen today—including many of the museums that interpret them. The bulk of the book is divided geographically by country, dealing with France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway.

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Casemate PAPERBACK REPRINTS

Unsung Eagles

I Am Soldier of Fortune

Sacrifice on the Steppe

The Story of America’s Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II

Dancing with Devils

The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942-1943

Lt. Col. (ret.) Jay A. Stout “Unsung Eagles offers a rare cockpit perspective of World War II in the air. Jay Stout’s anthology features an extraordinary variety of accounts from airmen – many now deceased – that will become more valuable as the generation that fought the greatest air campaigns of all time continues to depart the pattern.”—Barrett Tillman, author of Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942–1945 The nearly half-million American airmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. In Unsung Eagles, Jay Stout has saved an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion.

These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of largely unrecognized men who – in the aggregate – actually won it.

The combat careers of 22 different pilots from all the services are captured in this crisply written book which captivates the reader not only as an engaging oral history, but also puts personal context into the great air battles of World War II. $18.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 32pp photos • 978-1-61200-3948 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-210-1

Lt. Col. Robert Brown, USAR (Ret.) and Vann Spencer “Bob Brown’s book is well named. It is, on one hand, a concise chronological history of a unique American publishing venture, and on the other, an autobiography of a maverick soldier and his bizarre assortment of cronies. Above all, it is a great read.”—American Rifleman Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces not once but twice, and completing the Command and General Staff College without a security clearance, while meantime being wounded in Nam, finally found his true calling as a publisher.

Forty years ago he launched an upstart magazine from his basement called Soldier of Fortune, which pushed the bounds of journalism to its limits with his untamed brand of reporting – a camera in one hand, a gun in the other, and soon thereafter he discovered that he’d established a worldwide community. In this book Brown tells his own story, taking the readers into combat zones where he and his “dogs of war” trotted across the globe. $18.95 • 408 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 32 pp photos (color) • 978-161200-3931 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-194-4

Hope Hamilton “Raw courage and endurance blend with human suffering, desperation and altruism in the epic saga of this withdrawal from the Don lines, including the demise of thousands and survival of the few.”—Recollections of World War II When Germany’s Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by allied armies. But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counter-offensive which commenced that November, dooming the Germans to their first catastrophe of the war. However, the historical record also makes clear that one allied unit held out to the very end, fighting to stem the tide – the Italian Alpine Corps.

When the Don front collapsed under Soviet hammer blows, it was the Alpine Corps that continued to hold out until it was completely isolated, and which then tried to fight its way out through both Russian encirclements to rejoin the rest of the Axis front. Only one of the three alpine divisions was able to emerge from the Russian encirclement with survivors. In this all-sides battle across the snowy steppe, thousands were killed and wounded, and even more were captured. $18.95 • 368 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 16pp photos • 978-1-61200-3924 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-013-8

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Casemate ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES FROM C ASEMATE: C ASEMATE CLASSIC WAR FIC TION WILL PUBLISH NEW EDITIONS OF FORGOTTEN CLASSICS THAT PERFEC TLY C APTURE THEIR ERA, STARTING WITH WWI.

Under Fire

The Somme and the Coward

Henri Barbusse Under Fire, first published in French as Le Feu, was one of the first novels about WWI, appearing before the outcome of the war was clear. Set in early 1916, it follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers through the eyes of an unnamed foot soldier, who participates in and also observes the action. It combines soaring, poetic descriptions with the mundane, messy, human reality of soldiers living in their own excrement. Intermingled with details of how they navigate daily life in the putrefied atmosphere of the trenches are both harrowing descriptions and a pacifist argument about this war. Caught up in events they cannot control, the soldiers go through their daily routines: foraging for food, reading letters from wives and mothers, drinking, fighting in battle, and in heavily realistic scenes which the novel is noted for, discovering dead bodies in advanced stages of decomposition; the human detritus of a brutal war. $15.95 • 304 pages • 5.2 x 7.5 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-612003825 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-3832

Patrol

In The Somme and its companion The Coward, first published in 1927, the heroics of war and noble self-sacrifice are completely absent; replaced by the gritty realism of life in WWI for the ordinary soldier.

The Somme revolves around a futile attack in 1916 during the Somme campaign. Everitt, the protagonist is wounded and moved back through a series of dressing stations to the General Hospital at Rouen. Both in and out of the line he behaves selfishly and unheroically, but in a manner with which it is hard for the reader not to identify. Based on A D Gristwood’s own wartime experiences, critics have said that few other accounts of the war give such an accurate picture of trench life. The Coward concerns a man who shoots himself in the hand to escape the war – an offense punishable by death. He gets away with it, but is haunted by fear of discovery and self-loathing. $14.95 • 208 pages • 5.2 x 7.5 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-612003801 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-3818

Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey?

Philip Macdonald In the Mesopotamian desert during World War I, the leader of a British patrol is shot and killed, by an unseen enemy. The officer is the only one who knows their orders and has not told anyone else where they are located. From then on the sergeant has to try to lead the men through a hostile desert landscape which is full of invisible Arab snipers. One by one they are picked off, and the group of diverse characters from different backgrounds has to try to come together in order to survive. The decision making process proves far from easy as tensions and prejudices from their former lives come to the fore. This thrilling tale of suspense goes right to the last page and was a best seller in the 1920s. The novel was filmed twice, by Walter Summers (as Lost Patrol in 1929) and by John Ford (as The Lost Patrol in 1934). $15.95 • 246 pages • 5.2 x 7.5 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-612003788 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-3795

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A.D. Gristwood

W.F. Morris Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange and eerie scene in a ruined chateau, under fire. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and understandably perplexed as to who would be playing the piano in the midst of shellfire, they discover a German officer lying dead at the keys, next to a beautiful woman in full evening dress, also deceased. But the officer is the spitting image of G B Bretherton, a British officer missing in action….

So follows a tale of mystery and identity, first published in 1930, which is not only an authentic account of conditions at the Front, but also a remarkable thriller, with a highly unusual plot, which won Bretherton comparisons to John Buchan and the best of the espionage writers. $15.95 • 320 pages • 5.2 x 7.5 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-612003764 • eISBN: 978-1-61200-3771

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Sixty Squadron RAF A History of the Squadron from its Formation Group Captain A.J.L. Scott Sixty Squadron R.A.F. 1916-1919 is one of the classic squadron histories of the Great War, the story of a squadron whose members were awarded 1 Victoria Cross, 5 Distinguished Service Orders, 1 Bar to DSO, 37 Military Crosses and 5 Distinguished Flying Crosses.

Pilots of No.60 Squadron included Harold Balfour, Albert Ball, A.D. Bell-Irving, “Billy” Bishop, K.L. Caldwell, J.B. McCudden, W.E. Molesworth, C.F.A Portal and R.R. Smith-Barry.

Organized in April 1916, No.60 Squadron went to France the next month. It participated in the Somme campaign, Arras, Passchendaele and the March 1918 offensive.

Group Captain A.J.L. Scott has written in this book a valuable record of an active squadron.

His account begins with the early stages of scouting and closes with the final concepts of offensive are aerial combat during World War I. In the intervening period No.60 Squadron achieved an impressive 274 victories over enemy aircraft.

Many of those mentioned in these pages, first published in 1920, remained in aviation in the years after the war and during World War II, with considerable success.

Recollections of an Airman

The Way of the Eagle

Louis Arbon Strange

In The Way of the Eagle, Philadelphia native Charles Biddle’s account of flying in World War I, we have a classic aviation memoir, long out of print, that provides new insights into America’s participation in the Great War.

Here is an authentic memoir of a remarkable wide range of Western Front experience, from the very beginning of the Great War until the end.

Strange was 23 years old when he learned to fly and was at the Central Flying School when war broke out. He hurriedly packed his kit and reported to RFC Headquarters, to join No.5 Squadron. He was on active duty throughout the whole of the war, seeing service over the Western Front from August 1914 to the enemy’s surrender.

In 1915 Strange transferred to No.6 Squadron and went on to form and command No.23 Squadron, but due to illness he did not accompany it to France. There followed a valuable period training others, taking charge of the Machine-Gun School at Hythe and also other schools of aerial gunnery, before he returned to the CFS. He commanded the 23rd Wing, and finally took command of the 80th Wing from June 1918 until the end of the Great War. $29.95 • 244 pages • 5 x 7.5 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61200-3863 • eISBN: 978-161200-3870

$29.95 • 165 pages • 5 x 7.5 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61200-3849 • eISBN: 978-161200-3856

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Charles J. Biddle

Biddle volunteered and was active in France from 1917, where he flew as a volunteer, initially for the French in Escadrille 73, and then in the American 103rd Aero Squadron (the Lafayette Escadrille), and then the 13th Aero Squadron and 4th Pursuit Group (which he commanded).

His memoir was published shortly after his return to the United States and so provides an immediacy that is lacking in other books that were written later. It is important in that accounts of U.S. pilots from this period are relatively rare, even as he also paints a compelling picture of a group of Americans fighting as volunteers for the French. Biddle’s U.S. compatriots soon established their own capability and wrung free of French direction—and as this book reveals it was largely because of their combat prowess.

For his service Biddle was awarded the French Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre, the American Distinguished Service Cross and the Belgian Order of Leopold II. After the war, Biddle rejoined his family law firm in Philadelphia. He died in 1972. $29.95 • 348 pages • 5 x 7.5 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61200-3900 • eISBN: 978-161200-3917

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Pool of London Press The Tank Commander Pocket Manual 1934–1945 R. Sheppard From the pioneering tactics and terror of the Blitzkrieg assault, through the carnage of Barbarossa, Kursk, the Desert War, and the Normandy Bocage and the Battle of the Bulge, there were perhaps no more unsettling and merciless positions to occupy in the Second World War than that of a tank commander. This new book puts the reader at the very heart of this “hell on wheels” and presents all of the original information required to perform this most dangerous of wartime battlefield roles. From training manuals and war office memorandums to combat reports and first-hand accounts, The Tank Commander Pocket Manual sits you in the turret position of commander of some of the most fearsome land vehicles. These include the Soviet T-34, the German Panther and its nemesis the American Sherman, the terrifying Tiger I as well as tank variants including flamethrowers and tank destroyers such as the Allied M10 and the StuG III. Original documents, diagrams, technical drawings and reports have been collated and compiled from archives and collections to include original Russian, German and English angles on the commander’s many roles including how to ‘run’ the rest of the crew of this most decisive weapon of the Second World War.

• Published to mark the centenary of the tank • Rare, previously unpublished documents • Attractively produced in cloth-bound retro-styled case R. Shepherd has worked for many years in military publishing for leading companies such as Casemate and Osprey, and has compiled a number of books. $11.99 • 144 pages • 4.7 x 7 • May 2016 • hardback • 20 mono line diagrams • 978-1-910860-16-8

Spies I Knew Further Accounts of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War Marthe McKenna Praised by Winston Churchill in his foreword as “The Greatest War Story of All”, Marthe McKenna’s I Was a Spy! is a vivid, breathtaking account of her life as an undercover British agent in the First World War. It is a classic of espionage writing and went on to become a major bestseller and inspired a Hollywood movie starring Madeleine Carroll.

In these further memoirs entitled Spies I Knew, McKenna, known as codename ‘Laura’ by the British Intelligence services, relates in simply yet dramatic form the breathtaking adventures of her fellow spies and herself. They were her devoted helpers and, though many were in on the secret of ‘Laura’s’ identity, no one betrayed her trust. For the first time is related how the network of Allied espionage in ravished Belgium was provoked by the brutality of the invading German hordes, and the enemy was duped into believing that the British Intelligence was in a state of inaction.

But whether telling the breathless adventure of the ‘wire’ at the frontier, or following the jolly yet tragic figure of ‘Canteen Ma’ the cleverest spy of all, it is always in vivid pen pictures that she shows the burning faith of a gallant little band working for the day of deliverance with amazing courage. $19.95 • 288 pages • 5 x 8 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910860-15-1

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I Was a Spy! The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War Marthe McKenna, forward by Winston Churchill $19.95 • 288 pages • 5 x 8 • 15 photographs • Now Available • hardback • 978-1-910860-03-8

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Andrea Press / Air War Publications Hook Up! US Paratroopers from the Vietnam War to the Cold War Alejandro Rodriguez and Antonio Arques The history, gear, uniforms, training and tactics used by the US Paratroopers at the time of the Vietnam War in detail through a comprehensive text and over 700 outstanding photographs most of them never published before. $50.00 • 160 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 700 illustrations • June 2016 • hardback • 978-84-96658-55-4 • Andrea Press

Mercedes Benz Type G4 (W31) The Ultimate Study Luis Migues Sanchez This book contains an in-depth study including some 340 photographs –most of them published for the first time – of the all-road Mercedes Benz G4: the magnificent automobile clearly associated with Adolf Hitler who favored it before and during WWII for traveling and parades. Only three out of a limited series of 57 units have survived till today. But only one of these is in fully original condition: the G4-540 presented by Hitler to General Franco. This car is thoroughly documented here in an outstanding pictorial report. $55.00 • 150 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • July 2016 • hardback • 978-84-96658-58-5 • Andrea Press

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in the Battle for Sicily Morten Jessen and Andrew Arthy A fascinating and thoroughly researched account of Focke-Wulf 190 units, personnel and operations in the Sicilian campaign of the summer of 1943. Based on a variety of primary sources, this book describes many of the very eventful missions flown by a handful of Luftwaffe Fw 190s against a multitude of British and American land and naval targets. The book features numerous firsthand accounts from German, British, American and Commonwealth personnel, along with a wide selection of photographs and maps, and color aircraft profiles by well-known aviation artist Claes Sundin. The reader is also given a good idea of daily life for the Fw 190 pilots and mechanics during what was a long, hot Mediterranean summer, as they battled Allied bombing raids, lack of supplies, malaria, and many other complications. $55.00 • 224 pages • 10 x 12.5 • Full color throughout, 137 b/w photos, maps • Now Available • hardback • 978-87-993352-0-6 • Air War Publications • NCR

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AFV Modeller / Allison & Busby Adam’s Armour Modelling Guide 1 Adam Wilder Adam’s Armour: Modeling Guide 1 is the ultimate in the construction of armor modeling!

Adam Wilder’s pioneering processes and techniques are described by him in the greatest of detail.

These present the culmination of many years of Adam’s work, many unseen in print until now. Adam’s Armour will improve and enrich any modelers work from beginners to the more proficient. This volume totaling 192 pages covering every aspect of assembly, detailing and conversion techniques which keeps Adam at the forefront of scale armor modeling with worldwide acclaim. This volume also includes a very special Gallery of Adams work. $49.00 • 192 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • color and b/w photos • December 2016 • paperback • 978-09555413-8-4 • NCR

Adam’s Armour Modelling Guide 2 Adam Wilder Adam’s Armour: Modelling Guide 2 is the ultimate in the painting & finishing of armor modeling!

Adam Wilder’s pioneering processes and techniques are described by him in the greatest of detail.

These present the culmination of many years of Adam’s work, many unseen in print until now. Adam’s Armour will improve and enrich any modeler’s work from beginners to the more proficient. This volume totaling 232 pages covering every aspect of stunning range of finishing techniques which keeps Adam at the forefront of scale armor modelling with Worldwide acclaim. $49.00 • 232 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • color and b/w photos throughout • December 2016 • paperback • 978-0-9555413-9-1 • NCR

THE EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW SERIES

Everything you Need to Know: Battles of WWI Christopher Catherwood Our understanding of the twentieth century and beyond hinges upon the First World War. In this new and comprehensive book, the fascinating facts are presented in an accessible way, allowing anyone to brush up on the devastating conflict that changed the world we live in.

Discover everything you need to know about: The Battle of Ypres, The Somme, The forgotten wars between Italy, Austria and Russia, The invention of the tank and how it changed the war, The role of the USA, The siege of Kut, The battle the Germans won and much more . . . $9.95 • 288 pages • 5 x 8 • Now Available • paperback • 978-0-7490-1956-1 • Allison and Busby • NCR

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Amber Books

Air Combat

Land Combat

Sea Combat

From World War I to the Present Day

From World War I to the Present Day

From World War I to the Present Day

Thomas Newdick

Martin J Dougherty

Robert Jackson

The first aerial warfare took place in 1911, but since then the weapons, techniques and outcome of war fighting in the air have changed immensely. Air Combat is a comprehensive history of airborne warfare, from the first pre-WWI skirmishes in converted reconnaissance aircraft to present-day operations in the Middle East and Asia.

Since 1914 the art and increasingly science of warfare has become ever deadlier. Tanks have become more mobile and more protected, artillery has come to dominate battlefields and even ordinary infantrymen are now equipped with body armor and lightweight fully automatic weapons, usually fitted with magnifying scopes.

Naval warfare – and the weapons used to conduct it – has changed greatly since World War I. Sea battles are no longer dominated by large battleships, but by even larger aircraft carriers. Ships have been relegated to floating missile platforms.

The very first fighters and bombers were simple flying machines from which the pilot or navigator would aim a gun or ‘dumb’ bomb visually, leaning out into the slipstream. In contrast, modern warplanes are capable of destroying a target without ever seeing what they are firing at, using laser guidance and GPS to pinpoint the enemy.

Containing full-color artworks and action photographs, Land Combat is a comprehensive guide to how wars have been fought since the outbreak of World War I. All of the most famous wars and campaigns are featured, from the Western Front to the Blitzkrieg, the ArabIsraeli wars and Vietnam, up to the Gulf and the present day. Land Combat is an authoritative guide to the development of the fighting techniques used on the battlefield from 1914 to today.

Containing full-color artworks and action photographs, Sea Combat is a comprehensive guide to how the ships, submarines and naval weapons that have been developed since the outbreak of World War I have fought their battles. All of the best known naval encounters are described, from the battle of Jutland to the sinking of the Bismarck, the battle of Midway, the Cold War standoff, the sinking of the Belgrano, and the attack on the USS Cole. Sea Combat is an authoritative guide to the tactics and stratagems used on the high seas from 1914 to the present day.

$39.95 • 320 pages • 11.25 x 8.25 • color photographs and artworks • maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78274-334-7 • NCR

$39.95 • 320 pages • 11.25 x 8.25 • color photographs and artworks • maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78274-335-4 • NCR

Illustrated with action photographs and fullcolor artworks, the chronologically ordered chapters outline the developments and landmarks in aerial combat through the decades, focusing on campaigns including the Spanish Civil War, the Blitzkrieg which began World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Falklands conflict. The book ends with an analysis of the use of U.S. and allied air power to fight insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. $39.95 • 320 pages • 11.25 x 8.25 • color photographs and artworks • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78274-333-0 • NCR

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Amber Books SS Hell on the Eastern Front

Hitler Youth The Hitlerjugend in War and Peace 1933–1945

Christopher Ailsby

Brenda Ralph Lewis

Barbarossa, Leningrad, Kursk, Kharkov — the Eastern Front was the scene of the most decisive campaign of World War II and Hitler’s elite soldiers, the Waffen-SS, fought in the East from the beginning of the Russian campaign in 1941 to the fall of Berlin in 1945. As the war in the Soviet Union progressed, the formations of the Waffen-SS distinguished themselves.

The premier Waffen-SS formations – the Leibstandarte, Das Reich, Totenkopf and Wiking Divisions – proved themselves to be masters of mechanized warfare and the all-arms battle. $29.95 • 192 pages • 9.5 x 7.5 • b/w photographs • maps • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78274-367-5 • NCR

Between 1933 and 1945, the majority of Germany’s children were members of the Hitler Youth, the junior branch of the Nazi Party. Examining the development, organization, education and indoctrination of the Hitler Youth, this book also looks at how people resisted it and looks at other Nazi youth groups.

From weekend camps and arts and crafts, to weapons training and the SS Hitlerjugend Division’s fanatical efforts during the closing stages of World War II, to life for Hitler Youth members after the edifice of Nazi Germany had collapsed, Hitler Youth is an accessible book about the indoctrination of a generation. $29.95 • 192 pages • 9.5 x 7.5 • b/w photographs • maps • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78274-368-2 • NCR

Personal Accounts of the Waffen-SS at War Loyalty is my Honor Gordon Williamson No military organization has fought as well against such overwhelming odds as the Waffen-SS, but few have earned such an infamous reputation in the process. Hitler’s elite proved itself in some of the most savage actions of World War II. Certain units, however, also perpetrated atrocities against innocent civilians, while others were closely associated with the concentration camps.

Personal Accounts of the Waffen-SS at War is the story of the men who wore the SS runes.

Speaking candidly about their wartime service, former Waffen-SS soldiers of all ranks and nationalities talk about their training, indoctrination, combat on the Eastern Front, their commanders and the question of atrocities. $29.95 • 192 pages • 9.5 x 7.5 • b/w photographs • April 2016 • paperback • 978-178274-369-9 • NCR

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Battles of the Waffen-SS The Blood-Soaked Soil Gordon Williamson No military organization has fought as well against such overwhelming odds as the Waffen-SS, but few have earned such an infamous reputation in the process. Waffen-SS soldiers embraced the concept of hardness, which meant that they showed no pity towards Germany’s enemies. They were soldiers of destruction par excellence.

Battles of the Waffen-SS is a detailed summary of the Waffen-SS’s greatest battles between 1939 and 1945. Featured are how Das Reich Division conquered Yugoslavia almost singlehandedly, how the dreaded Totenkopf Division held for 73 days against impossible odds in the Demyansk Pocket, and much more. $29.95 • 192 pages • 9.5 x 7.5 • b/w photographs • maps • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78274-370-5 • NCR

The German Soldier in World War II Stephen Hart and Russell Hart For the first three years of World War II the German Army was a fearsome offensive organization, capable of subduing countries in a matter of weeks. Even as the war neared its end, individual German soldiers earned great respect from their Allied opponents for their defensive capabilities and their willingness to fight hard to the end.

The German Soldier in World War II uses rare and previously unseen photographs to show the reader what life was like for the German soldier in the front line during World War II. The book includes images of the Waffen-SS in action, and depicts combat from both the Western and Eastern fronts. $29.95 • 192 pages • 9.5 x 7.5 • b/w photographs • April 2016 • paperback • 978-178274-371-2 • NCR

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Amber Books Special Forces in Action Iraq – Syria – Afghanistan – Africa – Balkans Alexander Stilwell In 1991, Coalition special forces were active deep inside Iraq, hunting down SCUD missile launchers before they could be fired. In 2011, US Navy SEALs were responsible for the assassination of the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. In 2014, the US Delta Force captured Libyan terrorist Ahmed Abu Khattala, wanted for the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi in 2012. Over the last 25 years elite military formations have played an increasingly important role in the policing of the world’s trouble spots, including rescuing hostages in Afghanistan and fighting Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.

Special Forces in Action is a detailed account of the operations of the world’s special forces from 1991 to the present day. From the Gulf War to the invasion of Iraq, the book brings the reader full details of the often clandestine and varied roles of the world’s elite soldiers. $34.95 • 224 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 180 color and b/w photographs • maps • Now Available • hardback • 978-1-78274-254-8 • NCR

The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War Andrew Wiest and Chris McNab The struggle for Vietnam in the 1960s, in which the United States attempted to bolster the South against Viet Cong guerrillas backed by the Communist regime in the north, was to shock the world and divide a nation. In the defense of a theory – that if the South fell the whole region would fall to Communism – the United States spent $145,000 million at 1974 prices, her aircraft dropped eight million tons of bombs, and her armed forces suffered 46,370 fatalities (900,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were also killed). The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War is a timely account of the 6,000-day conflict in Southeast Asia. Illustrated throughout with both color and black and white photographs that bring the conflict to life, the lucid, authoritative text includes eyewitness accounts of the battles and incidents of America’s undeclared war. $34.95 • 256 pages • 7.5 x 9.75 • 250 color photographs and 30 color artworks • maps • Now Available • hardback • 978-1-78274-288-3 • NCR

Celtic Legends

Norse Myths

The Gods and Warriors, Myths and Monsters

Viking Legends of Heroes and Gods

Michael Kerrigan

Martin J Dougherty

From around 750BC to 12BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. With the expansion of the Roman Empire and the later Christianization of these lands, they were pushed to the fringes of northwestern Spain, France and the British Isles. But there the mythology of these peoples held strong. The tales from Celtic myth were noted down and also absorbed into other cultures. From Roman and Christian scribes we know of characters like Morrigan the shape-shifting queen, who could change herself from a crow to a wolf and the Cauldron of Bran, which could restore life.

You may not think you know much about Norse mythology but you’ve heard of Valhalla and the Valkyrie, and of trolls and elves, and you’d certainly miss Wednesday and Thursday – named after Norse gods – if they weren’t there. Norse Myths takes a wide-ranging approach to the topic, examining the creation stories of the Norse world, the monsters and the pantheons of the deities. It looks at the sagas that tell of real and imagined people, featuring both heroic tales and humorous escapades. The book also examines how Norse myths were interpreted in a Christianized Europe and how their motifs influenced medieval German writers and, in turn, were used in the modern world in very different ways.

Illustrated with more than 180 color and black-and-white artworks and photographs and maps, Celtic Legends is an expertly written account of the mythological tales that both fascinate us and influence other writings. $29.95 • 224 pages • 9.75 x 7.5 • color photographs and artworks • maps • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78274-331-6 • NCR

Illustrated with 180 color and black and white photographs, artworks and maps, Norse Myths is an exciting, engaging and highly informative exploration of a fascinating and highly influential world. $29.95 • 224 pages • 9.75 x 7.5 • color photographs and artworks • maps • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78274-332-3 • NCR

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Amberley The Defeat of the Luftwaffe

Operation Big The Race to Stop Hitler’s A-Bomb Colin Brown

The Eastern Front 1941–45, A Strategy for Disaster Jonathan Trigg In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the West. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces working hand in glove and sweeping away all resistance. On the ground the new panzer divisions symbolized this combat revolution, and in the air it was the Luftwaffe.

When Hitler turned to the East in 1941, the Luftwaffe turned with him, spearheading the largest invasion in world history as the Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa to annihilate Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Within weeks they had destroyed thousands of Red Air Force planes and ruled the skies, and yet less than four years later that same Red Air Force was flying unopposed over Hitler’s burning Reich Chancellory and his much-vaunted Luftwaffe lay in utter ruins. How did this happen?

This book explains how the Nazi Luftwaffe’s certain victory in the East was transformed into ashes through incompetence, misjudgment and hubris.

Marcial Echenique became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his mansion, Farm Hall. The mansion had an astonishing past as an MI6 and M1I9 post for secret operations of WWII. But in April, 1945, Farm Hall was to play an even more astounding role, as a ‘country club’ for ten of Germany’s top nuclear physicists after they had been captured and flown back to England in a daring raid codenamed Operation Big. Every word they uttered was bugged by MI6. After the dropping of the bomb these men would claim they could have developed it for the Third Reich but did not ‘for the greater good of mankind’. Most believe this to be a deception.

But was there a greater deception? Were they captured not to stop Hitler, but to stop Stalin? Did the US drop the bomb not as a show of power to the Japanese, but to the Soviets? $34.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 30 illustrations • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4456-5184-2 • NCR

$34.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 60 illustrations • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4456-5186-6 • NCR

Bletchley Park’s Secret Room

We Were Eagles Volume 1

The Centre of Britain’s Wartime Code-Breaking Relicense

The Eighth Air Force at War July 1942 to November 1943

Joss Pearson

Martin Bowman

Bletchley Park’s Secret Room is a posthumous account of the secret codebreaking process in Bletchley Park’s Fusion Room during the Second World War by Major Neil Webster, one of the key members of the team involved. The Fusion Room was the central unit where decrypted German messages obtained from Hut 6 were compared with the corresponding data extracted by the log readers from the daily radio traffic between enemy stations, thus enabling a complete wartime picture of the enemy order of battle to be constructed.

On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time. It was a small operation involving six US crews in Boston medium bombers, but was nonetheless a harbinger of things to come. The first heavy bombardment group of B-17s had crossed the Atlantic in June 1942, another arriving by 1 August, marking the first steps in the massive buildup of B-17s and B-24s that would be based in Britain as part of the Eighth Air Force. This book, illustrated with both black-and-white and period color pictures, tells the story of US Eighth Air Force operations in the words of the men who flew on them, from that initial raid over the Netherlands and the first attack by the Fortresses on Rouen to the opening mission against Germany itself and the famous B-24 raid against the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti.

Neil Webster’s liaison role between traffic analysis and cryptography meant that he was centrally involved in the search for ‘cribs’ – short pieces of enciphered text where the meaning is either known or can be broken.

His book describes this intensive search in detail, the intellectual and technical challenge, the personal stories, the setbacks and the triumphs. $13.00 • 176 pages • 4.8 x 7.75 • 25 photos • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5112-5 • NCR

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$16.00 • 288 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • March 2016 • paperback • 978-14456-5525-3 • NCR

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Amberley Coventry’s Blitz

Great Escaper

The Real Dad’s Army

David McGrory

The True Story of John ‘Willy’ Williams

Norman Longmate

Between 1940 and 1942 the people of Coventry were subjected to continued and devastating attacks by the Luftwaffe, leaving 1,252 dead, 1,859 injured and a city in ruins.

The book tells the story of the city and its residents throughout the war, starting with the digging of the shelters in 1938 to the last bombs in 1942 and Goering and Kesselring’s comments on the November raid at the Nuremberg Trials. $20.00 • 128 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 60 illustrations • December 2015 • paperback • 978-1-4456-4999-3 • NCR

The Home Guard Companion Campbell McCutcheon Anthony Eden, Minister of War, announced to the nation his concept of a Local Defense Volunteer force. The Germans were routing the French and British, Norway was lost, and Britain’s fighting forces would be weaponless and kit-less, seeking rescue from the beaches of Dunkirk. The assortment of men became the Home Guard.

Over a period of a few months, this rag-tag group was armed, uniformed and trained, using the Home Guard Manual. $16.00 • 288 pages • 4.8 x 7.75 • December 2015 • hardback • 978-1-4456-5097-5 • NCR

John ‘Willy’ Williams was a medical student and passionate surfer turned Squadron Leader and Second World War ace. Shot down in the Western Desert in 1942, he ended up a POW in Stalag Luft III near the German-Polish border. Willy was among the seventy-six POWs who tunneled their way out of the supposedly escape-proof camp under the Germans’ noses in what later became famous as the Great Escape.

The enduring popularity of the BBC tv series Dad’s Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed – The British Home Guard. What started as an improvised band of volunteers had grown into a well-equipped force with a strength of nearly two million men. Norman Longmate has collected together a wealth of anecdotes as well as facts to produce the first history of the Home Guard to be written since the war.

$29.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 30 illustrations • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4456-5401-0 • NCR

$18.00 • 96 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 70 illustrations • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-54034 • NCR

OSS Station Victor

Paras

Louise Williams

Philip Marks

Voices of the British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

Hurley in Berkshire is a village on the banks of the Thames. Over the past 1000 years it has experienced its share of historic events, but it has been discovered that Hurley was used as a top secret communication center, known by its code name Station VICTOR. This is its story, from its conception, construction and operation and the lives of those agents who risked torture and death in order to rid Europe of the Nazi tyranny.

This book is full of untold short stories of men who created a legend, the legend of the British airborne forces during the Second World War. Covering everything from the initial training at Hardwick Hall and Ringway through their first operations in North Africa and Italy, to D-Day, Operation Market Garden and the crossing of the Rhine, this is a compelling account of the war fought by the paratroopers and their comrades in the glider units.

Hurley’s Secret War

$22.95 • 96 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 85 illustrations • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5428-7 • NCR

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Roger Payne, OAM

$16.00 • 368 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5529-1 • NCR

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Amberley Crash Rescue

Children of Colossus

RAF Fire Fighting Recovery Vehicles from World War II to the Present Day

Computing from Bletchley to the Cold War and Beyond

Paul Hazell Crash Rescue is a guide to the vehicles used by the RAF for crash rescue and firefighting. As these vehicles rarely if ever leave the airfield perimeter, they have received little coverage until now. Paul Hazell not only provides a full history of the deployment of the vehicles, but also includes rare photographs of the many different types that were produced by British firms. $22.95 • 128 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 170 illustrations • July 2016 • paperback • 978-14456-4615-2 • NCR

1943 The Second World War at Sea in Photographs Phil Carradice At the beginning of the year, the Battle of Guadalcanal was still raging on, but the Americans had secured their first complete victory in the Pacific by the end of February, although the war in this theater was far from over, with several further engagements taking place throughout the year.

'Black May' forced Dönitz to order a withdrawal.

From July to August, the Allies were engaged in the invasion of Sicily, known as Operation Husky. The operation was successful, and allowed for the invasion of Italy. $22.95 • 136 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • July 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-2252-1 • NCR

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Colin Williams The computers of the Information Age were born in the crucible of total war. From the outset the modern electronic computer was a device of war, deployed by the nation state in the prosecution of the mission of survival and victory.

From the huts of Bletchley to the bunkers of the Cold War, The Children of Colossus explores the development of the computer and the social, political and economic impact it has had the world over. $24.50 • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 30 illustrations • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-3899-7 • NCR

Evacuees 50 Wartime Children Tell Their Extraordinary Stories June Balshaw The evacuation of Britain’s cities during the Second World War was the largest and most concentrated mass movement of people in the nation’s history. The various experiences of the many children who left their homes in the cities to escape the horrors of war make up a complex account of the wartime exodus. The situations the children left behind and those they encountered when they arrived in the country provided for a wide range of possibilities and experiences. $34.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 70 illustrations • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4456-1488-5 • NCR

The French Squadron

Troubled Waters

A True Story of Love and War

Leisure Boating and the Second World War

Barbara HarperNelson and Genevieve Monneris Barbara HarperNelson was once the 19-year-old girlfriend of 22-year-old French airman Francis Usai, who was in the RAF Bomber Command. She kept the letters from this witty and amusing young French airman, exiled from his conquered country and based near York, from where he undertook nightly missions into the horrendous firestorm that was the Battle of the Ruhr. $16.00 • 296 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5538-3 • NCR

Nigel Sharp This is the story of how the Second World War affected leisure boating: of the people who managed to overcome huge difficulties to go sailing during the war itself and the difficulties of reestablishing the sport in postwar years; of the sailing and yacht clubs which survived bombings, requisitioning, shortages and a host of other problems, and still thrive today; of the yachting magazines which managed to continue to publish throughout the war. $24.50 • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 32 photos • December 2015 • paperback • 978-1-44565160-6 • NCR

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Amberley Supermarine An Illustrated History Christopher Smith The path to the Spitfire and its jet-powered successors is one of the most remarkable journeys in aviation history.

From the founding of the first airport, to recordbreaking racing seaplanes and year-long flying boat expeditions beyond the frontiers of civilization, the story of Supermarine is one that has influenced the course of world history.

This book records the history behind the iconic photographs that captured the spirit of this golden age of experimentation and rapidly shifting frontiers of technology and human achievement. $24.50 • 128 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 150 illustrations • April 2016 • paperback • 978-14456-5124-8 • NCR

Britain’s Jet Age Volume 1 From the Meteor to the Sea Vixen Guy Ellis The Jet Age began in Britain in May 1941 when the Gloster E.28/39 made its first flight. The first British jet fighter was the Gloster Meteor, which entered service in 1944 and went on to serve with air forces over the world. This was the start of the first generation of British jet aircraft, from the Meteor and the de Havilland Vampire in the years after the Second World War through the ill-fated Comet airliner in the 1950s to the Gloster Javelin, the start of the second generation in the 1960s. $20.00 • 128 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 200 illustrations • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-4900-9 • NCR

The Lancaster

A Spitfire Pilot’s Story

Gordon A. Wilson and Martin Keen

Pat Hughes Battle of Britain Top Gun

The Avro Lancaster took the RAF’s bombing campaign right to the heart of Nazi Germany night after night despite, at times, appalling losses. The unique airframe, with one long continuous bomb bay and the four powerful Rolls Royce Merlin engines, allowed the Lancaster to carry a variety of bomb loads suited to the target being attacked. This book is both the story of the Lancaster and its seven-man crews; pilot, bomb aimer/nose gunner, wireless operator, flight engineer, navigator and its mid-upper and rear gunners. $50.00 • 288 pages • 9.75 x 6.75 • 300 illustrations • January 2016 • hardback • 978-14456-3420-3 • NCR

British Military Aviation in the 1970s Malcolm Fife The 1970s was a decade of great change for Britain’s military air arms. The RAF handed over the role of operating Britain’s nuclear deterrent to the Royal Navy in 1969. Its primary role once again became that of providing battlefield and tactical support. For this new aircraft in the form of Jageurs and Harriers joined the ranks of the RAF. In this book, Malcolm Fife uses his wonderful collection of photographs to display many of the military aircraft types that could be seen in British Skies during the 1970s.

Dennis Newton Pat Hughes is today perhaps the greatest unsung hero of the Battle of Britain. Ranked sixth in the ‘ace of aces’ of the aerial campaign of summer 1940, he shot down 17 enemy aircraft, mostly the Spitfire’s closely matched rival the Messerschmitt Bf 109. As a flight commander in 234 Squadron he advocated bold, close-in tactics and during July 1940 scored the squadron’s first victories of the epic battle for air supremacy. $42.00 • 296 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 40 illustrations • August 2016 • hardback • 978-14456-5414-0 • NCR

Wales and the Air War 1914–1918 Alan Phillips During the First World War, there were five air bases in Wales. This book is an historical account of the contribution of squadrons and aircraft based on airfields in Wales to deterring enemy submarines from attacking shipping around the coast, including details of the operations conducted from the bases, the exploits of various airships during their long patrols, the mishaps, the actions and the tragedies. $16.00 • 96 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 80 illustrations • November 2015 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5219-1 • NCR

$22.95 • 96 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 180 illustrations • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5281-8 • NCR

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Verdun 1916 The Deadliest Battle of the First World War William F. Buckingham Fought above the town of the same name on the River Meuse, the Battle of Verdun lasted for the ten months in 1916, double the length of the Battle of the Somme. Conceived by the Germans as a means of destroying the French Army through attrition rather than by breakthrough, the battle cost 300,000 dead.

Illustrated with over fifty color photographs of the battlefield today and contemporary images of the battle. $34.95 • 368 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 54 illustrations • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4456-4108-9 • NCR

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Amberley The Tommies Manual 1916 Hannah Holman An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the War Office during the First World War to aid soldiers on the Western Front, here for the first time they are collated into a single book.

Most were supremely practical or highly technical; others became obsolete almost immediately overtaken by technological advances while others hid the grimiest reality of war behind a prosaic title. $16.00 • 288 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-14456-3822-5 • NCR

An Illustrated Introduction to the Somme

Postcards from the Front 1914–1919 Kate J. Cole

Robert Parker The Battle of the Somme epitomized the mud and death of the Western Front. 1 July 1916 witnessed the opening round of the British Army attempt to break through an eighteen mile front of heavily defended German defenses straddling the River Somme in northern France.

Preceded by an artillery bombardment of over 1500 big guns and lasting a week, the newly formed and virtually inexperienced members of Lord Kitchener’s ‘New Army’ went ‘over the top’ to suffer the deadliest day in British military history.

Postcards as a medium of correspondence became popular in the early years of the twentieth century. The fad soon became a flood as literally hundreds of thousands of postcards found their way into the postal system as the Edwardian era progressed.

With the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914, it was only natural that this fad would spill over into the battlefields of the Western Front. $22.95 • 128 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 100 illustrations • August 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-3500-2 • NCR

World War I Fact Book William Van Der Kloot At the dawn of the information age, the First World War produced blizzards of information, contained in official reports. The World War I Fact Book gives access to the most important and revealing information available, using a variety of tools to illustrate the raw data, for a uniquely concise and informative account of the ‘war to end all wars’. $20.00 • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 • November 2015 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5206-1 • NCR

$16.00 • 96 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 80 illustrations • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-4442-4 • NCR

No More Soldiering Conscientious Objectors of the First World War Stephen Wade January 2016 marks the centenary of the Military Service Act, which brought in conscription, after the loss of manpower in the the Western Front. No More Soldiering looks at the lives and experiences of men who would not fight Kaiser Bill’s army, and who suffered as a consequence. $26.95 • 264 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 20 illustrations • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-4894-1 • NCR

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British Posters of the First World War

The Writers’ War

John Christopher During the First World War the authorities emulated the slogans and imagery of advertising posters to create a form of mass communication that was easily and instantly understood by the British public. This book looks at the art of these posters and explores the themes that emerged throughout the course of the conflict. $20.00 • 192 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-14456-5526-0 • NCR

World War I in the Words of Great Writers Who Witnessed it Felicity Trotman The Writers’ War is a collection of excerpts from outstanding accounts of the First World War. It provides an essential insight to anyone interested in modern history or early twentieth-century literature. $16.00 • 352 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-14456-5535-2 • NCR

Norfolk’s War Voices of the First World War Frank Meeres The aim of this book is to capture the experiences of Norfolk men and women during the First World War in their own words, and using neverbefore-published images. It uses letters, diaries and journals to build a picture of what life was like in this key time in our history. $22.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 60 illustrations • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-2092-3 • NCR

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Amberley Roman Shields Hilary Travis and John Travis The Roman military is an iconic, ancient institution; everybody is familiar with the image of fearsome Roman centurions marching in their famous columns. In this book, Roman military experts John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the shields used by the historic Roman stalwarts, drawing on their expertise, their wealth of illustrated material and the world of reenactments. $34.95 • 208 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5523-9 • NCR

The Roman Army A History 753BCAD476 Patricia Southern The Roman Army reigned supreme for over 1,000 years. From Britain to Syria, and from the Rhine and Danube to North Africa, there is abundant evidence of the activities of its legionaries and auxiliary soldiers.

This book covers the complete history of the Roman Army from 753 BC to AD 476, including its successes and failures against Rome’s enemies such as Gauls, Carthaginians, Goths and Persians. $22.95 • 560 pages • 6 x 6 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5533-8 • NCR

Hadrian’s Wall

Socket Bayonets

Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier

A History and Collector’s Guide

Patricia Southern

Graham Priest

Hadrian’s Wall is a World Heritage site, set in stunning countryside in Cumbria and Northumberland. Building started around AD 122 after the Emperor Hadrian visited the north of Britain and inspected sites to mark the line of his new frontier. This book tells the story of how the Wall was built and manned, what life was like on the frontier, and what happened to it when the Romans left.

The bayonet was originally developed in the 17th century in its early ‘plug’ form. From this starting point, it became a military success, helping to abolish the pike as a British Army weapon. In this book, Graham Priest uses clear images to guide the reader through the history of the bayonet, showing common examples to provide a rounded introduction to the topic.

$34.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 70 illustrations • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4456-4025-9 • NCR

$22.95 • 96 pages • 6.5 x 9.25 • 180 illustrations • April 2016 • paperback • 978-14456-4991-7 • NCR

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The Story of the Viking Ian Stephenson Beginning with the causes of the Viking Age and using a wide range of evidence, this history takes a chronological and geographical approach in order to trace the Vikings as they moved from raiders to sellers to kings. Perceived today more as explorers, this new history brings these strands together, placing the Vikings firmly within the context of their age. $34.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 60 illustrations • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4456-1161-7 • NCR

Lost Battlefields of Wales Martin Hackett In this book, Martin Hackett takes us on a journey through the military history of Wales, looking at the armies involved and the weapons they used. He covers the length and breadth of the country, examining twenty-four battles that have shaped its history. Illustrated throughout, this book brings to life these milestones of history, many of which are lost battlefields without memorials to commemorate their past. $20.00 • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4456-5522-2 • NCR

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Big Sky Publishing Crossing The Wire

Shadows of ANZAC

The Untold Stories of POWs in Battle and Captivity During WWI

An Intimate History of Gallipoli David W. Cameron

David Coombes The experiences of Australian prisoners of war (POWs) or Kriegsgefangeners held captive in Germany has been largely forgotten or ignored- overshadowed by the terrible stories of Australians imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II. Yet, as David Coombes makes known, the stories are interesting and significant – not only providing an account of what those young Australian soldiers experienced, and the spirit they showed in responding to captivity – but also for the insight it provides into Germany in the last eighteen months of the war.

On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC legend was born. Nine months later, having suffered thousands of casualties from disease, hand-to-hand fighting, bombing, sniping and forlorn charges across no man’s land, the politicians and senior military commanders in London called it quits. While the Turks also suffered terribly, they at least emerged victorious.

Drawing on previous inaccessible records, Coombes focuses on one Australian brigade, the 4th Infantry, from its formation in 1914, through Gallipoli to its baptism of fire on the Western Front, culminating in the first battle of Bullecourt - which, in turn, leads to the prisoner of war experience.

Shadows of Anzac tells the story of the ‘ordinary’ men and women who participated in the Gallipoli campaign from April to December 1915 and gave the Anzac legend meaning. Drawing on letters, diaries and other primary and secondary sources, David Cameron provides an intimate and personal perspective of Anzac, a richly varied portrayal that describes the absurdity, monotony and often humor that sat alongside the horrors of the bitter fight to claim the peninsula.

$29.95 • 416 pages • 7 x 4.5 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-0-9870574-1-9 • NCR

$24.95 • 352 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-922132-18-5 • NCR

Anzac Sons

Beaten Down By Blood

The Story of Five Brothers in the War to End all Wars

The Battle of Mont St QuentinPeronne 1918

Allison Paterson Of five brothers serving on the Western Front, three have given their lives; another has been hospitalized.

Six agonizing months of brutal warfare were yet to be endured. Its long shadow darkened the four corners of the world. In Mologa, Victoria, once a bustling community, stands a lonely stone memorial. Etched within the granite are the names of the Marlow brothers and their mates; a testament to ordinary people who became heroes. Anzac Sons is composed from a collection of over five hundred letters and postcards written by the brothers who served. From the training grounds of Victoria, Egypt and England, to the Western Front battlefields this compelling true story was compiled by the granddaughter of a surviving brother. $29.95 • 512 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-922132-79-6 • NCR

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Michele Bomford Beaten Down by Blood: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 charts an extraordinary journey from the trenches facing Mont St Quentin on 31 August 1918 through the frenetic phases of the battle until the final objectives are taken on 5 September. This is the story, oftentold in the words of the men themselves, of the capture of the ‘unattackable’ Mont and the ‘invincible’ fortress town of Peronne, two of the great feats of Australian forces in the First World War. The Author places real men on the battlefield, describing their fears and their courage and their often violent deaths. The struggle for control of the battle, to site the guns, to bridge the Somme and maintain communications are portrayed in vivid detail. The story also offers a glimpse of the men’s families at home, their anxiety and their life-long grief. $24.95 • 412 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-921941-94-8 • NCR

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Big Sky Publishing Grand Deception

Game to the Last

Crumps and Camouflets

Churchill and the Dardanelles

11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli

Australian Companies Tunnelling on the Western Front

Tom Curran Tom Curran’s The Grand Deception: Churchill and the Dardanelles presents a detailed examination of Churchill’s role in the decisionmaking process that led to the Gallipoli landings. Using unpublished British archival sources and a range of additional material, both contemporary and modern, Curran’s meticulous research casts new light on the lead-up to a campaign that would profoundly affect Australian military history.

James Hurst Game to the Last reveals the story of the West Australian 11th Infantry Battalion, AIF, during the grueling Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. The narrative follows the battalion members as they leave their homes and lives in Western Australia, embark for overseas, and undergo their baptism of fire in the first wave of the Australian and New Zealand landings at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.

Damien Finlayson Below the shattered ground that separated the British and German infantry on the Western Front in World War I, an unseen and largely unknown war was raging, fought by miners, ‘tunnelers’ as they were known. They knew at any moment their lives could be extinguished without warning by hundreds of tons of collapsed earth and debris. $29.95 • 480 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-0-9806582-5-5 • NCR

$29.95 • 416 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-925275-00-1 • NCR

$29.95 • 272 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-921941-13-9 • NCR

World War I Commemorative Cook Book

Fallen Sentinel

Lost at Sea

Australian Tanks in World War II

Found at Fukushima

Peter Beale

Andy Millar

A Culinary Journey Through Our Military History

Against the backdrop of the sweeping conquest of Western Europe by Hitler’s mighty Panzer Divisons in WWII, Australia produced 66 cruiser tanks – the Sentinel tank – but none ever took the field of battle. The story of Australian tanks in WWII portrays governments under pressure and bureaucratic bungles that saw opportunities lost and precious resources squandered when the nation was under greatest threat.

On a calm afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer was sunk by a German raider. Among the survivors was Second Mate David Millar, who – along with his crewmen – was rescued by the Germans before being handed over to the Japanese. Lost at Sea tells the story of these survivors. It is a tale of honor between enemy commanders; of suffering and endurance; and of the relationships that form when people are forced together in life-threatening circumstances.

Cath Hopgood and David Hopgood This is a culinary journey through the period when the Anzac legend was born. A collection of delicious recipes influenced by the battle locations and era of WWI, combined with short narratives tracing the contributions and history of the Anzacs, this book brings the wartime conditions and flavorsome food from the period to life. $29.95 • 210 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • full color throughout • January 2016 • paperback • 9781-922132-81-9 • NCR

$29.95 • 320 pages • 7 x 4.5 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-921941-02-3 • NCR

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$24.95 • 260 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-921941-52-8 • NCR

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Big Sky Publishing AUSTRALIAN ARMY C AMPAIGNS SERIES

Malaya

To Kokoda

Wau

Landing at ANZAC

1941–42

Nicholas Anderson

1942–43

1915

Phillip Bradley

Chris Roberts

Based on a detailed analysis of the battlefield, this book outlines how the victory at Wau was achieved and demonstrates how determined leadership can turn the tide of battle. Throughout most of 1942, the Australian Army fought a series of commando actions to keep the Japanese at bay in the Wau – Salamaua area of New Guinea.

The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account presents a fresh examination of the evidence.

$16.95 • 173 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-09807774-0-6 • NCR

$16.95 • 188 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-92527502-5 • NCR

Rwanda

Exploring Gallipoli

Brian Farrell and Garth Pratten When Imperial Japan unleashed the Pacific War, Australian forces went into action in Malaya and later on Singapore Island. This book covers the role of Australians in the Malaya campaigns, 1941–42. $16.95 • 254 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-09805674-4-1 • NCR

When the Japanese war machine swept through South-East Asia in early 1942, it was inevitable that conflict would reach Australian territory on the island of New Guinea. Australian forces began to learn the crucial lessons that would be needed to break the back of the Japanese Army in New Guinea. $16.95 • 186 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-92213295-6 • NCR

Ottoman Defence Australia’s Against the Palestine ANZAC Landing Campaign Mesut Uyar The landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 represents a defining moment, not only for Australia and New Zealand, but also for Turkey. However a detailed account of the landing from the Turkish perspective has yet to be published in English despite the 100 years that has elapsed since the first ANZACs scrambled ashore. $16.95 • 188 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-92527501-8 • NCR

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Unamir 1994 / 95 Kevin O’Halloran

1916–18 Jean Bou With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years the Palestine Campaign was Australia’s longest running militarily significant endeavor of the First World War after the Western Front. $16.95 • 173 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-09808100-0-4 • NCR

Rwanda is no stranger to violence.

In 1994, an orgy of killing swept across the tiny land-locked and genocide, the size and magnitude unseen since the Hitler horrors of WWII, erupted. Around one million men, women and children were mercilessly shot, hacked to death of burnt alive. $16.95 • 148 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-92194148-1 • NCR

Australian Army’s Battlefield Guide to Gallipoli Glenn Wahlert This detailed guide to the First World War Anzac battlefields includes information on the key sites at Gallipoli, including maps, recommended routes, and optional walks and drives, as well as information on accommodation, transport and other practical sightseeing suggestions. $16.95 • 173 pages • 9.75 x 7 • full color throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-09808140-6-4 • NCR

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Big Sky Publishing Long Tan

Canister on Fire

The Start of a Lifelong Battle

Two Volume Box Set

Harry Smith

Bruce Cameron

On 18 August 1966, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist, a Company of 108 men held its ground against a three-sided attack from 2,500 troops. When the battle subsided, 18 Australian soldiers lay dead and 24 had been wounded. Battlefield clearance revealed 245 enemy bodies with documents confirming the count at over 500 killed and 800 wounded. These men were led

by Major Harry Smith. Now, Harry tells his story for the first time.

Canister On Fire tells the remarkable, but little known story of Australian tanks in the Vietnam War. Based on twelve years of research, including personal letters and diaries, extensive searches of official records and numerous interviews, this book brings to life a previously little-known aspect of the conflict.

It is the story of a select group of soldiers, both regular and conscript, serving their country against all odds.

$24.95 • 352 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-922132-32-1 • NCR

Fire Support Bases Vietnam Australian and Allied Fire Support Base Locations and Main Support Units Bruce Picken Fire Support Bases Vietnam is a meticulous documentation of the construction, location and role of fire support bases during the Vietnam War, compiled by Vietnam veteran Bruce Picken. Often makeshift bases hacked out of primary jungle; these artillery gun areas provided essential support to infantry field units during operations in South Vietnam. This is an essential reference book for those with a serious interest in the Vietnam War. $29.95 • 500 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1921941-54-2 • NCR

Training the Bodes

$44.95 • 940 pages • 9 x 6 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-921941-99-3 • NCR

Lethality in Combat

Soldiers’ Tales

A Study of the True Nature of Battle

A Collection of True Stories from Aussie Soldiers

Tom Lewis Lethality in Combat shines a blazing light on the three most controversial aspects of combat: the necessity of killing; the taking, or not, of prisoners; and the targeting of civilians. This book argues that when a nation-state sends its soldiers to fight, the state must accept the full implications of this. Drawing on seven conflicts – the Boer War, World Wars I and II, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands and Iraq- the author considers these ethical issues.

Australian Army Advisers Training Cambodian Infantry Battalions – A Postscript to the Vietnam War Terry Smith A small group of Australians, which never numbered more than 30 officers, warrant officers and non-commissioned officers of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, helped train 27 light infantry battalions of the Cambodian army in South Vietnam during 1972. This project was had been ‘recognized as one of the most successful foreign internal defense missions of the Vietnam War’. $29.95 • 224 pages • 7 x 4.5 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-921941-01-6 • NCR

Denny Neave In their own words the Aussie diggers provide a fascinating glimpse of the many funny and touching moments that our Diggers often hold to their chest.

The collection of stories in this book provides a taste of what a soldier’s life is like both in war and peace. $14.95 • 160 pages • 7 x 4.5 • b/w photos throughout • January 2016 • paperback • 978-0-9803251-3-3 • NCR

Stepping Into A Minefield A Life Dedicated to Landmine Clearance Around the World Ian Mansfield Ian Mansfield was serving in the Australian Army when he was selected to command a team of combat engineers to go to Pakistan to train Afghan refugees in mine-clearance procedures. This account recalls Ian’s pioneering efforts to set up a civilian program to clear landmines for humanitarian purposes. $29.95 • 340 pages • 6.25 x 9 • December 2015 • paperback • 9781-925275-52-0 • NCR

$29.95 • 368 pages • 7 x 4.5 • b/w photos throughout • maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1921941-51-1 • NCR

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Colourpoint Airships Over Ulster

Flying from Malone

Royal Naval Air Service Airships During the First World War

Belfast’s First Civil Aerodrome Guy Warner

Guy Warner This new edition of Airships over Ulster is a tantalizing piece of hidden history brought to life by aviation historian Guy Warner. He expertly weaves together the fascinating tale of pioneering aviation, anti-submarine warfare in World War One, and the human connection to the first military aviation facility in Ulster.

Airships from the mooring-out station at Bentra, Whitehead in County Antrim flew dozens of missions in support of the naval forces based in Larne. $13.95 • 64 pages • highly illustrated • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-78073-008-0 • NCR

The 1920s were to flying what the 1960s were to space exploration. And for a short time in the mid-1920s, Belfast was at the forefront of the advancement of civil air transport in the British Isles, with the development of Malone aerodrome, the UK’s first municipal airfield. This new, updated Flying from Malone captures the spirit of that time and tells a remarkable story – of how Belfast blazed a trail in the development of civil aviation that many were to follow. $13.95 • 64 pages • highly illustrated • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-78073-007-3 • NCR

Military Aviation in Northern Ireland

Civil Aviation in Northern Ireland

An Illustrated History – 1913 to the Present Day

An Illustrated History – 1909 to the Present Day

Guy Warner and Ernie Cromie

Guy Warner and Ernie Cromie

A fabulous collection of historic photographs illustrating the history of military aviation in Northern Ireland from 1913. Written by two experts, the volume covers the developments and changes in military aircraft and airports around Northern Ireland during peace and war, and includes much previously unpublished material.

Northern Ireland has an enviable, extensive and often unappreciated role in aviation history. With a focus on civil aviation from the first passenger taken aloft from Magilligan Strand by a young Harry Ferguson, through a century of pioneering ventures and developments in comfort and service, this illustrated volume highlights that history and the people who played a part. Using 200 images, the authors take a chronological look at civil aircraft, airports, operations and developments.

$14.95 • 120 pages • highly illustrated • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-78073-038-7 • NCR

$14.95 • 128 pages • photos throughout • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-78073-048-6 • NCR

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Aircraft and Aerospace Manufacturing in Northern Ireland An Illustrated History – 1909 to the Present Day Guy Warner and Ernie Cromie Northern Ireland has an enviable, extensive and often unappreciated role in aviation history.

With a focus on aircraft manufacturing from the first pioneering steps by Lilian Bland, Joseph Cordner and a young Harry Ferguson, through a century of developments in production and research, this illustrated volume highlights that history and the people who played a part. The authors take a chronological look at how, from innovative beginnings, a successful aircraft and aerospace industry has thrived locally through periods of war and peace. $14.95 • 128 pages • illustrated throughout • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-78073-060-8 • NCR

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Colourpoint Bombs on Belfast

Passing Through The 82nd Airborne Division in Northern Ireland 1943–44

The Blitz 1941 Ian Adamson

John P McCann

An event in the history of Belfast which had a profound effect was the blitzing of the city in the Spring of 1941.

What seem inevitable now, that the Luftwaffe would target such an important manufacturing city, when at the time Belfast was thought to be out of range for the German planes. This left Belfast as one commentator put it ‘ the most unprotected major city in the UK”. A heavy toll was paid in both human life and material damage, during the 4 raids almost 1000 people perished, 2500 were injured and most of North and East Belfast as well as the City Center reduced to rubble.

During World War II, tens of thousands of American GIs had their first introduction to the European theater of Operations in the small towns, rolling hills and forests of Northern Ireland. In the main, these troops had crossed the dangerous U-boat infested Atlantic Ocean directly from the United States. The 82nd Airborne Division were different. In order to add some combat experienced seasoning to the armies preparing for the coming assault on Hitler’s ‘Fortress Europe,’ High Command dispatched them to the British Isles. Now, some sixty years later, John McCann has undertaken the monumental task of chronicling the days when the 82nd Airborne Division ‘passed through’ Northern Ireland.

$13.95 • 88 pages • photos throughout • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-906578-91-6 • NCR

Colonel Paddy The Man Who Dared Patrick Marrinan

$23.95 • 128 pages • photos throughout • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-904242-41-3 • NCR

Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls Vicky Cosstick

The classic story of Robert Blair Mayne, late commanding officer of the first Special Air Service Regiment, and legend in his own lifetime. This, the original biography of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO (3 Bars), Légion d’Honneur, Croix De Guerre and ‘Colonel Paddy’ to his contemporaries, is a lively account of his life and wartime exploits with the SAS. As an Air-Commando, he became the scourge of the Nazis across North Africa, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Germany, while leading the most daredevil and dangerous regiment in the British Army.

In Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls Vicky Cosstick tells the story of Belfast’s 100 sectarian walls and interfaces, now the last in Europe, which remain fifteen years after the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and she asks for how much longer these physical signs and symbols of sectarianism and the Troubles will disfigure the cityscape.

$13.95 • 224 pages • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-78073-041-7 • NCR

$29.95 • 192 pages • 8.25 x 10.25 • 40 b/w photos • Now Available • paperback • 978-178073-072-1 • NCR

This uniquely researched portrait of a postconflict peace process provides a real time picture of the complex process by which constructive change is happening.

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The Cruthin A History of the Ulster Land and People Ian Adamson The Cruthin were the earliest inhabitants of both Britain and Ireland to whom a definite name can be given. This book examines their contentious history, from distant origins to their influence on the present day. Their story is a timely reminder of an often ignored common identity. With much original research, this is a compelling and impartial exploration of an ancient people. The fact that so little is known about them is an important and tragic consequence of Irish history itself. This updated edition shows that the Cruthin controversy remains as relevant and challenging as it ever was. $16.95 • 160 pages • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-78073-066-0 • NCR

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Fighting High Publishing / Harpia Publishing Flying The Icon: Spitfire

First Out In Earnest

Jarrod Cotter The Supermarine Spitfire is not only one of the most famous British icons, but it is arguably the most widelyrecognized and popular aircraft in the history of aviation. For many generations it was said to be ‘every schoolboy’s dream’ to fly a Spitfire, and Flying the Icon: Spitfire aims to give the reader an insight into what that requires.

To mark the 80th anniversary of the first flight of Prototype K5054 on 5 March 1936, author Jarrod Cotter presents something entirely different from the previously published histories of the Spitfire. Having spent a great deal of time talking to Spitfire pilots past and present, attending flight operations briefings and Spitfire pilot training courses, he has used his ‘insider’s’ perspective to produce a book solely on flying this most iconic of all fighters. $49.95 • 160 pages • 10.75 x 8.25 • color and b/w photos throughout • June 2016 • hardback • 978-0-9932129-8-7 • Fighting High Publishing • NCR

The Remarkable Life of Jo Lancaster DFC from Bomber Command Pilot to Test Pilot and the Martin Baker Ejection Seat David Gunby John Oliver (Jo) Lancaster DFC had a remarkable career in aviation spanning half a century. Starting out in 1935 as an engineering apprentice with Armstrong Whitworth Jo went on to fly an extraordinary 54 operations against the enemy during the Second World War, piloting Vickers Wellingtons and Avro Lancasters with RAF Bomber Command’s 40 and 12 Squadrons. Jo also took part in the ‘Thousand Bomber Raids’ in 1942 while an instructor at an operational training unit. Subsequently Jo was posted to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down, during which he flew a wide range of types, including captured German aircraft, and this was followed by training at the Empire Test Pilots’ School.

Author David Gunby, through extensive interviews and correspondence with Jo, and complimented with diligent archive research, has written a highly detailed account of this outstanding aviator. $39.95 • 320 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • b/w picture section • May 2016 • hardback • 978-0-9932129-7-0 • Fighting High Publishing • NCR

Iraqi Air Force Reborn

Flashpoint China

The Iraqi Air Arms Since 2004

Chinese Air Power and the Regional Balance

Arnaud Delalande Iraqi Air Power Reborn provides the most authoritative account of the Iraqi air arms in the years following Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In the space of over a decade since Harpia Publishing presented its groundbreaking and ever-popular Iraqi Fighters, the Iraqi Air Force has undergone an unprecedented transformation. Having been almost entirely decimated by coalition air strikes in 2003, and during the insurgency that followed, Baghdad has set about rebuilding its air power from scratch.

This book summarizes the history of the Iraqi Air Force and its various incarnations until 2003 before detailing the efforts to establish a newlook Air Force, which began with training formations, before adding transport and reconnaissance squadrons, and finally attack and fighter squadrons – the latter now equipped with the Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Andreas Rupprecht and Tom Cooper From the South China Sea to the mountains of Nepal, the continued economic rise of the People’s Republic of China has led to a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the region. As a result, the relationship between China and its neighbors, as well as with the United States and its allies, has become increasingly important for the future of the region – and for the rest of the world.

This uniquely compact yet comprehensive directory serves as a richly illustrated, in-depth analysis and overview of the most important conflicts in which China is currently involved – and those that it is likely to be involved with in the future – with a particular focus on People’s Liberation Army air power. $29.95 • 80 pages • 8.27 x 11.02 • Color photos, illustrations • maps • April 2016 • paperback • 978-0-9854554-8-4 • Harpia Publishing • NCR

$29.95 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11 • color photos, illustrations • maps • April 2016 • paperback • 978-0-9854554-7-7 • Harpia Publishing • NCR

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Fonthill Media I Paid Hitler

Hitler’s Interpreter

Fritz Thyssen

Paul Schmidt

Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Thyssen was a leading German industrialist. In 1923 General Ludendorff advised Thyssen to attend a speech to be given by Hitler, and Thyssen was very impressed, and primarily due to his strident opposition to the Treaty of Versailles he began to make large donations to the party. His principal motive appears to have been his fear of communism, but he was not initially politically aligned to the Nazis, and remained a member of the German National People’s Party until 1932.

As the main interpreter for Adolf Hitler during the key prewar moments, such as the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surrender of France, PaulOtto Schmidt was well placed to record his impressions of events from 1935 up to 1945.

He was an interpreter working in the German foreign ministry where he served from 1923 to 1945, and being fluent in English and French he gained respect and was Hitler’s usual first choice for the important meetings. During the war years he served as Hitler’s interpreter during his meetings with Marshal Philippe Pétain and Francisco Franco.

Prior to his arrest he had dictated his memoirs which he entrusted to an American journalist, Emery Reves, and these memoirs—the subject of this book—was first published in the USA at the end of 1941. $32.95 • 216 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78155-510-1

German Night Fighter Force 1917–1945

Digging for Hitler

Gebhard Aders

Dr David Barrowclough

The German Night Fighter force had its origins in the First World War to repel night raids. They developed operational procedures which became largely forgotten a few years after the Armistice. The Western Allies maintained and improved night-fighting tactics, but the creators of the new Luftwaffe did not at first think about night fighting at all.

This changed in 1936 and the results of some exercises were set down in a secret study prepared for the Air District school in November of that year.

This study of the History of the German Night Fighter Force is a detailed analysis with numerous appendices which provides a comprehensive account of the Luftwaffe’s thoroughness right up to the end when the hunters became the hunted.

$32.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78155-516-3

The Nazi Archaeologists Search for an Aryan Past

During the 1930s, in the build up to the Second World War, the Nazis established a band of specialists, the SSAhnenerbe, under the command of Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Wirth. Their aim was nothing less than to prove the superiority of the Aryan race, and with it the unique right of the German people to rule Europe. The occult figured as a key feature in many of these increasingly desperate quack ‘research’ efforts.

Part ‘science,’ part espionage, and part fantasy.

Archaeological expeditions were sent to Iceland, Tibet, Kafiristan, North Africa, Russia, the Far East, Egypt, and even South America and the Arctic. $40.00 • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155500-2

$62.95 • 304 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • black and white photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-178155-503-3

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Feldpost The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann Denis Havel Feldpost: The Wartime Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the life and front line experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941-1945. Niemann, a well-educated youth from a Westphalia family, was sent to the Russian front four times. He wrote his final two letters home from Poland on January 12, 1945 before he disappeared during the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive.

In his extensive correspondence, Niemann describes the fighting at Rzhev, Russia, 19421943 and his survival of the destruction of his division during the Soviet summer offensive in 1944. His is a rare view of battles that annihilated entire German divisions and armies. $40.00 • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-62545015-9

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Fonthill Media Operation Big Ben

Spitfire Glory

The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions

The Wartime Flying Life of Leif Lundsten

Craig Cabell When Hitler unleashed his V1 and V2 rockets on Great Britain in 1944, it was the first military attack on the British civilian population without invasion. Innocent families were wiped out without mercy and terror gripped the nation. Churchill and the Crossbow Committee knew that widespread panic would soon ensue, because the British public were becoming increasingly anxious in Europe, and the precise plotting of V rocket activity in the Filter Room of Fighter Command through air reconnaissance, a Top Secret plan was formed to dive-bomb V rocket installations with Spitfires. $34.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-439-5

Moonlight Flyer Diary of a Second World War Navigator John Gellner and Pavel Vancata

Tor Idar Larsen Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron and test pilot with Vickers-Armstrong, he strapped on as many as seven different marks of Spitfires. All the way from the early mark II up to the rare, brutal xII version.

Following Lundsten’s career as a fighter pilot through the War, all the Spitfires he flew are covered in this book along with descriptions of his sorties. Behind every Spitfire there is a story to be told. Stories of brave heroism, tragic deaths or determined resilience. $34.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-501-9

B–24 Bridge Busters

Station 115 Shipdham

RAF Liberators over Burma

The Story of a USAAF Airfield

Colin Pateman

Peter W. Bodle FRAeS

One of the many wartime airmen, who documented his day to day experiences in a diary, was RCAF navigator Jan Gellner. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Jan was a lawyer practicing in the Czechoslovak town of Brno. With the outbreak of hostilities on the European continent, he went to Canada and trained as an air observer on the first course of the fledgling British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. It did not take long for Jan’s abilities to shine, especially as an instructor in astro navigation.

This book will provide the reader with an understanding of why the RAF flew the American B-24 Liberator against the Japanese in Burma. British and Commonwealth air crews displayed great gallantry in many instances on low level precise bombing sorties destroying specific targets including the plethora of bridges constructed by the Japanese in their conquest to reach India. A number of detailed accounts will be based upon personal flying logbooks and other unique material originating from the pilots and aircrew themselves.

$34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78155509-5

$34.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155519-4

Station 115Shipdham is the unique story of 600 acres of Norfolk countryside in the center of the agricultural heartland of East Anglia. It was turned into a major Second World War airfield in ultra-quick order shortly after the start of hostilities in the early 1940s. Built on prime arable and dairy farmland, it is a mere 10 minutes flying time from the city of Norwich, between the Mid-Norfolk Market towns of Dereham and Watton. Station 115-Shipdham covers the gestation of the airfield from open arable farmland through the construction phase to its commissioning as a USAAF Heavy Bomber base in the front line of the greatest conflict that the world has ever seen. $28.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • February 2016 • paperback • 978-178155-495-1

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Fonthill Media The USAAF in Suffolk

Among the Italian Partisans

Roy Brazier The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive in 1942, there were over 10,000 in the country by 1943.

Their arrival was called the 'Friendly Invasion' as they suddenly found themselves in the middle of the East Anglian countryside. This book examines the meeting of two cultures, while stories are related of the aircraft victories and losses, plus accidents which sometimes shook the countryside.

Missions by the bombers and fighters of the USAAF are included to show what desperate times these were for airmen and country folk of Suffolk. $34.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-346-6

The Allied Contribution to the Resistance Malcolm Tudor Here is the remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in Second World War Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans, Russians, Poles and Yugoslavs.

Against the backdrop of twenty months of savage warfare on the mainland, this is the full story of the Allied servicemen who took part in the Italian Resistance. Partisan forces hit enemy communications, tied down seven German divisions and provided tactical support for the Allied armies. Among the Italian Partisans is a celebration of brave men and great events. $34.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-339-8

A History of RAF Drem at War Malcolm Fife A comprehensive history of the Second World War Fighter Command airfield at RAF Drem located near Edinburgh. It was one of Scotland’s most important airfields in this conflict. Its predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps Gullane air station is included in the account. When war broke out in 1939 among the first targets attacked by the Luftwaffe was the Royal Navy base at Rosyth. The Spitfires at RAF Drem were scrambled to protect this vital installation and were engaged in some of the first air battles over Britain. $32.95 • 224 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • black and white photos • March 2016 • paperback • 9781-78155-523-1

The Thin Blue Line Part 1 Battle for the Channel 19 July–11 August 1940 Brian Cull This volume carries on where FIRST OF THE FEW finished, in the same style and format. 10 July—the official first day of the Battle of Britain—witnessed increased aerial activity over the Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British coastline. The main assaults by ever-increasing formations of Luftwaffe bombers, escorted by Bf109s and Bf110s, were initially aimed at British merchant shipping convoys plying their trade of coal and other materials from the north of England to the southern ports. $34.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155517-0

’Paddy’ Finucane and the legend of the Kenley Wing No.452 (Australian), 485 (New Zealand) and 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadrons, 1941 Anthony Cooper A year after the start of the Battle of Britain, from the late summer of 1941 the Kenley Wing was one of the six Allied fighter wings taking the war to the Luftwaffe in the RAF’s cross-channel air offensive over France. Comprised of three Spitfire fighter squadrons, the Kenley Wing was typical of the wartime RAF in its cosmopolitan makeup, with pilots from all three countries as well as Ireland and Canada. The most famous of them all was the charismatic Paddy Finucane, a flight commander with 452 (Australian) Squadron, who dominated the wing’s scoring to become far and away its greatest star. $40.00 • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155512-5

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Fonthill Media Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The U.S. Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4

Warrior Queen of the USAF

An Account of the First Transatlantic Flight

Jeannette Remak

Richard V. Simpson

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress began her life at the Boeing Aircraft Corp back in 1946.

She was the answer to the problem that General Curtis LeMay of the USAF was looking for: A BIG bomber.

The B-52, in 1955 entered the service of the USAF and as of 2016 she is still in service and on active duty. The B-52 had lived through the Cold War. The B-52 saw service in the Vietnam War of which Operation Rolling Thunder became one of the monumental programs in USAF history. The B-52 went on to service in the deserts of the Middle East in Operation Desert Storm and later in Enduring Freedom and Afghanistan.

Through all this, the B-52 has stood for the many revisions, from A to H, that have been done to her massive airframe and her cockpit, which is now an up to-date glass cockpit. $49.95 • 256 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • color and b/w photos • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-467-8

The Zeppelin

When humans learned, in 1903, they could cruise over land in a heavier than air flying machine, they never dreamed of using an advanced model of the airplane as an instrument of war. The novelty of flying intrigued a young Glenn H. Curtiss-an inventor obsessed with speed.

In the decade before World War One, Curtiss a dedicated tinkerer developed speedy float planes and flying boats which came to the attention of the U.S. Navy. During the run-up to America's involvement in the war, ships carrying supplies to allies were being destroyed by the German U-boats. It was then Glenn Curtiss was contracted to draw plans for a large flying boat capable of flying across the Atlantic. $29.95 • 128 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • black and white photos • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-62545-009-8

Lavochkin Fighters of the Second World War

An Illustrated History Phil Carradice

Jason Nicholas Moore

For a brief period in the early Twentieth Century it seemed as if the future of air travel lay with the giant airships of Count von Zeppelin. The First World War ended that dream, fixed wing aircraft superseding the slow moving and unwieldy airships.

The Zeppelin crews of the First World War spent hours in the air, cold and hungry. As vehicles of mass destruction the Zeppelins were remarkably ineffective. Their real value, lay in their ability to make silent reconnaissance missions over enemy territory and sea lanes. In the postwar days the public began to realize that airships offered a form of air travel that was comfortable, mostly stable and, sometimes, even luxurious. Unfortunately, they had two major defects—they were vulnerable to the elements and, due to the hydrogen that kept them aloft, they were also highly flammable.

The Lavochkin fighters remain little known in the West, although with the Yakovlev fighter series they were the backbone of the Red Air Force fighter force during the Second World War. The author rectifies that with this comprehensive history of these fighters.

With this book he describes in great detail the three main variants of the Lavochkin fighter series during the Second World War: the only partially successful LaGG-3 inline-engined fighter, the successful radial-engined La-5 fighter, and the superb radial engined La-7 fighter, one of the best piston-engined fighter aircraft of the entire Second World War. Both the design and history of these fighters are featured; including how the mediocre inline engined LaGG-3 was turned into a top notch fighter by the replacement of the Klimov inline engine by the Shvetsov M-82 radial engine.

$24.00 • 128 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78155-505-7

$50.00 • 240 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • color and b/w photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-514-9

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Fonthill Media The Junkers Ju 52 Story

Air Wars 1920–1939

Jan Forsgren

The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics

The single-engine Junkers Ju 52 first flew in 1930. Designed and built by the Junkers Aircraft Company of Dessau, Germany, the Ju 52 was originally intended as a cargo aircraft. An upgraded model, the Ju 52/3m, was powered by three engines, excelling as an 18-seat airliner. By the late 1930s, hundreds of the safe and reliable Ju 52/3m were serving with airlines in more than 20 countries. It was used as a bomber by the reestablished Luftwaffe, particularly in the Spanish Civil War. During the Second World War, the Ju 52/3m was the mainstay of the Luftwaffe transport squadrons.

Spain (1936–9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939–40) and France (1939–40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analyzing the resulting lessons. Attention in Air Wars 1920–1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics is given to the means by which intelligence on aerial tactics was collected and why it was not always fully absorbed, resulting in many nations having to relearn the same lessons at the outset of the Second World War.

$40.00 • 224 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • black and white photos • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-515-6

$34.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-520-0

Philip MacDougall

Gloster Aircraft since 1917

No Echo in the Sky

The Rise of the Bomber

Harald Penrose

Derek N. James

No Echo in the Sky is a delightfully written book where Harald Penrose draws on personal experiences from his long and distinguished career. Harald Penrose was chief test pilot at Westland Aircraft Ltd from 1931 to 1953 and his flying experience spanned man carrying kites before the First World War, to early jet fighters and helicopters. With lyrical prose matching that of Laurie Lee he provides pen sketches of almost unsurpassed beauty.

RAF-Army Planning 1919 to Munich 1938

This updated edition of of Gloster Aircraft since 1917 describes the company’s formation and development in the face of a diminishing need for military aircraft and provides insights into the manner to which it struggled to surmount the engineering and financial problems before succumbing to the economic and political pressures of the post 1957 Defense White Paper era. Each chapter in this book covers a specific airplane, discussing its construction, development and operational history and comprehensive appendices give year by year production figures, UK and export sales, air racing successes and record achievements. $70.00 • 480 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • black and white photos • March 2016 • paperback • 978-178155-417-3

From his first flight to the experience of flying a jet—the Gloster Meteor—Penrose’s wellchosen passages will be a delight to any aviation enthusiast. $24.95 • 144 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • March 2016 • paperback • 978-178155-487-6

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Greg Baughen In The Rise of the Bomber: RAF-Army Planning 1919 to Munich 1938, the second book in the series, author Greg Baughen uses archive material to reassess British air policy in the inter-war years. Gone is the image of a Royal Air Force starved of funds and struggling for survival against a bullying Army and Navy.

Instead, Baughen describes how the Air Force set out to replace both the Army and Navy. It blocked the development of a modern air/tank strategy and won government backing for a defense policy built around the bomber – the first weapon of mass destruction. $40.00 • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • February 2016 • hardback • 978-178155-493-7

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Fonthill Media Reich Rails

German Raiders of the First World War

Royal Prussia, Imperial Germany and the First World War, 1825-1918

Kaiserliche Marine Cruisers and the Epic Chases

Blaine Taylor The Great War (1914-18) Centennial begins in 2014, here’s a comprehensive study of Prussian/German railways in peace and strife, 1825-1918—-men, rails, lines, engines, cars, and stations. They all played a crucial part in Germany’s Wars of Unification during 1864-71, the interwar years, and the final catastrophe that toppled many crowns, thrones, and states, all told from a railroad perspective, a unique way of exploring the history of the 19th-20th Centuries. Here the reader will also find the sagas of the other railways aligned both for and against the Second Reich: Berlin-Baghdad, Trans-Siberian, Hejaz, African, Italian, American, and more. $34.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78155-424-1

The Life of a Union Army Sharpshooter The Diaries and Letters of John T. Farnham William G. Andrews John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper, and mailed some 600 letters home. He described training, battles, skirmishes, encampments, furloughs, marches, hospital life, and clerkships at the Iron Brigade headquarters and the War Department. He befriended freed slaves, teaching them to read and write and built them a school. He paints a detailed portrait of the lives of ordinary soldiers in the Union Army, their food, living conditions, relations among officers and men, ordeals, triumphs, and tragedies.

Chris Sams As the world plunged into war in August 1914 two Kaiserliche Marine fleets and several detached cruisers lay beyond the North Sea. These vessels posed a serious threat to British merchant vessels and naval superiority.

Beyond the British blockade there was little chance of reinforcement and resupply of ammunition—their commanders had to make some hard decisions as to what to do for their crews. The Royal Navy expended a lot of resources to try and remove these threats and Admiral Craddock swept down the coast of America chasing phantoms only to find what he was looking for with fatal results at Coronel. $34.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78155-466-1

Texans at Gettysburg Blood and Glory with Hood’s Texas Brigade Joseph L. Owen and Randy S. Drais The Texans from Hood’s Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Gettysburg on 1–3 July 1863 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters and speeches. Their reminiscences provide a fascinating and harrowing account of the battle as they fought the Army of the Potomac. These accounts describe their actions at Devil’s Den, Little Round Top and other areas during the battle.

For the first time ever, their experiences are compiled in Texans at Gettysburg: Blood and Glory with Hood’s Texas Brigade. $28.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • March 2016 • paperback • 978-162545-060-9

With Napoleon at St Helena John Stokoe Nearing the end of his career as a ship surgeon, he agreed in 1817 to take a three year posting to St Helena. Stokoe set out for St Helena on HMS Conqueror in 1817. At St Helena there was discord following the Governor, LieutenantGeneral Sir Hudson Lowe’s controversial decision to dismiss Napoleon’s doctor. About this time, Napoleon asked that Mr Stokoe might attend him again. Immediately after, Mr Stokoe arrived at St Helena, was put under arrest and tried on varying counts-seven in all.

This book is Stokoe’s own defense, another book with damning evidence against the notorious Governor-Sir Hudson Lowe. $28.95 • 128 pages • 6 x 9.25 • black and white photos • July 2016 • paperback • 978-1-78155460-9

$39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 • color and b/w photos • March 2016 • hardback • 978-162545-077-7

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Frontline Books

Tobruk Commando

Blood and Steel 3

Luftwaffe Over America

The Raid to Destroy Rommel’s Base

The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945

The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II

Gordon Landsborough ‘Operation Agreement’ started as a fairly simple plan to destroy Rommel’s bomb-proof oil-storage tanks at Tobruk on the eve of Alamein. But, catching the imagination of GHQ, the plan snowballed alarmingly. As well as a commando unit led by the plan’s originator, Colonel Haselden, it came to include the RAF, the Royal Navy, the Marines and two of the largest destroyers in the Mediterranean.

It was a daring attempt to rob Rommel at one stroke of the three essentials to success in North Africa – oil, a supply port and shipping.

But the calculated risks began to outbalance the chances of success when it seemed that every dockyard worker in Alexandria and every cocktail-party-goer in Cairo knew about the raid before the officers and men set out. The operation went on, and became a tragedy of slaughtered men and sunken ships.

Tobruk Commando is a classic adventure story of the Second World War. The fast-moving action centers on the small commando of men which set out secretly through the deserts towards Tobruk. After a long journey across the desert sand, they arrived disguised as a group of POWs and their German captors. $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-244-8

Donald E Graves Blood and Steel 3, The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945 is an extensive and colorful collection of translated German military documents, private letters and diaries relating to one of the most hard-fought battles of the Second World War. This rare material was gathered by the intelligence section of the American, British and Canadian armies and ranges from orders issued by Feldmarschall von Rundstedt down to jokes told by the ordinary German soldier, often at the expense of his superiors. The infamous use by the Germans of troops disguised as Americans, driving captured US vehicles, to sow confusion behind enemy lines, is described as it happened, including a desperate plea by two Germans captured in US uniforms to be spared execution.

This unique collection gives an unparalleled insight into German tactics, organization, morale and attitudes to their opponents during the Battle of the Bulge, the last desperate gamble by Hitler to defeat the Allied offensive in the West, and is required reading for all historians and enthusiasts of the period. $39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-236-3

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Manfred Griehl This thought-provoking book examines the Nazi German plans to raid – and bomb – New York and the eastern seaboard in the event of a successful invasion of the Soviet Union.

The plans rested upon the use of transoceanic aircraft, such as the six-engined Ju 390, Me 264 or Ta 400. The Third Reich was unable to produce these machines in sufficient numbers, however, if the Soviet Union had been conquered, these plans would have become a reality. With the seizure of vital resources from the Soviet Union the Wehrmacht would have had enough fuel and material to mass-produce giant bomber aircraft: it was a near-run thing.

The collapse of the Wehrmacht infrastructure and the premature end of the Thousand Year Reich ensured that plans for long-range remote-controlled missiles never got past the drawing board.

This fascinating, thoroughly researched study offers valuable insights into how Germany developed new weapons and shows why the attempts to develop long range bombers were frustrated until they were terminated by the end of hostilities. Includes more than a hundred rarely seen photographs and original plans. $19.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-842-6

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Frontline Books Long Range Desert Group

Escape from the Japanese

Behind Enemy Lines in North Africa

The Amazing Tale of a PoWs Journey From Hong Kong to Freedom

W.B. Kennedy Shaw

Ralph Burton Goodwin OBE RNZVR

During the two-and-a-half years’ fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert.

This small, highly mobile force was engaged in daring exploits and reconnaissance far behind the enemy’s lines. Emerging suddenly from the depths of the desert, the LRDG would raid important airfields or attack Axis lines of communication along the Mediterranean coast, and then vanish back into the desert, to reappear hundreds of miles away.

With its brilliant description of the harsh beauty of the desert, and its exciting chronicle of the LRDG activities, this book is as fascinating today as it was when was first published in 1945, after being vetted by the War Office. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832858-7

U-Boat War Patrol

Trapped in the depths of Japanese-held territory, it was rare for Allied prisoners of war to attempt escape. There was little chance of making contact with anti-guerrilla or underground organizations and no possibility of Europeans blending in with the local Asian populations. Failure, and recapture, meant execution.

This was what Lieutenant Commander R.B. Goodwin faced when he decided to escape from the Shamsuipo PoW Camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong in July 1944 after three years of internment.

With no maps and no knowledge of the country or the language, Lieutenant Commander Goodwin set out across enemy territory and war-torn China. Because of the color of his skin he had to travel during the hours of darkness for much of what was an 870-mile journey to reach British India. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832929-4

Voices from the Past: The Wooden Horse of Gallipoli

The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564 Lawrence Paterson This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were ‘liberated’ from a concrete Uboat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, until recently, remained hidden in a shoe box. The boat in question, U-564, carried the famous three black cat motif of Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren who, along with Prien and Kretschmer, was one of the top U-boat commanders during the battles of the Atlantic.

This remarkable book provides unique access into both the day-to-day life of a U-boat at sea and into the detailed workings of the Kriegsmarine. Through the successes and trials of U-564 the reader is transported to that vast and watery battlefield that was perhaps the most significant theater of the Second World War. $24.95 • 208 pages • 7.8 x 9.8 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832784-9

The Heroic Saga of SS River Clyde an Icon of the First World War Stephen Snelling The initial Allied landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula began on 25 April 1915. Many of those who went ashore at V Beach near Cape Helles did so from the SS River Clyde.

In the first full-length study devoted entirely to River Clyde and the men who sailed in her, the author reveals a remarkable tale of human endeavor told in the words of the men who were there: from the naval captain whose brainchild it was, to the teenage midshipmen who risked their lives to rescue the operation from disaster; from the infantrymen who braved a storm of fire to the staff officers who led the assault that finally secured the beachhead; from the armored car machine-gunners whose covering fire saved hundreds of men marooned on the shore, to the navy’s own infantrymen who ventured out into the bullet-swept waters to succor the wounded. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-852-5

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Frontline Books The Last Year of the Luftwaffe

First In: The Airborne Pathfinders

May 1944 to May 1945

A History of the 21st Independent Parachute Company, 1942–1946

Alfred Price The Last Year of the Luftwaffe is the classic story of a once all-conquering force struggling to stave off an inevitable and total defeat. This superbly written book gives a complete account of Luftwaffe operations during the last twelve months of the fighting in Europe.

In this comprehensive examination of Hitler’s air force, Dr Alfred Price examines its state from May 1944 to May 1945, analyzing not only the forces available to it, but also the likely potential, and impact, of new aircraft and weapons systems. $19.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832866-2

Ron Kent They were volunteers to a man. These were the airborne troops who dropped into enemy territory ahead of any others, pinpointing the Drop Zone by means of a radio marker. They would then prepare the ground for the main forces that would follow. Once they had marked out the Drop Zones, they then had to defend them, whatever the odds.

The volunteers had to pass exacting physical and psychological tests before they could join this elite force. These were the men of the 21st Independent Parachute Company, which was part of the Parachute Regiment, and this is their story. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-946-1

Bomber Offensive Arthur Travers Harris G.C.B. O.B.E. A.F.C. In February 1942 Arthur Harris was given the job of taking the war to the enemy at a time when Britain was still on the defensive. When he took over Bomber Command it possessed only sixty-nine heavy bombers and his force was incapable of undertaking any major operations, yet by May 1943 Harris was able to mount the first of many 1,000-bomber raids.

Though none can doubt that Harris turned Bomber Command into a fearsome weapon, the tactics employed and its effectiveness, however, continue to be debated. $39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-775-7

Luftwaffe Bomber Aces

Flight from Colditz

Men, Machines, Methods

Would the Second World War’s Most Audacious Escape Plan Have Succeeded?

Mike Spick The Luftwaffe excelled at ground attack and in doing so helped revolutionized modern warfare.

Whether flying in support of panzer columns during the invasion of Poland, deployed against British airfields and cities, or thrown into the defense of the Reich, Germany’s bomber and dive-bomber pilots wrought havoc across the face of Europe during the Second World War. Mike Spike, author of a number of acclaimed books on fighter pilots, now turns his attention to outstanding ground-attack pilots. He outlines the Luftwaffe’s revolutionary tactics and highlights individual techniques and methods used against specific types of target. $19.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-862-4

Anthony Hoskins Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.

Though the glider was built, the war ended before it could be used, and it was subsequently destroyed. Anthony Hoskins is the man who built, and helped launch, the glider. As well as examining the story behind the building of the original glider, he details the construction of the replica and the nailbiting excitement as the ‘Colditz Cock’ finally took to the skies. $49.95 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47384854-2

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Frontline Books THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

Voices from the Peninsula

The Lines of Torres Vedras

Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington’s Army, 1808–1814

The Cornerstone of Wellington’s Strategy in the Peninsular War 1809–12

The Campaigns of 1812 in Russia

Ian Fletcher

John Grehan

The Peninsular War was one of the most successful campaigns ever fought by the British Army. Drawing on rare letters, diaries and memoirs, Ian Fletcher presents a superb insight into the daily lives of British soldiers in this momentous period and evokes such key battles and sieges as Vimiero, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria and San Sebastian.

The French invaded Portugal in the summer of 1810 but found their way blocked by the most extensive field fortifications the world had ever seen – the Lines of Torres Vedras. The Lines of Torres Vedras is an authoritative account of the planning, construction and occupation of the Lines and of the battles, sieges and horrors of the French invasion.

On 23 June 1812 the French Grande Armée, over 600,000 strong and composed of men from the many nations that had become part of Napoleon’s empire, poured over the Russian border. In defense of Russia, an army of approximately the same number faced them.

The campaign was disastrous for Napoleon, and it marked the beginning of his decline in power.

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-804-4

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5274-7

$39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-829-7

THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

Napoleon’s Shield and Guardian

March of Death

Napoleon’s Campaign In Poland 1806–1807

The Unconquerable General Daumesnil

Sir John Moore’s Retreat to Corunna, 1808–1809

Edward Ryann

Christopher Summerville

This biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a brave cavalryman against the rise and fall of his imperial master. Pierre Daumesnil was a loyal follower of Napoleon throughout his astonishing career. Enlisting as a private soldier in 1793, he was caught up in the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, surviving campaign after campaign to emerge as a much-decorated general and Baron of the French Empire.

In the winter of 1808, a small British force found itself outnumbered and outmaneuvered.

Faced with a crushing defeat, they turned and marched through the mountains of northern Spain. March of Death is the story of a terrible retreat through the eyes of those who were there and survived. Relating the horrific ordeal through excerpts from survivors’ diaries, letters, and reports, this narrative brings to life the real fight for survival.

$44.95 • 400 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-841-9

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-830-3

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A Prussian Officer’s Account From the Russian Imperial Headquarters Carl von Clausewitz

From Stalemate to Victory: The Battles of Eylau, Heilsberg and Friedland F. Lorraine Petre After Napoleon’s humiliation of Prussia, the French Emperor turned his attention to subduing his Russian foe and marched into Poland in the winter of 1806. Six months later, the Russians had been beaten and brought to the peace table and Napoleon was at the height of his powers. In his detailed study of this remarkable episode of Napoleonic history, F. Loraine Petre follows every move of the campaign. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 10 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-847-1

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Frontline Books THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

THE NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY

The Campaign of Waterloo

Napoleon’s Mercenaries

With Napoleon’s Guns

The Classic Account of Napoleon’s Last Battles

Foreign Units in the French Army Under the Consulate and Empire, 1799 to 1814 Guy C. Dempsey

Sir John Fortescue The Campaign of Waterloo is the complete account of the climatic campaign and battle of the Napoleonic Wars abstracted from Sir John Fortescue’s monumental A History of the British Army. Issued as an independent volume, The Campaign of Waterloo chronicles the events from Napoleon’s exile to Elba on 28 April 1814 to his departure from France on 15 July 1815 and exile on St Helena.

This superb and comprehensive book details the foreign units which formed such an important part of Napoleon’s forces. It examines each non-French unit in turn, giving an overview of the unit’s origins, its organizational and combat history, its uniforms and standards, and details of the unit’s eventual fate. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-831-0

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-882-2

Marching to the Drums

Eyewitness Accounts of the Netherlands Campaigns 1813-1814

Eyewitness accounts of War from the Kabul Massacre to the Siege of Mafeking

Sir Thomas Graham’s Netherlands Campaign of 1813–1814 has produced a surprisingly rich crop of memoirs and letters. This compelling new book brings together six of the shorter accounts, several of them never before seen in print, to help shed new light on the triumphs and disasters of these forgotten operations. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3525-2

Jean-NicolasAuguste Nöel From the optimism of the early years in Italy, through the privations of the retreat from Moscow to the disillusionment of the Emperor’s defeat at Waterloo, the author charts both his personal career and the rise and fall of the First Empire with frankness and percipience. Based on his journal he kept from his cadetship at Châlons, With Napoleon’s Guns is a revealing account of an officer at the heart of Napoleon’s army. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-84832-835-8

Triumph and Disaster

Andrew Bamford

The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire

Wellington’s Redjackets The 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment on Campaign in South America and the Peninsula, 1805–14

Ian Knight

Steve Brown and Robert Burnham

In this gripping collection of first-hand accounts, Ian Knight presents the adventure of nineteenthcentury warfare – from the thrill of the cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the terror of battle against an overwhelming odds such as Rorke’s Drift – in the words of the men actually there. These eyewitness accounts provide a vivid and sometimes shocking insight into the brutal realities of warfare for the British imperial soldier.

The assault was failing. Wellington’s men had stormed the walls of the great frontier fortress of Badajoz only to be beaten back with terrible losses. Then on the keep of the old castle the French flag was torn down and a British officer’s red jacket was hauled up the flagpole.

It was the signal – the British were inside Badajoz! $49.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5175-7

$24.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-240-0

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Frontline Books Zulu Victory

The Anatomy of the Zulu Army

The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-up

From Shaka to Cetshwayo, 1818–1879

Ron Lock and Peter Quantrill

Ian Knight

The battle of Isandlwana – a great Zulu victory – was one of the worst defeats ever to befall a British Army.

Using source material ranging from the Royal Windsor Archives to the oral history passed down to the present Zulu inhabitants of Isandlwana, this gripping history exposes the full extent of the blunders of this famous battle and the scandal that followed. It also gives full credit to the masterful tactics of the 20,000 strong Zulu force and to Ntshingwayo kaMahole, for the way in which he comprehensively out-generaled Chelmsford. $29.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832848-8

Forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January 1879. The Zulu Army was not, however, a professional force, unlike its British counterpart, but was the mobilized manpower of the Zulu state. Ian Knight details how the Zulu army functioned and ties its role firmly to the broader context of Zulu society and culture.

Ian Knight charts the development and training of the men that formed the impi which later operated so successfully under King Cetshwayo. He analyzes the Zulu’s fighting methods, weapons and philosophy, all of which led to the disciplined force that faced the British army in 1879. $29.95 • 282 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832910-2

Medieval Mercenaries

Bayonets for Hire

William Urban

Mercenaries at War, 1550–1789

The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power.

In this benchmark work, William Urban explores the vital importance of the mercenary to the medieval power-broker, from the Byzantine Varangian Guard to fifteenthcentury soldiers of fortune in the Baltic.

Through contemporary chronicles and the most up-to-date scholarship, he presents an in-depth portrait of the mercenary across the Middle Ages. $24.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-854-9

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William Urban From the Greek professional armies of Alexander, through the Hundred Years War, to today, mercenaries have been ever-present, their role constantly evolving. In this compelling history William Urban takes up their captivating and turbulent story from 1550 to 1789: from the Wars of Religion to the eve of the French Revolution.

Bayonets for Hire is an engaging study of war and conquest in early modern Europe and a highly recommended addition to any military history library. $24.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-828-0

Greece and Rome at War Peter Connolly In this sumptuous guide to twelve centuries of military development, Peter Connolly combines a detailed account of the arms and armies of Greece and Rome with his superb full-color artwork. Making use of fresh archaeological evidence and new material on the manufacture and use of the weapons of the period, the author presents an attractive and impressive volume that is both scholarly and beautifully presented with illustrations that are, quite rightly, recognized as being the best and most accurate representation of how the soldiers from these formidable military empires appeared. $29.95 • 8.5 x 11 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-941-6

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Frontline Books Guns of the Elite Forces John Walter Guns of the Elite Forces provides a penetrating account of the weapons that elite fighting troops carry into combat. Such elites have always existed in the armies of the world. In this highly illustrated book, expert John Walter provides an overview of the weapons elite forces carry into action, as well as the guns their enemies wield. $29.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-823-5

SAS: Secret War in South East Asia Peter Dickens From 1963 to 1966 Britain successfully waged a secret war to keep the Federation of Malaysia free from domination by Soekarno’s Indonesia and by Chinese Communists. At the forefront of this campaign were the men of the Special Air Service – the SAS – an elite branch of the British military whose essence is secrecy and whose tools are boldness, initiative, surprise, and high skill. $32.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-5599-1

Small Wars and their Influence on Nation States 1500 to the Present William Urban After 1500, European warfare was repeatedly revolutionized by new weapons, new methods for supplying armies in the field, improved fortifications and new tactics for taking fortifications. This allowed empires to grow, with, for example, the Ottomans expanding into the Middle East and Africa, Britain dominating India, and Russia conquering the steppe. $49.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3792-8

Gurkhas at War In Their Own Words J. P. Cross These first-person narratives center on the sixty-year period from the outbreak of the Second World War to the confrontation in East Timor, including the lengthy battles against the Japanese in the Burmese jungle, campaigns against the Communists in Malaya and Hong Kong, as wells as more recent deployments in the Falklands Campaign and Gulf War. $32.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-817-4

The Victoria Crosses that Saved an Empire The Story of the VCs of the Indian Mutiny

The Watery Grave The Life and Death of the Cruiser HMS Manchester Richard H. Osborne

The Indian Mutiny struck at the very heart of the British Empire. If India was lost the whole edifice of British domination across its colonies was in jeopardy. Everything was at stake. This is the story of those few months between May 1857 and June 1858 when the world turned its gaze upon the jewel in Victoria’s crown and 182 men wrote their names into the history books.

In 2002 the wreck of a British cruiser was located by divers off the coast of Tunisia. The stunning photographs of the wreck inspired Dr Richard Osborne to delve into the controversy surrounding the loss of one of the Royal Navy’s proudest ships – HMS Manchester. Using the testimony of those involved, Dr Osborne pieces together one of the most intriguing stories to emerge from the Second World War.

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4476-6

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4585-5

Brian Best

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Grub Street Publishing

Tornado Boys

Forever Vigilant

Ian Hall

Naval 8/208 Squadron RAF – A Centenary of Service from Camels to Hawks

Tornado Boys is the latest in the ever-popular ‘Boys’ series, and differs from earlier titles.

With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF in 1994, the Tornado was the first aircraft to be flown by both men and women. This is acknowledged in the book with a chapter written by one female pilot. Another aspect that makes this book different from the rest of the series is that it covers an aircraft which is still in active service, especially as a key player in current Middle East operations.

The book starts in the 1970s with stories from operators and ground crew of the Tornado as a Cold War nuclear deterrent and with tales of later ‘hot’ wars as seen by operational leaders in both Gulf conflicts and in Kosovo. There are also stories of Scud hunting in Iraq and Red Flag exercises in the US, as well as of a stunning competition victory over the USAF’s Strategic Air Command in their own backyard.

The short-lived anti-shipping role is not neglected. With the transformation of the Tornado to the GR4 standard, the book continues with chapters covering active service in support of Britain’s increasingly complex international commitments and the employment of new weaponry and sensors. $39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • 2 x 8pp b/w and color photo sections • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910690-13-0 • NCR

Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork 208 Squadron based at RAF Valley in Anglesey will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in October 2016, making it one of the few RAF squadrons to achieve this unique distinction whilst still part of the RAF’s current order of battle. To celebrate this achievement, Air Commodore Pitchfork has compiled a chronological history of the squadron’s main activities and personnel with the aim of illustrating the spirit, comradeship, and professionalism of the squadron.

Taking its title from the squadron’s motto, ‘Vigilant’, the book starts with the formation of Naval 8 as a scout squadron on the Western Front during the First World War. It then continues through the various conflicts that Naval 8/208 Squadron has played a key role in, including the Second World War and Gulf War. The squadron’s move to Egypt in the inter-war years as an army cooperation squadron, which inspired the Gizah Sphinx motif for 208 Squadron, is also covered. Its modern-day role as an advanced flying training squadron concludes the squadron’s story. This history has been written with the use of important sources from the squadron’s archives, along with interviews from veterans and current members of the squadron. $39.95 • 224 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • illustrated throughout in color and b/w • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910690-14-7 • NCR

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Poles in Defence of Britain A Day-by-Day Chronology of Polish Day and Night Fighter Pilot Operations: July 1940 – July 1941 Robert Gretzyngier Fifteen years since it was originally published, Grub Street is proud to present the re-issue of Poles in Defence of Britain. To the Polish volunteers who were to fly and fight so brilliantly and tenaciously throughout the Battle of Britain, the United Kingdom was known as ‘Last Hope Island’. Many lost their lives, such as Antoni Ostowicz, many achieved glory and became aces – such as Glowacki, Skalski and Witorzenc. The RAF came to depend on these men, with over 100 Polish pilots supporting almost thirty fighter squadrons, most especially 302, 303 and 307 (night fighter). The result of years of research, Robert Gretzyngier’s book includes detailed combat descriptions, personal accounts from combat reports, memoirs, and diaries from the Polish, British and German perspective. There is in-depth biographical data of all Polish pilots, giving full RAF and PAF careers and much tabular material in appendix form. This book is a tremendous account of their contribution in those hectic days before the RAF began to take the offensive across the Channel. $29.95 • 294 pages • 6 x 9 • 32pp b/w photo section • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1910690-15-4 • eISBN: 978-1-909166-27-1 • NCR

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Editions Heimdal La Percée du Bocage

Forgotten Items

30 juillet – 16 août 1944 (vol. 2)

Charles Stiri

Stéphane Jacquet After the success of Volume 1 of the breakthrough of the Bocage in area xxx British Corps from July 30 to August 15, 1944, the second volume presents, for the first time in such detail, operations of the VIII British corps, over the same period, allowing the English to pierce the German front in the Bocage. On July 28, Monty directed the rapid transfer of divisions of the VIII Corps and xxx Corps in the Caumont sector to launch a simultaneous attach of two bodies. The operation is called ‘Bluecoat’.

British losses during this period are very high against the Tigers and Jagdpanther German elite units enjoying home advantage. The operation area was more hilly and wooded than the bridgehead.

Building on many photos, maps and mostly unpublished testimonies and on the newspaper market units, the author presents hour after hour, the fighting in the Bocage. $107.00 • 432 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-284048-435-6 • Captions in English • NCR

The decisive phase of the landing of June 6 to 14, 1944 told by headgear.

From 6 to 14 June 1944, Normandy, the fate of the world will play out. The first decisive phase of the landing beaches of the Allies lead to the stagnation to Caen. The allies succeeded their incredible gamble: Establish a beachhead in Normandy to defeat Nazi Germany.

The soldiers left on the battlefield and the headgear, and person devices tell us a story. Each helmet has a story; each helmet is attached to a place and time of landing. It is also the story of these men, these anonymous soldiers, their encounter with the great moments of landing.

Thanks to special insignia and markings that were painted for D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, we can situate these objects in their place and their historical context. $71.00 • 192 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-284048-431-8 • Bilingual English – French • NCR

Utah Beach

The Corridor of Death

Georges Bernage and Dominique Francois

Mortain-Falaise-Argentan 1944

During the night of 5-6 June 1944, the Pathfinders were the first allied soldier to set foot on Norman soil, the paratroopers of the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Divisions fighting all night until the 4th Infantry Division, landing on Utah Beach, linked up with them.

German troops and defenses, paratroopers’ eyewitness accounts, unpublished material, a superbly illustrated album.

This album is an essential book on the end of the Battle of Normandy. The Germans left 40,000 prisoners in the pocket but 50,000 are in extract, at Mortain at MontOrmel. An apocalyptic vision of the end of the Battle of Normandy and a journey through the inferno of the FalaiseArgentan pocket.

Georges Bernage

$35.00 • 176 pages • 8.5 x 12 • November 2015 • paperback • 978-284048-380-9 • NCR

$35.00 • 168 pages • Now Available • paperback • 978-2-84048-358-8 • NCR

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Editions Heimdal L’Artillerie de la Wiking

Les Troupes D’assaut de L’armée Allemande

Pierre Tiquet

1914–1918

This new book will help to know a little more in detail the history of the artillery regiment of Wiking Division, thanks to the many stories and memories of veterans of the unit which will by its sustained fire all the fights of the Division.

Ricardo Recio Cardona

A very thorough training will bring these men to the best use of different guns and howitzers to save, for the truth of their shots, munitions that become over the years the recurrent problem of troops from the front. $45.00 • 112 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • November 2015 • hardback • 978-284048-425-7 • French • NCR

The first assault units (Sturmtruppen) were formed in the spring and summer of 1916 after General Falkenhayn gave the orders for the creation of special detachments.

These detachments mission was to spread a new tactic that transformed ways of decisive methods of fighting the German army. But long before that, another type of troops had been created within the German infantry during the winter of 1914-1915: shock troops. This book is an account of the history of assault troops and it covers their fighting methods. $73.00 • 216 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • December 2015 • hardback| 978-284048-428-8 • French • NCR

Wiking vol.3

Les Paras de la Waffen-SS

mai 1943 – mai 1945 Charles Trang

vol.1

The Wiking Division was the only SS armored division exclusively to fight on the Eastern Front. True, it was partly composed of volunteers Flemish, Dutch and Scandinavian whose primary motivation - most of them - was to fight against Bolshevism. It fought with an energy never wavered even if the victory was not always rewarded for their efforts and sacrifices, as in Tscherkassy or Hungary. It counted among its ranks officers of unusual caliber as Felix Steiner, Herbert-Otto Gille, August Dieckmann and Hans Dorr Walter Schmidt to name a few. Its history, very rich and illustrated by more than 2500 exceptional photos in large part from personal collections, is traced here through a series of three volumes.

Rüdiger Franz

$107.00 • 450 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-284048-348-9 • French • NCR

$112.00 • 400 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • July 2016 • hardback • 978-284048-406-6 • French • NCR

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Here is a very poorly understood subject. A battalion of paratroopers in the Waffen-SS was formed in the fall of 1943 to carry out special missions.

The author, a paratrooper captain of the Luftwaffe (FRG), offers us a detailed history in three volumes of 400 pages each.

The first volume is devoted to the operation against Tito troops in Yugoslavia, the second to the commitment in the Baltics, and the third for operations in Hungary, the Ardennes, and in the Oder bridgehead.

The ensemble, dedicated to SS-Fallschirmjager-Battalion 500/600 offers a complete documentation of over a thousand pictures.

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Editions Heimdal Easy Company

Légion Wallonie

2/506th PIR – Paras US au combat

André Liénard

Matthew Longue Matthew Long offers us a complete story and detailed analysis of the course to battle the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne, and the main feats of arms to the world famous Easy Company with the support of veterans and other specialists. In the company of paratroopers, the reader will follow closely, their training before ending up in the heart of the fighting and reliving the tragic moments.

Here is an unpublished work on the Legion Wallonie and its members engaged on the eastern front in uniform between 1941 and 1945. You can dive into the archives, documents and organizations still mostly unpublished to date also gathering stories and quotes legionnaires never published. It offers biographies of most officers. $124.00 • 400 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • July 2016 • hardback • 978-2-84048360-1 • French • NCR

$64.00 • 200 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-284048-429-5 • French • NCR

Mon Père, Joachim von Ribbentrop

Les Marins Français du Jour J

Mémorial de a Bataille de France

Secrets d’état – souvenirs et témoignages

FNFL – Normandie 44

10 mai – 4 juin 1940 (vol. 1)

Thierry Terrier

Jean-Yves Mary and Pascal Kerger

June 4, 1944, 18:30, southern England. Liaison officers boarded twenty-two French buildings.

Locked up with the commanders, they hand them a large sealed envelope. From the start of the English, the “pashas” discover their mission in the “Neptune” operation. This is the story of these ships and the men who form the core of the book.

May–June 1940. An unfortunate battle lost in forty-five days. Everything has been said about these forty-five days. Yet, never has a book addresses the whole fighting day by day, sector by sector, of Holland in Menton, with as much precision. Forty-five days of fighting described therein, the most iconic of course but also the more numerous stories that have, to date, been forgotten.

Rudolf von Ribbentrop On October 16, 1946, Joachim von Ribbentrop, former Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, was hanged after being sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Tribunal on charges of ‘preparing a war of aggression’. Rudolf von Ribbentrop, his son, provides new insights into the general historiography. This book is a testimony that belies the springs of Hitlerism, as no one has done before. An event in terms of historical literature.

$35.00 • 100 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-2-84048-421-9 • French • NCR

$107.00 • 400 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-2-84048-434-9 • French • NCR

$45.00 • 528 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-2-84048-432-5 • French • NCR

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Helion & Company AFRIC A@WAR

Black Hawks Rising

The Fuzileiros Portuguese Marines in Africa, 1961–1974

The Story of AMISOM’s Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007–2014

John P Cann

Opiyo Oloya

In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its Empire. Following the uprisings of March 1961 in Angola, Portugal poured troops into the colony as fast as its system would allow; however, these new arrivals were not competent and did not possess the skills needed to fight a counterinsurgency.

Black Hawks Rising acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peacemaking mission. Many gave the mission little chance of success. As a fighting force, however, AMISOM took on the Somali insurgents in 2010; expelled them from Central Mogadishu; and expanded control of territory under the Somali Government in the succeeding years to most of Somalia.

The majority of the troops had no such indoctrination and had been readied at an accelerated pace. In reoccupying the north and addressing the enemy threat, Portugal realized that it’s most effective forces were those with special qualifications and advanced training. Unfortunately there were only very small numbers of such elite forces. The maturing experiences of the Portuguese and their consequent adjustments to fight a counterinsurgency led to the development of specialized units to close the gaps in skills and knowledge between the insurgents and their forces.

The chapters of the book take the reader behind the scenes to highlight the inconsistent US policy in the Horn of Africa generally, and in Somalia. The spotlight focuses on the Uganda People’s Defence Forces, whose Herculean efforts were pivotal to the success of the mission. Their dedication, ideology, hard work and humanity turned Somalia from a wasted nation to one with hope for a better future for the Somali people.

$29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • 22 color, 74 b/w photos, 13 maps, 6 tables • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-910777-64-0

$49.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 50 color photos, 10 maps • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-69-5

LATIN AMERIC A @ WAR

LATIN AMERIC A @ WAR

Playa Girón

PBSuccess

The Cuban Exiles’ Invasion at the Bay of Pigs 1961

The CIA’s Covert Operation to Overthrow Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz June – July 1954

Santiago Rivas In 1961 a group of Cuban exiles landed on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro from the new government. After three days of intense fighting on the beaches and swamps around the area, the invaders were defeated by Castro’s forces and most of them surrendered, while a few managed to escape to the ships.

Mario Overall and Dan Hagedorn In January 1954, the U.S. Government set to overthrow the Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, who had been deemed a Communist and a dangerous influence in Central America.

Thus, the CIA was ordered to launch a clandestine operation, codenamed “Project PBSuccess”.

Failures in the plans developed by the CIA and the lack of decision by the Kennedy administration were decisive in a fiasco that became one of the most shameful defeats by a US-backed operation in the 20th century.

Among the forces that defended the Cuban Revolution, the Revolutionary Air Force played a key role sinking the main transport ships of the expeditionary force and forcing the others to leave. After more than 50 years, much was written about the invasion, but only ever showing one side of the coin. This book attempts to show the full picture from an objective point of view.

Based primarily on CIA declassified documents and Guatemalan military sources, this book explores the volatile political and military scenario in which Project PBSuccess unfolded and delves into a rather poorly documented aspect of the operation: The use of air power by both the CIA and the Guatemalan Air Force. Backed by more than 20 years of research, the book covers the attempts of the Guatemalan air arm for establishing a defense plan with limited resources, and the difficulties that the Agency had to overcome in order to organize a rebel air force while navigating red tape and bureaucracy.

$39.95 • 88 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • 100-150 color and b/w photos, profiles, maps • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-02-3

$39.95 • 96 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • 120 b/w photos, tables, maps, plus color photos and profiles • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-91077789-3

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Helion & Company The Kingdom is Ours

The Mongol Conquests

Fast Play Rules for Wargaming the English Civil War Period

The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube’etei

James Daniels

Carl Fredrik Sverdrup

With the Bicorne English Civil War Catalog and Rules the reader is given a very simple and enjoyable insight into the English Civil War. A compellingly playable set of fast play rules provide entertainment and challenge for both the novice and veteran players alike, entwined with glorious pictures of the Bicorne English Civil War miniature figure range.

The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history. It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest.

Initially an insignificant tribal leader, Genghis Khan gradually increased his power, overcoming one rival after another. After he had subjugated all tribes of Inner Asia, he struck southward into China and later attacked distant Khwariz in the Near East. Sübe’etei continued to make significant conquests after Genghis Khan died, conquering central China and leading a large force into the heart of Europe. Between them, Genghis Khan and Sube’etei directed more than 40 campaigns, fought more than 60 battles, and conquered all lands from Korea in the east to Hungary and Poland in the west.

The rules have been extensively developed from the author’s and friends’ house rules. These were purposefully designed to provide a fast, fun and challenging game for wargamers of all abilities, whilst encouraging the education of the readers into the troops and the realities of warfare in the 17th Century. There are many parts to the book in addition to the rules, including an introduction to the Civil War written by Linda Doyle, and a section detailing troop types and uniforms. This has all been designed alongside the catalog of Bicorne troops where the reader is encouraged to collect and paint an army of model soldiers. $29.95 • 72 pages • 7 x 9.75 • color illustrations throughout • maps • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-910777-68-8

King Arthur’s Wars Professor Jim Storr King Arthur’s Wars describes one of the biggest archaeological finds of our times; yet there is nothing new to see. There are secrets hidden in plain sight. We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen?

There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history. There is, however, a huge amount of speculation.

King Arthur’s Wars brings an entirely new approach to the subject. The answers are out there, in the countryside, waiting to be found. Months of field work and map study allow us to understand, for the first time, how the Anglo-Saxons conquered England; county by county and decade by decade. King Arthur’s Wars exposes what the landscape and the place names tell us. As a result, we can now know far more about this ‘Dark Age’.

This book offers a detailed narrative of the military operations of these two leaders, based on early Mongolian, Chinese, Near Eastern, and European sources. Making full use of Chinese sources not translated properly into any European language, the account offer details never before given in English works. $49.95 • 280 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 27 maps • June 2016 • hardback • 9781-910777-71-8 BATTLE FOR BRITAIN

Wargame the English Civil Wars 1642–1651 Peter Dennis In this series renowned historical illustrator Peter Dennis breathes life into the 19th Century paper soldier and invites the reader to re-fight the wars that surged across the nation of Britain. All the artwork needed to make historically-accurate armies is presented in a source-book format, copyright free for personal use. In this first title, the Horse, Foot and Dragoons of King and Parliament, along with period buildings can be made, using traditional skills with scissors and glue. Simple ‘one sheet’ rules by veteran wargamer Andy Callan enable the maker to stage battles limited only by the size of the player’s available table-space. $29.95 • 48 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • color illustrations throughout • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-910777-90-9

$49.95 • 328 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 96 figs, maps, 16pp color illustrations • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-81-7

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Helion & Company CENTURY OF THE SOLDIER

CENTURY OF THE SOLDIER

CENTURY OF THE SOLDIER

Better Begging than Fighting

To Settle The Crown

The First British Army, 1624–1628

The Royalist Army in Exile in the War Against Cromwell 1656–1660

Dr. Jonathan Worton

John Barratt Cromwell’s alliance with France in 1657 opened for the English Republic and Charles II’s army in exile a new theater of war in Flanders. It resulted in the old opponents of the Civil Wars in Britain meeting in combat once again. This book tells the story of the two armies: Charles II’s polyglot army of Irish, Scottish and English soldiers and the expeditionary force dispatched by Cromwell to assist his French allies, with the objective of securing Dunkirk as an English possession.

Waging Civil War in Shropshire, 1642–1648 This book examines the practicalities, of contemporary warfare by reconstructing the war effort of Royalists and Parliamentarians in Shropshire. Based on a Doctoral thesis, To Settle The Crown examines key aspects of the military history of the English Civil Wars: allegiance and motivation; leadership and administration; recruitment and the form of armed forces; military finance; logistics; and the nature and conduct of the fighting.

The Army of the Duke of Buckingham Laurence Spring Using archival and archaeological evidence, the first half of the book covers the lives of the officers and men serving in the army at this time. The second half of the book covers not only the expeditions to Cadiz, the Isle de Rhe and the siege of La Rochelle, but also their effect on an England who feared a Spanish invasion.

$69.95 • 208 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 60 maps, tables, and b/w and color plates • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-98-5

$59.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 30 b/w illustrations, maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-95-4

Three Weeks in November

The Somme 1870–71

A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847

The Winter Campaign In Picardy

$49.95 • 128 pages • 7 x 9.75 • 30 b/w illustrations, 8pp color plates and maps • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-910777-72-5 CENTURY OF THE SOLDIER

Reconstructing the New Model Army Volume 2: 1649–1663 Malcolm Wanklyn A major gap in the body of work available in print to researchers into the military history of the English Civil War. Reconstructing the New Model Army presents listings by regiment of the commissioned officers who fought in the New Model Army from the invasion of Ireland in August 1649 to the disbandment of many of its units in 1660 and the embedding of the remainder into the new royal army in the years that followed. $39.95 • 208 pages • 7 x 9.75 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-910777-88-6

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Ralph Weaver In November 1847, twelve of the Swiss cantons went to war with seven other cantons over the future of the country. The campaign lasted three weeks, with only a few hundred casualties and ended with the establishment of the modern Swiss state.

This book is unique in that it concentrates on the military aspects of this episode in history. As well as an outline of the campaign itself, it covers the strengths and organization of each canton. $45.00 • 120 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 24 pages color plates including uniform figures, 40 b/w illustrations • February 2016 • paperback • 9781-911096-15-3

Quintin Barry After the battle of Sedan, the Government of National Defense set about raising fresh armies. These had, as their first objective, the relief of the capital. This released the forces around the city to move north and west to deal with the newly-forming French armies. The Author draws on rare sources to describe the Campaign, which was fought in appalling weather conditions. $49.95 • 296 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 75 illustrations, 16pp color maps and illustrations • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-16-0

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The Battle of Kursk The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July–August 1943 Richard W. Harrison The Battle of Kursk offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events. While the Germans defeats at Moscow and Stalingrad showed that Hitler could not win the war in the East, the outcome of Kursk demonstrated beyond a doubt that he would lose it. This study was compiled by the Red Army General Staff’s military-historical directorate and issued as an internal document in 1946-47. The study languished for more than a half-century, before being published in Russia in 2006, although heavily supplemented by commentary and other information not contained in the original.

The book is divided into two parts, dealing with the defensive and offensive phases of the battle, respectively. The first begins with a strategic overview of the situation along the Eastern Front by the spring and summer of 1943 and the Soviet decision to stand on the defensive.

The second part will be more of a revelation to the Western reader, who is likely to be more familiar with the defensive phase of the battle.

Here the authors once again, in great detail, lay out the Red Army’s preparations for and conduct of a massive counteroffensive to clear the Orel salient, which soon degenerated to a grinding struggle, which while ultimately successful, cost the Soviets dearly. $79.95 • 320 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 5 maps • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-67-1

The Berlin Operation, 1945 Soviet General Staff

Dubno 1941 The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

Richard W. Harrison

Aleksei Isaev

Berlin Operation, 1945, tells the story of the Red Army’s penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe. Here the forces of three fronts forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of the German capital. This is another in a series of studies compiled by the Soviet Army General Staff, which during the postwar years set itself the task of gathering and generalizing the experience of the war for the purpose of training the armed forces’ higher staffs in the conduct of large-scale offensive operations.

In June 1941 – during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union – the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World War. About 3,000 tanks from the Red Army Kiev Special Military District clashed with about 800 German tanks of Heeresgruppe South. Why did the numerically superior Soviets fail?

The study is divided into three parts. The first contains a brief strategic overview of the situation, as it existed by the spring of 1945, with special emphasis on German preparations to meet the inevitable Soviet attack. As usual, the fronts’ materiel-technical and other preparations for the offensive are covered in great detail. Part two deals with the Red Army’s breakthrough of the Germans’ Oder defensive position up to the encirclement of the Berlin garrison. Part three covers the intense fighting to reduce the city’s defenders from late April until the garrison’s surrender on 2 May. This section contains a number of detailed descriptions of urban fighting at the battalion and regimental level. It closes with conclusions about the role of the various combat arms in the operation. $79.95 • 420 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 4 maps • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-66-4

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Based on recently available archival sources, A. Isaev describes the battle from a new point of view: that in fact it’s not the tanks, but armored units, which win or lose battles. The Germans during the Blitzkrieg era had superior T&OE for their tank forces. The German Panzer Division could defeat their opponents not by using tanks, but by using artillery, which included heavy artillery, motorized infantry and engineers. The Red Army’s armored unit had a lot of teething troubles, as all of them lacked accompanying infantry and artillery. In 1941 the Soviet Armored Forces had to learn the difficult science of combined warfare. Isaev traces the role of these factors in a huge battle around the small Ukrainian town of Dubno.

Popular myths about impregnable KV and T-34 tanks are laid to rest. In reality, the Germans in 1941 had the necessary tools to combat them. $69.95 • 200 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 134 b/w photos, 7 b/w maps, 8 color maps, 9 color photos • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1910777-74-9

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Red Wind over the Balkans

The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 2: From Lublin to Berlin, July 1944-May 1945

The Soviet Offensive South of the Danube, September – October 1944 Kaloyan Matev

Igor Nebolsin and Stuart Britton (translator) The author Igor Nebolsin continues with his detailed chronology of the 2nd Guards Tank Army’s combat operations. This volume includes the hard fighting outside of Warsaw in the summer of 1944; the 2nd Belorussian Front’s winter offensive in the Vistula; and the final assault on Berlin, when the 2nd Guards Tank Army enveloped the German capital from the north and entered the city from north and west, fighting its way to the Tiergarten Park in the heart of Berlin.

As with the first volume, the author’s study is based upon the Army’s operational documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Defense Ministry and recollections of its veterans, and received the active cooperation of Major-General Anatoly Shvebig. It includes objective after-action reports from the Army’s commander General Bogdanov and its subordinate formation commanders. Of note in this volume are General Bogdanov’s recommendations for a tank army’s table of organization and equipment and its proper use in combat operations, written shortly after the war ended.

This book describes two Soviet offensive operations carried out during September and October 1944. The first was the operation for the occupation of Bulgaria; the second was the Belgrade offensive operation, which was carried out immediately after the Bulgarian operation. Although separate, the two operations were closely linked to each other: the first was conducted in an almost peaceful manner, which saved resources. This necessitated that the Soviet Command carried out the second operation promptly, which seriously endangered the encirclement of German Army Group position in the Southern Balkans.

The book describes the operations of both ground and air forces. Special attention is paid to the Soviet tank and mechanized units which participated in both operations, and the book benefits from a detailed set of statistics and analysis which has not been attempted before. The author also provides information covering camouflage, markings and unit insignia. The text is supported by more than 400 photographs; fullcolor profiles showing the aforementioned camouflage, markings and unit insignia; and also full-color battle maps.

$89.95 • 552 pages • 6.75 x 9.7 • 400 b/w photos, numerous tables, 16pp color maps • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-79-4

$79.95 • 340 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 340 photos, 24pp color maps, color profiles • maps • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-80-0

Leaders of the Storm Troops Volume 2

Marshal Malinovskii Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Sokolov and Richard W. Harrison (translator)

SA-Obergruppenführer (K – W) Michael D. Miller and Andreas Schulz In this second of an eventual four volumes, Michael Miller and Andreas Schulz continue to provide the most comprehensive biographical study yet compiled on the leadership corps of the Sturmabteilung.

Volume 2 examines the lives and careers of 71 active and honorary leaders, and completes the coverage of all who held the rank of Obergruppenführer in Hitler’s earliest paramilitary organization. $79.95 • 662 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 600 b/w photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-84-8

The prolific writer Boris Sokolov returns with a new book on Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovskii: a Marshal of the Soviet Union and former Defence Minister, who like so many of those who made their name during the Great Patriotic War, joined the Tsarist Army at the outbreak of the First World War. Sokolov traces his subject’s rise from corps to army commander, and finally to the command of various fronts. Following the defeat of Germany, Malinovskii was assigned to command the Main Front in the brief war against Japan and remained as Commander-in-Chief of Soviet forces in the Far East for several years. He was summoned back to Moscow as Deputy Defence Minister and later took an active part in the removal of his boss, Georgii Zhukov, whom he replaced in 1957. It was under his decade-long tenure that the Soviet Armed Forces made the transition to a truly modern force - and changed the country’s status from that of a regional power to superpower. $79.95 • 450 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 24 b/w photos, maps • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-83-1

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Tigers In Combat Volume 3

Geir Brenden and Tommy Natedal

Operation, Training, Tactics

Featuring 1,000 unpublished photographs, this is the first book about the 4,500 Norwegian volunteers in the Waffen SS. Written by Geir Brenden and Tommy Natedal – who has researched the Norwegian volunteers since the 1980s – the book is based on Geir and Tommy’s large photo archive and covers the various fronts where most Norwegian volunteers fought: the Caucasus, Leningrad and Karelia. Also covered in detail are the formations in which the Norwegian volunteers fought: Division Wiking, Freiw. Legion Norwegen, 1, 2 and 3 Police Company, the Norwegian Ski Company, Skijegerbataljonen and Regiment Norge. $99.95 • 416 pages • 8.75 x 12 • 1,100 color and b/w photos • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-87-9

Wolfgang Schneider Tigers in Combat Vol 3 closes the gap between the unit histories of volumes 1 and 2 and the technical descriptions in the Jentz and Spielberger books. For the first time, efforts are described in detail of what was taken to create units and what was required to keep the Tiger tank in action regarding handling and operating the vehicle. Other chapters deal with crew training and specific tactical aspects to employ such a heavy tank under all fighting conditions. Further aspects are covered, such as the protection level of the Tiger and reasons for losses - as well as propaganda work with this famous beast. Due to the usage of more than 1,200 photos and drawings, even complex crew tasks and procedures are illustrated in a way that non-Tiger crewmen will be able to comprehend. $99.95 • 520 pages • 8.75 x 12 • 1200 photos and drawings • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-97-8

Totenkopf

Magyar Warriors

The Structure, Development and Personalities of the 3.SS-PanzerDivision Volume 2

The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919–1945 Volume 2

Mark C. Yerger and Ignacio Arrondo In Totenkopf volume II Mark C. Yerger begins with a detailed overview of the officer and combat arms schools related to the WaffenSS. The topic is especially relevant to the earliest Waffen-SS divisions with “Totenkopf”personnel being trained by this system while many school instructors also served with the division. Starting with the prewar Junkerschulen and their expansion, the extensive primary arms schools that produced SS officers are detailed that also held a diversity of other training programs from mid-1942 to nearly the end of hostilities, replacing the temporary training units created by the formation for its 1942 divisional rebuild.

Topics detailed include SS-Truppenübungsplatz “Beneschau,”SSPionierschule “Hradsichko”,SS-Panzergrenadierschule “Kienschlag,”and the SS-Artillerieschule II. Along with the final two SS officer academies created, other schools covered include the SS-Nachrichtenschule and the assault gun school in Bukowan that became the SSanzerjäger(Sturmgeschütz)Schule “Janowitz.” $89.95 • 360 pages • 8.5 x 10.75 • 200 b/w photos • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-99-2

Dénes Bernád and Charles K. Kliment The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvédség) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations.

Politically, Hungary was looking for a strong ally, who would help it to recover at least some of the territories containing sizable Magyar populations that had been lost after the First World War. Initially, Italy gave political assistance and supplied military material; then Germany also lent some support. In November 1938, Hungary managed to recover a chunk of its former territory from Czechoslovakia, followed by the Sub-Carpathian area in 1939, and then the northern part of Transylvania in 1940. Later, the Bachka region and parts of Baranya were also taken back. The rub is that Hungary was sucked into the cauldron of the Eastern Front, and soon in Soviet territory, outnumbered by the Red Army. Later on, the beleaguered Honvédség had to fight in defense of its own territory. $99.95 • 360 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 500 b/w photos, color profiles, maps • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-92-3

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Helion & Company The Viaz’ma Catastrophe, 1941 The Red Army’s Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon Lev Lopukhovsky and Stuart Britton (translator) This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of their own people. $69.95 • 576 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 69 b/w photos, 19 color maps • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-13-9

From Liddell Hart to Joan Littlewood

Steel Wall At Arnhem

Studies in British Military History

David Truesdale

Brian Bond This volume brings together a selection of Brian Bond's most interesting contributions to books and journals on British military history in the 20th century. They are arranged around three large subjects: the First World War, the interwar decades, and the Second World War with concluding reflections on the author's ‘Farewell to Arms’ at the end of a distinguished career in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. $59.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • b/w maps • Now Available • hardback • 978-1-910777-57-2

Ever Glorious

Suspended Disbelief

The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers, 1936–46

Reflections on the Holocaust

John Greenacre The Crookenden brothers – Henry, Napier and Spencer - were born into a military dynasty. Their father, Arthur, had served as a Brigade Major. Napier followed in his father’s footsteps and saw action during the Arab Revolt in Palestine. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Napier’s brothers followed him into the army for war service. Often gripping these letters reveal the experiences, thoughts and emotions of a family involved in war across the 20th century. $59.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 6 b/w photos and 1 b/w diagram • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-76-3

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Julian Harrison The Holocaust. The darkest chapter in humankind. A pivotal period in humanity’s struggle with the dangers of discrimination and prejudice. Many words have been written on the Holocaust and you may ask what more is there to be said? This new work doesn’t presume to have anything new to say, but it reflects upon what has gone before.

As the generation of survivors becomes fewer in number, Suspended Disbelief considers what the legacy of the Holocaust should actually be. $39.95 • 230 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 90 photos, 8pp color photos • February 2016 • hardback • 9781-911096-01-6

The Destruction of 4 Parachute Brigade 19 September 1944 The deployment of the British 1st Airborne Division was a case of ‘coins burning holes in the pockets of SHAEF’. The Allied Command was anxious to commit to battle a Division that was not fully trained. On Monday 18 September 1944, the aircraft carrying the men took off. For the first time, the Brigade was going into battle as a unified formation.

Within 24 hours the Brigade would cease to exist, having achieved nothing more than the deaths of good men for no good reason. $59.95 • 320 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 221 photos and 3 maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1911096-05-4

Jocks, Dragons and Sospans Through Normandy with 53rd Welsh Division Jonathan Ware This fascinating dynamic account vividly explores the journey from the pacifistic aftermath of the Great War, to Britain’s forced rearmament and commitment to once more assemble an archetypal 18,000 man Infantry Division from deprived industrial Wales, drawn from a disparate eclectic mixture of conscripts, as well as a diverse group of Allied nationalities. The character of this nearforgotten Territorial Army Infantry Division is examined as never before, radically challenging the conventional narrative. $69.95 • 576 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 250 photos, maps • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1911096-04-7

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Barbarossa Derailed

The Battle For Smolensk 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle And The First And Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July–24 August 1941

The Battle For Smolensk 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives On The Flanks And The Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

David M. Glantz 10 July 1941, tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union.

Within the context of a fresh appreciation of Hitler’s Plan, this volume reviews the first two weeks of Operation Barbarossa. $45.00 • 656 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 28 b/w photos, 107 maps, 14 tables • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-09-2

David M. Glantz This groundbreaking study present a definitive account of what took place, why, and how during the battles in the Smolensk region.

Volume 2 describes the Red Army's attempts to thwart German offensive plans by defeating Army Group Center with a general counteroffensive by three Red Army fronts. $45.00 • 624 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 19 b/w photos, 94 maps, 32 tables • maps • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-10-8

Caen Controversy

Stout Hearts

The Battle For Sword Beach 1944

The British And Canadians In Normandy 1944

Andrew Stewart This new book examines the significant element of the wider D-Day operation and provides a narrative account of the operations conducted by 3 British Infantry Division. It examines in some detail the planning, preparation and the landings that were made on the beaches of Sword sector. To do this it considers previously published material and also draws upon archival sources, many of which have been overlooked. $49.95 • 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 34 b/w photos, 16pp color maps • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-17-7

Ben Kite Stout Hearts is a book which offers an entirely new perspective on the British Army in Normandy.

This study explores the anatomy of war through the Army’s operations in the summer of 1944. Stout Hearts is essential reading for those who wish to understand the ‘mechanics’ of battle. These dramatic stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things are the strength of the book, bringing the campaign to life and entertaining the reader. $49.95 • 488 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 140 b/w photos, 16 color maps • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-18-4

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Rikugun Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937–1945 Volume 1: Tactical Organization of Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces Leland Ness Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937–1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and post-war Japanese documentation as primary sources.

This first volume covers the tactical organization of Army and Navy ground forces during the 1937-45 war. Using the wartime Imperial Japanese Army mobilization plans, a complete picture of IJA ground forces through the war is presented. $79.95 • 384 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 25 photos, 155 tables • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1911096-19-1

The Rzhev Slaughterhouse The Red Army’s Forgotten 15-Month Campaign against Army Group Center, 1942-1944 Svetlana Gerasimova and Stuart Britton Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev “one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War” and “Zhukov’s greatest defeat”. In this book, which has been recognized in Russia as one of the best domestic studies of the Rzhev battle, the author and has dedicated herself to the study of its history. $59.95 • 280 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 112 b/w photos, 8pp color maps • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-14-6

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Enduring the Whirlwind

Much Embarrassed Civil War, Intelligence and the Gettysburg Campaign

The German Army and the RussoGerman War 1941–1943

George Donne

Gregory Liedtke Despite the efforts of historians, many aspects of the struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure. One of the most persistent of these is the notion that the German Army was a paragon of military professionalism whose defeat on the Eastern Front was solely attributable to the meddling of a former Corporal and the numerical superiority of the Red Army.

This work seeks to address the notion of German numerical-weakness in terms of Germany’s ability to replace its losses and regenerate its military strength. Employing a host of primary documents and secondary literature, it traces the development and many challenges of the German Army. $59.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 14 maps • March 2016 • hardback • 9781-910777-75-6

Before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg - for many, the most significant engagement of the American Civil War - a private battle had been raging for weeks. As the Confederate Army marched into Union territory, the Federal Forces sought to hunt them down before they struck at any of the cities of the North. Whoever could secure information on their opponent would have an advantage. When the two armies finally met their understanding of the situation could not have been more different. The illustrious Confederate General Robert E. Lee would lose a third of his army and the tide of the rebellion would begin its retreat.

Much Embarrassed investigates how the Confederate and Union military intelligence systems had been sculpted by the preceding events of the war and how this led to the final outcome of the Gettysburg Campaign. $49.95 • 172 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 49 b/w ills. 3 color illustrations, 9 maps • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-86-2

WOLVERHAMPTON MILITARY STUDIES

WOLVERHAMPTON MILITARY STUDIES

Spreading Ink Blots from Da Nang to the DMZ

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

Understanding Counter-Insurgency Efforts in Tribalized Rural and Muslim Environment

The Origins and Implementation of US Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Strategy in Vietnam, March 1965 to November 1968

Metin Gurcan

David Strachan-Morris During the United States’ involvement in the war in Vietnam, the decision by the US Marine Corps to emphasize counterinsurgency operations in coastal areas was the cause of considerable friction between the Marines and the army commanders in Vietnam, who wanted the corps to conduct more conventional operations. This book will examine the background to the Marines’ decision and place it in the context of Marine Corps doctrine, infrastructure and logistical capability.

For the first time, this book brings together the Marine Corps’ background in counterinsurgency and the state of contemporary counterinsurgency theory in the 1960s - combining this with the strategic outlook, role, organization and logistic capability of the Marine Corps to provide a complete view of its counterinsurgency operations.

The aim of this book is to describe some onthe-ground problems of counterinsurgency (COIN) efforts in TRMEs - specifically in rural Afghanistan - and then to propose how these efforts might be improved. Along the way, it will be necessary to challenge many current assumptions about the conduct of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. Most generally, the book will show how counterinsurgency succeeds or fails at the local level and that these decisions cannot be successful without understanding the culture and perspective of those who live in TRMEs. In summary, this book not only challenges some of the fundamentals of traditional counterinsurgency wisdom and emphasizes the importance of the tactical level but also blends the firsthand field experiences of the author with deep analyses. $35.00 • 120 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 5 illustrations • maps • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-911096-00-9

$49.95 • 180 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 1 color diagram, 12 b/w images of maps and tables from original documents, 6 b/w tables • maps • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-94-7

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Unfailing Gallantry

Attack on the Somme

They Didn’t Want to Die Virgins

8th (Regular) Division in the Great War 19141919 Alun Thomas Recent years have seen a debate with regard to the armies on the Western Front during the Great War. Some argue that the British and Imperial armies underwent a ‘learning curve’, which meant that during the last three months of fighting, the BEF was able to defeat the German Army as its ability to conduct operations was faster than the enemy’s ability to react. This book argues that 8th Division became a more effective organization by the war’s end. $59.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 16 b/w photos, 8 color maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1910777-61-9

1st Anzac Corps and the Battle of Pozières Ridge, 1916 Meleah Hampton The Battle of Pozières Ridge lasted six weeks.

In that time the 1st Anzac Corps advanced the British line just over a mile and a half in a northwesterly direction. During this period of time the three divisions of 1st Anzac Corps rotated in and out of the line twice. At its conclusion, the fighting around Pozières and Mouquet Farm had yielded very modest territorial gains at an enormous casualty rate. $59.95 • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 37 maps, 25 photos • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1910777-65-7

Sex and Morale in the British Army on the Western Front 1914–1918 Bruce Cherry There has been amnesia when it comes to recalling the sexual activities of the British soldier on the Western Front. This meticulously researched study examines the soldiers’ sex life in detail, exploring its impact on morale and placing it the context of civilian morality and the army’s policy on sex. The author has read between the lines of memoirs, letters, jokes and illustrations that left evidence of the importance of sex. $59.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 30 b/w illustrations, photos • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-70-1

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WOLVERHAMPTON MILITARY STUDIES

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Crossing No Man’s Land

Glum Heroes

“Everything worked like clockwork...”

Experience and Learning with the Northumberland Fusiliers in the Great War

Hardship, fear and death – Resilience and Coping in the British Army on the Western Front 1914–1918

Tony Ball

Peter Hodgkinson

This book addresses the challenge of crossing No Man’s Land in shape to fight at the other side. It explores the development of battle tactics using the Northumberland Fusiliers as a case study. The study demonstrates the transformation of the British Army from a Victorian army to a modern army; adapting tactics to the circumstances and saving lives in the process.

Our vision of the soldier of the Great War is often clouded by sentimentality. Glum Heroes is a portrayal of how the soldiers of 1914–1918 coped with their experiences. Using their own words, the book considers coping from both the standpoint of psychological theory that has stood the test of time, but more importantly, in the context of the cultural norms of those born into the Victorian era.

$59.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 50 graphs, maps • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1910777-73-2

$69.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-78-7

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The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918–1942 Roger Salmon The mechanization of British and Household Cavalry regiments took place between the two World Wars and into 1942. This book describes the process by which many horsed cavalrymen were retrained to operate and fight in Armored Fighting Vehicles and the experiences of some of the men and regiments involved. $69.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 53 b/w illustrations, 10 tables • maps • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-96-1

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Helion & Company The Last War of the Superfortresses

Phoenix – A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918–1945

MiG-15 vs B-29 over Korea Leonid Krylov and Yuriy Tepsurkaev This work is an attempt by the authors to give as full and detailed a history as possible of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the principal strike force of the United States Far East Air Force – the B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers during the course of the Korean War between 1950–1953. Military documents form the basis of this book.

A great deal of statistical material has been provided in this book, which characterizes combat operations carried out by the B-29s and the fighters of the 64th Fighter Air Corps, both within the text itself and in the form of easy-to-use tables. The book is illustrated with photographs. $39.95 • 104 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • 144 b/w photos, 25 color side profiles, maps • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-910777-85-5

Volume 3: A Growing Confidence 1937-1939 Richard Meredith Based on forty years of detailed research, the Phoenix Project is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple description of famous air battles and operations the overall work draws extensively on original documents, secondary sources and contemporary accounts to place the Luftwaffe within its proper historical context gather together its many disparate components and provide a hitherto unpublished balance to its diverse activities. In addition to the lead role of the combat air forces the history provides a proper emphasis to the largely unsung work of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Luftwaffe ground forces, Signals Service and the Medical Services. $79.95 • 560 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 100 b/w photos, 14 b/w maps, 13 tables, 7 organizational charts and c 10 diagrams • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-91-6

Desert Warriors Iranian Army Aviation at War Babak Taghvaee Under the leadership of a patriotic ruler, who wasn’t only cautious about the security of his state but was acting to stabilize worldwide peace by keeping the Middle East secure from the danger of Communism, the third most powerful Army Aviation in the world was born and flourished.

Based on the recently declassified official records of the Iranian Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ground Force and Army Aviation, this book provides details of the Iranian Army Aviation missions and roles during 97 major operations in the war with Iraq, including details on logged flying hours, performed sorties, launched missiles, carried cargos, wounded troops and soldiers beside the unheard history of the force since its foundation. $49.95 • 192 pages • 8.75 x 12 • 250 color photos and profiles • maps • December 2015 • paperback • 978-1-910777-56-5

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Guardians of the Ukraine The Ukrainian Air Force Since 1992

Fall of the Red Baron World War I Aerial Tactics And The Death Of Richthofen

Babak Taghvaee

Leon Bennett

Ukraine inherited a large portion of the former Soviet Air Force’s equipment and infrastructures after its independence. 944 military aircraft including 137 heavy strategic bombers were quickly inducted into service with the Air Force on 17 March 1992, when it was officially established.

Fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen lacked innate aerobatic ability. As a tyro, he attempted to solve this problem through denial, going so far as to sneer at stunting as pointless. Great War air combat experience proved quite the reverse, and so we would anticipate a short and sad fighting life for the fellow. Yet the Red Baron became the Great War’s single greatest scorer, as measured by total victories. How did he do it? This book is concerned with tactics, especially those tactics used by the Red Baron and his opponents. It offers the how and why of Great War aerial combat.

This book provides a detailed look on the organization and combat strength of the air force, and its aircraft and helicopters. Drawing on a wide range of unseen photographs supplemented by specially commissioned color artwork, Guardians of the Ukraine presents all types of combat, transport and training aircraft. $49.95 • 160 pages • 8.75 x 12 • 250 color photos and profiles • maps • December 2015 • paperback • 978-1-910777-55-8

$35.00 • 216 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 126 b/w photos, sketches, diagrams • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-11-5

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Helion & Company Ulster will Fight

Ulster will Fight

Volume 1: Home Rule and the Ulster Volunteer Force 1886–1922

Volume 2: The 36th (Ulster) Division in Training and at War 1914–1918

David R Orr

David Truesdale

The various attempts at Home Rule for Ireland ultimately culminated in the Third Home Rule Bill which directly contributed to the creation of the Ulster Volunteer Force. The UVF spanned not just the geographic rural and urban Protestant Ulster from the Atlantic coast of Donegal to the shipyards of east Belfast but also the diverse political ideals of individuals. This book tells both the story of the Home Rule period and the Ulster Volunteer Force formed in response to the Home Rule crises.

Despite what has been written in many books and magazine articles, the Ulster Division was not formed overnight by an en bloc enlistment from the Ulster Volunteer Force and Young Citizen Volunteers, nor were the YCV the youth wing of the UVF, as some believe. Despite the surge of patriotic enlistments on the outbreak of war,

by December 1914 there was still a shortfall of 1,697 men, the majority of these shortages being in the divisional troops, not the infantry brigades.

$69.95 • 360 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 300 photos • maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-91077762-6

$69.95 • 440 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 300 photos, maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-91077763-3

Dauntless Courage On The Somme

An Accrington Pal

Officers of the 19th Division Who Fell at La Boisselle 1–10 July 1916

The Diaries Of Private Jack Smallshaw, September 1914-March 1919

Nick Thornicroft

Steve Corbett

This book concentrates upon the sixty-four officers of the British Army’s 19th Division who were either killed or died of wounds during the storming of La Boisselle, on the Somme, during early July 1916. Contained within this text are eyewitness accounts, war diary entries, numerous photographs of the fallen, biographical details, modern images, and an overview of the battle as it unfolded.

On 15th September 1914, Jack Smallshaw became an ‘Accrington Pal,’ a member of a battalion of men who are remembered more than any other of the Pals battalions because of the appalling tragedy which befell them on the killing fields of the Somme. This is the story of a remarkable survivor, whose diaries have lain unpublished, in the possession of his family, since 1919.

$59.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 150 b/w photos and illustrations, 8 color maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-82-4

$49.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 5 b/w photos, 8 color maps • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1910777-93-0

The First Tank Crews The Lives of the Tankmen who Fought at the Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 September 1916 Stephen Pope This remarkable new book reveals the hitherto unknown story of the soldiers who took the first tanks into action on the Somme battlefield in September 1916. Drawing on official records, contemporary newspaper reports and family memories, Stephen Pope provides a fascinating insight into the lives of First Tank Crewmen, covering their recruitment, scant training, rapid deployment and their premature use in battle. $69.95 • 400 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 100 b/w photos, 16 color maps • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-910777-77-0

Silent Landscape The Battlefields of the Western Front One Hundred Years On James Kerr and Simon Doughty

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This is an illustrated book about the landscape of the Western Front where the First World War was fought, relentlessly, for over four years across a narrow ribbon of ground stretching some 440 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border. All the destructive power then known to man was used here, with success and failure measured in yards rather than human cost. $59.95 • 256 pages • 12.25 x 9.75 • 170 color photos, maps • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1911096-03-0

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Helion & Company Till the Trumpet Sounds Again. The Scots Guards 1914–19 in Their Own Words

Till the Trumpet Sounds Again. The Scots Guards 1914–19 in Their Own Words

Volume 1: ‘Great Shadows’, August 1914 – July 1916

Volume 2: ‘Vast tragedy’, August 1916 – March 1919

Randall Nicol

Randall Nicol

This is a story of soldiers at war against the background the two battalions of the Scots Guards who served in Belgium and France from 1914 to 1918. The author’s purpose is to display what they knew, saw, heard, felt and experienced around them and who they were as people. It is clear that the author has attempted to look and listen through these men’s eyes and ears - and sometimes through those of others who watched and listened nearby. The book is written in a chronological, narrative form – using as a basis the war diaries of the battalions, and supplemented by the two volumes of Cuthbert Headlam’s History of the Guards Division in the Great War 1915–1918.

This is a story of soldiers at war against the background the two battalions of the Scots Guards who served in Belgium and France from 1914 to 1918. The main content of the book stems from diaries, letters, notes, occasional pieces of verse, military documents and reports - as well as some press cuttings and any relevant published works. There are three key elements to the book: the first is that a great deal of the material used forms part of private collections; second is the intensive research which has been conducted into individual officers and soldiers; the third element is the blending together of all the research into a coherent whole.

$79.95 • 648 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 100 b/w photos, 16 color maps • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-911096-06-1

$79.95 • 512 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 100 b/w photos, 16 color maps • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-911096-07-8

Great Sacrifice The Old Boys of Barnsley Holgate Grammar School in the First World War Jane Ainsworth This book tells the stories of the 76 Old Boys of Barnsley Holgate Grammar School who died as a result of their involvement in the First World War. It also includes a history of the grammar school and extracts from "Alumnus" magazine.

During the First World War, details of all those serving their country were recorded in the Old Boys' Association magazine "Alumnus", which was sent to men fighting at the front along with copies of the Barnsley Chronicle. $39.95 • 328 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 200 b/w photos, illustrations, 8pp color illustrations • maps • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-911096-08-5

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‘Young Citizen Old Soldier’.

From Boyhood in Antrim to Hell on the Somme

A Kitchener Man’s Bit

The Journal Of Rifleman James Mcroberts, 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, January 1915–April 1917

In the Great War with the 21st (Service) Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps (The Yeoman Rifles)

David Truesdale

Gerald Dennis

For almost 43 years three school notebooks lay in obscurity in the County Armagh home of sixty two-year old James McRoberts. The closely-filled pages recorded just over two years in his life in uniform as he played his part in what was then known as the Great War. These notebooks, written at the time and with footnotes added some forty years later, record his Army service between 8 January 1915 and 3 April 1917.

Long out of print, this new edition memoir by an intelligent and articulate “other rank", provides fascinating insights into the Great War infantryman's experience. In autumn 1915, twenty-year-old Gerald Dennis enlisted in Kitchener’s Army. Assigned to the 21st Battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he experienced fierce fighting on the Somme 1916, during Messines Ridge and Third Ypres in 1917 before deployment to Italy in the immediate aftermath of the Caporetto disaster.

$39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 130 b/w photos, 3 maps • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1911096-12-2

$39.95 • 344 pages • 6 x 9.25 • b/w photos, maps • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-91109620-7

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Histoire and Collections The Battle of the Bulge: The Failure of the Final Blitzkrieg

The Battle of the Bulge: The Failure of the Final Blitzkrieg

Volume 1

Volume 2: The North Point. The Assault of the 6th Panzer Army

Philippe Guillemot This is the first volume to be offered to readers, with an examination of the northern edge of this offensive launched by the 6th Panzer Army. Its deployment during the Battle of the Bulge represented its baptism of fire. Drawing on the examination of thousands of pages of archives, focusing as much on American as on German forces, as well as an analysis of the most recent studies combined with site visits, the author reviews the northern sector of the battle for us - a sector which was the be the main axis along which Hitler hoped for nothing less than to shatter the American front, speed towards Antwerp and reverse the course of the war to his benefit. Throughout these pages, the author invites us to follow the fierce and bloody run of the Kampfgruppen from the I.SS-Panzer Division, the failure of the Hitlerjugend in the face of GI’s determined resistance and the charge of the II.SS Panzer Korps. $44.95 • 192 pages • 9 x 12 • 200 photos • maps • December 2015 • hardback • 978-2-35250-382-8 • NCR SPECIAL FORCES EQUIPMENTS

Philippe Guillemot This second volume offers the reader the study of the northern tip of this offensive launched by the 6th Panzer Army whose engagement in the Battle of the Bulge represented a baptism by fire. Based on the study of thousands of pages of archives concerning both U.S. forces and German, the author revisits for us this sector, which should have been the major axis through which Hitler hoped to overthrow its profit in the course of the war. Through these pages, Philippe Guillemeot invites us to follow the fierce and bloody ride of the kampfgruppen of 1. SS-Panzer Division, the failure of the Hitlerjugend, GI’s fierce resistance, the load of the II. SS-Panzerkorps. A chapter is devoted to special operations conducted by German paratroopers and the ineffable Otto Skorzeny. $44.95 • 192 pages • 9 x 11.8 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-235250-400-9 • NCR

British Parachutes

The Soviet Paratroopers, 1930–1945

Jean-Louis Perquin

Gaston Lhomme

This is the first volume of a new collection dedicated to the evolution of techniques and materials used by special services and special forces.

For the first time in the world, a lavishly illustrated book of over 200 vintage photographs, mostly unpublished, traces the history of the beginnings of military and premilitary skydiving in the Soviet Union. Fruit of twenty years of research and contacts through Russia, this book also presents an exceptional collection of badges and documents related to the structuring and the rise of the first airborne units. Rich biographies and portraits of the main players in this development, it addresses both the military aspects (precursors, equipment, doctrine, commando training and role of special services) and the societal.

In October 1940, the British Intelligence Service tested the lower filtration means in occupied France by parachuting blind man Phillip Schneidau near Montigny, on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau.

The British parachute would then quickly establish itself as one of the main infiltration methods and was adopted by the Allies, including the American Operational Groups in Jedburgh, and OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA).

This study will focus on parachutes Type A and x. Its successor, the Px type, is also discussed and made to better understand the differences and developments.

$44.95 • 192 pages • 9 x 11.8 • March 2016 • hardback • 978-2-35250-444-3 • NCR

The Odyssey of the Komet Olivier Pigoreau Part of the Gotenhafen on July 3, 1940 in a campaign that would last 516 days, the Komet was a cargo processed by the German Navy to operate as auxiliary cruiser allied against trade ships. Winner of the Pacific waters’ partially frozen Arctic Ocean, this predator disguised as a Japanese vessel will carried out hunting in all oceans. A fascinating adventure with 200 restored and unpublished shots. $34.95 • 176 pages • 8.27 x 9.8 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-2-35250-455-9 • NCR

$29.95 • 176 pages • 8.25 x 10 • 250 photos • December 2015 • paperback • 978-2-35250-442-9 • NCR

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Histoire and Collections The Allied Liberation Units

The War According to Comics

The 45th U.S. Infantry Division

Xavier Fournier

Stéphane Lavit Through hundreds of vintage photographs, the journey of this American Division, which landed in Provence in August 1944 after a long campaign in Italy, leads us to the heart of Germany where the unit was the first to enter the Dachau Concentration Camp. The 45th Division was covered with honors in very heavy fighting. $24.95 • 100 pages • 8.27 x 10 • March 2016 • paperback • 978-2-35250457-3 • French • NCR

Guerre Des Services Speciaux en Afrique Du Nord Les Memoires du General Jean Chretien Ancien chef du ContreEspionnage a Alger Jean Chretien General Jean Chrétien went through a period rich in extraordinary events. His personal action was decisive during the Anglo-American landings in North Africa in November 1942.

Assigned to Vichy shortly after the defeat of 1940, then to Algiers at the beginning of 1941, Chrétien was close to the decision-making circles until 1944 and rubbed shoulders with the 'Large' of his time. As a member of the intelligence services, his testimony is very useful to understand post WWII France. $27.95 • 230 pages • 6 x 9.5 • December 2015 • paperback • 50 photos • 978-235250-314-9 • French • NCR

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Superhero, simple G.I. or resistant, the characters in American comics have been true witnesses of the Second World War, accompanying its evolution and sometimes even anticipating its progress.

The book, richly illustrated reports on hundreds of stories, some serving the needs of the era propaganda, others simply retracing the hopes of a generation: win even in comic! $44.95 • 176 pages • 9 x 12 • illustrated • March 2016 • hardback • 9782-35250-449-8 • NCR

Chars D2 Au Combat Les Elephants De Guerre Du Colonel De Gaulle Stephane Bonnaud At the start of war, Charles de Gualle received a higher command of the 5th Army. However, he did not take his eyes off of the D2 tanks and presented them to President Lebrun. On May 15, 1940, the first tanks to join the 4th armored division created ex-nihilo were the D2. These armed equipment and anti-tank guns of 47 were engaged offensively on the Somme front, before participating in the Battle of France. $44.95 • 176 pages • 9 x 12 • 400 photos • December 2015 • hardback • 978-235250-4450 • French • NCR

Kubelwagen Schwimmwagen L’Histoire, la Conception, la Mechanique, et l’Engagement Operationnel du 4x4 Allemand Durant La Seconde Guerre Mondiale Chris McNab Designed by Ferdinand Porsche and built by Volkswagen, the Type 82 Kübelwagen and amphibious cousin 128/166 Schwimmwagen were kind to the Germans that the Jeep was the Allies and were widely used during World War II, the depths of winter the eastern front in the searing heat of the Libyan desert. A feedback on driving and operational maintenance describes the behavior of Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen in combat. $44.95 • 160 pages • 9 x 12 • 250 photos • December 2015 • hardback • 978-235250-3859 • French • NCR

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Histoire and Collections The French Air Force in North Africa Morocco – Algeria – Tunisia – 1940–1967 Volume 1

The French Air Force in North Africa Morocco – Algeria – Tunisia – 1940–1967 Volume 2

Alain Crosnier

Alain Crosnier

This book published in two volumes, present an inventory of air units in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) from June 1940 to the summer of 1967. Besides schools, learning centers or training, these units are aggregated and presented according to the classification of air assets in use during the war in Algeria, as heavy hunting of light support aviation.

This book published in two volumes, present an inventory of air units in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) from June 1940 to the summer of 1967. Remarkably comprehensive, illustrated with around 2,500 photographs, this is an exceptional document of reference and memory, an essential supplement for anyone interested in this period of history of the Air Force and its commitment to the other side of the Mediterranean.

$49.95 • 240 pages • 9 x 12 • 2500 photos • Now Available • hardback • 978-2-35250-420-7 • French • NCR

LE MATERIEL DE L’ARMEE DE L’AIRE ET DE L’AERONAVALE

Les Prototypes Dassault A Decollage Vertical Herve Beaumont In the line of military aircraft Mirage and at a time when prevailing in the French aerospace research and an abundance of creativity, the Dassault company developed from operational versions of the Mirage III aircraft experimental prototypes or on its funds own or with the state funds to meet or anticipate changes in the aviation doctrine of the moment, in response to the changes planned by the military. $24.95 • 84 pages • 8 x 9.5 • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-352504-28-3 • French • NCR

L’Aeronavale Francaise Frederic Lert Naval aviation has a remarkable concentration of technology and know-how. It is a company strength – 6700 men and women, about 200 aircraft – which has all the characteristics of a modern air force with combat aircraft, missions, or support.

The book presents the aircraft, planes and helicopters currently in service with the French Naval Aviation. Each device, whose photos are enhanced by the landscape format is accompanied by technical instructions and testimony on its piloting, implementation and operational use. Depending on its size, 2 to 10 pages are devoted to each device.

$44.95 • 176 pages • 9 x 12 • 2500 photos • Now Available • hardback • 978-2-35250-421-4 • French • NCR

$29.95 • 144 pages • 7.5 x 10.25 • Now Available • paperback • 978-2-35250-392-7 • French • NCR

Les Grands Bombardiers Du Monde

Zeppelins in Combat, 1914–1918

1914–2014

Memoirs of Baron von Buttlar

Chris Chant The history of aerial bombardment can be divided into four periods. The First World War saw the birth of the bomber that experienced rapid evolution, pressured from events. The interwar period was a turning point between design, the craft airline industry, and the race for technological innovations. World War II saw the triumph of the bomber in all aspects of its mission: the assault of strategic bombing raids through by way of submarines or ships … But at the end of the conflict, the outbreak of atomic weapons would change the very concept of bombing.

Baron Horst von Buttlar This work, written ten years after the end of World War I by Baron Horst von Buttlar, commander of one of the Imperial German Navy Zeppelins, tells the extraordinary story of air operations carried out by the Zeppelins over the Allied territories.

This book presents memories of war, especially during missions and night bombings on England. $27.95 • 200 pages • 6 x 9.4 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-235250-453-5 • French • NCR

$34.95 • 176 pages • 9 x 12 • Now Available • paperback • 978-2-35250-245-6 • French • NCR

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Histoire and Collections OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS

Revell Models Volume 1 1950–1982 Jean-Christophe Carbonel The origins of the Revell company date back to 1941 when an electrical engineer, Lewis Glaser founded a toy distribution company. The reconciliation with the world models arrived via the company Gowland and Gowland who had the idea to launch a range of plastic toys and singed a distribution agreement with Glaser. Thus in 1951 appeared the first Revell kit version of an unassembled clunker Maxwell 1/16. $24.95 • 80 pages • 8 x 9.5 • 400 photos • Now Available • paperback • 978-2-35250-447-4 • NCR

Alpenkorps Le Corps Alpin Allemand 1915–1918 Jean-Claude Laparra and Patrice Loiseleux-Ranis The German Alpine Corps fought until 1918 on several fronts.

Committed usually depending on the purpose of its creation, the fight in the mountains, it goes from one to the other according to strategic priorities. This book is richly illustrated with photos that belonged to officers of this training including the commander of the Alpine Corps itself. $34.95 • 160 pages • 8.25 x 10 • January 2016 • paperback • 978235250-438-2 • French • NCR

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MILITARY GUIDE

US Forces in Vietnam 1968–1975

Artillery and the Gribeauval System 1786–1815

Gillaume Rousseaux

Volume II Discover the men of the “Arme Savante” (the knowledgeable arm) who moved their guns around and served them on horseback. The mobile artillery, then the light artillery and finally the Horse Artillery was a new weapon which announced the changes in the centuries to come… Just like the Artillery Train which, with the First Empire, finally grew up, to the age of regulations.

This book, a sequel to the first volume, chronologically presents the evolution of uniforms, equipment and weapons of the American soldier during the Vietnam War, 1968 to 1975. This second volume deals with the 1968 Tet offensive, the maximum commitment of U.S. forces in 1969, incursions into Cambodia in 1970, then the gradual withdrawal of US troops, and finally the tragic outcome of this conflict with the evacuation of the American Embassy in 1975.

$29.95 • 84 pages • 8 x 9.5 • 76 illustrations • Now Available • paperback • 978-2-35250-396-5 • NCR

$29.95 • 84 pages • 8 x 9.5 • February 2016 • paperback • 120 images • 978-2-35250-287-6 • NCR

Ludovic Letrun and Jean-Marie Mongin

MILITARY GUIDES

Atlas De La Premiere Guerre Mondiale

Les Casques Militaires Francais

Michael Neinberg

Frédéric Coune Illustrating the great diversity of the helmets worn by the French military, this new instructional book helps to understand their evolution since the end of the 19th century until today. This panorama of almost 200 pictures focuses on the steel helmet emblematic of the army.

The Atlas of the First World War is an indispensable visual reference for understanding the conflict. It allows the reader to monitor the campaigns and battles in the minutest detail, on land, at sea and in the air, and to study the fortunes of the combatants. More than 180 color images cover the entire theaters of operation.

$24.95 • 84 pages • 7.9 x 9.4 • photos • Now Available • paperback • 978-2-35250-426-9 • French • NCR

$44.95 • 192 pages • 9 x 11.7 • photos • January 2016 • paperback • 978-235250-349-1 • French • NCR

Au Coeur de la Guerre Froid La Mission Militaire de Potsdam 1947–1989 Patrick Manificat The three 'military missions of Potsdam' composed of a handful of American, British and French soldiers, traveled to Germany and the East daily during the cold war.

In contact with the opponent and observing them on land and in the air, these 'reporters' became reliable sources to assess the threat of Soviet and German forces. $44.95 • 200 pages • 9 x 12 • December 2015 • hardback • 9782-352-50403-0 • French • NCR

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Kagero MONOGRAPHS 3D

MONOGRAPHS 3D

Arado Ar 234 Blitz Vol. I

Arado Ar 234 Blitz Vol. II

Marek J. Murawski

Marek J. Murawski

The new edition of Arado Ar 234 monograph devoted to the history of the Arado Ar 234 Blitz, the first German jet bomber and reconnaissance plane. The book has been supplemented with new pictures and includes a large number of detailed 3D visualization featuring aircraft design. The first volume covers its design and development in regard to the evolution of jet propulsion. Each variant is specified and described, including few which never progressed beyond the drawing board.

Tests with the Arado Ar 234 prototypes demonstrated that straight wings retained their good aerodynamic characteristics only at speeds below 800 kph. Near-supersonic flights demanded a completely new approach to wing geometry. On 9th December 1942 two Arado company engineers, Rüdiger Kosin and Walter Lehmann, patented a crescent shaped wing, which had its sweep and chord decreasing from root to tip.

In mid-1944 Kosin decided to use his wing design on the Arado 234. Five variants of the wing were built, designated Versuchsflügel I through V, each differing in its sweep.

$29.95 • 128 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 16 color photos, 93 archival photographs, 10 painting schemes • Now Available • paperback • 97883-64596-34-6

$29.95 • 120 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 35 archival photos, 100 graphics • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-65-0

SMI LIBRARY

HARD COVER SERIES

P-51/F-6 Mustangs with the USAAF European Theater of Operations

The Japanese Aircraft Carriers Soryu and Hiryu

Tomasz Szlagor

Miroslaw Skwiot

The North American P-51 Mustang powered by the British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin/Packard engine was, quite simply, the best long-range escort fighter of the World War Two era. Entering service in November 1943, it curtailed prohibitive losses suffered by the heavy bombers of the US Eight Army Air Force which carried out the strategic daylight bombing campaign against the Third Reich. In the European Theater of Operations the USAAF also deployed Mustangs, with great success, as free-ranging strafers, fighter-bombers, scouts and reconnaissance aircraft. Eventually, it was the P-51 that broke the backbone of the Luftwaffe.

Hiryū was the second aircraft carrier included in “The Second Naval Armaments Supplement Program” of 1934. Originally both carriers were supposed to be sister vessels, but the number of design modifications introduced during the construction of Sōryū resulted in many differences between the two. According to the original plans Hiryū was to be completed a year after Sōryū, but her construction suffered delays caused by two key factors. The first one was the implementation of the lessons learned during the reconstruction of Kaga. Then there was new data available from the early service days of Sōryū, which exposed some of the design’s drawbacks and weaknesses.

$22.95 • 88 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 131 black and white photos, 14 color photos, 11 color profiles • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-6459668-1

$39.95 • 100 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 82 archive photos, 30 drawings, 16 color profiles • Now Available • hardback • 978-83-64596-52-0

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LEGENDS OF AVIATION IN 3D NO. 2

Fokker D. VII. The Lethal Weapon Tomasz J. Kowalski and Marek Rys World War I was the time of dynamic development of aviation.

Aircraft created during that period and pilots who fought in them, became legends that have fascinated generations of pilots and enthusiasts.

Thanks to color 3D graphics we can almost touch the Fokker D.VII, see its details, get to know its structure and understand the phenomenon of this legendary aircraft. With the virtual Fokker D.VII, Marek Ryś inspires us to explore the history of the aircraft afresh.

Tomasz Kowalski tells us the story of pilots flying the new Fokker biplanes and takes us to the period of the Great War when knights of the sky were born and killed. $39.95 • 168 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 9 anaglyphs, 114 photos, 175 graphics • November 2015 • hardback • 978-83-64596-77-3

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Kagero SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 34

SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 35

The Japanese Cruiser Chikuma

SMS Viribus Unitis Austro-Hungarian Battleship Andrew Wilkie and Friedrich Prasky

Waldemar Goralski The Japanese cruiser Chikuma According to the provisions of the Treaty of London light cruisers could be armed with cannons with a maximum caliber of 155mm in quantities up to 15 pieces. Japanese engineers, admirals and Fukuda Fujimoto developed a draft of the ship classified as "medium cruiser type". His task was to guard the main force fleet from attacks by enemy light forces and the fight against cruisers. The ship was ordered under the Second Fleet Expansion Program of 1934roku. Funds for the construction of the cruiser entered in the budget for 1935/1936.

The ship, which was named Chikuma River (in Nagano Prefecture on the island of Honshu) was built in the shipyard of Mitsubishi Nagasaki. $28.95 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 140 graphics • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-62-9

Tegetthoff Class In 1907 the navy of the dualist, multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire placed an order for a new class of warships, whose design was based on the “all big gun” concept pioneered

by HMS Dreadnought. Eventually four Tegetthoff class vessels were laid down. The vessels’ careers were not especially eventful. During the war the ships were manned by reservists, while the most experienced members of their crews were detached to serve onboard submarines or torpedo boats.

Viribus Unitis The Battleship IV was laid down at San Marco on July 23, 1910 and launched on June 24, 1911. The Emperor’s court used the occasion to organize a lavish celebration designed to carry a strong political message. The Emperor insisted that the battleship be given a rather unusual, Latin name Viribus Unitis (Strength in Unity). $28.95 • 73 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 123 graphics • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-64-3

SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 36

SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 37

The Light Cruiser Yahagi

The Light Cruiser SMS Emden

Mariusz Motyka Yahagi, the second Japanese warship of that name, was the third of the four Agano-class vessels (the other three being Agano, Noshiro and Sakawa). Construction of the Agano-class cruisers was approved by the Japanese parliament (Diet) in March 1939 under the Fourth Naval Armaments Enhancement Program (Dai-Yon-Ji Kaigun Gunbi Jūjitsu Keikaku), also known as “Four-in-Circle” Program (Maru Yon Keikaku), or simply Maru 4. Under the terms of the program, the four light cruisers (kei jun’yōkan), also referred to as type B cruisers (otsu-gata jun’yōkan, or simply otsu jun) and officially classed as second-class cruisers (ni-tō jun’yōkan), were to fulfill the role of destroyer squadron flagships. At that time destroyer squadrons (DesRon), called literarily torpedo squadrons (suirai sentai), consisted of four four-ship destroyer divisions (DesDiv, or kuchiku-tai). $28.95 • 92 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 118 graphics, 18 3D anaglyphs, 3D glasses • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-66-7

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Samir Karmieh SMS Emden light cruiser was built by Kaiserliche Werft Danzig dockyard (nowadays Gdańsk in Poland). The construction process began in 1906; the launching of the ship took place on 26 May 1908. Together with SMS Dresden, she belonged to Dresden protected cruiser class.

SMS Emden was put into service on 1 April 1910. Eleven days later she was sent to the German colony Qingdao (Tsingtao) in China. The destination was reached on September that year. There the ship was incorporated into German East Asia Squadron. In 1913 LieutenantCommander Karl von Müller took command of the ship. He was soon promoted to the rank of full Commander. $28.95 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 116 graphics, 16 3D anaglyphs, 3D glasses • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-67-4

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Kagero SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 38

SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 39

The Battleship Tirpitz

The Battleship HMS Warspite 1914–1919

Stefan Draminski The Tripitz, sister ship of the legendary Bismarck, was the last battleship to be procured by the German Kriegsmarine. As fate would have it, she spent almost the entire war in Norway and although she never got a chance to use her guns against enemy warships, her existence alone was a major threat to Allied shipping.

Being a “fleet in being” in the fjords of Norway, Tripitz tied up huge Allied resources to keep her in check. It is no wonder then that the Allies attempted to take her out of action at all costs and subjected Tripitz to countless air and surface attacks throughout her service career. $28.95 • 100 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 183 graphics • November 2016 • paperback • 978-83-64596-69-8

Troels W. Hansen In 1906, the British launched one of the most revolutionary ships ever built – HMS Dreadnought. Besides being a big ship powered by turbines the ship was constructed with “all big guns“.

The Dreadnought dispensed with the smaller weapons to increase her main battery, making her broadside twice as powerful as any other capital ship in the world. This design effectively rendered all other battleships obsolete, and sparked a naval shipbuilding race between the naval powers which consumed a huge portion of their industrial capacity up to and during WWI. Several battleships of different classes were built but learning that both Japan and the United States were implementing 14 inch guns decisive measures were taken to keep the Royal Navy ahead – the Queen Elizabeth class with its fearsome 15 inch guns were therefor introduced. $28.95 • 92 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 170 graphics • November 2016 • paperback • 978-83-64596-73-5

SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 40

SUPER DRAWINGS IN 3D NO. 41

The Battleship Roma 1942–1943

The Japanese Aircraft Carrier Taiho

Carlo Cestra

Waldemar Goralski

Battleship Roma was one of the three Italian Littorio class battleships operating during the Second World War. She was one of the most modern and powerful battleships of her times. The construction of Roma and her sister Impero, the fourth battleship never finished, was planned to strengthen the Italian Navy which, until then, had only two modern battleships and some old WWI battleships.

The design work on the new carrier commenced as early as 1937 and the initial design was unveiled on 27 November and received the number “02”. On 21 July 1938 corrections were done to the design and it was approved.

Battleship Roma was laid down by the Italian shipbuilder “Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico”, in Trieste, on 18 September 1938, almost four year after the first two battleships (Vittorio Veneto and Littorio) of her class.

She was launched on 9 June 1940, the day before Italy entered the war, and was commissioned into “Regia Marina” (the Italian Navy) on 14 June 1942. Based on experience of the first two ships, some small improvements were made to her, including additional freeboard to the bow. $28.95 • 100 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 177 graphics • November 2015 • paperback • 978-83-64596-74-2

The ship of displacement of 27.800 tons was ordered. It was included into Navy development program, approved on 8 December 1938. After the acceptance of the main specifications of the carrier work on the detailed design could be commenced (the work began in December 1939). Due to several delays the ship was laid down as late as 10 July 1941 at Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe. Until 5 March 1943, when the ship was named, she was known as the hull number 130. The official christening took place before launching on 7 April 1943. The ship was named TAIHO (Great Phoenix). $28.95 • 92 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 168 graphics • November 2015 • paperback • 978-83-64596-75-9

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Kagero TOP DRAWINGS NO. 23

TOP DRAWINGS NO. 24

TOP DRAWINGS NO. 25

The Battleship USS Alabama

The Battlecruiser HMS Hood

Sd.Kfz. 161 Panzer IV

Stefan Draminski Hood, launched in 1918 was the last battlecruiser built in Great Britain. She was named in honor of Admiral Samuel Hood and was to be the first of the Admiral-class battlecruisers, but further three vessels were never completed. During the construction the design had to be extensively modified to embody the experience of the Battle of Jutland, which markedly exposed insufficient armor of British battlecruisers.

Ausf. H/J

Witold Koszela The battleship USS Alabama is one of the very few “big ones” that saw service in World War II and survive to this day as museum ships. A recipient of nine Battle Stars for her wartime service, Alabama was a South Dakota class warship, widely considered to be the best US Navy treaty battleship design, featuring heavy armor, underwater protection, tight superstructure arrangement and formidable armament. $22.95 • 32 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 28 drawing sheets, 5 color profiles • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-37-7

$22.95 • 36 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 31 drawing sheets, 3 color profiles • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-61-2

Krzysztof Mucha In June 1943, the production of Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. H began in order to increase the armor piercing capabilities of its main armament. Although the new model received the modified 75-mm KwK43 L/48 tank gun, the Ausf. H was still sharing many components with the previous version. The tank proved to be quite complicated in production which led to simplifying its design. As a result, the Ausf. J model was introduced into production in June 1944. $22.95 • 40 pages • 8.25 x 11 • 31 drawing sheets, 18 color profiles • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-64596-70-4

TOP DRAWINGS NO. 26

TOP DRAWINGS NO. 27

TOP DRAWINGS NO. 28

FockeWulf Fw 190 D.

Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa

North American P-51 Mustang

D-9/D-11/D-15 Models

Ki-43/Ki-43-II/Ki43-III

B/C/D/K Models

Stefan Draminski

Mariusz Lukasik

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D was the finest project created by Kurt Tank’s design team. The D-9, the aircraft’s most popular variant, was first flown on 7th September 1944. A total of some 700 machines were assembled in Cottbus, as well as by Arado and Fieseler contractors, by the end of the war.

The later D-11, D-12 and D-13 variants were approved for production in March 1945, and only a few were delivered.

The Nakajima Ki-43 was the successor of the company’s earlier successful design – the Ki-27 Nate. The new fighter was being developed from 1937 by a team of engineers led by Hideo Itokawa, the designer of the Ki27. The first prototype was completed on 12th December 1938. Despite some initial problems, after introducing several modifications the Ki43 was approved for production under the designation of Fighter Type 1 Model 1.

North American P51 Mustang was one of the most renowned and undoubtedly one of the most aesthetically pleasing fighter designs. It served well its pilots of many nationalities even many years after it had been conceived. Its total production figure amounted to nearly 16,000 aircraft. The four basic models presented in this publication, accounted for 4,950 out of 10,720 air victories the USAAF was credited with, and 4,131 out of 8,160 ground victories.

$22.95 • 32 pages • 8.25 x 11 • drawings/profiles • November 2015 • paperback • 978-83-64596-71-1

$22.95 • 32 pages • 8.25 x 11 • drawings/profiles • November 2015 • paperback • 978-83-64596-84-1

$22.95 • 32 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • drawings/profiles • November 2015 • paperback • 978-83-64596-72-8

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Lombardy Studios MAP STUDY SERIES C W

WORLD OF TANKS

Grant Rising

SU-152

Mapping the Career of a Great Commander Through 1862

And Related Vehicles

Hal Jespersen, James R. Knight and Dana Lombardy Grant Rising is an inspired, one-volume summary in maps and text of Ulysses S. Grant's famous battles in 1862 and also his early life as well as his minor engagement in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Grant Rising features techniques that portray Civil War battles in a new way, such as shaded relief topography, giving the maps a threedimensional appearance. Plus the use of different color tints to represent command relationships makes it easier to determine which brigades reported to which divisions and corps at a glance. $50.00 • 112 pages • 8.25 x 11.25 • 46 maps, 4 orders-of-battle, and 75 photos, engravings and paintings • November 2015 • hardback • 978-1940169-01-9 • NCR

Yuri Igorevich Pasholok, Dana Lombardy and Christopher Parker In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal world-wide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians). Now these remarkable books are being published in English with the obvious aphorism The Russian View.

Hundreds of photos, illustrations, tables, and diagrams tell the story about the development of the SU-152 tank-killer. $30.00 • 272 pages • 7.75 x 10 • photos, illustrations, tables, diagrams, and color plates • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-940169-02-6 • NCR

WORLD OF TANKS

The T-34 Goes To War A. Ulanov, D. Shein, Dana Lombardy and Christopher Parker In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal worldwide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles during World War Two. Now these books are being published in English with the obvious aphorism The Russian View. $30.00 • 224 pages • 7.75 x 10 • photos, illustrations, tables, diagrams, and color plates • July 2016 • hardback • 978-1-940169-03-3 • NCR

NAPOLEON’S LAST ARMY, VOLUME 1

NAPOLEON’S LAST ARMY, VOLUME 2

Imperial Guard Cavalry

Imperial Guard Infantry and Artillery

Paul Dawson, Keith Rocco and Dana Lombardy $35.00 • 128 pages • 8.5 x 11 • color plates, photos, tables, and charts • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-940169-04-0 • NCR

Paul Dawson, Keith Rocco and Dana Lombardy $35.00 • 128 pages • 8.5 x 11 • color plates, photos, tables, and charts • March 2016 • hardback • 978-1-940169-05-7 • NCR

This is a groundbreaking series of books in English by author, re-enactor, and equestrian Paul L. Dawson that use thousands of pages of French archival documents, translations of more than 200 French eyewitness accounts, and dozens of new paintings by Keith Rocco to tell the story of Napoleon’s final military operations and his defeat at the battle of Waterloo. Napoleon’s Last Army (NLA) is the most comprehensive study ever made of the French army in 1815, using primary source information that provides new insights into this famous campaign. NLA will expose persistent myths and errors about the French forces at Waterloo and in the campaign of 1815.

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Mereo Books The Messenger

Riding the Wind

The World War 1 Diary of a Wireless Operator

The Life of A O Lewis-Roberts 1896–1966

Russell Early and Oswald Early

Robert Lawton

Oswald S. Early was a First World War wireless operator with the 1/9th Battalion Territorial Force of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, serving from 1916 to 1919 in India, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Throughout his adventures he kept a diary, which gives us a vivid picture of the trials, the tedium, the hardships and occasional horrors of the campaign and the challenges and dangers he faced. “A few tribesmen tried to get into camp last night, but some Gurkhas were waiting for them… early this morning they came into camp carrying the heads of the tribesmen under their arms. They put one on a pole and stuck a cigarette into its mouth.”

Albert Lewis-Roberts was born in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1896. Having distinguished himself at riding and shooting and on the sports field, he enlisted with the armed forces at the outbreak of the West African Campaign. But it was as a military pilot that ‘Bert’ became best known. He was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, serving under Head of Bomber Command Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris and flying in combat at home and over the battlefields of Europe. In Egypt and Palestine between the wars, he helped to pioneer the great transcontinental air routes and police the British Empire.

$21.85 • 182 Pages • 5 x 81 • b/w photos • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-86151-235-2 • NCR

Ice Cream, Gasmasks and God A Young Girl Grows up in the War Years Joyce M Lovely Joyce Lovely grew up in Liverpool during World War 2, her family narrowly surviving a blitz which severely damaged their home and killed two thousand of their fellow Liverpudlians in a single week. She and her young friends dreamed of peace and safety, but not as much as they dreamed about ice-cream and chocolate and later, handsome boyfriends. As a teenager in the post-war years she found herself pursued by romantic suitors. Her choice of husband was ultimately guided by her early discovery of God and faith, which was how she found herself a newly-married woman struggling to run her first home in the wilds of the Shetland Isles, trying to make ends meet on the slim pay of her minister husband and the kindness of the islanders. A charming memoir of a young woman’s childhood and coming of age.

$44.95 • 184 pages • 10 x 8 • color and b/w photos throughout • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-86151-382-3 • NCR

A Soldier’s Oath A Modern Soldier’s Adventures on and off the Field of Battle Fred Oldenburg

In Their Own Words Women who served in WWII Rachel Vogeleisen

Fred Oldenburg left the British Army in 2012 after serving for 23 years with the Royal Anglian Regiment, becoming a platoon sergeant and seeing action in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, with exercises and training in many other countries. A man of action who never shrank from confrontation he survived several violent and devastating encounters with enemy forces in the Middle East. During the welcome periods of R&R, there were some equally narrow escapes from one or two terrifying blind dates.

Rachel Vogeleisen is a professional photographer specializing in women’s portraits and fashion. Her fascination with the Second World War was sparked by her discovery as a child that her grandfather, from Alsace, had had to fight for the Germans against Russia. This book, the culmination of ten years of research, is a collection of portraits and testimonials recording the experiences of 21 women who volunteered during World War II, interviewed by the author. The accounts have been left as far as possible in the women’s original words, so that their voices can be heard clearly and faithfully.

$21.85 • 340 pages • 5 x 8 • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-86151-448-6 • NCR

$28.00 • 150 pages • 10 x 8 • Full Color throughout • March 2016 • paperback • 978-186151-394-6 • NCR

$24.60 • 335 pages • 5 x 86 • pages of b/w photos • March 2016 • paperback • 978-186151-445-5 • NCR

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MMP Books ORANGE SERIES

GREEN SERIES

Fairey Flycatcher

Firing Now!

Matthew Willis

Tank, Anti-Tank and Self-Propelled Artillery Ammunicion UK & USA 1939–1945

The Fairey Flycatcher was the archetypal between-the-wars Fleet Air Arm fighter. The idiosyncratic biplane was loved by crews and public alike, and it was famed more for its aerobatic prowess and public demonstrations than glory on the field of battle. The Flycatcher was agile yet forgiving, tough, reliable, and fully aerobatic, and, bedecked in a dazzling range of bright, colorful markings, was the perfect mount for expressing the youthful high spirits of naval pilots in the 1920s and 30s.

The Flycatcher was never engaged in a war, though it played a significant role in ‘colonial policing’ of trouble spots in the British Empire, and served the Royal Navy. This book is the most comprehensive on the Flycatcher yet published, with numerous photographs of the aircraft in service, several of which have never been published before, walk around photographs of the replica built by John Fairey, illustrations from contemporary manuals, and color artwork.

Dick Taylor This book explores the fascinating history of tank, anti-tank and self-propelled artillery ammunition used by the British and Americans in World War 2. As well as examining the major ammunition types in detail, the work also explains, for the first time in a book of this type, how ammunition functions and is made to be accurate. The guns and weapons used to fire the ammunition are also covered, as is a comprehensive lexicon of terminology and an extensive list of references. The whole is complemented by stunning artwork showing the ammunition and its associated packaging, with many period photographs of the ammunition in use. $49.00 • 160 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 200 b/w and color photos, 37 color plates • December 2015 • paperback • 978-83-63678-91-3 • NCR

$35.00 • 120 pages • 7 x 10 • 80 b/w photos, 16 color profiles, scale plans • December 2015 • paperback • 978-83-63678-92-0 • NCR WHITE SERIES

WHITE SERIES

WHITE SERIES

U.S. Military Aircraft in the Royal Swedish Air Force

Swedish Jet Fighter Colours

Finnish Bomber Colours 1939–1945

Mikael Forslund Covers U.S. military aircraft used by Royal Swedish Air Force. Aircraft service are described in detail.

Some aircraft covered includes: North American NA-16 4M; Northrop 8A-1; Beech 18R; Seversky EP-106; Seversky 2PA; Fairchild 24C8C; Waco UIC-4; Waco ZQC; North American P-51B/D; Noorduyn AT-16/North American AT-6; Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina $90.00 • 250 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • b/w photos • May 2016 • hardback • 978-83-65281-04-3 • NCR

Mikael Forslund and Thierry Vallet This book covers Swedish Jets used by the Swedish Air Force. Camouflage and markings of the fighters are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Swedish author Mikael Forslund. Many unpublished photos and exclusive color profiles.

Covered: SAAB J 21R, J 28 Vampire, SAAB J 29A Tunan, SAAB J 32B Lansen, De Havilland Venom, Hawker Hunter, Draken, Viggen, and Grippen $75.00 • 200 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • b/w photos, color photos, color profiles • June 2016 • hardback • 978-83-65281-01-2 • NCR

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Kari Stenman and Karolina Holda The next book in the Rainbow Series covers Finnish Bombers used during WWII. Camouflage and markings of the fighters obtained from USA, Netherland, Germany, UK and the USSR are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish author Kari Stenman. Many unpublished photos, and exclusive color profiles.

Described aircraft: DB-3M/DB-3F, Lysander, SB, Blenheim, Do 17Z, Ju 88A, Pe 2, Fokker C.x, DC 2 $69.00 • 250 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • b/w photos, color photos and color profiles • June 2016 • hardback • 978-83-65281-03-6 • NCR

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MMP Books SHIP PLANS

Russian Aviation Colours 1909–1922: Vol 2 Camouflage and Markings. Great War

Ship Plans No. 1 Japanese Destroyer Minekaze

Boris Stepanov and Marat Khairulin

Grzegorz Nowak

Books describe the history of the little-known emblems and distinctive markings of Russian military aviation from its early origins up to the Russian exit from World War One. The authors have managed to collect, and in some cases partially reconstruct, the majority of emblems and signs used in Russia during this period by military aviation units. Besides the many photographs, full color profiles illustrate the markings applied.

Scale plans in 1/700, 1/350 and 1/200 of the IJN Destroyer Minekaze. Also details in 1/100 are shown. $11.99 • 24 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • scale plans • December 2015 • paperback • 978-83-65281-06-7 • NCR

$75.00 • 200 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • b/w photos, color profiles • March 2016 • hardback • 978-83-65281-00-5 • NCR SC ALE PLANS

SC ALE PLANS

Scale Plans No. 27 Hawker Hurricane Mk II, IV and SeaHurricane

Scale Plans No. 30. Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-1/MiG-3

Marek Rys Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of Hurricane Mk II, IV and SeaHurricane variants. All late subversions are shown. $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-63678-95-1 • NCR

Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-1/MiG-3 variants. $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • scale plans • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-63678-999 • NCR SC ALE PLANS

SC ALE PLANS

Scale Plans No. 28. Fieseler Fi 156 Storch Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of Fieseler Fi 156 Storch variants. $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • scale plans • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-63678-975 • NCR SC ALE PLANS

Scale Plans No. 29.

MESSERSCHMITT BF 109F Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of MESSERSCHMITT BF 109F variants. $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • scale plans • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-63678-982 • NCR

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Scale Plans No. 31 FIAT CR.42 Falco Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of FIAT CR.42 variants. $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • November 2015 • paperback • 978-83-65281-10-4 • NCR SC ALE PLANS

Scale Plans No. 32. Macchi C. 200 Saetta Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of Macchi C.200 Saetta variants. $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • scale plans • November 2015 • paperback • 978-83-6528111-1 • NCR

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MMP Books C AMOUFLAGE AND DEC ALS

C AMOUFLAGE & DEC ALS

Camouflage and Decals No. 3

Camouflage and Decals No.4

Finnish Fighters WWII

Finnnish Fighters WWII (part 2)

Kari Stenman

Kari Stenman and Karolina Holda

This booklet describes and illustrates the camouflage and markings of six Finnish WWII fighters. Includes high quality decals for these aircraft in 1/48 and 1/72 scale:

This booklet describes and illustrates the camouflage and markings of six Finnish WWII fighters. Photos and color profiles describe camouflage and markings in detail.

• Brewster 239, BW-393 „7”, kapt. Eino Luukkanen, leader of 1/Lentolaivue 24, 1942; • Brewster 239, BW-393 „9”, luutn. Hans Wind, leader of 3/Lentolaivue 24, 1943; • Fokker D.xxI, FR-140 „11”, luutn. Aaro Virkkunen, 2/Lentolaivue 14, 1942; • Gloster Gladiator Mk I, 271 „A”, fänr. Åke Nettelbladt-Hollsten, Flygflottilj 19, 1940; • FIAT G.50, FA-15 „5”, kers. Klaus Alakoski, 3/Lentolaivue 26, 1942; • Morane Saulnier MS. 406, MS311 „5”, kers. Antti Tani, 1/Lentolaivue

Also includes high quality decals for these aircraft in 1/48 and 1/72 scale, produced by ModelMaker:

28, 1941. $35.00 • 24 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 40 b/w photos, 16 color profiles, decals included • December 2015 • paperback • 978-83-63678-93-7 • NCR

• Hawker Hurricane I, HC-454 “4”, vänr. Orvo Helenius, 2/LeLv 26, 1943 • Hawker Hurricane I, HC458 “8”, ltm. Aarne Arte, 1/LLv 10, 1941 • Curtiss Hawk 75A-2, CU-581 “1”, luutn. Veikko Evinen, 3/HLeLv 32, 1944 • Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2, MT-201 “1”, maj. Eino Luukkanen, LeLv 34, 1943 • Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2, MT-213 “3”, ltm. Ilmari Juutilainen, 1/HLeLv 34, 1944 • Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6, MT-435 “1”, ylikers. Urho Lehto, 1/HLeLv 34, 1944 $35.00 • 16 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • b/w photos color profiles decals (transfers) • December 2015 • paperback • 978-83-65281-02-9 • NCR

SPOTLIGHT ON

SPOTLIGHT ON

MiG-29 in PAF

Messerschmitt Bf 109 in Hawker Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest V Romania

Marek Radomski than 44 color profiles of Mikoyan MiG-29 in Polish Air Force. Also shown in markings of pervious users like East Germany, Germany and Czech Republic. Includes one big profile 76 cm (30 inch) long. $35.00 • 49 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 40 color profiles • December 2016 • hardback • 978-8363678-96-8 • NCR

SPOTLIGHT ON

Teodor Liviu Morosanu

Janusz Swiatlon

40+ color profiles of Messerschmitts Bf 109 E and Bf 109 G in Romanian Air Force.

Also plan views showing camouflage and markings. Includes one big profile 30 inch long.

Fifty color profiles of Hawker Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest V showing variety of the camouflage and markings in RAF. Also plan views showing camouflage and markings.

$35.00 • 48 pages • 8.25 x 11.7 • color profiles • March 2016 • hardback • 978-83-65281-05-0 • NCR

$35.00 • 48 pages • 8.27 x 11.7 • Color/Black and white • January 2016 • hardback • 978-8365281-09-8 • NCR

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Model Centrum Progres / PeKo Publishing / Protea Boekhuis ARMOR COLOR GALLERY

Illustrated History of the SturmgeschützAbteilung 202

Camouflage & Markings of German Armor in the Battle for Cassino

Norbert Számvéber

January-May 1944 Jeffrey Plowman and Daniele Guglielmi Published as a companion volume to Camouflage and Markings of Allied Armor in the battle for Cassino (#12 in the Series), this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by the Germans over the course of the fighting for this strategic objective. This book includes a number of rare and unpublished photos with detailed captions. It includes: SdKfz 251s, Marder IIs and IIIs, Semoventi M42s, PzKpfw IVs, Sturmgeschütze IIIs and IVs, Nashorns, Panthers, Pantherturms and captured Shermans.

Contains: 48 pages, 65 b&w photos and 19 full color plates of artwork.

The Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 202 was one of the most successful German assault gun units in the Second World War. It had been deployed exclusively on the Eastern Front against the Red Army between 1941 and 1945. The StuGs of this unit were very effective AFVs on the battlefield in the role of heavy weapons for infantry fire support and also as mobile antitank firepower. Dr. Norbert Számvéber, author of Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy and Days of Battle, presents a detailed combat history of this unit, primarily based on archival sources. The book includes a significant number of rare photographs and several maps.

$36.95 • 48 pages • 8 x 11.5 • 65 b/w photos, 19 full-color plates • December 2015 • paperback • 978-83-60672-25-9 • Model Centrum Progres • NCR

$59.95 • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-615-80072-6-9 • PeKo Publishing

Combat History of the Panzer-Abteilung 103

As the Crow Flies My Bushman Experience with 31 Battalion

September 1943 – August 1944 Norbert Számvéber

Col Delville Linford and Al J. Venter

The book presents the detailed combat history of German Panzer-Abteilung 103 as part of the 3. Panzergrenadier-Division in Italy from September 1943 to August 1944 based on the almost unknown war diary of this unit. The Panzer-Abteilung 103 was fully equipped with Sturmgeschütz III assault guns. This is an impressive look at tacticallevel events and command decisions, highlighting the German armored combat tactics in Italy. The book includes a number of original maps and excellent photos.

Operation Savannah entered the annals of South African military tradition four decades ago. Few are aware of the significant role played during the course of this operation by a fragmented Bushman unit led by one of the most enigmatic personalities to emerge in uniform.

$44.95 • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-615-5583-01-8 • PeKo Publishing

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Until now, Colonel Delville Linford has had very little to say about his role as commander of Combat Group Alpha, or of that played by his Bushman soldiers. In this volume he allows us a peek at not only how this tiny combat force operated, but also at many ‘behind the screens’ machinations which explain how the unit was formed. $21.00 • 336 pages • 6 x 8.5 • color photos • March 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4853-0268-1 • eISBN: 978-1-4853-0269-8 • Protea Boekhuis

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Oxbow Books

FOKUS FORTIFIKATION STUDIES

FOKUS ON FORTIFIKATION STUDIES

Ancient Fortifications

Focus on Fortification

A Compendium of Theory and Practice

New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Silke Muth, Peter Schneider, Mike Schnelle, and Peter De Steabler Dedicated to the investigation of fortifications as important and integral elements of ancient built space, the present volume results from the activity of the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. Ancient Fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean and is intended as a guide to research on ancient fortifications and a source of inspiration for new research.

Ancient city walls and other fortification structures have long been underestimated.

Since the early years of the 21st century, research on ancient fortifications has experienced an international boom, particularly amongst young researchers. They approached the study of fortifications with fresh ideas and new aims, and felt the need to discuss the problems and potentials of these monuments and to develop harmonized research methods and objectives. The outcome is the present bilingual (English and German) book, which offers a condensed view of the network’s extended conversations. The goal is not so much to offer an overview on the development of ancient fortifications, but rather to present versatile and diverse approaches to their research and interpretation and to serve as a kickoff for a new understanding of this category of ancient buildings. $88.00 • 352 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78570-139-9 • eISBN: 978-178570-140-5 • English and German Text • NCR

Rune Fredericksen, Silke Muth, Peter Schneider, and Mike Schnelle With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years.

While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient Greek and Roman worlds were noticed by travelers and scholars from the very beginning of research on antiquity from the late 18th century onwards, the architectural, economic, logistical, political, urban and other social aspects of fortifications have been somewhat overlooked and underestimated by scholarship in the 20th century. The book presents the research of a new generation of scholars who have been analyzing those aspects of fortifications, many of them with years of experience in fieldwork on city walls. Much new evidence and a fresh look at this important category of built structure is now made available, and the publication will be of interest not only to the field of ancient architecture, but also to other sub-disciplines of archaeology and ancient history. $110.00 • 624 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 459 images • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78570131-3 • NCR

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Roman Military Architecture on the Frontiers Armies and Their Architecture in Late Antiquity Rob Collins, Matt Symonds, and Meike Weber The Roman army was one of the most astounding organizations in the ancient world, and much of the success of the Roman Empire can be attributed to its soldiers. Archaeological remains and ancient texts provide detailed testimonies that have allowed scholars to understand and reconstruct the army’s organization and activities. This interest has traditionally worked in tandem with the study of Roman frontiers. Historically, the early imperial period, and in particular the emergence of the frontiers, has been the focus of research. During those investigations, however, the remains of the later Roman army were also frequently encountered, if not always understood. Recent decades have brought a burgeoning interest in not only the later Roman army, but also late antiquity more widely.

It is the aim of this volume to demonstrate that while scholars grappling with the late Roman army may want for a rich corpus of inscriptions and easily identifiable military installations, research is revealing a dynamic, lesspredictable force that was adapting to a changing world, in terms of both external threats and its own internal structures. $65.00 • 208 pages • 8.5 x 11 • black and white and color illustrations • Now Available • hardback • 978-1-78297-990-6 • NCR

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Pen & Sword

After Stalingrad Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War Adelbert Holl and Tony Le Tissier The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity. Their fate is rarely described. That is why Adelbert Holl's harrowing and vivid memoir of his seven-year ordeal as a prisoner in the Soviet camps is such an important record as well as an absorbing story.

As he moves from camp to camp across the Soviet Union, an unsparing inside view of the prison system and its population of ex-soldiers emerges. He describes the daily life in the camps – the crowding, the dirt, and the cold, the ever-present threat of disease, the forced marches, the indifference or cruelty of the guards – in authentic detail.

The Soviets treated German prisoners as slave laborers, working them exhaustively, in often appalling conditions. The prisoners could only struggle to survive, to support each other, and hope against hope to return home. $32.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5611-0

The Soviet Perspective

Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943–1945

Clayton Donnell

Red Steamroller

In December 1941, while America was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the offensives of the German Army Groups North and Center were stalled in the mud and cold of the Russian winter, the German Eleventh Army encircled the vast fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea, launching massive combined air, artillery and land attacks against the heavily defended positions. One of the most remarkable campaigns in the history of modern warfare had begun, and this is the subject of Clayton Donnell’s graphic and highly readable new study.

Robert Forczyk

The Defence of Sevastopol 1941–1942

Drawing on his expert knowledge of the history of modern fortifications, he describes the design and development of the Red Army’s formidable base at Sevastopol. But he concentrates on the sequence of attacks mounted by the Wehrmacht on the strongpoints protecting the city. The forts and bunkers had to be taken one by one after devastating artillery and air attacks, the casualties on both sides were severe, and this brutal struggle went on for over six months.

Using documentary records and a range of personal accounts, Clayton Donnell reconstructs the events and experience of the campaign in vivid detail.

By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter the war on the Eastern Front was dominated by tank-led offensives and, as Robert Forczyk shows, the Red Army’s mechanized forces gained the upper hand, delivering a sequence of powerful blows that shattered one German defensive line after another.

His incisive study offers fresh insight into how the two most powerful mechanized armies of the Second World War developed their tank tactics and weaponry during this period of growing Soviet dominance. He uses German, Russian and English sources to provide the first comprehensive overview and analysis of armored warfare from the German and Soviet perspectives. $39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78346-278-0

$34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78346-391-6

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Finland and the Total War 1939–1945 Claes Johansen Finland was the only nation with an elected and democratic government to fight on the German side in WWII. Despite being small, poorly armed and made up of conscripts, the Finnish army was probably the most effective fighting force at the time, managing with practically no help to keep the mighty Red Army at bay during the Winter War of 1939-40. In 1944, the devastating Soviet mass attack against the Finnish army involved the largest artillery assault of the entire WWII Theater of operations up until this point. Nevertheless, the Finns managed to halt the attack.

This book examines this important and often overlooked chapter of WWII. Building on the latest historical research, Claes Johansen’s ground-breaking work explains how the Finnish war effort was planned and executed, how it was connected to the overall events of the era, and how the waging of a total war can affect a modern democratic society. $39.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5314-0

Churchill’s Greatest Fear The Battle of the Atlantic – 3 September 1939 to 7 May 1945 Richard Doherty The Battle of the Atlantic (Churchill’s term) was arguably the pivotal campaign of the Second World War – it was certainly the longest starting with the sinking of RMS Athenia on 3 September 1939 and ending with the torpedoing of SS Avon Dale on 7 May 1945.

This superbly researched work covers all the major aspects of The Battle, balancing the initial advantages of Admiral Doenitz’s U-Boat force, the introduction of the convoy system, the role of the opposing surface fleets and air forces, relative strengths and the all-important technical developments. Intelligence particularly the Bletchley Park intercepts played an increasingly important part in the final outcome.

The author concludes that May 1943 was the moment when the Allies seized the initiative and, despite desperate German efforts, never lost their advantage. $39.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47383400-2

February 1942

The Battle for Burma

Britain’s Darkest Days

Wild Green Earth

Adrian Stewart

Bernard Fergusson

During February 1942, bad news of disasters came in an unbroken and seemingly endless sequence from the Far East to the Home Front. Some such as the Fall of Singapore and the Royal Navy’s humiliation over the escape of the Scharhnhorst and Gneisenau are well known but always worth retelling.

Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate’s Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson returned to Burma as part of this, as a Brigadier, leading the only Brigade in the new force which entered Burma on foot. It was one of four Brigades which established well-defended strongholds within Japanese-occupied Burma.

February 1942 was in retrospect, the month in which many longestablished beliefs were destroyed forever. It was the month that confirmed that Britain no longer ruled the waves; that saw British prestige so damaged that it could never be fully restored; that foreshadowed and ensured the end of Britain’s Empire; that demonstrated the immense strain that could be put on Britain’s relations with the Commonwealth’s self-governing Dominions. In short it was the month that changed Britain’s world. $39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2115-6

Fergusson also reflects candidly, and often humorously, on different aspects of the campaign. These include the ingenuity and sheer courage of the US Army Air Force pilots who flew in supplies and evacuated wounded. $24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-47382715-8

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Pen & Sword Special Forces Operations South-East Asia 1941–1945

Battle of the Bulge – St Vith BHTV

Minerva, Baldhead and Longshanks/Creek David Miller Many books have been written about Second World War Special Forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such operations in South-East Asia – those launched against the Japanese in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, and the Germans in Goa. These operations, and the exceptional men who took part in them, have been almost forgotten. David Miller, in this gripping account, sets the record straight.

His book is based on extensive original research, including long-hidden family documents, revealing much information for the first time and his narrative is fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in special operations and the war against the Axis powers in South-East Asia. His history is the first general account of these operations - it is a landmark in the field.

The Northern most thrust into the wintery Ardennes of General Hasso von Manteuffel’s Fifth Panzer Army fell on the inexperienced 106th US Infantry Division, who had not only just arrived in the European Theater of War but had only been in the line for five days, in what was supposed to be a ‘ghost front’. One of the best German infantry divisions reformed as the 18th Volksgrenadiers fell on the overextended Golden Lions dug in on the Schnee Eifel, where two US regiments were surrounded and forced to surrender.

Shot in the same deep winter snow as the battle was fought in, the BHTV team not only take the viewer to the scene of the action on Hitler’s Siegfried Line but use maps, contemporary photographs and reenactment footage of the battle to give a sense of what it was like for commanders and soldiers of both sides to fight this most terrible of US Army battles.

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78340063-8

$32.95 • 85 minutes • 5.3 x 7.5 • January 2016 • DVD NTSC • 5060247621203 • Pen and Sword Digital

Retreat and Rearguard – Dunkirk 1940

Ian Fleming’s Secret War

The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports

Craig Cabell

Jerry Murland This book, the third title in the Author’s Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais, St Valery-en-Caux and finally the Cherbourg Peninsula.

Some of the engagements are relatively well known (Cassell, the Arras counter-attack and the notorious Le Paradis SS massacre) but the author has unearthed many less known engagements from the long and painful withdrawal. While the main Dunkirk evacuation from the port and beaches was over by early June, elements of the BEF fought on until 21 June.

While Ian Fleming's extravagant and glamorous lifestyle is well known, little has been published concerning his contribution during the Second World War. As this book reveals, Fleming, the creator the iconic James Bond, 007, and a man who lived life in the fast lane, spent the Second World War in the 'cloak-and-dagger' world of intelligence, counterintelligence and special force units.

Fleming was selected by the Director of Naval Intelligence as his 'right hand man'. From the outset he was in the center of events, with access to key political and military figures as well as those of exceptional intelligence, experience and courage.

In relating those, often heroic, actions the author catches the atmosphere of desperate defiance that typified this never-to-beforgotten period.

The author has uncovered through official documentation, private papers and contacts the depth of Fleming's work in Naval Intelligence.

Fascinating insights emerge of those he worked with and details of covert trips to Europe and North Africa emerge.

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2366-2

$19.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-5349-2

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Pen & Sword Faith, Hope and Rice

Tempting The Fates

Private Fred Cox’s Account of Captivity and the Death Railway

Major General Dare Wilson CBE MC DL FRGS

Ellie Taylor Fred Cox, a young soldier in the East Surrey Regiment, was taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in February 1942. The next three and a half years were spent in a series of POW camps, notably in Thailand working on the aptly named Death Railway. Fortunately he was not one of the 12,000 Allied prisoners who perished as a result of extreme maltreatment, starvation or disease, but Fred’s health, both physical and psychiatric, was seriously affected.

After liberation, whilst in hospital in Ceylon, Fred was nursed by Joan whom he married. Advised by the doctors to talk about his horrific experiences, he and Joan spent the winter of 1946 – 1947 getting his story down on paper. Seventy years on, sadly after his death, Faith, Hope and Rice, (which were what sustained Fred through his ordeal) can be shared with a wider audience.

General Dare Wilson saw action in France 1940 (Dunkirk), Italy and North West Europe (where he won his MC) with the Northumberland Fusiliers and later the Recce Regiment. He then served in Palestine and Korea which he rates as the most vicious war he fought in. He was picked to command 22 SAS and was responsible for basing them at Hereford. His account of the world record-breaking free fall jump free falling from 34,000 feet makes thrilling reading – one member died. He went on to fight the Mau Mau in Kenya and was in the last party to leave Aden when we withdrew in 1968.

Dare then learnt to fly helicopters and commanded the fledgling Army/Air Corps. $24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-5341-6

$39.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47385788-9

Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France

Malta’s Greater Siege

Stewart Kent and Nick Nicholas

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta’s survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton, the airman described in the subtitle by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, went missing in 1944 in a single-seat American aircraft. He had flown at least 395 operational missions mostly from Malta. Unusually for a reconnaissance pilot, ‘Warby’ as he was known was credited with nine aircraft shot down. He lay undiscovered for sixty years. He is the RAF’s most highly decorated photo-recce pilot.

The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognized in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Victoria Cross.

Captured on his first mission, Trotobas led a mass break-out from Mauzac Internment Camp and eventually returned to England. He immediately volunteered to return and established and ran a resistance group around Lille and the Pas de Calais for a year. As the Nazis closed in, he refused to leave the French men and women who had shown him complete loyalty. He paid the ultimate price, fighting to the death rather than undergo capture.

As well as describing the operations of the Sylvestre-Farmer circuit, the authors record the rivalries and intrigues that sprang up culminating in betrayals and extraordinary demand for the court martial and execution of the Circuit’s British second in command.

Paul McDonald and Adrian Warburton DSO* DFC** DFC (USA)

In Malta, Adrian met Christina, a stranded dancer turned aircraft plotter in the secret world deep beneath Valletta’s fortress walls. She too was decorated for heroism. Together, they became part of the island’s folklore. $49.95 • 344 pages • 6 x 9 • February 201 6 • hardback • 978-1-47386008-7

$44.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47385163-4

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IMAGES OF WAR

United States Infantry Weapons of the Second World War

China and Japan at War 1937–1945

Michael Green

The 1937–1945 war between China and Japan was one of the most bitter conflicts of the twentieth century. It was a struggle between the two dominant peoples of Asia.

Millions of soldiers fought on each side and millions of soldiers and civilians died. Philip Jowett’s book is one of the first photographic histories of this devastating confrontation.

Philip Jowett

During the arduous campaigns in theaters of war from the Pacific to North West Europe, American infantry weapons played a key role in the eventual victory over the Axis forces. In so doing they earned a special reputation for ruggedness and reliability. In addition to being used by US ground forces they were widely adopted by other Allied nations.

Expert author Michael Green puts the full range of small arms, be they rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, pistols, machine guns as well as mortars, anti-tank weapons and close infantry support artillery under the microscope.

Many names such as the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) and the incomparable semiautomatic Garand will be well known whereas others (the Johnson Rifle and Reising SMG) are not. The typically informative text completes the wide range of photographic images. $24.95 • 200 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-14738-2722-6

Using a selection of almost 200 historic photographs, he traces the course of the entire war – from the Japanese invasion and the retreat of the Chinese armies and their refusal to surrender, to the involvement of the Americans and the eventual Japanese defeat in 1945. His graphic account is an absorbing introduction this often-neglected theater of the Second World War. The images show the armies on all sides and the weaponry and equipment they used. But they also record the experience of the troops, Chinese and Japanese, and of the Chinese civilians who suffered terribly through eight years of war. $24.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-47382752-3

IMAGES OF WAR

IMAGES OF WAR

Hitler’s Artillery 1939–1945

Hitler’s Heavy Panzers 1943–45

Hans Seidler

Ian Baxter

Hitler’s Artillery 1939 – 1945 is a highly illustrated record of the firepower of the German war machine between 1939 – 1945.

Many of the photographs, all from the author’s collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the war.

This work with its in-depth text, captions and rare images chronicles the last desperate years of the Wehrmacht Panzerwaffe. Despite a worsening strategic situation both on the Eastern Front and in the West, Hitler’s Panzers and their highly motivated crews showed superior tactical abilities and killing power abut such was the overall picture that this was not enough to alter the course of the war as the Allies closed remorselessly in on Berlin.

The images and text cover the guns in service with the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS and provide a unique visual record of artillery pieces. These include the 7.5cm 1.IG18, the 10.5cm infantry gun, the powerful 15cm field howitzer, heavy 18cm and 21cm mortars. Using over 250 rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, this book provides a unique insight into German weaponry from early Blitzkrieg campaigns to the final demise of the Nazi empire. $24.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-178346-377-0

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Covered in this superb book are many variants, some well-known and others less so including often modified, up-armored and up-gunned models. Copious images of Tigers 1 and 11, Panzerjager, Panthers, Panzer 4’s, StuG IV and III, Wespes, Hummels are provided as well as other fine examples of German engineering. $24.95 • 176 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-47383357-9

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Pen & Sword IMAGES OF WAR

IMAGES OF WAR

German Army on the Eastern Front – The Retreat 1943–1945

Armoured Warfare in the Far East 1937–1945 Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Ian Baxter

Anthony Tucker-Jones

After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army’s front lines were smashed to pieces by the growing Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943, and then a year later when the Russians launched their summer offensive, code names Operation BAGRATION, the German Army continued to fight on, withdrawing under constant enemy ground and air bombardments.

As the final months of retreat were played out on the Eastern Front in early 1945, it depicts how the once vaunted German Army, with diminishing resources, withdrew back across the Polish/German frontier to Berlin itself.

Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history is a fascinating visual introduction to the armored battles of the Second World War in the Far East and Asia-Pacific regions. In contrast to the experience of the armies that fought in Europe, in the Far East tanks remained an infantry support weapon, and their role is often neglected in histories of the conflict. The role of armored vehicles in each theater of the war in the Far East is shown in a selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs that record armor in action in China, Manchuria, Mongolia, Malaya, Burma and during the battles fought for the Pacific islands. $24.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-14738-5167-2

$24.95 • 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-47382267-2 IMAGES OF WAR

IMAGES OF WAR

IMAGES OF WAR

The Royal Armoured Corps in the Cold War 1946–1990

M1 Abrams Tank

French Army at Verdun

Michael Green

Ian Sumner

The M1 Abrams has proved itself to be the finest main battle tank in the World since its introduction into US Army service in 1981. It combines the ultimate balance between firepower, mobility and protection as demonstrated by its superior performance during the two Gulf Wars and in Afghanistan. It routed the Soviet equipment of Saddam Hussein’s army and today remains the yardstick by which friends’ and foes’ MBTs are judged.

In four and a half years of fighting on the Western Front a few battles stand out from the rest. They had a decisive impact on the course of the conflict.

For the French, the Battle of Verdun, fought between February and December 1916, was one of the greatest of these. That is why the selection of contemporary photographs Ian Sumner has brought together for this volume in the Images of War series is so important and revealing. They show the strained, sometimes shocked faces of the soldiers, record the shattered landscape in which they fought, and give us an insight into the sheer intensity of the fighting.

M P Robinson and Robert Griffin The Royal Armored Corps’ composition may have changed dramatically during the four and a half decades of The Cold War but its role in the nation’s defense has been predominant.

This highly informative book focuses on the deployment of the British Army’s armored regiments from the end of the Second World War, their vehicles and equipment, the creation of the British Army of the Rhine, NATO commitments and other peripheral missions.

The characteristics and variants of the Centurion, the powerful but short lived Conqueror, the Chieftain and Challenger are covered in expert text and by numerous images.

Its versatility and continual modernization of weaponry armor and engineering guarantees that the MI Abrams will remain the US Army’s spear point for years to come. $24.95 • 184 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-3423-1

$24.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-5615-8

$29.95 • 208 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-4375-2

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THE SECOND WORLD WAR BY NIGHT

Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich

Nachtjagd Versus Bomber Command

1940–1943

1943–1945

Martin Bowman

Martin Bowman

This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the first three years of the Second World War, consolidating first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of the early war years. Viewing Bomber Command’s operations through the eyes of the enemy, the reader is offered a fresh and intriguing perspective. Set in context by Bowman’s historical narrative, these snippets of pilot testimony work to offer an authentic sense of events as they played out.

This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the closing years of the Second World War, as the tide turned against the German and Axis forces. It includes riveting firsthand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of the latter war years.

$49.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4983-9

Viewing Bomber Command’s operations through the eyes of the enemy, the reader is offered a fresh and intriguing perspective. Set in context by Bowman’s historical narrative, these snippets of pilot testimony work to offer an authentic sense of the times at hand. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4979-2

Nuremberg

VOICES IN FLIGHT

The Blackest Night in RAF History

The Path Finder Force

Martin Bowman

Martin Bowman

This is a brand-new, updated history of the Nuremburg Raid, taking advantage of new stores of information that have come to light in recent years. In his usual, highly-praised style, Martin Bowman’s historical narrative is supplemented throughout by first-hand snippets of pilot testimony, offering an authentic sense of events as they played out.

Having access to extensive archives of images ensures that this is a visually pleasing and comprehensive account of one of the most iconic raids of the Second World War.

Charged with the formidable task of locating and marking German targets for attack by the main force of Bomber Command, the Path Finder Force - 8 (PFF) Group and those in 5 Group – was perhaps the most experienced and highly trained elite group created within the Royal Air Force during World War II. This remarkable evocation of a remarkable force is made up largely of narrative and photographs from the men who flew with or were an integral part of the PFF. They alone are best qualified to recount the Path Finder story.

$49.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5211-2

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3771-3

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Fighter Command’s Air War 1941 RAF Circus Operations and Fighter Sweeps Against the Luftwaffe Norman Franks Following the Battle of Britain, the RAF started taking the air war to the Germans. A small number of bombers, escorted by fighters tried to force the Luftwaffe into battle. Much air combat ensued, but it was not until Germany invaded Russia that operations were stepped.

The book covers the 100+ Circus operations and their accompanying fighter Sweeps, whilst also mentioning lesser operations where the RAF were concerned. $39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4722-4

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LUFT WAFFE AT WAR

LUFT WAFFE AT WAR

LUFT WAFFE AT WAR

Stukas Over the Steppe

Stukas Over the Mediterranean, 1940–1945

Focke Wulf 190

The Blitzkrieg in the East, 1941–1945 Peter C Smith This enthralling pictorial guide reveals the formidable power of one of the most feared warplanes of all time. The Ju 87 Stuka dominated the opening campaigns of World War II. With more than 100 photographs and detailed commentary, Stukas over the Steppe captures the many roles adopted by these famous dive-bombers as they blasted a path across Eastern Europe. $19.95 • 64 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-801-3

The Birth of the Butcher Bird 1939–1945 Morten Jessen

Peter C Smith This pictorial guide reveals the formidable power of one of the most feared warplanes of all time. With more than 100 photographs and detailed commentary, Stukas over the Mediterranean examines the role of German and Italian Ju 87s in such diverse campaigns as the attack on Yugoslavia, the battle for Crete and operations by the night flying squadrons. $19.95 • 64 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-800-6

Long with its well-known counterpart, the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Fw 190 became the backbone of the Luftwaffe’s fighting force.

Capable of performing in theaters as diverse as North Africa, the Russian Front and in Western Europe, its superior killing ability earned it the nickname, the ‘Butcher Bird’. Famed for its speed and maneuverability, some of the Luftwaffe’s fighter aces claimed many of their kills while flying it. $24.95 • 72 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-794-8

LUFT WAFFE AT WAR

LUFT WAFFE AT WAR

LUFT WAFFE AT WAR

Airwar Over the Atlantic

Fighters Over Russia

Manfred Griehl

Manfred Griehl

Eagles Over North Africa

In 1938, the German High Command instigated a major construction program for planes with a specifically maritime role. In this volume, Manfred Griehl showcases a photo-history of this development. More than a hundred pictures illustrate the German war machine’s struggle to match demand for aircraft, and the pilots’ attempting to control supply routes struggle to compete with allied superiority.

Initial success in Russia during the summer of 1941 gave way to desperate days after Stalingrad and the failure of Germany’s last major offensive. Subsequently the Luftwaffe was stripped of its newest fighters for the defense of the Reich and lost air superiority to the Red Air Force. This series examines the crucial air campaign over the Eastern Front through 120 informatively captioned photographs.

$24.95 • 72 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-791-7

$24.95 • 72 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-793-1

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Jeffrey Ethell Although the Luftwaffe achieved a great deal of success in North Africa between 1940 and 1943, it was hampered by the constant demand for men and machines elsewhere, logistical problems, such as a crippling lack of fuel, and the harsh desert conditions. An impressive selection of photographs reveal the German and Italian aircraft used and developed in this theater as well as the people involved. $24.95 • 72 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-792-4

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Their Finest Hour

The Dark Side of the Battle of Britain

Stories of the Men who Won the Battle of Britain

Jack Dixon Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding created Fighter Command with its early warning system from nothing in 1936 to the efficient defensive force it became in 1940. Hugh Dowding led Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain, and was victorious.The importance of the Battle of Britain was recognized, yet, the moment it was won Dowding was relieved of his command and shuffled into retirement without recognition, reward or promotion. $29.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-6077-3

The Boy Airman An Absolute Stranger to Fear Richard Petty The life of many combatants in The Great War was often short and brutish.

But there were choices for some. Taking to the air was an attractive alternative to the slime, stench and gore of the trenches. The prospect of flying in the Royal Navy, the Senior Service, Nelson’s Navy, must have been irresistible to any adventurous teenager or so he might have been led to believe. $39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4905-1

Luck of a Lancaster

Nick Thomas Their Finest Hour tells the stories of six of Churchill’s ‘Few’, each of whom played an important part in the Battle of Britain.

Celebrated and respected on their own squadrons, all have since faded into obscurity.

Their achievements, against all odds, and the fortunes of their comrades-in-arms, many of whom died during the Battle, are told here in detail. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • 978-178159-315-8

Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict The Life and Death of an Aviation Pioneer Ralph Barker Captain ‘Bill’ Lancaster, disappeared on a flight over the Sahara in 1933. It was twenty-nine years before his body was found beside the wrecked plane; a logbook tied to the wing, contained the calm yet moving record of his wait for death. A story as exciting as the age it is set in, its unique denouement leaves the reader free to pronounce his own verdict on Bill Lancaster. $39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5583-0

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107 operations, 244 crew, 103 killed in action Gordon Thorburn No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942.

W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid-April 1943. During her career, well over two hundred airmen flew in J. None were killed while doing so, but ninety-six of them died in other aircraft. This is their story, and the story of one lucky Lancaster. $24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-3438-5

Fortress Island Malta Defence and ReSupply During the Siege Peter Jacobs The introduction of Italy into the Second World War signaled the start of the siege of Malta, and for the next two and a half years the Axis powers did all they could to batter the island into submission.

Here, author Peter Jacobs tells the story of the heroic defense and re-supply of the Island of Malta during the longest siege in British history. $44.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78346-332-9

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FLIGHT CRAFT

Flight Craft 8: Mikoyan MiG-31

Flight Craft 9: Avro Shackleton

Defender of the Homeland

Neil Robinson and Martin Derry

Yefim Gordon

Voices From Jutland A Centenary Commemoration Jim Crossley

The MiG-31 started life as an advanced derivative of the famous MiG-25P interceptor, becoming the first Soviet fourth-generation combat aircraft. The book describes the MiG31’s developmental history, including upgrade programs, and features a full and comprehensive survey of the various MiG-31 model-making kits currently available on the market.

Split into three main sections, this latest Flight Craft title, perfectly timed to coincide with the release of the first examples of the eagerly awaited new tool 1/72 scale Airfix kit, offers a concise history of the Shackleton’s development and operational career from the prototype and initial entry in to RAF service in 1951, and its use with the South African Air Force, the only other operator of the type.

$29.95 • 96 pages • 11.7 x 8.27 • January 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2392-1

$29.95 • 96 pages • 8.27 x 11.7 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-6263-0

MODERN WARFARE

Soviet Cold War Weaponry Aircraft, Warships and Missiles

Cold War Jet Combat Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950–1972

Anthony Tucker-Jones

Martin Bowman

In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles, Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. Although the superpowers never came to blows, the so-called ‘Cold War’ was far from cold, with numerous ‘hot’ proxy wars being fought in Africa and the Middle East. All these conflicts employed Soviet weaponry which has been captured in action in the color and black-and-white photographs selected for this book.

Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft.

From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jetpowered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect, including those engaged in during the two IndoPak Wars of 1965 and 1971.

$24.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • January 2016 • paperback • 9781-4738-2361-7

Operation ‘Musketeer’, mounted when RAF and French Air Force bombers and fighter-bombers attacked airfields and other targets in Egypt, is also covered in this gripping narrative. $39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47383773-7

Jutland was the only major fleet engagement to take place during the First World War. In spite of losses of life, the battle did nothing to change the strategic situation in European waters. This book examines the strengths and weaknesses of both navies and identifies the reasons for the disappointing performance of the Royal Navy. $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2371-6

Gloster Javelin An Operational History Michael John W Napier The RAF’s only delta-winged fighter – the Gloster Javelin was also Britain’s first true All-Weather Fighter. Based in the UK and in Germany, the RAF’s Javelin squadrons formed the front line of Britain’s air defenses in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During this time Javelin crews pioneered the operational use of guided missiles and air-to-air refueling by fighter aircraft. In this history, illustrated with previously unpublished photographs, Michael Napier blends official records with personal accounts to describe the operational history of this iconic jet fighter.

LOOKING DOWN ON WAR

Evolution of Airborne Operations 1939–1945 Colonel Roy M Stanley II USAF (Ret’d) The development of air transport led strategists to examine the concept of inserting light infantry behind enemy lines by air landing. The Germans were first with assaults in Norway and at Eben Emael in 1940. The Allies on the other hand developed the concept with the large scale operation HUSKY in Sicily. Expert author and collector Roy Stanley traces the history of airborne landings in words and pictures. $39.95 • 272 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-14738-4380-6

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Skagerrak

The Epic Battle in the Soldiers’ own Words and Photographs

The Battle of Jutland Through German Eyes

Richard Van Emden

Gary Staff

The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation, hopeful of victory, were agonizingly dashed.

On 31 May 1916 The German High Seas Fleet clashed with the Royal Navy in the North Sea. The ensuing Battle of Jutland, known to the Germans as the Skaggerak Battle, was the most significant naval action of the First World War. Many works have dealt with this clash of titans, and many more will doubtless appear for the approaching centenary but the German perspective has been sorely neglected. By cross-referencing both German and British official records and accounts he has established the most coherent narrative of the battle possible.

Because of its legendary status, the Somme has been the subject of many books, and many more will come out next year. However, nothing has ever been published on the Battle in which the soldiers’ own photographs have been used to illustrate both the campaign’s extraordinary comradeship and its carnage.

$39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78383-123-4

$49.95 • 400 pages • 6.9 x 9.25 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47385521-2

Trapped Behind Enemy Lines Accounts of British Soldiers and their Protectors in The Great War John Anderson and Victor Piuk As 1914 ends, the war which was supposed to be over by Christmas, had settled down to an entrenched stalemate. Trapped behind enemy lines are many British soldiers who are hidden by brave French families. The risks are high for both fugitives and their protectors. This book tells their story, while focusing on a young Scot who emerges from hiding as Mademoiselle Louise, leading an amazing double life for almost two years, ending in betrayal.

Sentenced to death by the Germans only an impassionate plea from his adopted mother saves his life. Others are not so lucky. Trapped Behind Enemy Lines covers as aspect of The Great War that has been overlooked.

BATTLEGROUND

BATTLEGROUND

Verdun: The Left Bank

Walking Gallipoli

Christina Holstein

Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early.

Despite the gallantry displayed, this grand scale 1915 operation was plagued with failure in high places that betrayed the heroism in the field. Though a disaster with casualties of over half a million, those who visit Gallipoli owe it to those who died a conscious effort to see beyond the heartbreak and futility. There is no better way to do this other than walking the battlefields with this invaluable guide.

This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It explains the decision to change the original German plan for the Verdun offensive and extend the action to the Left Bank of the River Meuse. Using only original French and German sources the author describes the fighting on the Left Bank and follows the German offensive as it slowly pushed forward, taking three terrible months to reach its objectives, the two hills known as Cote 304 and the MortHomme, or Dead Man.

Stephen Chambers

$29.95 • 176 pages • 8.5 x 5.4 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2564-2

$24.95 • 192 pages • 5.4 x 8.5 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2703-5

$39.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3801-7

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Pen & Sword Breaking Point of the French Army

The Great War Illustrated 1915

The Nivelle Offensive of 1917

Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI

David Murphy In December 1916 General Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. He had enjoyed a meteoric rise to high command and public acclaim since the beginning of the war - he was a national hero.

In return, he proclaimed he ‘had the formula’ that would ensure victory and end the conflict in 1917. But his offensive was a bloody and humiliating failure for France, one that could have opened the way for French defeat.

William Langford and Jack Holroyd The second in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically. The Great War Illustrated 1915 covers the 1915 Gallipoli campaign and the battles that commenced on the Western Front that year.

Many will be seen for the first time by a new generation interested in the war that changed the world forever. $39.95 • 368 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2396-9

The Great War through Picture Postcards Guus de Vries During World War I, the picture postcard was the most important means of communication for the soldiers in the field and their loved ones at home, with an estimated 30 billion of them sent between 1914 and 1918. These postcards create a vivid record of life at home and abroad, both from the messages they carried and the pictures on the cards themselves. $39.95 • 256 pages • 8.5 x 11 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5668-4

This is the subject of David Murphy’s penetrating, in-depth study of one of the key events in the history of the Great War. $39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78159-292-2

Zeppelins Over the Midlands

This Bloody Place

Britain Goes to War

The Air Raids of 31st January 1916

The Incomparables at Gallipoli

Mick Powis

Richard Van Emden

On 31st January 1916 nine Zeppelin airships of the Imperial German Navy bombed the Midlands, opening a strategic bombing campaign designed to cripple British war production. It ended in total failure. Through intensive research the author has been able to identify many of the victims and give the full story of these events for the first time.

Captain Albert Mure, a company commander in the 5th Battalion, spent forty-three days in Gallipoli. In those weeks, this brave officer was reduced from a determined leader to a physical and mental wreck. Mure conveys the drama of the first landings, knowing that very shortly afterwards he and his men would be ashore and experiencing the same fate; his sympathy for those under his command is clear.

How the First World War Began to Reshape the Nation

$39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3419-4

$39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5792-6

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Peter Liddle The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations. The prewar world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape.

That is why the time is right for this collection of chapters that reassesses why Britain went to war and the preparations made by the armed forces, the government and the nation for the conflict that ensued. $44.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2820-9

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British Submarines At War 1914–1918 Edwyn Gray Accurate in detail, yet written with humanity and humor, it tells the story of Britain’s pioneer submarines during the 1914-1918 War during which their crews battled courageously in atrocious conditions against a skilled and ruthless enemy and an equally unforgiving sea. $24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-5345-4

British Expeditionary Force – The 1915 Campaign

Britain’s Last Tommies Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914–18 War – In Their Own Words Richard Van Emden

Andrew Rawson The British Expeditionary Force is a thorough account of the BEF’s actions during the battles of 1915 and early 1916, starting with the success at Neuve Chapelle in March and the nightmare gas attack at Ypres in April. Together the narrative and over sixty maps provide an insight into the Army’s experience during those days.

There are now no veterans alive of the men who served on the Western Front. This means that the Great War as a living history is over, making the twenty years Richard van Emden spent interviewing and recording the memories of over 270 veterans for this extraordinary collection even more poignant. $29.95 • 340 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-6089-6

$39.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4615-9

The Burgoyne Diaries The First Winter at Ypres with the Royal Irish Rifles Gerald Achilles Burgoyne These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. Despite conditions of all-pervading mud, bitter cold and wind, Burgoyne recorded what he saw. Each day is a gem of interest, from the first entry to the last. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2758-5

VCs of the North Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland Alan Whitworth Today the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. During its 160-year history, 1,357 of these medals have been won. Alan Whitworth, in this carefully researched and revealing account, describes in graphic detail the exploits and the lives of this elite band of heroes. $39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4822-1

VCs on the Western Front – Somme 1916 1st July 1916 to 13th November 1916 Paul Oldfield While visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic context.

Detailed maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. $49.95 • 368 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2712-7

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Pen & Sword Gloucestershire Hero

Horses of the Great War

Brigadier Patsy Pagan’s Great War Experiences

The Story in Art John Fairley

Peter Rostron Small in physical stature Colonel, later Brigadier, Patsy Pagan was seen as a giant by the men of the Gloucestershire Regiment, whom he commanded for over three grueling years of The Great War. The author uncovers the contribution and character of this great fighting soldier through personal records, trench diaries and other official papers.

Horses of the Great War uses a wide range of superb contemporary paintings to explain the contribution of countless innocent horses to the war effort and victory. These works supported by informed commentary tell how the horses were rounded up from all over the world in their hundreds of thousands; how the cavalry halted the German advance in 1914 and again in 1918.

$39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4374-5

$49.95 • 160 pages • 8.5 x 11 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4826-9

Bicycles, Bloomers and Great War Rationing Recipes The Life and Times of Dorothy Peel OBE Victoria Straker Sourced from Dorothy Peel’s autobiography, Bicycles, Bloomers and Great War Rationing Recipes explores the effects of rationing during World War I and Peel’s wartime recipes.

Vicky Straker has tried and tested these recipes, and as many are featured in their original form, some are amended to suit modern tastes. $49.95 • 256 pages • 6.8 x 9.69 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2858-2

British Nannies & the Great War

Roll of Honour

How Norland Nannies Coped With Conflict & Childcare in the Great War

Barry Blades

Louise Heren British Nannies and the Great War is the true story of a group of Edwardian, highly trained and opinionated women in the First World War. For the first time in a century, the nannies’ stories of escape, and experiences at home and the Front during the War are told in their own words. $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47382753-0

Schooling and the Great War 1914–1919 Unlike much of the traditional literature on the Great War, Roll of Honour focuses on how the Great War was experienced by communities involved in ‘schooling’ the nation’s children. It emphasizes the need to examine the ‘myriad faces of war’, rather than traditional stereotypes. $49.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-14738-2105-7

The Hunger War Food, Rations and Rationing 1914–1918 Matthew Richardson Matthew Richardson, in this highly readable study, looks at the food supply situation on the British, German, French, Russian and Italian home fronts, as well as on the battlefields. His broad perspective contrasts with some narrower approaches to the subject, and brings a fresh insight into the course of the war on all the major fronts. $44.95 • 296 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-14738-2749-3

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Fight the Good Fight Voices of Faith from the First World War John Broom Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was one factor that united millions of people across all nations: that of a Christian faith. This book brings together twenty-three individual and family case studies, some of well-known personalities, others whose story has become neglected through the decades. $39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-14738-5415-4

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Pen & Sword THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATED

THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATED

The Home Front

Call to Arms – Over By Christmas

Deepening Conflict David Bilton

Peter Hughes

Outbreak of War

Many books have looked at the effect of the war on the Home Front, but this is the first book to take a glimpse at the Home Front photographically from an international point of view, covering both Allied and enemy countries, juxtaposing the same situations in different countries to show a similar response. $39.95 • 368 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3371-5

IN MEMORY AND IN MOURNING

Visiting the Fallen – Arras Memorials

David Bilton For many years the Home Front was the Cinderella of the Great War. However, in recent years it has been acknowledged for the essential part it played in the prosecution of the war for the Allies. This book provides a fully illustrated account of every aspect of the civilian war. $44.95 • 368 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3372-2

$44.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2557-4

IN MEMORY AND IN MOURNING

IN MEMORY AND IN MOURNING

Lijssenthoek Menin Gate South Military Cemetery Paul Chapman

Menin Gate North

Paul Chapman This is a comprehensive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanize the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, to offer the reader a chance to engage with the stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiseled there in stone.

This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanize the Menin Gate Memorial (South), to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiseled there in stone.

This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanize the Menin Gate Memorial (North), to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiseled there in stone.

Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial

$60.00 • 416 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47385095-8

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IN MEMORY AND IN MOURNING

The four memorials covered in the book are the Arras Memorial, the Canadian National Memorial on Vimy Ridge, the Vis-en-Artois Memorial and the Royal Flying Services Memorial. The author takes the reader through the officers and men in the order in which they appear on the memorials in this guide that provides coverage of awards and citations.

Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman This is a comprehensive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanize Tyne Cot cemetery, to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiseled there in stone. $60.00 • 416 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47385083-5

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Pen & Sword Roman Military Disasters Dark Days and Lost Legions Paul Chrystal There is a tendency when dealing with world superpowers to focus on their successes.

After all, these are what made them superpowers in the first place. However, reverses and disasters suffered on the way to preeminence are equally significant. This book is the first to examine the paradoxical role lost battles and defeat played in the success of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. $39.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2357-0

The Roman Emperor Aurelian Restorer of the World John F White The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached, the empire was lapsing into chaos. Yet within the space of just five years, the general, later emperor Aurelian had expelled all the barbarians from with the Roman frontiers, reunited the entire empire and inaugurated major reforms of the currency, pagan religion and civil administration. $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4569-5

The Army of the Roman Republic From the Regal Period to the Army of Julius Caesar Michael M Sage Michael Sage traces the development of the republic’s army from its foundation (having first set the context of their regal antecedents), down to the time of its most famous leader, Julius Caesar. The transition from clan-based forces, through the ‘Servian’ levy and the development of the manipular and cohortal legion is examined along with the associated weapons, tactics and operational capabilities. $34.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78346-379-4

Mithridates the Great Rome’s Indomitable Enemy Philip Matyszak

Rome Spreads Her Wings Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars Gareth Sampson The decades between the end of the First Punic War and the beginning of the Second represent a key period in Rome’s ambitions. Within Italy, Rome faced an invasion of Gauls, which threatened the Roman state. This work seeks to view these wars in their own right, analyze how close Rome came to being defeated in Italy and asses the importance of these decades in the foundation of Rome’s empire. $39.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78303-055-2

The Nisibis War 337–363 The Defence of the Roman East AD 337–363

A military biography of Mithridates VI ‘the Great’ of Pontus, Rome’s most persistent enemy. The Mithridiatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents, and have a fascinating cast of pirates, rebels, turncoats and poisoners.Through it all, the story is built about the dominant character of Mithridates, connoisseur of poisons, arch-schemer and strategist, resilient in defeat, savage and vindictive in victory.

John S Harrel

$24.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2890-2

$39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4830-6

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The War of 337–363 (the author dubs the ‘Nisibis War’), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on a strategic offensive to bring a decisive battle.

Instead, the Emperor Constantius II adopted a defensive strategy and conducted a mobile defense based upon small forces defending fortified cities. John Harrel applies his experience of military command to a strategic, operational, and logistical analysis of these campaigns.

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Pen & Sword The Fall of the Seleukid Empire 187–75 BC

A Chronology of Ancient Greece

The concluding part of John D Grainger’s history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt in the West and the Parthians in the East. $34.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78303-030-9

From the expansion of the Greek world, the development of all the relevant states is covered. The text is divided into events per geographical area with accounts provided for battles and political crises.

Xenophon and the Death of Thucydides

The Battle of Teutoberg

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The period of history in which Stilicho lived was one of the most turbulent in European history.

Ian Hughes explains how a Vandal came to be given almost total control of the Western Empire and describes his attempts to save both the Western Empire and even Rome itself from attacks. $24.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2900-8

$39.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3428-6

Four Days in September

This book covers xenophon’s search for Thucydides. This coherent narrative is based on historical reports, and plausible constructions.

Ian Hughes

This book offers a coherent narrative of the history of ancient Greece commencing with the Bronze Age.

A Strategist in Exile

Thucydides was the chronicler of the Peloponnesian war. His work ends abruptly as a court judged him responsible Athens’ defeat, forcing him into exile. It was continued later by xenophon.

The Vandal Who Saved Rome

Timothy Venning

John D Grainger

Rainer Nickel

Stilicho

Jason R Abdale

Viking Nations

Brutus of Troy

The Development of Medieval North Atlantic Identities

And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

Dayanna Knight

For twenty years, the Roman Empire conquered its way through modern-day Germany, claiming all lands from the Rhine to the Elbe. However, when at last all appeared to be under control, a catastrophe erupted that claimed the lives of 10,000 legionnaires and laid Rome’s imperial ambitions for Germania into the dust.

How was the North Atlantic settled? How did the distinct cultures of medieval Iceland and Greenland come to be? Viking Nations is an interdisciplinary consideration of medieval North Atlantic settlement that focuses on not only site-related identity but also the active choices made to adopt elements of identity.

$39.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47386085-8

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-47383393-7

Anthony Adolph The book covers the story of Britain’s search for its identity before and after the arrival of Christianity, leading up to the invention of the seeds of the Brutus myth in the 600s AD. It charts the development of his myth into a fully blown adventure story under the pen of Geoffrey of Monmouth. $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-14738-4917-4

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Pen & Sword G.I. THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE AMERIC AN SOLDIER, HIS UNIFORM, AND HIS EQUIPMENT

Terrible Swift Sword Union Artillery, Cavalry and Infantry, 1861–1865 John P Langellier This fascinating addition to the GI series demonstrates the full range of uniforms, equipment, and armament used by the troops who fought for Abraham Lincoln’s Union army during the American Civil War. Far from being uniformly clad in blue, the Union soldier appeared in a great variety of clothing, from simple civilian-style dress to elaborate uniforms inspired

by European armies.

This volume covers artillery, cavalry and infantry and includes over a dozen color images produced in the 1860s for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Department, as well as the complete 1861 U.S. Army uniform regulations. $19.95 • 64 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-184832-812-9

Custer and His Commands From West Point to Little Bighorn John P Langellier and Kurt Hamilton George Armstrong Custer was one of the most flamboyant and controversial officers ever to have served in the United States Army.

This superbly illustrated book provides a unique visual record of this famous commander from his graduation at West Point to the last great battle of the American West: the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Rare photographs from private collections show his stylish uniforms, weapons and artifacts, and reveal the faces of the men who rode into legend with him. Includes images of the units he commanded and of the soldiers who fought – and some of whom died – at the Little Big Horn. $19.95 • 64 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-184832-807-5

Redlegs

Distant Thunder

The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish American War, 1861–1898

The U.S. Artillery from the Spanish American War to the end of the 20th century

John P Langellier

Alejandro M de Quesada

This volume in the popular G.I. series illustrates a much-neglected aspect of American military history – the U.S. Army artillerymen, named redlegs after the red stripes on their trousers. The photographs, most of them rarely seen in other sources, range from the Civil War and the campaigns against the American Indians through to the Spanish-American War.

The twentieth century was a time of near total transformation of artillery. The U.S. Army was at the forefront of these developments.

American troops fighting the Spanish in Cuba during the Spanish-American War were equipped with the 1885-model field gun; nearly a century later American troops fielded an array of accurate, advanced and precise weapons systems during the Gulf War.

Artillery was a vital arm and proved its worth in all of these diverse theaters of war; artillerymen served as part of mobile columns, in sieges and blockades, and as garrisons in remote frontier forts. This handy guide includes superb images and descriptive captions detailing the appearance of the men, their uniforms and equipment, and the ordnance used over the years.

This unique pictorial history examines the weapons – from field guns to MLRS and TACMs – and the equipment utilized by American troops along with the uniforms and insignia of U.S. artillerymen. It looks at field artillery, coastal artillery, anti-aircraft and a diverse array of modern missile types and systems.

$24.95 • 72 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832-811-2

This is a useful guide to a crucial part of America’s twentieth-century armed forces and offers valuable insights into the evolving world of modern artillery. $24.95 • 72 pages • 7.5 x 9.7 • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-84832808-2

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Pen & Sword Fighting for Napoleon

Picton’s Division at Waterloo

French Soldiers’ Letters 1799–1815

Philip Hawthornwaite

Bernard Wilkin and René Wilkin The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often seen from a strategic point of view, or through officers’ memoirs. It is rarely seen from the perspective of the lowest ranks of the army.

That is why this account, based on more than 1,600 letters written by French soldiers of the Napoleonic armies, is of such value. It adds to the existing literature by exploring every aspect of the life of a French soldier during the period 1799–1815.

In the two hundred years since the Battle of Waterloo countless studies examining almost every aspect of this momentous event have been published. But what has not been written is an in-depth study of a division, one of the larger formations that made up the armies on that decisive battlefield - the famous Fifth Division, commanded by Sir Thomas Picton. $49.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78159-102-4

Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes Bryan Perrett Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds – victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected maneuver, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In this book, military historian Bryan Perrett revisits battles from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, via colonial action in two world wars. $29.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4749-1

Secret Histories of Britain’s Rebels and Revolutionaries Sue Wilkes Sue Wilkes reveals the shadowy world of Britain’s spies, rebels and secret societies from the late 1780s until 1820. Drawing on contemporary literature and official records, Wilkes unmasks the real conspirators and tells the tragic stories of the unwitting victims sent to the gallows. To keep the nation safe, a ‘war chest’ of secret service money funded a network of spies to uncover potential rebels amongst the underprivileged masses. $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78340-061-4

$39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3373-9

Impossible Victories

Regency Spies

A History of Jungle Warfare

The Rhodesian War

From the Earliest Days to the Battlefields of Vietnam

Fifty Years On [From UDI]

Bryan Perrett and General Sir Walter Walker KCB, CBE, DSO A world of dense vegetation, roots, and swamps. Where sophisticated weaponry and technology have revolutionized combat. Where survival depends on acute observation. The jungle. Backdrop to wars that have changed the course of history, extensively illustrated study by Bryan Perrett.

Originally published in 1990, this re-issue represents a determination by the publisher to keep this esteemed volume in print.

Paul Moorcraft and Peter McLaughlin Fifty years on, this superb and exciting book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. Atrocities were undoubtedly committed by both sides but equally the protagonists were playing for very high stakes. $24.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-6073-5

$24.95 • 208 pages • 6.8 x 9.69 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4753-8

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Pen & Sword Guns of Special Forces 2001–2015 Leigh Neville In the years since 9/11 Special Forces of many nations have been in almost constant action in covert, high risk operations around the globe. This highly researched book gives the reader a privileged insight into this secret world exploring the custom-built weapons that operators carry on capture/kill missions in the 21st Century. $39.95 • 320 pages • 6.8 x 9.69 • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2106-4

Desert Warfare From its Roman Origins to the Gulf Conflict Bryan Perrett and Field Marshal Lord Carver GCB, CBE, DSO, MC Approximately one-fifth of the earth’s surface consists of desert, and throughout history these arid regions have witnessed some of the world’s most decisive battles. Here, Bryan Perrett gives an absorbing account of desert conflicts from the first century BC to more contemporary conflicts such as those in Iran and Iraq. The desert does not compromise, and battles fought there result at horrific cost. $39.95 • 224 pages • 6.8 x 9.69 • February 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4745-3

Syria: An Outline History John D Grainger Syria (which in its historical wider sense includes modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Jordan) has always been at the center of events of world importance. John D Grainger gives an overview of the making of this historical region. From the end of the ice age through the procession of Assyrian, Phoenician, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Turkish, French and British attempts to dominate this area, the key events are explained and analyzed. $49.95 • 384 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-6081-0

Honourable Warriors

The Yompers

Invasion 1982

Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan – A Front-line Account of the British Army’s Battle for Helmand

With 45 Commando in the Falklands War

The Falkland Islanders Story

Richard Streatfeild In 2009 Major Richard Streatfeild and his men fought for six months against the Taliban in Sangin, northern Helmand. They were engaged in over 800 fire-fights. They were the target of more than 200 improvised explosive devices.

Ten men in his company were killed, 50 were wounded. This is their story, from the front line, of Western intervention in Afghanistan.

Ian R Gardiner Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. Lacking helicopters and short of food, they ‘yomped’ in appalling weather carrying overloaded rucksacks, across the roughest terrain. Yet for a month in midwinter, they remained a cohesive fighting-fit body of men. $24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-5342-3

$29.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2901-5

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Graham Bound Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Second World War. This book tells how islanders’ warnings were ignored in London, how their defenses gave way to a massive invasion, and how they survived occupation. A new chapter about Falklands history reveals that while the Falklands have benefited from Britain’s commitment, a cold war continues in the south Atlantic. $19.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-5343-0

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Pen & Sword

British Concentration Camps

The History of the Green Up the Micks!

An Illustrated History of the Irish Howards

A Brief History from 1900–1975

Geoffrey Powell and John S W Powell

Guards

Raised in 1688, the Green Howards have maintained their tradition of loyalty over the past 300 years winning many superb battle honors. Their history reflects that of the British Army as there is hardly a major campaign that this Regiment has not been involved in. This fine book brings the story of one of Britain’s finest regiments right up to date.

The unique history of The Micks – the Irish Guards – is chronicled in over 1000 images, starting with their formation in 1900 and taking the reader through to the recent war in Afghanistan. It is the story of a remarkable family regiment that continues to enhance the values, standards and reputation of the British infantry in an ever-changing world.

$44.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5796-4

$75.00 • 352 pages |8.5 x 11 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-3563-4

Wanton Troopers

Sedan 1870

Buckinghamshire in the Civil Wars 1640–1660

The Eclipse of France

Ian F W Beckett The causes of the three ‘English’ Civil Wars are complex and controversial. But, whatever the focus of scholarship, many answers can be sought at the local level, among county communities that were far more outward-looking than once suggested. That is why Ian Beckett’s in-depth study of Buckinghamshire, one of the pivotal counties during this turbulent period in British history, is of such value.

The FrancoPrussian War was a turning point in the nineteenth-century Europe, and the Battle of Sedan was the pivotal event. For the Germans their victory symbolized the birth of their nation. For the French it was a defeat more humiliating than Waterloo. Douglas Fermer’s study of this moment reconsiders how the fear and insecurity of two nations tempted their governments to seek a solution by waging war.

The War of the Spanish Succession 1701–1714

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-5603-5

$24.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2016 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2889-6

Simon Webb This book tells the terrible story of Britain’s involvement in the use of concentration camps, which did not finally end until the last political prisoners were released in 1975. From England to Cyprus, Scotland to Malaya, Kenya to Northern Ireland; British Concentration Camps; A Brief History from 1900 to 1975 details some of the most shocking and least known events in British history. $39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-4738-4629-6

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Douglas Fermer

James Falkner The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of Western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That is why the publication of James Falkner’s absorbing new study is so timely and important. $49.95 • 280 pages • 6 x 9 • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-78159-031-7

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Too Useful to Sacrifice Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam Steven R. Stotelmyer The importance of Robert E. Lee’s first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate. After his string of successes in Virginia, a decisive Confederate victory in Maryland or Pennsylvania may well have spun the war in an entirely different direction. Why he and his Virginia army did not find success across the Potomac was due in large measure to the generalship of George B. McClellan, as Steven Stotelmyer ably demonstrates in Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam.

Although typecast as the slow and overly cautious general who allowed Lee’s battered army to escape, in fact, argues Stotelmyer, General McClellan deserves significant credit for defeating and turning back the South’s most able general. He does so through five comprehensive chapters, each dedicated to a specific major issue of the campaign. $29.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • 12 maps, 7 images • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121-304-1 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-305-8

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, his Near-Mortal Wounding, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered Dennis A. Rasbach Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet “Lion of the Round Top” for his brilliance leading his 20th Maine Infantry on the slopes of Little Round Top at Gettysburg.

Promoted to brigade command, he was presumed mortally wounded during an assault, and bestowed a rare “on the spot” promotion to brigadier general. He survived, and returned to the command in 1865.

Chamberlain went to his grave believing he was wounded while advancing alone. This narrative has been perpetuated by Chamberlain scholars over the past century. In fact, author Dennis Rasbach argues, a careful review of the evidence left by Chamberlain and his contemporaries suggests that Chamberlain was mistaken regarding the context of the engagement. An overwhelming body of evidence demonstrates he actually attacked a different part of the Confederate line in the vicinity of an entirely different road.

Decision at Tom’s Brook George Custer, Tom Rosser, and the Joy of the Fight William J. Miller The Battle of Tom’s Brook was “the greatest disaster that ever befell our cavalry during the whole war.” The fight took place during the last autumn of the Civil War, when the Union General Phil Sheridan vowed to turn the croprich Shenandoah Valley into “a desert.” Farms and homes were burned, livestock slaughtered, and Southern families suffered.

The story of the Tom’s Brook cavalry affair centers on two young men who had risen to prominence as soldiers: George A. Custer and Thomas L. Rosser. They had been fast friends since their teenage days at West Point, but the war sent them down separate paths – Custer to the Union army and Rosser to the Confederacy. Each was a born warrior who took obvious joy in the exhilaration of battle. Each possessed almost all of the traits of the ideal cavalryman – courage, intelligence, physical strength, inner-fire. Only their judgment was questionable. $29.95 • 216 pages • 6 x 9 • 10 maps, 20 images • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121308-9 • eISBN: 978-1-9406-69-65-6

$29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 maps, 42 images • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121306-5 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-307-2

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Confederate Waterloo The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865, and the Controversy that Brought Down a General Michael J. McCarthy The Battle of Five Forks broke the long siege of Petersburg, triggered the evacuation of Richmond, precipitated the Appomattox Campaign, and destroyed the careers of two generals. Michael J. McCarthy’s Confederate Waterloo is the first fully researched account of this decisive Union victory and the aftermath fought in the courts and at the bar of public opinion.

General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had been locked into the sprawling defenses surrounding the stronghold of Petersburg and the Southern capital at Richmond for more than eight months. A series of battles led up to April 1, when General Phil Sheridan’s forces struck at Five Forks. The attack surprised and collapsed General George Pickett’s Confederate command and turned Lee’s right flank. An attack along the entire front broke the siege and forced the Virginia army out of its defenses and, a week later, into Wilmer McLean’s parlor to surrender at Appomattox. $32.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • 55 images, 10 maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121309-6 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-310-2

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

The Three Battles of Sand Creek

Volume III, The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign

The Cheyenne Massacre in Blood, in Court, and as the End of History

General Ezra A. Carman and Thomas G. Clemens The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

As bloody and horrific as the battle of Antietam was historian Ezra Carman—who penned a 1,800-page manuscript on the Maryland campaign—did not believe it was the decisive battle of the campaign. Generals Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan intended to continue fighting after Sharpsburg, but the battle of Shepherdstown Ford (September 19 and 20) forced them to abandon their goals and end the campaign. Carman was one of the few who gave this smaller engagement its due importance, detailing the disaster that befell the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry and Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill’s success in repulsing the Union advance, and the often overlooked foray of Jeb Stuart’s cavalry to seize the Potomac River ford at Williamsport. $32.95 • 408 pages • 6 x 9 • 3 maps, 3 images • June 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121-302-7 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-303-4

Gregory F. Michno The Sand Creek Battle occurred on November 29-30, 1864, a confrontation between Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians and Colorado volunteer soldiers. The affair was a tragic event, and what occurred there continues to be contested. Indeed, labeling it a “battle” or a “massacre” will likely start an argument before any discussion on the merits even begins. Even questions about who owns the story, and how it should be told, are up for debate.

Award-winning author Gregory Michno divides his study into three sections. The first, “In Blood,” details the events of November 29 and 30, 1864, in what is surely the most comprehensive account to date. The second section, “In Court,” focuses on the three investigations into the affair, illustrates the biases involved, and presents some of the contradictory testimony. The third and final section, “The End of History,” shows the impossibility of sorting fact from fiction. $29.95 • 212 pages • 6 x 9 • 19 images, 4 maps • April 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121-311-9 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-312-6

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Savas Beatie From German Cavalry Officer to Renaissance Pilot

The Final Service Gary W. Moore Soon to be a motion picture written and directed by Academy awardwinning producer-director Kieth Merrill. Filming set for Spring 2016 in upstate New York.

The World War I History, Memories, and Photographs of Leonhard Rempe, 1914–1921 Paul L. Rempe Twenty-one-year-old Leonhard Rempe volunteered to serve Germany in 1914. By the time World War One ended, he had seen action on both major fronts, witnessed the war from the back of a horse and the cockpit of plane, and amassed one of the more unique records of anyone in the Kaiser’s army. From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot is his remarkable story.

Using primary and secondary sources Dr. Paul Rempe provides insight into the grim realities of Leonhard’s war while his father’s own memoir recalls his special comradeship with his fellow soldiers and airmen. From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot adds substantially to the growing literature of the First World War, and paints a unique and compelling portrait of a young German caught up in the deadly jaws of mass industrialized war. $27.95 • 144 pages • 7 x 10 • 79 images, 3 maps • January 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121-321-8 • eISBN: 978-1-9406-69-54-0

Brandywine A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777 Michael C. Harris Brandywine Creek calmly meanders through the Pennsylvania countryside today, but in September 1777, it served as the scenic backdrop for the largest battle of the American Revolution. Long overshadowed by the American victory at Saratoga, the complex British campaign that defeated George Washington’s colonial army and led to the capture of Philadelphia was one of the most important military events of the war. Michael C. Harris’ impressive work is the first full-length study of this pivotal engagement in many years. $22.95 • 528 pages • 6 x 9 • 35 images and 16 maps • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121322-5 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-163-4

“He arrived unannounced, where and when she needed him most . . .”

Sandy Richards, a 40 year old music teacher in Walton Center carries a heavy burden she cannot release.

During her childhood, Sandy (or “Shadow” as everyone knew her) was inseparable from her father, a World War II hero. For reasons she would not understand until years later, something went wrong and their relationship fractured, seemingly forever, when her father died of lung cancer. His passing left Shadow alone to “sort through his warehouse of junk,” a storage facility with emotions that balanced her on the edge of suicide. Then, when she needed him most, a stranger entered her life.

The Final Service offers a riveting story about human nature and how unfulfilled dreams left a woman on the brink of destruction until one event forever altered her life. $22.95 • 216 pages • 5 x 7.375 • May 2016 • hardback • 978-1-61121294-5 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-295-2

“Stand to It and Give Them Hell” Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 John Michael Priest This is unlike any other Gettysburg book you will read. Instead of a dry recitation of the facts, “Stand to It and Give Them Hell” chronicles the desperate marching, fighting, command decisions, and suffering as depicted in the letters, memoirs, diaries, and postwar recollections of the men from both armies who struggled to control that “hallowed ground.” $22.95 • 528 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 images and 58 maps • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121324-9 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-177-1

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The Chickamauga Campaign – A Mad Irregular Battle From the Crossing of the Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22–September 19, 1863 David A. Powell Chickamauga, according to rumor, is a Cherokee word meaning “River of Death.” It lived up to that sobriquet when Union and Confederate armies waged combat along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek. Long considered a two-day affair, David Powell embraces a fresh approach that explores Chickamauga as a three-day battle. $22.95 • 696 pages • 6 x 9 • 40 images and 26 maps • May 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121323-2 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-175-7

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EMERGING CIVIL WAR

EMERGING CIVIL WAR

Attack at Daylight and Whip Them

Don’t Give an Inch

A Want of Vigilance

The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 18623

The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 Chris Mackowski and Daniel T. Davis

The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9–19, 1863

Gregory A. Mertz Attack at daylight and whip them—that was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. A brutal day of fighting ensued, unprecedented in its horror—the devil’s own day, one union officer admitted. The bloodshed that resulted from the two-day battle exceeded anything America had ever known in its history. $14.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 150 images and maps • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121313-3 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-314-0

George Gordon Meade had been thrust into command of the Army of the Potomac as it launched a bold invasion northward. The next day, July 2, 1863, would be one of the Civil War’s bloodiest. Robert E. Lee would launch his army in a series of assaults that would test the mettle of men on both sides in a way few had ever before been tested. $14.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 150 images and maps • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121229-7 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-226-6

Bill Backus and Robert Orrison Lee’s army—bloodied at Gettysburg—did not have the offensive capability it once possessed, yet Lee’s aggressive nature could not be quelled. He looked for the chance to strike out at Meade. In October both men shifted into motion. Each surprised the other. Quickly, Meade found himself racing for safety, with Lee charging up behind him. Last stop: Bristoe Station. $14.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-61121-300-3 • eISBN: 9781-61121-301-0

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EMERGING CIVIL WAR

EMERGING CIVIL WAR

Hell Itself

A Long and Bloody Task

All the Fighting They Want

The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–7, 1864 Chris Mackowski Soldiers called it “a region of gloom”— the Wilderness of Virginia. Yet here, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror. With the forest burning around them, men died by the thousands. The armies bloodied each other without mercy.

Driven by desperation, and fire, soldiers on both sides marveled that anyone might make it out alive. $14.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 150 images and maps • April 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121315-7 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-316-4

The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5–July 18, 1864 Stephen Davis Spring of 1864 brought a new war to the Western Theater. Federal armies were poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war. Atlanta sat in the distance, but it lay more than 140 miles away for the Federal armies, which had to navigate treacherous passes.

Blocking the way, too, was the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Joseph E. Johnston. $14.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 150 images and maps • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121317-1 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-318-8

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The Atlanta Campaign from Peach Tree Creek to the Surrender, July 18–September 2, 1864 Stephen Davis John Bell Hood brought a fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Recently recovered from wounds sustained at Chickamauga, he found himself thrust into command of the army as Federals pounded on the door of the South’s untouched city, Atlanta. His predecessor had failed to stop the advance of armies under William T. Sherman, who had pushed his way from Chattanooga, right to Atlanta’s very doorstep. $14.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 150 images and maps • June 2016 • paperback • 978-1-61121319-5 • eISBN: 978-1-61121-320-1

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