Casemate Publishers Fall 2018 Catalog by Casemate Publishers Ltd

FALL 2018

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We are proud to once again present a wide range of new books, both from our own publishing program and those of our wonderful publisher clients from around the globe.

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Within these pages you’ll find almost 400 new books covering all aspects of military history. From the ancient world, to Medieval Europe, through both World Wars, and into modern conflicts, these books will delight the casual reader, military history enthusiasts, modelers, wargamers, and historians alike. An important new addition to our own publishing list is the Casemate Illustrated Series. This new series explores key elements of military history, from campaigns, units, and battles to aircraft, ships, and weapons. Extensively illustrated with photographs and color profiles of tanks, aircraft, and other military equipment, each volume provides a wealth of visual detail. Now with eight titles under its belt, this solid series will be a welcome addition to bookstores, specialty shops, museums, and libraries. This season, we’re excited to introduce a new publisher client. Bauernfeind Press, located in Germany, publishes lavishly illustrated volumes, including some in 3D and others with downloadable video supplements. Their list kicks off with three titles covering US military history, naval history, and aviation. As always, we welcome any questions or comments you might have. Please don’t hesitate to contact your regional sales representative or us directly for more information about upcoming titles, previously featured titles, and our growing eBook selection. Finally, we’d like to take a moment to thank you for your continued support. You ensure that we can keep bringing the best of military history to readers across North America, and for that we’re extremely grateful. Best Regards, Carlie Rivera Marketing Executive Tel: (610)-853-9131 Email: casemate@casematepublishers.com Website: www.casematepublishers.com

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Bauernfeind Press

Birlinn

Fernhurst Books

Fighting High Publishing

Fonthill Media

Frontline Books

Greenhill Books

Grub Street Publishing

Harpia Publishing

Heimdal

Helion and Company

Histoire & Collections

Kagero

Karwansaray Publishers

MMPBooks

Monroe Publications

PeKo Publishing

Pen and Sword

Savas Beatie

RN Publishing

Seaforth Publishing

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Casemate Undefeated From Basketball to Battle Jim Noles $32.95 / 272 pages / 6 x 9 / 8 pages of b/w photos / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-511-9 / CR

In 1943 The West Point basketball team, the Cadets had only managed a 5-10 record, and for the 1944 season coach Ed Kelleher’s hopes in reversing Army’s fortunes rested on his five starters. They consisted of three seniors – team captain “Big Ed” Christl, John “Three Star” Hennessey, and class president Bobby Faas – and two juniors, Dale Hall and Doug Kenna. The world was at war, and the U.S. Army needed its finest on the front line more than on the court. Just after their incredible basketball battles ended, the three seniors were about to enter other battles. Although West Point’s home basketball court is named the Edward C. Christl Arena, and the National Invitational Tournament’s trophy is named after his coach, Edward A. Kelleher, too few people fully appreciate why. But after reading Undefeated, they will.

Jim Noles graduated from United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1990 with a degree in International History. Commissioned in the Army’s Aviation Branch, Jim served at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he became a pilot-in-command in UH-1H Huey helicopters. Jim is a prolific author and his books include two WWII histories Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944, and Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay (University of Alabama Press). In addition to his books, Jim’s articles and opinion pieces have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Birmingham News. He lives in Birmingham, AL.

Alpha One Sixteen A Combat Infantryman’s Year in Vietnam Peter Clark $32.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / 5 b/w photos and 5 b/w illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-599-7 / CR

Peter Clark’s year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company. Clark gives a visceral, vivid and immediate account of life in the platoon, as he progresses from green recruit to seasoned soldier over the course of a year in the complexities of the Vietnam conflict. Clark gradually learns the techniques developed by US troops to cope with the daily horrors they encountered, the technical skills needed to fight and survive, and how to deal with the awful reality of civilian casualties. From the food they ate to the inventive ways they managed to shower, every aspect of the platoon’s lives is explored in this revealing book. Clark’s vigilance develops as he gets used to “living in mortal terror,” which a brush with death in a particularly terrifying fire fight does nothing to dispel. As he continues his journey, he chronicles those less fortunate; the heavy toll being taken all round him is powerfully described at the end of each chapter. Peter Clark was in the United States Army from 1965 to 1968, including Vietnam service with the 1st Infantry Division. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Yale Law School and a member of the Massachusetts Bar. He has been a county prosecutor, counsel to state mental health and social service agencies, a legal aid lawyer, and an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts. He currently serves in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in the Office of the Inspector General. He lives in Catonsville, MD.

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Casemate War in the Asia Pacific Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–41 Peter Harmsen $32.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 pages of b/w photos / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-480-8 / CR

War in the Asia Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan. Unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before 1941 and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly international treatment of this epic conflict. Peter Harmsen uses his renowned ability to weave together complex events into an entertaining and revealing narrative, including facets of the war that may be unknown to many readers of WWII history, and offering a range of perspectives to reflect what war was like both at the top and at the bottom, from the Oval Office to the blistering sands of Peleliu. The story begins well before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitical rivalries are taken into account.

Peter Harmsen is former bureau chief in Taiwan for the French news agency AFP. He is a respected WWII historian, and the author of the highly-praised Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze (Casemate 2013), and Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City (Casemate 2015) both of which have been translated into several languages.

U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74 The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants Joseph Celeski $32.95 / 400 pages / 6 x 9 / 100 images, 10 maps and charts / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-665-9 / CR

The Secret War in Laos was one of the first “Long Wars” for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Between 1959 and 1974, Green Berets were covertly deployed to Laos to prevent a communist take-over or at least preserve the kingdom’s neutrality. The Green Berets’ service in Laos was the first strategic challenge since its formation in 1952, and proved one of the first major applications of special warfare doctrine. Clouded in secrecy until the 1990s, this story is comprehensively told for the first time using official archival documents and interviews with veterans.

Joseph Celeski served for thirty years in the U.S. Army, twenty-three of them in Special Forces. He retired in 2004 after commanding the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne). He served as commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force for two tours in Operation Enduring Freedom. He has published several works on special forces and counterinsurgency. He lives in Buford, GA.

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Casemate Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War Peter G. Tsouras $34.95 / 592 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages of b/w illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-647-5 / CR

The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the eastern theater of operations during the Civil War is told through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Renowned historian Peter Tsouras contends that this creation under Sharpe’s leadership was the combat multiplier that ultimately allowed the Union to be victorious. With the discovery of the day-by-day journal of John C. Babcock, Sharpe’s civilian deputy and order-of-battle analyst in late 1963, and the unpublished Hooker papers, the military correspondence of Joseph Hooker during his time as a commander of the Army of the Potomac, Tsouras has discovered a unique window into the flow of intelligence reporting which gives a new perspective in the study of military operations in the Civil War.

Peter Tsouras is a retired analyst of military all-source intelligence for the U.S. Government (National Ground Intelligence Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency). He is also a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has written 30 books on military history and alternate military history as a military historian and biographer. He lives in Alexandria, VA.

Two Flags over Iwo Jima Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Proudest Moment Eric Hammel $29.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 96 black and white photos / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-629-1 / CR

Joe Rosenthal’s “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” photo is one of the best-known images of US war history. The famous photo captures the moment that the first American flag flew over the core of Imperial Japanese-occupied territory on the top of Mount Suribachi. The focus of this book lies on the 28th Marine Regiment’s self-contained battle in February 1945 for Mount Suribachi, the 556-foot-high volcano on Iwo Jima. This book reveals the all-but-forgotten first flag raising, and the aftermath of the popularization campaign undertaken by the post-WWII Marine Corps and national press. Hammel attempts to untangle the various battles which lead up to the first and second flag raisings, as well as following the men of the 28th Marine Regiment in the events which took place after. Not only is the full story behind one of the most iconic photographs ever taken revealed, but also the real heroism and stories of the men behind this most fervent expression of American patriotism.

Eric Hammel is a renowned military historian who focuses on the military campaigns of the United States Marine Corps and military action in WWII. He has over 50 military history books and 70 magazine articles to his credit, alongside appearances at military education seminars and in television documentaries on Marine Corps operations. Recent books include Always Faithful: U.S. Marines in World War II Combat (Osprey, 2011) and War in the Western Pacific (Zenith Press, 2014). He lives in Pacifica, CA.

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How Armies Grow

SOG Medic

How Carriers Fought

The Enlargement of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945

Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence

Carrier Operations in WWII

Matthias Strohn

Joe Parnar and Robert Dumont

$65.00 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-601-7 / CR

$32.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 2 x 16pp plate sectoin, with around 50 b&w images and maps / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-633-8 / CR

This anthology analyzes a number of case studies and provides insights into themes and topics that characterized the so-called ‘reconstitution’ of armies in their historical and social contexts. The emphasis is on land forces, but air forces and navies of the relevant countries are also included. The period covered is the “age of total war” from the French Revolution to the end of the Second World War, which provides the intellectual framework for the challenges that armies are facing today.

Special Forces medic Joe Parnar served with SOG during 1968 in FOB2/CCC near the triborder area. He recounts his time with the recon men and captures the extraordinary commitment made by them and reveals the special dedication of the medics. This new edition of SOG Medic, with additional photos and maps, makes this highly-praised and sought-after book available again after long being out of print.

Lars Celander $34.95 / 320 pages / 6 x 9 / 21 b/w photos and 7 b/w illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-621-5 / CR

How Carriers Fought begins by examining the tools and the building blocks of carrier operations, looking at what life was really like in the cockpit for the pilots alongside the technicalities of navigation and communication. This book goes on to examine the major carrier battles of WWII, from the Battle of the Coral Sea to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, with a focus on how the tools of carrier operations were employed during these battles. This book questions these tactics, exploring which worked best in theory and in practice. This book gives a comprehensive insight into carrier operations in WWII, with a focus on the Pacific War between the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Matthias Strohn is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham, and a senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies, RMAS. Previously he lectured at Oxford and the Joint Forces Command and Staff College, Shrivenham in the UK. He specializes in the history of the German army in the 20th century, with emphasis on command and leadership, and the development and application of doctrine, and has published widely. He holds a commission in the German army and is a member of the military attaché reserve.

Joe Parnar served in the U.S. Army Special Forces from August 1966 - April 1969. After military service he became involved in several veterans’ organizations. Robert Dumont graduated from Tulsa University before moving to Brooklyn, NY. He worked in the General Research Division of The New York Public Library. He co-authored Bac Si: A Green Beret Medic’s War in Vietnam (Casemate 2014) with Jerry Krizan and has also written two fiction collections, Borough of Churches and NYC Transit[s].

Lars Celander has had a lifelong interest in naval and military history. With a MSc in Physics, he did his military service as a Systems Engineer, gaining operational experience of various radars, missiles, and guns amongst other things and has worked for several years as a design engineer on radar and radio communication systems. He is trained as a private pilot and is an avid yacht racer.

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Die Wehrmacht im Kampf

Treat ‘Em Rough

Landing in Hell

Dunkirk

The Birth of American Armor 1917–20

German Operations in France 1940

Dale E. Wilson

The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944

Hans-Adolf Jacobsen $32.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 14 diagrams and 16 maps / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-659-8 / CR

The German Army invaded France on 10 May 1940, and in just over ten days their rapid advance, led by three panzer corps, had left three French field armies, Belgian forces and the British Expeditionary Force with their backs to the sea, trapped along the northern coast of France. The British narrative of the retreat and evacuation that prompted perhaps Winston Churchill’s most famous wartime speech has always been well-known; however only now has Hans-Adolf Jacobsen’s detailed account of the battle from the German perspective been made available in English.

Hans-Adolf Jacobsen was a German political scientist and historian. In 1943, he joined the Wehrmacht, and soon after was taken prisoner by the Soviets. During five years’ captivity he learned Russian and started a life-long interest in the Soviet Union. Upon release he returned to his education, becoming renowned academic specializing in the Second World War and international relations.

$32.95 / 232 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 photos and 10 diagrams and maps / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-667-3 / CR

Tanks caused havoc among the Germans when they first appeared on the battlefields of Europe in 1917. These metal monsters broke up the trench warfare stalemate and thus hastened the armistice. This, the first full study of the U.S. Army’s World War I Tank Corps, is being made available again after long being out of print. The author brings these early days of the Tank Corps to life using eyewitness accounts from the archives at the Army War College and elsewhere. He details the design and building of the first tanks, the training of crews, the monstrous problem of transport in an age when roads were built for horsedrawn carriages, the evolution of armored combat doctrine, and the three great battles in which tanks revolutionized modern warfare: St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and St. Quentin. Dale E. Wilson served in the U.S. Army for 21 years, including in Vietnam as an infantryman and combat correspondent, then becoming an armor officer. He holds a doctorate in history from Temple University in Philadelphia, and served as an assistant professor in the department of history at the United States Military Academy. He lives in Hawaii.

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Peter Margaritis $32.95 / 208 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 b/w photos / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-645-1 / CR

On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. This book analyzes in detail the many things that went wrong and made the casualties so excessive, and in doing so, corrects several earlier accounts of the campaign. It includes a detailed account of the presidential summit that determined the operation, details of how new weapons were deployed, enemy strategy and command failure in what became the most controversial amphibious operation in the landing in the Pacific during WWII.

Peter Margaritis minored in History at Ohio State University. A retired chief petty officer, he has an extensive military background in communications and naval intelligence. He now writes and lectures on military history. He has written many technical manuals and guides as a civilian, dozens of reports in the military, and several articles on World War II and the Civil War. He is the co-author (with George Peto) of Twenty Two on Peleliu (Casemate 2017) and has also written several short books on the European theater. He lives in Ohio.

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The Pocket Manual Series

Blood Money

The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual

Stories of an ex-Recce’s Missions in Iraq

1939-1945 Edited by Chris McNab $14.95 / 160 pages / 4.72 x 7.08 / 40 black and white diagrams and photos / Currently Available / hardback / 978-1-61200-657-4 / CR

At the outbreak of World War II, the British Merchant Navy was the largest in the world, and up to 185,000 men and women served during the course of the war, some as young as 14. The US Merchant Marine numbered over 200,000 at the time. The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of these intrepid seamen, many of whom did not return. Collating documents, diagrams, and illustrations from British and US archives, it combines information on training, gunnery, convoys, and antisubmarine techniques with personal accounts. Covering the battle of the Atlantic, the Arctic Convoys, and the Pacific, this pitches the reader into the heart of this vital but often forgotten arena of WWII. Chris McNab is an acclaimed writer of military history. He is the author of more than 50 books including The World War I Aviator’s Pocket Manual (Casemate 2018), A History of the World in 100 Weapons (2014) and Battle Story: Passchendaele 1917 (2014). He has also written extensively for major encyclopedia series, magazines and newspapers.

Johan Raath $32.95 / 344 pages / 6 x 9 / 94 b/w photos & images, 8 maps / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-661-1 / CR

Johan Raath and a security team were ambushed in May 2004 while on a mission to reconnoiter a power plant south of Baghdad for an American firm. Whether in the notorious Triangle of Death, in the deadly area around Ramadi or in faction-ridden Basra, Raath had numerous hair-raising experiences. This riveting account offers a rare glimpse into the world of private military contractors and the realities of everyday life in one of the world’s most violent conflict zones.

Johan Raath worked in Iraq as a private military contractor from 2004 to 2017. He offered specialized protection services to VIPs and sheiks, as well as engineers working on construction projects, oil field engineers and port construction workers. Raath is a former South African Special Forces operator, or Recce. In 1992 he started a security training company and did high-risk security work in Africa and has been involved in security missions in over 15 countries.

From the Riviera to the Rhine US 6th Army Group August 1944–February 1945 Simon Forty and Leo Marriott $29.95 / 192 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / 450 black and white and color photographs throughout / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-623-9 / CR

This book details the invasion of France in 1944 from the French Riviera to Strasbourg, using a mixture of media to provide a complete overview of the campaign. Two months after D-Day, just as the battle of Normandy was reaching its climax, the Allies unleashed the second invasion of France, in the French Riviera. Immaculately planned, effectively undertaken, the Allies quickly broke out of their bridgehead, drove 400 miles into France in three weeks, and liberated 10,000 square miles of French territory while inflicting 143,250 German casualties. On September 10 they linked up with Patton’s Third Army and advanced into the Vosges Mountains, taking Strasbourg and holding the area against the Germans’ final big attack in the west: Operation Nordwind in January 1945. Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Leo Marriott is a retired Air Traffic Controller who has had more than thirty books published on his specialist subjects: naval warfare and aviation. He is an experienced pilot and accomplished aerial photographer.

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Thunderbolts Triumphant

Vietnam Bao Chi

The 362nd Fighter Group vs Germany’s Wehrmacht

Warriors of Word and Film

Chris Bucholtz $37.95 / 272 pages / 7 x 10 / 150 black and white photos, 24 color profiles / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-673-4 / CR

During World War II,the 362nd Fighter Group, led by two very different leaders— the tough disciplinarian Col. Morton Magoffin and later the beloved motivator Col. Joe Laughlin—had one of the best track records in the US Ninth Air Force. Thunderbolts Triumphant provides a narrative history of the group and gives a glimpse at the fascinating men who flew these missions and maintained the aircraft as they navigated Europe. Special emphasis is given to its most spectacular missions such as the breaching of the Dieuze Dam and its incredible performance during the Battle of the Bulge. Illustrated with 150 black and white photographs and 24 color aircraft profiles, this is a fascinating and detailed history of a group that played a significant part in winning the air war. Chris Bucholtz is an author and aviation expert whose books include 332nd Fighter Group: Tuskegee Airmen, 4th Fighter Group: Debden Eagles and Mustang Aces of the 357th Fighter Group. He has also written articles for Flight Journal and is the managing editor of the International Plastic Scale Modelers/USA Journal. He was the historical advisor to LucasFilm’s motion picture Red Tails about the Tuskegee Airmen. He lives in Alameda, CA.

Marc Yablonka $32.95 / 320 pages / 6 x 9 / black and white photos / November 2018 / Hardback / 978-1-61200-687-1 / CR

Vietnam Bao Chi brings together interviews with 35 combat correspondents who reported on the Vietnam War. They wrote the stories of Vietnam, captured the images and filmed the television coverage of their fellow servicemen on the battlefields from the Mekong Delta in the south to the DMZ in Central Vietnam, from the Tet Offensive in 1968 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. For years, there has been a well-deserved plethora of work by and about those who covered the war as civilians, with this book dedicating four of its chapters to civilian media. There hasn’t been enough about the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who did so while wearing an American uniform. Yablonka’s extensive experience as a military journalist brought him into contact with many of these combat correspondents, giving him a unique insight into their professions and lives. This book honors these brave chroniclers in uniform who brought the Vietnam War home to us. Marc Yablonka is a military journalist and author. He has written for Stars and Stripes, Soldier of Fortune, Army Times, and previously worked for ABC, Reuters, and the Los Angeles Times. His interest in reporting on matters of military and aviation history is evidenced by 27 years. He lives in California.

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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye Keeping Spain out of World War II Mark Simmons $32.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 22 b/w photos, 6 maps / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-685-7 / CR

This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr. Ian Fleming and Alan Hillgarth were the architects of Operation Golden Eye, the sabotage and disruption scheme that would be put in place had Germany invaded Spain. The book begins with Hitler’s dilemma about which way to move and his meeting with Francisco Franco at Hendaye in October 1940, a major turning point in the war when an alliance between Germany and Spain seemed possible. Simmons explores the British reaction to this, with Operation Tracer being created by Admiral Godfrey, head of Naval Intelligence. This was a plan to leave a listening and observation post buried in the Rock of Gibraltar should it have fallen to the Germans.Operation Golden Eye was eventually put on standby in 1943 as the risk of the Nazis occupying Spain was much reduced. Simmons consulted Foreign Office, SOE, CIA and OKW files when writing this book.

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101st Airborne in Normandy

The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich

June 1944

Yves Buffetaut

$24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / Currently Available / paperback / 978-1-61200-525-6 / CR

$24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / Currently Available / paperback / 978-1-61200-523-2 / CR

101st Airborne Division was activated in August 1942 in Louisiana, and its first combatt mission i i was Operation O ti Overlord. On D-Day—June 6, 1944—101st and 82nd Airborne dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the beach landings. A few days later, 101st Airborne was tasked with attacking the German-held city of Carentan as part of the consolidation of the US beachheads and establishment of a defensive line against the anticipated German counteroffensive. This fully illustrated book details the planning of the airborne element of D-Day, and the execution of the plans until the troops were withdrawn to prepare for the next big airborne operation, Market Garden.

The 2nd SS Division, “Das Reich,” was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWII—from the invasion of Poland and in 1939 to the final surrender in May 1945. Das Reich was the first Waffen SS division created. Originally named the Verfügungs Division, its regiments fought through the campaigns in Poland, the Low Countries, and France, earning the respect of Wehrmacht leaders who originally doubted the efficacy of SS units. Renamed “Das Reich” after the French surrender, its elements served as a spearhead in the Balkans campaign, achieving a daring capture of Belgrade. This lavishly illustrated book by renowned French historian Yves Buffetaut lays out the full history of Das Reich in World War II, with rare photos, informative text, and true insights into a unique combat division in modern warfare.

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The Waffen-SS in Normandy

Allied Armor in Normandy

June 1944, The Caen Sector

$24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / Black & white photos, color profiles and maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-607-9 / CR

Yves Buffetaut

Yves Buffetaut $24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / Black & white photos, color profiles and maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-605-5 / CR

In all, the Waffen-SS fielded six divisions during ing the Battle of Normandy, as well as two heavy battalions of Tiger tanks. But they were by no means a single homogenous entity, for with the exception of II. SS-Panzerkorps, the divisions arrived at the front one after another and were immediately thrown into battle. This volume in the Casemate Illustrated Series examines the WaffenSS in Normandy during the fierce fighting of June 1944, when they struggled to hold back the Allied advance on Caen, though the picture was by no means one-sided. Extensively illustrated with photographs, tank profiles, maps, and accompanied by biographies of key personnel and explanatory text boxes, this volume gives a clear and accessible account of events, challenging some popular perceptions along the way.

Tanks were the beasts of the Second World War, machines designed to destroy anything and anyone in their path. This volume of the Casemate Illustrated Series explores the Normandy invasion from the perspective of the Allied Armored divisions, looking at how armored vehicles played a central role in the many battles that took place. It includes over 40 profiles of tanks and armored vehicles, from the American Sherman and Stuart tanks to the bulldozers and amphibious vehicles designed for the beach landings. With detailed diagrams and many photos illustrating the composition of the Allied armored divisions and tank regiments present at Normandy, this volume explains the crucial part played by tanks in gaining a foothold in Normandy after the D-Day landings, as well as the significance of many other types of armored vehicles.

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Operation Typhoon

Ardennes 1944

The German Assault on Moscow, 1941

Yves Buffetaut

Philippe Naud $24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / 150 black and white photos, 12 color profiles and 2 maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-671-0 / CR

After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. This volume concentrates on the main German assault of October 1941. Guderianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s panzer divisions at first made sweeping gains as they had done so many times before and large parts of the Red Army were encircled at Vyazma and Bryansk. Illustrated with over 150 photographs, plus profile drawings of tanks, vehicles and aircraft, it gives a vivid impression of the situation for both protagonists, and a detailed analysis of the critical days as the fate of Moscow and perhaps the whole war hung in the balance. Philippe Naud is a professor of history and geography. He specializes in the study of the Second World War, and is an expert on the Eastern Front. He has written several books and articles for Histoire & Collections.

$24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / 108 black and white photos, 24 color profiles and 3 maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-669-7 / CR

This volume in the Casemate Illustrated Series, with over 100 photographs and 24 color profiles describes in detail the different events that caused the German defeat, from the beginning of the offensive on December 16, 1944 to the retreat behind the Siegfried Line. It looks at several topics in particular: the American resistance at St. Vith; the resistance of the 101st Airborne in Bastogne; German obstinacy in persisting with the siege at Bastogne; the airlift and the intervention of the US 9th Air Force; the rapid regrouping of the US Third Army; Pattonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s counterattack; the British counterattack; and finally how the Allies failed to transform the German withdrawal into rout, missing an opportunity to cross the Siegfried line and the Rhine on the heels of the Germans, leading to an incomplete victory.

Yves Buffetaut is a renowned French World War II historian and the author of many volumes in the Militaria series for Histoire & Collections, several of which have now been translated into English in the Casemate Illustrated series.

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German Armor in Normandy

From Moscow to Stalingrad

Yves Buffetaut

The Eastern Front, 1941-1942

$24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / Black & white photos, color profiles and maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-643-7 / CR

This volume in the Casemate Illustrated Series starts by exploring the initial struggle to gain control of Caen after the Allies had landed on the beaches of Normandy which culminated in the ferocious German Tiger tanks destroying the 7th Armored Division at Villiers Bocage, with British losses totaling twenty-seven tanks. With over 100 photos, diagrams showing the composition of German armored divisions, and color profiles of tanks and other armored vehicles, this is a detailed examination of the German armored forces in Normandy in 1944, focusing on the organization of the ten panzer divisions that took part, the vehicles they relied on and the battles they fought in and why ultimately their combined strength was not enough.

Yves Buffetaut $24.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 10 / Black & white photos, color profiles and maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-609-3 / CR

The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated Series, this volume outlines how it was that, less than a year after their defeat at Moscow, the German army had found a way to make the Soviet troops waver in their defense, with their persistence eventually leading to the Battle of Stalingrad. This volume includes numerous photographs of the ships, planes, tanks, trucks, and weaponry used by both sides in battle, alongside detailed maps and text outlining the constantly changing strategies of the armies as events unfolded.

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Casemate

John André

The Last Siege

The First Bridge Too Far

D. A. B. Ronald

The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865

The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943

Paul Brueske

Mark Saliger

$32.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / black and white illustrations / Currently Available / hardback / 978-1-61200-631-4 / CR

$32.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / September 2018 / Hardback / 978-1-61200-689-5 / CR

$32.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / 15 black and white & 15 color illustrations / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61200-521-8 / CR

John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a high-ranking American officer—General Benedict Arnold. The plan was also to simultaneously kidnap General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. By these two masterstrokes, the British believed they could end rebel resistance. While biographers agree on the facts of the tragic episode, they disagree on André’s motives and why he chose to sacrifice himself. This new biography of André puts forward a new answer to this mystery—not only why he acted as he did, but how he wished others to see his actions.

Dr D. A. B. Ronald has published several books, Young Nelsons: Boy Soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars (2009), and Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda: Britain and the Young Maritime Hero 1754–1820 (2015). His acknowledged academic expertise in the realm of the “young hero” makes him uniquely qualified to write this long overdue new biography.

It has long been acknowledged that General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia ended the civil war at the Battle of Appomattox in April 1865. However, the often overlooked last siege of the war was the Mobile campaign, crucial to securing a complete victory and the final surrender of the last Confederate force east of the Mississippi River. The Last Siege explores the events surrounding this siege and capture of Mobile, Alabama. This book gives a new perspective on the strategic importance of Mobile as a logistical center which had access to vital rail lines and two major river systems, essential in moving forces and supplies. Using a variety of primary sources, this book highlights the bravery of the men who were still trying to win by utilizing evolved military tactics against the strong defensive fortifications at Mobile. Paul Brueske is a lifelong resident of the Gulf Coast. Brueske became obsessed with studying the Civil War, in particular the 1865 campaign for Mobile. He founded the Mobile Civil War Round Table and regularly gives talks on Civil War topics. He is currently the Head Track & Field Coach at the University of South Alabama. This is his first book, a result of many years of research on the Mobile Campaign. He lives in Mobile, AL.

For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a wellresearched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two. Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16 July 1943) provided the stage for the first instance of opposing elite paratroopers parachuting into battle and then fighting each other in a see-saw battle raging under the blazing Mediterranean sky. It’s a story of courage and determination. A story of legendary military units and their commanders. A story that now, on the eve of its 75th Anniversary, finally needs to be told. The British paratroopers of the famed Parachute Regiment’s 1st Parachute Brigade, known as the ‘Red Devils,’ fought their equally esteemed German paratrooper opponents. The Battle of Arnhem is well documented. It was in fact an almost identical battle, but on a larger scale, to the ferocious fight that the British paratroopers had faced only months previously. The Battle of Primosole Bridge, which provided the foundations for the men and planning for the legendary events at Arnhem, is virtually unheard of and needs to be told at last in order to honor the sacrifice of Britain’s unsung war heroes.

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Casemate Shadow Commander

Team Yankee

The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero

A Novel of World War III

Mike Guardia $19.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages illustrations / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-653-6 / CR

This book follows Donald D. Blackburn through both his youthful days of desperate combat against an Empire, and his days as a commander.

1LT Mike Guardia is an Armor Officer in the United States Army. He obtained his commission via R.O.T.C. at the University of Houston in December 2008. His research interests include World War II in the Pacific, the history of armored warfare and guerrilla warfare.

Harold W. Coyle $14.95 / 336 pages / 5.1 x 7.8 / 16pp photos / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-649-9 / CR

Check Six! A Thunderbolt Pilot’s War Across the Pacific Jim Curran and Terrence Popravak, Jr. $19.95 / 352 pages / 6 x 9 / 16pp photos / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-654-3 / CR

This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again what might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed.

This is an aviation chronicle that brings the reader into flight, then into the fight, throughout the Pacific war and back. This work captures the combat experience of our aviators in the Pacific.

Harold Coyle served in Germany from January 1975 to December 1979 with 3rd Battalion, 68th Armor, which was stationed at Sullivan Barracks outside the town of Käfertal. During this time he commanded Company A / 3-68 Armor which was attached to 2nd Battalion, 13th Infantry for training and wartime contingencies.

Terrence G. Popravak, Jr. served in the US Air Force for nearly 24 years at Stateside bases and overseas, retiring in 2010. He is a volunteer historian with the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Fighter Wing and frequently writes on the unit’s history, in addition to writing several aviation/military history web logs.

Tank Killers

Tanks in Hell

Nam Sense

A History of America’s World War II Tank Destroyer Force

A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa

Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division

Harry Yeide

Oscar E. Gilbert and Romain Cansiere

$14.95 / 256 pages / 5.1 x 7.8 / 16 b/w illustrations / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-650-5 0-65 6500-55 / CR 65

$19.95 / 264 pages / 6 x 9 / photos throughout / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-651-2 -11-612 612 1200 00-651 651-22 / CCRR

$14.95 / 288 pages / 5.1 x 7.8 / 16 pages b/w illustrations / August 2018 / paperback 978-1-61200-652-9 ckk / 97 978 8-11-61 6120 61 2000-65 20 6522-99 / CR 65

This is the story of the specialized U.S. armored force designed specifically to kill enemy tanks in direct combat. It draws heavily on the records of the tank destroyer battalions and the units with which they fought, and veterans of the force add their personal stories.

Winner of THE GENERAL WALLACE M. GREENE, JR. AWARD for outstanding nonfiction.

An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier’s view, Nam Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. It offers a perfect blend of candor, sarcasm, and humor and it spares nothing and no one in its attempt to accurately convey what really transpired during the Vietnam War with a style and flair.

Harry Yeide has been a national security affairs analyst for the federal government for many years. In his position with the federal government he has worked as a political, terrorism, and economic analyst on the Soviet Bloc, the Balkans, the Aegean, East Asia, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and he has served in numerous assignments overseas.

In this unique study, the authors use official documents, memoirs, interviews with veterans, as well as personal and aerial photographs to follow Charlie Company. Oscar E. Gilbert was a U.S. Marine Corps artilleryman and instructor. He is the author of numerous books on military history. Romain V. Cansière has been interested in the U. S. Marine Corps since his teenage years. His current historical research is on the Marine Corps in World War I.

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Arthur Wiknik Jr.

Art Wiknik has written a wide variety of articles for publication.

Casemate Casemate Short History

Casemate Short History

Guerrilla Warfare

The United States Marine Corps

Kings of Revolution Peter Polack

The Expeditionary Force at War Gordon L. Rottman

$12.95 / 160 pages / 5.9 x 7.8 / black and white photos / December 2018 / paperpback / 978-1-61200-675-8 / CR

The concept of guerrilla warfare is not decades, but many centuries old, with earliest writing on the subject by Sun Tzu dating back to the 6th Century BC. This is a compendium of prominent worldwide guerrilla leaders beginning with William Wallace in the thirteenth century to modern day Sri Lanka. It profiles each leader to analyze their personal history, military tactics, and political strategy. All are home grown leaders in extended guerrilla campaigns many of whom ended up as the first leaders of their countries or liberators of entire regions such as Simon Bolivar. It includes victories and defeats in an effort to tease out not only effective guerrilla tactics but counterinsurgency strategies with some likelihood of success. This concise history gives a fascinating overview of a once historyaltering form of warfare.

$12.95 / 160 pages / 5.9 x 7.8 / b/w photos and maps / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61200-693-2 / CR

Many think of the United States Marine Corps as a second land army, army and while it has been employed in that capacity, it is foremost a naval expeditionary force able to seize, secure, and defend advanced naval bases in support of major campaigns. The Corps dates back to the Revolutionary War, but is famed for its part in the wars of the 20th century. On the Western Front in World War I they were blooded at Belleau Wood. Between the wars the Corps developed amphibious tactics employed to great effect during the Pacific island campaigns during World War II including Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The Corps is forever entwined with the battles of Inchon and Chosin Reservoir in Korea, and Hue and Khe Sanh in Vietnam. The US Marines have continued their expeditionary role to this day, undertaking not only combat operations but also peacekeeping, peace enforcement, humanitarian relief, and short-notification/limited-duration contingency operations. This concise history charts the evolution of the Corps as it has adapted to changing combat over two centuries.

Casemate Short History

Alexander the Great

Anzacs

Conqueror, Commander, King

100 Years of Service

John Sadler & Rosie Serdiville

$12.95 / 160 pages / 5.9 x 7.8 / b/w line drawings and photos / December 2018 / paperpback / 978-1-61200-683-3 / CR

$12.95 / 160 pages / 5.9 x 7.8 / 20 b/w illustrations and 4 maps / December 2018 / paperpback / 978-1-61200-681-9 / CR

Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In just over a generation, his northern Greek state of Macedon rose to control the whole of the vast Persian Empire. It was the legacy of his father, Philip, that launched Alexander on a spectacular career of conquest that planted Hellenic culture across most of Asia. In a dozen years Alexander took the whole of Asia Minor and Egypt, destroyed the once mighty Persian Empire, and pushed his army eastwards as far as the Indus. No-one in history has equaled his achievement. Julius Caesar, contemplating his hero’s statue, is said to have wept because by contrast he had accomplished so little. This concise history gives an overview of Alexander’s life from a military standpoint, from his early military exploits to the creation of his empire and the legacy left after his premature death.

The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps was initially formed as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in 1914 under the leadership of General William Birdwood, an officer of the Indian Army, and soon became affectionately known as the Anzacs. The Anzacs quickly made a name for themselves on the international stage during the war, and the enduring valor and spirit of the Anzac soldier has become legend. The Anzacs’ first major campaign was Gallipoli; they landed at a small cove on April 25, 1915 and struggled to create a bridgehead against fierce resistance. The date of the Anzac landing on Gallipoli is now celebrated as Anzac Day. Their courageous spirit continues to inspire, honoring the intrepid troops that faced such adversity at Gallipoli and in wars since; a centenary of service. This informative and entertaining short history narrates the deeds of the Anzacs since 1915 and the development of the legend of the Anzac soldier.

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Andrea • AFV Modeller

The End

Air Modeller’s Guide

Napoleon at Saint Helena

Wingnut Wings. Volume 1

Wingnut Wings. Volume 2

$28.00 / 160 pages / 9.7 x 10.2 / Full color throughout / Currently Available / paperback / 978-0-95554-133-9 / NCR

$35.00 / 112 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Full color throughout / Currently Available / paperback / 978-0-99356-461-1 / NCR

World War I was the first war in which aircraft were deployed on a large scale. Observation balloons had already been employed in several wars, and Germany employed airship Zeppelins for reconnaissance over the North Sea and strategic bombing raids over England.

If you are a fan of WWI aircraft then this is a book for you. Showcasing a selection of builds of the stunningly high detailed kits available from New Zealand based brand Wingnut Wings. This publication is the second in a series of books showcasing a number of different kit builds that detail the methods and materials used to achieve the stunning models.

Lee Preston $49.00 / 319 pages / 6.7 x 10.3 / Fully Illustrated / Currently Available / hardback / 978-8-49665-860-8 / CR

The fascination exerted by great historical figures led Mr. Preston to delve deep into the life and personality of Napoleon Bonaparte in his early childhood. Now, after many years of dedicated study and reflection, he has been able to produce this work on the final years of the man commonly seen as epitomizing those enigmatic leaders who supposedly have so greatly influenced human history. Mr. Preston’s intention, in his own words, “is not to judge or even explain Napoleon’s life or personality, but simply to accompany his gradual demise at Saint Helena as closely as possible and to ‘meet the man.’” Conclusions are thus entirely left to the reader’s discretion once he has “accompanied” the Emperor during his long years of seclusion at Saint Helena.

Airplanes were also originally used mostly for reconnaissance. Pilots and engineers learned from their experiences leading to the development of new designs such as fighters, bombers, and ground-attack aeroplanes. Ace fighter pilots became popular heroes and the designs have remained close to aviation enthusiasts’ hearts ever since. The huge impact the recent release of World War I aircraft modelling kits has had on aircraft modelling is showcased here with projects presented by world renowned modellers. The focus is on how to get the best from these fantastic kits whether you’re a World War I aircraft novice or well experienced, with guides on painting techniques and finishes, and subjects such as rigging, all backed by advice on available after-market details and decals.A feature on painting the large range of figures available will guide even the novice figure painter to achieve good results with information and reference on the air crew’s uniforms.

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Bauernfeind Press

The Civil War

USS Arizona

Concorde

The 3D Experience

The Enduring Legacy of a Battleship

Ingo Bauernfeind

Supersonic Icon - 50th Anniversary Edition

$19.95 / 104 pages / 8.5 x 11 / 80 images / Currently Available / Paperback / 978-3-98159-840-7 / NCR

$29.95 / 192 pages / 8.5 x 11 / ca. 400 images / December 2018 / Hardback / 978-3-98159-842-1 / NCR

Experience the Civil War on a breathtaking three-dimensional journey! By viewing spectacular historical photos with 3D glasses, you will get the impression of being there— on the battlefield at Gettysburg, at a field hospital, aboard the famed ironclad USS Monitor, and in ruins of once proud cities. You will be able to go back in time—in 3D! Along with a preface by National Park Service chief historian Dr. Robert Sutton, and an informative timeline, the reader will be able to track the war‘s significant battles, events, and even come face to face with President Lincoln. Civil War photographers were already able to capture stereo images in order to create the illusion of three-dimensional depth. A carefully chosen collection of these amazing 150-year old photographs, painstakingly restored and converted into 3D anaglyphs, helps the reader to visually experience one of America‘s most defining moments—the Civil War. This unique volume is a must-have addition to any military history library! 3D glasses included.

This lavishly illustrated and very personal book covers the history of the battleship USS Arizona from her launch to her loss on December 7, 1941 when she was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn about the ship’s enduring legacy firsthand as told by survivors, historians, enemies, sons of admirals, and people who have a personal connection to the Arizona. Moreover, this book provides a detailed examination of the Arizona’s wreck by archaeologists of the National Parks Service looking for ways to preserve her for the future. Learn about the tribute given by presidents and foreign dignitaries in order to honor Arizona’s fallen crew. The book includes a download video with oral histories by Arizona survivors as well as narrated underwater footage of the wreck.

Ingo Bauernfeind $29.95 / 176 pages / 8.5 x 11 / ca. 300 images / December 2018 / Hardback / 978-3-98159-841-4 / NCR

This lavishly illustrated volume tells the amazing story of Concorde, the supersonic icon that has been capturing the world’s imagination since its maiden flight in 1969. With personal accounts written by former pilots and crew members, it covers Concorde’s history, her technology as well as her undisputed and timeless charisma. Moreover, this volume will focus on her legacy and the ambitious undertaking of bringing one Concorde back to service as a heritage aircraft. Included is a download video about Concorde.

Ingo Bauernfeind was born in Germany and studied military and naval history, visual communication, and documentary film at Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu. In Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Ingo initiated and completed various museum projects in cooperation with the USS Arizona Memorial’s historian, Mr. Daniel A. Martinez, as well as the USS Missouri and the U.S. Navy. Over the years, Ingo has completed 30 books about naval, military, and aviation history and either directed or co-produced award-winning documentaries in cooperation with German and American TV networks. This includes various films about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (First Shot and Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor) and the Pacific War. In addition, Ingo has been producing interactive museum guides for history and naval museums in Pearl Harbor and in Germany.

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Birlinn Scotland: Defending the Nation Mapping the Military Landscape

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Scotland: Defending the Nation

The Drowned and the Saved

Mapping the Military Landscape

When War Came to the Hebrides

Carolyn Anderson and Chris Fleet

Les Wilson

$44.95 / 272 pages / 9.8 x 9.8 / Color throughout / February 2019 / hardback / 978-1-78027-493-5 / NCR

$16.95 / 256 pages / 5 x 7.8 / 8pp b/w plates / Currently Available / paperback / 978-1-78027-543-7 / NCR

In this book two map experts explore the extraordinarily rich legacy of Scottish military mapping, showing and explaining the variety of military maps produced for different purposes, including fortification plans, reconnaissance mapping, battle plans, military roads and route-way plans, tactical maps, plans of mines, enemy maps showing targets, as well as plans showing the construction of defences. In addition to plans, elevations, and views, they also discuss unrealized proposals and projected schemes. Many of these maps are both striking and attractive, and have been selected for the particular stories they tell about attacking and defending the country.

More than 200 of the troops were dead after the sinking of the troopship Tuscania by a German U-Boat. Eight months later, the armed merchant cruiser Otranto collided with another troopship during a terrible storm. Despite a valiant rescue attempt by HMS Mounsay, the Otranto drifted towards Islay, hit a reef, throwing 600 men into the water: Just 19 survived.

Carolyn Anderson completed a PhD on the Board of Ordnance military mapping of Scotland in 2010. Prior to this she was a cartographic editor at Oxford University Press. Christopher Fleet joined the National Library of Scotland in 1994. He has written and spoken widely on digital mapping and on maps of Scotland, and is a co-author of Scotland: Mapping the Nation (Birlinn, 2011), Edinburgh: Mapping the City (Birlinn, 2014) and Scotland: Mapping the Islands (2016).

Based on the harrowing personal recollection of survivors and rescuers, newspaper reports and original research, Les Wilson tells the story of these terrible events, painting a vivid picture which also pays tribute to the astonishing bravery of the islanders, who risked their lives pulling men from the sea, caring for survivors and burying the dead.

Les Wilson is a writer and an award-winning documentary maker who specializes in Scottish historical subjects. Among his film credits is the 30-part series "Scotland’s War," an oral history of World War Two, and the 13-part series "The Real Tartan Army," a TV history of the Scottish regiments. He is the co-editor of Islay Voices (Birlinn, 2016) and lives on the island of Islay.

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Facing the Bear Scotland and the Cold War Trevor Royle $29.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / 16pp color & b/w plates / February 2019 / hardback / 978-1-78027-526-0 / NCR

Between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism, confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As part of NATO’s response, Scotland played a key role in the alliance’s forward maritime defence strategy, aimed at containing the Soviet threat from naval and air forces. During this period 10 per cent of the UK’s naval and air forces were based in Scotland, and there was a substantial US presence as well as top secret satellite and command stations. In this book Trevor Royle paints a fascinating portrait of this extraordinary period, examining not just the wider military and political contexts, but also showing how the defence industry brought huge economic benefits, how CND maintained a high-profile presence, and how anti-nuclear sentiments underpinned much of the left’s thinking in Scotland and contributed to the hegemony enjoyed by the Labour Party in Scotland during the Cold War. Trevor Royle is a broadcaster and author specializing in the history of war and empire. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is also a member of the Scottish Government’s Advisory Panel for Commemorating the First World War.

Fernhurst Books • Fighting High Publishing Nine Wingcos and the Lancaster

An Average War Eighth Army to Red Army Mike Peyton

The Second World War Experiences of a Bomber Command Flight Engineer

$22.00 / 136 pages / 5.82 x 8.30 / 5 black & white photos, 12 cartoons / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-90991-112-3 / NCR

Peter Baxter

This is the story of Mike Peyton who lied about his age to enlist, worried that the war would be over before he had a chance to join in. After training, he initially fought in the Western Desert, where he was captured and shipped to Italy and then Germany. He escaped in Germany and walked east until he found the Russian Red Army with whom he fought for the rest of the war. With a grave sense of humor, Peyton takes you through the horror and death, alongside the camaraderie and excitement.

Mike Peyton lied about his age to join the Army at the start of the Second World War. He spent much of the war in a prisoner of war camp, but escaped to join and fight with the Russian Red Army. Mike began sketching as a boy and, after the war, trained at Manchester Art School. He worked as a freelance cartoonist for New Scientist, Yachting Monthly and Practical Boat Owner, to name but a few. Mike has had over 18 books of yachting cartoons published and in 2016 was dubbed ‘the Picasso of sailing’ by the Yachting Journalist Association.

Sticky Murphy Lover of Life

Engineer Leader Peter Baxter, during his 400 hours in the air, half of which were at night, flew with a succession of pilots including nine Wing Commanders. In Nine Wingcos and the Lancaster the author describes in remarkable detail not only his RAF experiences but also the environment in which he lived, the friendships made, and the rigors of firstly working on aircraft in all conditions as groundcrew, and then as an airman struggling to fly, fight and survive amidst the attrition of the air battle over Germany. Illustrated with previously unpublished photographs Peter Baxter’s account is also a must for all technical enthusiasts, with comprehensive sections on the mechanics of the Avro Lancaster and how it is flown. RAF Bomber Command flight engineer Peter Baxter completed thirty-four operations during the Second World War.

Missing Presumed Murdered

Second World War Clandestine Lysander and Intruder Mosquito pilot Wing Commander Alan Michael ‘Sticky’ Murphy DSO and Bar, DFC, Croix de Guerre

One raid, two trials, three lost airmen Sean Feast and Marc Hall $34.95 / 240 pages / 6.25 x 9.25 / 16 page b/w picture section / December 2018 / hardback / 9781-99981-285-0 / CR

James H. Coley $34.95 / 240 pages / 6.25 x 9.25 / 16 page b/w picture section / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-99981-284-3 / CR

Those who knew Wing Commander Alan Michael ‘Sticky’ Murphy remember a man who was an inspiration both on and off duty. Indeed, it motivated James H. Coley, who served as a navigator in No. 23 Squadron, to write a book dedicated to his commanding officer’s memory and honor. It was said that those who knew Sticky never forgot his infectious laugh, his joy of living, and indomitable personality. Let there be no doubt that in any Valhalla of warriors, Sticky Murphy sits beside his contemporaries on equal terms and with a smile.

James H. Coley served as a navigator with Wing Command Murphy’s No. 23 Squadron during the Second World War.

$34.95 / 256 pages / 6.25 x 9.25 / 16 page b/w picture section / September 2018 / hardback / 9781-99981-283-6 / CR

In the centenary year of the RAF, the authors reveal a darker side to the history of the ‘Third Service.’ Complementing historical research with the evidence of present-day specialists, they have pieced together the harrowing story of four murders, the identities of the victims and their killers, and the tantalizing possibility that at least one of the ‘missing’ men may at last have been found.

Sean Feast works in PR and advertising and is an acclaimed Bomber Command historian and author, including numerous volumes of Fighting High’s ‘Failed to Return’ series, and Thunder Bird in Bomber Command. Marc Hall developed an interest in aviation at an early age, and gained a commercial pilots’ licence. Marc’s research in to RAF Bomber Command is ongoing and his first book Bomber Command Operation Hurricane met with critical acclaim.

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Fonthill Media This is What Hell Looks Like Life as a Bomb Disposal Specialist During the Vietnam War Stuart Allan Streinberg $29.95 / 240 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / Color and B&W photographs / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-62545-065-4 / CR

From 1967–1971, Stuart Steinberg served in the U.S. Army as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist. In January 1968, he was sent to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where chemical and biological weaponry was stockpiled, staying there until July 1968. Steinberg was involved in helping to clean up the worst nerve gas disaster in American history on March 13, 1968. As a result, he volunteered to serve in Vietnam from September 4, 1968 to March 24, 1970. This is What Hell Looks Like explores the difficult and traumatic situations faced by Steinberg and his teammates across their time in Vietnam. This volume also examines the causes and consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder through Steinberg’s honest account of his experiences, including his subsequent addiction to prescription painkillers. Documenting Steinberg’s personal journey through “Hell,” his account casts further light on life during the Vietnam War.

Stuart Steinberg served as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist in the U.S. Army from 1967–1971, including eighteen months in Vietnam. He has a law degree, an advanced law degree, and taught at the Georgetown University Law Center. He retired in 2004 after twenty-three years as a public defender and capital defense investigator. Since then, he has served as a volunteer service officer for Vietnam Veterans of America, assisting veterans with claims for benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is on the board of directors of the National EOD Association and the National Veterans Rights Association.

Wars and Battles of Ancient Greece Paul Chrystal

Wars and Battles of

$29.95 / 208 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / B&W / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-78155-681-8 / CR

One of the most popular areas of ancient history is war in the Greek world. The number of books, articles, web pages and blogs on every conceivable aspect of war in ancient Greece is endless, and continues to grow. So why add to the pile? Wars & Battles of Ancient Greece is not just another arid account of wars and battles, with endless, often exaggerated, casualty figures and repetitive tactics. It is different from most other books in the field because it has context as its focus: each of the battles covered is, where sources permit, placed in its historical, political and social context: why was the battle fought, how was it fought, what was the outcome, and what happened next ? No war or battle has ever been fought in isolation – there is always a prelude, a causus belli and a series of consequences. These are revealed wherever possible for each of the wars and battles in this book. In order to reinforce our focus on context the book includes chapters covering warfare in civilisations and cultures before Greece; the Greek war machine; and Greek women and conflict.

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Ancient Greece

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Fonthill Media

Bismarck

Aircraft Carrier Impero

Tirpitz

Pride of the German Navy

The Axis Powers’ V-1 Carrying Capital Ship

The Life and Death of Germany’s Last Great Battleship

Davide F. Jabes, and Stefano Sappino

Daniel Knowles

$45.00 / 256 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / B&W / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-677-1 / CR

$50.00 / 336 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / B&W / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-669-6 / CR

From late 1941 Italy had been developing a secret project with her German allies to move the V1 wunderwaffen aboard aircraft carriers. The personal archives of Ansaldo’s naval architect Lino Campagnoli (1911–1975), bring back to life the plans for a modern aircraft carrier, the unprecedented transformation of the Impero battleship into a fleet carrier. It reveals the draft terms of conversion of the last of the four Littorio class modern battleships. In the period 1941–43 a series of plans was drawn for Impero’s conversion to an aircraft carrier providing, inter alia, for the embarkation of Fi-103 (the German V1), to provide substance to Italo-German cooperation in strategic military sectors.

Referred to by Winston Churchill as ‘the Beast’, ‘Tirpitz’ was Germany’s last great battleship and was one of the largest and heaviest battleships ever constructed by a European navy.Such was the threat posed to the sea lanes, and with that the Allied war effort, and so obsessed was Churchill and the Admiralty with her destruction that twenty-four operations, ranging from the foolhardy to the ridiculous were undertaken against her. It was in November 1944 that the ‘Tirpitz’ was finally sunk, not by the Royal Navy, but by the aircraft of RAF Bomber Command. Using a variety of sources this book begins by looking at the military and political situation in Germany that led to the decision to build the ‘Tirpitz’ before going on to analyze the life and death of Germany’s last great battleship.

John Asmussen $50.00 / 320 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / Color and B&W photographs / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-670-2 / CR

Bismarck, the pride of the German navy, displaced more than 50,000 tonnes fully loaded and when commissioned she was the largest warship to date. The Bismarck took part in only one operation that ended with her sinking after just nine days. Three days earlier, she was engaged in a classic naval battle where she sunk Britain’s largest warship, the mighty HMS Hood. Follow the fascinating story in Bismarck: Pride of the German Navy, the biggest ever written on the ship. Through photos, illustrations, maps and words, all aspects are described. The book also contains technical specifications, camouflage schemes, wreck photos as well as lists of officers, the fallen crew members and survivors. This is a definitive work, the result of nearly thirty years of study, with 540 illustrations, of which 150 are in color. John Asmussen is an amateur naval historian who has studied the battleship ‘Bismarck’ since 1977. In 2000, he published what today is the premier website on the ‘Bismarck’. In 2001-2002, he worked for director James Cameron on a $27.5 million dollar documentary project titled James Cameron’s Expedition Bismarck. In June 2002, he dived to the wreck of ‘Bismarck’ together with Cameron. In 2004, he helped a Norwegian museum to present an exhibition on the ‘Tirpitz’.

Dr Davide F. Jabes wrote a book on the Italian soldiers during the Second World War (Rizzoli, 2015). Stefano Sappino, has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a career as executive in large service companies. Involved as a scholar in naval history from the 1970s, he focuses on Navies’ building strategy, design and operational history of capital ships and cruisers. The ‘what ifs’, warships designed but not built, on not entered in service, constitute his special interest field. His maritime history blog, stefsap. wordpress.com, is a reference for naval enthusiast all around the world.

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Fonthill Media A Soldier of the Reich An Autobiography

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Heydrich Dark Shadow of the SS Max Williams $60.00 / 352 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / B&W / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-78155-686-3 / CR

In Heinrich Himmler, Hitler had a loyal servant, only too willing to sell his soul to the Devil to please his master. Himmler’s SS organization was the ideal tool to execute Hitler’s plans, and what better administrator than the intelligent and obedient ex-naval officer who directed the Reich security police? From an early age, Reinhard Heydrich was determined to succeed at every challenge he encountered. An ambitious sportsman, a loving family man, and a ruthless executive, Heydrich possessed all the qualities necessary to carry out Hitler’s policy in Himmler’s name. This book illustrates the life of the architect of genocide, his background, upbringing, family, and his career.

Max Williams is a retired police officer with a strong fascination in history. He has spent many years collecting autographs, original images and information about personalities of the Third German Reich which he has built into a private archive. He is an expert on the SS organization and well-known for assisting other authors with historical studies of Hitler’s regime.

Unit 731 - Laboratory of the Devil Auschwitz of the East (Japanese Biological Warfare in China 1933-45) Yang Yan-jun

A Soldier of the Reich An Autobiography Günter Horst Beetz $35.00 / 192 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / B&W / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-78155-684-9 / CR

$29.95 / 144 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / B&W / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-678-8 / CR

This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. The evidence is provided by the surviving Chinese laborers and the families of the victims. The book focuses on five aspects: first, the inhuman medical crimes of Unit 731 weapons, the biological combats, and human experiments; secondly, the war damage and the postwar effects of biological war by Unit 731 brought to China and other Asian countries; thirdly, the survey and cover-up at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials; fourthly the protection status of the site with development status of the exhibition and international exchanges of the Unit 731 Museum; and finally, there is a separate chapter discussing Japanese chemical warfare.

Yang Yan-jun, associate professor, is the director of International Center for Unit 731 Research, Harbin Academy of Social Sciences; and director assistant of the Unit 731 Museum, and has been engaged in Unit 731 research for 12 years.

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Fonthill Media The Sea, War and Barbed Wire

Fuel, Fire and Fear RAF Flight Engineers at War Colin Pateman

A Story of Merchant Navy Men Philip Algar

$34.95 / 240 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / B&W / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-675-7 / CR

$29.95 / 240 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / B&W / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-78155-682-5 / CR

This is the fascinating story of Captain Stanley Algar, an oil tanker master, and his colleagues captured in the Atlantic, who spent four years behind barbed wire. This book, partly based on his diaries hidden from the Germans, tells how the prisoners survived, confronted starvation and reacted to camp life and German propaganda along with a graphic account of their liberation. There are many pen portraits of international leaders and ‘ordinary’ men propelled into another conflict so soon after the war to end all wars had been concluded. Philip Algar, initially an economist, was subsequently a freelance broadcaster, lecturer, editor and journalist for 23 years. He has been a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in Europe and the United States, writing about energy, business, economics, international politics and crisis management. Algar has worked in 30 countries. He has written 12 books, including three on crisis management, three satirical novels on contemporary life, two on aspects of the Second World War and one on an independent’s attempt to win a parliamentary seat in 2015.

History of the Gloster Javelin

History of the Gloster Javelin The First All Weather British Fighter

The First All Weather British Fighter Ian Smith Watson

Colin Pateman spent his working life as a Police Officer, retiring after 32 years’ service. His key roles were as a handler of specialist search dogs, a Home Office qualified Police Dog instructor and later trained by the Royal Engineers to qualify as a Police Search Advisor. His other aviation related publications by Fonthill include Goldfish Caterpillars and Guinea pigs, Unwanted Hero, Unshackled Spirit, Glorious in Solitude, Special Duties and B-24 Bridge Busters.

Sustaining Air Power Royal Air Force Logistics since 1918 Trevor Stone

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$36.95 / 240 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / Color and B& B&W ph B&W photographs hotogra t phs h / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-374-9 / CR

This book follows the progress of the Javelin from the requirement stage through to final squadron disbandment in 1968. Ian Smith Watson was born in 1960 and joined the RAF when he left School in 1977. He served from 1977 to 1990 as an Air Defence Radar Operator in the United Kingdom, Germany and Belize. A life-Long Aviation enthusiast, he frequently reflects that his time in the RAF was book ended by two significant events in the service’s history, each marked by Flypasts, unprecedented in modern times, these being the Royal Silver Jubilee year and the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

During the Second World War the need for an on-board technical expert to join the Bomber Crews evolved. This book provides the reader with an explanation of the origin of Flight Engineers, the training of these men and the complexity of keeping large bombers in the air is an enthralling story. This book examines true accounts that took place; many based upon personal flying logbooks and other unique material originating from the pilots and aircrew themselves.

$55.00 / 528 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / Color and B&W / Currently Available / hardback / 978-1-78155-635-1 / CR

This book explores the fascinating development of RAF logistics since1918.

The Lion and the Rose. Volume 3 The 2/5th Battalion of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919 Kevin Shannon $45.00 / 272 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / B&W / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-668-9 / CR

The final part of the Lion and the Rose trilogy detailing the TF battalions of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in the Great War. Trevor Stone was commissioned into the Royal Air Force Supply Branch in 1981 and served for thirty-five years, retiring as a Wing Commander. During his time in the RAF, he was deployed to Turkey, The Balkans, and Afghanistan, as well as serving in West Germany during the latter years of the Cold War.

Kevin Shannon’s varied Army career included service in an Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, Intelligence and the infantry.

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Robert Mugabe’s Lost Jewel of Africa

The Italian Army in North Africa

U-Boats of the Second World War

Andrew Norman

A Poor Fighting Force or Doomed by Circumstance

Their Longest Voyages

$29.95 / 176 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / Color and B&W photographs / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-78155-688-7 / CR

This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu; the invasion by the Matabele under King Mzilikaze; the advent of the white missionaries; and the arrival of Cecil Rhodes and his Pioneer Column of early settlers, up to the time of independence in 1980. This is the romantic land of the high veld; of teeming game; of the great river Zambezi and the mighty Victoria Falls, and of enormous mineral wealth. Robert Mugabe referred it as ‘the jewel of Africa’.

From 1972-83, Andrew Norman worked as a general practitioner in Poole, Dorset, before a spinal injury cut short his medical career. He is now an established writer whose published works include biographies of Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Thomas Hardy, T. E. Lawrence, Adolf Hitler, Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton, Beatrix Potter, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Mugabe.

Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr. $29.95 / 200 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / B&W / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78155-674-0 / CR

This is the story of The Italian Army. While the Italian soldier’s commitment to the war was not as great as that of the German soldier, many Italians fought bravely. The Italian Littorio and Ariete Divisions earned Allied admiration at Tobruk, Gazala, and EI Alamein. The Italian Army played a significant role as part of the German Afrika Korps and made up a large portion of the Axis combat power in North Africa during 1941 and 1942. In the interest of determining how the Italian Army earned the reputation that it did, it is necessary to analyze why and how the Italians fought.

Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr. is an award-winning writer and editor, with over 30 years’ experience producing many different types of copy. He is the author of over 150 published articles and seven books. Walter is a contributing writer and reviewer for several international publications. He is a former historian with the U.S. Army, specializing is military history, Holocaust studies and events that transcend single states, regions and cultures. He lives in Harrisburg, PA.

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Jak P. Mallmann Showell $29.95 / 240 pages / 6.15 x 9.25 / black and white photographs / Currently Available / paperback / 978-1-78155-634-4 / CR

The facts of what the U-boats achieved against massive odds have been told before, but U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages is different. The book is based on masses of previously unpublished documents from the German U-boat Museum, many of them written during or shortly after the war by men who survived this bitter conflict. This is the story of how specially built long-range ocean-going U-boats started out one step ahead of the Allied navies and air power, how they fell one step behind and how they finally vanished into the depths of the biggest and deepest oceans. This is a remarkable story of endurance, courage and comradeship that terrified the world for the most critical period of the Second World War.

Jak P. Mallmann Showell is the author of more than twenty books on the German navy and U-boat operations and is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities in the field. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, 1944.

Frontline Books Assassins The KGB’s Poison Factory Ten Years On Boris Volodarsky $49.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 black and white illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-392-4 / CR

In November 1998, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian security service or FSB, along with several former colleagues, publicly stated that their superiors had instigated an assassination attempt on a Russian tycoon and oligarch. Following his subsequent arrest and failed trials, Litvinenko fled to London. On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko was suddenly taken ill and passed away twenty-two days later. Significant amounts of a rare and highly toxic element were subsequently found in his body. In this examination of the events surrounding Litvinenko’s murder, the author, Boris Volodarsky, who was consulted by the Metropolitan Police during the investigation, details the events surrounding the assassination. The author proves that Litvinenko’s poisoning is just one of many. Some of these assassinations or attempted assassinations are already known; others are revealed by him for the first time.

Boris Volodarsky is a former captain of the GRU Spetsnaz, a member of the World Association of International Studies and co-editor of the International Personal Files intelligence magazine. He is the author of Nikolai Khokhlov: Self-Esteem with a Halo and The Orlov File: The Greatest KGB Deception of All Time.

ISIS: The Killing Caliphate The Ideology of Terror Christopher Catherwood $42.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 black and white illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-041-1 / CR

Every war has its cause and every conflict its context, none more so than the centuries-old ideological battle between Christian and Muslim theology. From 630 Islamic armies were engaged in a massive imperialist conquest that created one of the most successful empires in history, stretching from the borders of Hindu India in the East to Christian Spain in the West. The defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 led to the secularization of Turkey and the Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk’s abolition of the Caliphate in 1924. That act ended the Islamic empire, with the Christian West, in the form of Britain and France, in control of large areas of the realm of Islam—the Middle East we know today being largely shaped by Winston Churchill. Conflict was inevitable. The tragic events of 9/11 were the result of a long process within Islam and the Islamic world, rather than the beginning of it—and now we have Isis and an attempt to revive the Caliphate. No-one knows how it will end. The author, who has written extensively on the subject of the continuous struggle between Christianity and Islam, investigates the key events throughout history that led to the establishment of the state of Israel, the Islamic rage of the twentieth century, Al Qaeda, the conflict between Sunni and Shia, and the rise of Isis. ISIS: The Killing Caliphate explains the motives behind holy war and how the fighting in the Middle East is merely the latest manifestation of the ageless battle between theologies— war in the name of God.

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Frontline Books Stauffenberg: Symbol of Resistance The Man Who Almost Killed Hitler Wolfgang Venohr $34.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47385-683-7 / CR

On 20th July 1944, senior officers gathered at the Wolfschanze – the Wolf’s Lair – Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia. Amongst those men was Colonel Claus Schenk Count von Stauffenberg, chief of staff of the Reserve Army, and with him he carried a briefcase packed with explosives. A little after midday the building was rocked by a massive explosion. Five men were killed, others wounded and the interior of the Wolfschanze was wrecked. Believing that he had killed the German Führer, von Stauffenberg set off for Berlin to initiate Operation Valkyrie – the coup d’etat to overthrow the Nazi regime. Hitler, of course, did not die that day and Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were rounded up and executed. After decades of analyzing the sources and eyewitness reports, the renowned historian Wolfgang Venohr revealed the true nature of the man behind the most audacious assassination attempt of the Second World War. Born in Berlin in 1925, Wolfgang Venohr held a PhD in history and worked as a journalist and freelance writer. For many years he was editor-in-chief of Stern TV. The author of numerous television films and published works, including Uprising of the Slovaks, The Freedom Fight of 1944, and Patriots vs. Hitler – The Way to July 20, 1944, Venohr’s work earned him the Jakob Kaiser Prize in 1972 and the Joseph E. Drexel Prize in 1979.

Hero on the Western Front Discovering Alvin York’s WWI Battlefield Michael Kelly $29.95 / 360 pages / 6 x 9 / 200 color & black and white illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-075-9 / CR

Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of the Allied forces, now bolstered by the fresh, enthusiastic Americans, who were now determined to be involved in the conflict that had engulfed the world. The US effort in 1918, in what became known as the Hundred Days Offensive, was focused on the Argonne Forest. It was there that 1,200,000 men were deployed in what was to be the largest offensive in the United States’ military history. York and the survivors returned fire and silenced the enemy, allowing the Americans to rejoin their battalion with the 132 prisoners in tow. Complete with detailed plans and diagrams, and a rich variety of photographs of locations and artifacts, Michael Kelly presents not only a fascinating account of York’s determined courage, but also a detective story as the team unravels the evidence to reveal the exact ravine where the most famous US military action of the First World War took place. Michael Kelly served for twelve years in the Royal Navy before joining the British police and working as a detective in the Regional Crime Squad, Major Crime and Surveillance Units for twenty-five years. He is a founder member of the Nolan Group, which is engaged in the exploration of the site and action where Alvin C. York was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Argonne Forest, France.

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Frontline Books The Polish ‘Few’

Agent Paterson SOE

Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain

From Operation Anthropoid to France: The Memoirs of E.H. van Maurik

Peter Sikora

Ernest van Maurik

$42.95 / 264 pages / 6 x 9 / 100 illustrations / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52671-485-5 / CR

This is the story of Men of the Polish Air Force, who had escaped first to France and then to Britain, to fly alongside the Royal Air Force just as Fighter Command faced its greatest challenge – the Battle of Britain. In total, 145 Polish pilots, the largest non-British contingent in Fighter Command at the time, fought in the Battle of Britain. Winston Churchill praised the contribution of the ‘Few’.

Peter Sikora is an aviation researcher, historian and writer who specializes in the history of the Polish Air Force between 1918 and 1946, with the particular interest in the achievements of the Polish airmen during Second World War. Based in Berkshire, England, Peter has already had a number of books published in Poland, including Aces of the Polish Air Force, Battles of the Polish Air Force 1918-1945 and Polish Wings over Ireland. He also writes historical articles for the leading Polish aviation magazines, and is a member of the Polish Air Force Memorial Committee at RAF Northolt.

Cold War Spymaster

This is the story of Ernest Van Maurik, known to all simply as ‘Van’, who joined the illustrious Artists Rifles regiment in the Territorial Army in 1936, but when war broke out was commissioned into the Wiltshire Regiment. In the summer of 1940 the regiment was posted at Folkestone to defend the South Coast in the event of an invasion, during which time he undertook a course at Hythe Small Arms School and found himself involved with the SOE, the Special Operations Executive. After many adventures, Van reached Switzerland where he carried out his task until the end of the war in Europe. He then was involved in assisting the investigation into the fate of the many SOE agents who had been captured by the Germans and were still missing.

Confessions of a Special Agent

The Legacy of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of MI5

Wartime Service in the Small Scale Raiding Force and SOE

Nigel West

Jack Evans and Ernest Dudley

$42.95 / 272 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-622-2 / CR

Guy Liddell was the Director of MI5’s counter-espionage B Division throughout the Second World War, during which he wrote a confidential personal diary. Within its pages details of virtually every important event that had any intelligence significance during the conflict were recorded. Those recently declassified diaries, which were edited by Nigel West, have been followed by a postwar series which cover the period from the German surrender until Liddell’s sudden resignation in May 1953. These eight years of the early Cold War contain many disturbing secrets, such as the cache of incriminating Nazi documents which was supposed to be destroyed by the SS. Nigel West is an intelligence expert and critically-acclaimed author. Such is his depth of knowledge in these fields that The Sunday Times noted that, ‘His information is often so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of the secret services. His books are peppered with deliberate clues to potential front-page stories.’ In 1989 Nigel was voted ‘The Experts’ Expert’ by the Observer.

$49.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-416-7 / CR

$39.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-994-0 / CR

This is the story of Jack Evans who sought to act behind enemy lines as an agent of the Special Operations Executive. Evans had joined the RAF in 1940, despite being well under the legal age, and two years later was recruited into the SOE as a member of the Small Scale Raiding Force. Evans related his experiences with the SOE to author Ernest Dudley in the 1950s, in which he describes his training, including learning how to jump by parachute in preparation for an operation into France – though he was withdrawn from the operation when his true age was disclosed. Evans suffered considerable mental trauma from his time behind enemy lines and his internment at the hands of the Germans and was unable to settle into normal civilian life. His astonishing story, written so soon after the end of the war, was considered in many respects to be ahead of its time.

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Battle of Killiecrankie 1689 The Anglo-Boer War in 100 The Last Act of the Killing Times Objects Stuart Reid $42.95 / 264 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-994-3 / CR

The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie was unquestionably the most dramatic. It was very much a Scottish battle. The later Jacobite risings would be launched against kings and governments in London. Killiecrankie, on the other hand, pitted Scot against Scot in the last bloody act of the bitter religious struggle known as ‘The Killing Times’.

Stuart Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1954 into a family with a tradition of service in the Army stretching back through the Battle of Mons to Culloden and beyond. He is the author of numerous military history publications and has written extensively upon Scottish military history during the seventeenth century Civil War and the Jacobite period.

The War Museum of the Boer Republics

$42.95 / 264 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / Illustrated in color throughout / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-403-7 / CR

The books brings the victories and the tragedies – and the full extent of the human drama behind this war – to life through 100 iconic artifacts. The book follows the course of the war and also highlights specific themes, such as British and Boer weaponry, medical services and POW camps, as well as major figures on both sides.The text is interspersed with striking historical images from the museum’s photographic collection. More than 200 additional objects have been included to help tell the story of a conflict that left an indelible mark on the South African landscape.

The War Museum Of The Boer Republics in Bloemfontein is dedicated to the Anglo-Boer War or South African War, the biggest ever conflict on South African soil. The museum aims to provide an understanding of the background against which the war took place through its unique collection of artefacts, photos, weaponry and art. Johan Van Zÿl is a historian and the manager of specialist services at the War Museum. He has co-written numerous in-house and trade publications.

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Zulu War VCs Victoria Crosses of the Anglo-Zulu War 1879 James W Bancroft $49.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-264-5 / CR

The Anglo-Zulu War lasted only six months in 1879, but in that relatively short time twenty-three men were awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry under most trying and dangerous circumstances. The conflict has never left the public’s imagination, and continues to stir hot debate among military historians and enthusiasts. With information compiled over four decades by James W. Bancroft, a wellknown and respected historian and author of several publications on the subject, this book brings together more information about the men than has ever before been collected together in one publication.

In the four decades James W. Bancroft has been writing he has produced more than 100 books and articles, the subjects of which reflect his varied interests. He contributed a number of articles for The New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and his book Rorke’s Drift: The Zulu War, 1879 has been re-printed seven times.

Frontline Books Knights of the Battle of Britain

The Iron Marshal A Biography of Louis N Davout John G Gallaher

Luftwaffe Aircrew Awarded the Knights Cross in 1940

$34.95 / 432 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-832-5 / CR

Chris Goss $34.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 100 illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-651-3 / CR

The Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross), known simply ply as the Ritterkreuz (Knight’s Cross), was the highest German military award of the Second World War. As the war progressed, higher variants were instituted, namely the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, and the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves Swords and Diamonds. In this book, the renowned aviation historian Chris Goss provides biographical details of all operational members of the Luftwaffe who received the Ritterkreuz during 1940 or were awarded it as a result of their actions in what became known as the Battle of Britain. Having retired from the RAF with the rank of Wing Commander, Chris Goss is a regular and highly respected contributor to major aviation publications in the UK, France and Germany, as well the author of fourteen critically acclaimed books covering the air war between 1939 and 1945.

Air War Archive

This is the biography of Louis Nicolas d’Avout, who began his military career with the French Royal Army. His abilities were recognized by Napoleon. He fought at many of the great battles of the Napoleonic Wars. However, he is most famously remembered for the Battle of Auerstedt in 1806 for which he was granted the title of Duke of Auerstaedt. He was more commonly known as ‘The Iron Marshal’ because of his reputation as a stern disciplinarian. This unique study also touches upon his personal life. We learn of his successful marriage to the beautiful and well-connected Aimeé and the couple’s struggle with the demands of Parisian social life. Born on 28 December 1928, John G. Gallaher is Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and author of Napoleon’s Irish Legion, and General Alexandre Dumas: Soldier of the French Revolution, as well as Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible: General Dominique Vandamme.

Wellington’s Foot Guards at Waterloo

Luftwaffe Training Aircraft The Training of Germany’s Pilots and Aircrew Through Rare Archive Photographs

The Men Who Saved The Day Against Napoleon Robert Burnham and Ron McGuigan

Chris Goss $25.95 / 192 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 190 illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-47389-952-0 / CR

$42.95 / 344 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 page b&w plate section / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-986-8 / CR

The often unseen and unrecognized element in aerial warfare is that of training the pilots and crews, yet its value is beyond calculation. A wide variety of aircraft were used by the Luftwaffe, with trainee pilots progressing from simpler, older machines. Gradually they would be introduced to newer and faster models that enabled them to experience the type of aircraft they would be flying in combat.

The experienced duo of Robert Burnham and Ron McGuigan have compiled the first comprehensive study of the Guards Division throughout the entire Waterloo campaign, from the initial deployment in Belgium to the Occupation of Paris. The book also includes an explanation of the organization and composition of the two brigades and personal details of many of the Guards’ officers – the men who saved the day at Waterloo.

The author in this extensive study tells the story of the wide range of aircraft used for training by the Luftwaffe along with a fine collection of excellent images. Having retired from the RAF with the rank of Wing Commander, Chris Goss is a regular and highly respected contributor to major aviation publications in the UK, France and Germany, as well the author of twenty critically acclaimed books covering the air war between 1939 and 1945.

Having had numerous articles published on the Peninsular War and the British Army, the renowned historian and author Robert Burnham hosts the pre-eminent Napoleonic website, the Napoleon Series. This fascinating and all-embracing website, the largest of its kind, is a ‘must’ for anyone interested in the Napoleonic era. Ron McGuigan, from Canada, is a recognized specialist on the British Army of the period, who has been researching the era for forty years.

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Greenhill Books Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker Elena Rzhevskaya $32.95 / 320 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78438-281-0 / CR

Rzhevskaya was entrusted with the proof of Hitler’s death: his teeth. She interrogated Hitler’s dentist’s assistant who confirmed the teeth were his. Elena’s role as an interpreter allowed her to forge a link between the Soviet troops and the Germans. The book includes her diary material and later additions, including conversations with Zhukov, letters of pathologist Shkaravsky, who led the autopsy, and a new Preface written by Rzhevskaya for the English language edition. Rzhevskaya writes about the key historical events and everyday life in her own inimitable style. She talks in depth of human suffering, of bittersweet victory, of an author’s responsibility, of strange laws of memory and unresolved feeling of guilt.

After serving the war effort as a munitions worker and after finishing a war interpreter’s course Elena Kagan joined Gen Dmitry Lelyushenko’s army of resistance in 1942. By February 1945 Elena was working in Poznan before joining the USSR’s 3rd Army’s attack on the Reichstag in late April. Her journey to Berlin began in Rzhev on the Volga, where millions of Red Army soldiers died fighting German forces. She adopted the surname Rzhevskaya to honor the fallen. Rzhevskaya was the first person to read key documents related to the last days of the Reich including the personal papers of Hitler. She lived in Moscow after the war to work as a writer and won prizes for her fiction and journalism. She was the author of two acclaimed history books and six war novels.

Living with Hitler Accounts of Hitler’s Household Staff Karl Wilhelm Krause and Herbert Döhring $34.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78438-297-1 / CR

In this book, the reader is introduced to Hitler’s Bodyguard Karl Krause (1934-39), his house administrator Herbert Döhring (1935-43) and chambermaid Anna Plaim (1941-43). From these accounts we get a deeper sense of Hitler in close proximity. These accounts massively add to our understanding of Hitler as a three dimensional character, especially from subjects like Plaim who only knew Hitler’s home life, having rarely left Berghof. The series is able to shed light on his likes and dislikes from foods to his hobbies, creating a strange sense of humanity. This collection also provides the reader with fresh anecdotes, observations and portraits of Hitler’s entourage and relatives. Plaim’s images of Eva Braun come from finding torn fragments in the bin, whilst Döhring sheds light on Martin Bormann’s demeanor.

Roger Moorhouse is a leading historian of Nazism and World War II. He is the author of three acclaimed books and has made a number of television appearances, given important lectures regarding the Final Solution and is a regular commentator for the press. Karl Krause was born in 1911 and became Hitler’s valet and bodyguard in 1934. He died in 2001. Herbert Döhring was born in 1913, and from 1935-1943 served as Hitler’s Housekeeper. He died in 2001. Anna Plaim was born in 1920 and became a maid in Berghof in 1941.

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Greenhill Books Medieval Armoured Combat

Medieval Combat in Colour A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat

The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven

Hans Talhoffer

Dierk Hagedorn and Bartłomiej Walczak

$29.95 / 320 pages / 6 x 9 / color illustrations / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-78438-285-8 / CR

Hans Talhoffer’s professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the ‘judicial duel’ (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal dispute) and personal combat. Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to exploit and enhance the sword’s inherent cutting and thrusting capabilities. This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication and ruthlessness. This is one of the most popular and influential manuals of its kind. Hans Talhoffer was a fifteenth-century German fencing master. He authored at least five fencing manuals and made his living teaching and training people for trial by combat. The Translator and editor, Mark Rector, is a world-renowned practitioner of historical swordsmanship.

$34.95 / 272 pages / 6 x 9 / 250 plus color illustrations / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-78438-333-6 / CR

In this remarkable full color volume, the authors elegantly present their work on the copy of the “Gladiatoria” group of German fencing manuscripts along with additional essays, and a foreword by Sydney Anglo.

Dierk Hagedorn was born in 1966 in Hamburg, Germany, and he started sport fencing at the age of nine. He is head instructor of the longsword for Hammaborg Historischer Schwertkampf. He is also a member of HEMAC, the Historical European Martial Arts Coalition, and has transcribed more than a dozen German manuscripts. He is an illustrator, web-designer and lecturer. Bartłomiej Walczak was born in 1978 and has been practising and researching historical martial arts since 1999. He has lectured worldwide, published transcripts, translations and articles and has participated in tournaments, winning the 2015 ILHG Open Longsword.

With Eagles to Glory

In Napoleon’s Shadow

Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1809 Campaign

The Memoirs of Louis-Joseph Marchand, Valet and Friend of the Emperor 1811–1821

John H Gill

Proctor Patterson Jones

$34.95 / 528 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-78438-309-1 / CR

When Napoleon’s Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Habsburg empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troops. With Napoleon’s French troops depleted and debilitated after the long struggle in the Spanish War, the German troops for the first time played a major combat role in the center of the battle line. In this epic work, John Gill presents an unprecedented and comprehensive study of this year of glory for the German soldiers fighting for Napoleon. When combat opened they were in the thick of the action, fighting within French divisions and often without any French support at all. They demonstrated tremendous skill, courage and loyalty. John H. Gill is the author of the acclaimed 1809: Thunder on the Danube trilogy. He is an Associate Professor of the faculty of the Near East - South Asia Center, part of the National Defense University in Washington DC. A former US Army South Asia Foreign Area Officer, he retired as a colonel in 2005 after more than 27 years of active service.

In Napoleon’s Shadow The Memoirs of LouisJoseph Marchand, Valet and Friend of the Emperor 1811–1821

$42.95 / 792 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-78438-289-6 / CR Temporary Cover

Louis-Joseph Marchand’s intimate memoir of his time as Napoleon’s valet is the last of the significant Napoleonic manuscripts to be translated into English and a unique and precious insight into the last days of Napoleon’s Imperial project. Serving alongside the Emperor from the apex of his reign and through his eventual demise, Marchand depicts, in remarkable detail, the campaigns of Russia, Germany, and France; Napoleon’s exile to Elba and subsequent escape; and his defeat at Waterloo. Louis-Joseph Marchand was born in Paris in 1791 and served as first valet to Napoleon from 1811 until the Emperor’s death in 1821. He compiled notes throughout his service and his memoir remained in private hands until 1952 when it was published in French. Jean Tulard is an eminent French historian and editor, specializing in the history of cinema, the French Consulate and the Napoleonic era. He is a Professor at the Sorbonne and a member of the Institute of France. In 2010 he became Commander of the Légion d’honneur.

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Greenhill Books

Voices from D-Day Jonathan Bastable $19.95 / 312 pages / 6 x 9 / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-78438-293-3 / CR

This new paperback edition of a classic account of D-Day told through firsthand accounts brings vividly to life the bravery and skill of the young men called to fight to liberate Europe. The accounts are taken from letters, diaries and interviews and range from generals and politicians to front-line soldiers and civilians. This book tells the whole story of D-Day from the meticulous planning of the four years following many memorable events.

Jonathan Bastable began his career as a feature writer for the The Sunday Times Magazine, and spent several years as a correspondent in Moscow. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times, The Scotsman, Wallpaper and Time Out. He has written on foreign destinations for Condé Nast Traveller and other magazines, and is the author of a number of books, including Voices From Stalingrad: Unique First-hand Accounts From World War II’s Cruellest Battle, Voices From the World of Samuel Pepys, Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Prime Ministers and his first novel, Devil’s Acre: A Russian Novel.

Voices of the Codebreakers Voices from the Battle of Personal accounts of the secret heroes the Bulge of World War II Michael Paterson $19.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / 16pages b/w illustrations / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-78438-313-8 / CR

Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of concealed and closely guarded information. From the stuffy huts of Bletchley Park to the battles in the Mediterranean, the French and Dutch Resistance movements and the unkempt radio operatives in Burma, the rarely seen, outstanding stories collected here reveal the true extent of the ‘secret war’. With vivid first-hand accounts and illuminating historical research, this book reveals and finally celebrates the extraordinary accomplishments of these ordinary men and women.

Michael Paterson is a military historian, author, researcher and illustrator. He began his career on the military magazine ‘Battlefields Review’ as a writer and illustrator, before working in the printed books department at the Imperial War Museum, London. He has worked closely with many international archives as a researcher and has lectured frequently on military history and related subjects. He is also the author of Winston Churchill: His Military Life, 1895-1945.

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Nigel De Lee

$19.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages b/w illustrations / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-78438-317-6 / CR

The massive German attack launched on 16 December 1944 achieved complete surprise but heavy fighting in the American sectors, halted their advance after two days. This, known as Battle of the Bulge, had been the largest battle fought by the Americans in World War 2 and at the end of it Germany was facing its final defeat. This new paperback edition of Voices of Battle of the Bulge tells the story of this pivotal battle of World War 2 through contemporary witnesses. Drawing on interviews, letters, diaries and eyewitness accounts from the military commanders and generals, ordinary front-line soldiers and civilians who experienced the Battle of the Bulge at first hand, it vividly brings to life and commemorates one of the key battles of World War 2. Nigel de Lee has taught war studies at Sandhurst, Camberley, history at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and Operations and Tactics at the Krigsskolen in Oslo as well as working for twenty years as an interviewer for the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive. He is currently teaching in the Politics Department at the University of Hull and is preparing to teach at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Watchfield. He lives in Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Grub Street Publishing

Over and Above

Open Cockpit

Shackleton Boys Volume 1

Captain John E Gurdon DFC and Norman Franks

Arthur Gould Lee

$29.95 / 224 pages / 5 x 8.25 / Illustrated Throughout / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91162-108-9 / NCR

$17.95 / 224 pages / 5 x 8.25 / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-104-1 / NCR

True Stories from the Home-Based ‘Kipper Fleet’ Squadrons

Over and Above was first published in 1919. It is Gurdon’s first and best book, repeatedly reprinted for two decades, variously titled Winged Warriors or Wings of Death. Billed as a novel, it is not so much that as a fictionalized account of his own service flying career, with names changed, and incidents rearranged. Written in the style of the era and by and for a class which put great store in maintaining a slangy, backslapping cheerfulness, no matter how grim things were, with chums wishing each other ‘beaucoup Huns’ before embarking on a ‘show’ in ‘beastly’ weather, this book is a classic to rank with Winged Victory by V M Yeates, and which should never have been out of print. This new edition retains exactly the original script but has been updated with an introduction by John Gurdon’s granddaughter Camilla Gurdon Blakeley and an extended illustrated appendix by renowned historian Norman Franks.

Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional time flying trainers before he was posted to France during World War I. In November 1917 during low-level bombing and strafing attacks, he was shot down three times by ground fire. He spent eight months at the front and accumulated 222 hours of flight time in Sopwith Pups and Camels during a staggering 118 patrols; being engaged in combat fifty-six times. He lived to retire from the RAF as an air vice-marshal in 1946. Author of three war books, this is by far his best. Lee puts you in the cockpit in a riveting account of life as a fighter pilot at the front. At turns humorous and dramatic, this thoughtful, enlightening, true account is a classic to be ranked with Winged Victory by V. M. Yeates, also published by Grub Street.

Arthur Gould Lee was born in 1894 and served in the Sherwood Foresters, RFC and RAF from 1915 to 1946, when he retired as an air vice-marshal. He took up writing on retirement from the RAF and published twelve non-fiction books.

Steve Bond $45.00 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated Throughout / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91162-112-6 / NCR

Steve Bond has divided his subject into two volumes. Consequently this volume will cover UK-based units flying from Ballykelly (including Aldergrove), Farnborough, Honington, Kinloss, Lossiemouth, St Eval and St Mawgan, plus many overseas detachments including Christmas Island and Majunga. To complement the detailed personal accounts and anecdotes are hundreds of original photographs and extensive appendices. A feast for any ‘Shack’ or military aviation aficionado. Volume Two (coming in 2019) will cover those units based overseas at Changi, Gan, Gibraltar, Khormaksar, Luqa (and Hal Far), and Sharjah, plus the South African Air Force operations from Ysterplaat/Malan.

A life-long aviation professional and historian, Dr Steve Bond has spent over forty years working in the industry. He served in the Royal Air Force for twenty-two years as an aircraft propulsion technician, with tours on many different aircraft, and was part of the Eurofighter Typhoon project team in the MoD. He is also the author of many magazine articles and books including: Heroes All, Special Ops Liberators (with Richard Forder), Wimpy, Meteor Boys and Javelin Boys for Grub Street.

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Grub Street Publishing

No Parachute

Black September 1918

A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI

WWI’s Darkest Month in the Air

Arthur Gould Lee $17.95 / 256 pages / 5 x 8.25 / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-105-8 / NCR

From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces – among them Ball, Bishop, McCudden, Collishaw and Mannock – whose legendary feats have echoed down half a century. But behind the elite there were, in the Royal Flying Corps, many hundreds of other airmen who flew their hazardous daily sorties in outdated planes without ever achieving fame. Here is the story of one of these unknown flyers – a story based on letters written on the day, hot on the event, which tells of a young pilot’s progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter.

Norman Franks, Russell Guest and Frank Bailey $29.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated Throughout / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-111-9 / NCR

As with their previous book, the authors of Black September 1918 have analyzed the daily events throughout September 1918 with the use of lists of casualties and claims from both sides. The book also contains seven detailed appendices examining the victory claims of all the air forces that fought during September 1918. Although it is difficult to pin-point exactly who was fighting who high above the trenches, by pouring over maps and carefully studying almost all the surviving records, the picture of ‘who got who’ in the air slowly begins to emerge with deadly accuracy. Coinciding with the centenary of the end of World War I, Black September 1918 is a profusely illustrated and essential reference piece to understanding one of the crucial months of war in the skies.

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945. Volume 4 Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 – 5 June, 1944 Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello and Russell Guest $79.95 / 680 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated Throughout / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91162-110-2 / NCR

This volume commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This volume, then, is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in north-west France. Christopher Shores is a prolific and much acclaimed writer on military aviation history, now working at the head of a formidable team of dedicated researchers, each an expert in their own right. In this particular volume he has been able to call on the resources of Giovanni Massimello (Italian), Russell Guest (Australian), Frank Olynyk (American), Winfried Bock (German) and Andy Thomas, to give as complete a picture as is possible of the struggle for supremacy in the desert skies.

Grub Street Publishing The Jet Age Series

The Jet Age Series

The Lightning Boys

The Lightning Boys 2

True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning

More True Tales from Pilots and Crew of the English Electric Lightning

Richard Pike

$22.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated Throughout / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-102-7 / NCR

$22.95 / 186 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated Throughout / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-106-5 / NCR

This entertaining book relates the highs and lows, the dramas and the demands of those who operated this iconic aircraft from the sharp end. Tales include the recollections of an aerobatic display pilot, an implausible yet true account of telepathic communication, and an extraordinary episode when a Lightning pilot on an exchange programme with the French air force became embroiled in a mid-air collision.

The sequel of the bestselling The Lightning Boys, Lightning Boys 2 has twenty separate stories. The reader is taken to situations as diverse as intercepting sixty plus enemy aircraft, a desperate struggle in a cockpit flooded by tropical downpours, the difficulties of being affected by sudden and painful toothache at high altitude, and the curious encounter with an unidentified flying object.

Richard Pike became a flight cadet in 1961, at the RAF College, Cranwell where, on graduation, he was awarded the Dickson Trophy and Michael Hill memorial prize for flying. On leaving the Royal Air Force he became a civilian helicopter pilot. His duties took him to a wide variety of destinations at home and overseas including the Falkland Islands not long after the end of the Falklands War.

The Jet Age Series

Hunter Boys True Tales from Pilots of the Hawker Hunter Richard Pike $22.95 / 186 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated Throughout / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-103-4 / NCR

Hunter Boys is a fascinating insight into the experiences of those who flew the iconic Hawker Hunter.

Bolts from the Blue From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff

Bolts from the Blue From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staﬀ

Sir Richard Johns GCB KCVO CBE FRAeS Temporary Cover

$45.00 / 320 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91162-109-6 / NCR

This is the autobiography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns. His views are forensic and forthright, balanced and thought-provoking and this autobiography should be essential reading for anyone interested in the development of Allied air power over the last fifty years and its contribution to operations in the Middle East and the Balkans.

The Jet Age Series

Buccaneer Boys True Tales by Those Who Flew the ‘Last All-British Bomber’ Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork $22.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / Illustrated Throughout / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-107-2 / NCR

This book tells the experiences of twentyfour aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft, Blackburn Buccaneer.

Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork spent thirty-six years in the RAF, as a navigator. He has authored several aviation books. In 2012 Graham received both the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators Award for Aviation Journalism and the Air Power Association Award of the CP Robertson Memorial Trophy for his services to aviation writing.

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Harpia • Heimdal Modern Chinese Warplanes

Vought F-4U Corsair

Chinese Air Force - Combat Aircraft and Units

$35.00 / 144 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / October 2018 / hardback / 978-2-84048-502-5 / CR

Andreas Rupprecht $59.95 / 256 pages / 8.27 x 11.02 / full color throughout / December 2018 / paperback / 978-0-99730-926-3 / NCR

This fully revised edition is organized in three parts: the most important military aircraft and their weapons found in service today; aircraft markings and serial number systems; and orders of battle for the PLAAF. PLAAF is potrayed in detail that was previously unavailable. The study includes the latest developments emerging from behind the ‘Great Wall’, including the J-20 stealth fighter program, Y-20 strategic transport and the latest developments in UAVs that are equipping a rapidly modernizing air arm. The centerpiece consists of almost 100 fully illustrated pages detailing the organizational structure of the air force, providing an easy-to-use review of all known flying units, their equipment and their markings.

L’armée de Napoléon III dans la guerre de 1870 André Jouineau and Jean-Marie Mongin $58.00 / 176 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / December 2018 / hardback / 978-2-84048-511-7 / CR

TEXT IN FRENCH In keeping with their way of presenting History’s most beautiful uniforms, the authors in their new book present us with the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The uniforms, equipment and weapons of all the Imperial Army corps are presented here with extraordinary uniform plates by André Jouineau, the famous illustrator-researcher. The texts are by Jean-Marie Mongin and go well beyond the customary details, delving into the organization and the strength of this formidable force, which quite unpredictably suffered what some people in many ways still consider a humiliating defeat, even today. This volume is for the uniform and figurine buffs; it is a small, practical tool, precise, clear, logical and visual. It has almost 140 uniform plates and maps and more than 1000 infantry, artillery and cavalry drawings.

Bruno Pautigny and Nicholas Gohin

With more than 12 000 built in six main versions and used by some air forces until the 1970s, the emblematic aircraft of above all the Pacific war, and a television star, the Chance Vought F4U Corsair was undoubtedly one of the most famous aircraft in aviation history. After difficult beginnings, the Corsair – immediately recognizable by its cranked wings imposed by the large diameter propeller – was one of the factors of the USN’s air arm’s successes during World War Two, earning itself the nickname of “whistling death” when attacking because of its engine noise and wing layout. The United States were the main users of the F4U, but the British Fleet Air Arm also flew them during the Second World War, including in the European theater whilst France, for whom a special version was made by Vought, only withdrew its last Corsairs from service at the beginning of the 1960s, after using them in combat in Algeria and Suez. In almost 144 pages, these two illustrators and specialists in world aviation have realized almost 200 unpublished profiles of this legendary aircraft.

The Imperial Guard of the First Empire. Volume 3 From the mounted troops to the Royal Guard André Jouineau and Jean-Marie Mongin $37.00 / 176 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / August 2018 / hardback / 978-2-84048-512-4 / CR

“The Guard charges” Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit – the Imperial Guard – and it became a sort of little army within the “Grande Armée”. The third volume – a compilation of two dossiers published in the fifth and sixth issues of the magazine ”Soldat” – is the new, improved, entirely revised and re-drawn larger version (more than fifty per cent more characters) than the previous work published several years ago by the authors. In this volume, are the last mounted units of the Guard, the follow-up units, the Horse Artillery, the Artillery trains and teams, the Health Service, the Guard HQ Staff and also the Emperor’s Household, the Emperor and the first uniforms of the Royal Guard.

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Heimdal U-110

Les Radios alliées 19401945. Tome 1

Le Kapitänleuntnant Fritz lemp et la tragédie de l’ U-110

Les matériels de transmission anglais, américain, canadiens

Jean-Louis Maurette

Denis Derdos

$58.00 / 160 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / October 2018 / hardback / 978-2-84048-509-4 / CR

$155.00 / 320 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / February 2019 / hardback / 978-2-84048-503-2 / CR

TEXT IN FRENCH Thanks to albums belonging to one of the sailors aboard U-30 and then U-110, the author has been able to reconstruct the path taken by Kapitänleutnant Fritz Lemp and his crew, including the sailor Willi Brohm, and the fate of these submarines, with texts and also pictures. We begin the story with the sailor’s enrolment in 1936 at Cuxhaven, then aboard U-30. Then we take a look at a little-known page of history: the engagement of U-Boots in the Spanish Civil War, after 1937, with photos taken at Cadiz, Seville, Ceuta, Tetuan and the Canary Islands. It was then the beginning of the war with a good report on the U-30 under Captain Lemp. As for Willi Brohm, we follow him into captivity to Canada, with very rare and exceptional photos. A fantastic, historic album gathering together more than 200 photos and documents of which 160 photos are from our own archives and various documents are unpublished.

TEXT IN FRENCH “On June 6, 1944, both on the beaches and on land, all orders and reports—with rare exception—were delivered to all armed combatants via radio transmission ¼.” This work leads the reader into a world that many collectors of World War II militaria have as of yet not been able to imagine. There still remains a world of radio collectibles to discover; a world where the possibility of finding a collector’s item that has witnessed combat still exists. More than 160 transmission devices, including the BC 611, BC 1306, Wireless Set No. 18, No. 19 or the RF No. 2 Amplifiers RF, and other Wavemeter Class D, etc…, used by the Anglo-Saxon forces are presented in full detail, in all their complexity and with all their accessories. The in-depth descriptions accompanying each device are taken entirely from the original technical manuals.

Chasseurs et Gladiateurs

Fontenay-Rauray

L’épopée des héros de l’arène

Autopsie d’une bataille

Kévin Alexandre Karek

Frédéric Deprun and Baptiste Flotté

$38.00 / 112 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / October 2018 / hardback / 978-2-84048-506-3 / CR

$78.00 / 288 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / September 2018 / hardback / 978-2-84048-501-8 / CR

TEXT IN FRENCH

Panem et circenses, “bread and circuses”— Juvenal’s expression denouncing the Roman plebs, whose sole ambition was the free distribution of flour and satiating the appetite for public entertainment, characterizes fairly accurately Roman society at the time of the first emperors. However, one should not be mistaken, the image of the Circus Maximus hosting gladiator fights is nothing more than pure fabrication. Here, other than chariot races and athletic competitions, one would above all notice men armed with helmets and swords (bestiarii) and hunters with spears (venatores) combatting ferocious beasts as part of the venationes.

This book offers a meticulous study of the fighting at Fontenay-le-Pesnel and at Rauray to the west of Caen, between 25 and 29 June 1944. Both authors, Frédéric Deprun and Baptiste Flotté, wanted to give a precise account of this episode of the Battle of Normandy, starting with Operation Martlet, on the flank of Operation Epsom. Extremely detailed research concentrates on the lynchpin at Rauray and its armor confrontations. A precise chronology has been made of the destruction of the Panther tanks in front of Fontenay by the assaults by the Polar Bears and the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division until they broke through the German defensive line held by the Panzer-Lehr-Division and the 12.SS PanzerDivision “Hitlerjugend”. By the precise localization of unpublished photographs and an account of the operation from both sides, this three-part study pays particular attention to the relics of the fighting and the testimonies which go with each of the different acts of the battle.

This book presents the history of nearly 800 years of spectacles. Based on rich, in-depth archaeological documentation (sigillate pottery, terracotta lamps, mosaics, frescoes, graffiti, glassware, statuary, lapidary elements, etc.) and on solid literary sources, this study confronts the most recent historical research on the subject in order to propose an original reinterpretation of this prodigious phenomenon of society.

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Heimdal Normandy 1944 Georges Bernage $30.00 / 224 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / July 2018 / paperback / 978-2-84048-516-2 / CR

This book is the fruit of forty years of contact with military and civilian witnesses, now almost all gone, of research, analyses and descriptions of several thousands of photographs about the Landings and the Battle of Normandy. This book is the best synthesis, day by day, from 6 June to 30 August, with a clear narrative, an exceptional report illustrated with the best photographs (470), 22 armor and aircraft profiles and above all, 79 maps enabling the reader to follow this very complex battle more easily. The documentation, unique in the world, will allow you to discover one of the greatest pages of history, and to travel through Normandy, and find those moments when you go back in time thanks to the narratives and the photographs.

Operation Dynamo Dunkirk 1940 Jean-Charles Stasi $25.00 / 96 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Currently Available / paperback / 978-2-84048-515-5 / CR

Four years before the Normandy landings, the French coast was the scene of another major episode in the Second World War. This was Operation Dynamo, much less well known than D-Day. And yet you only have to look at the statistics to see how important this part of the story of the Campaign of France was: between 27 May and 4 June, almost 340 000 French and British troops were evacuated from the Dunkirk pocket by a miscellaneous fleet of 850 boats, among which hundreds of fishing vessels, pleasure boats, lifeboats or Merchant Navy vessels. Thanks to the sailorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; courage but also the RAF pilotsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; skill, this operation without precedent was a success which enabled the British to continue to fight the Germans, even though they had to leave behind most of their equipment and weapons. Placed in its context, Operation Dynamo is here narrated in detail with numerous period photos, maps, aircraft profiles and uniform plates. This military operation and human adventure without precedent breathes again, 77 years later thanks to the film director Christopher Nolan, the director of the Batman trilogy and Interstellar which, with Dunkirk, has become an international blockbuster, to which a chapter of this book is devoted.

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Heimdal Chariot

Panzer Regiment Totenkopf

Le plus grand raid commando de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Pierre Tiquet

Jean-Charles Stasi

$58.00 / 160 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / Currently Available / hardback / 978-2-84048-487-5 / CR

$38.00 / 96 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / Currently Available / hardback / 978-2-84048-498-1 / CR

TEXT IN FRENCH Using various veterans’ testimonies and memoirs, the reader plunges into the k f” which hi h daily life of a unit, the SS-Panzer Regiment 3 “T “Totenkopf”, only fought on the Eastern Front. It was one of the most capable. The Kriegestagbuch (log book) of this unit’s tank pointer is the main thread of this book, interspersed with never before published documents.

TEXT IN FRENCH More than seventy-five years afterwards, “Chariot” is still thought of as the most daring and most spectacular commando operation of the whole of WWII, called on the other side of the Channel “the greatest raid of all time”. And all this was done to make the only dry-dock vast enough to take the super cruiser Tirpitz, the terror of all the Allied navies, totally unusable. To tell the story of this extraordinary coup de main, Jean-Charles Stasi has consulted the German, British and French archives, interviewed former commandoes as well as the inhabitants of Saint-Nazaire who witnessed the raid. His tale is lively and alert and is illustrated with a lot of period photographs, as well as maps, drawings and boat profiles, to plunge the reader into the heart of the action and to allow him to relive the preparations for this extraordinary operation.

Jaco le magnifique

D’azur et de sable

Journal d’un pilote de la France Libre

Un aviateur francais en Syrie en 1923

Jacques Général Andrieux and Many Souffan

Marcel Migeo and Jean-Charles Stasi

$38.00 / 208 pages / 6 x 8.26 / September 2018 / paperback / 978-2-84048-500-1 / CR

$38.00 / 256 pages / 6 x 8.3 / 8-pages of color illustration / Currently Available / paperback / 978-2-84048-499-8 / CR

TEXT IN FRENCH This book tells a very beautiful and magnificent adventure, that of a young Frenchman humiliated by the 1940 defeat who fled aboard a Breton crayfish boat to carry on the fight for freedom. The diary of Jacques “Jaco” Andrieux tells very simply, quickly and always with emotion, the discoveries, the apprenticeship and the daily life of a Free Frenchman transplanted to England, in Fighter command. The unceasing combats he fought in the RAF squadrons, the risks, the kills, the loneliness of the hunter, the camaraderie, the fraternity, life, are all written in a simple tone, lively and effective with the impression of being in the heart of the action. Each page breathes its lot of pictures, sounds, smells but also the feelings, doubts, joys where death and life exist alongside each other simply. General Andrieux relates his combats above the Channel, Dieppe, the Normandy Landings, and in the skies of France which were being freed and above Germany in its death throes. The story of this man is part of history itself.

TEXT IN FRENCH: This is the story of Marcel Migeo, who is a big name in the heroic epoch of French aviation. Even though he is not as famous as Mermoz, Guillaumet or Saint-Exupéry – he knew all three of them. Each day he wrote down the important events of his daily life in his moleskin notebook: his flying missions, his relations with the local population, his discovery of Syrian towns and countryside. These notes gave rise to a manuscript, unpublished until today. Marcel Migeo wrote ten or so books most of which were devoted to flying. We owe him accounts of the war, like Batailles dans le ciel (Grand Prix Littéraire de l’AéroClub de France) and biographies of Saint-Exupéry, Henri Guillaumet, Maryse Bastié and Dider Daurat. Almost a hundred years later, his writings on Syria have a pertinent and astonishingly contemporary flavor since the country is being torn apart by a six-year-civil war which has taken on an international dimension.

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Helion and Company Century of the Soldier

Armies and Enemies of Louis XIV Armies and Uniforms of Western Europe 1688-1714

Century of the Soldier Armies and Enemies of Louis XIV Armies and Uniforms of Western Europe 16881714

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Mark Allen $32.95 / 124 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / over 49 color plates & over 40 photos / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-805-7 / CR

The book is a handbook covering all the major conflicts and battles of the late 17th century. It examines how the armies were organized and fought. Mark Allen has worked for WH Smith, PSL, Blandford Press and Cassel, before becoming Sales Director at Photobook Information Services which seemed to involve playing lots of cricket for West Malvern and not a lot else.

Century of the Soldier

Charles XI’s War

The Cretan War (16451671)

The Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark, 1675-1679 Michael Fredholm von Essen $34.95 / 124 pages / 7 x 9.75 / extensive map section, 16pp color section / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91162-800-2 / CR

The book describes and analyzes the Scanian War, which was fought from 1675 to 1679 between, on one side, primarily Brandenburg and Denmark– Norway and, on the other, SE - Sweden. Professor Michael Fredholm von Essen is the author of a large number of books for publishers such as Helion, Routledge, and Pike and Shot Society and Stockholm University; and a large number of articles on early modern warfare in the Arquebusier, the journal of the Pike and Shot Society.

The Venetian-Ottoman Struggle in the Mediterranean Bruno Mugnai $39.95 / 176 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 2 maps, 6 photos, 60 prints, 17 tabulated lists; 8 original color plates / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-804-0 / CR

The different types of soldiers involved in the Cretan War have been illustrated with care in color plates, coeval examples and employing several unpublished sources. Bruno Mugnai has published several titles for publishers such as the Historical Office of the Italian Army, Rivista Medicea, and other Italian publishers, and Partizan Press in UK.

Century of the Soldier

The Bravest Battell

Peter the Great’s Revenge

The Most Heavy Stroke

The Siege of Narva in 1704

The Battle of Roundway Down 1643

Cheriton 1644 and the end of the Royalist winter campaign in Hampshire Serena Jones $34.95 / 144 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 8 color plates, 10 b/w ills, 5 maps / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-097-7 / CR

The battle of Cheriton, in March 1644, was a decisive yet unexpected defeat for the Hampshire detachment of King Charles’s ‘Oxford Army.’ In this book, Serena Jones reexamines the battle by revisiting in detail the numerous contemporary sources such as memoirs and printed newsbooks, and for the first time using drone images to view a critical section of the battlefield from above.

Boris Megorsky $39.95 / 208 pages / 7 x 99.75 75 / 180 ill ills ll ttotal tl including 14 color artworks, 7 b/w artworks, 159 b/w & color drawings, maps, prints, paintings and photos / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91162-802-6 / CR

Narva and Ivangorod comprise a nowadaysunique fortification ensemble that has gone through many historical periods of the Baltic region. This study covers both operational and tactical levels, deals with peculiarities of the siege warfare, and describes everyday life of the participants.

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Chris Scott $42.95 / 204 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 11 photos, 36 diags, 7 drawings, 8 color plates / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-099-1 / CR

Sir William Waller called his defeat at the Battle of Roundway Down, the most heavy stroke that ever befell him. The Most Heavy Stroke combines new thinking on the battle with recent research on which units took part in the fighting, and what they wore and the flags they carried, even though it acknowledges the paucity of current information.

Helion and Company Century of the Soldier

Century of the Soldier

From Reason To Revolution

The Battle of Killiecrankie

From Solebay to the Texel

The First Jacobite Campaign, 1689-1691

The Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-1674

Jonathan D. Oates

Quintin Barry

$42.95 / 184 pages / 6 x 9 / 17 ills / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-098-4 / CR

$34.95 / 128 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 40 ills & maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-803-3 / CR

For Orange and the States. Volume 2: Cavalry and Special Troops

This book is the first full length account of the military struggle in Scotland from 16891691, focussing on the men who fought and died in the battles of Killiecrankie, Dunkeld and Cromdale, largely based on primary sources, both published and manuscript.

This book is a study of the Anglo-Dutch war of 1672 to 1674, describing the naval battles which were fought, and the men and ships which fought them.

The Army of the Dutch Republic, 1713-1772 Marco Geerdink-Schaftenaar $34.95 / 120 pages / 7 x 9.75 / c 60 ills incl. 8pp color plates / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91162-813-2 / CR

The purpose of this book is to focus on the uniforms and organization of the Dutch Republic, from the Peace of Utrecht until the reforms of 1772.

From Reason To Revolution

A Light Infantryman with Wellington

Better is the Proud Plaid

Between Scylla and Charybdis. Volume 2: Infantry and Artillery

The Letters of Captain George Ulrich Barlow 52ndd andd 69th FFoott 1808-15 Gareth Glover $29.95 / 156 pages / 6 x 9 / 12-15 b/w images / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91162-810-1 / CR

This is an analysis and evaluation of the British army sent to Egypt in 1801 to eject the French Army of the Orient.

The clothing, weapons, and accoutrements of the Jacobites in 1745 Jenn Scott $34.95 / 120 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 8pp color plates, c 16 b/w images / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-816-3 / CR

This lavishly illustrated book will appeal to anyone interested in the Jacobite Risings: reenactors, wargamers, fans of Outlander, and the Scottish diaspora.

The Army of Elector Frederick August II of Saxony, 1733-1763. Marco Pagan and Franco Saudelli $34.95 / 104 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 8pp of color figures, c 50 b/w images, maps & tables / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-808-8 / CR

Between Scylla and Charybdis. Volume 2: Infantry and Artillery deals with the Saxon army of the years 1730â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1763, detailing the uniforms and service of the infantry and artillery.

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Helion and Company From Reason To Revolution

From Reason To Revolution

The Lilies & The Thistle

Guerra Fantastica

French Troops in the Jacobite ‘45’

The Portuguese Army in the Seven Years War

Andrew Bamford

António Barrento and Charles Esdaile

$34.95 / 104 pages / 7 x 9.75 / c 20 b/w ills, 8pp color plates / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-817-0 / CR

$34.95 / 104 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 8pp color plates, c 40 b/w ills / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91162-811-8 / CR

The Jacobite Rising of 1745 could not have taken place without French support. French ships carried Charles Edward Stuart to Scotland. This book looks in detail at the French military contribution to the Jacobite ’45: the first detachment of troops to sail with the Prince; the staff officers and professionals who helped Charles organize his army on modern European lines; and the Irish and Scots regulars who fought with distinction at Inverurie, Falkrik, and Culloden. As with many aspects of the ’45, myths and misconceptions aplenty have arisen about the nature and significance of the French contribution. Andrew Bamford completed a PhD in Military History at the University of Leeds in 2010, and now edits the From Reason to Revolution series for Helion. He has written extensively on the Napoleonic Wars, but also has a long-standing interest in the events of 1745 which he has recreated as a re-enactor over the past ten years.

This book deals with a series of military operations that occurred in Portugal in 1762 and 1763, during the Seven Years’ War, and which have been largely dismissed by the historiography. They are collectively called the Guerra Fantástica, ‘Fantastical War’, given the fact that the military units of the countries involved carried out multiple movements while not engaging in any battle. The book is an important piece of research, based on archival material. António Barrento is the author of around 100 articles published in journals and books and has published seven books on military history, on strategy, and on the decolonization of East Timor. Professor Charles J. Esdaile is Britain’s leading expert on the Peninsular War. He is the author of numerous works on Spain in the Revolutionary era, the Peninsular War of 1808-1814 and the Napoleonic Wars - including The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War (Manchester University Press, 1988), The Peninsular War: A New History (Allen Lane, 2002) and Napoleon’s Wars: an International History, 1803-1815.

From Reason To Revolution

Paperboys on Campaign

Swiss Regiments in the Service of France 1798-1815

European Buildings

The War of the Spanish Succession

Uniforms, Organization, Campaigns Stephen Ede-Borrett $39.95 / 148 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 8 color plates, 60 b/w prints, drawings & photos / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-812-5 / CR

This is the first full-length detailed study of the uniforms, organization, personnel and campaigns of the numerous Swiss units that served in the armies of Revolutionary, Directorate, and Imperial France from the campaigns of 1798 in Switzerland until the Hundred Days of 1815.

28mm Paper Models for 18th & 19th Century Wargames Florian Richter $29.95 / 48 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / color artwork t/out / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-093-9 / CR

This is the perfect add-on supplement not just for Helion’s famous ‘Paper Boys’ book series but for other wargames periods and systems too. In this book you will find all the building you need for a 18th and 19th rural or city landscaped terrain. Here will be some 22 pages of artwork intended to be cut straight out of the book pages. The models are scaled to 28mm, but through deft use of a photocopier can be rescaled for other popular sizes of figures.

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Paper Soldiers for Marlborough’s Campaigns in Flanders Peter Dennis $29.95 / 48 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / color artwork t/out / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-092-2 / CR

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 Europe as Louis XIV fought to establish French dominance over its neighbors. Refight the color and spectacle of the Wars of Spanish Succession with French, British and Allied infantry, cavalry and artillery.

Helion and Company

The Last Fight The Battle for Graudenz, West Prussia, 1945

With the Courage of Desperation

Krzysztof Drozdowski

Germany’s Defence of the Southern Sector of the Eastern Front 1944-45

$29.95 / 56 pages / 6 x 9 / 19 b/w ills, 3 b/w maps / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-069-4 / CR

Rolf Hinze

In the middle of February 1945 the city and the fortress of Graudenz (Grudziądz), in West Prussia, were under siege. The defense of Graudenz, led by Gen. Ludwig Fricke, lasted until March 6, when the entire German army capitulated, and most soldiers were taken prisoner. The description of the battle is enriched with numerous reports of mainly German soldiers. This is the first publication describing the struggle for Graudenz in 1945. The book is enhanced with appendices containing orders of battle, as well as featuring rare photographs.

Krzysztof Drozdowski was born in 1985 in Bydgoszcz. He is a historian, social worker, activist for raising historical awareness in Bydgoszcz and the region. Member of the Society of Friends of the City of Bydgoszcz. He is the author of the publication: Bitwa o Bydgoszcz 1945, Bydgoszcz wita Armię, Graudenz 1945 – ostatnie tchnienie, Bydgoska architektura militarna w latach 1772-1945, Z lotu ptaka. Bydgoszcz na fotografii lotniczej w latach 1911-1945. In addition, he has published over 30 scientific and popular science articles. He is also the author of a series of historical films titled Bydgoszcz - Meetings with history.

$39.95 / 448 pages / 6 x 9 / 69 b/w maps / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-041-0 / CR

In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the southern portion of the Eastern Front from July 1944, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic defeat of Heeresgruppe Mitte, through the Soviet drive to victory. Hinze’s maps, alone, would justify his works, for most of the unit histories, narratives and studies of individual battles lack maps illustrating their place in the larger geography of the war. The study is complemented by orders of battle, the aforementioned maps (over 80 of them), plus photographs.

Rolf Hinze, born in 1922 in eastern Germany, joined the 19th Artillery Regiment in Hanover in 1939. Following the Campaign in the West he joined the military academy at Jutterborg. For the remainder of the war he served as a forward observation officer with the 19th Panzer Division. After the war he became a town magistrate before setting up in practice as a lawyer. He is now deceased.

Wolverhampton Military Studies

Enduring the Whirlwind The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943 Gregory Liedtke $34.95 / 248 pages / 6 x 9 / 14 maps / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-051-9 / CR

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.

Gregory Liedtke is a military historian and doctoral graduate of the War Studies Program at the Royal Military College of Canada. An enthusiast of Military History in general, his particular research interests reside in both the study of the German Army during the Second World War and the Russo-German War of 1941-45.

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Helion and Company How Modest are the Bravest! Courage from the Beaches of Normandy and Beyond Ken Tout $39.95 / 216 pages / 6 x 9 / 23 b/w photos / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-072-4 / CR

Ken Tout now relates the battle actions of 22 outstanding war heroes from the period D to VE Days in North West Europe. The title How Modest are the Bravest! suggests that this is not just a simple narrative describing those battle actions in isolation. The author explores further into motive and aftermath in a unique way. Rather than confine himself to British heroes he covers warriors from a number of the countries involved in the theatre. He chooses not only those who gained the very highest immediate awards, such as the Victoria Cross, or Congressional Medal of Honor or Militaire Willems-Orde but includes some who, in the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own words, achieved a considerable aggregate of valour over a longer period. The authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contention, based on his own Normandy experience, is that, in the moment of utter crisis, it is often the quiet, modest man, rather than the braggart or bully, who steps up to accept the ultimate challenge of imminent death. He therefore looks beyond the military careers of the individuals in order to explore their characters more fully. In doing this he finds that in several cases the tight-lipped battle hero suffered from long-term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In one case the hero suffered so severely thirty years after the war that he had to retire from a business career. In 1944 Ken Tout, known for books such as Tank! and A Fine Night for Tanks, landed on the Normandy beaches as a Sherman tank gunner and later commander. After further service in Palestine he entered theological college and worked with charities and development agencies such as Oxfam, the Salvation Army, HelpAge International and the United Nations Ageing unit. He researched and wrote texts on the ageing of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population, receiving an OBE and a United Nations citation for services to ageing.

Red Assault Soviet Airborne Forces, 1930-1941 Vladimir Kotelnikov $39.95 / 248 pages / 7 x 9.75 / c 400 b/w & color photos, c 10 color side views / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-079-3 / CR

In this book the armament, equipment, and military hardware developed for airborne troops are described, both in terms of the actual technology, and the clearly fantastical, which only reflected the unrestrained imagination of the designers. A significant amount of attention is devoted to the aircraft, from which it was planned airborne troops would be dropped. The exercises that saw airborne troop drops are described, as well as the role airborne troops played in actual operations in the period up to 1941. Red Assault has been written on the basis of a number of documents that the author has discovered in the archives, and in museum collections. This work draws upon the memoirs of the pioneer military paratroopers in the USSR, some of which have never been published before. Red Assault investigates the Red Army Command in the 1930s using the memoirs of pioneer military paratroopers and documents discovered in archives and museum collections. Vladimir Kotelnikov was born in Moscow on 9 December 1951. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (University) in 1975 and was engaged in research and development in the area of high-temperature strength. Vladimir defended the academic degree of the Candidate of Science in 1981 and read lectures on aircraft piston engine design at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Since 2003 Vladimir has held the post of an editor of the Aviakollektsiya aviation history magazine, published in Moscow.

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Helion and Company The Battle of Moscow 1941-42

Rollback The Red Army’s Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43

The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter Offensive along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Soviet General Staff and Richard W. Harrison

$49.95 / 412 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 8 b/w maps / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-048-9 / CR

$49.95 / 476 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 12 maps / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-045-8 / CR

The Battle of Moscow, 1941–1942: The Red Army’s’ Defensive Df i Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side. The Battle of Moscow marked the climax of Hitler’s “Operation Barbarossa,” which sought to destroy the Soviet Union in a single campaign and ensure German hegemony in Europe. The failure to do so condemned Germany to a prolonged war it could not win.

Rollback contains a detailed Soviet examination of the employment of tank and mechanized corps during the campaign. This book covers the period from mid-December 1942 to mid-February 1943, one of the most critical periods of the war on the Eastern Front. It was here that following the encirclement of an entire German army at Stalingrad, the Soviets sought to take advantage of the ruptured Axis front in southern Russia to finish off the Germans’ Italian and Hungarian allies and liberate the economically vital areas of eastern Ukraine. This study is drawn from a number of wartime and postwar articles, published by the General Staff’s directorate for the study of wartime experience.

Richard W. Harrison earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Georgetown University, where he specialized in Russian area studies. He later earned his doctorate in War Studies from King’s College London. He is currently working on a history of the Red Army’s high commands during World War II and afterwards. He lives in Carlisle, PA.

The Battle of Kursk

Prelude to Berlin

The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943

The Red Army’s Offensive Operations in Poland and Eastern Germany, 1945

Soviet General Staff and Richard W. Harrison

$49.95 / 320 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 5 maps / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-050-2 / CR

$49.95 / 636 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 7 b/w maps / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-047-2 / CR

This book offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events. While the German 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 book consists of articles that appeared in various military journals during the first decade after the war. The General Staff’s directorate charged with studying the war experience published these studies, although there are other sources as well.

The Berlin Operation 1945 Soviet General Staff and Richard W. Harrison $49.95 / 420 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 4 maps / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-049-6 / CR

This book is about the Red Army’s penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe.The forces of three fronts (Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian) forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of the German capital, reduced the city and drove westward to link up with the Western allies in central Germany.

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Helion and Company Useless Mouths

Wolverhampton Military Studies

The British Army’s Battles in France after Dunkirk May-June 1940

Operation Market Garden

Peter Whelan $42.95 / 204 pages / 6 x 9 / 14 photos & 5 maps / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-090-8 / CR

This books looks the British Army’s supply service, how it developed, and how it failed - especially in the Crimea War - and how reforms in the 19th century reformed it. It examines how the lines of communication functioned during WW1 and the strains on it during the March 1918 German offensive. The focus of the book looks at the developments in the inter war years, and how it functioned during the French Campaign of May/June 1940. The role of the LOC after the German breakthrough in France has been underestimated and under reported. This part of the British Army performed well in difficult circumstances but individual efforts could not compensate for the woeful lack of organization, equipment and training, nor that few if any senior officers had either experience or training to carry out the posts they occupied. There was bloody-mindedness on the part of the regimental officers and rank and file soldiers to do their best in difficult circumstances.

The Polish Resettlement Corps 1946-1949 Britain’s Polish Forces Wiesław Rogalski $34.95 / 204 pages / 6 x 9 / 51 b/w photos, 4 cartoons, 21 line figures, 30 tables / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-089-2 / CR

This book describes the methods and the legacy of the Polish resettlement program, which not only required the support of the Trade Unions, Professional Associations and the Departments of Employment, Health and Pensions amongst others, but also the lobbying of the Vatican City, the governments of Argentina, Brazil and southern Africa, as well as the Commonwealth countries. Britain’s solution to the Polish problem eventually became a heroic, as well as a tragic act; often referred to but rarely explained. Numerous images and photographs are included to illustrate this history.

Wiesław Rogalski was born in Britain and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Third Carpathian Infantry Division Ex- Servicemen Association and a museum trustee at the Rural Life Centre, Tilford near Farnham in Surrey.

The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On John Buckley and Peter Preston-Hough $37.95 / 312 pages / 6 x 9 / 3 b/w photos, 8pp color maps / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-046-5 / CR

In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces to link up with them, ultimately at Arnhem in the Netherlands, the plan failed spectacularly and the war continued well into 1945. Operation Market Garden: The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On is the result of a major international conference held at the University of Wolverhampton in September 2014. The contributors are drawn from a body of historians, military professionals and researchers who met to reevaluate these questions after the passage of 70 years. It highlights many new areas of interest and forces us to rethink our understanding of this pivotal period of the Second World War.

Doing their Bit The British Employment of Military and Civil Defence Dogs in the Second World War Kimberly Brice O’Donnell $42.95 / 216 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 b/w photos, 1 b/w newspaper image, 4 tables / February 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-068-7 / CR

In the first comprehensive scholarly account of the employment of British military and Civil Defence dogs in the Second World War, the author traces the development of the British military dog scheme from the British Army’s belated establishment of the short-lived War Dog School and the Messenger Dog Service of the First World War to the more recent employment of canines during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early twenty-first century. With a focus on the Second World War, this work examines why and how dogs were trained and employed, and how humans shaped and perceived their use. Kimberly Brice O’Donnell is a military historian specializing in the employment of dogs by the British Armed Forces in the twentieth century. O’Donnell earned her doctorate in History from King’s College London in 2017. She has written for the National Archives and 10 Downing Street History of Government online publication and has appeared on BBC Radio.

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Helion and Company Asia@War

The Collectors

At the Forward Edge of Battle

US and British Cold War aerial intelligence gathering Kevin Wright

A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016

$39.95 / 176 pages / 6 x 9 / c 48 images (24pp), 1-4 tables/maps / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-080-9 / CR

Major General Syed Ali Hamid $49.95 / 264 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 276 b/w photos, 100 color photos, 49 b/w sketches, 5 color sketches, 30 maps, 14 tables, 23 b/w insignias/badges, 32 color badges/insignias / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91162-807-1 / CR

This is a well-researched and authoritative account by a military historian, Maj Gen Syed Ali Hamid. It embraces the evolution of the Pakistan Armoured Corps, including its culture, organization, doctrine, equipment, operational performance, overseas deployment, garrisons, personalities and a myriad of events that together portray what and why the corps is at this point in time. Beginning with the mechanization of the Indian cavalry in 1938, it spans nearly 80 years and chronicles the corps’ remarkable growth. After a career of 50 years in the Pakistan Army, Maj Gen Syed Ali Hamid developed a passion for the military history of the Pakistan-India Subcontinent. Hamid spent more than half his service in the Pakistan Armoured Corp during which he rose to command a mechanized division, and also spent six years on the faculty of the Army Staff College and Pakistan’s National Defence University.

Enormous resources were committed to European and Far East operations and they shaped the structure of much modern military intelligence collection, analysis and sharing. This book explores their scope, and conduct, plus the politics and new technologies behind these operations that started in the dying embers of World War Two. It examines how these often complex missions were planned, coordinated and flown and is supported by firsthand accounts from pilots, aircrews and intelligence analysts. It utilizes recently declassified British and US archive material and is illustrated with a wide range of images.This comprehensive book links together the realities of flying, advanced technology and politics to provide a detailed and illustrated examination of Cold War aerial intelligence collection. Kevin Wright is a regular contributor to aviation magazines (including ‘Aviation News’ and ‘Aeroplane’) and is an accomplished air-to-air photographer. He has a lifelong special interest in Cold War intelligence collection and produced numerous articles on related topics.

The Hall of Mirrors

Africa@War

War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century

War of Intervention in Angola

Jim Storr

Angolan and Cuban Forces at War, 1975-1976

$39.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 8 color plates, 10-12 maps, 10-12 charts / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-085-4 / CR

Adrien Fontanellaz and Tom Cooper

The Hall of Mirrors is not a narrative history. It takes a deep look at war, and warfare, in the 20th Century. It looks at the strategy, the operational art, and the tactics. It looks at how technology developed, was developed, and affected military events. It looks at the human beings, the human organizations, and how they affected events. It makes judgments and comes to conclusions. By 1919 the First World War was already over. Those millions had died; those empires had crumbled; those new nations had been born. Nothing similar has happened, thus far, in this century. All the more reason to look back and consider what did happen, and what we might learn from war and warfare in the 20th century.

Jim Storr wrote high-level doctrine for four years as a Regular infantry officer in the British Army.

$29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 110 photos; 10 maps; 12 color profiles / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-819-4 / CR

War of Intervention in Angola traces the failures of the US-supported FNLA, the growth and reorganization of the MPLA into a conventional army; deployment of Cuban military contingents, their capabilities and intentions; and the performance and experiences of the MPLA and Cuban forces at war with South Africans and the third Angolan insurgent group – UNITA. The volume is illustrated with over 100 rare photographs, a dozen of maps and 15 color profiles.

Adrien Fontanellaz, from Switzerland, is a military history researcher and author. He developed a passion for military history at an early age and has progressively narrowed his studies to modern-day conflicts. Tom Cooper is an Austrian aerial warfare analyst and historian.

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Middle East@War

Operations ‘Leopard’ and ‘Red Bean’ Kolwezi 1978

Hot Skies Over Yemen. Volume 2

Descent Into Darkness

French and Belgian iintervention t ti iin Zaire Daniel Kowalczuk $29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 50-70 b/w & color ills / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-059-5 / CR

This book provides a history of the roots of FNLC (Front for the National Liberation of the Congo: ex-Katanga Gendarmerie) in Angola and Zaire, the political situation under the Mobutu regime, FNLC incursions into Zaire border since 1977 (“Shaba Wars I and II”) and subsequent hostage taking in the mining town of Kolwezi.

Aerial Warfare Over Southern Arabian Peninsula, 1994-2017 Tom Cooper $29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 120 photos, 15-18 artworks, 3 maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-818-7 / CR

Using newly released secret intelligence sources, neglected memoirs, and popular memory, this book tells the story of military flying in Yemen between 1962 and 1994. It contains over 140 photographs, color profiles, maps and extensive tables.

Syrian Civil War, 2014-2015 Cedric Mas $29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 110 photos, 10 maps, 15 color l profiles fil / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-823-1 / CR

Discussing strategy, logistics, tactics, and experiences with different weapons systems, this book details the pendulum of war between regime-forces and insurgents in 2014 and 2015. It details the major insurgent groups and the growing influence of Jihadists upon them. It looks at the crumbling of regime forces in 2015, and thus the backgrounds of the Russian military intervention launched in the same year.

Middle East@War

Lebanese Civil War. Volume 1

The Armed Forces of the Arabian Gulf States 1920-1980

Desert Storm. Volume 1

The Israeli Invasion, 1982 Sergio Santana and Tom Cooper $29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 120 photos, 15 artworks, 5-6 maps & 4-5 diags / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-820-0 / CR

Focusing on military-related developments, and rich in exclusive details and illustrations, Lebanese Civil War: Israeli Invasion, 1982 dissects military forces, their equipment, intention and capabilities, and their combat operations.

A Military & Police History of the Smaller States Cliff Lord and Athol Yates $39.95 / 148 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / c 400 photos (mainly in color), 15-20 charts & several maps / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-061-8 / CR

This book includes the history of the military forces of the Gulf states that were mostly British Protected States. Illustrated with scores of photographs and maps.

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The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait & Operation Desert Shield 1990-1991 E.R. Hooton and Tom Cooper $29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 120 photos, 15 artworks, 5-6 maps, 4-5 diags / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91162-822-4 / CR

Desert Storm reveals the whole war fought between Iraq and an international coalition, from the start of this campaign to its very end. Largely based on data released from official archives, spiced with numerous interviews, and illustrated with over 100 photographs, 18 color profiles and maps, it is a refreshing insight into this unique conflict.

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Blood and Broken Glass

Nicaragua, 1961-1990. Volume 1

Aerial Operations in the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay

Northern Ireland’s Violent Countdown Towards Peace 1991-1993

The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship David Francois $29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 100 b/w photos, 10 color photos; 12 color profiles, 6 maps / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91162-821-7 / CR

In the wake of the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the country came under the rule of the Somoza family, which imposed a brutal and corrupt military dictatorship. Leaning upon extensive studies of involved armed groups, and their insurgencies in the 1960s and 1970s, Nicaragua, 1961-1990, Volume 1 provides an in-depth coverage of military history during the first phase of one of the major armed conflicts of Latin America in modern times. Guiding the reader meticulously through the details of involved forces, their ideologies, organization and equipment, this book offers a uniquely accurate, blow-by-blow account of the Nicaraguan War profusely illustrated with more than 120 photos, maps, and color artworks. David Francois, from France, earned his PhD in Contemporary History at the University of Burgundy and specialized in studying militant communism, its military history and relationship between politics and violence in contemporary history.

The First Dogfights in South America

Ken M. Wharton $42.95 / 476 pages / 6 x 9 / 50-60 photo’s / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91162-806-4 / CR

Antonio Luis Sapienze $29.95 / 72 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 95 photos, including 7 maps and aircraft profiles / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-058-8 / CR

In 1922, a huge internal crisis in the Liberal Party led to a bloody revolution and for the first time in the history of the country, both sides decided to use aerial power against the enemy. Inevitably soon the first dogfights took place, and also bombing raids, strafing enemy troops, and recce missions on both sides. Finally, in mid-1923, the revolutionaries were defeated and one of the consequences was the foundation of the Military Aviation School. Aerial Operations in the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay covers all the recce, light bombing missions, as well as the few dogfights.This is the first in-depth account of them with data, pictures, maps and profiles, some of them never published before.

Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia was born in Asunción, Paraguay in May 1960. He is an Aviation Historian and a founding member of the Instituto Paraguayo de Historia Aeronáutica “Silvio Pettirossi”.

Blood and Broken Glass: Northern Ireland’s Violent Countdown Towards Peace 1991– 1993 recounts in great detail the three bloody years which led up to the Downing Street declaration. It was a time of hope, punctuated by appalling acts of savagery by Republicans and Loyalists alike. The Frizzell’s bombing, the Greysteel massacre, the machine-gun attacks on several Catholicfrequented betting shops are but a few of the outrages carried out by bloodthirsty and undoubtedly evil paramilitaries. The author refuses to keep quiet as Sinn Fein and its apologists in the British Labour Party attempt to re-write the history of the troubles.

Ken Wharton is now past his mid-60s, but still going strong. Former soldier, former Football referee and former skydiver, now a published author of military history. Father of 7, grandfather to 12, he currently resides on Australia’s Gold Coast.

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Refilling Haig’s Armies

The First Attack on Bellewaarde, 16 June 1915

The Replacement of British Infantry Casualties on the Western Front, 1916-1918

Michael R.B. McLaren

Alison Hine

$52.95 / 324 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 75 b/w photos & ills, 4 b/w maps, 16 color images & maps, 4 tables / February 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-083-0 / CR

$52.95 / 276 pages / 6 x 9 / c 15 ills, 8 maps / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-070-0 / CR

This study offers a detailed analysis of the enormous challenges faced by the British Army in the middle of 1915, and the risks it faced in undertaking operations while poorly equipped to do so, versus the risks posed by inaction. The decisions made to launch the offensive are analyzed, along with the efforts made to mitigate the risks. While British attempts were continually, and effectively, thwarted by simultaneous improvements in German defensive methodology, they still represented the first tentative steps on a long and arduous course of improvement that ultimately led to the transformation of the British Army into the effective allarms-force that played a significant role in the final victory of 1918. Michael McLaren was born and educated in Glasgow. A desire to learn about the military aspects of his family history led to an enduring interest in the Great War and in 2014 he graduated from the University of Birmingham with an MA in British First World War Studies.

Mons, an Artillery Battle David Hutchison $42.95 / 156 pages / 6 x 9 / 16pp maps, 8-10 ills / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-073-1 / CRR

This book is a history of the Battle of Mons in August 1914. It diverges widely from the story enshrined as fact in the Official History, and by subsequent accounts dependent on it. It is based on an examination of the war diaries of almost every British unit involved in the battle, with particular reference to the artillery, thus illuminating the tactical intentions of all arms in every phase of the battle. The central role that the artillery and British Army played in the battle is explored.

Using original sources, this work examines the provision and management of Other Rank replacements for British Infantry battalions on the Western Front. It is predominantly pitched at the management level, but the subject requires exploration of the political context and the impact on battalions of political and managerial decisions. The provision of new sources of manpower with the coming of conscription and the introduction of National Service are considered, and the suggestion that the Government actively withheld reinforcements in 1918 is reviewed. Alison Hine gained a BA degree in English and French at the University of Strathclyde, during which time she joined the Officers Training Corps, gaining a TA commission in 1972. She was subsequently commissioned into the Regular Army in 1974, serving initially in the Women’s Royal Army Corps and subsequently in the Adjutant General’s Corps. Alison is a member of the Western Front Association, the Battlefields Trust and the Guild of Battlefield Guides.

Arras 19141918. Part 2: Arras North A Comprehensive Guide to the Battlefields Jim Smithson and Tim Wright $34.95 / 224 pages / 5.75 x 8.25 / c 70 color images & 40 maps / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-062-5 / CR

This volume deals with the area south of the River Scarpe where the British attacked in April and May 1917, the Germans in March 1918 and then the Anglo-Canadian offensive leading to the end of the war. This guide is designed to both educate and guide the visitor around four years of conflict that the city of Arras and its surrounding area endured.

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Directing Operations British Corps Command on the Western Front 1914-18 Andy Simpson $34.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / 21 b/w photos, 1 map, 1 cartoon line drawing / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-067-0 / CR

Directing Operations has been described by Gary Sheffield as “undoubtedly one of the most significant books on the British Army during the First World War to appear in recent years”. Based on comprehensive research in primary sources, this is the first work to examine the role of British corps command in the BEF on the Western Front in World War One.

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Wolverhampton Military Studies

A Long Week in March

For the Honour of My House

The 36th (Ulster) Division in the German Spring Offensive, March 1918

The Contribution of the Indian Princely States to the First World War

Michael James Nugent

Tony McClenaghan $59.95 / 392 pages / 6 x 9 / c 31 ills, 7 maps / February 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-087-8 / CR

$49.95 / 312 pages / 6 x 9 / 88 b/w ills, 17 maps/ sketches / February 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-057-1 / CR

The contribution of the Indian Army to the First World War has been, until recently, at best forgotten, and at worst ignored. This book corrects that imbalance.

A fascinating detailed account of the experiences of a British Infantry Division during one of the most significant offensives of the entire war.

They Called It Shell Shock Combat Stress in the First World War Stefanie Linden $34.95 / 232 pages / 6 x 9 / 75 b/w ills (mainly photos), 1 color ill / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-053-3 / CR

This is the first book to tackle often neglected topics of war history, including desertion, suicide and soldiers’ mental illness. The author argues that many modern trauma therapies had their root in the medicine of the World War I and the experience of the shell shock patients and their doctors is still very relevant even today. Dr Stefanie Linden is a psychiatrist, mental health researcher and historian of psychiatry.

A Hard Won Learning Experience

A Hard Won Learning Experience Developments in Battleﬁeld Performance and Brigade Operations in the British Expeditionary Force 1916-18

Developments in Battlefield Performance and Brigade Temporary Cover Operations in the British Expeditionary Force 1916-18 Heathcliffe Bowen $59.95 / 480 pages / 6 x 9 / 6 photos, 6 b/w maps, 11 tables / February 2019 / hardback / 978-191239-056-4 / CR

Drawing on extensive use of both primary and secondary source material, A Hard Won Learning Experience examines the development of battlefield performance in the British Expeditionary Force through the combat experiences of a Territorial infantry brigade in three engagements between 1916 and 1918.

War & Military Culture in South Asia

‘Terriers’ in India British Territorials 1914-19 Peter Stanley $52.95 / 336 pages / 6 x 9 / c 80 images, c 4 maps / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-082-3 / CR

Some 50,000 British Territorials— ‘Terriers’—served in India during the Great War. They were responsible at first for garrison duty not trusted to fight in Mesopotamia or on the North-West Frontier. Terriers in India, based on the abundant but almost untouched holdings of county archives and regimental museums mainly in southern English counties, tells their story for the first time. Prof. Peter Stanley of the University of NSW Canberra is one of Australia’s most distinguished military-social historians.

The Other Side of the Wire. Volume 4 To the bitter end with the XIV Reserve Corps, September 1917 9 8 to 11 November 1918 Ralph J. Whitehead $79.95 / 472 pages / 6 x 9 / 124 ills / February 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-088-5 / CR

This book looks at the events that occurred in preparation for the German Offensives of 1918; the last attempt to bring victory to the German Army.The final volume in the series, completes the story of the men who went off to war in 1914 with the flush of victory, and who ultimately faced defeat four years later. Ralph Whitehead was a graduate of C.W. Post College in Greenvale, New York where he concentrated his studies in 19th and 20th Century America and 20th Century European history.

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Helion and Company Survivors of a Kind Memoirs of the Western Front Brian Bond $45.00 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 8pp b/w plates / Currently Available / hardback / 978-1-91239-039-7 / CR

This original book shows that many memoirs of the Western Front are not only literary masterpieces but are also of great value to historians. Brian Bond demonstrates the remarkable variety of combat experiences and postwar reflections, ranging from poets like Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden striving to overcome traumas; to warriors or ‘Fire Eaters’ like Lord Reith and Alf Pollard who enjoyed the war; and two exceptionally brave Old Etonians, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan whose military distinction proved to be an asset in their political careers. He goes on to explore the view from the ranks (Frederic Manning and Frank Richards); the grandeur and misery of service in the Guards; the highly irregular career of a senior office (Brigadier-General F.P. Crozier) and the sharply contrasting war in the air as recorded by two distinguishing pilots.

Brian Bond has earned an international reputation as a military historian.

On the Dangerous Edge British and Canadian Trench Raiding on the Western Front 1914-1918 Kenneth Radley $49.95 / 456 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 28 maps, sketches & diagrams, photos / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-075-5 / CR

The book examines the nature, purposes, mechanics, execution and value of trench raiding. It offers a unique approach and perspective plus thorough and careful assessment and analysis based on broad and deep research in both familiar and heretofore neglected areas. It is difficult to fault Radley’s research and his marshaling of it. This book must surely be the definitive study of raiding. As such, it warrants close attention since it adds much to the history of a neglected aspect of the Great War.

Lt. Col. (Retired) Kenneth Radley is a former officer of The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, and holds a doctorate in Canadian History from Carleton University, Ottawa.

The Tanks in the Great War. Volume 1 Conception, Birth and Baptism of Fire, November 1914 - November 1916 Stephen Pope $49.95 / 376 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 60 b/w photos, 10 color maps / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-081-6 / CR

This is the first volume of a new six volume history of the Tank Corps during the First World War. Each volume is illustrated by contemporary photographs and tables showing the order of battle of tank units in each battle, as well the formations they supported, and the opposing forces. The first volume, which covers the period November 1914 to November 1916, gives an introduction to the initial design and development of the first battle tanks. It provides details of the selection and training of crewmen and the tactical and logistic challenges associated with bringing a new weapon system into combat within one year after acceptance of the prototype. Retired British Army officer, military historian and author, Stephen Pope is acknowledged as the world expert on the Battle of Flers Courcelette in which tanks were used for the first time during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916.

Belgrade during the Great War The City through the Eyes of Those Who Lived In It 1914-18 Miloš Brun $29.95 / 104 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 photos / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-063-2 / CR

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo precipitated the road too war in 1914 but the very first shots of the Great War were fired in Belgrade. From 1914 to 1918 the city where the war began viscerally experienced the chaotic buildup of hostilities, the full brunt of the war itself and the hardships of occupation. This book provides a highly detailed account of the war as experienced by the ordinary people of this aspiring European capital. The social and cultural history of Serbia during this period has largely been bypassed by both local and international authors, forming a gap in the understanding of a period of history that is otherwise studied in great detail, both by academics and a broader public. Miloš Brun read history at Belgrade University where he developed his interest in the 19th and 20th century history of Belgrade and his passion for researching this era.

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Helion and Company Faith of our Fathers Catholic Chaplains with the British Army on the Western Front 1916-19 Stephen Bellis

Faith of our Fathers Catholic Chaplains with the British Army on the Western Front 1916-19

$44.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / 71 photos, 3 maps, 13 paintings, 2 tables / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-091-5 / CR

The Scottish Community on the Home Front and in Battle 1914-1919 Paul McFarland, Hugh Pym and HRH Princess Anne $32.95 / 200 pages / 6 x 9 / c 50 ills incl b/w photos & color images / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-078-6 / CR

The book describes how St Columba’s Church of Scotland in Knightsbridge fed and entertained nearly 50,000 Scottish troops heading home on leave or returning to the trenches.

The papers and diaries of Major-General Granville Egerton CB Commanding 52nd Lowland Division at Gallipoli, June-September, 1915

Gallipoli: The Egerton Diaries and papers The papers and diaries of Major-General Granville Egerton CB Commanding 52nd Lowland Division at Gallipoli, June-September, 1915

David Raw

Temporary Cover Analysis of two recently discovered diaries affords a new way of looking at Catholic chaplain’s roles, responsibilities, fears, and dilemmas. Accompanying the fighting soldiers in Picardy, Flanders, and Artois, these diaristchaplains daily recorded their first-hand experiences; telling us much about life at the Front, the nature of war, the Catholic Church in action, the post-Armistice civil state of affairs. Daily accounts are punctuated by the deaths of colleagues, often a short distance away, and in this manner creating surreal situations in the same time frame and location by simple comparison. A range of emotions and incidents expose the absurdity, yet profundity, of war from the unlikely source of clergymen: from being arrested as a spy, to attending a soldier to be shot at dawn, from being allegedly drunk on duty, to a cover up of an officer’s suicide.

Scots in Great War London

Gallipoli: The Egerton Diaries and papers

$35.00 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 10 b/w photos & maps / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-084-7 / CR

As Commander of 52nd Division, Granville Egerton kept a detailed long daily diary of the events, conditions and personalities at Gallipoli between June and September, 1915. He is highly critical of the decisions and tactics of the campaign as well as of his C-in-C Sir Ian Hamilton and Corps Commander Aylmer Hunter-Weston. He also kept a short diary which details the deteriorating state of his own health, exacerbated by local conditions. The author reproduces the diaries and papers in full with detailed notes and analysis in chronological order.

Stars in a Dark Night

Hornsea and the Great War

B.S. Barnes $39.95 / 208 pages / 6 x 9 / c 175 b/w photos, maps / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91217-499-7 / CRR

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This is the story of the small east coast town of Hornsea during and after the Great War. The war touched every aspect of life on the home Front and those who were left behind suffered terribly as the war dragged on. This study meticulously explores the problems, hardships and grief faced by the people of Hornsea and is a microcosm of the experience of the nation generally.

Cornerstones: The Life of H.M. Farmar, from Omdurman to the Western Front Sudan, South Africa, Gallipoli, France and Belgium Katherine Swinfen Eady $39.95 / 424 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 photos, 4 maps / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91077-743-5 / CR

This book draws on a wealth of private papers that had lain undiscovered for years, and a hoard of letters written every day throughout the war to H. M. Farmar’s beloved wife.

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The Wild Goose and the Eagle

Instrument of War. Volume 1

A Life of Marshal von Browne 17051757

The Austrian Army in the Seven Years War

Christopher Duffy

$42.95 / 256 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 8 b/w ills, 21 b/w maps / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-094-6 / CR

$39.95 / 608 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 72 b/w ills, 6 b/w maps, 3 diags, numerous tables & graphs / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-096-0 / CR

Although little known in this country, Maximilian von Browne is counted among the finest soldiers of the old Imperial Austrian Army. As the present biography sets out to show, he was outstanding in his time for his vigorous conduct of war, and his extremely advanced idea of leadership and responsibility. Few commanders have taken so literally the phrase ‘to share the hardships of his men’.

How did an 18th Century army work? This book is the most important examination of such an army yet done, written by the premier military historian of the era.

A son of that generation of Irishmen who fled from a penal regime to take service in Catholic Europe, Browne rose in the Army of the Empress Maria Theresa. The Wild Goose and the Eagle is founded on a thorough investigation of the Viennese archives and of the terrain of the Marshal’s battles. It explores not just the life of a single commander, but the warfare of an age which holds many lessons for the present century.

Christopher Duffy is the ‘acclaimed and highly-regarded doyen of eighteenth-century military history’ (The Herald).

The structure of the army, the life of its soldiers, its strengths and weaknesses, the personalities that gave it such a unique character, from top to bottom, are all considered. Not only is the Austria of Maria Theresa examined, but fascinating views appear of Prussian opponents and French, Swedish and Russian armies. Efforts were made to reshape the army, the state, and the world of diplomacy. This is a study of what problems they faced. The 18th Century is brought to life not only in the words of Christopher Duffy, but also of the perceptive diplomat Kaunitz, experienced generals, Prussian spies and foreign attachés, a cynical Belgian prince and a young Italian officer, and many others. Their firsthand accounts explain the successes and failures of Austria at war. Christopher Duffy is the ‘acclaimed and highly-regarded doyen of eighteenth-century military history’ (The Herald).

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From Reason To Revolution

Fashioning Regulation, Regulating Fashion Uniforms and Dress of the British Army 1800-1808 Ben Townsend $42.95 / 240 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 24 color & 40 b/w images / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91162-809-5 / CR

This book is the first part of a two-volume investigation into the clothing orders of the British late Georgian army, combined and contrasted with an analysis of fashion in the same army- comparing the regulated dress with the ‘modes of the army’ as revealed by contemporary writing and illustrations. The reader then might properly ask why another book on uniforms of this period is necessary. Quite simply, it is because the amount of material available to the researcher has increased exponentially since the advent of the internet, especially in regard to the now widely available digital archive files of institutional collections. The huge amount of accessible material makes the task of assembling accurate information much longer and much harder, but the results are consequentially more satisfying and accurate than hitherto. Ben Townsend, BA History, University of Wales, is a writer and historical consultant for TV, radio, and film, with a particular interest in the Napoleonic and Georgian periods.

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War & Military Culture in South Asia

Commanding Far Eastern Skies

Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes

A Critical Analysis of the Royal Air Force Air Superiority campaign in India, Burma and Malaya 1941–1945

Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War Ashley Jackson

Peter Preston-Hough

$49.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / None / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-074-8 / CR

$34.95 / 308 pages / 6 x 9 / 10 b/w photos, 3 maps, 13 tables / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-043-4 / CR

The war in the Far East between 1941 and 1945 is occasionally referred to as the ‘Forgotten War’ and this description extends to the way the campaign’s air war has been analyzed. This book will analyze how the Allies lost air superiority during the initial exchanges, and then how technical and material difficulties were overcome before air superiority was won in 1944, and air supremacy was gained in 1945. Furthermore, the book will demonstrate how Japanese industry, their war in the Pacific, and their use of air power in Burma ultimately affected the air war’s eventual outcome. Dr Peter Preston-Hough was a visiting lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and University of Chester. He had a lifelong interest in the history of the Royal Air Force particularly from 1939 and in airborne warfare from its earliest days.

Of Islands, Ports, and Sea Lanes explains the operationall andd strategic importance of the ports and sea lanes of Africa and the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. In addition, it offers a novel account of the war in the Indian Ocean, a busy and vital theater of military operations throughout the conflict, though one that is overlooked in most historical studies. The book offers a ‘how it worked’ guide to the Empire’s logistical system, and explains the interconnectivity of actions and events on land, sea, and air, detailing the indispensable role played by the ports and sea lanes of the African continent and the Indian Ocean, the British Empire’s great connector.

Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College Oxford.

War & Military Culture in South Asia

Modern Military History

Ceylon at War, 1939-1945

Air Force Advising and Assistance

Ashley Jackson $49.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / None / January 2019 / hardback / 978-1-91239-065-6 / CR

Developing Airpower in Client States

Ceylon became a vital Allied and imperial bastion following the fall of Singapore. Forces were rushed to its defense in the dark days of 1942, because if the Japanese had managed to take the island, the sea lanes of the Indian Ocean would have been threatened. This book explains why the British War Cabinet considered the island to be strategically vital as it became a surrogate Singapore following Japan’s dramatic conquest of Southeast Asia and Burma. It documents the measures taken to defend the island and the flight of thousands of civilians and service personnel to its harbors as they fled in the face of Japanese forces fanning out across Southeast Asia and the Dutch East Indies. Ceylon’s role as a base for imperial and Allied forces and headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten’s South East Asia Command is explained, along with the transformations brought to the island by the war.

$55.00 / 184 pages / 6 x 9 / 26 photos, 1 chart / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-060-1 / CR

Developing Airpower in Client States

Don Stoker and Edward B. Westermann

Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College Oxford.

Modern Military History

Air Force Advising and Assistance

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Even though nations have been dispatching air air advisory ad isor missions to other states for more than a century, this remains an understudied field. The early history of advisory efforts reveal issues that remain relevant today, including questions related to the nature of aerial technology to be shared, the type of training to be provided, and the potential economic benefits that might accrue to the donor nation as a result of the sale of aviation technology to the host country. Using historical case studies, this book examines these efforts in order to provide a framework for evaluating the challenges and opportunities inherent in such missions. Donald Stoker was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College’s Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from 1999 until 2017. Edward B. Westermann is a professor of history at Texas A&M University–San Antonio.

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The War in the North Sea

Command of the Sea

The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Army 1914-1918

William Pakenham and the Russo-Japanese Naval War 1904-1905

Quintin Barry

$39.95 / 456 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / c 100 b/w ills, 15 maps & charts / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-054-0 / CR

$49.95 / 264 pages / 6 x 9 / c 28 ills, 6 maps / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-066-3 / CR

The principal naval battle of Jutland occurred when the two most powerful fleets that the world had ever known clashed, almost by accident, in the North Sea on 31 May 1916. The outcome of the battle has prompted a minute examination of the tactics employed by the commanders, and a continuous debate as to who won, as well as a bitter controversy between the supporters of Sir John Jellicoe (the commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet) and Sir David Beatty (the commander of the battle cruisers). Most British historians claim the battle as a British victory - a view which this book questions. It has been often suggested that after Jutland, the High Seas Fleet remained in harbor for the rest of the war, but as this book shows, the underrated Admiral Reinhard Scheer (its commander-in-chief) subsequently launched a number of major sorties.This book reviews the entire course of the war in the North Sea, from the first contacts between the fleets in the early days, to the ambitious (but abortive) mission planned at the end of the war for the High Seas Fleet. Quintin Barry is a solicitor and a retired Employment Judge. He is presently Secretary General of an international group of law firms.

This book is a study of the Russo Japanese War of 1904–1905, as seen through the eyes of the British Naval Attaché, Captain William Pakenham. The complicated set of international relations at the turn of the century is reviewed, as well as the balance of sea power in the Far East, which was a matter of considerable importance to the British government. The role of the naval attaché was thus of considerable importance, particularly once war had broken out. Pakenham quickly became a trusted colleague of Admiral Togo, the Japanese commander-in-chief, and went to sea with the Japanese fleet during the great battles of the naval campaign. Pakenham, who came from a well-known naval family, was one of those personalities around whom legends grew, and he was certainly well established as an eccentric. He was greatly admired by his Japanese hosts for the courage he displayed under fire.

Quintin Barry is a solicitor and a retired Employment Judge. He is presently Secretary General of an international group of law firms.

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The Bulgarian Air Force in the Second World War Alexander Mladenov, Evgeni Andonov and Krassimir Grozev $39.95 / 148 pages / 8.25 x 11.75 / 220 b/w images, 18 color profiles (artwork) / January 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-064-9 / CR

Like many European air arms, the history of the Bulgarian Air Force between 1939 and 1945 was eventful and rather dramatic. A small country, located in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, the Kingdom of Bulgaria entered into the fourth decade of the century as a still-neutral, but in fact strongly pro-German state. So it was not a surprise when it eventually joined the Axis on 1 March 1941, declaring war on both Britain and the US six months later. After the end of the war, Bulgaria fell in total dependency on the Soviet Union as a direct result from the 1944 Yalta agreement of ‘spheres of influence’ division of Europe. The Bulgarian air force was radically reformed in the Soviet style and rapidly re-equipped with huge numbers of front-line aircraft, supplied by the new ‘brother in arms’. This study features a large number of rare and previously unseen photographs accompanied by specially commissioned color artwork showing camouflage and markings. Alexander Mladenov is an aviation & defence author, journalist and photographer, based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Helion and Company The British & the Sikhs Discovery, warfare and friendship c1700-1900. Military and social interaction in Imperial India

The British & the Sikhs Discovery, warfare and friendship c1700-1900. Military and social interaction in Imperial India

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Gurinder Singh Mann $29.95 / 112 pages / 6 x 9 / 23 b/w images / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-824-8 / CR

This book narrates anecdotes and important events highlighting the relationship between the British and the Sikhs which exists to this day. Mann uses rare anecdotes to provide recognition to early descriptions from British administrators, writers and illustrators who depicted the history of the Sikhs and the land of the Punjab.

War & Military Culture in South Asia

Wolverhampton Military Studies

War without Pity in the South Indian Peninsula 1798-1813

Theirs Not To Reason Why

The Letter Book of Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Blacker. David C.J. Howell $49.95 / 184 pages / 6 x 9 / 14 b/w ills, 2 maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-086-1 / CR

The letters and adventures of a 20-year-old East India Company Officer from Armagh, who served and fought in the Madras Army from 1798-1826.

Gurinder Singh Mann is Director of the Sikh Museum Initiative.

Century of the Soldier

From Reason To Revolution

Home and Away: The British Experience of War 1618-1721

The British Army in Egypt 1801

Proceedings of the 2017 Helion and Company ‘Century of the Soldier’ Conference

$39.95 / 156 pages / 7 x 9.75 / 24pp color plates, c 20 b/w ill & maps / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-814-9 / CR

Serena Jones

This study analyzes the British army sent to Egypt in 1801 to eject the French Army of the Orient. It examines the preparations that contributed so notably to its success, and evaluates why it was able to take the fight to a battle-hardened Revolutionary force and defeat it.

$42.95 / 172 pages / 6 x 9 / c 40 b/w ills / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91162-801-9 / CR

A compilation of the conference papers from the 2017 Century of the Soldier Conference, examining how British soldiers and civilians experienced seventeenth century warfare.

An Underrated Army Comes of Age Carole Divall

Horsing the British Army 1875-1925 Graham Winton $44.95 / 520 pages / 6 x 9 / 68 b/w ills, 8 maps, numerous tables / February 2019 / paperback / 978-1-91239-042-7 / CR

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the British Army’s horse services between 1875-1925, including the use of horses in the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer and the 1914-18 wars.

Graham Winton’s lifelong interest in and study of military, social and landscape history has given him an understanding of military horses and their supply.

‘Horses Worn to Mere Shadows’ The Victorio Campaign 1880 Robert N. Watt $49.95 / 624 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 70 modern photos, 24 contemporary photos, 12 maps, 23 diags, 31 tables / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-071-7 / CR

This study commences with Victorio’s return to New Mexico in January 1880. The US army’s January to February campaign illustrates the operational decoy strategy employed by Victorio to protect his own logistic support whilst simultaneously undermining that of his opponents. Dr Robert N. Watt is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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Helion and Company Century of the Soldier

St. Ruth’s Fatal Gamble The Battle of Aughrim 1691 and the Fall of Jacobite Ireland

Century of the Soldier

St. Ruth’s Fatal Gamble The Battle of Aughrim 1691 and the Fall of Jacobite Ireland

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Michael McNally $49.95 / 304 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / c 30 ills, maps (some color) / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-91239-038-0 / CR

In 1685, James, Duke of York, ascended to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland. As the first catholic monarch in 150 years many believed that his reign would be short and that he would be succeeded by his eldest daughter Mary, a Protestant, who was married to her cousin William, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the United Dutch Provinces.

Military Historian My Part in the Birth and Development of War Studies 1966-2016 Brian Bond

Military Historian My Part in the Birth and Development of War Studies 1966-2016

Wolverhampton Military Studies

From Reason To Revolution

Early Modern Systems of Command

With the Guards in Flanders

Queen Anne’s Generals, Staff Di ti off Alli Officers and the Direction Alliedd Warfare in the Low Countries and Germany, 1702-1711 Stewart Stansfield $34.95 / 318 pages / 6 x 9 / 13 color & b/w ills, 2 maps, 9 tables / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-044-1 / CR

The Anglophone history of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14) in the Low Countries is dominated by military biographies of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), and studies of the battles he fought.

RMS Adriatic (II) White Star Line wonder ship in old picture postcards

Ben Smith Temporary Cover

$29.95 / 124 pages / 6 x 9 / 16pp plates / Currently Available / hardback / 978-1-91239-040-3 / CR

This is the story of how a boy, Brian, from a poor background benefited from the new opportunities available in the post-1945 era to attend a very good grammar school, gain entry to Oxford University and eventually became a professor at a top grade university, King’s College, London. Military Historian: My Part in the Birth and Development of War Studies 1966-2016 describes Brian Bond’s role in pioneering a virtually new academic subject—military history/war studies.

Temporary Cover $19.95 / 56 pages / 5.75 x 8.25 / 12 images, 11 color postcards, 29 b/w postcards / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-055-7 / CR

Explore this magnificent steamship through old picture postcards, many of them rare and unpublished. Journey back to 1907 to glimpse Adriatic II as the White Star flagship and travel through her eventful career to her last days as a veteran cruise liner.

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The Diary of Captain Roger Morris, 17931795 Captain Roger Morris and Peter Harrington $29.95 / 148 pages / 6 x 9 / c 40 b/w ills, 1 map / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91162-815-6 / CR

Captain Roger Morris, a young British officer in the Coldstream Guards, served in France, Belgium and Holland during the Duke of York’s campaign against the armies of Revolutionary France. During the period from May 1793 until March 1795, he kept a diary in which he described the various actions, commanders and incidents, noting failures and poor leadership, and commenting on some of the wider events.

King Arthur’s Wars Jim Storr $34.95 / 328 pages / 6 x 9 / 96 figs, maps, 16pp color ills / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-91239-052-6 / CR

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. 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’. What is so special about Essex? Why is the legend of King Arthur so special to us? Why don’t Cumbrian farmers use English numbers, when they count sheep? Why don’t we know where Camelot was? Why did the RomanoBritish stop eating oysters?

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Militaria Guides

Maquisards et Partisans

Photosniper

Hungarian Armored Forces in World War II

Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (1943-1945)

1943-1944 Simon Deleyrolle $29.95 / 68 pages / 7.87 x 9.44 / Over 100 color pictures / Currently Available / paperback / 978-2-35250-471-9 / NCR

Peter Mujzer

The Aviation Of The Italian Social Republic

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This Militaria Guide aims to picture, through full color reconstructions, the many aspects of the French freedom fighterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silhouette during WWII.

$22.95 / 140 pages / 7 x 10 / 90 photos / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-770-9 / CR

This guide is must-have for collectors, modelers and military history enthusiasts.

A study of the lesser known Air Forces that fought in the skies of Europe during World War II, this book focuses on the Italian Air Force that after the Armistice in 1943 remained under the command of Benito Mussolini and allied to Germany rather than join to the Western Allies: the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (ANR).

$29.95 / 112 pages / 8.33 x 11.7 11 7 / Archive A hi photos h and 20 painting schemes / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-765-5 / CR

After WWI, Hungary was in a very critical situation. In 1920 the Allied Powers gave the Hungarian delegation their conditions for peace. This agreement, the Treaty of Trianon, was very similar to the one already imposed on Germany at Versailles. The peace conditions for Hungary reduced the area of the country from 282,000 square kilometres to 93,000 square kilometres and the population from 18 million to 9.5 million.

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Schnellboot

The German Destroyer Z37

The Japanese Battleship Ise

Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate

Type S-38 and S-100 Carlo Cestra $36.95 / 90 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / 152 profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-771-6 / CR

S38b and S100 E-boats class were German fast attack craft (Schnellboot in German) built for the Kriegsmarine during World War Two.

Carlo Cestra

Maciej Noszczak

$36.95 / 80 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / 152 profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-766-2 / CR

$36.95 / 80 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / 143 profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-762-4 / CR

Z37 was a German destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine in Kiel during World War II.

$24.95 / 20 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Multiple drawing sheets and 10 color profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-774-7 / CR

Ise was the lead ship of the two-vessel Ise-class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which saw combat service during the Pacific War.

Emergence of the Ki-84 was spurred by the availability of a new 18-cylinder Ha-45 twin radial engine manufactured by Nakajima.

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The Battleship USS Massachusetts

Brewster F2A Buffalo

Renault FT & M1917

F2A-1, F2A-2, F2A-3

Samir Karmieh

Maciej Noszczak

Witold Koszela $24.95 / 28 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Color Profiles, 27 drawing sheets / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-758-7 / CR

The American battleship USS “Massachusetts” is one of the best known units of its class during World War Two. It was built at Fore River (Quincy) Shipyard in Massachusetts in 1939–1942 and was one of four South Dakota type battleships. The crew serving on USS “Massachusetts” humorously nicknamed their ship the “Big Mamie”. Building started in July 1939; the launching took place on the 23rd of September 1941. The godmother of the ship was former Navy Secretary Charles Francis Adams’ wife.

$24.95 / 20 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Multiple drawing sheets and 10 color profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-773-0 / CR

The first batch of the F2A-1 Buffalos picked by the US Navy from the Brewster factory between May and December 1939 were powered by the Wright 1820-34 Cyclone engine. They differed from the XF2A-1 prototype in enlarged canopies. F2A-1s were equipped with telescope sights. The F2A-3 – the last serial version of Buffalo – had another modification in the nose area. It had the same engine as its predecessor and a propeller without the nose-cap. It also received a new fuel tank which enlarged their overall capacity up to 1100 liters

$24.95 / 20 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Color Profiles, drawing sheets / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-764-8 / CRR

The world’s first modern tank, a pioneering vehicle whose basic features can be found on today’s modern tanks. FT was an undeniable success. A large number of FTs was provided to most Western front units by 1918, and they were involved in all major offensives, successfully crossing over trenches as intended, but also driving through forests. Renault produced two variants of the FT, the machine-gun model, which was more common, and a short-barreled 37 mm Puteaux SA 18 gun. Those models were identified by their definitive Omnibus turret, multifaceted or rounded with bent metal plates.

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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Grumman F4F Wildcat

Henschel Hs 126

Battleship HMS Royal Oak

D-25, D-27, D-30, D-40 models

Oleksandr Boiko

$24.95 / 20 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Color Profiles, drawing sheets / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-760-0 / CR

Maciej Noszczak $24.95 / 20 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Multiple drawing sheets and 10 color profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-772-3 / CR

The P-47D was the most produced version of the Thunderbolt fighter.

$24.95 / 24 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Color Profiles, drawing sheets / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-763-1 / CR

The first of Grumman’s fighters to prove itself in combat was F4F Wildcat which took part in the defense of Wake Atoll as well as the Battle of Midway.

Srecko Bradic

Henschel Hs 126 was a two-seater, all-metal hinged monoplane with fixed landing gear. The first prototype – Hs 126 V-1 (D-UBYN) – had its flight-test in August 1936. It was powered by a 12-cylinder liquid-cooled JUMO 210 C engine.

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Witold Koszela $24.95 / 20 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / 2 drawing sheets / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-768-6 / CR

British battleship HMS Royal Oak secured its place in the history books as an unlikely hero – sunk as a result of one of the most famous naval operations of the World War II.

Kagero Famous Airplanes

Monographs Special Edition

Fokker D.VII

Dornier Do 22

Kaiser’s Best Fighter

Djordje Nikolic

Tomasz J. Kowalski, Szymon Grzwocz and Damiam Majsak

$37.95 / 180 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / More than 250 archives photos, 11 drawings sheets / Currently Available / hardback / 978-8-36543-761-7 / CR

$19.95 / 88 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / 50 archival photos, 138 full color photos, 7 profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-767-9 / CR

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils. (Luke 11, 21-22) The above words taken from the Gospel according to St. Luke perfectly reflect the conditions in which a defeated Germany was put by the victorious Allied powers. Item 4 of the Armistice of November 11, 1918 demanded immediate demobilization of Germany’s air force and the surrender of 2,000 military aircraft, particularly Fokker D.VIIs. The Fokker D.VIl was the only type listed by name – for what reason? Why should this machine have been of such particular importance to those dictating the armistice conditions? The answer is simple and obvious: the Fokker D.VII clearly outclassed the machines operated by the victorious coalition’s air forces. It was a design that was to influence many fighters conceived in the inter-war period and was good enough to remain in service with various air forces until the mid-thirties.

Developed by one of the most famous German airplane manufacturing companies at the request of Yugoslavia, the Dornier Do 22 was never adopted by the Luftwaffe and was condemned to obscurity as one of the peripheral airplane types. With only 29 manufactured in total, including the sole prototype, Do 22 was not a major success for Dornier-Werke. As such, it did not get the attention it deserved in the history of aviation. Its distinct service with the air forces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Greece and Finland was to date only covered superficially. No written work was published compiling and shedding light on the entire history, development, and use by the three countries and the subsequent fate of the Dornier Do 22.

Naval Archives

Naval Archives. Volume 7

Naval Archives. Volume 8

$18.95 / 80 pages / 8.27 x 11.69 / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-759-4 / CR

$18.95 / 80 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36543-769-3 / CR

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Karwansaray Publishers • MMPBooks 1066: The Battle of Hastings

Russian Aviation Colours 1909-1922: Vol 4

2017 Medieval Warfare Special Edition

Camouflage and Markings. Against Soviets

Peter Konieczy and Kelly DeVries

Marat Khairulin and A.V. Kazakov

$19.95 / 80 pages / 8.5 x 11.75 / Full-color illustrations throughout / Currently Available / paperback / 978-9-49025-817-7 / NCR

$53.00 / 160 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / B&W photoscolor Profiles / July 2018 / hardback / 978-8-36528-1982 / NCR

The 2017 special issue of Medieval Warfare takes a look at one of the most famous battles in the history of the British Isles. Our detailed analysis of the Battle of Hastings by expert writers and medievalists not only looks at the engagement itself, but examines the leaders, their armies, the immediate aftermath, and the broader effect on history and popular imagination.

This series of books describes 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, most emblems and signs used in Russia during this period by military aviation units. The collected material is presented in a clear and attractive form - color plates, reconstructed logos, and original photographs from public and private archives. This profusely illustrated book covers all the aircraft used, with brief details of their service use and comprehensive details of the colors and markings they carried. Detailed color notes and precise descriptions and illustration of national markings over the period complete a book that will be invaluable to aircraft enthusiasts, historians and modelers. It describes aircraft used by aviation units which were fighting against Soviets.

Peter Konieczy holds a double MA in Medival History and Library Science from the University of Toronto. He is one of the founders of Medievalists.net, the internet’s largest medieval history community. He is also the current editor of Medieval Warfare magazine. Kelly DeVries is is an American historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant at the Royal Armouries, UK.

Camera ON

15 cm s.FH 18 German heavy Howitzer

CrossCountry Lorries

Alan Ranger

German Manufacturers

$25.00 / 80 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / B&W photos / August 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-808-2 / NCR

$25.00 / 88 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / B&W photos / AAugust 2018 / paperback b k/ 978-8-36595-809-9 / NCR

The 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 or s.FH 18 (heavy field howitzer, model 18) was the basic German division-level heavy howitzer during the Second World War.

During the first program for motorizing the Reichswehr from 1926, development of three-axled cross-country lorries with a payload of 3 tons was demanded besides others.

The gun was officially introduced into service on 23 May 1935 and by the outbreak of war the Wehrmacht had about 1,353 of these guns in service. This profusely illustrated photo album includes over 120 previously unseen pictures, many from private sources in Germany.

Alan Ranger

Three companies were involved in the development: Büssing, Henschel and Krupp. The first Henschel model - the Henschel type 33 B 1 - was delivered in 1928. This profusely illustrated photo album includes over 150 previously unseen pictures, many from private sources in Germany.

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The King George V Class Battleships Witold Koszela and Witold Koszela $62.00 / 320 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / B&W photoscolor ProfilesScale Plans / August 2018 / hardback / 978-8-36595-807-5 / NCR

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place the stories of all the British King George V Class battleships. The author describes their history in the order in which they entered the service, devoting much attention to their construction, precisely describing the differences among others. There are many excellent quality photographs primarily from private collections. All the ships are described and illustrated with full technical specifications.

MMPBooks White Series

White Series

Colours and Markings of Hellenic Spitfires 19431954

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in Foreign Service

John Korellis, Tilemahos Panagiotidis and John Korellis

$45.00 / 160 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / photos, color profiles / February 2019 / paperback / 978-8-36595-821-1 / NCR

Jan Forsgren and Artur Juszczak

$45.00 / 200 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / photos, color profiles / January 2019 / paperback / 978-8-36595-820-4 / NCR

The Hellenic Air Force performed valiantly, against the Axis forces during the Battle of Greece but overwhelming odds forced its remaining personnel to escape to Egypt. Colours and Markings of Hellenic Spitfires examines for the first time all the Spitfire types that served with the Hellenic Fighter Squadrons. From the Mk.V starting in 1943, to Mk.IX and XVI in service until 1954. Brief details of their service use is provided, as well as in depth examination of colors and markings used, based on many photographs, historical archive documents, illustrations and veteran testimonies. An invaluable source of information for aircraft enthusiasts, history researchers and modelers.

A small number of Fortresses, less than one-hundred in all, were operated by a number of air arms across the world - Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Switzerland, Taiwan, USSR, and (very briefly) Yugoslavia - for a variety of purposes, including heavy strategic bombing, VIP transport, maritime reconnaissance, research and development, aerial survey, and as trans-Atlantic mail carriers. These aircraft have not received much coverage, most likely due to the fact that they only form a very small part of the rich history of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. This book, however, will concern itself with the history of these B-17s. The book includes many unpublished photos and specially commissioned color profiles.

Polish Wings

White Series

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-19P & PM, MiG21F-13

Bulgarian Fighter Colours 1919-1948 vol. 1

Bulgarian Fighter Colours 1919-1948 vol. 2

Lechosław Musiałkowski and Janusz Światłoń

Dénes Bernád

$65.00 / 300 pages / 8.26 26 x 11 11.77 / photos, h color profiles / October 2018 / hardback / 978-8-36595-818-1 / NCR

$65.00 / 300 pages / 8.26 26 x 11 11.77 / photos, h color profiles / October 2018 / hardback / 978-8-36595-819-8 / NCR

This two-volume book describes and illustrates all the fighter and fighter trainer aircraft used by the Bulgarian armed forces before, during, and shortly after WW 2. Emphasis is placed on the most potent German fighter types, the Messerschmitt Bf 109E and G, as well as the top-notch fighter type of France, the Dewoitine D.520. However, rare, exotic models, including the sole locally built prototype that fits the definition, the DAR-5, are also included.

$23.00 / 88 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / B&W photoscolor Photoscolor Profiles / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36595-806-8 / NCR

The first supersonic fighter in the Polish Air Force, MiG-19 and the first version of the MiG-21F-13 are described in the unparalleled details. Many unpublished photos from the private collections are included. Color schemes and markings are described and illustrated in a series of specially commissioned color profiles.

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Scale Plans

Henschel Hs 129

Messerschmitt Bf 110 C & D 1/32

Hawker Hurricane Mk I & Mk II 1/24

Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka 1/24

Maciej Noszczak

Dariusz Karnas

$15.00 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / August 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-813-6 / NCR

$15.00 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / July 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-812-9 / NCR

$15.00 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / July 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-811-2 / NCR

Scale plans of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 C & D in 1/32 scale.

Scale plans of the Hawker Hurricane Mk I & Mk II in 1/24 scale.

Scale plans of the Junkers Ju 87 B in 1/24 scale.

4 fold-outs in 650 x 297 mm. size.

Scale Plans

de Havilland Mosquito Mk VI 1/32

Junkers Ju 88 A 1/32

Heinkel He 111 H 1/32

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E 1/24

Maciej Noszczak

Dariusz Karnas

$15.00 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / September 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-815-0 / NCR

$15.00 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / September 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-816-7 / NCR

$15.00 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / September 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-817-4 / NCR

Scale plans of the Junkers Ju 88A in 1/32 scale.

Scale plans of the Heinkel He 111 H in 1/32 scale. 4 fold-outs in 650 x 297 mm. size.

Scale plans of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 E in 1/24 scale.

Dariusz Karnas $11.99 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / July 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-810-5 / NCR

Scale plans of the Henschel Hs 129 in 1/72 and 1/48 scale. All version are shown.

$15.00 / 20 pages / 8.26 x 11.7 / Scale plans / August 2018 / paperback / 978-8-36595-814-3 / NCR

Scale plans of the de Havilland Mosquito Mk VI in 1/32 scale. 4 fold-outs in 650 x 297 mm. size.

4 fold-outs in 650 x 297 mm. size.

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4 fold-outs in 650 x 297 mm. size.

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Scale Plans

1/144 scale

Yakovlev Yak-3

Yakovlev Yak-9P, Yak-9U

Dariusz Karnas

Robert Panek

$11.99 / 20 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Scale plans / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36528-199-9 / NCR

$11.99 / 24 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Scale plans / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36595-800-6 / NCR

$11.99 / 24 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / Scale plans / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36595-801-3 / NCR

Scale plans in 1/144 scale of the famous aircraft.

Scale plans in 1/32, 1/48, 1/72 and 1/144 scale of the famous Yak-3 Russian fighter

20 A4 size booklet includes: Gloster Gladiator, Hawker Hurricane, Polikarpov I-16, Polikarpov U-2 (Po-2), Dauntless, N.A. P-51D, Republic P-47D, Bf 109 E, ME 163, Me 262, Ju 87 Stuka, MiG-15, MiG-17, F-104.

10 A3 size scale plans of all Yak-3 versions.

Scale plans in 1/32, 1/48, 1/72 and 1/144 scale of the famous Yak-9P and Yak-9U Russian fighters 10 A3 size scale plans of Yak-9P/Yak-9U versions.

SSpotlight tli ht On O

Spotlight On

Grumman F-14 Tomcat

Junkers Ju 88 A

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

On the Fly

Marcelo Ribeiro

$28.00 / 44 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / color Profiles / Currently Available / hardback / 978-8-36595-803-7 / NCR

Ömer Erkmen

$23.00 / 44 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / color Profiles / Currently Available / hardback / 978-8-36595-804-4 / NCR

$28.00 / 44 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / color Profiles / Currently Available / hardback / 978-8-36595-802-0 / NCR

40 color profiles of the famous Grumman F-14 Tomcat, American supersonic, variablesweep wing jet, showing variety of the camouflage and markings of different users.

Maciej Noszczak

40 color profiles of the famous German WW2 bomber Junkers Ju 88 A versions. Many subversions are shown in a variety of the camouflages including captured Swiss Ju 88.

$28.00 / 44 pages / 8.3 x 11.7 / color Profiles / Currently Available / hardback / 978-8-36595-805-1 / NCR

40 color profiles of the famous Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star (or T-Bird), an American jet trainer aircraft. American and almost all foreign users’ camouflages are shown.

Marek Ryś

20 color aviation arts done by the Polish Aviation artist Marek Ryś. 20 famous aircraft captured in flight and on the ground.

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Monroe Publications War Stories: World War II Firsthand

World War II Comix

Their Darkest Hour

Guadalcanal Had It All!

Britain, Its Enemies and Allies

Raiders, Destroyers and Bonzai Charges

Jay Wertz

$39.95 / 256 pages / 8.75 x 11.25 / January 2019 / hardback / 978-0-99888-932-0 / NCR

This book weaves stories of combat veterans into an event by event history of the war. It includes the words of veterans of all forces — in all theaters of operations. Illustrated by high-quality photographs, full-color images and detailed maps, this book is the only multi-volume history of the war to include hundreds of first person interviews and oral history recollections of the soldiers on the ground, the sailors on the high seas and the airmen in the sky. This volume features firsthand recollections and perspectives from those who witnessed the Battle of Britain, codes and codebreakers, the early war in North Africa and the Balkans, Nazis in the United States, Americans in the war before Pearl Harbor and the Axis powers looking toward world domination.

Armor Color Gallery

Armor Camouflage & Markings of the British Expeditionary Force, France 1939–1940 Part 1: 1st Army Tank Brigade

$4.95 / 24 pages / 6.75 x 10.25 / Currently Available / paperback / 978-0-99888-933-7 / NCR

Like the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli, Guadalcanal will forever be a part of United States Marine Corps history and lore. On this rustic South Pacific island, Marines made the first invasion of lands seized by the Japanese in their initial sweep through the region. At stake was air superiority in a wide area of the South Pacific and beyond. The bloody six-month campaign ended with U. S. and Allied victory, but in the process thousands of lives and dozens of ships and planes on both sides were sacrificed. Comic book includes graphic history and continuation of the serialized graphic novel Separated By War.

Armour of the Royal Hungarian Army

40M Nimród Tank Destroyer and Armoured Anti Aircraft Gun

Robert Gregory

Attila Bonhardt

$48.95 / 80 pages / 8 x 11.5 / 157 b&w photos, 26 full color plates of artwork / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-36067-229-7 / NCR

$41.95 / 128 pages / 12 x 8.5 / November 2018 / hardback / 978-6-15558-314-8 / NCR

Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf.B Construction and Development Alexander Volgin $49.95 / 128 pages / 8.5 x 12 / September 2018 / hardback / 978-6-15558-313-1 / NCR

This work examines the tanks of the 1st Army Tank Brigade. For security reasons, photography by British soldiers was strictly forbidden but encouraged on the German side.

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Pen and Sword Walcheren to Waterloo

Marengo

The British Army in the Low Countries during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793–1815

The Victory That Placed the Crown of France on Napoleon’s Head Terry Crowdy

Andrew Limm

$42.95 / 336 pages / 6 x 9 / 22 illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47385-920-3 / CR

$44.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47387-468-8 / CR

The military success achieved by the Duke of Wellington casts a long shadow over the history of the British army in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. But is the focus on Wellington’s successes really an appropriate way to understand the performance of the British army in a conflict which lasted over twenty years? And what about the army’s poor record in the Low Countries, where it suffered defeats and sustained crippling losses during the same period? In this perceptive and highly readable study Andrew Limm answers these questions and provides a more balanced account of the British contribution to the downfall of Napoleon.

Meticulously researched using memoirs, reports and regimental histories from armies, Marengo casts new light on this crucial battle and reveals why Napoleon came so close to defeat and why the Austrians ultimately threw their victory away. With the most detailed account of the battle ever written, the author focuses on the leading personalities in the French and Austrian camps, describing the key events leading up to the battle, and the complex armistice negotiations which followed. For the first time, the author exposes the full story of Carlo Gioelli, the enigmatic Italian double agent who misled both armies in the prelude to battle.

Dr Andrew Limm currently teaches history at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham.

T.E. Crowdy is a well-established author specializing in the Napoleonic Wars and espionage history.

Waterloo Battlefield Guide

The Two Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807

Second Edition David Buttery $28.95 / 304 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / 150 color illustrations / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52673-108-1 / CR

Britain and Denmark in the Napoleonic Wars Gareth Glover

The defeat of Napoleon’s French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world history. This was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars, and the outcome had a major influence on the shape of Europe for the next century and beyond. The battle was a milestone, and it cannot be properly understood without a detailed, on-the-ground study of the landscape in which it was fought – and that is the purpose of David Buttery’s battlefield guide. This thoroughgoing, lucid, easy-to-follow guide is a fascinating introduction for anyone who seeks to understand what happened on that momentous day, and it will be an essential companion for visitors to the battlefield in Belgium.

$42.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 30 illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47389-831-8 / CR

The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this absorbing and original study Gareth Glover focuses on these two principal events, using original source material to describe them from the British and Danish perspectives, and he shows how they fitted into the littleunderstood politics of this region during this turbulent phase of European history. Gareth Glover describes these events in vivid detail, quoting extensively from the recollections of eyewitnesses on both sides.

David Buttery has established a reputation as a leading historian of nineteenth-century British military history and he has made a particular study of the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars.

Gareth Glover is a former Royal Navy officer and military historian who has made a special study of the Napoleonic Wars for the last thirty years.

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Pen and Sword Images of War

Images of War

Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows

Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Simon Forty

$24.95 / 128 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 200 photographs / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-371-0 / CR

$24.95 / 128 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 200 photographs / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-375-8 / CR

Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east ffoundd it ddifficult ff l to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army labored to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the Normandy campaign, and this photographic history is a vivid introduction to it.Through a selection of over 150 carefully chosen and meticulously captioned wartime photographs, Simon Forty traces the course of the battle and gives the reader a graphic impression of the conditions, the terrain and the experience of the troops.

Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not ffallll to the h BBritishh and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as Simon Forty demonstrates in this photographic history, one of the most controversial.

Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

His detailed, graphic account gives the reader a fascinating insight into the opposing forces, the conditions, the terrain, the equipment and weaponry deployed – and it illustrates just how intense and protracted the fighting was on the ground. It records in the most dramatic fashion the character of the fighting and shows how even the SS divisions and heavy tank battalions were eventually defeated. Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Images of War

Beyond Rome to the Alps

On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944

Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1944–1945: Warsaw to Berlin

Across the Arno and Gothic Line, 1944–1945 Jon Diamond $28.95 / 224 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 250 black and white illustrations / November 2018 / paperback / 978-152672-709-1 / CR

Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove across the Arno River, capturing Florence on 5 August. The Wehrmacht’s Tenth and Fourteenth Armies eluded destruction, withdrawing into the Gothic Line in the Northern Apennines. These dramatic events are described in words and images in this book.

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Jon Diamond $28.95 / 240 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 250 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52673-253-8 / CR

This superbly researched account traces the course of the bitterly fought battles between January and June 1944 in words and images. The stalemate at Anzio and along the Gustav Line was finally broken in mid May 1944 by the Allied Spring offensive.

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Nik Cornish $24.95 / 144 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 200 illustrations / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-47386-259-3 / CR

In this photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime photographs. Nik Cornish’s interest is in the world wars on the Eastern Front and in Russia’s military history.

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Pen and Sword Images of War

Images of War

5th SS Division Wiking at War 1941–1945

US Marine Corps in the Second World War

A History of the Division

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Ian Baxter

Michael Green

$24.95 / 176 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 250 photographs / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-134-1 / CR

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 5th SS Division Wiking Wiki 1941–1945 1941 1945 iis the 5th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series by Ian Baxter. The book tells the dramatic story of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking at War. The men of the division were recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers. Not all were collaborators - the choice they were all too often presented with was join up or be locked up - or worse. During the course of the war, the division served on the Eastern Front in 1941. It surrendered in May 1945 to the American forces in Austria.

$22.95 / 224 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 250 b&w images / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52670-250-0 / CR

The United States Marine Corps played a leading role l in the h war against Japan from Pearl Harbor in December 1941 until VJ Day on September 2, 1945.In October 1942, the Marine Corps captured Tarawa Atoll and so began their advance across the central Pacific, fighting many famous and bloody battles such as Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Iwo Jima, and finally the 82-day epic struggle for Okinawa. This classic Images of War title presents a graphic overview of the United States Marine Corps’ legendary campaign in text and contemporary images. The author expertly describes the full range of Marine Corps weaponry and explains their organization, tactics, and fighting doctrine.

Michael Green is the author of numerous acclaimed books in the Images of War series.

Ian Baxter is an avid collector of WW2 photographs.

Images of War

Panzer I and II: The Birth of Hitler’s Panzerwaffe

German Reconnaissance and Support Vehicles 1939–1945

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Anthony Tucker-Jones

Paul Thomas

$24.95 / 144 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 200 illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52670-163-3 / CR

While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the h GGerman tanks k produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler’s early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history of their design, development and wartime service is an ideal introduction to them. The Panzer I and II were the precursors of the formidable range of medium and heavy tanks that followed – the Panzer III and IV and the Panther and Tiger – and this book is a fascinating record of them.

Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defence intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armored and aerial warfare.

$24.95 / 144 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 250 black and white illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-089-4 2672 089 4 / CR

The Wehrmacht used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War and this book sets out to show the full range of both categories using over 200 rare images and descriptive text and captions in true Images of War Series fashion. The book fills a gap by outlining the full range of such equipment including the variety of armaments and power plants, and the crews that performed these missions.

Paul Thomas is an expert on WW2 fighting vehicles and avid collector of contemporary images. His previous books German Halftracks At War 1939-1945, Panzer III at War 1939-1945, Panzer IV at War and Hitler’s Tank Destroyers are in print in the Pen and Sword Images of War Series. He lives in Braintree.

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Pen and Sword Tank Craft

Tank Craft

Cromwell and Centaur Tanks

Tiger I

British Army and Royal Marines, North-west Europe 1944–1945 Dennis Oliver $24.95 / 64 pages / 11.5 x 9.25 / 200 color illustrations / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-541-7 / CR

In his fifth book in the TankCraft series, author and illustrator Dennis Oliver uses official wartime photographs and comprehensively researched, exquisitely presented color profiles to tell the story of the penultimate British cruiser tank. The large full-color section features available model kits and accessories as well as after market products. In addition to the color profiles there is a gallery of expertly constructed and painted models. A separate section explains technical details and modifications made during production and in the field, giving the modeler all the information required to recreate an authentic replica of one of the tanks that served from the Normandy beaches to the final battles in Germany. Dennis Oliver is the author of over twenty books on Second World War armored vehicles.

German Army Heavy Tank, Southern Front 1942–1945, North Africa, Sicily and Italy Dennis Oliver 64 pages / 11.5 x 9.25 / 200 color & black and white illustrations / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52673-977-3 / CR

When at Hitler’s insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputation despite their lack of reliability and the small number deployed. Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Tiger tanks and German army units that first took them into combat in North Africa and then operated them as they fell back through Sicily and Italy between 1943 and 1945. A large part of the book showcases available model kits and aftermarket products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales. Dennis Oliver is the author of over twenty books on Second World War armored vehicles.

Flight Craft

Flight Craft 14: Messerschmitt Bf109

Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV

Robert Jackson

The Mark V and its Variants

$28.95 / 96 pages / 8.5 x 11.5 / Illustrated / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52671-053-6 / CR

The famous Messerschmitt Bf 109 singleseat fighter was one of the most important warplanes of the Second World War. Originally designed dduring ring the 1930s, and a contemporary of the equally-legendary Supermarine Spitfire, it was vitally important to Germany’s Luftwaffe and was flown in combat by the highest-scoring fighter pilots in history. It was in service throughout the Second World War and was built in a number of significant versions that proved to be worthy adversaries of the very best of the Allied warplanes that it flew against. Bf 109s operated in all the major areas of conflict where German forces were engaged in combat and, in modified form, the type even had a postwar career in several countries that extended well into the 1950s.

Malcolm V Lowe is an established historian and writer, specializing in military history, particularly of the twentieth century.

Lance Cole $28.95 / 96 pages / 8.5 x 11.5 / color illustrations / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52671-049-9 / CR

For aviation enthusiasts, for historians, for modelers, odelers the word ord Spitfire conjures many stories and affections. This book presents the Spitfire enthusiast with an up-to-date history of the Spitfire – not just in its design and application in war, but also as a flying memorial and as an aero modelers’ vital focus. The text examines recently revealed forgotten aspects of the Spitfire story; by combining the elements of design, the story of a weapon of war and a revered scale model, this book frames an essential chapter in aviation history. Packed with original and contemporary images and information, and displaying unique Spitfire model collections, the narrative bridges an important gap and is a worthy addition to the FlightCraft series. Lance Cole Ph.D. B.Sc. was the 1983 Sir William Lyons Scholar and has been an aviation and automotive journalist in the international media for over 25 years.

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Pen and Sword History of Terror Series

History of Terror Series

Russian Civil War

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Daesh

Red Terror, White Terror, 1917–1922 Michael Foley $22.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 80 black and white illustrations / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-861-6 / CR

The effect of the revolution and the civil war went far beyond the borders of the enormous Russian Empire and far beyond the end of the Great War and the civil war, not least of all whom the millions of subject peoples and races supported: the Reds, the Whites, the Germans, or none. The conflict in Russia between 1917 and 1922 is a fascinating and complex period of history but the brutally colorful cast of characters would make a violent impact on the world stage for a century to come.

Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007 Al J Venter $22.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 80 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-873-9 / CR

Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere – the majority linked to al Qaeda – are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. This book covers that topic.

Islamic State’s Holy War Anthony TuckerJones $22.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 60 b/w Illus / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-881-4 / CR

For the past decade and a half Anthony Tucker-Jones has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec – The Journal of International Security. He has written extensively on al Qaeda and Daesh. This book draws on his experience to assess Islamic State’s brutal Holy War that has brought terror and mayhem. Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defence intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armored and aerial warfare.

History of Terror Series

SS Einsatzgruppen

Northern Ireland: The Troubles

Vlakplaas: Apartheid Death Squads

Nazi Death Squads, 1939– 1945 Gerry van Tonder $22.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 80 black and white illustrations / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-909-5 / CR

In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Their orders: neutralize elements hostile to Nazi domination. It is estimated that the Einsatzgruppen executed more than 2 million people between 1941 and 1945.

From The Provos to The Det, 1968–1998 Kenneth LesleyDixon $22.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 60 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-917-0 / CR

Undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throughout the ‘troubles’, from 1969 to 2001 and beyond. What is less well known is how these units were recruited, how they operated, what their mandate was and what they actually did. This is the first account to reveal much of this. Kenneth Lesley-Dixon is a writer on local British history and military history.

1979–1994 Robin Binckes $22.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 80 black and white illustrations / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-921-7 / CR

Faced with the ‘total onslaught’ by its enemies, in 1979, Apartheid South Africa established Vlakplaas—lit. ‘shallow farm’, a 100-hectare farm nestling in the hills outside Pretoria on the Hennops River—as a secret operation under the arm of C1, a counter-terrorism division of the South African Police headed by Brigadier Schoon. Robin Binckes was born in 1941 in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Pen and Sword Cold War 1945–1991

Cold War 1945–1991

Biafra Genocide

Bay of Pigs

Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967–1970

CIA’s Cuban Disaster, April 1961 Phil Carradice

Al J Venter

$24.95 / 136 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 color & 80 black and white illustrations / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-829-6 / CR

$22.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 80 b/w Illus / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-913-2 / CR

One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people—mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children—died in one of Africa’s first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism. Worse, some of the religious differences that emerged before and after that dreadful carnage are still with us today. During the course of hostilities that lasted almost four years, a lot of other shortcomings surfaced in Africa’s most populous nation, including the kind of corruption that, until then, had always been linked to countries rich in oil. Disunity, incompetence and instability—from which Nigeria never really recovered—also emerged. Two bloody army coups followed after the rebels capitulated, together with an appalling series of massacres, mostly of southern Christians by Muslim northerners. Half a century later the slaughter continues.

Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, and badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes from start to finish – not least with an inept performance by John F Kennedy and his new administration.

Al J. Venter is a specialist military writer who has had over fifty books published.

Phil Carradice is a poet, novelist and historian. He has written over fifty books.

Supposedly an attempt by Cuban exiles to regain their homeland, the whole operation was funded and equipped by the USA. When things began to go wrong with the landings at Playa Larga and Playa Giron on the southern coast of Cuba President Kennedy and his advisers began overruling military decisions with the result that the invading Brigade 2506 – made up of Cuban exiles – was left with little or no air cover, limited ammunition and no easy escape.

Cold War 1945–1991

Iran-Iraq War

British Army of the Rhine

Sino-Indian War

The Lion of Babylon, 1980–1988 Anthony TuckerJones $24.95 / 136 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 color & 60 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-857-9 / CR

The Iran-Iraq war is best remembered for the unique ‘Tanker War’ which threatened to strangle the world’s oil supplies. At the time Anthony Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote extensively on the war and he now brings his expertise to bear ina conflict fuelled by festering regional rivalries, the Cold War. Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defence intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armored and aerial warfare.

The BAOR, 1945–1993 Paul Chrystal $26.95 / 136 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 color & 80 blackk andd white hi ill illustrations i / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-853-1 / CR

This book traces and examines the changing role of BAOR from 1945 to its demise in the 1993 Options for Change defence cuts. It looks at the part it played in the defence of West Germany, its effectiveness as a Cold War deterrent, the garrisons and capabilities, logistics and infrastructure, its arms and armor, the nuclear option and the lives of the thousands of families living on the front line.

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Border Clash: October–November 1962 Gerry van Tonder $24.95 / 136 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 color & 60 black and white illustrations / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-837-1 / CR

British and Chinese territorial claims in the Himalayas conflicted. In 1913, an ephemeral agreement between Britain, Tibet and China was signed, recognizing the McMahon Line as the border of the disputed territory. In the spring of 1962, Indian forces flooded into the Ladakh region of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, to check the Chinese. In a spiralling game of brinkmanship, in September, ground forces were strategically deployed and redeployed. On 10 October, thirty-three Chinese died in a firefight near Dhola.

Pen and Sword

Objective Falaise

Freeing Mussolini

8 August 1944 – 16 August 1944

Dismantling the Skorzeny Myth in the Gran Sasso Raid

Georges Bernage $42.95 / 128 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47385-762-9 / CR

On the night of 8 August 1944, the First Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, directing their advance towards Falaise, with the intention of breaking through the German defences south of Caen. In spite of large numbers, they were halted by the 12.SS- Panzer-Division “Hitierjugend”, who managed to block the 600 armored vehicles. During one of the German counterattacks, several Tiger tanks were destroyed, including that of panzer ace, Michael Wittmann, who was killed in the process. The offensive was relaunched a few days later under the name Operation Tractable, the intention this time being to capture the strategically important town of Falaise and close the ‘Falaise Pocket’, also known as the ‘Corridor of Death’. This book provides the reader with a dayby-day account of this forgotten battle, while also acting as a field guide, including maps and both comtemporary and modern photographs.

The historian Georges Bernage is one of France’s premier experts on the 1944 Normandy Invasion. He has published over forty books on the subject since 1978.

Óscar González $34.95 / 176 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52671-997-3 / CR

The operation to free Mussolini, who was being held prisoner in a high mountain hotel on the summit of Gran Sasso, Italy in September 1943, is without a doubt one of the most spectacular operations not only of the Second World War, but in all military history. German paratroopers, the Wehrmacht’s elite, were responsible for organizing the rescue in record time, and executing a daring and perfectly synchronized operation between land and airborne detachments. Surprise and speed were the Fallschirmjäger’s main weapons, surprising the Italian garrison guarding il Duce. Propaganda and Otto Skorzeny’s connections with Himmler made him into the false hero of the mission, overemphasizing his role in the whole search and rescue operation. This book dismantles the ‘Skorzeny Myth’ and reveals the truth of what really happened in a mission that even Churchill called ‘one of great daring’.

The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front Boris Kavalerchik $42.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47388-680-3 / CR

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Red Army had four times as many tanks as the Wehrmacht and their tanks were seemingly superior, yet the Wehrmacht won the border battles with extraordinary ease, the Red Armys tank force was pushed aside and for the most part annihilated. How was this victory achieved, and were the Soviet tanks really as well designed as is often believed? These are the basic questions Boris Kavalerchik answers in this absorbing study of the tanks and the tank tactics of the two armies that confronted each other at the start of the war on the Eastern Front. Drawing on technical and operational documents from Russian archives, many of which were classified until recently and are unknown to Western readers, he compares the strengths and weakness of the tanks and the different ways in which they were used by the opposing armies. Boris Kavalerchik is a mechanical engineer from the USSR who served as an officer in the Soviet armed forces reserve before emigrating to the United States.

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Pen and Sword Cover Up at Pointe du Hoc The History of the 2nd & 5th US Army Rangers 1943 – 10th June 1944 Gary Sterne $39.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 50 illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47382-374-7 / CR

Gary Sterne’s research led to the finding of a map which indicated the position of an ‘unknown’ German gun position buried in the village of Maisy. The re-discovery of the Maisy Batteries made headline news around the world and his best-selling book Cover Up at Omaha Beach subsequently changed the history of the Omaha sector and made many start to question the Rangers’ Pointe du Hoc mission. For the first time ever this follow-up book now offers the complete Rangers history for the seven months prior to D-Day and does so using period documents, many of which have only recently been released from TOP SECRET status in US Archives. The author fills in the gaps that many have only guessed at concerning the Rangers’ real missions on D-Day, he explains why a battalion commander was removed hours before the landings, why the Rangers were not briefed on their actual D-Day missions and the extraordinary role that Lt. Col. Rudder played at Pointe du Hoc. This book is a historical game-changer that pulls no punches. Gary Sterne is a keen collector of militaria and was a co-founder of The Armourer and Skirmish Magazines. He has always been fascinated with the D-day landings and in particular was intrigued by the lack of precise information relating the mystery of the “missing guns” of Pointe du Hoc. His research led to the finding of a map which indicated the position of an “unknown” German gun position buried in the village of Maisy. After buying the land and some years of struggling with the French authorities, he was able to open the huge site to the public. The re-discovery of the Maisy Battery made headline news around the world and has subsequently changed the history of the Omaha Sector forever. The site is now one of the major Normandy D-day attractions. www.maisybattery.com

The German Army on the Eastern Front An Inner View of the Ostheer’s Experiences of War Jeff Rutherford and Adrian Wettstein $42.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47386-174-9 / CR

Histories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line. They tend to neglect other aspects of the army’s experience, particularly its participation in the racial war demanded by the leadership of the Reich. This ground-breaking book aims to correct this incomplete, often misleading picture. Using a selection of revealing extracts from a wide range of wartime documents, it looks at the totality of the Wehrmacht’s war in the East. The documents have previously been unpublished or have never been translated into English, and they offer a fascinating inside view of the army’s actions and attitudes. Combat is covered, and complicity in Hitler’s war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. There are sections on the conduct of the war in the rear areas logistics, medical, judicial and the army’s tactics, motivation and leadership. The entire text is informed by the latest research into the reality of the conflict as it was perceived and understood by those who took part. Jeff Rutherford is Associate Professor of History at Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia. In addition to publishing many articles on the German army and the war on the Eastern Front, he is co-editor, with Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide and Radicalization and the author of Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantrys War, 1941-1944. Adrian Wettstein is Senior Academic Adviser at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich (MILAK). He has published a number of articles on the German army in the Second World War, focusing in particular on urban warfare, and he has also written on the French military mind before the First World War. He is the author of Die Wehrmacht im Stadtkampf 1939-1942.

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Pen and Sword Escaping Has Ceased to be a Sport

The Imperial War Museums’ Book of War Behind Enemy Lines

A Soldier’s Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany

Julian Thompson

Frank Unwin MBE

$42.95 / 480 pages / 6 x 9 / 24pp b&w plates / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-407-6 / CR

$49.95 / 264 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages of b&w plates / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52671-493-0 / CR

War Behind Enemy Lines tells the unvarnished story of British Special Forces in the Second World War. While the SAS and SBS remain household names today, there were a plethora of lesser known units, large and small, that played their part before departing the scene. Drawing on personal accounts as well as official records, the author paints a vivid picture of the operations and contribution of these and other units. He also analyzes, using his own experience, the reasons for the resulting successes and failures. There is unlikely to be a more comprehensive and authoritative account of the ‘Golden Age of British Special Forces’. Julian Thompson joined the Royal Marines aged 18 and served on seven continents over 34 years. Among his many published works are Ready For Anything; The Parachute Regiment at War 1940 – 1982, The Lifeblood of War: Logistics and Armed Conflict and The Royal Marines. He has published six books with the Imperial War Museum.

Survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki

While attempting to re-join the Allied armies, Frank and two fellow POWs were re-captured and sent to a brutal work camp in Germany. The title of this remarkable and moving memoir results from a notice posted to Frank’s amusement in all POW camps saying ‘Escaping has ceased to be a Sport’. This is an exceptional Second World War POW account by a man who refused to accept captivity. Frank Unwin joined the Territorial Army, enlisting in the Royal Artillery aged 18. He saw action in North Africa, Greece, Crete before being captured at Tobruk in June 1942. His experiences as a prisoner of war are the subject of this memoir.

In Hitler’s Shadow Post-War Germany and the Girls of the BDM

Jim Brigginshaw

Tim Heath

$42.95 / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52674-010-6 / CR

This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw. Having been captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Jim was first sent to work in Burma, to build what has become known as the Death Railway. Unlike many of his comrades, Jim survived this ordeal, only to be transferred to Nagasaki, Japan, where he was sent to work in the mines of Sendryu. Jim describes how the conditions in the ‘Hell pits of Sendryu’ were even worse than those experienced in Burma, but were ultimately the reason why he survived the war. On the 9th August 1945 the Americans dropped the second nuclear bomb on Nagaski. Jim was fortunately underground at the time, but through this book re-lives the harrowing aftermath of the attack when the ground shook violently.

After being taken prisoner at Tobruk and transported to Italy, the author was determined ned to escape and learnt Italian by talking to the sentries. His first escape lasted just one week. He then joined a tunnel party and escaped again. After six weeks on the run he was offered shelter in a Tuscan hilltop village, Montebenichi.

$34.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-001-6 / CR

In Hitler’s Shadow conveys the hopes, the horrors and the aftermath of the Second World War in the form of eye witness testimonies, diary entries and interviews. Through the eyes of the BDM girls, it recounts the struggle to rebuild lives destroyed by years of war, and how a country came to terms with terrible war crimes committed in its name. The result is powerful, sad, harrowing, humorous and shocking. In the realms of the study of female Hitler Youth organizations in Nazi Germany, In Hitler’s Shadow has no equal. It is the follow up to Hitler’s Girls published in 2017.

Tim Heath’s interest in history led him to research the air war of the Second World War, focussing on the German Luftwaffe and writing extensively for The Armourer Magazine. During the course of his research he has worked closely with the German War Graves Commission at Kassel, Germany, and met with German families and veterans alike.

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Pen and Sword The Dutch Resistance Revealed

The Second World War Explained

The Inside Story of Courage and Betrayal

Michael O’Kelly

Jos Scharrer $39.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-813-5 / CR

The Dutch resistance movement during the Nazi occupation was bedevilled by treachery, betrayal and poor organization and support from London. Despite these serious problems, the brave men and women of the Dutch resistance who refused to accept domination by their brutal oppressors, made a significant contribution to the war effort albeit at a terrible cost. Their contribution which included escape routes for Allied aircrew and acts of sabotage has been largely over-looked. As well as introducing a large cast of resistance workers, double agents and Nazis, the author describes many of the operations, successful and disastrous, and analyzes the results. Too often, the outcome was tragic.

$34.95 / 208 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-743-4 / CR

Over seventy years on the terrible events and outcome of the Second World War remains hugely relevant and important. Far from diminishing interest in this truly global conflict is increasing. The internet has enabled detailed research into ancestors’ war records to an extent unimaginable a decade or so ago. The author of The Second World War Explained has identified the need for a concise summary covering the main events and personalities. The result is a compelling, highly readable and informing book which allows an understanding of this most dramatic yet tragic period of history. It will appeal to all age groups.

Michael O’Kelly served in the Royal Navy for 34 years. He saw action in the Korean War and became an Anti-Submarine Warfare specialist. After retiring as a Commander he took up an executive position with Whitbread Plc. He was a West Sussex County Councillor for eight years.

Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs War Crimes of the Third Reich Philip Chinnery $49.95 / 352 pages / 6 x 9 / 50 illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-187-9 / CR

Seventy years ago, the Nuremberg Trials were in full swing in Germany. In the dock were the leaders of the Nazi regime and most eventually received their just desserts. In June 1946, Lord Russell of Liverpool became Deputy Judge Advocate and legal adviser to the Commander in Chief for the British Army of the Rhine in respect of all trials held by British Military Courts of German war criminals. This book is dedicated to tens of thousands of Allied prisoners of war died at the hands of the Nazis and their Italian allies.

Philip Chinnery is the chairman of the National Ex-Prisoner of War Association and has carried out extensive research into the life of prisoners of the First World War in German hands. A prolific writer, he has published almost 20 books on military and aviation subjects including three on the Korean war for Pen and Sword.

Battleground Books: WWII

The Canal Line France and Flanders Campaign 1940 Jerry Murland $24.95 / 224 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / Black and white illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-47385-219-8 / CR

This is probably the first occasion that the fighting along the Canal Line has been looked at in detail; overlooked by the inevitable withdrawal towards the channel coast, the units deployed along the canal faced some of the stiffest fighting in the whole 1940 France and Flanders campaign. Whole battalions, particularly those in the 2nd Division, were sacrificed as units were thrown into the battle in an attempt to slow down the German advance. The book looks in some detail at the ad hoc nature of the Usherforce and Polforce units, the units of the independent 25 Brigade and the vicious fighting that enveloped the 2nd Division. Time is given also to the notorious massacre of the Royal Norfolks at Louis Creton’s farm near Le Paradis. The book is illustrated by over a hundred contemporary and modern photographs and by five car tours and three walks, all of which give the tourist a greater access to the battlefield.

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Pen and Sword A French GI at Omaha Beach

Escape Artist

Caroline Jolivet

The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck

$34.95 / 168 pages / 6 x 9 / 60 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-152673-045-9 / CR

$39.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-753-4 / CR

Peter Monteath

Bernard Dargols was a young Parisian student working in New York when war broke out in 1939. While his family remained in France and was threatened by the Vichy regime’s antiSemitic laws, Bernard decided to enlist in the US Army, convinced that it would be more useful to fight the occupying forces. This extraordinary story of the ‘GI from the Place des Vosges’, is told here by his granddaughter, Caroline Jolivet. Caroline Jolivet has always been fascinated by her grandfather, Bernard Dargols’ involvement in the US military and his participation in the landing at Omaha Beach. Following a trip to New York in 2005 in the footsteps of her grandparents, she began to research and write down her grandfather’s memories, which he had kept hidden for so long.

This is the never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break – an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes. Historian Peter Monteath reveals the action-packed tale of one young Australian soldier and his remarkable war. Peter Monteath is a lecturer in Modern European History at Flinders University of South Australia. His research interests include modern European and Australian history, and he has a particular interest in prisoners of war, internment, and the German presence in Australia, having written extensively on these subjects

A Cruel Captivity

With SOE in Greece

Prisoners of the Japanese – Their Ordeal and The Legacy

The Wartime Experiences of Captain Pat Evans

Ellie Taylor

Tom Evans

$39.95 / 208 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-261-3 / CR

$34.95 / 184 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-513-4 / CR

Carefully and sensitively researched, A Cruel Captivity describes the ordeals of, and lasting impact on, survivors of Japanese captivity. Differing in a number of respects from other moving POW accounts, this book covers the experiences of 22 servicemen from the Army, Royal Navy, RAF and volunteer forces who were held captive in numerous locations through South East Asia including Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong, the Spice Islands and Japan itself.

Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance movement, carry out sabotage and commando operations and gather military intelligence. After the Nazis withdrew in late 1944, he was sent to Northern Greece to try and restore some form of normality amid the chaos of civil war.

Ellie Taylor is the daughter of Fred Cox,a former Prisoner of the Japanese. She has a degree in sociology and psychology with the Open University and works as a voluntary counsellor with vulnerable adults.

Pat Evans travelled to Corfu after leaving Oxford before the War. His local knowledge and language secured him the SOE assignment which is the subject of this book. Tom Evans, Pat’s only son is an artist, photographer and lecturer. He is a previously published author.

Hitler’s Invasion of East Anglia, 1940 An Historical Cover Up? Martin W Bowman $49.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 60 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-548-8 / CR

Though Operation ‘Sealion’, the intended invasion of southern England, never materialized, Hitler openly confided that ‘even a small invasion might go a long way’, and asked that his forces might mount one, two or even three ‘small invasions’ in 1940. Martin W. Bowman tells the full story of the remarkable events - both actual and ‘factional’ - involving British defenders in the Army, Home Guard and Auxiliary Units and the invading Fallschirmjäger (German paratroopers) and Brandenburgers (Fifth Column troops, many in civilian or captured British uniforms). Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s best-known aviation historians and authors.

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Pen and Sword Falaise: The Flawed Victory The Destruction of Panzergruppe West, August 1944

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Professor Porsche’s Wars

Falaise: The Flawed Victory The Last Prussian

The Secret Life of Ferdinand Porsche, the Legendary Engineer Who Armed Two Belligerents Through Four Decades

The Destruction of Panzergruppe West, August 1944

A Biography of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt

Anthony Tucker-Jones

Charles Messenger

$22.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 38 black and white photographs / September 2018 / Paperback / 978-1-52673-852-3 / CR

$28.95 / 384 pages / 6 x 9 / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-676-6 / CR

Karl Ludvigsen $28.95 / 296 pages / 8.5 x 10.5 / 250 black and white images / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-679-7 / CR

Regarded as one of the great automotive engineers of the twentieth century, Ferdinand Porsche is well remembered today for his remarkable automotive designs including the Volkswagen Beetle and Auto Union Grand Prix cars. Yet there is another side to his extraordinary career, for he was an equally inventive designer of military vehicles and machinery. Karl Ludvigsen’s study is the definitive guide. He tells the complete story, detailing Porsche’s relations with the Third Reich and the stream of advanced designs for which he was responsible. Among them were the Kübelwagen, the Schwimmwagen, the Type 100 Leopard tank, the controversial Ferdinand tank destroyer and the colossal Type 205 ‘Maus’ tank. He also describes Porsche’s creative work on aero engines, tank engines and even his company’s manufacture of the V-1 flying bomb, for which he designed a turbojet engine. Karl Ludvigsen is a world-renowned and prize-winning historian and author with over fifty books to his credit. He has made in-depth studies of the cars and histories of Volkswagen, Corvette, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz as well as the careers of leading Grand Prix drivers and designers.

The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is a most famous episode of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes misunderstood. In this meticulously researched and perceptive study Anthony dispels misconceptions about the battle, describes the combat in graphic detail and reassesses the outcome in the context of the campaign to liberate Europe. He takes a broad view of the sequence of operations that culminated in the battle at Falaise, tracing the course of the campaign mainly from the panzers’ viewpoint.

Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defence intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armored and aerial warfare.

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Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (18751953) was one of the foremost German commanders of the Second World War. After service on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during 1914-1918 he rose steadily through the ranks before retiring in 1938. Recalled to plan the attack on Poland, he played a leading part in this and the invasion of France in 1940. Thereafter he commanded Army Group South in the assault on Russia before being sacked at the end of 1941. Recalled again, he was made Commander-in-Chief West and as such faced the 1944 Allied invasion of France, but was removed that July. He resumed his post in September 1944 and had overall responsibility for the December 1944 Ardennes counter-offensive. Captured by the Americans, he was handed over to the British, who wanted to try him for war crimes. Only his ill health prevented this from coming about. Charles Messenger served for twenty years in the Royal Tank Regiment before retiring to become a military historian and defence analyst. He is the author of some forty books, mainly on twentieth century warfare. Some have been published in several languages and have been widely acclaimed.

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Sir Alan Cobham The Flying Legend Who Brought Aviation to the Masses Colin Cruddas $49.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / 64 plus black and white illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-840-0 / CR

This is the story of Sir Alan Cobham, a former pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Alan Cobham continued to fly, establishing air routes to the Empire countries. He also involved himself in aerial photography and survey work, undertook charter flights and pioneered the ‘Air to Air’ refuelling technique still in use today.

Hitler’s Wartime Conversations His Personal Thoughts as Recorded by Martin Bormann Martin Bormann $28.95 / 480 pages / 6 x 9 / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-47386-888-5 / CR

In this book, Martin Bormann has recorded Hitler and his entourage’s wartime conversations.

The Bravest Man in the British Army The Extraordinary Life and Death of John Sherwood Kelly

The Military Life of an American Loyalist and Imperial General

Philip Bujak $39.95 / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47389-576-8 / CR

John D Grainger $34.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / None / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-092-3 / CR

This is the story of Samuel Auchmuty who during the American Revolution remained loyal to King George and joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. Despite a varied and distinguished career he has not received the attention he warrants.

John (Jack) Sherwood Kelly, VC CMG DSO (1880-1931) was a formidable soldier. He fought in British colonial campaigns in the early 1900s, distinguishing himself during the First World War at Gallipoli. In this meticulously researched and vivid biography Jake B. Liphuip tells Sherwood Kelly’s story and gives a fascinating insight into one of the most remarkable and controversial military men of the period.

Ten Years at Hitler’s Hobart’s 79th Side Armoured Division The Testimony of Wilhelm at War Keitel Invention, Innovation and Inspiration

Wilhelm Keitel

Arnhem 1944 The Airborne Battle Martin Middlebrook $32.95 / 512 pages / 6 x 9 / 24 black and white photographs / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-680-3 / CR

Richard Doherty

$26.95 / 272 pages / 6 x 9 / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-47386-892-2 / CR

This unadulterated record of Keitel’s, one of Adolf Hitler’s most loyal and trusted lieutenants, trial at Nuremburg is essential reading for all history enthusiasts.

$22.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52673-152-4 / CR

This book is based on how Hobart created, trained and commanded 79th Armoured Division.

Blending meticulous research based on original documents with the personal experiences of more than 500 participants, Martin Middlebrook describes the Battle of Arnhem from start to finish.

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The Vought F4U Corsair Martin W Bowman $28.95 / 144 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / 120 color & black and white illustrations / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52670-588-4 / CR

This comprehensive new book combines technical information and detailed development history with a fascinating combat history told, in many cases, by the Second World War and Korean War pilots themselves. Well researched, readable and illustrated with scores of rare and previously unpublished photographs, Vought F4U Corsair is the perfect book for any fan of the ‘bent wing bird’.

Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s best-known aviation historians and authors.

Hunters over Arabia Hawker Hunter Operations in the Middle East Ray Deacon $49.95 / 256 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 250 color & black and white illustrations / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-150-1 / CR

Based on official records held at the National Archives and other published sources, Hunters over Arabia presents an in-depth account of the operations performed by the Hawker Hunter squadrons policing the desert wastelands and high mountain ranges of the Middle East. Copiously illustrated with color and black and white photographs, a high percentage of operations performed by this versatile British ground attack and reconnaissance fighter are described in detail. Ray Deacon started his career in the Royal Air Force. Early retirement enabled Ray to dedicate his free time to carrying out in-depth studies on the RAF.

Comet! The World’s First Jet Airliner

Colours in the Sky

Graham M Simons

$32.95 / 288 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 150 color & black and white illustrations / September 2018 / paperback b k/ 978-1-52672-677-3 / CR

$49.95 / 320 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / color and black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-556-1 / CR

Extensively illustrated throughout, the book features details lifted directly from enquiry and salvage reports, much of which has never been published before and offers a unique insight into the failures and tragedies that blighted the early days of the Comet’s development, laying down lessons that were ultimately to benefit later designs.

The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation

This is the full story of Autair and Court Line Aviation. Covered in detail is the introduction, demonstration and use of the Lockheed TriStar wide-bodied airliner, the first of the type used in the Inclusive Tour business. Court Line Aviation and Tom Gullick’s Clarksons Holidays brought to the forefront the concept of value-for-money Inclusive Tour holidays following the ‘vertical integration’ business model.

Graham M. Simons is a highly regarded Aviation historian with extensive contacts within the field. He is the author of Mosquito: The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft, B-17 The Fifteen Ton Flying Fortress, and Valkyrie: The North American XB-70.

The Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning

The Vultee Vengeance in Battle Peter C Smith

$49.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 70 black and white te iillustrations llllus usttrtrat atitions ions / SSeptember eptte ep temb mber ber 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-564-8 / CR

$49.95 / 232 pages / 6 x 9 / 36 black and white illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-456-6 / CR

Illustrated with over 200 color and b/w photographs, appendices listing Lightning squadrons, production totals, individual aircraft histories and with the first in-depth analysis into why a third of all Lightnings were lost, The Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning is a fine record of the last truly great all-British fighter.

This book describes the extraordinary combat career of the American-built Vultee Vengeance dive-bomber in both the Royal Air Force and Indian Air Force service during the Burma Campaigns of 1942-45. This single-engine, all-metal aircraft was ordered by the Ministry of Supply during the darkest days of World War II.

Martin W Bowman

Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s best-known aviation historians and authors.

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Peter C Smith is the author of seventy-seven books of Aeronautical, Maritime and Military history which have been published in many languages world-wide.

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Carthage at War Punic Armies c. 814–146 BC Joshua R Hall $34.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / 12 illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47388-538-7 / CR

While narrative histories of the Punic wars (especially the second) and biographies of Hannibal abound, there have been few studies dedicated to detailed analysis of Carthaginian armies and warfare throughout the city-state’s entire existence. Joshua Hall puts that right with this in-depth study of their tactics, equipment, unit organization, army composition and operational effectiveness. Discussion of Carthage’s navy is also included. Importantly, while the Second Punic War is rightly given prominence, this is not at the expense of the many earlier wars Carthage waged as she built and then defended her empire. Drawing on all the available archaeological and literary evidence, the author shows the development of Carthage’s forces and methods of warfare from the ninth century BC to the city’s demise. The result is the most in-depth portrait of the Carthaginian military available in English.

Joshua Hall majored in History at Western Oregon University, then moved to Cardiff University, Wales, to complete his an MA in Ancient and Medieval Warfare (specializing in warfare in ancient Sicily) and a PhD in ancient history on warfare in Archaic Italy.

The Roman Empire and the The Komnene Dynasty Byzantium’s Struggle for Survival Indian Ocean 1057–1185 The Ancient World Economy and the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia and India Raoul McLaughlin $25.95 / 304 pages / 6 x 9 / 18 black and white illustrations / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52673-807-3 / CR

This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of south Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. This is the first book to bring these subjects together in a single comprehensive study that reveals Rome’s impact on the ancient world and explains how international trade funded the Legions that maintained imperial rule. It offers a new international perspective on the Roman Empire and its legacy for modern society. Raoul McLaughlin was educated at Lagan College, the first Integrated School in Northern Ireland. He studied Archaeology and Ancient History at Queens University Belfast before completing a Masters degree and then a PhD in the study of trade beyond Rome’s eastern frontiers.

John Carr $42.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-229-6 / CR

The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West, the Komneni played their strategic cards very well. Though the dynasty ended in cruelty and incompetence under Andronikos I (the Terrible), it fought a valiant rear-guard action in keeping eastern Christendom alive. The Komnene dynasty saw several changes in Byzantine military practice, such as the adoption of heavy cavalry on the western model, the extensive use of foreign mercenaries and the neglect of the navy (both of which were to prove a huge and possibly fatal disadvantage).

John Carr has enjoyed a career as a journalist, correspondent and broadcaster, mainly in the Mediterranean and particularly Greece. He is the author of On Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War II; Sparta’s Kings; The Defence and Fall of Greece 1940-41; RHNS Averof; Fighting Emperors of Byzantium and The Knights Hospitaller, all published by Pen & Sword.

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Conquerors of the Roman Empire: The Franks Simon MacDowall $34.95 / 208 pages / 6 x 9 / 42 color and b/w illustrations / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47383-742-3 / CR

Simon MacDowall examines how this relatively small group of Germans came to be overlords of all of the former Roman province of Gaul, giving their name to France in the process. From their earliest incursions into the Empire, down to the Battle of Casilinum (554), their last battle against Romans, he studies the Frankish way of warfare and assesses its effectiveness. The size and composition of their armies, their weapons (including the characteristic Francisca axe), equipment and tactics are discussed.

Sparta

Pharaoh Seti I

Fall of a Warrior Nation

Father of Egyptian Greatness

Philip Matyszak

Nicky Nielsen

$32.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47387-472-5 / CR

$34.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / 15 black and white illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-957-5 / CR

Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans were masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. Philip Matyszak examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved social issues to bring down the nation - even as its warriors remained invincible on the battlefield. This is also a story of defiance, for the Spartans refused to accept their humiliation and – although never more than a tiny and underpopulated city-state – for many years their city exercised influence far beyond its size and population. This is a chronicle of political failure, and also a lesson in how to go down fighting. This book tells a seldom-told tale, yet one rich in heroes and villains, epic battles and political skulduggery.

Simon MacDowall joined the Canadian army and was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Dragoons and saw active service with the UN in Honduras and Nicuragua and with NATO in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. In 1994 he was the UN spokesman in Sarajevo.

Philip ‘Maty’ Matyszak holds a doctorate in Ancient History and has been studying, teaching and writing on the subject for over twenty years. He specializes in the history of Classical Greece and of the Late Republic and Early Imperial periods of Rome. Maty has personal military experience both as a conscript in Rhodesia and with the Territorial Army in Britain.

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Pharaoh Seti I ruled Egypt for only 11 years (1290-1279 BC), but his reign marked a revival of Egyptian military and economic power, as well as cultural and religious life. Seti was born the son of a military officer in northern Egypt, far from the halls of power in Memphis and Thebes. However, when the last king of the 18th Dynasty, Horemheb, died without an heir, Seti’s father was named king. He ruled for only two years before dying of old age, leaving Seti in charge of an ailing superpower. Seti set about rebuilding Egypt after a century of dynastic struggles and religious unrest. He reasserted Egypt’s might with a series of campaigns across the Levant, Libya and Nubia. He despatched expeditions to mine for copper, gold, and quarry for stone in the deserts, laying the foundations for one of the most ambitious building projects of any Egyptian Pharaoh and his actions allowed his son, Ramesses the Great to rule in relative peace and stability for 69 years, building on the legacy of his father. Dr Nicky Nielsen has published a number of academic papers as well as articles in popular magazines in the UK, USA and his native Denmark, on topics spanning Egyptology, Roman history, British naval history and Viking culture.

Pen and Sword Roman Conquests

Battles and Battlefields of Ancient Greece

Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece

A Guide to their History, Topography and Archaeology

Philip Matyszak

C Jacob Butera and Matthew A Sears

$22.95 / 208 pages / 6 x 9 / 8pp color photos, including 4 color paintingsur artworks and 7 black and white maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-678-0 / CR

$42.95 / 336 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 58 Photos, 60 Maps / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78383-186-9 / CR

In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit of his dream for a new Macedonian empire. Once Carthage was defeated, however, the Roman army for the first time turned its full attention to the Greek world.

Greece was the scene of some of the most evocative and decisive battles in the ancient world world. This volume brings together the ancient evidence and modern scholarship on twenty battlefields throughout Greece. It is a handy resource for visitors of every level of experience, from the member of a guided tour to the veteran military historian.

Philip Matyszak gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain. Specially commissioned color plates bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously researched detail.

The introductory chapter outlines some of the most pressing and interesting issues in the study of Ancient Greek battles and battlefields and offers a crash course on ancient warfare. Twenty lively chapters explore battlefields selected for both their historical importance and their inspiring sites.

Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome

On Ancient Warfare Perspectives on Aspects of War in Antiquity 4000 BC to AD 637

A History of the Republic’s Most Illustrious Family

Richard A Gabriel

Jeremiah McCall

$42.95 / 336 pages / 6 x 9 / Approximately 16 b/w maps and diagrams / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52671-845-7 / CR

$34.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47388-561-5 / CR

A historical detective work, this book explores the facts and fables of the Republic’ss most distinguished family. Chapters investigate not only the lives and careers of the Fabii Maximi, but the critical military and political contexts of their days. As a result, readers get not only the story of the Roman Republic’s rise and domination of an empire, but a closer look at a family of Romans who made it possible.

Dr Jeremiah McCall has a PhD in Classical History and specializes in the military history and political culture of the Roman Republic. His previous works include The Cavalry of the Roman Republic (2002); The Sword of Rome: A Biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Pen & Sword 2012) and Swords and Cinema: Hollywood vs the Reality of Ancient Warfare (Pen & Sword, 2014).

Dr C. Jacob Butera is an assistant professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He writes on the ancient military and commemoration. Dr Matthew A. Sears is an associate professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He writes on ancient history and culture.

This book presents Richard Gabriel’s thoughts and perspectives on a selection of aspects of ancient warfare that he has found of particular interest over the years. It does not aim to be a comprehensive overview nor a coherent narrative of ancient military history but adds up to an illuminating, fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of various topics. With topics ranging from broad topics such as the origins of war, through logistics, military medicine and psychiatry or the origins of jihad, to specifics such as the generalship of Alexander the Great (Gabriel’s not a fan), Scipio and Hannibal, there is plenty here for the either the general reader or academic scholar. Richard A. Gabriel is a distinguished professor in the Department of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. Gabriel is the author of numerous books and articles on military history and other subjects and has made many appearances as an historical expert on TV documentaries.

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Pen and Sword Battleground Scotland

Sir John Tiptoft – ‘Butcher of England’

Culloden: 1746 Battlefield Guide: Third Edition

Earl of Worcester, Edward IV’s enforcer and humanist scholar

Stuart Reid

Peter Spring

$25.95 / 240 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / 100 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52673-973-5 / CR

$39.95 / 384 pages / 6 x 9 / 8pp color plates / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-78346-382-4 / CR

Culloden Moor is one of the most famous battles in British history and, for the Scots, the battle is pre-eminent, surpassing even Bannockburn. Stuart Reid, in this revised third edition of his best-selling guide, tells the story of the campaign and sets out in a graphic and easily understood way the movements and deployments of the opposing forces – and he describes in vivid detail the deadly combat that followed.

John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is arguably the most intriguing, controversial and possibly ly misunderstood figure of the Wars of the Roses period. Politically adept, he occupied a string of important offices, first under the Lancastrian Henry VI and then the Yorkist Edward IV.

Incorporating the latest documentary and archaeological research and featuring a completely new and expanded section on the armies, it invites visitors to explore for themselves this historic ground on which the tragic battle was fought.

Peter Spring looks beyond the Earl’s public life to glean insights into the man himself, concluding that the available information generally reveals an attractive personality. He presents a balanced reappraisal, seeing him, as did many contemporary Europeans and some fellow countrymen, as a man of great intellect and capability who did not shirk the hard tasks imposed by a merciless age.

Peter Spring has a BA in Modern History from Royal Holloway College and an MA in Medieval Art History from the Courtauld Institute. His first book, Great Walls and Linear Barriers, was published by Pen & Sword in 2015.

Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World 1200 BC – 1302 AD

Badon and the Early Wars for Wessex, circa 500 to 710

From Troy to Courtrai

$34.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 black and white illustrations / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-357-3 / CR

D Beatrice G Heuser and Athena S Leoussi $44.95 / 272 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47389-373-3 / CR

The epic battles of European history are examined in this volume ranging from the siege of Troy to the battle of Courtrai.

David Cooper

History of Terror Series

Bloody Mary Tudor Terror, 1553–1558 Phil Carradice $24.95 / 128 pages / 6 x 9 / 80 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-865-4 / CR

David Cooper’s book reappraises the evidence regarding the early battles for Wessex territory. It charts the sequence of battles from the c. AD 500 siege of Badon Hill, in which the Britons defeated the first Saxon attempt to gain a foothold in Wessex territory, to Langport in 710.

This is the story of Mary Tudor, who succeeded to the throne of England in 1553 with wild rejoicing and a degree of popularity rarely seen. Yet at her death five years later she was almost universally reviled and hated by her people so much so that she was posthumously awarded the sobriquet Bloody Mary.

David Cooper OBE is a retired British Army Lieutenant Colonel with 36 years’ service. Due to an abiding interest in the period he began to study the Dark Age Wessex campaigns in detail in 2002, and this book is the result.

Phil Carradice is a poet, novelist and historian. He has written over fifty books.

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Pen and Sword Total Onslaught

The Jihadist Threat

War and Revolution in Southern Africa Since 1945

The Re-conquest of the West? Paul Moorcraft

Paul Moorcraft

$22.95 / 177 pages / 6 x 9 / Currently Available / paperback / 978-1-52672-093-1 / CR

$42.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages of black and white plates / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-488-7 / CR

The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions unfamiliar with democratic principles resulted. Liberation movements such as those in South Africa demanded self-rule and an end to Apartheid. The cost in human and material terms has been devastating and in too many cases remain so. Economic development has been frustrated and the result is often poverty, abuse and genocide. The author, who knows Southern Africa as a native, is superbly equipped to tell this fascinating, if tragic, record.

This updated edition of Professor Paul Moorcraft’s timely and controversial book examines the international and domestic threats to the West from Jihadism. It connects the dots in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and explains what it means for the home front, mainly Britain but also continental Europe and the USA. It puts the whole complex jigsaw together without pulling any punches. After briefly tracing the origins of Jihadism from the time of the Prophet, The Jihadist Threat analyzes the fallout from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and how far these fueled the rise of the self-styled Islamic State and other terror groups and the extent these pose a threat to European society. Finally, the author offers suggestions for defeating this existential threat to the Western way of life.

Professor Paul Moorcraft is a prolific author and war correspondent who served in the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Police and worked closely with the British armed forces for many years. His book The Rhodesian War (Pen and Sword 2008) has been a huge success. Paul Moorcraft’s book The Jihadist Threat was one of six military titles shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year 2016.

Air War Northern Ireland

Witness to War Crimes

Britain’s Air Arms and the ‘Bandit Country’ of South Armagh, Operation Banner 1969 - 2007

The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia Colm Doyle

Steven Taylor

$42.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages of b&w plates / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-611-6 / CR

$39.95 / 176 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-154-9 / CR

Famously dubbed ‘Bandit Country’ by a UK government minister in 1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary during the years of violence known as the ‘Troubles’ that engulfed the province in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including official records and the accounts of aircrew, this book tells the little-known story of the battle for control of the skies over Northern Ireland’s ‘Bandit Country’.

Steven Taylor is a freelance journalist, based in Scotland, writing principally about military history - and in particular military aviation - who has contributed to various UK newspapersas well as the magazines. He has also written articles about the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland for the Belfast Newsletter and Belfast Telegraph newspapers.

The early 1990s saw Europe’s first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost immediately Head of the Monitor Mission in besieged Sarajevo. In this overdue memoir, he describes his role mediating, negotiating and persuading political and military leaders of all sides to halt the seemingly inexorable path to all-out war. His experiences made him a key witness at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague at the trials of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic. With his unprecedented access, Doyle’s personal account can claim to be one of the most significant works on the brutal Bosnian War. During Colonel Colm Doyle’s career with the Irish Defence Forces, he served with the United Nations in Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria. He was Chief in Staff of the Military Division at the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York; Director of Public Relations for the Defence Forces and Commandant of both the UN Training School, Ireland and the Military College.

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Pen and Sword Wargames Terrain and Buildings

The Napoleonic Wars Tony Harwood $24.95 / 160 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 350 illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52671-639-2 / CR

Wargames Terrain and Buildings is a series of books aimed at giving wargamers the skills, techniques and guidance they need to create their own stunning and practical model buildings. In this volume, master modeler Tony Harwood shares his years of experience and presents the reader with a wide range of projects for the Napoleonic era. With the aid of step-by-step photographs, he guides the reader through building and finishing each of these models, which are organized in three sections of increasing complexity and encompass a range of scales and different materials. Nine projects are included but the techniques and skills demonstrated along the way, along with valuable advice on tools, construction materials and paints, can be adapted and applied to a much wider range of structures to grace your battlefields. Tony Harwood (aka Dampfpanzerwagon) is a very experienced maker of miniature wargame terrain and buildings and well known in wargaming circles for his informative ‘how-to’ articles and books.

One-hour Skirmish Wargames Fast-play Dice-less Rules for Smallunit Actions from Napoleonics to Sci-Fi John Lambshead $22.95 / 96 pages / 6 x 9 / 30 illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52670-004-9 / CR

Many wargamers enjoy the challenge of skirmish i h games where, h instead of the strategy of vast armies portrayed by traditional wargames, the focus is on the tactics of a small unit. However, skirmish rules are often so complex that it can take hours of rolling dice, consulting tables and recording data to recreate what would in reality be a fast and furious firefight lasting just minutes. Now these new rules make it possible to recapture the speed and intensity of these actions where every man, and every second, counts. Dr John Lambshead designed the award-winning computer game, Frederick Forsythe’s Fourth Protocol, which was the first icon-driven game, was editor of Games & Puzzles and Wargames News, and has written a number of wargaming rules supplements for Games Workshop. He also wrote the officially licensed Dr Who gaming rules for Warlord Games. He was co-author, with Rick Priestley, of Tabletop Wargames, A Designer and Writers Handbook (Pen & Sword Books, 2016).

The Badges of Kitchener’s Army

Two Handed Sword History, Design and Use

David Bilton

Neil Melville

$60.00 / 384 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / Black and white illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-147383-366-1 / CR

$42.95 / 224 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 100 illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-313-9 / CR

Badges of Kitchener’s Army is based on thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs of the thirty divisions raised by Kitchener’s appeal for men.

Neil Melville explains how, from the late13th century, technological advances made the development of larger swords requiring both hands both possible and desirable. From their origins in Germany he traces their development and divergence into regional variations. He examines the evidence for their use on the battlefield over 300 years, most notably in the hands of the Swiss, the German landsknechts and the Scottish clans.

The book will also provide some comments from these veterans.

David Bilton is the prolific author of numerous books about the British Army, the Home Front and the German Army. His first book, The Hull Pals, became the BBC 2 series The Trench. Since he started writing he has contributed to many television and radio programmes.

Neil H T Melville taught Latin, Greek and Ancient History in state schools in Scotland before retiring to concentrate on the study of arms and armour from the time of ancient Greece to the 19th century, but especially the Middle Ages.

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Pen and Sword A Tale of Ten Spitfires The Combat Histories of Spitfire VCs AR501 to AR510 Andrew Critchell

Deceiving Hitler’s Bombers

The Handley Page Victor

RAF Decoys and Visual Deception in WWII

Tales from a Crew Chief - 40 Years of Life with the Victor

An Official History

$49.95 / 200 pages / 6 x 9 / 35 illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-809-8 / CR

The Fw190’s supremacy over the Spitfire V is a classic legend from the Second World War, heralding one of the darkest times for Fighter Command and the RAF. A Tale of Ten Spitfires brings this legend to life by examining the individual combat histories of ten Spitfire VCs, the first of which is the Shuttleworth Collection’s well known Spitfire AR501, followed by the next nine on the production line, AR502 to AR510. Andrew Critchell has contributed numerous articles and photographs to aviation magazines both in the UK and Europe since his first image was published in Flypast magazine in 2000.

$49.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 8 page plate section ion / AAugust ugust 20 2018 18 / hardback / 978-1-52673-412-9 / CR

If, through means of decoys or visual deception, the attacking aircraft can be tricked into dropping their deadly payloads in areas of little importance to the general war effort, the enemy bombers will have failed in their mission. An example of the effectiveness of such deception occurred on the night of 17/18 April 1941. The full story of the intricate and ingenious methods adopted to deceive Hitler’s bombers is indeed a fascinating one. An official history that was written at the end of the war by Air Ministry personnel.

Dambusters: The RRAF AF OOn th the h Forging of a Legend Offensive

$49.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / 25 bl blackk andd white h illustrations / November 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-257-6 / CR

In this book, Roger Brooks extends his earlier historical narratives, this time offering an action-packed and riveting memoir of a career spanning forty years that can only be gained by first hand experience.

Roger Brooks has accumulated over forty years of experience working at the sharp end with the Victor and other aircraft. He has distilled some of the vast knowledge he has acquired into this volume.

AAtomic i Thunder Th d

617 Squadron in World War II

The Rebirth of Tactical Air Power 1940–1941

Chris Ward and Andy Lee

Gregory Peter Baughen

$32.95 / 320 pages / 6 x 9 / 120 illustrations / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-675-9 / CR

$34.95 / 6 x 9 / 16 black and white illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-515-7 / CR

This is a new outlook at the Dams’ first raid and then the long and envious history of 617 until the end of the war.

This book describes how British air power developed after the Battle of Britain and how the attitudes were beginning to change.

Roger R Brooks

British Nuclear testing in Australia Elizabeth Tynan

Th LLost SStory of The the Ocean Monarch Gill Hoffs

$26.95 / 392 pages / 6 x 9 / October 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-757-2 / CR

$39.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-439-6 / CR

In this meticulously researched and shocking work, journalist and academic Elizabeth Tynan reveals the truth of what really happened at Maralinga and the devastating consequences of what took place there.

On the 170th anniversary of the disaster Gill Hoffs reveals the full story of this forgotten wreck, including tales of French royalty, an American artist, and a courageous stewardess.

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Messines 1917

Battleground Books: WWI

The Verdun Regiment

Craig Deayton

The French on the Somme

$28.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52674-014-4 / CR

August 1914 – 30 June 1916: From Serre to the River Somme

Into the Furnace: The 151st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun 1916

David O’Mara

Johnathan Bracken

On 7 June 1917, the British Second Army launched its attack with an opening like no other. In the largest secret operation of the First World War, British and Commonwealth mining companies placed over a million pounds of explosive beneath the German front-line positions in 19 giant mines which erupted like a volcano.

$26.95 / 256 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / 120 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52672-240-9 / CR

$44.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52671-029-1 / CR

It is difficult to overstate the importance of Messines for the Australians, whose first two years of war had represented an almost unending catalogue of disaster. This was both the first real victory for the AIF and the first test in senior command for Major General John Monash, who commanded the newly formed 3rd Division. Messines was a baptism of fire for the 3rd Division which came into the line alongside the battle-scarred 4th Australian Division, badly mauled at Bullecourt just six weeks earlier. The fighting at Messines would descend into unimaginable savagery, a lethal and sometimes hand-tohand affair of bayonets, clubs, bombs and incessant machine-gun fire, described by one Australian as ‘72 hours of Hell’. Craig Deayton is a History teacher with a special interest in Australia’s military history. He has worked as a teacher and College Principal for over twenty-five years and is currently Principal of Sacred Heart College in Hobart, Australia.

There was extensive fighting during the opening phase of the war, as both the French and Germans tried to outflank each other. The conflict in what became known as the Glory Hole, close to the well known Lochnagar Crater, was particularly prolonged. The underground war was not confined to la Boisselle, with a similar crater field developing on Redan Ridge; whilst south of the Somme, to be covered in a future volume, great lengths of No Man’s Land were dominated by mine craters. The book is introduced by a chapter describing the role of the area in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, a war which arguably provided the seed bed for the outbreak of war in 1914. Several battles were fought in Somme villages that were to become the victims of war all over again forty plus years later. Dave O’Mara has explored and walked miles of the French front, from the North Sea to the Swiss border. With extensive knowledge of both the major allied armies, combined with his knowledge of the ground and ability to work with German sources, he is the ideal person to write about the French Somme.

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Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. We can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917, and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life.

Johnathan Bracken has had a lifelong interest in history, and military history in particular, and has made a special study of the French army in the First World War.

Pen and Sword Battleground Books: WWI

Battleground Books: WWI

The Battle of the Lys 1918: North

The Battle of the Lys 1918: South

Objective Ypres

Objective Hazebrouck

Chris Baker

$24.95 / 192 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / 20 black and white maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52671-700-9 / CR

$24.95 / 192 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / 20 black and white maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52671-696-5 / CR

The second of two Battleground Europe titless co covering ering this highl highly significant battle of spring 1918.

The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 18 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser’s men.

What the British call ‘The ‘Battle of the Lys 1918’ is a fascinating yet curiously neglected period of military history. Chris Baker examines this major battle from the strategic down to the platoon level, highlighting the key events, characters and acts of enormous bravery on both sides, both in historical narrative and in a series of tours of the area. This volume concentrates on the northern half of the battlefield; nearly all of the actions described in this volume took place in Belgium.

What the British call The Battle of the Lys 1918 is a fascinating yet curiously neglected period of military history. Chris Baker examines this major battle from the strategic down to the platoon level, highlighting the key events, characters and acts of enormous bravery on both sides, both in a historical narrative and in a series of tours of the area. This volume, one of two on the battle, concentrates on the southern half of the battlefield.

Chris Baker has a deep interest in the Great War which led him to becoming a professional military historian, and is the author of the well-known and invaluable website ‘The Long, Long Trail’. Chris’s book The Battle for Flanders: German defeat on the Lys, 1918 was published by Pen & Sword Military in 2011. In 2014 The truce: the day the war stopped was published by Amberley in 2014.

An Eye in the Sky The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Career of Air Commodore Henry George Crowe MC, CBE, CBD (SC) Bob Cossey $49.95 / 392 pages / 6 x 9 / 200 black and white images / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-596-7 / CR

This is the biography of Henry Crowe whose career encompassed time as an infantryman with the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War, an observer with the RFC and fledgling RAF, a pilot in Ireland at the time of the Irish War of Independence, a photographic officer and flight commander in Iraq, and Commanding Officer of Nos. 23 and 74 Squadrons.

The National Archives

Suffragism and the Great War

Winged Sabres One of the RFC’s Most Decorated Squadrons Robert A Sellwood $44.95 / 344 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-957-6 / CR

Vivien Newman $39.95 / 176 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52671-897-6 / CR

Winged Sabres is the story of a RFC & RAF squadron flying the cumbersome FE2 from February 1916 to September 1917, and then the superlative Bristol Fighter: a two-seater ‘fighter-reconnaissance’ squadron with an astonishingly high success rate.

Dr Vivien Newman reveals some of the formidable women of the pre-First World War suffrage and anti-suffrage movements as, on the declaration of war, they turn their considerable skills, honed over 50 years of active campaigning, to both support of the war and the pursuit of peace.

Robert Sellwood’s Scottish Grandfather’s death with 20 Squadron in WW1 started his interest in the squadron, which soon became a much bigger project involving the study of many detailed official records.

Dr Vivien Newman is a respected expert on women in the First World War, with a particular interest in uncovering the lives of women overlooked by other historians, and has previously published four titles with Pen & Sword.

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Pen and Sword

Supporting Tunnelling Operations in the Great War

The Kaiser’s Escapees

Haig’s Tower of Strength

Allied POW escape attempts during the First World War

General Sir Edward Bulfin – Ireland’s Forgotten General

Philip Chinnery

John Powell

$39.95 / 160 pages / 6 x 9 / 50 illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-143-5 / CR

$49.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pp b&w plates / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-260-7 / CR

This is the story of the ‘Alphabeticals’ which, led by Major Victor Morse, DSO, operated and maintained pumps, generators, ventilation fans, drilling equipment and other ingenious devices in extreme circumstances. Given the horrendous conditions in which the troops lived and fought, this equipment was desperately needed, as were the men who operated it in the same, often nightmarish setting.

Philip Chinnery now turns his attention to the attempts by allied prisoners of war to escape the Kaiser’s clutches and return to their homeland. As the war progressed, the treatment of allied prisoners worsened as the blockade of Germany reduced the amount of food and material coming into the country. The majority of the prisoners were too weak or ill-equipped to attempt to escape, but there were others who were determined to pit their wits against their jailers.

This is the first biography of General Sir Edward Bulfin, who rose to high rank despite his Catholic Irish republican background, at a time when sensitivities were pronounced. Not only that but by the outbreak of the Great War, Bulfin was a brigade commander despite having not attended Sandhurst or Staff College and never commanding his battalion.

This is the first account of the dynamic little unit that was the Alphabet Company, a unit that has been neglected by history for a century. It is the story of the men, their machinery and the extraordinary grit they displayed in performing some of the most difficult tasks in a war noted for the horrific conditions in which it was waged.

Although Holland and Switzerland were neutral countries during the First World War, escaping from their camps, crossing miles of enemy territory and outwitting the sentries guarding the frontiers taxed even the strongest individuals. But many men did make the attempt and more than a few of them were successful.

Damien Finlayson is an amateur military historian with a special interest in the First World War. His articles on the Australian tunnelling companies have appeared in the association’s journal Stand To! and the journal of the Australian Military Historical Society, Sabretache.

Damien Finlayson $28.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52674-018-2 / CR

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Despite ruthlessly crushing disturbances in post-war Egypt, Bulfin’s beliefs and background led him to refuse Churchill’s order to command the police and army in Ireland. A private man, Bulfin left few letters and no papers and the author is to be congratulated on piecing together this fascinating biography of an enigmatic military figure.

Brigadier John Powell OBE was commissioned into the Green Howards in 1966. He commanded his regiment in Londonderry and his final tour was commanding a brigade in Exeter, retiring in 1998. He co-authored, with his father Geoffrey Powell, the updated edition of The History of The Green Howards (Pen and Sword books, 2002).

Pen and Sword

Advance to Victory

The Final Advance

July to September 1918

September – November 1918

Andrew Rawson

$34.95 / 280 pages / 6 x 9 / 50 black and white maps / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-340-6 / CR

$39.95 / 224 pages / 6 x 9 / 50 black and white maps / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-344-4 / CR

This is the story the British Expeditionary Force’s part in the opening days of the Advance to Victory. It starts with the contribution to the Battle of Fere-EnTardenois in July, the counter-offensive which pushed the Germans back to the River Marne.

This is the story the British Expeditionary Force’s part in the final days of the Advance to Victory. It starts with the massive offensive against the Hindenburg Line at the end of September 1918. Second Army launched the first of the British attacks in Flanders on the 28th, followed by Fourth Army the next day along the St Quentin Canal.

Each stage of the two month battle is given the same treatment, covering the details about the most talked about side of the campaign; the BEF’s side. Over fifty new maps chart the day by day progress of the five armies and together with the narrative, explain the British Army’s experience during the opening stages of the Advance to Victory. The men who made a difference are mentioned; those who led the advances, those who stopped the counter-attacks and those who were awarded the Victoria Cross. Discover the beginning of the Advance to Victory and learn how the British Army had mastered the art of attack.

Each stage of the six week long battle is dealt with equally, focusing on the most talked about side of the campaign, the BEF’s side. Over fifty new maps chart the day by day progress of the five armies. Together the narrative and the maps explain the British Army’s experience during the days of World War One. The men who led the advances, broke down the defences and those who were awarded the Victoria Cross are mentioned. Discover the end of the Advance to Victory and learn how the British Army reached the peak of their learning curve.

Andrew Rawson is a freelance writer who has written over thirty-five books on many conflicts. He has written eight books for Pen and Sword’s ‘Battleground Europe’ series and three reference books for The History Press ‘Handbook’ series.

The Great War Illustrated 1918 Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI Roni Wilkinson $60.00 / 520 pages / 9.5 x 9.5 / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47388-165-5 / CR

The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared, and continue to appear, in present-day publications and TV documentary programs - many did not. The Great War Illustrated series, beginning with the year 1914, includes in its pages many rarely seen images with individual numbers allocated, and subsequently they will be lodged with the Taylor Library Archive for use by editors and authors. While some of the images in The Great War Illustrated 1918 will be familiar, many will be seen for the first time by a new generation interested in the months that changed the world for ever. Roni Wilkinson has been employed in printing and publishing for fifty years. His works include five fictional titles, two books on aviation topics, five further titles on the First World War and one covering the actions of the SS Totenkopf Division in the invasion of France in May 1940.

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Pen and Sword

Amiens 1918 From Disaster to Victory Gregory Blaxland $49.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 32 black and white illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-519-5 / CR

Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of weeks that summer. The book largely concentrates on the British and Dominion troops of the BEF. The first half is taken up with the attack on Amiens. In the second half of the book the author provides a cohesive account of the British response in retaking the initiative from the Germans, though not failing to give allied nations their due.

Gregory Blaxland was commissioned into the Buffs. He was thus one of the youngest British Army Officers at the outbreak of WW2, and was part of the initial British Expeditionary Force in September 1939 until his evacuation from Dunkirk on May 31st 1940. In February 1954, four months after getting married, he was sent to join his regiment in Kenya. Within 48 hours of his arrival he had contracted polio and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He established a new career as an author and journalist, and became a successful and respected military historian.

1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice

Britain and Victory in the Great War

Richard van Emden

Dr. Peter Liddle

$42.95 / 392 pages / 6.5 x 9.25 / 150 color illustrations / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-555-3 / CR

$49.95 / 352 pages / 6 x 9 / 50 illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47389-161-6 / CR

Revisiting the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard tells the story of 1918, of both the ferocious spring offensive that so nearly brought victory for the Germans in the West, and the tenacious British rearguard fight that thwarted them. The book also tells the vivid story of the Allied breakthrough and the return to open warfare that was to bring victory in November 1918.

Richard van Emden interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War, has written extensively about the soldiers’ lives, and has worked on many television documentaries, always concentrating on the human aspects of war, its challenge and its cost to the millions of men involved. Richard van Emden’s books have sold over 660,000 copies and have appeared in The Times’ bestseller chart on a number of occasions.

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This book completes the trilogy of groundbreaking volumes conceived and edited by Peter Liddle which presents the latest scholarly thinking about the Great War from an international perspective. A group of over twenty expert contributors reconsider the military reasons for the outcome of the fighting and look at the consequences for the principal nations involved. They explore the way the war and the peace settlement shaped the twentieth century and had an enduring impact within Europe and beyond.

Dr Peter Liddle is a leading historian of the First World War and has concentrated on the personal experience of the men and women who took part. He founded the Liddle Collection, a repository of documents and memorabilia connected to the conflict, which is housed in the Brotherton Library, the University of Leeds. His many books include Captured Memories 1900-1918, Captured Memories 1930-1945, The Soldiers War 1914-1918, The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered, The 1916 Battle of the Somme Reconsidered and, as editor, Facing Armageddon, Britain Goes to War and Britain and the Widening War.

Pen and Sword

Archie Bowman

A Gallant County

Foot Soldier, German POW and League of Nations Man

The Regiments of Gloucestershire in the Great War

Hamish Ross

Robin Grist

$34.95 / 184 pages / 6 x 9 / 25 black and white illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-805-0 / CR

$49.95 / 336 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages of black and white plates / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-607-9 / CR

Based on the archived Bowman Papers, it is a fascinating story of a man of high principle and great depth of feeling who had the love and support of his wife Mabel.

This book describes the campaigns fought by the Gloucestershire Regiment’s sixteen infantry battalions and the 1/1st RGH which saw action on all the Allied fronts.

Guiseley Terriers: A Small Part of a Great War

A Soldier’s Kipling

A History of the 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Stephen Barber retraces the history of the 1/6th Battalion.

The Generation Lost Sir Anthony Seldon and David Walsh

Poetry and the Profession of Arms Edward J Erickson

$29.95 / 336 pages / 6 x 9 / Black and white illustrations / December 2018 / paperback / 978-1-52673-989-6 / CR

The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918.

British Widows of the First World War The Forgotten Legion Andrea Hetherington

$49.95 / 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52671-853-2 / CR

Stephen Barber $49.95 / 272 pages / 6 x 9 / 50 illustrations / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-352-1 / CR

Public Schools and the Great War

A Soldier’s Kipling is an original contribution to the understanding of Kipling’s work and his times, and it should lead to a fresh appreciation of a facet of his writing that has not been focused on so closely before.

$39.95 / 240 pages / 6 x 9 / 20 illustrations / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-47388-676-6 / CR

Widows of the Great War is the first major account of the experience of women who had to cope with the death of their husbands during the conflict and then rebuild their lives.

The Welsh at War Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives Steven John $49.95 / 320 pages / 6 x 9 / 100 integrated illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52670-035-3 / CR

The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.

The South Irish Horse in the Great War Mark Perry $39.95 / 176 pages / 6 x 9 / 16 pages of b&w plates / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52673-695-6 / CR

This book, while not an official history, fills a void by describing the achievements of this unique and short-lived regiment and the colorful characters who served in it.

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Savas Beatie The Real Horse Soldiers Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi Timothy B. Smith $29.95 / 336 pages / 6 x 9 / 36 images, 13 maps / Currently Available / hardback / 978-1-61121-428-4 / CR

Benjamin Grierson’s Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. The last serious study was published more than six decades ago. Since then other accounts have appeared, but none are deeply researched full-length studies of the raid and its more than substantial (and yet often overlooked) results. The publication of Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid through Mississippi rectifies this oversight. Novelists have attempted to capture the larger-than-life cavalry raid in the popular imagination, and Hollywood reproduced the daring cavalry action in The Horse Soldiers, a 1959 major motion picture starring John Wayne and William Holden. Although the film replicates the raid’s drama and high-stakes gamble, cinematic license chipped away at its accuracy. Timothy B. Smith is a veteran of the National Park Service and currently teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. In addition to many articles and essays, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of eighteen books, including Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg (2004), which won the nonfiction book award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (2012), which won the Fletcher Pratt Award and the McLemore Prize, Shiloh: Conquer or Perish (2014), which won the Richard B. Harwell Award, the Tennessee History Book Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award, and Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (2016), which won the Tennessee History book Award, the Emerging Civil War Book Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award.

Challenges of Command in the Civil War Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond, Volume I: Generals and Generalship Richard J. Sommers $29.95 / 252 pages / 6 x 9 / 80 images, 7 maps, 5 tables, 2 charts / July 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-432-1 / CR

Dr. Richard Sommers’ Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct, thought-provoking volumes. This first installment focuses on “Civil War Generals and Generalship.” The subsequent volume will explore “Civil War Strategy, Operations, and Organization.” Each chapter is a free-standing essay that can be appreciated in its own right without reading the entire book. From original research in Chapter 10 to new ways of looking at familiar facts in Chapters 6-9 to distilled judgments from a lifetime of study in Chapters 1-5, Challenges of Command invites readers to think—and rethink—about the generalship of Grant, Lee, and senior commanders of the Civil War. This book is an essential part of every Civil War library. Dr. Richard J. Sommers has contributed extensively to Civil War and military history. In addition to his latest books Challenges of Command, and Richmond Redeemed, he has authored more than 100 books, chapters, articles, entries, and reviews on a wide variety of Civil War topics. The SB updated, expanded 150th anniversary edition of Richmond Redeemed earned the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award as the best reprint on U.S. Army history for 2014. The original edition was awarded the Bell Wiley Prize for the best Civil War book published in 1981-82. Dr. Sommers himself is also the recipient of a host of awards, including the Harrisburg Civil War Round Table General John F. Hartranft Award “for meritorious service,” the Houston Civil War Round Table Frank E. Vandiver Award “for merit,” and the Army Heritage Center Foundation General John Armstrong Award “for significant contributions.”.

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Savas Beatie German Ground Forces of World War II Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waﬀen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945

Temporary Cover Emerging Civil War Series

Emerging Civil War Series

Grant’s Left Hook

The Carnage was Fearful

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5-June 7, 1864

The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862

Sean Michael Chick

Michael E. Block

$14.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / 150 images, 15 maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-438-3 / CR

$14.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / 150 images, 9 maps / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-440-6 / CR

$45.00 / 624 pages / 7 x 10 / 6 b/w photos throughout and 1 map / August 2017 / hardback / 978-1-61121-109-2 / CR

In the hot weeks of May 1864, Butler and Beauregard fought a series of skirmishes and battles to decide the fate of Richmond and Lee’s army.

German Ground Forces of World War II offers the first comprehensive order of battle for German ground troops throughout the Second World War, from the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the destruction of the last remnants of Germany’s Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in Berlin in 1945. Unlike similar works, these orders of battle are dynamic, and so account for the continuously changing character of Germany’s ground forces at war.

Historian Sean Michael Chick analyzes and explains the plans, events, and repercussions of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Grant’s Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5-June 7, 1864. The book contains hundreds of photographs, new maps, and a fresh consideration of Grant’s Virginia strategy and the generalship of Butler and Beauregard. The book is also filled with anecdotes and impressions from the rank and file who wore blue and gray.

In early August 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson took to the field with his Army of the Valley for one last fight—one that would also turn out to be his last independent command.

German Ground Forces of World War II Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945 William T. McCroden and Thomas E. Nutter

This book presents a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. For the first time, readers can follow the career of every German division, corps, army, and army group as the German armed forces shifted units to and from theaters of war, from the period of triumphant successes to the years of grinding defensive warfare and eventual defeat.

Sean Michael Chick is a New Orleans native and tour guide who gives one of the only guided tours of the French Quarter concentrating on the American Civil War and slavery. He also volunteers at the Historic New Orleans Collection, writes for NOLA Defender (http://www.noladefender. com/), and contributes to Emerging Civil War (www.emergingcivilwar.com). His first book was The Battle of Petersburg.

Near the base of Cedar Mountain outnumbered Federal Infantry under Maj. Gen. Nathanial Banks attacked Jackson’s army as it marched toward Culpeper Court House. A violent three-hour battle erupted, yielding more than 3,600 casualties. The unexpected Federal aggressiveness nearly won the day. Jackson, attempting to rally his men, drew his sword—only to find it so rusted that it would not come unsheathed.

A life-long student of the Civil War, Michael Block moved to Fauquier County, Virginia, in 2004 and developed a deep appreciation of the war’s impact on Culpeper County. As a public historian, he gives battlefield tours and lectures, focusing on the stirring wartime events in Culpeper, including at Cedar Mountain.

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Savas Beatie Holding the Line on the River of Death Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 Eric J. Wittenberg $29.95 / 264 pages / 6 x 9 / 65 images, 15 maps / September 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-430-7 / CR

This volume focuses on the two important delaying actions conducted by mounted Union soldiers at Reed’s and Alexander’s bridges on the first day of Chickamauga. A cavalry brigade under Col. Robert H. G. Minty and Col. John T. Wilder’s legendary “Lightning Brigade” of mounted infantry made stout stands at a pair of chokepoints crossing Chickamauga Creek. Wittenberg brings his expertise with Civil War cavalry operations to bear with vivid and insightful descriptions of the fighting and places the actions in their full and proper historic context. This thoroughly researched and well-written book includes three appendices—two orders of battle and a discussion of the historic context of some of the tactics employed by the Union mounted force on September 18—and an epilogue on how the War Department and National Park Service have remembered these events. It also includes a detailed walking and driving tour complete with the GPS coordinates, a trademark of Wittenberg’s recent works. Complete with more than 60 photos and 15 maps by master cartographer Mark Anderson Moore, Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 will be a welcome addition to the burgeoning Chickamauga historiography. Eric J. Wittenberg is an accomplished American Civil War cavalry historian and author. An attorney in Ohio, Wittenberg has authored over 21 books on various Civil War subjects, with particular focus on cavalry operations, as well as three dozen articles in popular magazines such as North & South, Blue&Gray, America’s Civil War, and Gettysburg Magazine.

Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864 David A. Powell $29.95 / 264 pages / 6 x 9 / 30 images, 8 maps / October 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-434-5 / CR

The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance. The ramifications of the May 1864 engagement, which involved only 10,000 troops, were substantial. David Powell’s, Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah: Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864, provides the balance that has so long been needed. Award-winning author David Powell’s years of archival and other research provides an outstanding foundation for this outstanding study. Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah delves into all the issues, analyzing the campaign from an operational standpoint. Complete with original maps, photos, and the skillful writing readers have come to expect from the pen of David Powell, this book will satisfy the most demanding students of Civil War history. David A. Powell has published numerous articles in various magazines, and more than fifteen historical simulations of different battles. For the past decade, David’s focus has been on the epic battle of Chickamauga, and he is nationally recognized for his tours of that important battlefield. The result of that study are five books, The Maps of Chickamauga (2009), Failure in the Saddle (2010), and the three volumes of a Chickamauga trilogy: The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle (2014), The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave (2015), and the final volume, The Chickamauga Campaign: Barren Victory (2016).

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Savas Beatie Foxtrot in Kandahar

The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War

A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War

A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865

Duane Evans

John Horn

$17.95 / 192 pages / 6 x 9 / 4 maps, 8-page photo insert / November 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-446-8 / CR

$39.95 / 452 pages / 6 x 9 / 70 images, 32 maps / December 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-436-9 / CR

The 12th Virginia has an amazing history. The remarkable k bl story t isi told here. Horn’s definitive history is grounded in decades of archival research that uncovered scores of previously unused accounts. The result is a lively, driving, up-tempo regimental history that not only describes the unit’s marches and battles, but includes personal glimpses into the lives of the Virginians who made up the 12th regiment. With thirty-two original maps, numerous photos, diagrams, tables, and appendices, a glossary, and many explanatory footnotes, this book will long be hailed as one of the finest regimental histories ever penned. John Horn has published articles in Civil War Times Illustrated and America’s Civil War. His books include The Destruction of the Weldon Railroad and The Petersburg Campaign. John co-edited Civil War Talks: The Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans.

Kandahar. The ancient desert crossroads and, as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qa’ida in southern Afghanistan. In the northern part of the country, the US-supported Northern Alliance (the Afghan organization opposed to the Taliban regime) has made progress on the battlefield, but in the south, the country is still under the Taliban’s bloody hold and alQa’ida continues to operate there. With no “Southern Alliance” for the US to support, a new strategy is needed if victory is to be achieved. Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans is dispatched to Pakistan to “get something going in the South.” Foxtrot in Kandahar is his story. This is the true story of Evans’s unexpected journey from the pristine halls of Langley to the badlands of southern Afghanistan. Duane Evans is a former CIA officer with field tours on four continents to include serving as Chief of Station, CIA’s most senior field position. He is the recipient of the Intelligence Star for valor and the Career Intelligence Medal.

TThe he 77th th GGeorgia eorgiia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1861-65

TThe he 88th th GGeorgia eorgiia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1861-65

TThe he 99th th GGeorgia eorgiia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1861-65

TThe he 111th 1th GGeorgia eorgii Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1861-65

A Biographical Roster

Richard Michael Allen

$39.95 / 336 pages / 7 x 10 / 1 image / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-424-6 / CR

$39.95 / 312 pages / 7 x 10 / 1 image / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-425-3 / CR

$39.95 / 288 pages / 7 x 10 / 1 image / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-426-0 / CR

$39.95 / 336 pages / 7 x 10 / 1 image / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-427-7 / CR

The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th Georgia volunteer infantry regiments spent most of the Civil War fighting under Brig. Gen. George Thomas “Tige” Anderson in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Compiler and author Richard Allen has spent nearly two decades researching scores of archives and other sources to prepare the biological rosters of their members. A 1990 graduate of the Maryland Institute of Art, Rick Allen is a lifelong student of the American Civil War. A Maryland native, he was fortunate to spend a large part of his youth roaming the battlefields of the eastern theatre and has remained a student of that conflict ever since. For the last fifteen years he has been involved in researching the history and composition of the men who composed the four Georgia infantry regiments featured in these rosters.

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Savas Beatie Meade and Lee After Gettysburg The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14–31, 1863 Jeffrey Wm Hunt $18.95 / 312 pages / 6 x 9 / 35 images, 16 maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-445-1 / CR

Jeffrey Hunt’s book exposes for Civil War readers what has been hiding in plain sight for 150 years: The Gettysburg Campaign did not end at the banks of the Potomac on July 14, but deep in central Virginia two weeks later along the line of the Rappahannock. Thanks to Hunt these important two weeks—until now overshadowed by the battle of Gettysburg and almost completely ignored by writers of Civil War history—have finally gotten the attention they have long deserved. Readers will never view the Gettysburg Campaign the same way. Jeffrey William Hunt is Director of the Texas Military Forces Museum, the official museum of the Texas National Guard in Austin, TX, and an adjunct professor of History at Austin Community College. He is the author of The Last Battle of the Civil War: Palmetto Ranch.

“The Devil’s to Pay” John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour Eric J. Wittenberg $18.95 / 288 pages / 6 x 9 / 79 images, 17 maps / July 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-444-4 / CR

WINNER of the 2014 GETTYSBURG CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE BOOK AWARD Although many books on Gettysburg have addressed the role played by Brig. Gen. John Buford and his First Cavalry Division troops, there is not a single book-length study devoted entirely to the critical delaying actions waged by Buford and his dismounted troopers and his horse artillerists on the morning of July 1, 1863. Award-winning Civil War historian Eric J. Wittenberg rectifies this glaring oversight with “The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour. This comprehensive tactical study examines the role Buford and his horse soldiers played from June 29 through July 2, 1863. Eric J. Wittenberg is an accomplished American Civil War cavalry historian and author. An attorney in Ohio, Wittenberg has authored over 21 books on various Civil War subjects, with particular focus on cavalry operations, as well as three dozen articles in popular magazines such as North & South, Blue & Gray, America’s Civil War, and Gettysburg Magazine.

A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution

A Civil War Captain and His Lady

Craig L. Symonds

Love, Courtship, and Combat From Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign

$19.95 / 118 pages / 7 x 10 / 20 images, 55 maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-442-0 / CR

Back in print! A visual and narrative overview of the principal military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Symonds narrates each battle in a clear, concise, and readable way. Accompanying two-color, full-page maps make everything easy to understand, and make this book an ideal classroom text, battlefield tour guide, or library reference.

Craig L. Symonds is Professor Emeritus at the US Naval Academy where he taught naval history and Civil War History for thirty years. He earned his B.A. at UCLA and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the Univ. of Florida. He is the author of many award-winning books, including The Battle of Midway and Lincoln and His Admirals.

Gene Barr $22.95 / 360 pages / 6 x 9 / 36 images, 10 maps / August 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-443-7 / CR

More than 150 years ago, 27-year-old Irish immigrant i t JJosiah i hM Moore met 19-year-old Jennie Lindsay. The Civil War had just begun, Josiah was the captain of the 17th Illinois Infantry, and his war would be a long and bloody one. Their courtship and romance, which came to light in a rare and unpublished series of letters, forms the basis of Gene Barr’s memorable book. Josiah’s letters offer a glimpse into army life, how he dealt with the loss of many close to him, and the effects of war on a man’s physical, spiritual, and moral well-being. Jennie’s letters show a young woman dealing with the difficulties on the home front while her brother and her love struggle through war. Gene Barr has spent more than forty years in the political and government affairs world, including more than twelve years with a Fortune 100 energy company. Barr is a board member and former chair of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and spent many years engaged in Civil War living history events.

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Savas Beatie • RN Publishing • Seaforth Publishing General Lee’s Immortals

The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865

The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Michael C. Hardy

John R. Scales

288 pages / 6 x 9 / 35 illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-61121-448-2 / CR

In this deeply researched work we witness the experiences of North Carolina’s BranchLane Brigade in nearly every major battle fought in the east, including that infamous day at Chancellorsville when its members mistakenly shot Stonewall Jackson. Two months later they were in Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, and thereafter throughout the titanic battles of 1864. In the meantime we learn of the camp-life and the hard winters of Lee’s army. Yet when Lee finally surrendered at Appomattox, it was the Branch-Lane Brigade still with him, no longer victors but yet unbowed. Michael Hardy’s General Lee’s Immortals is the first comprehensive history of the BranchLane Brigade. His study is based on many years of study and grounded on a vast foundation of sources that relate every aspect of the career of this remarkable fighting command. Michael C. Hardy is a widely recognized expert and author on the Civil War. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama and was named North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2010. His work has appeared in national magazines, and he blogs regularly at Looking for North Carolina’s Civil War.

$22.95 / 480 pages / 6 x 9 / 4 images and 109 maps / September 2018 / paperback / 978-1-61121-447-5 / CR

The Tennessean was one of the most intriguing and controversial characters to emerge during the Civil War. Retired Special Forces brigadier general John R. Scales plows entirely new ground with this work, a careful and unique examination of Forrest’s wartime activities and how his actions affected the war in the Western Theater.Each chapter covers specific raids or campaigns, all arranged chronologically. After describing the environment within which Forrest operated, which helps readers understand the larger situation within which his movements were made and his battles were fought. John R. Scales is a retired Special Forces brigadier general with more than three decades of service, including combat tours in Vietnam and Afghanistan. He also has a Ph.D. in engineering and worked in that field after retiring from the military. In addition to receiving five patents for inventions, General Scales has written two previous books: Sherman Invades Georgia (Naval Institute Press, 2006) and A Reluctant Hero’s Footsteps (Westbow Press, 2012).

Coccarde Tricolori Speciale

Henry Harwood

F-16A/B ADF

Hero of the River Plate

Riccardo Niccoli

Capt. Peter Hore

$29.00 / 96 pages / 8.26 x 11.69 / color photos throughout / Currently Available / paperback / 978-8-89501-112-7 / NCR

288 pages / 6 x 9 / 35 illustrations / August 2018 / hardback / 978-1-52672-529-5 / CR

This latest title of the “Coccarde Tricolori Speciale” series is dedicated to a modern fighter, which flew in the Italian colors for only nine years, but with a remarkable service record. The book, which collects unpublished photos and information, is divided into several chapters, dedicated to the detailed description of the program, to the operational service in Italy, to a large photo album (including air-to-airs, all the color schemes, marking variations, special colors, phases of the operational activity, war photos, all pictured with dramatic shots) a modeling section, with information and various color profiles, plus a four view, and photographic details of the real aircraft. In the appendix, the list of all the Italian F-16s. A must for all the enthusiasts of the fabulous Fighting Falcon, and of the history of the Italian Air Force!

Henry Harwood is best known for his destruction of the Admiral Graf Spee at the battle of the River Plate in December 1939 about which Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, said: ‘This brilliant sea fight takes its place in our naval annals and in a long, cold, dark winter it warmed the cockles of the British hearts’. Despite that great victory Harwood remains, until now, one of three great British naval commanders of the Second World War who is without a biography. Admiral Sir Henry Harwood’s wider naval career was remarkable and epitomized the Royal Navy in the first half of the twentieth century. The author has been given exclusive and unique access to the Harwood family archives and, in the light of these previously unpublished papers, has set about rehabilitating the character, career and achievements of this great British admiral. For all historians and enthusiasts of the Royal Navy in the Second World War, this will be essential reading. Captain Peter Hore served in the Royal Navy from 1962 to 2000. From 1997 to 2000 he was Head of Defence Studies during the Government’s Strategic Defence Review.

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