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FALL 2020

Casemate Fall 2020 New Books Catalog Welcome!

Table of Contents

Here we are in one of the most tumultuous and difficult years in the lifetimes of many of us. It must be the optimist in me that believes better days will be here again in the not too distant future. It’s also my inclination for positive outlook because the books we publish and represent tell us so. 2020 also marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II with VE Day in May and VJ Day in August. This is not my attempt to compare the current year to the war years but rather to note that we pushed through those impossible times with grit, determination, steadfast will, and abiding hope. Over the past year, Casemate has had the honor of publishing or distributing books of at least three distinguished heroes who recently turned 100 years old! Having lived a century they know a thing or two about grit and determination.

Casemate Publishers

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Casemate Academic

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AFV Modellers

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Air World

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Banovallum

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We’re all very excited about the books in this catalog­—some new and some tried and true. On the new side we welcome Arden and Aviation Collectables as publishing clients. You’ll also see we have added a group of scholarly military-related books under our Casemate Academic imprint and Casemate is launching a spy thriller series with former special forces and CIA agent turned author James Stejskal with A Question of Time.

Fighting High Publishing

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Fonthill Media

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Frontline Books

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Gallantry

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Gettysburg Publishing

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Pen & Sword Books and its imprints always manage to amaze us with the variety of books they bring to our readers. We are fascinated with The Secret US Plan to Overthrow the British Empire which sounds like fiction but War Plan Red really does exist and is should get a lot of media attention. Grub Street’s fifth volume in their highly regarded A History of the Mediterranean Air War is sure to be a hit. Greenhill’s Operation Colossus on the first British airborne raid of World War II tells an intriguing story that feels more Hollywood than history.

Savas Beatie brings us another first in a US Civil War biography on Colonel Elmer Ellsworth titled First Fallen. Helion’s Middle East@War series continues to add to our understanding of that region of the world.

Greenhill Books

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Grub Street Publishing**

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Harpia Publishing

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As I turn the pages of this catalog, I’m excited about these books and so many others. We are all looking to adapt to what the new normal will be but yet the future seems bright.

Arden 17 Aviation Colllectibles

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Avonmore Books 20

Heimdal 38 Helion and Company

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HMH Publications

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Kagero 51 MMP Books

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Karwansaray Publishers

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Model Centrum Progres

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PeKo Publishing

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The O’Brien Press

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RN Publishing

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Seaforth Publishing

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Silver Link

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Pen and Sword Aviation

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Pen and Sword History

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Pen and Sword Maritime

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Pen and Sword Military

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Pen and Sword Transport

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Savas Beatie

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Tempest 107

Our front cover is taken from Sharks of the Air: The Story of Willy Messerschmitt and the Development of History’s First Operational Jet Fighter, which is featured on page 10.

Ysec Editions

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Publishers marked above with ** are not available from Casemate Publishers in Canada

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Portugal’s Bush War in Mozambique

Between Five Eyes Fifty Years Inside the Five Eyes Intelligence Community

Al J. Venter

Anthony R. Wells

$34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9 inches • 50 photos • December 2020 HIS001020 • 978-1-61200-9360

Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique—one of the most beautiful countries in the world—for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take on the might of the Soviet Union and its collaborators—every single communist country on the planet and almost all of sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, Al Venter argues, Portugal did not actually lose the war, and indeed fought in difficult terrain with a good degree of success over an extended period. It was radical domestic politics that heralded the end.

Mozambique is once again embroiled in a guerrilla war, this time against a large force of Islamic militants, many from Somalia and some Arab countries, and unequivocally backed by Islamic State and the lessons of Mozambique’s bush war are still relevant today.

UK/US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing: Relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells traces the development of institutions that he firmly believes have sustained, and indeed may have saved, Western democracies and their allies from those ill disposed to the value system and culture of our nations. More than a chronology of the UK/US intelligence community during this fifty-year period, it is also a personal insight into key relationships and the abiding strength of the United States and the United Kingdom and its Five Eyes allies relationships. The author is the only living person to have worked for British Intelligence as a British citizen and US Intelligence as a US citizen. As a fully trained and accredited security officer for two US intelligence organizations, the author has relied on his own extensive unclassified collection of papers, personal notes and diaries, as well as his family library for source material to create this book.

Narvik

Three War Marine Hero

Alex Buchner Janice Ancker

General Raymond G. Davis

Die Wehrmacht in Kampf Series $32.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9 inches • November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-61200-9179

Colonel Richard Camp USMC (Ret) $34.95 • Hardback • 264 pages 6 x 9 inches • 40 photos • November 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-61200-9391 Richard Camp lives in Fredericksburg, VA

A native of Georgia, Raymond Davis joined the Marine Corps after university and would go on to serve in three wars and be decorated for gallantry several times including the Medal of Honor for his actions at Chosin where his leadership saved countless American lives. He retired as a four-star general after 33 years in the corps.

Dick Camp, Marine veteran and historian, weaves memoirs, first-hand accounts, and his own personal memories of General Davis in this first biography of this archetypal “Old Breed” Marine.

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$34.95 • Hardback • 264 pages • 6 x 9 inches • 16 illustrations • October 2020 POL011000 • 978-1-61200-9001 Anthony R Wells lives in Middleburg, VA

Published for the first time in English, this is a German account of the German invasion of Norway in the spring of 1940. It focuses on the efforts of Group “1” led by Eduard Dietl. This group of Gebirgstruppen was landed at Narvik in early April by ten destroyers.

These ships were then all sunk by the Allies. Dietl’s troops were outnumbered

by Allied troops but his defense utilized ammunition, food and sailors from the sunken ships and his men retook Narvik once the Allies abandoned their efforts to push the Germans out of Norway.

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A Question of Time James Stejskal

America’s Good Terrorist

Snake Eater Chronicles Series $24.95 • Hardback • 304 pages • 6 x 9 inches October 2020 • FIC006000 • 978-1-612009032 • James Stejskal lives in Alexandria, VA

John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid

Berlin, 1979.

When the CIA’s most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos and a cascade of failures throughout the Agency’s worldwide operations.

Master Sergeant Kim Becker lived through the hell of Vietnam as a member of the elite Studies and Operations Group. When he lost one of his best men in a pointless operation, he began to question his mission. Now, he is serving with an even more secretive Army Special Forces unit based in Berlin on the front line of the Cold War. The CIA turns to Becker’s team of unconventional warfare specialists to pull their bacon out of the fire. Becker and his men must devise a plan to get him out by whatever means possible. It’s a race against time to prepare and execute the plan while, alone in East Berlin, the agent must avoid his nemesis and play for time inside the hostile secret service headquarters he has betrayed.

One question remains—is the man worth the risk?

$34.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6 x 9 inches 40 photos, 5 maps • September 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-61200-9254 Charles P Poland jr lives in Lovettsville, VA

Charles P. Poland jr

John Brown is a common name, but the John Brown who masterminded the failed raid at Harpers Ferry was anything but common.

His failed efforts have left an imprint upon our history, and his story still swirls in controversy.

Was he a madman who felt his violent solution to slavery was ordained by Providence or a heroic freedom fighter who tried to liberate the downtrodden slave? These bipolar characterizations of the violent abolitionist have captivated Americans.

The prevailing view from the time of the raid to well into the twentieth century—that his actions were the product of an unbalanced mind—has shifted to the idea that he committed courageous acts to undo a terrible injustice.

This new biography covers Brown’s background and the context to his decision to carry out the raid, a detailed narrative of the raid and its consequences for both those involved and America; and an exploration of the changing characterization of Brown since his death.

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Custer From the Civil War’s Boy General to the Battle of the Little Bighorn Ted Behncke Gary Bloomfield $34.95 • Hardback • 336 pages • 6 x 9 inches • b/w illustrations • September 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-61200-8899 Ted Behncke lives in Jefferson, WI Gary Bloomfield lives in Belton, MO

The reader is introduced to a little-known side of Custer—a deeply personal side. George Custer grew up in an expanding young country and his early influences mirrored the times. Two aspects of this era dominate most works about him: the Civil War, and the war with the Indians, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. When mentioned, if at all, his early life and years as a cadet at West Point are brief, and then only enough to set some background for discussion of the mystery of the Little Bighorn.

This is the first Custer biography to focus on these lesser-known parts of his life in great detail.

The approach uses all of Custer’s known writings: letters; magazine articles; his book, My Life on the Plains; and his unfinished memoirs of the Civil War; along with materials and books by his wife, Elizabeth Custer; and reflections of others who knew him well.

The five chapters are Early Life (growing up and as a West Point cadet), The Civil War, The Indian Fighter, The Little Bighorn, and Conclusion. The theme of the book is not so much new historical information but the depth of his character development and lesser-known influences of his life. Custer draws together these elements in a succinct and accessible read.

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Romans at War

Atomic Salvation

An In-Depth Study of the Roman Military in the Republic and Empire

How the A-Bomb Saved the Lives of 32 Million People

Simon Elliott $39.95 • Hardback • 368 pages • 8 x 10 inches • Over 250 color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations • November 2020 HIS002020 • 978-1-61200-8851

The Roman military machine was preeminent in the ancient world, projecting power across the known world over a vast chronology, and an increasingly huge and diverse geography. One of the most powerful instruments of war in the history of conflict, it proved uniquely adept at learning from setbacks, always coming back the stronger for it. In so doing it displayed two of the most important traits associated with the world of Rome.

In this grand tour, covering every aspect of the Roman military, leading expert Dr Simon Elliott first provides a detailed background to the Roman Republic and Empire to provide context for all that follows. He then looks specifically at the Roman military in its three key chronological phases: the Republic, the Principate Empire, and the Dominate Empire. Next he forensically examines specific instances of the Roman military on campaign and in battle, and of its engineering prowess. Finally, he investigates the many enemies faced by the Roman Republic and Empire.

This all provides a firm structure to enable the reader to come to grips with this incredible military machine, one whose exploits still resonate in the world to this very day.

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Dr. Tom Lewis OAM $34.95 • Hardback • 364 pages • 6 x 9 inches July 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-9445

It has always been a difficult concept to stomach—that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, causing such horrific suffering and destruction, brought about peace.

Atomic Salvation investigates the full situation of the times to a previously unplumbed depth.

It examines documents from both Japanese and Allied sources, but it uses in-depth analysis to extend beyond the mere recounting of statistics.

It charts the full extent of the possible casualties on both sides had a conventional assault akin to D-Day gone ahead against Japan. The work is not concerned solely with the military necessity to use the bombs, it also investigates why that necessity has been increasingly challenged over the successive decades.

Controversially, the book demonstrates that the Japanese nation would have suffered far greater casualties—likely around 28 million—if the nation had been attacked in the manner by which Germany was defeated: by amphibious assault, artillery and air attacks preceding infantry insertion, and finally by subduing the last of the defenders of the enemy capital.forces would undoubtedly have suffered through conventional assault.

After the Wall Came Down The British Army and its Soldiers after the Cold War Andrew Richards $34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9 inches December 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-612008301 • Andrew Richards lives in Canton, NY

The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented period of history. Unlike the two world war generations, they would never face total war—there was never any declaration of war and there was no one single country to defeat. In fact, it was supposed to have been the end of war, a time of peace and stability. Politicians started to use the term, Peace Dividend, with government officials even planning on how and where it should be spent.

But for those in the military, the two decades following the end of the Cold War would not be a time of peace. Government spending and the size of the military was reduced but the Army’s commitments increased exponentially.

The ending of the Cold War, combined with a technological revolution, a changing society at home, and new global threats mean that the Army of the second decade of the twentieth-first century – the army this generation of soldiers is now retiring from—is unrecognizable from the one they joined in the late 1980s.

This is the story of the soldiers who served in the British Army in those tumultuous decades.

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The Baker Bandits Korea’s Band of Brothers

Risk Taker, Spy Maker

Cynthia Shelton

Tales of a CIA Case Officer

$34.95 • Hardback • 288 pages 6 x 9 inches • Over 100 black-and-white photographs • July 2020 • HIS027020 978-1-61200-8981 Cynthia Shelton lives in Jemez, NM

Barry Michael Broman

Emmett Shelton was a 19-year-old Marine Reservist in 1950. He was called to duty and, within six months, he was a rifleman in Korea. The Korean winter of 1950 was brutal and Emmett was evacuated shortly after Chosin due to frostbite.

Emmett tracked down B Company members one-by-one and started a newsletter, The Guidon, to share stories and reconnect. For 20 years Emmett published The Guidon, monthly. The contributing readership grew to a high of 300, including a number of young B Company Marines fighting in Afghanistan.

The Baker Bandits brings together firsthand accounts from The Guidon, written by the men of B-1-5 about their time in Korea: their battles, their fallen commanders, death in the foxhole, lost platoons, injuries, and what happened to them after the war.

In the Shadow of the Swords The Baghdad Police Academy Del Wilber $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages 6 x 9 inches • 15 photos • October 2020 • HIS027170 • 978-1-61200-9216 Del Wilber lives in Mt Auburn, IL

Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. government embarked upon a reconstruction effort which included rebuilding an Iraqi National Police. Retired and former American Police Officers were contracted to travel to Iraq to train this new police force.

Dependent on their experience and ingenuity to make life bearable under very austere conditions, and relying on the ‘gallows sense of humor’ they had acquired during their time in law enforcement back in the States, the instructors persevered in their task, often under trying and difficult circumstances, as well as hostile fire from insurgents determined to prevent the Iraqi police from regaining control of the streets of Baghdad.

D. W. Wilber recounts his experiences as part of this effort, and the unique personalities who came to Baghdad to serve as instructors to the Iraqi Police Cadets attending the Baghdad Police Academy.

$34.95 • Hardback • 312 pages 6 x 9 inches • 50 color and blackand-white photographs • July 2020 POL036000 • 978-1-61200-8967 Barry Michael Broman lives in Kirkland, WA

Barry Broman has led a remarkable life as a Central Intelligence Agency case officer. Immediately following service in the Marine Corps, he was recruited by the CIA and spent his first posting in Cambodia at war. He was present at the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the Khmer Rouge took power and he subsequently served in other Asian postings, as well as one in Europe and one in the Western Hemisphere.

During his career Broman was twice a CIA chief of station, once a Deputy Chief of Station, and supervised an international paramilitary project in support of the Cambodian resistance to Vietnamese invaders.

The book features many photos by the author, including Marines in action in Vietnam, the ravages of war in Cambodia at war, and opium buyers forcing growers to sell in Burma.

Widowmaker Living and Dying with the Corsair Tim Hillier-Graves $34.95 • Hardback • 214 pages 6 x 9 inches • 50 photographs October 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-61200-9124

The Vought-Sikorsky Corsair was one of the most potent fighters of the Second World War. It was also one of the most flawed. The US Navy condemned it as being too dangerous for carrier operations and refused to certify it safe for use at sea.

With the British Aero Industry unable to build fighters with sufficient range and potency for carrier use, the Admiralty sought alternatives. With the Roosevelt’s Lend Lease program in place, they could acquire weapons from American factories. In practice, this meant standing in line behind the US Navy, Marines, and Army for service, but it still opened up new opportunities to be exploited. So, with newly built Corsairs being stockpiled and the promise of an improved version on the way, the British Royal Navy saw a opening worthy of development and exploited it. By the end of the war, the Fleet Air Arm had acquired more than 2,000 Corsairs to equip its squadrons.

But the risks identified by the USN were largely ignored by the Royal Navy and far too many men and aircraft were lost in accidents as a result.

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Arden Illustrated Series Casemate • Casemate German Tank Destroyers

British Fighter Aircraft in WWI

Pierre Tiquet

Design, Construction and Innovation

Casemate Illustrated Special $37.95 • Hardback • 192 pages 8 x 10 inches • 250 color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations • March 2021 HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-9063

This is a fully illustrated account of the various tank destroyers used by the Wehrmacht during World War II, from the first anti-tank artillery used in 1939, through to the Ferdinand/Elefant.

Air War on the Eastern Front Mike Guardia

Mark C. Wilkins Casemate Illustrated Special $37.95 • Hardback • 192 pages 8 x 10 inches • 250 photos, profiles, and diagrams November 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-61200-8813 • Mark C Wilkins lives in Prince Frederick, MD

This book focuses on the British approach to fighter design, construction, and mass production.

Initially the French led the way in Allied fighter development with their Bleriot trainers then nimble Nieuport Scouts—culminating with the powerful, fast gun platforms as exemplified by the Spads. The British developed fighters in a very different way; Tommy Sopwith had a distinctive approach to fighter design that relied on lightly loaded wings and simple functional box-girder fuselages. His Camel was revolutionary as it combined all the weight well forward; enabling the Camel to turn very quickly—but also making it an unforgiving fighter for the inexperienced. The British Aircraft Company’s SE5a represented another leap forward with its comfortable cockpit, modern instrumentation, and inline engine—clearly influenced by both Spads and German aircraft.

Bagration The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center 1944

German Mountain Troops 1939–42 Yves Beraud

Ian Baxter $24.95 • Paperback 128 pages • 7 x 10 inches • 150 photographs and illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-612009087 • Mike Guardia lives in Maple Grove, MN

In the skies over Russia, the battle-hardened airmen of the Luftwaffe made short work of the Red Air Force during opening days of Barbarossa.

To make matters worse, Stalin had executed many of his best pilots during the perennial “purges” of the 1930s.

Thus, much of the Red Air Force was destroyed on the ground before meeting the Luftwaffe in the skies. By 1944, however, the Soviet airmen had regained the initiative and fervently wrested air superiority from the now-ailing Axis Powers.

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$24.95 • Paperback 128 pages • 7 x 10 inches 160 illustrations, 3 maps • December 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-9230

Bagration was the code word that the Soviet Army gave for their summer offensive in 1944.

This massive offensive led to the destruction of the German Army Group Center and was the greatest military defeat ever experienced by the German Army during World War Two. This book provides an absorbing insight into the German defeat and the Russian offensive using a wide variety of rare and previously unpublished photographs.

$24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 7 x 10 inches 150 photographs and illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-9100e

Fifteen elite mountain divisions and a multitude of small units fought for the Wehrmacht during World War II. They fought on all fronts, operating in hostile environments ranging from the far north to Libya, the Atlantic to the Caucasus— serving in all the “hot spots.” This book, the culmination of some four decades of research and the support of many veterans and collectors, describes the life, operations and equipment of these specialist units.

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Casemate Arena Sport

The Final Archives of the Führerbunker

Finding Your Father’s War

Pearl

Berlin in 1945, the Chancellery and the Last Days of Hitler

A Practical Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War II U.S. Army

Daniel Allen Butler

Paul Vallatoux Exavier Aiolfi $37.95 • Hardback • 144 pages • 8 x 10 inches • 150 photographs • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-9049

In November 1945, two French officers secretly entered the Führerbunker, the air raid shelter near the Chancellery in Berlin. The bunker was the last home of Adolf Hitler; the background of the last months of his life and the war; where he married Eva Braun on April 29, 1945; and where he killed himself less than two days later.

In the middle of a heap of furniture and broken objects, the two officers found hundreds of documents littering the ground. Among the documents that they retrieved were a dozen telegrams of historic importance that allow us to understand the spirit of the last leaders of the Third Reich as well as the events that took place between April 23 and 26, 1945. These and other documents are presented for the first time in this book, shown in their proper context with an expert commentary.

Jonathan Gawne $24.95 • Paperback • 352 pages • 7 x 10 inches Illustrated throughout • September 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-8950 Jonathan Gawne lives in Framingham, MA

In this fully revised edition of Finding Your Father’s War, military historian Jonathan Gawne has written an easily accessible handbook for anyone seeking greater knowledge of their relatives’ experience in World War II, or indeed anyone seeking a better understanding of the U.S. Army during World War II. With over 470 photographs, charts, and an engaging narrative with many rare insights into wartime service, this book is an invaluable tool for understanding our “citizen soldiers,” who once rose as a generation to fight the greatest war in American history.

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December 7, 1941 $34.95 • Hardback • 396 pages • 6 x 9 inches 40 photographs • October 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-61200-9384 Daniel Allen Butler lives in Los Angeles, CA

What happened at Pearl Harbor?

What really happened?

Pearl: December 7, 1941 is the story of how America and Japan, two nations with seemingly little over which to quarrel, let peace slip away, so that on that “day which will live in infamy,” more than 350 dive bombers, high-level bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy did their best to cripple the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet, killing 2,403 American servicemen and civilians, and wounding another 1,178.

Pearl offers more than superficial answers, showing how both sides blundered their way through arrogance, overconfidence, racism, bigotry, and old-fashioned human error to arrive at the moment when the Japanese were convinced that there was no alternative to war.

Once the battle is joined, Pearl then takes the reader into the heart of the attack, where the fighting men of both nations showed that neither side had a monopoly on heroism, courage, cowardice, or luck, as they fought to protect their nations.

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Casemate Arena Sport A Shau Valor

Fabled Fifteen

American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963–1971

The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Col. Thomas R. Yarborough

$24.95 • Paperback • 280 pages 6 x 9 inches • 16pp photos • October 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-9292 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver lives in Reseda, CA

$22.95 • Paperback • 312 pages • 6 x 9 inches • b/w photographs and maps July 2020 • HIS027070 • 978-1-612008912 • Col. Thomas R Yarborough lives in Springfield, VA

Winner of the Military Writers Society of America’s 2017 Gold Medal for History Finalist, 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award.

Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and U.S. armies repeatedly fought head-to-head. A Shau Valor is a thoroughly documented study of nine years of American combat operations encompassing the crucial frontier valley and a 15-mile radius around it—the most deadly killing ground of the entire Vietnam War.

The fighter squadron’s partners, Bombing Squadron 15 and Torpedo Squadron 15, scored 174,300 tons of enemy shipping, including 37 cargo vessels sunk, 10 probably sunk, and 39 damaged. As well, Musashi, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk, along with a light aircraft carrier, a destroyer, destroyer escort, two minesweepers and other craft—plus the Zuikaku, the last surviving carrier that participated in the Pearl Harbor attack. Incredibly, every pilot of Torpedo 15 was awarded the Navy Cross, the highest award for bravery after the Medal of Honor.

On Her Majesty’s Nuclear Service

A Warrior Dynasty The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower, 1611–1721

Eric Thompson $22.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 6 x 9 inches • 32 b/w and colour photographs • November 2020 POL005000 • 978-1-61200-8943

Henrik O. Lunde $24.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 6 x 9 inches • 8pp illustrations November 2020 • HIS037040 • 9781-61200-9315 • Henrik Lunde lives in Chambersburg, PA

This book examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600’s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia.

A small Scandinavian nation, with at most one and a half million people and scant internal resources of its own, there was small logic to how Sweden could become the dominant power on the Continent. That Sweden achieved this was due to its leadership—a case-study in history when pure military skill, and that alone, could override the demographic and economic factors which have in modern times been termed so preeminent.

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The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, and 65 damaged in aerial combat, plus 348 destroyed, 161 probably destroyed, and 129 damaged in ground attacks.

During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war.

History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told.

Eric Thompson is a career nuclear submarine officer who served from the first days of the Polaris missile boats until after the end of the Cold War. He joined the Navy in the last days of Empire, made his first sorties in World War II type submarines and ended up as the top engineer in charge of the Navy’s nuclear power plants.

Along the way, he helped develop all manner of kit, from guided torpedoes to the Trident ballistic missile system. In this vivid personal account of his submarine operations, he reveals what it was like to literally have your finger on the nuclear button.

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Jayhawk

5-73 CAV and Their Fight for Iraq’s Diyala River Valley

Love, Loss, Liberation, and Terror Over the Pacific

Peter C. Svoboda

Jay A. Stout George L. Cooper

$34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9 inches • 24 photographs • October 2020 • HIS027170 • 978-1-61200-9278 Peter Svoboda lives in Richmond, VA

Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major Edgar. With just more than 400 paratroopers, they were half the size of a full-strength battalion and the smallest unit in the Panther Brigade.

The squadron deployed to eastern Diyala in August, 2006. Despite their size, they were tasked with an enormous mission and were given the largest area of operations within the brigade. Appropriately for a unit known by the call sign of its CO—Headhunter—5-73 would go on to pursue various terrorist factions including Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Armor Attacks The Tank Platoon: an Interactive Exercise in Small-unit Tactics and Leadership Col. John F. Antal (Ret). $29.95 • Paperback • 552 pages • 6 x 9 inches • August 2020 • FIC014000 978-1-61200-9148 • John Antal lives in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

You are the hero of this unique interactive fiction! More specifically, you are the leader of a U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank platoon. Throughout the work, you will have an opportunity to make life-or-death decisions, and the story will develop according to the choices you make. As you progress through the book, you will learn important tactical and operational lessons. Whether you are a tank platoon leader, an expect to be, or an armchair military enthusiast, you will find this book highly entertaining and instructive.

There are two operations for you to conduct, an assault and a counter-reconnaissance mission. In each you must bring your knowledge and judgment to bear on the scenario in order to achieve the objective. If you choose wrong, defeat and even death may be your fate. If you succeed, you savor the taste of victory and live to fight another day. The scenarios are highly realistic, and there are maps and appendices with detailed specifications of the hardware involved to help you make informed decisions.

$34.95 • Hardback • 264 pages • 6 x 9 inches • photographs and maps • July 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-8837 Jay A Stout lives in San Diego, CA

George Cooper is one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just another flag-waving story of air combat, Jayhawk describes the war as it really was—a conflict with far-reaching tentacles that gripped and tore at not only the combatants, but also their families, friends and the way they lived their lives.

Stout examines the story of Cooper’s growing up in gentle and idyllic pre-war Manila and how he grew to be the man he is. At 100 years old, few men are left alive who can share similar experiences. Stout reviews Cooper’s journey to the United States and his unlikely entry into the United States Army Air Forces.

The Complete WWII Diary and History of the Sturmgeschütz Brigade 236 An Assault Gun Regiment Fighting to the End Tino C. Von Struckmann $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages 6 x 9 inches • 30 illustrations • October 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-9193 Tino C Von Struckmann lives in Santa Monica, CA

This book tells the story of this unit from its reorganization and deployment to the Southern Ukraine in August 1944. There it was assigned to VII Armeekorps, and in early September it was shattered at Jassy in the fighting to repel the Soviet Second Ukrainian Front. In October it was re-formed from the survivors of the old brigade plus reinforcements. In early 1945 it was transferred to East Silesia and assigned to 4. Panzerarmee, fighting in Silesia and Moravia.

Researched with the help of the museum for the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 236, this book retells the story of the unit through the translated war diary for the unit, complemented by the personal letters and diaries of the men of the unit, including material from both German and Czech archives.

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Birlinn Casemate A Footsoldier for Patton

Gunship Ace The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary

The Story of a “Red Diamond” Infantryman with the U.S. Third Army

Al J. Venter

Michael Bilder James G. Bilder

$22.95 • Paperback • 368 pages • 6 x 9 inches • 32 b&w illus thruout, plus two 16-page color inserts • November 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-61200-9438

$16.95 • Paperback • 384 pages 5.1 x 7.8 inches • 16 pages illustrations November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-161200-9308 • James G. Bilder lives in Palos Heights, IL

A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II...

A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A Foot Soldier for Patton takes the reader from the beaches of Normandy through the giddy drive across France, to the brutal battles on the Westwall, in the Ardennes, and finally to the conquest of Germany itself.

Patton’s army is best known for dashing armored attacks, its commander combining the firepower of tanks with their historic lineage as cavalry. But when the Germans stood firm the greatest fighting was done by Patton’s long undersung infantry—the foot sloggers who were called upon to reduce enemy strong points, and who took the brunt of German counterattacks.

Sharks of the Air

Special Operations in the American Revolution

The Story of Willy Messerschmitt and the Development of History’s First Operational Jet Fighter

Robert L. Tonsetic

James Neal Harvey

$24.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 6 x 9 inches • August 2020 HIS036030 • 978-1-61200-8936

“What is unique about this book is the perspective. To a modern-day reader, special ops conjure images of highly trained and exotically equipped soldiers leaping out of helicopters and Zodiac boats to wipe out terrorists... In an era when warfare was supposed to be gentlemanly and follow certain rules, did Washington and his contemporaries embrace special operations? The answer would seem to be, ‘Yes.’ Even if they didn’t use the term ‘special ops,’ they were willing to employ elite reconnaissance units, spies and partisan bands. Washington didn’t have SEAL Team 6. But he made good use of what he had.” —The National Interest When the American Revolution began, the colonial troops had little hope of matching His Majesty’s highly trained, experienced British and German legions in confrontational battle. In this book, renowned author, and former U.S. Army Colonel, Robert Tonsetic describes and analyzes numerous examples of special operations conducted during the Revolution.

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A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region from the 1970s on, Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator alive.

Apart from flying Alouette helicopter gunships in Angola, he has fought in the Balkan War (for Islamic forces), tried to resuscitate Mobutu’s ailing air force during his final days ruling the Congo, flew Mi-8s for Executive Outcomes, and thereafter an Mi-8 fondly dubbed ‘Bokkie’ for Colonel Tim Spicer in Sierra Leone.

Finally, with a pair of aging Mi-24 Hinds, Ellis ran the Air Wing out of Aberdeen Barracks in the war against Sankoh’s vicious RUF rebels.

$24.95 • Paperback • 408 pages 6 x 9 inches • b/w photographs • July 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-8929

In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the world’s first operational jet warplane. This new German fighter was more than 100 mph faster than any other aircraft in the skies. Although always greatly outnumbered, the Me-262 gained scores of victories over Allied fighters and bombers, and by the end of the war, many of the Luftwaffe’s greatest aces had clamored to be in their cockpits. No wonder military leaders believed that if it had been introduced earlier, this jet could have changed the outcome of the war.

Sharks of the Air tells the story of Willy Messerschmitt’s life, and shows how this aeronautical genius built many revolutionary airplanes—not excluding the Luftwaffe’s mainstay, the Me-109—and culminating in the Me-262. It describes how his various warplanes fought in Spain, Poland, France, Britain, the U.S.S.R., and over Germany, and it provides thrilling accounts of air battles drawn from combat reports and interviews with veterans.

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The Long Shadow of World War II

The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921

The Legacy of the War on Political and Military Thinking 1945–2000

An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army’s Combat Operations

Matthias Strohn

Richard W. Harrison (translator)

$65.00 • Hardback • pages • 6 x 9 inches November 2020 • HIS037070 978-1-952715-02-0

$65.00 • Hardback • 552 pages • 6 x 9 inches 48 maps • August 2020 • HIS032000 978-1-952715-04-4 Richard W. Harrison lives in Carlisle, PA

2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking.

This anthology will analyze these legacies for a number of countries and regions including China, Russia, the United States, the Near East, and Germany illustrating in detail how World War II is not merely a historical event, but a defining moment for current military and political thinking around the globe. This book will therefore be of interest for those interested in history, but also political and military decision makers, and followers of current political and military affairs.

The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century’s military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands the attention of the military specialist and layman alike as we mark the one hundredth anniversary of the war’s end.

This work is the third volume of the three-volume Soviet official history of the Russian Civil War, which appeared during 1928-1930, just before the imposition of Stalinist orthodoxy.

While the preceding volumes focused on the minutiae of the Red Army’s organizational development and military art, this volume provides an in-depth description and analysis of the of the civil war’s major operations along the numerous fronts, from the North Caucasus, the Don and Volga rivers, the White Sea area, the Baltic States and Ukraine, as well as Siberia and Poland. It also offers a well-argued case for the political reasons behind the Bolsheviks’ military strategy and eventual success against their White opponents.

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How to Win a War The Changing Character of Victory from Antiquity to the 21st Century Matthias Strohn $65.00 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6 x 9 inches January 2021 • HIS027060 978-1-952715-00-6

What does it mean to win a war? How does this differ from a simple military victory? How have different cultures and societies answered these questions through history, and how can we apply these lessons?

When considering how a war might be ‘won’, there are three big ideas that underpin how success can be measured: ownership, intervention for effect, and fighting for ideas. These three main themes also contain a series of sub-themes: internal and external, short-term and long-term, military success versus political success, and tactical outcomes versus campaign effects versus strategic success.

This book examines the constituent parts of what may comprise ‘victory’ or ‘winning’ in war and then travels, chronologically, through a wide variety of historical case studies, further exploring these philosophical components and weaving them into a factual discussion.

The message of this book is not just an academic exploration for its own sake, but a really vital aspect (both morally and practically) of the political and military business of the application of force. In short, know in advance how you wish to end before you start.

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z • Air World AFV Modeller David Parker’s Crew School

BMW R75 Escaping from the Falaise Pocket

Techniques to Bring Your Armour Model Crews to Life

Robert Doepp $35.00 • Paperback • 112 pages 8.5 x 11.5 inches • 425 illustrations Currently Available • HIS027080 978-0-99-356466-6 • AFV Modeller

David Parker $35.00 • Paperback • 112 pages 8.5 x 11.5 inches • 370 illustrations Currently Available • HIS027080 978-0-99-356467-3 • AFV Modeller

International award-winning modeler, David Parker, embarks on his most ambitious step by step guide to his tank crew figure. Advanced sculpting techniques and simple techniques for painting faces, so you can get the very best from your tank crew figures.

Modelers of all abilities will learn from Robert’s techniques for vehicle scratchbuilding, figure sculpting, painting and weathering with detailed step-by-step guides to apply the tips, tricks and methods to your own projects.

Whether you’re a modeler or enthusiast of wartime German motorcycles, equipment and uniforms Robert presents a wealth of information with the dissection of every component in detail, rare wartime images and comprehensive walk-around color photographs of a contemporary restoration.

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II

Thunderbolts over Burma

The ‘Warthog’ Ground Attack Aircraft

A Pilot’s War Against the Japanese in 1945 and the Battle of Sittang Bend

Peter C, Smith

Angus Findon

$52.95 • Hardback • 312 pages 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 400 color illustrations November 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-675926-9 • Air World

The Fairchild-Republic A-10A Close Support aircraft has become a legend over its long front line life. Known as the Warthog due to her unusual appearance, this little aircraft has built up an awesome reputation in the specialized ground-attack role, where her accuracy and deadliness are widely recognized as the best of their kind.

Hard lessons from the Second World War, that were reinforced by the bitter experience of the Vietnam War two decades later, showed that it was both impracticable and highly non-cost efficient to use supersonic fighter jets in the close air support mission. A requirement was therefore drawn up for an aeroplane capable of carrying a heavy and varied load of ordnance, which had good endurance and unprecedented maneuverability, and which could survive heavy ground fire—thus the A-10 was born. But, by the time it came into service her role had changed to that of a tank-buster in the defense of Western Europe in the face of the overwhelming numbers of Soviet battle armor.

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$34.95 • Hardback • 192 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677966-3 Air World

The Republic P-47 proved to be a formidable ground-attack aircraft and in RAF service was especially devastating during the fighting in Burma in 1945. There, the Thunderbolt was deployed using the ‘cab rank’ system that proved so effective for the Hawker Typhoons during the Battle for Normandy.

Flying standing patrols close to the front line, as and when they were needed the Thunderbolts would be directed to specific targets by ground controllers deployed among the Army units in contact with the enemy. The effects of the aerial bombardment the Thunderbolts unleashed was all too often devastating.

Though he only joined 34 Squadron in 1945, Angus Findon quickly found himself embroiled in the last battles of the Second World War—as the many entries in his pilot’s logbook testify. In particular, he and his fellow Thunderbolt pilots, often operating alongside RAF Spitfires, played a vital part in the Battle of the Sittang Bend.

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From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot Steven K. Ladd $34.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 color illustrations • September 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-52-676124-8

You do not have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd’s fascinating personal tale, woven around his 28-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through the narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia; Europe to the Middle East; linking the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot.

The anecdotes provided are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do.

Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft.

From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog is a terrific read: the legacy of a fighter pilot.

Strike from the Air The Early Years of the US Air Forces Terry C. Treadwell $34.95 • Hardback • 312 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 250 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-677645-7

In Strike From the Air, the author shows the early development of the aviation section of the U.S. Army with balloons and the part they played in the Civil War. This is followed by an account of the first use of military aircraft when General Pershing tracked down the revolutionary Pancho Villa after he had crossed the Mexican border into the United States and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico, killing a number of American citizens. The development of naval aircraft during the invasion of Veracruz is also examined, which resulted in the first American aircraft to be hit by gunfire.

Following the outbreak of the First World War, the United States was gradually drawn into the conflict. Before this had happened, a number of American traveled to Europe to volunteer for the Lafayette Escadrille in France, as well as the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. Many of these men eventually joined the newly created United States Army Air Service, taking their valuable experience and knowledge with them. Among the notable early US aviators were individuals such as Eugene Bullard, the first African-American military pilot, and eccentric loners like Frank Luke. The part played by the US Navy and USMC is not neglected.

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Air Battle for Moscow 1941–1942 Dmitry Degtev Dmitry Zubov $34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677446-0

In October 1941, Operation Typhoon and the battle for Moscow began. According to Hitler’s plan, it was to be the ‘last offensive’, after which nothing could stop Germany from conquering Britain and the rest of Europe–but first he had to overcome the Soviets and especially their air force.

Air Battle for Moscow is the first detailed description of one of the most vital, yet little known, air battles of the Second World War. The battle for Moscow opened with the flights of long-range reconnaissance aircraft, which photographed Moscow and the Kremlin. Then, on 22 July 1941, Operation Clara Zetkin, the Luftwaffe’s aerial assault on Moscow, began. But the Luftwaffe was opposed by the ‘Stalin’s Falcons’, the elite 6th Air Defence Corps, which defended the Soviet capital with a determination which saw bitter duels to the death and horrendous casualties on both sides.

The book presents new facts about this dramatic battle and describes in detail the actions of the aircrew on both sides.

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Birlinn Air World Helping Stop Hitler’s Luftwaffe

Battle of Britain, 1940

The Memoirs of a Pilot Involved in the Development of Radar Interception, Vital in the Battle of Britain

The Finest Hour’s Human Cost Dilip Sarkar $49.95 • Hardback • 296 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677593-1

Air Marshal Sir Arthur McDonald KCB AFC FRAeS DL $34.95 • Hardback • 232 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676478-2

‘The bomber will always get through’ was the oft-repeated mantra, first coined by Stanley Baldwin in 1932, which emphasized that the only realistic form of defense was offense. This belief determined the UK’s military strategy, with more attention, and resources, being devoted to bomber production rather than fighters. With bombers able to fly at hundreds of miles an hour, by the time the incoming aircraft had been detected, it would be too late to scramble fighters to intercept them. That was until Sir Henry Tizard and his colleagues first demonstrated that radar (or Radio Direction Finding as it was then called), could detect an aircraft approaching Britain at a considerable distance, allowing fighters to take to the air before the intruders reached British soil.

Famously, Churchill mobilized the English language, emboldening the nation with rousing rhetoric. In this darkest of hours, Churchill told the people that this was, in fact, their ‘Finest Hour’, a time of unprecedented courage and defiance which defined the British people. Connecting the crucial battle with Shakespeare’s heroic Henry V and Agincourt, Churchill also immortalized Fighter Command’s young aircrew as the ‘Few’—to whom so many owed everything.

Poles in the Battle of Britain

Battle of Berlin Bomber Command over the Third Reich, 1943–1945

A Photographic Album of the Polish ‘Few’

Martin W. Bowman

Peter Sikora

$52.95 • Hardback • 368 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678638-8

At the start of the Battle of Berlin, Sir Arthur Harris had predicted that the ‘Big City’ would ‘cost between 400-500 aircraft’, but that it would also ‘cost Germany the war’. He was proved wrong on both counts. Berlin was not ‘wrecked from end to end’, as Harris predicted on 3 November 1943—‘if the USAAF will come in on it’—although a considerable part of it was destroyed. And the ‘Main Battle of Berlin’ did not cost Germany the war; a grinding land campaign had yet to be fought. More than 9,000 bombing sorties were flown during the battle on round trips of about 1,200 miles to Berlin and back.

Berlin was bombed by four Allied air forces between 1940 and 1945. British bombers alone dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, whilst the Americans a further 23,000 tons. By 1944, some 1.2 million people, 790,000 of them women and children, about a quarter of Berlin’s population, had been evacuated to rural areas.

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The Fall of France was catastrophic.

Britain stood alone and within range of German air attack. America, with its vast resources was neutral, Hitler’s forces unbeaten, the outlook for Britain bleak. As Britain’s wartime leader, Winston Churchill, rightly predicted, ‘the Battle of Britain is about to begin’.

$42.95 • Hardback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 200 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678241-0

The Polish Air Force, which was created in Britain in the summer of 1940 from flying and ground personnel evacuated from Poland and then from France, proved to be one of the most successful formations to fight the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Overcoming the obstacles of language and operating in a foreign country, the Polish Air Force gained independent status, flying alongside the RAF rather than being a part of the RAF—and for the first time the Polish Air Force became a separate air arm of the Polish Armed Forces.

It is stated that 145 Polish pilots fought in the Battle of Britain, many of them experienced and battle-hardened. These men fought not only for freedom of their own homeland but also for British people, of whom they often knew very little. The Poles were able to form four squadrons, two bomber and two fighter, that went into operations during the Battle of Britain.

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Air World z Dornier Do 17 in the Battle of Britain The ‘Flying Pencil’ in the Spitfire Summer

The Luftwaffe’s Secret WWII Missions

Chris Goss

Dmitry Degtev Dmitry Zubov

$42.95 • Hardback • 232 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 200 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678120-8

$42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677547-4

Having been built to outrun contemporary fighters when introduced into the Luftwaffe in 1937, the Do 17 had become the Luftwaffe’s main light bomber, and for the attack against Britain, three bomber wings, KG 2, KG3 and KG77, were equipped with the Do 17. But by 1940, the Do 17 was nearing obsolescence and, with its weak defensive armament, it fell prey to Fighter Command’s Hurricanes and Spitfires.

Its vulnerability was starkly revealed on 18 August 1940, when eight Dorniers were shot down and nine damaged in attacks on RAF Kenley, and on 15 September—Battle of Britain Day—when twenty were shot down and a further thirteen damaged. On that day, Sergeant Ray Holmes rammed his Hurricane into a Do 17 that was reportedly aiming for Buckingham Palace.

On the night of 14/15 August 1944, the roar of an unknown aircraft was heard over the dense forests to the southeast of Moscow. Flying past the Soviet capital, the aircraft turned towards a ‘secret’ landing site at Yegoryevsk on the outskirts of the city. But lying in wait were troops of Stalin’s elite secret service, SMERSH. The troops turned on the landing lights and the aircraft, a German machine of some description, swept down to land. As the aircraft touched down, some of the SMERSH troops lost their nerve and opened fire prematurely. The German pilot responded quickly and managed to pull his aircraft up in time to brush over the top of the trees at the end of the clearing and disappear back into the dark Soviet sky.

Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Combat, 1950–1972

Air Defence Artillery in Combat, 1972–2018

Air Defence in the Jet Age

The Age of Surface-to-Air Missiles

Mandeep Singh $34.95 • Paperback • 264 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-52-676208-5

Anti-aircraft artillery was extensively used in combat in the First World War, though such weapons had made their debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, when the besieged French used balloons for observation and communication and the Prussians used the first custom built 1-pounder gun to try and shoot them down.

It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery came into prominence, shooting down more aircraft than any other weapon and seriously degrading the conduct of air operations. In the battle between the attackers and anti-aircraft artillery, the latter had the upper hand when the war ended.

The post-war years saw a decline in anti-aircraft artillery as peace prevailed, and the advent of the jet aircraft seemed to tilt the balance in favor of the aircraft as they flew faster and higher, seemingly beyond the reach of anti-aircraft artillery.

Mandeep Singh $42.95 • Hardback • 264 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-52-676204-7

Having made its debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, anti-aircraft artillery was used extensively in the First World War. It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery truly came into prominence, shooting down more aircraft than any other weapon and seriously affecting the conduct of air operations.

The development of anti-aircraft artillery continued into the Cold War, resulting in the extensive introduction of surface-to-air missiles, or SAMs. Such weapons are cheaper to manufacture, simpler to maintain, and easier to operate than the vast fleet of aircraft required to defend an airspace.

Though the first combat success of such weapons was during the Vietnam War, when a Soviet-designed S-75 Dvina missile shot down a USAF F-4C Phantom on 24 July 1965, it was the Yom Kippur War of 1973 which brought surface-to-air missiles to the center stage.

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Arden Air World

Prelude to War The RAF, 1934–1939 Martin Derry Images of War Series $28.95 • Paperback • 136 pages 7.5 x 9.5 inches • 225 black and white illustrations • September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-675482-0

Through the use of contemporary photographs and informative captions, Prelude To War: The RAF 1936-1939 chronicles many of the RAF’s aircraft that continued to serve in the years immediately preceding the start of hostilities in 1939.

Letters from the Few Unique Memories from the Battle of Britain Dilip Sarkar $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52677589-4

Fascinated by the Battle of Britain from an early age, as a young man Dilip Sarkar realized that recording and sharing the Few’s memories was of paramount importance.

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Hawker’s Secret Brothers in Arms Cold War Airfield The Story of a British

Fighters in the Blood

Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier

The Story of a Spitfire Pilot—And the Son Who Followed in His Footsteps

Christopher Budgen $49.95 • Hardback • 288 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 color & 50 black and white illustrations illustrations • December 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-52-677175-9

Dunsfold Aerodrome would be made available by a reluctant Air Ministry from which the company was able to launch its first jet aircraft design—the Sea Hawk.

Seek and Strike RAF Brüggen in War and Peace Group Captain Nigel Walpole, OBE, BA, RAF (Ret’d) $49.95 • Paperback • 376 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 260 color & black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52675842-2

Seek and Strike—RAF Brüggen in War and Peace is an anecdotal history of the largest RAF station in Germany.

and a German Fighter Unit, August to December 1940 Chris Goss

$34.95 • Paperback • 248 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 150 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678289-2

The unforgiving and deadly combats fought in the skies over the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain are recounted here.

Black Robertson $49.95 • Hardback • 336 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 150 color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678486-5

This is no ordinary memoir.

Britain’s Glorious Aircraft Industry

The Territorial Air Force

100 Years of Success, Setback and Change

The RAF’s Voluntary Squadrons, 1926–1957

J. Paul Hodgson

Frances Louise Wilkinson

$60.00 • Hardback • 320 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 126 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52677466-8

$49.95 • Hardback • 264 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52675103-4

Great Britain’s aircraft industry started in 1908, with the first formally registered organization in the world to offer to design and build a commercial use aeroplane.

This book presents the history of the Territorial Air Force from its creation in the early 1920s until 1957.

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Arden Arden

First Know Your Enemy

Madness and the Military

Four Weeks One Summer

Comprehending Imperial German War Aims & Deciphering the Enigma of Kultur

Australia’s Experience of Shell Shock in the Great War

When It All Went Wrong

John A. Moses $35.00 • Paperback • 396 pages 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available HIS027090 • 978-1-92-598449-1

Michael Tyquin $35.00 • Paperback • 280 pages 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available PSY022040 • 978-1-92-598446-0

Moses and Overlack focus sharply on the question of how Germany’s war planning impinged on Australasia.

This is an updated analysis of what happened to soldiers who suffered psychologically in the First World War.

Legends of War

Anzac

The AIF in France 1918 Pat Beale $35.00 • Paperback • 176 pages 6 x 9 inches • August 2020 HIS027090 • 978-1-92-598463-7

1918 was a year of triumph for the Australian Corps in France yet today this is seldom recognized by most Australians.

Our perceptions have been clouded by legends, built up over the past century, that have trivialized their achievement.

The Landing, The Legend, The Law Catherine Bond $35.00 • Paperback • 212 pages 6 x 9 inches • August 2020 HIS027090 • 978-1-92-598464-4

The word ‘Anzac’ has been the subject of a century of legal regulation in Australia and internationally. In Anzac: The Landing, The Legend, The Law, Catherine Bond interrogates the legal history of one of Australia and New Zealand’s most revered words.

Nicholas Whitlam $35.00 • Paperback • 328 pages 6.1 x 9.2 inches • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-92-598465-1

In the summer of 1936, over just four weeks, it all went wrong—for democracy and for Spain, even for the British royals. Politicians failed, and Hitler was emboldened to plan a new European war, and more.

Guy Gaunt The Boy from Ballarat Who Talked America Into the Great War Anthony Delano $35.00 • Paperback • 346 pages 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available HIS027090 • 978-1-92-598448-4

Guy Gaunt’s infiltration of America’s leadership changed the course of history. The exposure of a sinister German underground showed President Woodrow Wilson that America could not remain neutral.

Politics of Forgetting

Fighting Monsters

New Zealand, Greece and Britain at War

An Intimate History of the Sandakan Tragedy

Martyn Brown

Richard Wallace Braithwaite

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New Zealand, with close ties to Britain, was heavily involved in the war against Nazi Germany on the battle lines in Greece, Crete, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy.

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Only six escapees survived the Sandakan death marches of 1945 in North Borneo, the worst atrocity ever inflicted on Australian soldiers.

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Aviation z •Collectables z T-33A/ RT-33A Shooting Star Federico Anselmino Claudio Col $24.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • fully illustrated • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-8-89-052315-1

Introduction. The origins and development. In service with the Air Force. An American “Silver Star” in Caselle. Modeling notes. Technical Data and Military Serial Number.

G.222 Federico Anselmino Giancarlo Gastaldi $24.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • fully illustrated Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-8-89052314-4

Introduction. The origins and development. In service with the Air Force. Against the flames.

The civil G.222. G.222 abroad. Modeling notes.

Technical Data and Military Serial Number.

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F-86K Sabre Jet

Tornado IDS/ECR

Federico Anselmino Claudio Col

Federico Anselmino Giancarlo Gastaldi

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F-86K “Saber Jet”. In service with the Italian Air Force. Modeling notes. Appendices.

$24.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • fully illustrated • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-8-89-410505-6

This book, from the Italian Aviation Series, is a new title, not a reprint of a previous product, updated with the information available at October 31, 2016, in the book we also included recent photographs of Tornado ECR of the 6th Stormo and the special color of the Experimental Flight Department!

C-130J Super Hercules

Cent’anni di Aviazione di Marina

Marco Rossi Claudio Col

Stefano Reduzzi Claudio Col

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The popular Herky Bird, protagonist of the medium tactical transport since the 50s, in its most modern version in service with the Italian Air Force.

Volume made in collaboration with the Command of the Air Forces of the Navy for the celebration of the Centenary from the foundation of the Naval Aviation.

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Aviation Collectables z•z Il Thunderjet in Italia Luigino Caliaro Claudio Col $36.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 11.7 x 8.3 inches fully illustrated • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-8-89-410503-2

The Thunderjet in Italy continues the success of the new book by di Luigino Caliaro. The twenty-one chapters describe in detail the F-84G Thunderjet, from the genesis of the project to use in the USA with the USAF, through the Korean War, to arrive at delivery and use in Italy.

Luigino Caliaro accurately describes the use of the F-84 in the Aerobrigate.

An important chapter with mostly unpublished photos, is dedicated to the shooting competitions of the 56th TAF, typical of the fifties.

All the acrobatic chasers who used the Thunderjet are told how an important part of the book is dedicated to the description of the cockpit, armaments, chapters that talk about the Thunderjet in flight, the engine and the color of the F-84G. The book closes with a chapter dedicated to the construction of a F-84G in 1/48 scale.

G.80/G.82 Federico Anselmino Claudio Col $19.95 • Paperback • 52 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • fully illustrated • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-8-89410504-9

December 9th, that date is important because on that day, in 1951, it made the first flight G.80, the first Italian jet trainer.

Although produced in Turin the historical flight happened to Amendola, military airport where the prototype was transported from Turin. The choice was obligatory because the Turin track was not long enough to guarantee operations with the new FIAT airplane.

The history of the G.80, and of the subsequent improved version, the G.82, deserve to be known. The fifties, in Italy, were the pioneering times of the design of the first jets, the industries were trying to recover from the recent destruction of the war and were looking for markets to restart production.

In this context the FIAT initiative, at the time led by prof. Valletta, who authorized Ing. Gabrielli to the project.

SB-2C-5 Helldiver

AMX Ghibli

Luigi Gorena Claudio Col

Federico Anselmino Giancarlo Gastaldi

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“The Helldiver of the Navy” which traces the very brief and troubled history of the American bomber with the “anchor” in the fuselage, the diatribe with the Air Force that in fact opposed the use of Helldivers by the Navy Military and prevented the birth of the Navy Aviation.

Over 70 photographs, many never before published and from former Helldiver pilots’ archives, are splendid color profiles, an upper and two lower views of the plane, together with a detailed chapter on how to build a scale model 1 / 72 dell Helldiver are a useful compendium both to the enthusiast that to the researcher as well as to the modeler.

Pictures of the Ghibli directly from our personal archives, some referring to the initial operational use! Aviation Collectables Company is the only publishing house in the catalog, at WORLD level, which we are very proud of, a volume entirely dedicated to this aircraft, often mistreated for its numerous “dentition” troubles. In fact, the AMX “Ghibli” is considered a second-choice aircraft by enthusiasts, certainly not as fascinating as a last generation fighter but our “Ghibli,” after a slightly subdued online entry, has largely redeemed and participated to all the main military operations in which the Aeronautica Militare was involved.

This unique book tells the story of AMX, from early drawings to war use, with an eye for the engagement in Afghanistan, with countless exclusive photos.

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Birlinn Books Avonmore

Pacific Adversaries Volume 3 Imperial Japanese Navy vs The Allies, New Guinea & the Solomons 1942–1944 Michael Claringbould $36.95 • Paperback • 102 pages • 6.93 x 9.84 inches • fully illustrated in color • September 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-0-64-866595-3

Volume Three of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides upon which many traditional histories have relied to date. Further, for each of the chosen stories photographic or other evidence enables an accurate depiction of the aircraft involved.

The JNAF first appeared in the South Pacific in December 1941 and was at the vanguard of offensive efforts during the course of 1942.

Following the bloody Guadalcanal campaign, the JNAF fought a largely defensive war in New Guinea and the Solomons against increasingly powerful Allied forces. Perhaps surprisingly, right through to the end of 1943 the JNAF offered significant resistance to the Allies and never ceded air superiority in the vicinity of its key base of Rabaul. Only in 1944, when units were withdrawn to the Central Pacific and the Philippines, was the JNAF presence in the South Pacific finally wound down to just a token force.

Never before have detailed accounts matched up adversaries so closely and in doing so shine light on key events in Pacific skies so many years ago.

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Operation I-Go Yamamoto’s Last Offensive ?

New Guinea and the Solomons April 1943 Michael Claringbould $39.95 • Paperback • 158 pages • 6.93 x 9.84 inches • fully illustrated in color • September 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-0-64-866594-6

In early 1943 Japanese forces in the South Pacific had suffered three key strategic setbacks at Guadalcanal, Kokoda and the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. However Japanese strength in the theater was far from spent, and the commander of the IJN Combined Fleet Admiral Yamamoto sensed an opportunity.

By temporarily bolstering his air force at Rabaul with carrier-based airpower, Yamamoto assembled a strike force of hundreds of aircraft.

With these he planned to overwhelm Allied defenses in a multi-day blitz against four crucial locations. Named Operation I-Go, it would be the largest IJN air operation ever launched in the region.

The odds favored the plan, but by 1943 I-Go was a huge gamble. Would it strike a body blow and give the Allies reason to pause their advance?

Or would it cause irrecoverable wastage of IJN offensive air power?

The results of I-Go were surprising, although it only achieved a fraction of what the Japanese claimed The greatest irony was that it led to the death of its architect, Yamamoto.

This is the first detailed account of I-Go written with reference to both Japanese and Allied sources, and it surely sets a new historical benchmark for this key chapter of the Pacific War.

The Empire Strikes South Japan’s Air War Against Northern Australia 1942–45 (Second Edition) Dr Tom Lewis OAM $39.95 • Paperback • pages • 6.93 x 9.84 inches • fully illustrated in color • July 2020 HIS027100 • 978-0-64-866593-9

Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II. For more than two years Japanese aircraft crossed the coast and bombed relentlessly. Savage dogfights were fought between the legendary Zero fighter and Allied Kittyhawks and Spitfires.

Nearly 200 Japanese aircrew died in the onslaught. This book lists all of their names and describes all of the combat missions–and reveals for the first time that the number of combat flights, aircraft shot down, and aircrew who died is far higher than previously thought.

Scores of aircraft were downed in combat operations ranging from Exmouth to Townsville, with the majority of action taking place in the Northern Territory.

This new extensive research shows the number of air raids was higher than the previously suggested figure of 64, with 77 raids on the Territory alone, while 207 enemy combat flights were carried out across Northern Australia. 187 Japanese airmen died when their aircraft were brought down. In many cases their bodies lie in remote sites across the vast bush and coastal waters of the north.

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Banovallum • Fighting High Publishing Arden Colin Seeley

John BurtonRace

The Machines The Magic The Man

The Man the Magic and the Mayhem

James Robinson

Micheal Cowton

$11.99 • Paperback • 50 pages • 9.3 x 6.7 inches 100 photos • Currently Available • TRA001000 978-1-911658-39-9

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There are some people who’ve done little. There are some people who’ve done a lot. There are others who’ve done more than that. Then there was Colin Seeley. He’d done more than pretty much everyone.

Colin passed away just after his 84th birthday. He packed so much into his life, which began on January 2, 1936, when he was born in Kent, the only child of Percy and Hilda.

By 20 Colin was running his own business, soon after he was racing, and just two years into his career, was a podium finisher at the IoM TT. Aged 30, he was a motorcycle manufacturer, then going on to all manner of other disciplines, including running car racing Formula One teams.

Post that, he was a successful ace team manager and mentor to young riders, before going on to work for auctioneers, Bonham’s, becoming one of the company’s foremost and most trusted consultants.

Extremes of Fortune The Story of Herbert Martin Massey, CBE, DSO, MC Andrew White $34.95 • Hardback 208 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 inches • c. 60 black and white photgraphs September 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-99-981288-1

Herbert Martin Massey was by any measure, a remarkable man. Brought down in flames by one of Germany’s great aces, Werner Voss, he somehow recovered from his horrific, life-threatening injuries to continue his flying career in the Royal Air Force, only to be nearly killed once more in the Palestine Emergency of 1936. Then, at the age of 44 he was shot down over Holland on the second of the Thousand Bomber Raids in June 1942. Massey was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Stalag Luft III at Sagan. Respected and admired by his comrades and captors alike, fate handed to him the decision to authorize the Great Escape, the famous breakout from Sagan in March 1944.

A prodigious talent stalked by controversy, celebrity chef John Burton-Race has always lived life on the edge, and remains nothing if not pragmatic. “I wear people down. I’m a bit of a basket case.”

Born in Singapore in 1957 to a British diplomat father, Burton-Race helped the family chef while being exposed to global tastes and flavors that still influence his style of cooking. He worked under renowned chef Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons and when Blanc opened Le Petit Blanc in Oxford, he turned to Burton-Race to head the kitchen. Here the young, aspiring chef would win his first Michelin star. Three years later he opened his own restaurant, L’Ortolan in Berkshire. Awarded two Michelin stars, the achievement was repeated in 2000 at John Burton-Race Restaurant at London’s Landmark Hotel.

Resolute To War with Bomber Command George Dunn Ferris Newton $29.95 • Hardback 144 pages • 5.6 x 8.5 inches • 16 pages of black and white photographs • September 2020 • BIO008000 • 978-0-99-341520-3

Bomber Command pilot George Dunn DFC L d’H completed forty four operations during the Second World War. George flew his first tour in 1943, on Handley Page Halifax bombers, during one of the most intense periods of the bombing war. Following two trips as a second pilot with No. 10 Squadron, to gain operational experience, George, accompanied by his usual flight engineer Ferris Newton DFM, then flew with No. 76 Squadron crew from May to October 1943, taking part in the Battle of the Ruhr, the Battle of Hamburg and the raid against the German secret weapon research station at Peenemünde.

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The Lost Graves of Peenemünde Sean Feast Mike McLeod $34.95 • Hardback 160 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 inches • c. 60 black and white photgraphs October 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-99-981289-8

The raid on the secret rocket research establishment at Peenemünde came at a terrible cost. More than 40 bombers and 215 RAF aircrew failed to return. After the war, the bodies of many of those who were killed were recovered by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service (MRES) and buried in Commonwealth war graves. But not all. A series of mishaps and miscommunication led the MRES to search in the wrong place. Funds to continue the search dried up. And with the site falling into Russian hands, and access to British and US search parties severely restricted, the search ultimately had to be called off, and the remaining men commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial as having no known grave.

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Fonthill Media Bauhan Publishing • Banovallum Beaufighters Over Sea, Sand, and Steaming Jungles Jack Colman Richard Colman $40.00 • Hardback • pages 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 37 black and white • October 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-78155-746-4

Wild East The British in Japan 1854–1868 Josh Provan $38.00 • Hardback • pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 33 color and black & white • Currently Available HIS037060 • 978-1-78155-756-3

For over two centuries Japan had been hidden behind a veil of seclusion. This changed in when Jack Colman joined a Strike Commodore Perry arrived in Wing at North Coates attacking 1853. Unsurprisingly for a world North Sea convoys off the coast power, Britain was fast to get in of Holland. Later he and his on the action. But unknown to the Beaufighter were sent to the Far intruders their sudden appearance East where he was deployed to fly out of Assam over Burma supporting the had accelerated the pace of political change in Japan. The newcomers found ‘Forgotten’ Army. Midway through the ‘tour’ they converted to Mosquitoes; themselves increasingly out of their depth in a power struggle that they did a change he was not particularly happy about. After a short ‘rest’ converting not understand. The Shogun and the Emperor were at each other’s throats, pilots to Mosquitoes he felt lucky to be put in charge of a small Unit flying factions were jockeying for position, and the foreigners were at the centre of Service Personnel to various venues in Southern India. Jack’s enthusiasm for it. flying is maintained and his lucky escapes documented. His fascination with This is the story of the rocky beginning of Anglo-Japanese relations, a story the cultural and social experiences gained in India leaves its mark. This book is of the ‘wild east’, full of political schemes, Gunboat diplomacy, assassins and not just about flying but how he and his comrades lived through those unique samurai, set in the dying days of the Edo period and the twilight of the last and special times.

Shogun.

Todger Thomas Jones VC, DCM, 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment Neil Thornton $34.95 • Hardback pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 65 black and white October 2020 • BIO008000 978-1-78155-787-7

Even by Victoria Cross standards, the exploits of Thomas ‘Todger’ Jones V.C., D.C.M., of the 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, are truly extraordinary.

It was a miracle that he survived the act for which he was awarded his V.C., but remarkably, after going ‘over the top’ by himself, he defeated the odds and secured what is believed to be the most prisoners ever captured by a single individual in the entire war.

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Primus in Armis

Autogiro Pioneer

An Illustrated History of The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry

The Life of Jack Richardson

Stephen Keoghane $44.00 • Hardback • pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches 437 color and black and white • October 2020 HIS015000 • 978-1-78155-789-1

Primus in armis (‘first in arms’) is the motto of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Britain’s senior Regiment of volunteer cavalry raised in 1794 against the threat of French invasion. The Wiltshire Yeomanry has served for over 200 years and fought in South Africa, the First and Second World Wars and more recently as individuals in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the places where the Regiment fought in the Second War will be familiar to modern readers including Aleppo, Palmyra, Baghdad, and more bizarrely, meeting the Russian army on friendly terms in Tehran.

Nicholas Richardson $35.00 • Hardback 208 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 98 black and white • Currently Available • TRA002000 • 978-1-78155-742-6

Autogiro Pioneer is a vivid account of the varied life and adventures of Jack Richardson (18991987).

The book is based on his memoirs, which have been edited by his son. In the 1930s he worked for Juan de la Cierva, the inventor of the Autogiro (the forerunner of the helicopter), and was the first person to obtain a commercial pilot’s licence as an Autogiro pilot. This work involved (among other activities) several hazardous flights across Europe in all kinds of weather. In 1944 he learned how to fly the new Sikorsky helicopters in the United States, and became the first fully-trained helicopter pilot in the British Army.

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Super Snoopers

Lightning Strikes

Enemy at the Gates

The Evolution and Service Career of the Specialist Boeing C-135 Series with the 55th Wing and Associated Units

The Lockheed P-38 Steve Blake

Panic Fighters of the Second World War

$45.00 • Hardback • pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches • 392 black and white • October 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-78155-788-4 Steve Blake lives in Prescott Valley, AZ

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Bob Archer $60.00 • Hardback • pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches 208 color and black & white • October 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-78155-769-3

The book details the aircraft, equipment, sensors, air bases involved, and limited operational details—as much remains highly classified.

Additionally, stories by the personnel involved, who have flown these mission, and often faced their quarry at very close range.

The majority of aircraft involved are the Boeing C-135 series, including more than 100 different airframes, of 48 different versions. Missions include strategic intelligence, airborne command and control, treaty compliance, Open Skies, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, and transportation.

Details the different aircraft missions, bewildering program names, operating locations, and flying units involved. Background support organizations are presented. A potted history of every aircraft involved is included, together with units operated, and designations applied. Sixty years of operations, which continue to this day, are mostly shrouded in secrecy.

A cat and mouse adventure, throughout the Cold War, into the new peace dividend, and now in the face of renewed Russian aggression. The veil of secrecy is lifted, ever so slightly!

Lightning Strikes, The Lockheed P-38 tells the full story of one of the most successful and versatile aircraft of the Second World War. The P-38 (including its F-4 and F-5 photo reconnaissance models) eventually served with all the USAAF’s numbered overseas air forces, from early 1942 to VJ Day. The book describes the Lightning’s design and its technical details as it gradually evolved and improved, from the original XP-38 to its final variant, the P-38L-5. The main focus is on its service in the combat theaters, from the frigid, windswept Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific to the steaming jungles of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, the burning sands of North Africa and the more temperate climes of Europe. All the units that flew the Lightning are included, as are the experiences of many of their pilots and groundcrewmen as they fought the Japanese Empire and the European Axis.

Also related are the P-38’s service with foreign (non-U.S.) air forces, its postwar commercial utilization as civilian aircraft and the surviving examples in museums around the world.

The book is extremely well illustrated by over 400 high-resolution photographs, art work and graphics, and is supplemented by detailed appendices.

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Justo Miranda

When the Nazis started to threaten the world with their efficient machine of propaganda, the main concern of European governments was the overwhelming reaction of panic that the expected bombing of the Luftwaffe might cause within the civil population. During the Munich Agreement in 1938, the democracies were defended by old biplanes and a bunch of modern fighters: 50 Hurricanes, 20 Morane-405 and 5 Fokker D.XXI. France and Great Britain took up the production of USA airplanes and cancelled exports to small countries, which were forced to design and build their own panic fighters with the intelligence and skill that desperation provides.

When nothing seemed able to contain the German advance, France, Great Britain and the USSR developed several programs of emergency fighters, as did Australia, to face the Japanese expansion. At the time the course of events switched, it was the Axis powers that had to create their own panic fighters, some of them suicidal. The present book includes several last resource designs of fighters that are practically unknown and that were developed in times of tribulation by Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Netherland, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Fonthill z • z Media Radio War

Soldiers to the Last Day

The Secret Espionage War of the Radio Security Service 1938–1946

The RhinelandWestphalian 6th Infantry Division, 1935–1945

David Abrutat

Denis Havel

$38.00 • Hardback • 224 pages 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 76 black and white Currently Available • HIS027000 978-1-78155-759-4

During the Second World War German intelligence had deployed wireless teams throughout occupied Europe. Agents had even been deployed to mainland Britain to spy on British military activity.

Monitoring and reporting of their wireless transmissions fell to a small, secretive and largely unknown unit manned almost exclusively by volunteers. The Voluntary Interceptors (VI) as they became known would spend hours every day at home monitoring the short wavelengths for often faint and difficult to copy signals transmitted by these German secret intelligence services.

This unit was to become known as the Radio Security Service (RSS) and was at the core of the signals intelligence production effort at Bletchley and the insights into German military tactical and strategic planning. Without interceptors like the RSS, Bletchley would not have existed.

Soldiers to the Last Day: Rhineland- Westphalian 6th Infantry Division, 1935-1945 recounts the history of the German 6th Infantry Division from its formation in 1935 to its destruction at Babruysk in July 1944; then its resurrection and continued fighting until the end of the war. Among the first divisions established by the Wehrmacht, the 6th Infantry Division had one of the longest and bloodiest records of continuous combat of any division—Allied or Axis. Engaging in combat within weeks of the outbreak of WWII, the division fought to the last hour of the war.

It is a tale of courage, determination, suffering, and in the end—betrayal.

Bersaglieri

The Battle of the Denmark Strait

The Devil’s Griffins—A Visual History of Italy’s Elite Plumed Warriors

An Analysis of the Battle and the Loss of HMS Hood

Paul Garson

Daniel Knowles

$42.00 • Paperback • pages • 8.5 x 10.86 inches • 323 color • October 2020 • HIS027000 • 978-1-78155-755-6 Paul Garson lives in Los Angeles, Ca

$32.00 • Hardback • 178 pages 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 31 black and white October 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-78155-786-0

Dawn, 24 May 1941, two groups of ships, one British, one German meet in the Denmark Strait. Here two giants of maritime history, HMS Hood and the Bismarck, meet.

Within minutes of the battle beginning HMS Hood blows up with a catastrophic loss of life. Out of a crew of 1,418 only three survive. Coupled with this, the Royal Navy’s newest battleship is outfought. While this is a cause of celebration for the Germans, Bismarck has been wounded, curtailing her Atlantic raiding sortie.

Despite the wealth of documentary information and photographic evidence available on the battle, there continues to be controversy as to how the conflict was actually fought. This book analyses the events of 24 May 1941 to both shed new light and provide clarifications on how the battle was fought, the damage that different ships sustained, and how it was that the pride of the Royal Navy was destroyed in such a catastrophic manner.

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$40.00 • Hardback • 288 pages 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 44 black and white Currently Available • HIS027000 978-1-78155-744-0 Denis Havel lives in Mt. Carmel, IL

Military historians have often regarded the roll of the Italian military as somewhat “bipolar.” During the First World War, Italy sided with the Allies including Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. against Germany and the Central Powers. During the Second World War it signed on as a member of the Tripartite powers joining Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The legacy of the latter often presents a less than positive appraisal of the Italian soldier’s performance…one espoused both by its enemies and allies. However a positive consensus appears when focusing on the Bersaglieri— translating as “sharpshooters” —and acting as shock troops often leading both assaults and defenses.

As “The Tip of the Spear” they would thus pay the price during the Italian Wars of Unification, the early colonial forays into Africa, WWI, the Ethiopian War and lastly WWII with much Bersaglieri blood soaked up by European soil as well as the burning sands of Africa and frozen in the vastness of Russia.

Over 300 images including rare unpublished photographs chronicle Italy’s elite “Plumed Warriors.”

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Odilo Globocnik

Heldentod

The Aztec Eagles

The Devil’s Accomplice

The Nazi Culture of Death

Max Williams

Paul Garson

The Forgotten Allies of the Second World War

$72.00 • Hardback • pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches • 646 black and white • October 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-78155-795-2

$60.00 • Hardback • pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches • 533 black and white • October 2020 HIS027050 • 978-1-78155-757-0 Paul Garson lives in Los Angeles, CA

Outside of the Nazi hierarchy, Odilo Globocnik is almost certainly the most culpable in the planned and almost successfully executed attempt to annihilate all the Jews of Europe.

In producing this book, the author was soon to discover several interesting facets to the history of this unsavory character. Not only did he play a leading role in the process of murdering the Jews, he was also the arch highwayman in the plunder of their possessions.

Additionally, he was responsible for the compulsory uprooting of thousands of Polish non-Jewish citizens, the destruction of their communities, and the trafficking of enforced slave laborers. Often justifiably vilified for his crooked dealings as Gauleiter of Vienna, his function as asset stripper of the Polish Jews is overshadowed by his unquestionable major role in their physical destruction.

The ultimate crime of mass murder far outweighs the less significant, but nevertheless considerable, offenses of robbery and human trafficking, for obvious reasons. Odilo Globocnik was guilty of them all.

Heldentod–The Nazi Culture of Death graphically focuses on the Third Reich’s conception and promotion of the “Hero’s Death” as it fostered and then fueled a cataclysm of apocalyptic carnage and destruction.

This underlying driving force, ultimately self-destructive, is shown infusing both State sponsored propaganda and echoed by the personal battlefield images captured by its soldiers’ personal cameras.

In so doing it confronts the matter of subject vs. observer and their intimate connection.

The original, often one-of-a-kind and never before seen photos also serve as a searing documentation of man’s inhumanity to man and a stark warning to future generations.

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Walter Zapotoczny $35.00 • Hardback • pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches 55 color and black & white • October 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-78155-747-1 Walter Zapotoczny lives in Harrisburg, PA

Very few people would include Mexico in the list of U.S. World War II Allies. Sadly, Mexico’s aid to the United States and the Allies has been largely ignored by historians and is mostly absent from American history books.

When the Mexican aviators had the opportunity to show their courage in battle, they did so with valor. Allied theater commander General Douglas MacArthur commended the pilots and 150 support personnel. The 31 pilots of Mexican Expeditionary Force 201st Fighter Squadron flew missions supporting ground troops in the Philippines and long-range sorties over Formosa.

The Aztec Eagles helped the Allies defeat Japan.

They helped end the isolationism of Mexico.

They paved the way for important agreements between the United States and Mexico. They helped modernize the Mexican Air Force and demonstrated that Mexico could mount a successful expeditionary force.

Significant as these achievements are, perhaps the unit’s most important legacy is that the Aztec Eagles fought for honor and for Mexico as Allies in WWII, creating national pride throughout their homeland. That pride endures and is evident today as the story of the Aztec Eagles can be heard in towns and villages across the nation.

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Fonthill z Media Sunbeam Aero Engines Alec Brew

78155-794-5

$36.00 • Hardback 228 pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches • 185 black and white • October 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-

The first great British aircraft engine manufacturer, the Sunbeam Motor Car Company turned to the sunrise industry of aviation in 1912, and was among the first to buy an aircraft to test their engines, flown by a full-time test pilot, the famous Jack Alcock.

Through the First World War Sunbeam was a vital supplier, of both engines and aircraft, particularly to the Royal Naval Air Service. Consistently, Sunbeams were the most powerful British engines available, and they were fitted to the first aircraft to torpedo an enemy ship, the only aircraft to fly at the Battle of Jutland, and the first seaplanes to operate in the heart of Africa.

Scottish Railways in the 1960s Michael Clemens $35.00 • Hardback 128 pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches • 193 color and black & white Currently Available • TRA004000 • 978-1-78155-761-7

Scottish Railways in the 1960s makes a broadly clockwise journey around the country visiting many long-closed railways, branch lines, a few industrial locations, plus the locomotives that worked over them.

Locations seen include: Alloa, Alva, Auchtermuchty, Ayr, Ballachulish, Beattock, Brechin, Burghead, Dumfries, Callander, Carstairs, Castle Douglas, Coalburn, Douglas, Drongan, Duns, Edinburgh, Elgin, Fort William, Georgemas Junction, Glasgow, Gleneagles, Greenock, Hawick, Helmsdale, High Blantyre, Inverness, Killin, Kilmarnock, Larkhall, Lennoxtown, Lesmahagow, Lugar, Montrose, Muirkirk, Paisley, Rannoch, Stonehouse, Stranraer, Tburso, & Turriff.

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De Havilland and Hatfield 1936–1993

UK Airfields Past and Present A Directory of Airfields from 1908 to 2018

Philip Birtles $28.00 • Paperback 228 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 215 color and black & white • October 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-78155-763-1

With the approach of WWII the de Havilland Aerodrome at Hatfield went through a major expansion, concentrating on Mosquito production and development. The Company also pioneered the production and development of jet engines led by Major Frank Halford, leading to the Vampire jet fighter.

Early commercial aircraft were the Dove and Heron, but the major pioneering program was the Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner, which first flew on 27 July 1949 and entered service with BOAC on 2 May 1952.

Boulton Paul Aircraft Since 1915 Alec Brew $65.00 • Hardback 200 pages • 6.77 x 9.76 inches • 404 black and white • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-1-78155-751-8

The ancient Norwich firm of Boulton & Paul were brought into aircraft construction in 1915, and quickly became one of the great innovators.

They pioneered metal construction and built the frame of the largest aircraft ever built in Britain, the R.101 airship. The Overstrand, the last of their superlative medium bombers, was the first aircraft in the world to feature a power-operated gun turret, and after their move to Wolverhampton in 1936 and change of name to Boulton Paul Aircraft their gun turrets became a vital component of the war effort, not least in their own Defiant, which fought in the Battle of Britain and was the most successful night fighter in the dark nights of the Blitz.

Grant Peerless $45.00 • Paperback • 228 pages • 8.5 x 10.86 inches • 128 black and white • October 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-78155-792-1

A great many books have been written over the years about individual airfields or those in particular counties/areas but this one covers a good proportion of them in one publication, from Abbots Bromley to Zeals. It provides brief details of over 1700 airfields from before the First World War to the present day and describes the main activities carried out, based units/operators and current status. It includes military bases, civil airports/airfields, gliding sites, microlight sites and larger farm strips, together with the probable number of based aircraft.

A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1945–1999 Joe Bamford John Williams $30.00 • Paperback • pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches 61 black and white • October 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-78155-764-8

Having been classified by the Air Ministry as a ‘Master Diversion’ airfield, RAF Manston was for many years open twenty-four hours a day and available to both civil and military aircraft 365 days a year. It was also later equipped with the Pyrene foam system, which both civil and military aircraft could use when they had problems with their undercarriage: there is no doubt that the foam carpet saved many lives. The most spectacular occasion that it was used was on 20 April 1967 when a British Eagle Britannia made a complete wheels-up landing. It is claimed that Manston was the only station to serve in every command of the RAF and until its closure.

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Frederick the Great is one of history’s most controversial leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia’s place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this enigmatic man, his personality and his role as politician, warrior and king.

Showalter’s cleverly written book provides a multi-dimensional depiction of Frederick the Great and an objective, detailed reappraisal of his military, political and social achievements.

The Campaigns of 1812 in Russia A Prussian Officer’s Account From the Russian Imperial Headquarters Carl von Clausewitz Napoleonic Library Series $32.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations & 14 black and white maps • August 2020 HIS027200 • 978-1-52-678179-6

On 23 June, 1812 the French Grande Arme, over 600,000 strong and composed of men from the many nations that had become part of Napoleon’s empire, poured over the Russian border. In defense of Russia, an army of approximately the same number faced them. The campaign was disastrous for Napoleon, and it marked the beginning of his decline in power.

Napoleon in 100 Objects Gareth Glover $42.95 • Hardback 184 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 100 color illustrations • Currently Available • HIS027200 • 978-1-52-673136-4

For almost two decades, Napoleon Bonaparte was the most feared, and revered, man in Europe. At the height of his power, the land under his control stretched from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and encompassed most of Western Europe.

The story of how a young Corsican, who spoke French with a strange accent, became Emperor of the French at the age of just thirty-three is a remarkable one. The many fascinating objects brought together in this book detail not only Napoleon’s meteoric rise to power, but also his art of war and that magnificent fighting force, the Imperial Guard, which grew from a small personal bodyguard to the size of a small army.

Waterloo Letters A Collection of Accounts from Survivors of the Campaign of 1815 H. T. Siborne Napoleonic Library Series $26.95 • Paperback • 448 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illust • September 2020 • HIS037060 • 978-1-52-678214-4

The Frontline Napoleonic Library is an unparalleled collection of classic works on the Napoleonic Wars. Presenting some of the finest memoirs and studies of the period the collection brings together renowned contemporary accounts with more recent analytical publications.

One of the most important collections of original letters from participants in the Waterloo campaign. The letters formed the basis of William Sibornes groundbreaking History of the Waterloo Campaign.

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The Duke of Wellington in 100 Objects Gareth Glover $49.95 • Hardback 248 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 150 color illustrations December 2020 • HIS027200 978-1-52-675862-0

In this remarkable investigation into the life of Britain’s greatest general, we learn so much more about Wellington as a person, through the objects, large and small, that marked key episodes in his personal, military and public life. Renowned historian Gareth Glover details Wellington’s family background in Ireland, his early military career, his one-and-only meeting with Nelson, his campaigns in Flanders, the Iberian Peninsula and Waterloo. What we also learn is of his difficult marriage—and his scandalous womanizing, even bedding the same woman as Napoleon—and his strained relationship with his two boys.

On the Road With Wellington Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaign August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann Napoleonic Library Series $29.95 • Paperback • 448 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027200 • 978-1-52-678197-0

“August Schaumann was a natural born storyteller. He describes his Peninsula adventures so vividly that you get the feeling that you are there, riding next to him dodging French cavalry patrols and conquering the hearts and bodies of Spanish and Portuguese ladies.” —Fons Libert, The Napoleonic Series This remarkable memoir captures the life and adventures of a junior officer as he endures the drama and agonies of the fierce struggle in Spain, Portugal, and southern France between 1808 and 1814.

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z Books Frontline English Collusion and the Norman Conquest Arthur C Wright $39.95 • Hardback 216 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches December 2020 HIS037010 • 978-1-52-677370-8

The reality of war, in any period, is its totality.

Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as exposed in the record of the Norman Conquest of England. King William I experienced a lifetime of conflict on and off so many battlefields.

In English Collusion and the Norman Conquest, Arthur Wright’s second book on the Norman Conquest, he argues that this monarch has received an undeserved reputation bestowed on him by clerics ignorant alike of warfare, politics, economics and of the secular world, men writing half a century after events reported to them by doubtful sources.

Bomber Harris–His Life and Times The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, Wartime Chief of Bomber Command Henry Probert $38.95 • Paperback • 400 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 64 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-678160-4

This is the definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Second World War. Sir Arthur Harris remains the target of criticism and vilification by some, while others believe that the contribution he and his men made to the Allied victory is grossly undervalued. In particular, Harris has been questioned for his area bombing tactics which saw civilians and their homes become legitimate targets along with industrial and military installations.

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The Battle of Minden 1759 The Impossible Victory of the Seven Years War

The Daily Telegraph Book of Battle of Britain Obituaries

Stuart Reid

Martin Mace

$22.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS037050 • 978-1-52678155-0

$49.95 • Hardback • 344 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52678515-2

The fighting in Europe during the Seven Years War hung in the balance. After initial successes the Austro-French forces had been driven back across the Rhine. With the opposing sides reinforcing their armies, the campaign of 1759 was going to prove decisive.

Britain and her German allies met the French at Minden in Germany. Due to a misunderstanding of orders the British infantry actually attacked and dispersed the French cavalry.

In what Winston Churchill called its darkest hour, Britain’s survival as an independent country in the summer of 1940 rested on the shoulders of a small number of young men.

They came be to referred to as ‘The Few’, a term that was immortalized by the Prime Minister in a speech to the House of Commons in August 1940, and which now indicates those airmen who qualify for the Battle of Britain Clasp to the 1939–1945 Star.

Men of the Battle of Britain

First In–The Airborne Pathfinders

Supplementary Volume

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

Kenneth G Wynn $42.95 • Hardback • 160 pages • 9.5 x 11.25 inches • 200 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52678527-5

Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain, the complete third edition of which was published in 2015, has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain.

This remarkable publication records the service details of every airman who took part in the Battle of Britain, and who earned the Battle of Britain Clasp, in considerable detail. Where known, an individual’s various postings and their dates are included, as are promotions, decorations, and successes claimed whilst flying against the enemy.

Ron Kent $24.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52678186-4

They were volunteers to a man. These volunteers had to pass exacting physical and psychological tests before they could join this elite force. These were the men of the 21st Independent Parachute Company, which was part of the Parachute Regiment, and this is their story, told by one of that unique band, then Sergeant Ron Kent.

The 21st Independent Parachute Company operated in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Norway, France, as well as the largest airborne operation ever mounted, Market Garden.

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Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews?

The Origins of Adolf Hitler’s Anti-Semitism and its Outcome Peter den Hertog $32.95 • Hardback • 264 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 2x8 b&w plate sections • December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677238-1

What do we really know about the sources of Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitism? What led him to become such a genocidal anti-Semite?

It is often said that the strongly anti-Semitic atmosphere in pre-war Vienna, in which Hitler failed to achieve his dream of becoming an artist, was when his hatred of the Jews first began to stir. We also often read that such feelings were compounded by the so-called ‘stab in the back’ by Jewish-Marxists at the end of the First World War, which led to Germany’s humiliating capitulation.

The Darwinian science of natural selection is often included in the debate as well, which to Hitler meant keeping the Germanic race ‘pure’ and untainted by the ‘inferior’ Jews.

However, as Peter den Hertog sets out in this book, such external, cultural and environmental factors were also experienced by most of Hitler’s contemporaries, and they did not all turn into rabid Jew-haters. In this study, the author investigates what we do know about the roots of the German leader’s anti-Semitism. He also takes the significant step of mapping out what we do not know in detail. This allows the reader to understand which information needs to be looked for in the search for a complete explanation.

First Burma Campaign

Hitler’s V-Weapons

The First Ever Account of the Japanese Conquest of 1942

An Official History of the Battle Against the V-1 and V-2 in WWII

Colonel E C V Foucar MC

An Official History

$49.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678321-9

$49.95 • Hardback • 296 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677005-9

Shortly after the British and Indian forces had withdrawn from Burma in the face of the Japanese onslaught in 1942, Colonel E.C.V. Foucar MC was instructed to undertake a ‘special duty’, namely seek out documentary material and information from the various officers involved in the First Burma Campaign. The final element of Foucar’s task was to write an account of the fighting, based on these many eyewitness accounts, for the Director of Military Training.

This fascinating narrative sets out the challenging geographical, climatic and political conditions the British were faced with in Burma as war became an increasing possibility throughout 1940 and 1941, before turning its attention to the dramatic events when the Japanese launched their ground assault on the country in January 1942.

There followed the ‘Disaster’ at Sittang Bridge, the fateful evacuation of Rangoon, and the march to the River Irrawaddy in an attempt to try and secure the north of Burma and its oil fields.

But the loss of Rangoon meant the army was cut off from its supply base and the troops faced starving to death. With the Japanese closing in on the beleaguered British force, the decision was taken to abandon Burma and try to reach India.

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At 04.08 hours on the morning of 13 June 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty at their post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent.

At that moment they spotted the approach of an object spurting red flames from its rear and making a noise like ‘a Model-T-Ford going up a hill’. It was a development that they, and many others throughout the UK, had been anticipating for months. The first V1 flying bomb, an example of what Hitler had called his Vergeltungswaffen or Vengeance Weapons, to be released against Britain was rattling towards them. The two spotters on top of the tower may well have been aware that a new Battle of Britain had just begun.

For years, key individuals in the UK had been aware of experiments by Germany to build long-range weapons. From leaked documents, reports from the French Resistance and the result of aerial photography a picture was gradually put together of an extensive program by the Nazis to build pilotless aircraft, the Fi 103 V1 flying bomb, and the V2, the A4 rocket, which could be directed at the United Kingdom. By 1943, enough information had been gathered for Britain and its American allies to act, and the first bombing raids were undertaken against the long-range weapons installations.

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In the Hell of the Eastern Front The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 Arno Sauer $32.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52673333-7

On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa–Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knockout blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was into this bloody theater of war that Fritz Sauer was sent.

Having initially joined the ranks of the Reichsarbeitsdienst, the Reich Labor Service, Fritz was posted to Infantry Regiment No. 437 in April 1942. Part of the 132nd Infantry Division, the regiment was serving on the Eastern Front having been deployed to the Crimea. The regiment was then transferred to the region around Leningrad, where, for the first time, Fritz truly experienced the horrors of war.

As well as his best friend being killed by a sniper, Fritz recalled events such as recovering the body of a fallen colleague from No Man’s Land, the terrifying experience of facing a Red Army infantry attack, Soviet tank assaults, and the moment when a group of comrades in a neighboring crater were hit by a shell. He became a casualty himself when he was badly wounded in the legs during a counterattack.

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Hitler’s Attack U-Boats The Kriegsmarine’s WWII Submarine Strike Force Jak P. Mallmann Showell $34.95 • Hardback • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52677101-8

When war broke out in 1939, German U-boats went quickly into action, but with only four years of production and development, the main armament of these submarines was considerably weaker than equivalent boats in other navies and many of the other main features, such as living and the fighting conditions, were also significantly inferior. Nevertheless, the German U-boat onslaught against British merchant ships during the autumn of 1940 was highly successful because the attacks were made on the surface at night and from such close range that a single torpedo would sink a ship.

Soon, though, Allied technology was able to detect U-boats at night, and new convoy techniques, combined with powerfully armed, fast, modern aircraft searching the seas, meant that by 1941 it was clear that Germany was losing the war at sea. Something had to be done.

The new generation of attack U-boats that had been introduced since Hitler came to power needed urgent improvement. This is the story of the Types II, VII and IX that had already become the ‘workhorse’ of the Kriegsmarine’s submarine fleet and continued to put out to sea to attack Allied shipping right up to the end of the war.

Winston Churchill and the Art of Leadership How Winston Changed the World William Nester $34.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations December 2020 • BIO008000 • 978-1-52678124-6 • William Nester lives in New York

Many indeed, are the biographies of Winston Churchill, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. But what was that influence and how did he use it in the furtherance of his and his country’s ambitions? For the first time, Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to placed him in positions of power.

His thirst for power stirred political controversy wherever he intruded. Those who had to deal directly with him either loved or hated him. His enemies condemned him for being an egoist, publicity hound, double-dealer, and Machiavellian, accusations that his friends and even he himself could not deny. He could only serve Britain as a statesman and a reformer because he was a wily politician who won sixteen of twenty-one elections that he contested between 1899 and 1955.

With his ability to think beyond mental boxes and connect far-flung dots, he clearly foretold events to which virtually everyone else was oblivious.

Yet he was certainly not always right and was at times spectacularly wrong.

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Panzer Commander

Ace of the Black Cross

The Memoirs of Hans von Luck

The Memoirs of Ernst Udet

Hans Von Luck

Ernst Udet

$19.95 • Paperback • 312 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678183-3

$22.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678172-7

War Plan Red

Above the mud and misery of the trenches and the endless slugging matches of the First World War another contest was played out with all the military glamour, chivalric values and deadly outcome of a mediaeval, knightly tournament.

This was the battle in the air between the first primitive aircraft and the intrepid aviators who flew them.

This image of air war is brought nobly to light in the memoirs of Ernst Udet, the German ace of aces, whose impressive wartime record was second only to the legendary Red Baron.

Written in a jaunty, Boys Own style Udet paints a romantic picture of his experiences and captures what perhaps many young pilots must have felt as they flew off each day to duel with the enemy, the elements and an unreliable technology.

Ace of the Black Cross also illustrates the way in which war and defeat left this young generation of tough, spirited, individuals rootless and restless. After the war Udet used his flying skills to give displays to crowds of gawping onlookers, a circus act that left him frustrated and resentful.

In 1941, disillusioned and depressed, he shot himself. On the wall before he died he scrawled a message for Goring: Iron man, you have betrayed me.

$34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 200 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027000 978-1-52-671202-8

A professional soldier, Hans von Luck joined the Panzerwaffe in its earliest days, serving under Erwin Rommel. Skilled in the art of armored warfare, von Luck fought in the invasion of Poland in 1939 and was present as the Blitzkrieg swept across the Low Countries and France the following year.

In 1941 Hitler’s forces turned their attention to the East, launching their invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June. Hans von Luck’s unit was one of the many deployed in that offensive.

Von Luck then served with the Afrika Korps in the Western Desert. After the Axis collapse in Africa, he returned to Europe and fought throughout the Normandy Campaign.

Captured by the Soviets at the end of the war, he was held for five years in a prisoner of war camp.

After the war, he formed friendships with those who had been his opponents during the war, including Major John Howard, who had led the capture of Pegasus Bridge on D-Day. As the renowned historian M.R.D. Foot once wrote, Panzer Commander is ‘a book that shows the finest face of the old officer class, the Kaderfamilie of central Europe, who were brought up to fight, but to fight clean–even when they came under the orders of satanic leaders’.

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The Secret US Plan to Overthrow the British Empire Graham M. Simons

After the Great War, there was much debate in the USA whether the country should isolate itself from ‘old world’ conflicts or follow an imperialist path and become the world’s only superpower.

If the USA was to become a superpower, then conflict with Great Britain might result.

Consequently, the US drew up War Plan Red. This was a scheme for the USA to invade Canada and the Caribbean which would draw the Royal Navy into North American waters where it would be destroyed. Without the Royal Navy, the rest of the British Empire would be vulnerable to American attacks.

It became clear, however, as the decade wore on, that the Imperialists were not going to gain a clear-cut victory, so other means of achieving their aims would be needed. In 1939 the American military establishment created an intelligence-gathering machine within their Embassy in London under the Ambassadorship of Joseph Patrick Kennedy.

Then in spring 1941, a small group of US Army officers traveled to Britain to plan for Anglo-American cooperation should the United States became involved in the Second World War. This was the US Army Special Observer Group, or SPOBS as it was commonly known.

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Banovallum Frontline Books Dunkirk Evacuation Operation Dynamo

The Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945

Nine Days that Saved an Army Martin Mace John Grehan Images of War Series $26.95 • Paperback • 168 pages 7.5 x 9.5 inches • 140 black and white illustrations • Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-52-677035-6

Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis Alexander of Tunis $22.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 64 black and white illustrations • July 2020 • BIO008000 978-1-52-678429-2

After his first meeting with General Alexander in August 1942, Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks wrote that, ‘by repute he was Winston Churchill’s So rushed and chaotic was the retreat to the Channel coast, with thousands of fire brigade chief par excellence—the man who was always dispatched to guns, vehicles and tanks being abandoned, there was little time for soldiers to retrieve the most desperate situations’. consider taking photographs of the shocking scenes of death and destruction Churchill was indeed in need of a fire brigade chief. Allied forces had been which surrounded them. Yet images do exist of the ships and boats of all chased back across the desert by Rommel. Alexander bought a new hope descriptions which braved the bombs and guns of the German Air Force to to the famed Desert Rats: he instilled them with his own confidence and rescue Britain’s only field army from the clutches of Hitler’s panzer divisions. thought of victory. Under his command, Montgomery was ready to fight and win the battle of El Alamein. Even as his generals drove the enemy from North Other images in this book paint a vivid and memorable picture, as no words Africa, Alexander was planning far ahead for Sicily and Operation Husky, the ever could, of the greatest evacuation of troops under fire. first major seaborne invasion by either side during the war.

Britain’s Wartime Evacuees

The Victoria Cross Wars

The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There

Battles, Campaigns and Conflicts of All the VC Heroes

Gillian Mawson $29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678151-2

With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial bombing. The fear of invasion the following year resulted in another mass evacuation from the coastal towns.

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Brian Best $50.00 • Paperback • 584 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-52-678147-5

The British Empire at its height stretched around the globe.

Victoria Crosses were awarded in operations against Persia, Abyssinia and China, in New Zealand, Burma and Sudan, in the Perak War, the Andaman Islands Expedition and the Mashona Rebellion, to name but a few of the forty-four different campaigns of the colonial era.

The Victoria Cross Wars explains Britain’s involvement in these little-known and forgotten campaigns, detailing the battles and engagements that resulted in the granting of the most highly regarded award for valor.

Unrewarded Courage Acts of Valour that Were Denied the Victoria Cross Brian Best $39.95 • Hardback 216 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027000 978-1-52-677246-6

The Victoria Cross is the most exclusive and prestigious of all gallantry awards. In order to retain this exclusivity, the standard of courage, endeavor or sacrifice required for a recommendation to be accepted for the award of the VC must be of the highest possible order. This has meant that many extremely courageous acts have failed to be rewarded with the VC, even though they appear to be just as remarkable in the level of danger and daring as some of those which were accepted for the medal.

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Gallantry • Gettysburg Publishing • Greenhill Books z•z Sherman Tanks of the Red Army

Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier

Peter Samsonov

The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston

$19.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 7.2 x 9.8 inches • 80 illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027080 • 978-1-911658-47-4 Peter Samsonov lives in Ontario Gallantry

Mark H. Dunkelman Errol Morris

More than 4000 examples of the famous diesel-fueled M4A2 Sherman tank were sent to the Soviet Union during the Second World War under the Lead-Lease program.

These American-built vehicles were operated by Red Army crews against the Germans during some of the bitterest fighting on the Eastern Front—yet despite serving with distinction and being well-liked by their crews, relatively little has been written about these vehicles until now.

Tank expert Peter Samsonov looks at the origins of the M4A2 in Soviet service and the machines that were received from the US as well as providing a detailed assessment of how they fared in combat on the front line.

$24.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6 x 9 inches • 36 illustrations • Currently Available • BIO008000 • 978-173-462760-2 • Errol Morris lives in Cambridge, MA • Gettysburg Pubishing

Duel Under the Stars

Twelve Days on the Somme

The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II

A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916

Wilhelm Johnen James Holland

Sidney Rogerson Malcolm Brown

$14.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 5 x 7.9 inches • 128 black and white Illustrations • Currently Available BIO008000 • 978-1-78-438564-4 Greenhill Books

$24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 5 x 7.9 inches • 2 black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS027090 • 978-1-78-438594-1 Greenhill Books

“The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of seconds.

The bomber fell like a stone out of the sky and exploded on the ground. The nightmare came to an end.”

In this enthralling memoir, the author recounts his experiences of the war years and traces the story of the ace fighter pilots from the German development of radar to the Battle of Britain.

Johnen flew his first operational mission in July 1941, having completed his blind-flying training. In his first couple of years he brought down two enemy planes. The tally went up rapidly once the air war was escalated in spring 1943, when Air Marshal Arthur Harris of the RAF Bomber Command began the campaign dubbed the Battle of the Ruhr.

A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany’s military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12 km. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost.

There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualties during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of the last spell of frontline duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

Written by Sidney Rogerson, a young officer in B Company, it gives an extraordinarily frank and often moving account of what it was really like to fight through one of the most notorious battles of the First World War.

Lying dead in Gettysburg in 1863, a solitary Union soldier lacked any standard means of identification. Only a single clue was clutched in his fingers: an ambrotype of his three young children.

With this photograph the single clue to his identity, a publicity campaign to locate the soldier’s family swept the North. Within a month, his grieving widow and children would be located in Portville, New York. The soldier, a devoted husband and father, was revealed as Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Volunteers.

Using many previously untapped sources, noted historian Mark H. Dunkelman recreates the fascinating story of 19th-century war, sentiment, and popular culture in full detail.

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The Battle of Znaim

Operation Colossus

Napoleon, The Habsburgs and the End of the War of 1809

The First British Airborne Raid of World War II

John H. Gill

Lawrence Paterson Maj. Gen Adrian Freer

$42.95 • Hardback • 512 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 80 black and white illustrations and 10 maps Currently Available • HIS027200 • 978-1-78438450-0 • Jack GIll lives in Alexandria, VA

The little known Battle of Znaim (10th–11th July 1809) was the last battle to be fought on the main front of the Franco-Austrian War. Cut short to make way for an armistice it effectively ended hostilities between France and Austria and is now uniquely considered to be an episode both of conflict and simultaneously of diplomacy.

The battle began as a result of the Austrian decision to stage a rearguard action near Znaim, prompting the Bavarians to unsuccessfully storm a nearby town. Battle ensued with the village changing hands a number of times over the course of the two days.

Jack Gill delves deep into the respective tactics of both sides as the two armies continually changed positions and strategies. His account dissects and investigates the dual aspects of the Battle of Znaim and explains the diplomatic decisions that resulted in the peace treaty which was signed at Schonbrunn Palace on 14th October 1809.

Gill’s book is an unrivaled analysis of the Battle of Znaim. Accessible, highly detailed and expertly crafted, it sheds new light on this fascinating moment in Napoleonic history.

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$32.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 black and white illustrations July 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-78-438378-7

Lawrence Paterson’s groundbreaking new book is a detailed account of the now legendary Operation Colossus, the first British airborne raid of the Second World War, which took place in Basilicata, Italy on 10 February 1941.

Britain was one of the last major powers of the Second World War to establish an airborne arm of service. Formed by a collection of free-thinking army and air force officers, the fledgling British paratrooper unit, known as the ‘SAS’, deployed trial and error in terms of tactics and equipment, costing the lives of several volunteers before an elite few were selected to make the first British parachute raid of the war. Alongside the paratroopers were two veterans of the First World War: an Italian SOE agent, formerly a banqueting manager in London hotels, and an RAF reserve officer who held the Military Cross for bravery.

Collectively known as ‘X-Troop’, these men were parachuted by specially selected bomber crews into the heart of enemy territory, where they successfully destroyed their target, the Tragino Aqueduct, before becoming the object of an exhaustive manhunt by Italian troops and civilians. Captured, they were variously interrogated, imprisoned, and the Italian SOE agent placed on trial for treason and executed.

Hitler’s Third Reich in 100 Objects A Material History of Nazi Germany Roger Moorhouse Richard Overy $28.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 200 color illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-78-438516-3

’An engaging and novel approach to a familiar history. Pleasingly comprehensive and accessible… highly recommended’ — Iron Cross magazine.

Hitler’s Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no regime of the twentieth century has prompted such a body of literature.

Collated by one of the world’s leading historians of Nazi Germany and illustrated throughout, this book is an, compelling and revelatory guide to the Third Reich.

Ranging from documents and postcards to weapons and personal effects, these objects include Pervitin, Hitler’s Mercedes, Hitler’s grooming kit, the Messerschmitt 262, the Luger pistol, the Tiger Tank, Eva Braun’s lipstick case, the underpants of Rudolf Hess, and, of course, the Swastika and Mein Kampf.

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Tiger Battalion 507 Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler’s Regiment Helmut Schneider Robert Forczyk $32.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • Illustrated throughout with more than 200 photographs • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-1-78-438496-8 • Helmut Schneider lives in Germany • Robert Forczyk lives in Washington DC

‘May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard war as the best way to resolve their differences.’ Helmut Schneider This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507 told through the recollections of the men who fought with the unit.

The book was conceived during a reunion of the ‘507’ at Rohrdorf in 1982, where it was agreed to set up an editorial committee under Helmut Schneider, himself a veteran of the battalion, to search for as many survivors of the unit as possible and gather their reminiscences. The resulting account is a treasure trove of first-hand material, from personal memories, diary entries and letters to leave passes, wartime newspaper cuttings, Wehrmacht bulletins and more than 160 photographs.

The account follows the unit from its formation in 1943 and the catastrophic events on the Eastern Front, through battles on the Western Front and engagements against the American 3rd Armoured Division to the confusion of retreat, panic-stricken flight and Soviet captivity in the closing stages of the war.

The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations Peter G. Tsouras Chris Riddell $39.95 • Hardback • 576 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • Twenty illustrations by Chris Riddell Currently Available • HIS027000 • 978-1-78438477-7 • Peter Tsouras lives in Alexandria, VA

A massive compilation casting light not only upon the pain, suffering and sheer insanity of war, but also upon the unique comradeship and exhilaration of battle... this is a valuable addition to the literature of reference.’ — The Spectator Peter Tsouras brings 4,000 years of military history to life through the words of more than 800 soldiers, commanders, military theorists and commentators on war. Quotes by diverse personalities–Napoleon, Machiavelli, Atatürk, ‘Che’ Guevara, Rommel, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Xenophon, Crazy Horse, Wallenstein, T.E. Lawrence, Saladin, Zhukov, Eisenhower and many more—sit side by side to build a comprehensive picture of war across the ages.

Broken down into more then 480 categories, covering courage, danger, failure, leadership, luck, military intelligence, tactics, training, guerrilla warfare and victory, this definitive guide draws on the collected wisdom of those who have experienced war at every level. From the brutality and suffering of war, to the courage and camaraderie of soldiers, to the glory and exhilaration of battle, these quotes offer an insight into the turbulent history of warfare and the lives and deeds of great warriors.

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Pertinax The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor Simon Elliott $42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027220 • 978-1-78438525-5

The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through hard work, grit and determination.

Born in AD 126, he made a late career change from working as a grammar teacher to a position in the army. As he moved up the ranks and further along the aristocratic cursus honorum, he took on many of the most important postings in the Empire, from senior military roles in fractious Britain, the Marcomannic Wars on the Danube, to the Parthian Wars in the east. He held governorships in key provinces, and later consulships in Rome itself.

When Emperor Commodus was assassinated on New Year’s Eve AD 192/193, the Praetorian Guard alighted on Pertinax to become the new Emperor, expecting a pliable puppet who would favour them with great wealth. But Pertinax was nothing of the sort and when he then attempted to reform the Guard, he was assassinated. His death triggered the beginning of the ‘Year of the Five Emperors’ from which Septimius Severus, Pertinax’s former mentoree, became the ultimate victor and founder of the Severan Dynasty.

This previously untold story brings a fascinating and important figure out of the shadows.

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GrubBC Street Publishing Books Hawkeye

Bolts from the Blue

The Enthralling Autobiography of the Top–Scoring Israel Air Force Ace of Aces

From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff Sir Richard Johns GCB KCVO CBE FRAeS

Brigadier General Giora Even-Epstein

$24.95 • Paperback • 336 pages 6 x 9 inches • January 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911667-03-2

$32.95 • Hardback • 192 pages 6 x 9 inches • December 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-911621-96-6

For more than thirty years, Giora Even-Epstein flew fighters for the Israel Air Force.

This fast-moving autobiography details his experiences particularly in the intense conflicts of 1967, the Six Day War, and 1973, the Yom Kippur War. The reader shares the cockpit with him as he describes every action he undertook with 101 and 105 Squadron, including the greatest jet-versus-jet air battle in history with four MiG-21 kills in one engagement. His final score was seventeen. After his last battle he became commander of the First Jet Squadron, 117, began civilian flying, retrained to command 254 MMR Squadron in the 1982 Lebanon War, and flew the F-16 at the age of fifty before retirement.

Halton Boys

Fleet Air Arm Boys

True Tales from Pilots and Ground Crew Proud to be Called ‘Trenchard Brats’

Volume One: Air Defence Fighter Aircraft since 1945

Sean Feast Group Captain Min Larkin CBE $32.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9 inches November 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-911621-94-2

The RAF Halton Apprenticeship Scheme has a deserved reputation for excellence. The brainchild of MRAF Hugh Trenchard, the founder of the Royal Air Force, it took the ‘traditional’ idea of an apprenticeship and interpreted it in a novel way. It allowed teenage boys from any social background or geography to learn a technical trade that would equip them for their future lives, within and beyond the RAF. It also gave the best an opportunity to become pilots and break into the once public-school-dominated officer class.

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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns reflects on his illustrious career in this fascinating autobiography.

During his time in the RAF, Sir Richard attended RAF College Cranwell, served as an operational fast-jet pilot on Javelin night-fighters and then fighter-reece Hunters operating from Aden and Oman. He also commanded the Harrier Force in Germany.

As a qualified flying instructor, he taught the Prince of Wales to fly to wings standard. During the 1990s. In 1997 he was appointed chief of the Air Staff where he was responsible for the operational efficiency and morale of the Royal Air Force. During his last three years of service, the air chief marshal was fully involved in the decision-making process of the Strategic Defence Review, the commitment of RAF aircraft to operations over and within Kosovo and continuing air operations over north and south Iraq His distinguished career gave him the privilege of a rare, if not singular, perspective of the RAF.

Steve Bond $39.95 • Hardback 256 pages • 6 x 9 inches • February 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911621-98-0

The RAF’s continuing role in the projection of air power in the defense of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm (FAA), in part due to the ten-year gap between the retirement of the Harrier and the arrival of the F-35B and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. Flying aircraft off a carrier demands not only a high level of skill, but also a considerable amount of courage and determination, not least to land back on a very small piece of real estate bobbing about in a rough sea, often at night, with no possibility of diversion.

Groundcrew Boys True Engineering Stories from the Cold War Front Line David Gledhill $32.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9 inches February 2021 • HIS027140 • 978-1-911667-02-5

Have you read stories of ‘derring-do’ from former operational aircrew and been left wondering what went on in the hangars and on the airfields, as those aircraft were serviced and prepared for flight? In this edition of the Boys series, you’ll discover the true stories of life on the flight line, written by those who served. Some of them are humorous, some are thought provoking but for sure the reader will be engrossed. Twenty engineers, some former groundcrew, some engineering officers but including enthusiastic aircraft restorers, recall stories of incidents around the world,

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The Daily Telegraph Airmen’s Obituaries Book Three

A History of the Mediterranean Air War Volume Five

Graham Pitchfork Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns

From the Fall of Rome to the End of the War 1944–1945

$32.95 • Hardback • 352 pages • 5 x 8 inches October 2020 • BIO008000 • 978-1-911621-92-8

Christopher Shores Giovanni Massimello

$32.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9 inches December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-911621-95-9

Twelve years since The Daily Telegraph Airmen’s Obituaries Book Two was published, Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork has compiled eighty-five obituaries of outstanding aviators.

With a focus on personnel from a range of air forces, including the RAF, USAF, RCAF, RNZAF and SAAF, there are a number of fascinating and distinguishable lives to read about.

Those featured include MRAF Sir Michael Beetham, the longest-serving Chief of Air Staff in the RAF (apart from its founder Lord Trenchard); Brigadier General Paul Tibbets who commanded the USAAF bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Wing Commander ‘Dal’ Russel, a highly decorated wartime Canadian fighter pilot, whose logbook recorded kills in the Battle of Britain and the Normandy invasion.

There is also Lettice Curtis, the first woman qualified to fly a four-engine bomber and who by the end of the Second World War had flown over 400 heavy bombers, 150 Mosquitos and hundreds of Hurricanes and Spitfires as part of her role in the Air Transport Auxiliary.

The book includes a foreword written by former Chief of Air Staff, Sir Richard Johns.

$79.95 • Hardback • 600 pages • 7 x 9 inches February 2021 • HIS027100 • 978-1-911621-97-3

In September 1946, the London Gazette published a dispatch from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C T Dowding that was titled simply: The Battle of Britain. Written and submitted to the Air Ministry in 1941, this document became the very framework for the accepted Battle of Britain narrative which has been established across the following eighty years. Set out by the leader of the ‘Few’ himself, its authoritative tone could surely be considered a definitive outline of the battle, how it was fought and the eventual outcome. It even retrospectively set the dates for the commencement and conclusion of the campaign. In this work, Andy Saunders takes a critical look at Dowding’s dispatch and analyses the facts and details contained in that important document. He also puts ‘flesh on the bones’ of the matters that the former commander-in-chief of RAF Fighter Command outlines, adding intriguing historical detail and perspective to the 1946 publication. Additionally, Andy looks at the behind-the-scenes machinations at the highest levels of government and Air Ministry before the dispatch finally saw the light of day. As a historical document, Dowding’s London Gazette dispatch is worthy of the critical analysis and factual expansion which the author provides in what is a uniquely different look at the Battle of Britain, with illustrations throughout.

During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This was despite the steady withdrawal of units to more demanding areas. In this fifth volume of the series the activities of the Allied tactical air forces in support of the armies on the ground as their opponents were steadily extracted from northern Italy and the Balkans for the final defense of the central European homeland–are described in detail. The book commences with coverage of the final fierce air-sea battles over the Aegean which preceded the advance northwards to Rome and the ill-conceived British attempt to secure the Dodecanese islands following the armistice with Italy. The authors also deal fully and comprehensively with the advance northwards following the occupation of Rome, and the departure of forces to support the invasion of France from the Riviera coast, coupled with the formation of a new Balkan Air Force in eastern Italy to pursue the German armies withdrawing from Yugoslavia and take possession of newly freed Greece. The effect of the creation within the same area of the US and RAF strategic forces to join the Allied Combined Bombing Offensive is discussed. The final volume in the series will be concerned most especially with this latter campaign.

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Dowding’s Despatch The Leader of the Few’s 1941 Battle of Britain Narrative Examined Andy Saunders

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Harpia Publishing • Heimdal z Modern USMC Air Power

Hell in Hill 112

Aircraft and Units of the ‘Flying Leathernecks’

$40.00 • Hardback • 160 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-2-84-048550-6 Heimdal

Georges Bernage

Joe Copalman $59.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 8.3 x 11 inches • December 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-95-039402-9 • Joe Copalman lives in Mesa, Arizona • Harpia

As America’s expeditionary force-in-readiness, the US Marine Corps operates an eclectic mix of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, tiltrotor and unmanned aircraft to support the marine rifleman on the ground.

The first two decades of the 21st century have seen an almost complete transformation of the marine air wings, as Cold War-era legacy aircraft yield to digital-age replacements. In Harpia’s first book dedicated to a North American air arm, Joe Copalman explains the significance of each aircraft transition in the Marine Corps over the previous 20 years—community by community—on the Marine Air-Ground Task Force and its ability to conduct amphibious and expeditionary warfare.

Following the failure at Villers-Bocage and a further failure at the end of June 1944 facing Hill 112 at the end of Operation Epsom (the “Battle of the Odon”), Monty relaunched an attack against Hill 112, southwest of Caen, on 10 July 1944. In doing so, he sought to go around the D-Day objective of the capital of lower-Normandy via the south which, at that time, was still held by the Germans. However, as had been the case at Villers-Bocage, British troops failed again at this strategic area against the formidable Tiger tanks. Under artillery barrages, this high ground was fiercely contested at the cost of terrible losses on both sides.

Hill 112 would become a veritable “Norman Verdun”, a battle of destruction reminiscent of the hell of the Great War. Richly illustrated, this album presents a precise historical text recounting the operations hour by hour with numerous testimonies, and provides a real film of the fighting accompanied by period photos as well as battlefield equipment, tank profiles and then-and-now photos that make it a real guide to this battlefield.

AVIONS DE COMBAT DE L’OTAN

DAGUES ET COUTEAUX DU IIIe REICH

Depuis 1949

Alain Taugourdeau

Gérard Paloque

$97.00 • Hardback • 400 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • August 2020 • HIS027080 978-2-84-048549-0 • Heimdal

$59.00 • Hardback • 336 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • July 2020 • HIS027140 978-2-84-048553-7 • Heimdal

Text in French: Created in 1949 by ten European countries, joined later by Canada and the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was originally intended to federate the defense means of the signatories, in the context of the beginning of the Cold War, just after the Berlin blockade.

In the following decades several nations joined NATO, whereas France decided to go it alone and, on the contrary, leave NATO and ensure its own defense. The disappearance of the USSR then the Warsaw Pact in the 1990s meant the role of the Alliance had to be reviewed, because it had lost its main adversary and raison d’être. Meanwhile it started to take part in various external operations, and a certain number of countries from the former Eastern Bloc gradually began joining it. In this 300+ page book, the fighting planes of each NATO country’s air force, be they a founder member or a new member, are presented in detail, the nations being classified by alphabetical order, which gives a very complete panorama of the machines in operation.

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Text in French: In the Third Reich, where emblems and symbols took on a very important role, the dagger became omnipresent, from the paramilitary, then military units, like the SA and the SS, but also civilian institutions like the Red Cross and the Forest Wardens. This profusion was unique in uniformology and has already been written about several times, but not very often in French, in which there was no exhaustive work on the subject by a competent author. With 400 documents, forty-five models are shown, the daggers belonging to the SA (copied off the 16th Century Swiss dagger), NSKK, SS, HJ (knife and dagger), Teno, RLB, Wasserschutzpolizei, the Firemen, the Postschutz, Reichsbahn-Wasserschutz-Polizei, DRK (Red Cross), RAD (work service), the inland customs, the maritime customs, diplomats, senior civil servants, Eastern Civil Servants, Foresters’ knives, DLV, NFSK of the Luftwaffe, the Heer and Marine officers, together with some other exceptional daggers. The photos are of exceptional quality (some of them from the Hermann Historica Archives), others (from the author’s collection) show rare or precise details, explaining also these objects’ technical aspects.

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Heimdal z LES SUISSES AU SERVICE DE LA FRANCE 1715–1820 André Jouineau Jean Marie Mongin $28.00 • Hardback • 80 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches Currently Available • HIS027200 • 978-2-84048552-0

Text in French: Very early on, Switzerland set up a real mercenary business. By capitulations each canton could recruit military units on behalf of a neighbouring state with their own officers and rules. The French Revolution encountered the loyalty of the Swiss in the service of the King of France. The infamous massacre of the Swiss Guard on 10 August 1792 in the Tuileries was the bloodiest.

L’INFANTERIE DE LIGNE Tome 1

L’INFANTERIE DE LIGNE Tome 2

1776–1814

1814–1830

André Jouineau Jean Marie Mongin

André Jouineau Jean Marie Mongin

$40.00 • Hardback • 160 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • Currently Available • HIS027200 • 9782-84-048556-8

$40.00 • Hardback • 160 pages • 21 x 29.7 inches • December 2020 • HIS027200 • 978-284-048565-0

Text in French: The 120 or so plates drawn by André Jouineau and commented on by Jean-Marie Mongin present the Soldiers of the Line, infantry, from the soldiers of Louis XVI to those of the Revolution and the Emperor’s “Grognards.”

Text in French: The Line infantry suffered all the shocks of the last years of the Empire, from the French campaign to Waterloo, before, they were radically, changed in 1815, during the second Restoration.

Les Italiens de l’Empereur

DES AILES DANS LES JAMBES

Les Armées de la Péninsule Italienne 1800–1815

Les Mémoires de Guerre d’André Courval

André Jouineau Jean Marie Mongin $40.00 • Hardback • 160 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • Currently Available • HIS027200 • 9782-84-048547-6

Text in French: This army of the Kingdom of Italy started during Bonaparte’s first campaign with the creation of the Lombard and Cisalpine Legions. This army especially featured a greater number of enrolled troops, instead of volunteers. The Italian Royal Guard, from the beginning of the century, was the hub around which the Army of the Kingdom of Italy was formed. The transalpine uniforms often recalled those worn by their French brothers-in-arms.

Christian Kermoal $28.00 • Paperback • 250 pages • 5.9 x 8.3 inches • August 2020 • BIO008000 • 978-284-048563-6

Text in French: Three escapes (Cherbourg, Carteret and Jersey), two crashes, injuries, desertion, a flight of 7,000 kilometers across Africa to find the fight: André Courval’s war in the Free French Air Force is a seemingly endless one man adventure.

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WERNER HENKE Le Commandant Rebelle à Bord de l’U-515 Luc Braeuer $40.00 • Hardback 160 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • Currently Available • BIO008000 • 978-2-84-048551-3

Text in French: Werner Henke entered the Reichsmarine as an officer cadet in 1934. However, his need for freedom to go and resume his feminine conquests, his brawling, his love of jazz and dancing, excluded him from the active service of the officer corps of the Kriegsmarine in February 1941. He was aboard U-124 at the time as third officer, out on patrol. Picked out by Admiral Doenitz who was looking for strong personalities to command his U-Boats, he continued the patrol as an “officer on availability”. The admiral told him that if he was successful, his slate would be wiped clean. During his last patrol as second officer of U-124, he proved himself by supervising the firing of the torpedoes which sank 6 allied ships.

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Heimdal z L’INEXORABLE DÉFAITE

Tilly-SurSeulles 1944

mai–juin 1940

Stéphane Jacquet

Jean-Yves Mary $89.00 • Hardback 400 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • August 2020 • HIS027100 978-2-84-048559-9

Text in French: November 11, 1918. Unfinished victory ...

France believes it has won the war, it has won only a precarious peace. This dramatic observation is the starting point of a long way of the cross which will lead the country inexorably, towards the outcome of June 1940. Over the stations of this way of the cross, France, in total contradiction between its foreign policy and its defense policy, will go from disillusionment to resignations, without ever realizing that it did not or did not give itself the means of its ambitions.

$89.00 • Hardback 464 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • Currently Available • HIS027100 • 978-2-84-048526-1

Septembre 1941–Mai 1943, à la Rescousse de l’Afrikakorps !

Text in French: On the British front on 7 June, the name of one village was to relegate all the others into the background and especially Caen, one of D-Day’s strategic objectives. A name that history would remember as one of the most tragic episodes of all the Battle of Normandy: Tilly-sur-Seulles.

Tilly-sur-Seulles, Lingèvres, Cristot, Boislondes, la Senaudière, Saint- Pierre: so many names which symbolise the bitterness of the fighting marking the first three weeks following the landings between Caen and Bayeux. Although it wasn’t an objective for the Allied troops, Tilly-sur-Seulles became the lynchpin for the Battle of Caen and one of the first Norman villages to be destroyed in the fighting.

Luc Braeuer

U-BOOTE EN MEDITERR -ANEE Tome 2

Officier des Panzers de la Russie a la Normandie

Juin 1943–septembre 1944, face aux débarquements alliés en Italie et en Provence

Du Panzer III au Konigstiger

Luc Braeuer $83.00 • Hardback • 350 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • February 2021 • HIS027100 • 978-284-048561-2

Text in French: The Allies having mastered all of North Africa in May 1943, the mission of the U-Boats in the Mediterranean changes. From now on, they must protect “Fortress Europe” against future Allied landings. Five submarines set off against the Allied landing in Sicily in July 1943, which however did not stop them.

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U-BOOTE EN MEDITER RANEE Tome 1

Richard baron von Rosen $66.00 • Hardback • 320 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • Currently Available • HIS027100 • 9782-84-048554-4

Text in French: A few weeks after D-Day, the “503” was sent to Normandy where von Rosen and his “Tigers” were hit full blast by Operation Goodwood, to the east of Caen: fierce fighting against British tanks at Emiéville and Manneville. Losses were heavy and the Anglo-American superiority was crushing…Von Rosen and his battalion were withdrawn from the Normandy front, got back in condition, and then issued with new monsters, the “Königstigers”

$83.00 • Hardback • 350 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-284-048560-5

Text in French: During the summer of 1941, the British decimated the convoys which crossed the Mediterranean to supply Rommel’s Afrikakorps.

The Kriegsmarine is called to the rescue! The first U-Boote crosses the Strait of Gibraltar at the end of September 1941. After their combat mission against the ships of the Royal Navy, they take a break in their first point of support, the Greek island of Salamis, near Athens.

BATAILLE POUR LA POINTE DU HOC Hubert Groult $41.00 • Hardback • 192 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • September 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-284-048564-3

Text in French: Many poignant testimonies, of soldiers but also of Norman civilians, allow us to return to the soul of the battle.

After the capture of Pointe du Hoc, the future of the Rangers in Europe is revealed to us and the very singular fate of some of them after the war. More than two hundred and seventy photographs, many of them new and in high definition, as well as intuitive maps, allow you to find your way on the battlefields. A detailed description of the bombers, barges and countless equipment used for combat provides, in addition, an exciting light to immerse yourself in the event and answer in-depth questions

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Air Battles over Hungary 1944–45

The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940–43

Poland and NATO

Dmitriy Khazanov

Luck Was Lacking, But Valor Was Not

$35.00 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • November 2020 • POL011000 • 978-191-333612-7

$45.00 • Paperback • 160 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 280 b/w photos, 50 color profiles December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-91333620-2

This work is dedicated for the most part to the fighting over Hungary during the course of the Debrecen (6 October–27 October 1944) and Budapest (29 October 1944–13 February 1945) offensives, as well as the Balaton Defensive Operation (6–15 March 1945), which the Red Army carried out from autumn 1944 until the spring of 1945. The conduct of these operations preceded an attempt by the Regent of Budapest, Miklos Horthy, to pull his country out of the war.

This attempt however was unsuccessful–Vice Admiral Horthy was replaced under Hitler’s orders by the pro-Hitlerite henchman Szalasi, after which fierce and desperate battles broke out both on the ground and in the air. Moreover the Wehrmacht were constantly augmenting their forces, first and foremost their panzers.

These battles took place with the Red Army Air Force enjoying numerical superiority, the quality of Soviet aircraft at the end of the war had improved significantly, and even the level of training for air force personnel had been raised. It seemed that there were almost no air aces left in the ranks of the Luftwaffe by the end of the war, and Soviet airmen would have no problem securing a victory, however this was not the case. Erich Hartmann, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Gerhard Barkhorn, and many others fought here.

Amongst the Hungarians their highest scoring ace Dezso Szentgyorgyi stood out, as did their outstanding Commander Aladar de Heppes.

Ralph Riccio Massimiliano Afiero $59.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.7 x 9.6 inches • 199 photos (2 are color), 5 maps, 3 tables, 10-12 color plates of vehicles & 6-9 color plates of uniforms • January 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-91-333616-5

This book begins by examining a number of factors relating to the Italian army’s performance in the desert, including assessments of the Italian soldier, leadership, training, organization and structure, equipment, the supply situation in North Africa, the ability of the Italian air force to support ground operations, and an appreciation of Italo-German relations in North Africa.

The book then describes the combat operations of Italian forces in the desert beginning with the early Italian advance from Libya into Egypt in September 1940 and ending with the final Italian surrender to the Allies in Tunisia in May 1943.

The extensive appendices focus heavily on organization and equipment, with tables comparing Italian, British and German armor and artillery in the desert.

Taken as a whole, this book presents an account of Italian ground operations in North Africa, from the time of their initial trouncing at the hands of the British Western desert Force in early 1941, through the see-saw battles of 1941 and 1942 when the combined Italo-German forces battled with the British, through the decimation of the Italian forces during the El Alamein battles.

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This book is a re-examination of work carried out in 1999 as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were about to become members of NATO. At the time the author considered that none of these countries, especially Poland, were not genuinely democratic and merely paid lip-service to the idea to access western institutions.

The author returned to his original work and saw that the clues for the failing of democracy in Poland were already there in 1999 and saw that western states, especially in the UK under the administration of Tony Blair, were convinced that western style democracy was a cure for all ill and that was the only way forward while rather ignoring the fact that in his own country the two party system can hardly be called democratic as can be seen since 2016. Therefore by looking at the international situation within and without Europe; the author had pointed to how the west, principally the USA and the UK, have tried to enforce democracy on an unwilling world and had largely wrecked the ideals of that system through a lack of understanding while acting with complete disregard for those who they see as being slightly less than them and treating people with contempt and with little pity.

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Helion and z Company John Hunyadi and the Late Crusade the Crescent

A Transylvanian Warlord against

Andrei Pogacias From Retinue to Regiment Series $37.50 • Paperback • 192 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 20 photos, maps, color plate section January 2021 • HIS027230 • 978-1-91-333642-4

The book aims to present the life and military exploits of one of the biggest commanders in European medieval history.

At the Point of the Bayonet The Peninsular War Battles of Arroyomolinos and Almaraz 1811–1812 Robert Griffith From Reason to Revolution Series $37.50 • Paperback • 208 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 58 photos & ills, 8pp color plates, 9 maps • February 2021 • HIS027200 978-1-91-333652-3

Rowland Hill was one of the Duke of Wellington’s most trusted subordinates, known for caring deeply for the welfare of his men, but the battles of Arroyomolinos (1811) and Almaraz (1812) show that he was far more than just ‘Daddy Hill’ and a safe pair of hands. He was also a general of considerable skill and daring. At Arroyomolinos he led his troops for days through appalling weather to outmaneuver and then decimate an entire French division.

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Like a Brazen Wall

The Sea Is My Element

The Battle of Minden, 1759, and its Place in the Seven Years War

The Eventful Life of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, 1766–1838

Ewan Carmichael

Paul Martinovich

From Reason to Revolution Series $44.95 • Paperback • 324 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 5 maps, 26 photos, 5 b/w ills, 1 color ill, 16pp tables, 4pp uniform plates • January 2021 HIS037050 • 978-1-91-333658-5

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The Battle of Minden is justifiably celebrated by the British infantry and artillery regiments involved, but it was a close-run affair. Like a Brazen Wall echoes that celebration, but also sets a fresh balance: appropriately applauding, where due, the dash and élan of the French and Saxon opponents who are worthy of respect; examining the enduring challenges of multinationality by considering the relationships between Britain and her German allies

For six years Malcolm commanded the ship of the line Donegal, fighting in the Battle of San Domingo and blockading French warships in their ports. He was involved in the aftermath of Trafalgar and the events surrounding Waterloo, and came to know many of the great men of his time, including Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he spent his entire active career afloat, justifying his proud claim that the sea was his element.

The Sieges of the ‘45 Siege Warfare during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–1746 Jonathan D. Oates From Reason to Revolution Series $37.50 • Paperback • 224 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • c 20 ills & 10 maps • September 2020 HIS015000 • 978-1-91-333655-4

There were more sieges than there were battles during the Jacobite campaign in Scotland and England in 1745-1746, yet no one work has concentrated on these episodes. Siege warfare was more common than set piece battles in Europe at this time and the ‘45 was no exception.

There were two sieges of both Ruthven Barracks and of Carlisle, whilst the castles at Edinburgh, Blair Atholl, and Stirling were also besieged, as were the more recently-built Forts Augustus, George, and William.

The Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1801–1814 Organisation, Uniforms & Equipment–Cavalry and Artillery David A. Wilson From Reason to Revolution Series $44.95 • Paperback • 136 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 54 color ills • February 2021 HIS027200 • 978-1-91-333659-2

This book was written to provide an in-depth study of the Danish and Norwegian armies of the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was to provide a working document which is as accurate as possible, covering the uniforms of these armies, their weapons and their evolution as well as their colors and a look at their basic tactics. Although this is principally a uniform book, historical background is also provided to place the details in their context.

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Guns, Gold and Slaves The Ashanti Gunmen Paul Brinkley From Musket to Maxim Series $37.50 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • January 2021 • HIS001050 978-1-91-333640-0

Guns, Gold, and Slaves seeks out Gold Coast history primarily from the African view. The Black Atlantic Confederacies that battled each other were strong nations, not meek victims of European Traders. In fact, their existence and creation depended exactly upon the successful control of, not just participation in, slavery. In that respect, the history of Old World Atlantic Africa is often more callous and pragmatic than New World histories, whether black or white, would imagine.

Perhaps unsurprisingly in Europe the tide of books, save for academic materials, has never primarily focused upon the voices of Africans.

Such new literature as there is usually approaches the matter from Black New World modern perspectives, not objective assessments including contemporary Old World African perspectives.

Old Africa was neither all victim nor all innocent.

West Africa’s history was complex. That was never truer than in the case of the Asante, the Land of Gilded Emperors and gun toting hordes who achieved greater victories against Britain, and for longer, than other African Kingdoms like the Zulus and the Afrikaners.

It is a story of many strands touching upon Arab, Black, and White Trading Routes. Primarily its focus however is upon the military machine and fighting of the Asante as well as the Fante Middlemen Merchant network connecting with the European Slave Castles at the coast.

The Battle of the Chesapeake 1781

Eighth Army versus Rommel

The Royal Navy and the Battle that Lost America

Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa 1940–1942

Quintin Barry

James Colvin

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By the end of 1780, the war for American independence appeared to be approaching a stalemate. After five years of war, Washington’s armies remained in the field. Once France, and then Spain, joined the war, Lord Sandwich as First Lord of the Admiralty was faced with a constant struggle to balance the forces needed at home and overseas, while facing constant hostile pressure from the opposition.

However, events were conspiring to bring about a showdown in North America, which would take place in the waters off Chesapeake Bay. This book describes how, step by step, the crisis was reached. After France had accepted the need for a major effort to support the Americans, Count de Grasse arrived in the West Indies in April 1781 with a large fleet, intending to arrive off the North American coast in July. De Grasse reached Chesapeake Bay with his whole fleet at the end of August, outnumbering the British fleet under Graves which arrived on 5 September. The battle that followed was indecisive, though the French had the best of it. Cornwallis was now besieged at Yorktown by Washington; a force intended to relieve him arrived too late and on 19 October he capitulated at Yorktown. The war for American independence was decisively lost; all that remained was a bitter debate as to who was to blame.

A riveting account of the Desert War from 1940 through to Montgomery’s battle of Alamein in 1942, comprehensively researched and rich in previously unpublished material. It looks at the undertrained and underfunded pre-war British Army, contrasting its leadership with their opposite numbers in Germany, and shows how and why the Eighth Army had difficulties in its first eighteen months against Rommel.

It examines the battles from the perspective of the commanders, and looks at the decisions they made through the eyes of the front line soldiers, showing how cultural influences affected tactics and decisions of the British high command. Ultimately, British commanders were as much the product of their military culture and education as Rommel and his commanders were of theirs, but British military culture and education was, for much of this period, markedly less fit for purpose than the German.

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Helion and z Company Bullocks, Grain, and Good Madeira The Maratha and Jat Campaigns, 1803–1806 and the Emergence of an Indian Army Joshua Proven From Reason to Revolution Series $37.50 • Paperback • 224 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 8pp color plates, 12 b/w ills, 8 maps January 2021 • HIS037060 • 978-1-91-333654-7

On the last day of the year 1802, the Maratha Peshwa Bajirao II signed the treaty of Bassein which sparked the Second Anglo Maratha War. What began as a seemingly straightforward operation to restore the Peshwa and complete Lord Wellesley’s expansionist policy turned into a full-scale conflict for political hegemony which spread across central and northern India and was to establish the East India Company as the foremost power in South Asia.

War in the West Indies The AngloSpanish War 1655–1660 Paul Sutton

1792–1815

Austrian Cavalry of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,

Enrico Acerbi András K. Molnár

Eirik Hornborg Eric Faithfull

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Century of the Soldier Series $44.95 • Paperback • 296 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 55 photos, 9 maps • January 2021 BIO008000 • 978-1-91-333647-9

Despite many defeats suffered, the Austrian soldiers performed with discipline and played a central role in the coalitions against France, from the campaigns in 1790s, to the Austerlitz campaign of 1805, the closely balanced battles of 1809, and the final victorious campaigns of 1813-1814. Austrian cavalry, in particular, was considered one of the best in Europe by allies as well as enemies.

Charles XII’s planned conquest of Norway died with him at Fredriksten fortress on 30 November 1718 (OS), and the small Swedish-Finnish army simultaneously besieging Trondheim was ordered to return to Sweden. Setting off on the final stage across the mountains on New Year’s Day 1719 the army was struck by a blizzard and an orderly withdrawal turned into what has become infamously known as the Carolean Death March.

The Armies of Sir Ralph Hopton

This book describes the reasons for war with Spain, the army and fleet assembled at Cromwell’s bidding and its objective. The attack on Hispaniola in April 1655 will be explained in detail along with the reasons for its failure as will the occupation of Jamaica as will the beginnings of the Spanish war of resistance. A subsequent volume will recount the war on Jamaica from the end of 1655 until 1660.

This work draws upon extensive primary source material from England and Spain as well as the copious amounts of letters and narratives of soldiers and sailors present, from both sides.

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By Defeating My Enemies

The Royalist Armies of the West 1642–46 Laurence Spring

Century of the Soldier Series $44.95 • Paperback 336 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches 18-20 color ills January 2021 • HIS037040 978-1-91-333663-9

Carl Gustav Armfelt and the Struggle for Finland during the Great Northern War

Century of the Soldier Series $35.00 • Paperback • 104 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 20 ills • February 2021 • HIS015040 978-1-91-333651-6

Nothing sums up the tragedy of the English Civil War more than the friendship between Sir Ralph Hopton and the parliamentarian general Sir William Waller as “this war without an enemy.”

Hopton was one of the first commanders to support the king and helped secure Cornwall for the Royalist Cause.

In fact, Sir Ralph Hopton commanded three armies during the Civil War By using contemporary sources this book describes the life and death of a soldier during the Civil War.

Northern War

Charles XII of Sweden and the Great

Michael Glaeser Century of the Soldier Series $37.50 • Paperback • 204 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 70 b/w ills, 30 color ills, 19 maps, 3 charts • November 2020 • BIO014000 978-1-91-333646-2

By Defeating My Enemies is a military biography of Charles XII of Sweden, the first written in English in over 50 years.

It challenges several traditions created by historians of both the old and new schools of Carolean historiography and through a chronological review provides a balanced account of the king’s life.

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Sieges in the Severn Valley during the English Civil War

The Polish Army in Prussia during the War against Sweden 1626–1629

Richard Israel

Michal Paradowski Century of the Soldier Series $37.50 • Paperback • 224 pages 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 35 b/w ills, 35 color ills, 46 color flag ills January 2021 • HIS037040 978-1-91-333645-5

Century of the Soldier Series $37.50 • Paperback • 136 pages 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 7 b/w maps, 3 color maps, 5 b/w ills, 6 color photos, 6 tables • December 2020 • HIS015040 978-1-91-333650-9

The battlefields of Edgehill, Newbury, and Marston Moor are superlatives with the middle of the 17th-century conflict known as This book provides readers with in-depth study of the Polish troops during the the English Civil War, and while their importance to the conflict is undeniable, war, from unique structure of the army, through organization and equipment they detract from the power struggle that occurred between the Royalists of the units, to soldiers’ daily struggle due to lack of pay and food. Each and Parliamentarians in the towns and cities throughout the land. This power formation is described in detail, from famous winged hussars to Western struggle culminated in the construction of siege batteries and fortifications.

European mercenaries serving as infantry and dragoons.

Focusing on the Severn Valley region of England, this book examines, through archaeological, topographic, cartographic and historical research, the sieges The author’s research is based on many Polish primary sources, that for of Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, Bridgnorth, and Shrewsbury, demonstrating the first time are available to English-speaking readers, presenting many how siege techniques and this style of warfare impacted on the outcome of interesting facts about less known conflict. the conflict that set brother against brother and father against son.

Cavalier and King of Men James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby 1607–51 John Callow Century of the Soldier Series $49.95 • Paperback • 368 pages • 7 x 9.75 inches • 7 photos, 13 ills, 4 maps • August 2020 HIS037040 • 978-1-91-311886-0

James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was a pivotal figure in the Civil War in Lancashire, between 1642-51, and in governance of North-West of England across a quarter of a Century. As Lord of the Isle of Man, he enjoyed quasi-royal powers and fostered a court culture on the island which expressed itself through poetry, plays, masques and conspicuous display.

Triumphing at the battles of Warrington, he tasted bitter defeat at Sabden Brook and Wigan Lane. Yet he, more than perhaps anyone, was savior of the Royalist cause after the Battle of Worcester, when he spirited the fugitive King Charles II to Boscobel Hall.

The New Knights

Wars & Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV Volume 4

The Development of Cavalry in Western Europe, 1562–1700 Frederic Chauvire Century of the Soldier Series $44.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 66 b/w ills, 3 photos, 15 color artworks, 6 b/w maps, 6 diags • January 2021 HIS037040 • 978-1-91-333648-6

This work analyses what constitutes the privileged combat action of heavy cavalry: the charge. A study centered on France but open to the whole of Europe, exploring the battlefields that dot this geographical area from the Wars of Religion to the War of the Spanish Succession. To embrace such a complex object of history, such an analysis must seek to cross tactical, sociocultural and anthropological perspectives. It must take an interest in the institutional and technical environment, in the actors, but above all in the principles which found this singular warrior practice, in his doctrine of use.

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The Armies of Spain and Portugal, 1660–1687 Bruno Mugnai Century of the Soldier Series $44.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 7.1 x 9.8 inches • 8-16 color plates, 70 photos, ills & diags Dec 2020 • HIS045000 • 978-1-91-333643-1

It has been a commonly held historical belief that in the second half of the 17th century, the Spanish army suffered such catastrophic defeats that it effectively brought about the collapse of the state as a major player on the European stage.

The wars, fought out in Catalonia, Franche Comté, Flanders, and Italy, resulted in a series of substantial defeats for Spain.

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Helion and z Company A Great Feat of Improvis -ation

1939–1940

Logistics and the British Expeditionary Force in France

Clem Maginniss $59.95 • Paperback • 432 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • 14 color maps, 6 color diags, 80 tables, 40 b/w photos & 10 color photos • December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-91-333615-8

A Great Feat of Improvisation redresses the long-standing lacuna in the historiography of the BEF: logistics. Wide ranging in reach, comprehensive in scope and meticulously researched, it lucidly demonstrates, through description and analysis, not only the importance of logistics to military operations during the campaign but provides fresh evidence and analysis on the deployment sustainment, operations and evacuation of the BEF in the period 1939-1940.

Turret versus Broadside

1860–1870

An Anatomy of British Naval Prestige, Revolution and Disaster,

Howard J. Fuller $49.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • 25 photos, 12 ills, 3-4 plans • December 2020 • HIS027150 • 978-1-91-333622-6

On the 150th anniversary of the capsizing of Britain’s low-freeboard yet fully-masted ironclad HMS Captain, this widely researched, intensive analysis of the great ‘turret vs. broadside’ debate sheds new light on how the most well-funded and professional navy in the world at the height of its power could nevertheless build an ‘inherently unstable’ capital ship.

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A Study in Leadership

The Tritton Chaser

Field Marshal Cavan–The Reluctant Chief, 1865–1946

The Medium Mark A Whippet Tank in Action on the Western Front 1918

Simon Doughty

R.M. Langham

$35.00 • Paperback 256 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • 16-20 b/w ills, 2 maps • January 2021 • HIS027090 978-1-91-333614-1

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Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, was a Grenadier Guardsman who served in the Boer War, later writing ‘..we heard as many bullets in the whole war as we heard in one day of the 1915–16 battles’. He retired in 1912 to be Master of the Hertfordshire Hunt, where he might have stayed had it not been for the outbreak of war in 1914.

He commanded a brigade, then the Guards Division, where he took the young Prince of Wales under his wing, and later an army in Italy. In 1922 he became Chief of the Imperial General Staff, an appointment for which he did not feel qualified.

The idea for a smaller, faster, more maneuverable type of tank was thought up by Sir William Tritton as early as September 1916 shortly after the first tanks saw action, the War Office gave the go ahead for the design of the ‘Tritton Chaser’ to proceed.

Emerging as a prototype in 1917, two hundred of the Medium Mark A tanks were initially ordered and the Army had high hopes for this fast tank, to act as a form of armored cavalry, soon nicknamed the ‘Whippet’. Persuaded by new designs, only two hundred Whippets were built and at their peak equipped two Battalions of the Tank Corps.

Operation Danube

Life after Nuclear War

Soviet and Warsaw Pact Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968

Britain’s Secret Plans to Survive World War Three, Volume 1: 1950–1970

David Francois Europe @ War Series $24.95 • Paperback • 72 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 90 photos, 4 maps, 18 color profiles Nov 2020 • POL005000 • 978-1-91-333629-5

Starting with a description of the history of Czechoslovakia, especially after the communist takeover of power in 1948, this volume describes the birth and development of the Prague Spring in 1968 and an attempt to reform the communist system from within. It recounts the hostility this process encountered on the part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR/Soviet Union), and its allies within the Warsaw Pact, and provoked a split in the Kremlin about solutions for the resulting ‘Czechoslovak problem’. The crisis that developed throughout the spring and summer of 1968 led to the military intervention.

Mark Rowe Europe @ War Series $24.95 • Paperback • 72 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 120 photos, maps & diags • January 2021 • HIS015000 • 978-1-91-333628-8

The twin atomic bombs that savaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed a horrified world what a Third World War might look like; its survivors even included British prisoners of war. Philosophers and politicians sought to come to terms with the new weaponry. As the Cold War began, the UK set up the Civil Defence Corps, mainly of volunteers, much like Air Raid Precautions of the 1939–45 war. At local, regional, and national level, exercises to test preparedness for nuclear war required planners to imagine how war would come, and what bombing would look like.

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Desert Storm Volume 2 Operation Desert Storm and Aftermath Ted Hooton Tom Cooper

The War in Northern Oman

75 Years of the Israeli Air Force Volume 1

Muscat and the Sultanate of Oman, 1954–1962

The First Quarter of a Century, 1948–1973

Peter Shergold

Bill Norton

Middle East @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 72 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 120 photos, 6 maps & diags, 15 color profiles • December 2020 • HIS026030 978-1-91-333635-6

Middle East @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 72 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 83 photos, 6 maps • January 2021 HIS019000 • 978-1-91-333633-2

Early in the morning of 2 August 1990, aircraft of the Iraqi Air Force bombed Kuwaiti air bases, and then the Iraqi Republican Guards stormed into the country.

Although encountering some problems, the Iraqi forces occupied Kuwait in a matter of a few days.

However, when President Saddam Hussein of Iraq unleashed his military upon Kuwait, little did he know what kind of reaction he would provoke from the Western superpowers, and what kind of devastation his country would suffer in return.

Concerned about the possibility of Iraq continuing its advance into Saudi Arabia, the USA–in coordination with Great Britain, France, and several local allies–reacted by deploying large contingents of their air, land and naval forces to the Middle East. Months of fruitless negotiations and the continuous military buildup–Operation Desert Shield–followed, as tensions continued to increase. Determined to retain Kuwait, and despite multiple warnings from his own generals, Saddam Hussein rejected all demands to withdraw. The USA and its allies, ‘the Coalition’, were equally as determined to drive out the invader and restore Kuwaiti independence. Gradually, they agreed this would have to be by force.

The war fought in northern Oman from 1954 until the mid-1960s is almost completely forgotten. Though ‘small’, it was a conflict of crucial importance for the nation on the southeastern side of the Arab Peninsula.

While usually thought to have been fought–and won–exclusively by special forces, capacity building, and training of native forces, a closer look reveals an entirely different picture. The victory and lasting peace were actually secured by a conventional military campaign dominated by offensive operations, followed by an entirely separate civilian development program. The role of special forces was overemphasized–not only in regards of their relative number of operations, but also in regards of their impact–while the insurgency was suppressed by punitive means, and the capacity building remained limited during the war.

It was only once offensive operations were completed that the development program contributed to the lasting peace. This peace, in turn, would have been impossible without the conventional military campaign. As such, this ‘small’ conflict proved of crucial importance for the nation on the southeastern side of the Arab Peninsula.

Middle East @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 92 b/w photos, 23 color photos, 15 color profiles, 4 maps, 4 charts, 8 tables November 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-91-333634-9

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In May 2023, Israel will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of its founding as a state, and also the 75th anniversary of the establishment of its air force.

The maturation of what was once the Israel Defense Force/Air Force (IDF/AF), and since 2005 is the Israeli Air-Space Force (IASF), is a fascinating study of a military force working to meet shifting obligations under multiple impediments while being repeatedly tested in combat. Many factors over the seven and a half decades shaped its air fighting capability, not the least being the demands of the evolving battlefield, uncertain funding, available weapons, and quality of personnel. Tactics and doctrine were, in turn, shaped by government policies, international pressures, and confronting adversaries likewise evolving. When the trials in war, or combat short of war came, success was a measure of its weapons’ suitability, relevancy of training, and experience of personnel.

This volume documents this evolution of the Israeli air force throughout its history by examination of all of these factors.

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South African Armoured Fighting Vehicles A History of Innovation and Excellence, 1960–2020 Dr Dewald Venter Africa @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 120 photos, 22 color profiles, 24 tables, 1 map • October 2020 • HIS047000 978-1-91-333625-7

During the Cold War, Africa became a prime location for proxy wars between the East and the West. Against the backdrop of a steep rise in liberation movements backed by Eastern Bloc communist countries such as Cuba and the Soviet Union, southern Africa saw one of the most intense wars ever fought on the continent.

Subjected to international sanctions due to its policies of racial segregation, known as Apartheid, South Africa was cut off from sources of major arms systems from 1977. Over the following years, the country became involved in the war in Angola, which gradually grew in ferocity and converted into a conventional war.

With the available equipment being ill-suited to the local, hot, dry and dusty climate, and confronted with the omnipresent threat of land mines, the South Africans began researching and developing their own, often ground-breaking and innovative weapon systems.

The results were designs for some of the most robust armored vehicles produced anywhere in the world for their time, and highly influential for further development in multiple fields ever since.

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Ripe For Rebellion

For God and the CIA

Insurgency and Covert War in the Congo, 1960–1965

Cuban Exile Forces in the Congo and Beyond

Stephen Rookes

Stephen Rookes

Africa @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 90 photos, 6 maps, 15 color profiles November 2020 • HIS001000 978-1-91-333623-3

Africa @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 100 photos, 6 maps, 15 color profiles December 2020 • HIS001000 978-1-91-333624-0

After many years of political struggle, the Belgian Congo was finally granted its independence in June 1960.

Becoming the Republic of the Congo and later the Democratic Republic of the Congo, what was supposed to be a momentous occasion in the country’s history was rapidly transformed into a bitter internecine political battle which would tear the Congo apart. Within weeks, two Congolese provinces had declared their own independence putting the Congo’s economic future in jeopardy.

Recruiting hundreds of white mercenaries to sustain its secession, mineral-rich Katanga then attempted to fight off all attempts to bring it back into the fold. By early 1963 the mercenaries had been forced to leave by the UN, but other major outbreaks of armed protest against the Congolese government were taking place. The most significant of these were the Stanleyville, Kindu and Kivu Rebellions led by supporters of Patrice Lumumba, the former Prime Minister assassinated in January 1961.

With the Soviet Union, the Republic of China and radical African governments all aiding rebel movements, what was a series of localized conflicts became a proxy war between the East and the West.

As United Nations armed forces found themselves struggling to quell a series of armed rebellions, towards the end of 1962 the United States increased its military role in the Congo Crisis by providing the Congolese government with a small air force. Unarmed, and used firstly as a show of strength, this air force grew rapidly in size and power and provided air cover to government forces in operations against anti-government forces up to 1967.

Recognizing that a threat existed in the east of the Congo with weapons and supplies being transported across Lake Tanganyika, the Central Intelligence Agency then put in place a naval force to patrol Congolese waters and to prepare areas for attacks made by mercenaries. The presence of this navy proved to be crucial in limiting supplies and persuaded Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara that his attempt to provoke widespread communist revolution in Central Africa was forlorn.

The mission in the Congo was not the first operation against Communist forces for those who made up the air and naval forces. Should it not be understood who these men were, they were not US citizens and neither was their battle with the Congolese: these men were Cuban exiles fighting for an ideology and for the CIA.

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Air Power and the Arab World, 1909–1955 Volume 3 Colonial Skies, 1918–1936 David Nicolle Middle East @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 120 b/w photos, 21 color profiles, 6 maps • December 2020 • HIS026000 978-1-91-333632-5

The earliest of the Arab air forces to be established trace their histories back to the 1920s and 30s when the overwhelming majority of Arab countries, were ruled or dominated by four European powers.

Based on decades of consistent research and newly available sources in both Arabic and various European languages, richly illustrated with a wide range of authentic photography, Volume 3 of the Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 mini-series continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World. It describes the role, organizational structure and activities of the air forces of Britain, France, Italy, and Spain which were sent to the Arab countries. It also looks at the early years of two neighboring air forces, those of the Persian (Iranian) and Ethiopian Empires whose early emergence was viewed jealousy in some Arab capitals.

Volume 3 continues this story by describing operations of the British, French, Italian and Spanish air forces in the Arab world after the First World War, but also the emergence of the first Arab air forces in the shadow of the substantial European air force units stationed in that area.

“Go Find Him and Bring Paulista War Volume 2 The Last Civil War in Brazil, 1932 Me Back His Hat” The Royal Navy’s Anti-Submarine Campaign in the Falklands/ Malvinas War Mariano Sciaroni Andy Smith Latin America @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 72 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 88 photos, 8 maps, 1 diag, 6 tables, 15 color profiles • December 2020 • HIS015000 978-1-91-333639-4

When the Task Force of the Royal Navy started its southbound voyage, as the second major act during the Falklands/Malvinas War of 1982, its commanders assessed the Argentine submarines as the biggest threat. Even if limited in total size and scope, this threat was so conditioning that the conclusion was that it had to be neutralized at the earliest possible moment in time, otherwise no victory would have been possible.

The British believed that the Argentines would wait for them in the waters of the war zone with two modern and dangerous German-made Type-209 submarines, and a modified US-made submarine from the times of the Second World War. To their good luck, this threat was quickly reduced to two, because during the first naval combat of the conflict, the old ARA Santa Fe was knocked out and captured by the Royal Navy at South Georgia.

Because the other Argentinean Type-209, ARA Salta, was non-operational, the withdrawal of the ARA San Luis also prompted the withdrawal of all the major units of the Argentine Navy into shallow waters off the coast of South America.

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Javier G. de Gabiola Latin America @ War Series $29.95 • Paperback • 72 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 100 photos, 6 maps, 18 color profiles January 2021 • HIS037070 • 978-1-91-333637-0

On 9 July 1932, about 35,000 men from the federal states of Sao Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul rose in arms against the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas, demanding the return to constitutionality and democracy. This became known as the Constitutionalist movement and its members became known as the Paulistas.

The Brazilian government reacted with brute force: it deployed over 100,000 troops supported by heavy artillery and combat aircraft. The result was the biggest war ever fought in Brazil: the first ever campaign to see strategic aerial bombardment conducted in all of the Americas, the first aircraft shot down in air combats, and the first to see night bombing operations.

Following three months of bitter fighting–which often degenerated into trench warfare–the Paulistas were defeated. Indeed, the end of this conflict brought an end to a period of successive civil wars fought in Brazil since 1889.

Paulista War–the first authoritative account of this conflict ever published in the English language–provides a detailed account of both aerial and ground combat operations. It is lavishly illustrated with a collection of authentic photographs and exclusive color profiles, and as such is an indispensable source of reference about this crucial moment in the history of the largest country in South America.

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HMH Publications z Dassault Mirage III/5

Bae Harrier GR7/ GR9 & Boeing AV8B Harrier II Plus

Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

$31.00 • Paperback • 116 pages • 9.45 x 9.45 inches • 300+ images • July 2020 HIS027140 • 978-2-931083-03-1

A close up of probably the most famous French Delta ever: the Mirage III and the Mirage 5. Aircraft from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and many more countries are included. A unique view of the cockpit, fuselage, wings, landing gear, avionics, engine and a lot of previously unseen action. Cockpit includes single seat and two-seat versions. Perfect reference for detailing scale modelers as well!

A complete close-up of the Harrier II, in service with the RAF, US Marine Corps and the Italian and Spanish Navy.Every aspect of the aircraft and the differences between the sub-types are included. 14 pages of cockpit (both single-seat and two-seat versions) are included. Action photos include sea-operations, air-to-air photography, operations in the Middle East and much more. A true reference with over 400 photos!

MiG-31 Foxhound

Juan Carlos I– Spanish Aircraft Carrier

Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Aircraft Carrier in Detail

$31.00 • Paperback • 108 pages 9.45 x 9.45 inches • 300+ images Currently Available • HIS027140 978-2-931083-01-7

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck $31.00 • Paperback • 108 pages • 9.45 x 9.45 inches • 250+ images • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-2-931083-02-4

The first book in a new book series by HMH Publications. This series, on aircraft carriers, starts with a close look at the Spanish Aircraft Carrier Juan Carlos I. This book includes action and details of the EAV-8B Harrier II, helicopters, assault ships, and much more. It offers a detailed look at the ship’s flight deck, crew, command bridge, internal structure, hangar, lift and defense systems. The first time such an in depth portrait of this ship has been made! It also shows Rota, the home base of the ship and the units, on board, where maintenance is done.

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$35.00 • Paperback • 140 pages 9.45 x 9.45 inches • 400+ images • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-2-931083-00-0

A close up of the MiG-31 Foxhound. The first publication offering this much of detailed photographs of the Mach 3 Russian interceptor. Fuselage, landing gear, engine, wings and a unique close-up of the cockpit (both front and aft cockpit) of the standard version of the Mig-31 and the modernized MiG-31BM. Close-up of the weapons included, such as the R-33 and R-40 missiles, as well as the internal gun. The only book available with so much detail of this impressive jet!

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Kagero z•z Beutepanzer

Panzerknacker

Marek Jaszczolt Arkadiusz Wróbel

Massimiliano Afiero

$24.95 • Paperback • 16 pages 8 x 10.8 inches • 16 color profiles, decal sheet • Currently Available CRA020000 • 978-83-66148-55-0

- Pz.Kpfw. 38H (f) (Hotchkiss H35 mod.39) “Paderborn”—France, Summer 1940.

- Bren 731 (e) (Scout Carrier)—5. Flughafen-Betriebs-Kompanie, Luftwaffe II./KG55 airfield, Chartres, France 1940/41.

- Pz.Kpfw. T.K.S. (p) (TK-S), Poland, May 1941 -Schwimm-Pz.Kpfw. T-38 (r)—Sanitatsabteilung 30., 30. Infanterie Division, Russia 1941 - Schwimm-Pz.Kpfw. T-40 (r)—2. Batterie, Sturmgeschuetz-Abteilung 203. –Eastern Front, Winter 1941-1942.

- Gepanzerter Mannschaftstransportwagen M3 (a) (Halfttrack M3)—FlakDivision 19., Tunisia, 1943 - Leichte Panzer M3 (a) (M3A1 Stuart) Tunisia, 1943 - M10—Italy, 1943 -Pz.Kpfw. 35S 739 (f) (Somua S35)—callsign „101”. Pz.Abt. 211, Finland, Winter 1943-1944.

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, S, F, G Krzysztof Janowicz

$37.95 • Paperback • 96 • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 224 archival photos Currently Available • HIS027100 978-83-66148-26-0

A new volume dedicated to the close range antitank fight by German tank hunters during the Second World War, with the treatment in particular of the actions carried out by the Waffen SS fighters and with the relative detailed list of the decorated with the Badge for destroyers of tank, with a brief biography for each of them.

A detailed review of the weapons used and fighting techniques, with the publication of official documents published by the command of the German Army for troop training. A large part is dedicated to the same Badge for tank destroyers, with information and photos of the various versions.

The complete translations of the two manuals ‘Die Panzerfaust’ and ‘Der Panzerknacker’ complete the work, with all the original pages in German and the relative translation in English. The volume is completely illustrated with hundreds of original b/w and color photographs and reproductions of manuals and documents of the period.

Ikarus IK-2 Aleksandar M Ognjevic Branislav J. Mirkov

Monographs Special Edition • 96012 $39.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 374 archive photos, 26 painting schemes • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-83-66148-72-7

Monographs Special Edition • 96013 $39.95 • Hardback • 196 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 96 archive photos, sheets with scale drawings, 140 profiles Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66148-62-8

This monograph on the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, WW2 German fighter plane, discusses the origins and development of its A, F, G and S versions, which prototypes and fighter, assault, fighter-bomber, reconnaissance and trainer production variants are specified and described, including technical specifications and changes made in all sub-variants and conversions.

All used types of armament: shooting weapons, bombs, missiles and torpedos are listed.

The book also contains the production list of Fw 190 A with serial numbers and technical data of each variant. In a separate chapter, the author describes camouflage schemes and markings of Fw 190s used in combat units on the basis of particular examples.

Despite the favored acquisitions abroad by the VVKJ conservatives, in the early 1932 an idea to develop a modern combat airplane was initiated by two young Serbian engineers, Ljubomir D. Ilic and Kosta I. Sivcev, who were at the time employed at the Air Force Command Technical Department.

They worked in secret after hours at Ilic’s apartment and designed the first entirely Yugoslav made fighter airplane, the IK-L1, which first took off on 22 April 1935. The second prototype, IK-02, construction began ten months later and the airplane took off for the first time on 24 August 1936.

The first 12 series airplanes construction followed in 1937 with the last airplane entering service in February 1939. At the time of the German attack, on 6 April 1941, VVKJ could rely on eight IK-2s, which served with distinction during the short and bloody April war.

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Kagero • Top Series z •Drawings z The German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen Góralski

Waldemar

7086 • $24.95 • Paperback • 28 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches • drawing sheets, color profiles Currently Available • HIS027100 978-83-66148-73-4

The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was an enlarged version of the Admiral Hipper class ships. She took part in the first mission of the battleship Bismarck, during which they sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood. Having split with Bismarck, Prinz Eugen was supposed to commence hunting the Allied convoys, but due to engine failure she sailed back to France. Once repaired, she participated in Operation Cerberus ­—the passage of German ships from France to Germany through English Channel.

The British Fighter Aircraft S.E. 5a Maciej Noszczak 7089 • $24.95 Paperback • 20 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches • drawing sheets, color profiles Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66148-76-5

The Royal Aircraft Factory in Farnborough was ordered to design and build a fighter that would match the armament, performance and engine power of its adversaries. An important requirement was also the ease of piloting, so that new pilots could gain combat value as soon as possible. In the summer of 1916, a prototype of a new biplane was ready. The plane had a truss construction with a rectangular fuselage (with a rounded top). It was powered by a 150 HP Hispano-Suiza HS-8 in-line 8-cylinder engine.

The wings had a rectangular shape, and their chamber was stiffened with double steel wires, four struts and additional strands. Ailerons were mounted on each wing.

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The Sukhoi Su-24

M16 Half-Track

Stanislaw Krzysztof Mokwa

Mariusz Motyka

7087 $24.95 Paperback 20 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-83-66148-74-1

Su-24 (Fencer) is a Soviet jet bomber with variable-geometry wings. The aircraft was supposed to be a response to the American F-111, and therefore it’s structurally similar. Su-24 can operate in any weather conditions, also at night.

It was designed to carry tactical nuclear weapons.

In the 1960s, the military command of the Soviet Union set requirements for a new attack aircraft that would be able to operate despite strong ant-aircraft defense of NATO troops. An aircraft was expected to fly on a very low altitude at a very high speeds. Initially, it was based on Su-7 and Su-15 airframes, but due to the decision to use variable-geometry wing, it was necessary to build a completely new structure.

7088 • $24.95 Paperback 24 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • drawing sheets, color profiles Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-83-66148-75-8

The M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (M16 MGMC) also known as M16 half-track, was a US self-propelled antiaircraft gun built during World War Two. The chassis of the half-rack armored personnel carrier was used to build various variants of self-propelled guns. They were tested on training grounds. Some of them were accepted for military service, series production and then they would see combat. These mainly included self-propelled antiaircraft guns armed with large-caliber 12.7 mm machine guns. In the Autumn of 1941, the first vehicles of this type were tested. The basic requirement of their design was to combine the half-track transporter chassis with a self-propelled revolving turret, the very same as the ones mounted on the bomber aircraft.

The Japanese Battleship Nagato 1944 Waldemar Góralski 7090 • $24.95 • Paperback • 28 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • drawing sheets, color profiles Currently Available • HIS027100 978-83-66148-78-9

The battleship Nagato was the first dreadnought equipped with a main artillery with a caliber exceeding 400 mm. It was armed with eight 406 mm (16 in) guns. The keel of Nagato was laid in 1917 in the naval shipyard in Kure. The ship was launched in 1919 and incorporated into service on November 15, 1920. The sister unit was Mutsu. Before the war, Nagato underwent many modifications and repairs increasing combat value of the ship. With the outbreak of World War II, Nagato became the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. The attack on Pearl Harbor was ordered from this battleship’s deck.

Sd.Kfz.173 Jagdpanther Krzysztof Mucha

978-83-66148-77-2

7091 • $24.95 Paperback • 34 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027100

Sd.Kfz. 173 Jagdpanther is a German tank destroyer developed by Krupp and Daimler-Benz.

The order was placed in August 1943 and the vehicle entered service in the first months of 1944. It was armed with a very effective antitank tank gun. PaK 43 cal. 88 mm. The destroyer’s combat compartment was armored with 40 to 100 mm thick (front plate) armor plates. From January 1944, 415 pieces were produced (at the MIAG, MNH and MBA factories).

The vehicle was based on the chassis of the Panther Ausf. G, but it didn’t have as many technical problems as the mentioned tank. Due to the favorable power-to-weight ratio, Jagdpanther had good performance and maneuverability.

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Kagero • Top Drawings &z Monographs Series Medium Tank M3 Lee / M3 Grant

Panzer III Ausf. J/L/M/K Stefan Draminski

M3A1, M3A2, M3A4, M3A5 Zajaczkowski

Slawomir

7092 • $24.95 • Paperback • 28 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • drawing sheets, color profiles Currently Available • HIS027100 978-83-66148-79-6

M3 General Lee–an American medium tank from World War II era, also used by the British army. In the US, known as Lee, in the United Kingdom as Grant. M3 tank was created as a result of the need to replace the obsolete M2 tank, which did not match the WWII battlefield.

The serial production began in August 1941.

The M3 tank had many components from the M2 light tank, including chassis, Wright R975 EC2 star engine and the shape of the combat compartment.

Available • HIS027100 978-83-66148-85-7

7093 • $24.95 Paperback • 24 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently

The PzKpfw III (Panzerkampfwagen III) is a German medium tank designed by Daimler-Benz AG. The first tests of the vehicle took place in 1936. The construction of the PzKpfw III consisted of four main modules: the turret, the front of the hull, the rear of the hull with the engine compartment cover and the lower hull.

The first version of PzKpfw III–Ausf. A–was produced in May 1937. Soon after, the Ausf. B and C versions also entered production. Ausf. D version was introduced in January 1938. Early PzKpfw III models were prototype vehicles and were not suitable for mass production on a large scale. They were powered by Maybach HL 108 TR petrol engines with 250 HP.

Fairey Swordfish

Dassault Mirage F1s

Mk. I, II, III, IV, Floatplane

Salvador Mafe Huertas

Anirudh Rao 7095 • $24.95 Paperback • 20 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches • drawing sheets, color profiles Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66148-87-1

Fairey Swordfish was a British biplane torpedo-bomber and reconnaissance aircraft designed to operate from aircraft carriers or as a reconnaissance seaplane operating from catapult launchers.

The prototype was built in 1933 at the Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd. The aircraft had its first flight in 1933, too. It had an open cabin for a three-man crew and a fixed landing gear. It was powered by a Bristol Pegasus II M (640 hp) star engine.

In 1934, Fairey Aviation released a second prototype that was equipped with a 690 hp Bristol Pegasus III M3 engine. The new type could also use floats. Series production began in 1935.

Monographs 3069 $28.95 • Paperback 96 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches 180 archival photos, 10 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-83-66148-81-9

The Mirage F1 emerged from a series of design studies performed by French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation. Having originally sought to develop a larger swept wing derivative of the Mirage III, which became the Mirage F2, to serve as a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) propulsion testbed akin to the Dassault Mirage IIIV, however, it was soon recognized that the emerging design could function as the basis for a competent fighter as well. Both the Mirage F2 and a smaller derivative, referred to the Mirage F3, received substantial attention from both Dassault and the French Air Force, the latter being interested in its adoption as a long-range fighter bomber as a stopgap measure prior to the adoption of the envisioned Anglo-French Variable Geometry (AFVG) strike aircraft.

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Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, I Trop, II, II Meteo, Sea Gladiator, J-8 Marek Rys 7094 • $24.95 Paperback • 24 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-8366148-86-4

The prototype was created in 1934. It was powered by a 645 HP Bristol Mercury VIS engine.

Gloster Gladiator Mk I had a 8382 mm long fuselage, which consisted of four numbered sections.

The first of these included the engine bed.

The second front fuselage, the third–the rear fuselage, and the fourth–tail. The arrangement of instrumentation and equipment inside the truss was marked with letters or numbered from one to eight fuselage partitions corresponding to the distances between the frames. Clearly straight main panels with a span of 9845 mm were built around two Hawker steel girders.

Hawker Siddeley (BAe), McDonnellDouglas/ Boeing Harrier AV8S/TAV-8S & AV-8B/ B+/TAV-8B Salvador Mafe Huertas Monographs 3069 • $28.95 • Paperback 138 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 300 archival photos, 4 color profiles • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-83-66148-83-3

The birth of the Ninth Squadron of the Spanish Navy Fleet Air Arm took place in 1987 with the receipt of the first three AV-8B aircraft from McDonnell Douglas factory in St. Louis on October 6 of that year. Deliveries continued for a total of 12 AV-8B Harrier IIs (numbered 01- 901 to 01-912) commonly known as “Day Attack” to differentiate them from later models Night Attack and AV-8B+ or “Radar” Aircraft.

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Kagero • Kitbuild & Super z • z Drawings in 3D Series Grumman F-14 Tomcat

T-34

Robert Skalbania Adrian Wolnicki

$23.95 • Paperback • 56 pages 8.25 x 11.69 inches • 168 photos, 6 color profiles, decal sheet • Currently Available • HIS027100 978-83-66148-84-0

Tomasz Janiszewski

$23.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.69 inches • 186 photos, 10 color profiles, decal sheet is 1/48 and 1/72 scale • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66148-56-7

New book series for all warfare and scale modeling fans, describing the most famous aircrafts and vehicles. In each issue you will find a work in progress article, paint schemes and Cartograf’s decals!

F-14 Tomcat—American, supersonic deck fighter, with variable-sweep wing, developed by the Grumman Corporation. Initially it was used mainly for the fleet defense, gaining the air advantage and providing the tactical recon, but eventually Tomcats were adapted for the ground strikes too.

Decals: Grumman F-14A Tomcat, BuNo 160678, no. 207, VF-111 “Sundowners”, USS “Carl Vinson”, November, 1982.

This early production T-34/76 with F-34 gun was repainted Dunkelgrau RAL 7021 and used by Waffen-SS. An additional storage box was fitted to the left side of the hull.

T-34/76 with L-11 gun captured and used by Wehrmacht. It remained in its original camouflage scheme of overall 4BO dark green.

A STZ-built T-34/76 model 1941 with F-34 gun coded 4 of 21st Independent Tank Brigade, autumn 1941. It received a standard finish in 4BO dark green.

A STZ-built T-34/76 model 1941 with F-34 gun. The tank was painted in 4BO dark green and sported a white propaganda inscription “Beat the fascists” on both sides of the turret.

The American Destroyer USS Fletcher 1942

The Soviet Skoryi Class Destroyer

Waldemar Góralski

$37.95 • Paperback • 84 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 156 profiles, B2 drawing sheets • Currently Available HIS027100 978-83-66148-30-7

Oleg Pomoshnikov

$37.95 • Paperback • 84 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • 156 profiles, B2 drawing sheets • Currently Available HIS027100 978-83-66148-82-6

When, in the early 1930s, the Americans began modernizing their navy, they considered the replacement of old destroyers from the Great War as one of the most urgent tasks. However, the new projects, disappointed and dissatisfied the sailors. Some of these vessels were heavily overloaded (e.g. Sims class and early Benson ships), as a result some of the weaponry had to be removed. By proceeding with the design of subsequent series of destroyers, efforts were made to respect the Treaty restrictions (London, 1936). The originally formulated requirements envisaged a destroyer with a displacement of 1,600 tons and armament consisting of not less than 4.5inch (127 mm) guns and 10 x 533mm torpedo tubes and a speed of 36 knots.

There were six variants of vessels slightly different from earlier Benson and Sims classes. It soon became apparent that additional requirements could not be met within the limits of this displacement. This mainly concerned making space for a 28-mm quadruple automatic cannon and more powerful ASuW weapons.

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The “Smelyi” type destroyer, Project 30 bis (Skoryi class, according to NATO classification), was the first destroyer designed and built after World War two with new shipbuilding technologies available in the USSR. World War Two demonstrated that all early-built Soviet destroyers had serious flaws. Poor seaworthiness, hull fragility, lack of displacement reserves for modernization. The technical design and working drawings of the new EM were developed under the leadership of the main designer A.L. Fisher. On 28 January 1947, by order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N3 149-75 “On the construction of destroyers of the 30K and 30 bis Projects”, the technical design developed in TsKB-53 was approved.

The construction of ships of this series was to take place at four shipyards: No. 190 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), No. 200 in Mikolayov, No. 199 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and No. 402 in Molotov (now the town of Severodvinsk).

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Mushroom Model Publications / Stratus z Cruisers of the III Reich.

Volume 1

Cruisers of the III Reich. Volume 2

Witold Koszela

$52.00 • Hardback • 200 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photo, scale plans, color profiles July 2020 • HIS027150 978-8-36-595885-3

Witold Koszela

$52.00 • Hardback • 200 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photo, scale plans, color profiles August 2020 • HIS027150 978-8-36-595884-6

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place (two volumes) the stories of all the German cruisers that were in Kriegsmarine service.

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. Going back to the history of the service, trying not to forget about the many curiosities in this policy and people who have a direct influence on their fate.

Many excellent quality photographs primarily from private collections.

All the ships are described and illustrated with full technical specifications.

Profusely illustrated with scale drawings and color illustrations.

Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883–2019, Volume One

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place (two volumes) the stories of all the German cruisers that were in Kriegsmarine service.

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. Going back to the history of the service, trying not to forget about the many curiosities in this policy and people who have a direct influence on their fate.

Many excellent quality photographs primarily from private collections.

All the ships are described and illustrated with full technical specifications.

Profusely illustrated with scale drawings and color illustrations.

Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883–2019, Volume Two

Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883–2019, Volume Three

Fleet Carriers, Battle Carries and Light Carriers

Battleships and “New Navy” Monitors

Cruisers and Command Ships

Venner F Milewski jr

Venner F Milewski jr

$52.00 • Hardback • 240 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos • August 2020 • HIS027110 • 978-8-36-654900-5

$52.00 • Hardback • 240 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos • November 2020 • HIS027110 • 978-8-36-654901-2

$52.00 • Hardback • 240 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos • February 2021 • HIS027110 • 978-8-36-654902-9

This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship’s history and development. Profusely illustrated with photos. An essential manual for all US Navy enthusiasts and historians. Volume One - Fleet Carriers, Battle Carries and Light Carriers

This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship’s history and development. Profusely illustrated with photos. An essential manual for all US Navy enthusiasts and historians. Volume Two Battleships and “New Navy” Monitors

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Venner F Milewski jr

This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship’s history and development. Profusely illustrated with photos. An essential manual for all US Navy enthusiasts and historians.

Volume Three - Cruisers and Command Ships

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Mushroom Model z • z Publications Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21MF Dariusz Karnas Scale Plans No. 65 $11.99 • Paperback 12 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • Scale plans 1/72 & 1/48 scale • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-8-36-654907-4

Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales of the MiG-21MF versions.

A3 size pages in A4 pb.

12 A3 size scale plans.

PZL P.11c Bartlomiej Belcarz Tomasz Kopalski

Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik Two-seat Versions

McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15 Eagle

Victor Povinsky

JP Vieira

Scale Plans No. 64 $11.99 • Paperback 24 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • Scale plans • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-8-36-595867-9

Spotlight On No. 23 $29.00 • Hardback 80 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • color profiles September 2020 HIS027140 • 978-8-36-595891-4

Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scale of the famous Russian Ilyushin Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, two-seat versions.

40 color profiles of the famous F-15 Eagle, a US Cold-War era jet aircraft. US and foreign users are shown in variety of camouflages.

SAAB 35 Draken Mikael Forslund Marek Radomski

Yellow Series 6145 $35.00 • Paperback 152 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, and color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027100 978-8-36-654906-7

Yellow Series 6144 $39.00 • Paperback 200 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • November 2020 HIS027140 • 978-8-36-595886-0

The second edition, revised and extended.

This is the story of Poland’s most famous fighter aircraft. It contains: Scale plans in 1/48 scale.

Photos and drawings from technical manuals.

Superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, walk-around color photographs of the only one preserved aircraft, and rare b+w archive photographs.

This is an essential reading for aviation enthusiasts & scale aeromodelers.

The Saab 35 Draken (The kite in English) is a Swedish fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by SAAB between 1955 and 1974.

Draken was a design ahead of its time, producing the revolutionary double-delta wing mainplane configuration. It was also the first fully supersonic aircraft to be deployed in Western Europe.

The Draken was introduced into service with the Swedish Air Force (SAF) on 8 March 1960. Drakens served from 1960 through 2005 and proved their worth in over 640 production aircraft.

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Macchi C.202 Folgore 3rd edition Przemyslaw Skulski Karolina Holda Orange Series 8122 • $35.00 • Paperback • 120 pages • 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-8-36-595889-1

This expanded 3rd edition contains: scale plans, photos and drawings from Technical Manuals, superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, and rare b&w archive photographs.

Color photos of the preserved aircraft illustrate all aspects of the airframe.

Essential reading for aviation enthusiasts & scale aeromodellers.

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Messerschmitt Bf PZL Karas II (PZL.23B) 109 G–2

Supermarine Spitfire Iia

Lockheed P–38G–15–LO Lightning

Dariusz Karnas Karolina Holda

Dariusz Karnas Karolina Holda

$11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photo, color photos, scale plans, color profiles Currently Available • HIS027100 978-8-36-595881-5

$11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photo, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-8-36-595882-2

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2.

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the PZL Kara? II.

Potez 63-11

Messerschmitt Bf Mitsubishi A5M5 109 F-4 Model 52 Zero

Morane Saulnier MS.406

Dariusz Karnas Karolina Holda

Dariusz Karnas Zygmunt Szeremeta

Dariusz Karnas Karolina Holda

$11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • July 2020 • HIS027100 978-8-36-595894-5

$11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • July 2020 • HIS027100 978-8-36-595895-2

$11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-8-36-595896-9

This book includes compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4.

This book includes compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Mitsubishi A5M5 Model 52 Zero.

This book includes compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Morane Saulnier MS.406.

Dariusz Karnas Teodor Liviu Morosanu $11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-8-36-595893-8

This book includes compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Potez 63-11. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W and color.

Robert Grudzien $11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photo, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-8-36-595883-9

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Supermarine Spitfire IIa.

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Dariusz Karnas Artur Juszczak $11.99 • Paperback • 24 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-8-36-595892-1

This book includes compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Lockheed P-38G-15LO Lightning.

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North American Aviation O-47 Dan Hagedorn Ted Williams $52.00 • Paperback • 240 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, scale plans, color profiles • November 2020 HIS027140 • 978-8-36-595890-7

Book describes in the great detail the development history and service history of this overlooked aircraft.

Many unpublished photos, color profiles and scale plans complete the story.

Scapa Flow Home of the Royal Navy 1939–1945 Krzysztof Kubiak Maritime Series No. 3110 $52.00 • Paperback • 240 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, maps • November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-8-36654903-6

Because of its great distance from German airfields, Scapa Flow was again selected as the main British naval base during the Second World War.

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Tupolev Tu-2, Sukhoi UTB-2, Shcherbakov Shche-2 Lechoslaw Musialkowski Karolina Holda Polish Wings Series No. 28 $25.00 • Paperback • 80 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photo, scale plans, color profiles October 2020 • HIS027140 978-8-36-595887-7

The next book in the popular Polish Wings series is on the famous Russian WW2 bombers and trainers.

Renault R35 & R40 Through a German Lens Alan Ranger Camera On Series No 26 $25.00 • Paperback • 80 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos February 2021 • HIS027100 978-8-36-595899-0

The Renault R35, an abbreviation of Char léger Modèle 1935 R or R35, was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War.

Yugoslav Fighter Colours 1918– 1941. Volume 1

Polish Armoured Trains 1921–1939

Ognjan Petrovic Djordie Nikolic

$79.00 • Hardback • 400 pages 11 x 8.2 inches • B&W photos, color profiles • January 2021 HIS027080 • 978-8-36-595888-4

White Series No. 9141 $55.00 • Hardback • 200 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos, color photos, color profiles • July 2020 • HIS027140 978-8-36-595857-0

This book describes in detail the camouflage and markings of the day fighters used by the Yugoslav Air Force from 1918 to 1941.

15 cm sIG 33 Schweres Infanterie Geschutz 33 Alan Ranger Camera On Series No 25 $25.00 • Paperback • 80 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos November 2020 • HIS027100 978-8-36-595898-3

The 15 cm sIG 33 (schweres Infanterie Geschütz 33, “Heavy Infantry Gun”) was the standard German heavy infantry gun.

Adam Jonca

The book discusses in detail the history of armored trains that are on the armament of the Polish army from the end of the Soviet war to the end of the 1939 war campaign.

Opel Blitz 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 Ton Lorries Alan Ranger Camera On Series No 24 $25.00 • Paperback • 80 pages 8.2 x 11.8 inches • B&W photos October 2020 • HIS027100 978-8-36-595897-6

Opel Blitz (German for “lightning”) was the name given to various light and middle-weight truck series built by the German Opel automobile manufacturer.

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z Centrum Progress Karwansaray Publishers • Model

The Art of Medieval Warfare

Sherman Firefly

Peter Konieczny

$48.95 • Paperback • 88 pages • 11 x 8.5 inches • 148 b&w photos, 8 pp 1/35 scale drawings, 29 technical sketches, 32 color plates • Currently Available • HIS027100 • 978-8-36-067232-7 Model Centrum Progress

$21.95 • Paperback • 100 pages • 8.3 x 11.7 inches • color illustrations • November 2020 • HIS037010 • 978-94-90258-21-4 Karwansaray publishers

The 2020 special edition of Medieval Warfare is a compilation of covers, battle scenes and unit reconstructions from the first fifty issues of the magazine.

Compiled and edited by Peter Konieczny, with contributions from the rest of the Medieval Warfare staff, this 100-page full-color book features artwork by favorite illustrators such as Jose Cabrera-Pena, Darren Tan, Rocio Espin, and Zvonimir Grbasic to name but a few.

Also included are articles by the staff with insight into our philosophy for commissioning artwork, and a “behind-the-scenes” look at how illustrations are produced.

Peter Brown

By the final stages of WWII the American Sherman had become the mainstay of British and Commonwealth armies. However German tanks had increased their armor thickness which mean its original 75 mm gun was no longer adequate.

To counter this the 17-pdr anti-tank gun was fitted to many tanks, providing them with enough firepower to defeat the Tigers and Panthers. This book covers the Firefly’s development, production and service in British, Canadian, New Zealand, South African, Czechoslovak and Polish armies.

It includes 148 period black and white photos, extracts from original documents, 1/35th scale plans and color plates.

Its author has researched British AFVs for over 40 years, written two other books for Model Centrum Progres and contributed many articles to professional and modeling magazines.

Includes: 88 pages, 148 b&w photos, 8 pp 1/35 scale drawings, 29 technical sketches, 32 color plates.

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Last Panzer Battles in Hungary Spring 1945 Norbert Számvéber $69.95 • Hardback • 486 pages • 12 x 8.5 inches November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-615-558329-2 • Model Centrum Progress

In the last phase of the Second World War the Sixth Panzer Army was the last army available to the German military leadership which was more or less intact and was capable of launching a major offensive.

After it had been withdrawn from the Western front in the aftermath of the failed Ardennes counter offensive, it was replenished with men and gears as fully as was possible in the given circumstances, and as a result it almost regained its 1944 autumn strength. It would not have been a surprise if it had been deployed on German territory against the Allied troops advancing to Rhine, or in Silesia or in the Baltics or even if it had been sent as a reinforcement to the Army Group Vistula to defend the distant approaches to Berlin against the advancing Soviet army—reinforcement and fresh troops capable of launching counter offensives were desperately needed everywhere. But it happened otherwise: the Sixth Army was deployed in Hungary and participated in the Operation Spring Awakening, launched in the western part of the country on 6th of March, 1945. This was the last German “big offensive” in the course of the Second World War.

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PeKo Publishing z Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 2

From Bessarabia to Belgrade An Illustrated Study of the Soviet Conquest of Southeast Europe, March–October 1944

World War Two Photobook Series Jon Feenstra

Kamen Nevenkin

$41.95 • Hardback • 112 pages • 12 x 8.5 inches • 100+ photographs November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-615-5583-23-0

$41.95 • Hardback • pages • 12 x 8.5 inches • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-615-5583-28-5

In Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 2, Jon Feenstra looks at various German armored fighting vehicles. The captions focus on the modifications of these panzers, self-propelled guns, etc. This book covers the entire war period from 1939 to 1945 and all theaters.

This hardcover, landscape formatted book’s brief introduction is followed by more than one hundred mainly unpublished photographs, published in the highest possible quality. Both the introduction and the captions are bilingual (English/Hungarian).

Bloody Vienna The Soviet Offensive Operations in Western Hungary and Austria, March–May 1945 Kamen Nevenkin $41.95 • Hardback • pages • 12 x 8.5 inches • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-615-5583-26-1

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War Photographer 1.2 Tom Cockle $27.95 • Paperback • pages • 12 x 8.5 inches • November 2020 • HIS027100 978-615-5583-24-7

This new photo book series presents various selections of rare wartime photographs. They are selected based on numerous subjects. Each volume introduces photographs from battles, operations, vehicles, or complete photo albums from soldiers who fought in World War Two. This volume is divided into two separate subjects. The first part presents a number of new photographs from the personal photo album of Oberleutnant d.R Peter Prien who began his army career with Pz.Nachr.Abt.37 with 1.Panzer-Division in January 1941 and finished the war as Führer of the Stabskompanie of Pz.Rgt.3 of 2.Panzer-Division.

His album contains mostly photos of his time with 2.Panzer-Division around the time of the Kursk battles. The second part presents a series of photographs of the 8.8cm Flak 18 mounted on the chassis of the Sd.Kfz.8 half-track officially known as the 8.8cm Flak 18 Sfl. auf schwere Zugkraftwagen 12 t (Sd.Kfz.8) als Fahrgestell. Most are new and previously unpublished.

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O’Brien • RN • Seaforth z • z • Silver Link A Coward if I Return, A Hero if I Fall Stories of Irishmen in World War I Neil Richardson $24.99 • Paperback • 368 pages • 6.1 x 8.65 inches • 200 Halftones, black and white • July 2020 • HIS027090 • 978-178-849173-0 • The O’Brien Press

In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors found themselves abandoned and ostracised by their countrymen, their voices seldom heard.

The book includes: • The first Victoria Cross • Leading the way at Gallipoli and the Somme • North and South fighting side by side at Messines Ridge • Ireland’s flying aces • Brothers-in-arms—heart-rending stories of family sacrifice

The British Carrier Strike Fleet After 1945 David Hobbs $39.95 • Paperback • 640 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 200 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS027150 978-1-52-678544-2 • Seaforth

In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy’s history was centered on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force; its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of uncomprehending politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy.

After 1945 the Royal Navy invented many of the techniques and devices crucial to modern carrier operations (angled decks, steam catapults, and deck-landing aids) while also pioneering novel forms of warfare like helicopter-borne assault, and tactics for countering such modern plagues as insurgency and terrorism.

This book combines narratives of these operations with a clear analysis of the strategic and political background, benefiting from the author’s personal experience of both carrier flying and the workings of Whitehall.

M-346 Riccardo Niccoli $35.00 • Paperback • 144 pages 8.3 x 11.7 inches • more than 230 color photos, 6 color profiles and 1 four-view drawing • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-8-89-501116-5 RN Publishing

The book, which collect also unpublished photos, information, and first hand tales, is divided into several chapters, dedicated to the detailed description of the complex program, including the new Fighter Attack version, to the operational service in Italy, to a large photo album, to chapters dedicated to the international air forces (Singapore, Israel and Poland), and to a flight assessment of the aircraft. In the end, 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 M-346 produced.

A must not to be missed for all the enthusiasts of the modern jets, and of the Italian trainers family!

The Steam Engines of World War II in Europe The German ‘Kriegsdampflokomotiven’ and the British and American War Engines Phil Horton $39.99 • Hardback • 144 pages • 9.4 x 6.7 inches • 200 illustrations • June 2021 • TRA004000 • 978-1-857945-69-0 • Silverlink

Few events had a greater influence on Europe’s railways in the 20th century than the Second World War. As described in this book, thousands of steam engines were produced for the conflict by all sides. Although many were damaged during the war, most survived. Indeed, many of the British and American engines arrived in Europe too late and were immediately put into store. They and their German contemporaries were to form a mainstay of the peacetime railways of Europe and Great Britain, in many cases until the end of steam. Many other ex-war engines found employment on the Continent’s heritage railways.

The author first encountered these engines while trainspotting in the late 1950s. At the end of GB steam he extended his interest to the Continent.

With the help of like-minded enthusiasts this book records his pursuit of these engines, when they were still at work and in preservation.

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z Pen & Sword Aviation The Nuremberg Raid 30–31 March 1944 Martin Middlebrook $29.95 • Paperback 384 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • July 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677490-3

This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail.

The author sets the scene by outlining the course of the bombing war from 1939 to the night of the Nuremberg raid, the characters and aims of the British bombing leaders and the composition of the opposing Bomber Command and German night fighter forces.

Douglas Bader A Biography of the Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot John Frayn Turner $24.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-677498-9

Douglas Bader was a legend in his lifetime and remains one today 100 years after his birth. A charismatic leader and fearless pilot, he refused to let his severe disability (loss of both legs in a flying accident) ground him. He fought the authorities as ruthless as he did the enemy and not only managed to return to the front line but became a top scoring ace.

His innovative tactics (The Big Wing) ensured his promotion and he led a key group of squadrons during the dark days of the Battle of Britain.

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Fighter Aces of the RAF in the Battle of Britain Philip Kaplan $22.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-677499-6

This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. It explains why only a small minority of pilots, those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything, accounted for so large a proportion of the victories. It surveys the skills that a successful fighter pilot must have a natural aptitude for flying, marksmanship, keen eyesight and the way in which fighter tactics have developed. The book examines the history of the classic fighter aircraft that were flown, such as the Spitfire and Hurricane, and examines each types characteristics, advantages and disadvantages in combat.

Best of Breed The Hunter in Fighter Reconnaissance Nigel Walpole $26.95 • Paperback 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 color & 500 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS037030 978-1-52-678432-2

This book is about the tactical reconnaissance mark of the Hunter FR10 and its front line operation between 1961-70. With the Hunter already well proven in ground attack role, this variant was an ideal platform for the excellent Vinten F95 strip aperture cameras.

The heavy armament of four 30-mm Aden cannon was retained for use in defense suppression and target marking, unilateral action against high value targets (assigned or opportunity) and if necessary in self-defense.

Fighter Aces of the Great War

Tupolev Tu22 Blinder Supersonic Bomber, Attack, Maritime Patrol and Electronic Countermeasures Aircraft

Stephen Wynn Tanya Wynn $29.95 • Paperback 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027090 • 978-1-47-383520-7

Aircraft were not initially seen as an offensive weapon and were instead used by both sides as observation platforms, or to take aerial photographs from. Even when they were eventually used in an offensive capacity, they did not have machine guns attached to them; if the crew wanted to open fire then they had to use a pistol or rifle.

As the war progressed so the use of aircraft changed from being an observational tool, to that of a fighter and bomber aircraft - something that had never been foreseen at the outbreak of the war.

Alan Dawes

Sergey Burdin

$28.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 100 color & black and white illustrations plus 50 line drawings & 20 color profiles December 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-678341-7

This historic Russian aircraft was first delivered to the Soviet Air Force at the height of the Cold War in 1961. It remained in service until replaced by the much modified Tu-22M Backfire which was introduced in the early 1970s and still remains in service.

It was the first Soviet supersonic bomber and was used for reconnaissance and bombing, in the latter role carrying either conventional or nuclear bombs.

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Kamikaze

The Dambuster Raid

Fire in the Sky

Japan’s Last Bid for Victory

A German View

Flying in Defence of Israel

Adrian Stewart

Helmuth Euler

Amos Amir

$29.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-674803-4

$34.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 50 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678156-7

$22.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-678165-9

In this fascinating book the author examines the Japanese concept of Kamikaze, the deliberate self-sacrifice of life in the cause of victory.

This attitude, while incomprehensible to their American and European enemies, has its roots in the samurai tradition of fighting for their master or nation regardless of personal safety.

By late 1944, the Japanese had already proved themselves fanatical but the actions of the Kamikaze Corps of pilots from the Leyte Gulf battle onwards took matters to a new level.

Allied forces were shocked to find themselves the subject of widespread deliberate suicide attacks by pilots.

These continued during the invasion of the Philippines in early 1945 and reached a climax during the Battle of Okinawa from 1 April to June 1945. In total over 1000 kamikaze airmen perished.

Graphic description of these suicide attacks and the resulting loss of life and ships litter this revealing and shocking book.

The author’s in depth study of the historic and cultural reasons for this seemingly reckless courage is important and illuminating.

Operation Chastise, the audacious RAF bombing raid that struck at the heart of industrial Germany on the 17th May 1943, brought catastrophic damage to the three dams that served the Ruhr Valley. Water and electricity supplies were disrupted in a key area of the manufacture of Germany’s war munitions, and the consequences were disastrous. The German war effort was set back substantially, the Allies celebrated, and Dr. Barnes Wallis became a national hero as the designer of the famed ‘bouncing bomb’ that inflicted such damage.

Considered from an Allied perspective, the Dambuster Raid was a triumphant success, not only of British engineering but also of pilot endeavor. View it from the German perspective however, and an entirely new story emerges.

That is precisely what we have here. In this image-heavy publication, Helmuth Euler explores all facets of the operation in fascinating detail, offering a host of illuminating insights into this much-studied event of twentieth century history.

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General Amos Amir’s autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born Israeli Air Force. From the Six Days War of 1967 and onward, the IAF turned to be an extremely important component of the overall Israeli defense power. The years from the Sinai War in 1956, through the Six-Day-War, the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982, were the years of Amir’s flying, fighting and commanding career.

Amir tells his own story in talented, vivid and fluent language. He succeeds in pulling the reader into his narrow cockpit from the early stages of his flying school to later air combats and reconnaissance missions. Tense dogfights, longrange reconnaissance missions and memorable aerial episodes, including piloting a Phantom jet from the deck of the American carrier Kitty Hawk, are vividly described. The book reveals previously untold stories about the traumatic Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the early stages of the war in Lebanon in the 1982.

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Pen & Sword z • z Aviation Ultimate Spitfires

The Men Who Gave Us Wings

Peter Caygill

Britain and the Aeroplane, 1796–1914

$22.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-678229-8

Peter Reese

The Spitfire is probably Britain’s best loved and admired airplane.

It is also revered around the world. This book looks at the later marques that were modified for various special tasks and differed to a large degree from Supermarine’s first early versions that saw action in the early days of World War II. New and more powerful Rolls-Royce engines replaced the well-tried Merlin, but increased the aircraft’s performance in terms of speed and operational altitude.

Subtle changes to wing design also increased the maneuverability and capability of these spectacular models that survived in the operational role until superseded by the introduction of jet-powered flight.

Secret Wings of World War II Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race Lance Cole $29.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 25 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-678202-1

There are many myths and legends surrounding the advanced German aeronautical technology of the Second World War. There are also facts and proven events. Yet within these stories and behind these facts lie conspiracy theories, mistaken assumptions and denials that seem to contradict the evidence.

So what really happened? How far ahead were the German scientists? And, of even greater interest, why and how?

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$29.95 • Paperback • 272 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 120 black and white illustrations & maps October 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-678195-6

Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were overtaken by the Wright brothers in America, by the French and the Germans. Peter Reese, in this highly readable and highly illustrated account, delves into the fascinating early history of aviation as he describes what happened and why. He recalls the brilliant theoretical work of Sir George Cayley, the inventions of other pioneers of the nineteenth century and the daring exploits of the next generation of airmen, among them Samuel Cody, A.V. Roe, Bertram Dickson, Charles Rolls and Tommy Sopwith. His narrative is illustrated with a wonderful selection of over 120 archive drawings and photographs which record the men and the primitive flying machines of a century ago.

Sailor Malan

By the Skin of My Teeth

Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan

The Memoirs of an RAF Mustang Pilot in World War II and of Flying Sabres with USAF in Korea

Philip Kaplan $22.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-678227-4

Malan was thirty years of age during the Battle of Britain, old for a fighter pilot, but his maturity gave his leadership a firm authority. The Battle of Britain produced many airmen of great skill and accomplishment; high achievers who made their mark in one of history’s most memorable and demanding campaigns. But only a few of these men distinguished themselves in such a way as to become legends in their own lifetimes. Among the greatest of these was Sailor Malan.

Here is the story of this talented man, eloquently told by Philip Kaplan who manages to strike a balance between objectivity and reverence in order to commit Malan’s story to paper.

Colin Downes $22.95 • Paperback • 328 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-678164-2

This is a memoir of flying with the Royal Air Force in war and peace during a career in military and civil aviation covering a half century.

The text is filled with personal experiences, reminiscences and impressions and is written in four parts.

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Tactical Reconnaissance Airmen’s Incredible Escapes in the Cold War 1945 to Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and The Iron Curtain

Accounts of Survival in the Second World War

Doug Gordon

Bryn Evans

$26.95 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 122 color & 226 black and white illustrations & 10 maps - color profile of each type mentioned in Appendix 1 • December 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-678435-3

$42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 80 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52676172-9

This book describes how the United States Air Force tactical reconnaissance units operated from the end of World War II until the 1970s. This was an immensely active period that also included major conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. It was also a period of rapid technological development in aircraft and photographic techniques. The book includes the following: Introduction: The post war period in Europe and the East. The Korean Conflict and the role of the 67th TRW from 1950 to 1954. The role of the highly secret RF-86 missions over Red China and the Soviet Far East in the early to mid ‘50s. Also the RB-57A missions out of Bitburg and Yokota flying clandestinely over the Soviet Union and the RF-100A missions that were flown over the Soviet Union from Turkey, Rhine Maine and Yokota. United States Air Forces in Europe. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the role of the RF-101 Voodoos and RB-66s.

Color Profiles done by Robbie Robinson

Allied air power made a major, arguably decisive, contribution to victory in The Second World War both in the European and Pacific theaters.

The cost in men and machines was horrific with Bomber Command suffering 50% air crew casualties. While many perished, others shot down over enemy territory or water survived only after overcoming extraordinary danger and hardship. Their experiences often remained untold not just for the duration of the War but for many years.

The author has gathered together a wealth of unpublished stories from airmen of many nationalities, be they British, Commonwealth or American. Some involve avoiding or escaping from capture, others surviving against all the odds, braving extreme elements and defying death from wounds, drowning or starvation.

Importantly the accounts of those who survived the battle in the skies cheating the enemy and the grim reaper give the reader a chilling insight into the fate of the many thousands of brave young men who were not so fortunate.

The result is an inspiring and gripping read which bears testimony to human courage and resilience.

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Fighting in the Sky The Story in Art John Fairley $42.95 • Hardback • 160 pages • 11 x 8.5 inches • 60 color illustrations • October 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676220-7

Barely a decade passed from the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight to aircraft becoming lethal instruments of war. The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service took off in the very early days of The Great War and captured the public’s imagination and admiration.

Sydney and Richard Carline happened to be both pilots and artists as was Frenchman Henri Farre.

Their works inspired celebrated painters like Sir John Lavery who took to the skies in an airship in the First World War. Feeding on the demand for works depicting this new dimension of warfighting, a new genre of art was born which has remained popular ever since.

During the Second World War, the paintings of Paul Nash stood out as did Eric Ravilious who, ironically, died in an air crash. War artist Albert Richards dropped with British paratroopers on D-Day. Post-war, paintings by leading British and international artists graphically illustrate conflicts such as the Falklands, Bosnia and the Gulf War. John Fairley has brought together a dazzling collection of art works covering over 100 years of air warfare, enhanced by lively and informative text. The result is a book that is visually and historically satisfying.

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z Pen & Sword Aviation Lighter-than-Air

The Decisive Campaigns of the Desert Air Force, 1942–1945

The Life and Times of Wing Commander N.F. Usborne RN, Pioneer of Naval Aviation Guy Warner

Bryn Evans

$29.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027140 978-1-52-678157-4

Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897.

In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he engaged in a huge number of enterprises and endeavors.

Praise and respect garnered in accordance with his achievements all helped to establish his reputation in later years as an ‘irreplaceable’ pioneer and a leading light of early British airship design. His fertile imagination and enterprising spirit fused to form a dynamic personality, able in wartime to draw up countless schemes in an effort to outwit the enemy.

His chief task during the Great War was to dream up new tactics and designs to combat the Zeppelin menace, perceived as one of the most damaging threats of the entire conflict.

Pathfinder Pilot The Wartime Memoirs of Wing Commander R A Wellington DSO OBE DFC Sandra Wellington $39.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • BIO008000 • 978-1-52-677970-0

During the Second World War, 55,573 RAF Bomber Command aircrew were killed, a shocking 44.4% death rate. A further 8,500 were wounded and 9,800 became prisoners of war.

The author of this thrilling memoir defied the odds becoming one of the few Lancaster Captains to survive his quota of sixty bombing missions.

‘Wimpy’ Wellington’s skills must have been exceptional. As readers will discover, they nightly diced with death surviving enemy fighters, intense flak and mechanical problems.

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$26.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678194-9

Compared to the RAFs Fighter and Bomber Commands, the Desert Air Force (DAF) is far less well known, yet its achievements were spectacular.

DAF led the way in North Africa and Italy in pioneering new tactics in close Army-Air Force co-operation on the battlefield, DAF and Allied air forces gave Allied armies in North Africa and Italy a decisive cutting edge.

While the Axis forces used the many rivers and mountains of Tunisia and Italy to slow the Allies advance, DAF was there to provide that extra mobile firepower the artillery from the sky. They were the first multi-national air force, and the first to introduce air controllers in the front lines of the battlefield.

Fly Navy View From the Cockpit, 1945–2000 Charles Manning $29.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations December 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-52-678230-4

The Fleet Air Arm has always had an elite status and an image of ‘derring-do’ and living on the edge.

To mark the Millennium, 95 members of the Fleet Air Arm Officer’s Association have recalled their experiences of over 55 years of post war naval flying.

These first person accounts pull no punishes.

Some are highly amusing, others serious, even tragic. Covered are the piston engined planes, early jets and supersonic nuclear- capable fighter-bombers as well as the full range of helicopters so vital in many theaters.

Army Wings A History of Army Air Observation Flying, 1914–1960 Robert Jackson $24.95 • Paperback 176 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 60 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-52-678339-4

This is the fascinating story of army fixed-wing cooperation units who were made up of specially trained volunteer army personnel. These men were trained to fly, to reconnoiter across the front line in search of enemy forces and then guide artillery gunners onto the target. From its earliest days in World War I, small low-flying aircraft have flown unarmed into combat and relayed vital information to aid accurate fall of shot and to advise front-line ground troops of enemy strength and position. They were frequently attacked by fighter aircraft and had to avoid ground-fire, often flying below treetop height.

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An American Uprising in Second World War England Mutiny in the Duchy Kate Werran $34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-52-675954-2

This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the ‘special relationship’ itself on trial.

For three long days the story raged before the turbulent war-torn world moved on and forgot forever amid ever-escalating D-Day preparations.

This account of a shocking drama the authorities tried to hush up has been painstakingly pieced back together for the first time thanks to new archival research.

When slotted into its unique context, extracted from wartime cabinet documents, secret government surveys, opinion polls, diaries, letters and newspapers as well as testimony from those who remember it, the story offers a rare and stunning window into a little-known dark side of the ‘American Invasion.’ By breathing new life into a vanished trial, it reveals a rare and surprising insight into the wider story of how Britain reacted to soldiers of the Jim Crow army when they came to stay.

Into Helmand with the Walking Dead

Red Star at War

A Story of Marine Corps Combat in Afghanistan

Colin Turbett

Miles Venning Kevin Schranz $34.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 color illustrations • November 2020 HIS027190 • 978-1-52-676786-8

The Marines of First Battalion, Ninth Marines earned their macabre moniker ‘The Walking Dead’ in the Vietnam War. Into Helmand with the Walking Dead follows the experiences of two Marine infantrymen from 1/9 fighting in Afghanistan.

Following the 11 September attacks in 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom catalyzed the longest war in United States history. The lives of thousands of Afghans, Americans, and many others were forever altered due to the ensuing war. The book is a brutally honest portrayal of life and death in the Marine infantry both at war in Afghanistan and upon returning to the home front, where issues of reintegration and suicide become a reality.

This is the tale of the young Americans who became infantrymen and conducted America’s foreign policy in its most ruthless and straightforward manner. But war, in and of itself, is only playing a small part. The culture and environment from which they reentered civil society would leave them uncertain, and confused as to the cataclysm they had just left.

This book is a testimony to their experience and the legacy of war on their generation.

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Victory at all Costs $34.95 • Hardback • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 150 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676328-0

Russia’s losses during the Second World War were beyond imagination and touched the lives of an entire population caught between a brutal and murderous invader and a ruthless leadership at home. Soviet victory over the Nazis, which effectively won the war, was the end result of effort and sacrifice by the ordinary millions who were totally committed to saving their ‘motherland’.

The humanity of the ordinary Soviet citizen in uniform is often forgotten because of later Cold War narratives propagated East and West for differing ideological reasons. This book seeks to redress these imbalances. In its pages the tragedy of war and loss are captured in the faces of those who lived through some of the most momentous years in human history. Many of the pictures show the women who fought alongside men in the front line—a unique feature among the belligerent nations.

Red Star at War is centered on photographs taken before, during and after the Second World War, which illustrate the human face of the immense Soviet war effort. These show soldiers, sailors, airmen (men and women) not in battle, but in photographs taken for their families and friends, and the messages that often went with these images. A number were taken in the knowledge that they might be the last image of a loved one as death was almost a certainty for many.

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Pen & Sword z • z History The Roman Imperial Succession

The Galatians Celtic Invaders of Greece and Asia Minor John D. Grainger

John D. Grainger

$42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 3 maps November 2020 • HIS027220 978-1-52-677068-4

$34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations • September 2020 • HIS027220 978-1-52-676604-5

Augustus’ system was a mixture of heredity, senatorial and military influences, and these were generally antagonistic.

Consequently the Empire went through a series of crises, in which the succession to a previous, usually dead, emperor was the main issue.

The infamous ‘Year of the Four Emperors’, AD 69, is only the most famous of these crises, which often involved bouts of bloody and destructive civil war, assassinations and purges. These were followed by a period, usually relatively short, in which the victor in the ‘crisis’ established a new system, juggling the three basic elements identified by Augustus, but which was as fragile and short lived as its predecessor; these ‘consequences’ of each crisis are discussed.

The lucid and erudite text is supported by numerous genealogical tables and dozens of depictions of emperors.

The Thames at War

Holding the Home Front

Saving London From the Blitz

The Women’s Land Army in The First World War

Gustav Milne $39.95 • Hardback 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 200 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-52-676802-5

Between 1940 and 1945 London suffered 101 daylight and 253 nighttime air raids from the Luftwaffe and V1 and V2’s. There were 80,000 fatalities or serious injuries and appalling devastation. Well documented as these horrific events are, there was another major threat—the all too real possibility of widespread flooding whenever the Nazi onslaught breached the Thames’ river defenses.

This superbly researched and illustrated book describes the vital role and unsung achievements of the London County Council emergency repair teams ably led by Chief Engineer Thomas Peirson Frank.

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The eastern Celtic tribes, known to the Greeks as Galatians, exploited the waning of Macedonian power after Alexander the Great’s death to launch increasingly ambitious raids and expeditions into the Balkans. In 279 BC they launched a major invasion, defeating and beheading the Macedonian king, Ptolemy Keraunos, before sacking the Greeks’ most sacred oracle at Delphi. Eventually forced to withdraw northwards, they were defeated by Antigonus Gonatus at Lysimachia in 277 BC but remained a threat.

A large Galatian contingent was invited to cross to Asia to intervene in a war in Bithynia but they went on to seize much of central Anatolia for themselves, founding the state of Galatia. Antiochos I curbed their power in ‘the Elephant Victory in 273 BC’ but they remained a force in the region and their fierce warriors served as mercenaries in many armies.

Caroline Scott

The History Behind Game of Thrones The North Remembers David C. Weinczok

$24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS058000 • 978-1-52-678149-9

$26.95 • Paperback • 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027220 • 978-1-52-678145-1

In recent years the Second World War’s land girl has caught the public imagination. We’ve seen her in films, television series and novels.

We might be misremembering her, we might have distorted her image into one that suits a twenty-first century audience, but we haven’t forgotten. Other things have been forgotten, though. One could be forgiven for supposing that the story of the Women’s Land Army starts in 1939. But its a much older and more complicated history.

Game of Thrones is history re-imagined as fantasy; The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers turns the tables, using George R. R. Martin’s extraordinary fictional universe as a way to understand the driving forces and defining moments from Scotland’s story. Why were castles so important? Was there a limit to the powers a medieval king could use—or abuse? What was the reality of being under siege? Was there really anything that can compare to the destructive force of dragons? By joining forces, Westeros and Scotland hold the answers.

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Captain John Smith, Adventurer Piracy, Pocahontas and Jamestown R. E. Pritchard $34.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 40 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS051000 • 978-1-52-677362-3

Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape.

He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. All this before he was thirty years old.

He was one of the founders of the English settlement at Jamestown, where he faced considerable danger from the natives as well as from within the faction-ridden settlement itself.

In fact, were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed.

Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest.

This swashbuckling Elizabethan adventurer was resourceful, intelligent and outspoken, with a vision of what America could become. In this riveting book, R.E. Pritchard tells the rip-roaring story of a remarkable man who refused to give in.

Romulus The Legend of Rome’s Founding Father Marc Hyden $34.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 4 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027220 978-1-52-678317-2

According to legend, Romulus was born to a Vestal Virgin and left for dead as an infant near the Tiber River. His life nearly ended as quickly as it began, but fate had other plans. A humble shepherd rescued the child and helped raise him into manhood. As Romulus grew older, he fearlessly engaged in a series of perilous adventures that ultimately culminated in Rome’s founding, and he became its fabled first king.

Establishing a new city had its price, and Romulus was forced to defend the nascent community. As he tirelessly safeguarded Rome, Romulus proved that he was a competent leader and talented general. Yet, he also harbored a dark side, which reared its head in many ways and tainted his legacy, but despite all of his misdeeds, redemption and subsequent triumphs were usually within his grasp. Indeed, he is an example of how greatness is sometimes born of disgrace.

Regardless of his foreboding flaws, Rome allegedly existed because of him and became massively successful. As the centuries passed, the Romans never forgot their celebrated founder.

This is the story that many ancient Romans believed.

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The Mighty Warrior Kings From the Ashes of the Roman Empire to the New Ruling Order Philip J. Potter $34.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 23 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027220 978-1-52-675626-8 Philip J. Potter lives in Hoschton, GA

The Mighty Warrior Kings traces the history of early Europe through the biographies of nine kings, who had the courage, determination and martial might to establish their dominance over the fragmented remnants of the Roman Empire.

The book begins with Charlemagne, who united the Holy Roman Empire and ends with Robert the Bruce, who gallantry defended Scotland against the attempted usurpation of England.

There are many famous warrior kings in the book, including Alfred the Great of Wessex, whose victories over the Vikings led to the unification of England under a single ruler, William I of Normandy, whose triumph at Hastings in 1066 changed the course of English history, while Frederick I Barbarossa led his army to victory in Germany and Italy solidifying and expanding the lands under the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Pen & Sword z • z History A Guide to Hitler’s Munich

Children Against Hitler

David Mathieson

The Young Resistance Heroes of the Second World War

$22.95 • Paperback • 192 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676625-0

Monica Porter

Munich is one of Europe’s most enchanting cities. Exploring its narrow cobbled streets or wide sunlight boulevards with views of the Bavarian Alps is a delight.

Each autumn, millions of revelers from around the world join locals in their legendary Octoberfest, one of the world’s biggest festivals.

Yet many visitors also know that Munich has a past so dark that it cast a looming shadow over the twentieth century: this was the city which played a unique role in the ascent of Nazism, the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler.

It was in Munich that Hitler first entered the murky world of beer Keller politics after the First World War. It was here that he established the fanatical base of his NSDAP party so that the city was, in his words, ‘the capital of the movement’.

Lionel Morris and the Red Baron Air War on the Somme Jill Bush $24.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 25 black and white illustrations • July 2020 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-676587-1

Nineteen-year-old Lionel Morris left the infantry for the wood and wires of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front in 1916, joining one of the world’s first fighter units alongside the great ace Albert Ball. Learning on the job, in dangerously unpredictable machines, Morris came of age as a combat pilot on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, as the R.F.C. was winning a bloody struggle for admiralty of the air.

As summer faded to autumn, and the skies over Bapaume filled with increasing numbers of enemy aircraft, the tide turned.

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$22.95 • Paperback • 184 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 25 black and white illustrations • Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-52-676428-7

Readers of all generations have grown up on The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier’s best-selling tale of children under wartime occupation, but few know the real life stories of the children and teenagers who went further and actually stood up to the Nazis.

Here, for the first time, Monica Porter gathers together their stories from many corners of occupied Europe, showing how in a variety of audacious and inventive ways children as young as six resisted the Nazi menace, risking and sometimes even sacrificing their brief lives in the process: a heroism that until now has largely gone unsung.

Irish Servicewomen in the Great War Barbara Walsh $39.95 • Hardback • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 40 black and white illustrations • July 2020 HIS027090 • 978-1-52-676794-3

When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland, England and Wales.

Yet, their willingness to help bring about an end to the slaughter was a narrative that became ignored in popularized versions of that politically volatile era and it is hoped that this study will now go some way to restore a rightful recognition of their army service days within the historiography of twentieth-century Irishwomen.

Codebreakers Stephen Twigge $26.95 • Paperback 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 inches • Black and white illustrations Currently Available HIS027000 978-1-52-673080-0

The main theme of the book are the events of the Second World War and the battle to break the German enigma codes. The center of Britain’s codebreaking operation was located at Bletchley Park in rural Buckinghamshire and it was from here that a hastily assembled army of codebreakers battled to decipher Nazi Germany’s secret wartime communications. The deciphered high-level signals intelligence was known as Ultra and had a major influence on the outcome of the war, most notably contributing to crucial successes in the battle for the Atlantic and the D-Day landings in June 1944.

The book also reveals the work undertaken in the Far-East and the allied efforts to break the Japanese military cipher code named Purple.

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Pen & Sword z •Maritime z Medieval Maritime Warfare

The Kaiser’s U-Boat Assault on America

Charles D. Stanton

Germany’s Great War Gamble in the First World War

$26.95 • Paperback • 368 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 color & black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS037010 • 978-1-52-678219-9 Charles D. Stanton lives in New Jersey

Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought. Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied—it is little known and even less understood.

Charles Stanton uses an innovative and involving approach to describe this fascinating but neglected facet of European medieval history. He depicts the development of maritime warfare from the end of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance, detailing the wars waged in the Mediterranean by the Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Crusaders, the Italian maritime republics, Angevins and Aragonese as well as those fought in northern waters by the Vikings, English, French and the Hanseatic League. This pioneering study will be compelling reading for everyone interested in medieval warfare and maritime history.

Hans Joachim Koerver $34.95 • Hardback • 328 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 80 color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027090 • 978-1-52-677386-9 •

A deeply researched and engaging account of the use of U-Boats in the First World War. The focus touches on both diplomatic and economic aspects as well as the tactical and strategic use of the U-boats.

The book also examines the role played by US president Woodrow Wilson and his response to American shipping being sunk by U-boats and how that ultimately forced his hand to declare war on Germany.

From Hunter to Hunted

Churchill’s Admiral in Two World Wars

The U-Boat in the Atlantic, 1939–1943

Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO

Bernard Edwards $34.95 • Hardback • 208 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676359-4

In the early stages of the Second World War, Donitz’s U-boats generally adhered to Prize Rules, surfacing before attacking and making every effort to preserve the lives of their victims’ crews. But, with the arming of merchant men and greater risk of damage or worse, they increasingly attacked without warning.

So successful was the U-boat campaign that Churchill saw it as the gravest threat the Nation faced. The low point was the March 1943 attack on convoys SC122 and HX229 when 44 U-boats sank 22 loaded ships.

The pendulum miraculously swung with improved tactics and technology. In May 1943 out of a force of over 50 U-boats that challenged ONS5, eight were sunk and 18 were damaged, some seriously. Such losses were unsustainable and, with allied yards turning out ships at ever increasing rates, Donitz withdrew his wolf packs from the North Atlantic.

Jim Crossley $49.95 • Hardback • 216 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 12 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-674839-3

Roger Keyes was the archetype of 19th to 20th century Royal Navy officers. A superb seaman, inspiring leader and fearless fighter he immediately caught the eye of senior figures in the naval establishment as well as the up and coming politician, Winston Churchill.

The relationship between these two brave men survived disappointment, disagreement and eventually disillusion. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Keyes was unable to make the transition from sailor to politician and was inclined to embarrass his friends and allies by his intemperate language and total lack of political acumen.

Always eager to lead from the front and hurl himself at the enemy his mind set tended to be that of a junior officer trying to prove himself, not that of a senior Admiral.

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Pen & Sword z Maritime The Lancastria Tragedy

Seven Seas, Nine Lives

The Battle of the Atlantic

Sinking and Cover-up June 1940

The Valour of Captain A.W.F. Sutton CBE DSC & BAR RN

Bernard Ireland

Stephen Wynn $29.95 • Paperback • 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027150 • 978-1-52670663-8

The Lancastria, a pre-war Cunard cruise liner, was requisitioned by the Admiralty and turned in to a wartime troop ship.

On 17 June 1940, whilst being used as part of Operation Aerial to evacuate civilian refugees and British military personnel from France, it was anchored about 5 miles from the coast of St Nazaire. While waiting for a naval escort to see it safely back to England, the Lancastria was attacked by enemy aircraft and sank within 20 minutes. As no official figures have ever been released, there is no way of knowing exactly how many lives were lost.

Nelson’s Patron

$24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 black and white illustrations November 2020 • BIO006000 • 978-1-52678340-0

Captain Alan William Frank Sutton’s enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman, he was in command of a small picket boat returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse on which he served.

The book builds to an amazing and exciting climax which ends in the open cockpit of a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber during the legendary attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto in November 1940.

Admiral Lord St. Vincent– Saint or Tyrant?

The History of the British U Class Submarine

The Life of Sir John Jervis,

Derek Walters

James D.G. Davidson $24.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027200 • 978-1-52678434-6

This biography of John Jervis, who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading.

It throws an oblique light on Nelson’s personality.

St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson, and survived for eighteen years after Trafalgar, fundamentally influenced the younger man’s career despite the two men being diametrically different characters. Yet without him, Nelson’s genius might have been submerged by professional jealousy or emotional fragility.

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Richard Pike

$26.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678205-2

Original designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, by the end of the war seventy-two U-Class subs had been commissioned.

Seventeen were lost to the enemy and three in accidents. Manned by crews from seven nations’ navies, they served world-wide and never more successfully than in the Med, where they made a major contribution to the defeat of Rommel’s Afrika Corps.

The quality of their service is born out by the 375 gallantry medals awarded to crewmen including Lt Cdr David Wanklyn’s VC.

$26.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678589-3

The authoritative naval historian Bernard Ireland takes a fresh and fascinating look at the long and bitter struggle waged by the Allies against the Nazi U-boat threat.

After sifting through the evidence, old and new, he questions the popular theory that it was a ‘damn close-run thing’. He cites the massive resources that the United States brought to bear both at sea and in their shipyards, together with advances in technology and the breaking of German codes by Enigma. Far from ‘revisionist’ history, this is a closely argued work that demands reading.

The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War Collingwood

Donald

$26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027000 978-1-52-678223-6

The Captain Class Frigates, seventy-eight sturdy, modern Destroyer Escorts, known affectionately by all who sailed in them as the DEs, were built in the United States and leased to the Royal Navy.

This is a story of vigilance, determination and dogged fortitude combined with high skill and unfailing courage. It describes vividly the close teamwork and comradeship which existed within the Captain Class escort groups, as they faced the lethal submarine threat, in all weathers, week in and week out, with all too little opportunity for rest between operations.

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z • zMilitary Pen & Sword War in Greek Mythology

The Macedonian Phalanx

Paul Chrystal

Equipment, Organization and Tactics from Philip and Alexander to the Roman Conquest

$42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027220 • 978-1-52-676616-8

Even though war, and conflict generally, feature prominently in Greek mythology, comparatively little has been written on the subject.

This is surprising because wars and battles in Greek mythology are freighted with symbolism and laden with meaning and significance—historical, political, social and cultural. The gods and goddesses of war are prominent members of the Greek pantheon: the battles fought by and between Olympians, Titans, giants and Amazons, between centaurs and lapiths, were pivotal in Greek civilization. The Trojan War itself had huge and far-reaching consequences for subsequent Greek culture.

The ubiquity of war themes in the Greek myths is a reflection of the prominence of war in everyday Greek life and society, which makes the relative obscurity of published literature all the more puzzling.

Richard Taylor $42.95 • Hardback • 400 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 36 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027220 • 978-1-52-674815-7 Richard Taylor lives in Acworth, GA

Richard Taylor gives an overview of the phalanx’s development, organization, equipment and training. He analyses the reasons for its success, with an emphasis on case studies of the many battles in which it was used, from Philip II’s reign to the Mithridatic Wars.

He discusses whether the famous defeats by the Romans necessarily mean it was inherently inferior to the manipular legion tactics, and considers what other factors were in play.

The clear, accessible and well-researched text is supported by diagrams and battle maps, making this an outstanding study of this mighty formation.

Armies of Ancient Greece Circa 500–338 BC

The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 BC

History, Organization & Equipment

An Institutional and Operational History

Gabriele Esposito

Paul Johstono

$34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 150 color photos • August 2020 • HIS027220 • 978-1-52-675189-8

$42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 illustrations December 2020 • HIS027220 978-1-47-383383-8 • Paul Johstono lives in Alabama

Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans’ heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling Pelopponesian War and the epic March of the Ten Thousand. The Greek heavy infantry spearmen, or hoplites, are one of the most recognizable types of ancient warrior and their tightly-packed phalanx formation dominated the battlefield.

Covering the period from the Persian Wars to the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Chaeronea, Gabriele Esposito examines not only the hoplites but also the other troops that featured in Greek armies with growing importance as time went on, such as light infantry skirmishers and cavalry. He details their arms, armor and equipment, organization and tactics. His clear, informative text is beautifully illustrated with dozens of color photographs showing how the equipment was worn and used.

The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt and much of the eastern Mediterranean basin for nearly 300 years. As a Macedonian dynasty, they derived much of their legitimacy from military activity. As an Egyptian dynasty, they derived much of their real wealth and power from maintaining a secure hold on their new homeland. As lords of a far-flung empire, they maintained much of their authority through garrisons and the threat of military action. To achieve this they devoted much of their activity to the development and maintenance of a large army and navy.

This work focuses on the period of the first four Ptolemies, from the acquisition of Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great to the great battle of Raphia more than a century later. It offers a study of the Ptolemaic army as an institution, and of its military operations, both reconstructed through a wide range of ancient sources, from histories to documentary papyri and inscriptions to archaeological finds.

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PolarisMilitary Pen &z Sword Military History of Late Rome 518–565

Septimius Severus and the Roman Army

Ilkka Syvänne

Michael Sage

$52.95 • Hardback • 464 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 28 col and 20 b/w pics; 73 b/w maps & tactical diagrams, December 2020 • HIS027220 978-1-47-389528-7

The Military History of Late Rome 518-565 provides a new, fresh analysis of the revival of Roman fortunes during the reigns of Justin I (518-527) and Justinian I (527-565). The book narrates in great detail the re-conquests of North Africa, Italy and southern Spain

by Justinian’s armies. It also explores the massive encounters between the Romans and Persians in the east, and the apocalyptic fights in the Balkans between the Romans and barbarians.

The author pays particular attention to the tactics and battles so there is detailed analysis of all of the period engagements, such as Dara, Satala, Callinicum, Ad Decimum, Tricamarum, Rome, Scalae Veteres, Antonia Castra, Gallica, Campi Catonis, Hippis River, Busta Gallorum, Mons Lactarius, Casilinum, Archaeopolis, Phasis, and others.

After discussing Septimus Severus’s early career and governorship of Pannonia, Michael Sage narrates his war with Pescennius Niger, the siege of Byzantium, and the campaign in northern Mesopotamia that added it as a province. The much more difficult campaign against Clodius Albinus in Gaul is also studied in detail, as is that in North Africa. The narrative concludes with an account of the last campaign in Britain and Severus’ death. The final chapters analyze Septimius’ reforms of the army and assess their impact on events of the next seventy years until the accession of Diocletian.

His greatest weakness was his love for his family. Like Marcus Aurelius, he loved his children too much. They failed to maintain what he had bequeathed them.

Arms and Armour of Ancient Iberia

Roman Conquests Egypt and Judaea

Fernando Quesada-Sanz Elizabeth Clowes

John D. Grainger $26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 color illustrations including 4 specially commissioned artworks by Graham Sumner • August 2020 • HIS002020 • 978-1-52-678159-8

$60.00 • Hardback • 312 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 inches • 224 maps, diagrams, photos and color artworks • August 2020 • HIS037010 • 978-1-78-159275-5

Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion.

The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra’s famous love affair with Marc Antony ensured she was on the wrong side of the Roman civil war between him and Octavian (later to become Caesar Augustus).

After the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the naval battle of Actium, Octavian swiftly brought it under direct Roman control, though it took several campaigns to fully subjugate the whole country. These campaigns have previously been largely neglected. Judaea was a constant source of trouble for the Romans, as it had been for the Seleucids, the previous overlords of the region. The Romans at first were content to rule through client kings like the infamous Herod but were increasingly sucked in to direct military involvement to suppress religiously-inspired revolts.

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$32.95 • Hardback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 8pp b&w plates October 2020 • BIO008000 978-1-52-670241-8 Michael Sage lives in San Diego, CA

In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) was home to warriors of great renown. Spanish and Celtiberian warriors, both infantry and cavalry, provided the backbone of the Carthaginian armies that terrorized Italy under Hannibal and proved even more ferocious in defense of their homeland against later Roman occupation. The Lusitanian resistance under Viriathus was among the toughest the Romans encountered anywhere.

Professor Quesada Sanz details the arms, armor and equipment of the various warriors of the region in fantastic detail, drawing on his intimate knowledge of the latest archaeological and historical research. His clear and informative text is supported throughout by a wealth of photographs, diagrams and exquisite color artwork by Carlos Fernandez del Castillo. This beautiful book is a rare combination of detailed, comprehensive information and sumptuous visual appeal that will be cherished by anyone with an interest in the warriors and weapons of the ancient world.

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Pen & Swordz Military War in Roman Myth and Legend

Leading the Roman Army

Paul Chrystal

Soldiers and Emperors, 31 BC–235 AD

$42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027220 • 978-1-52-676612-0

This book redresses the relative lack of work published on the role of war in classical myth and legend. At the same time it debunks the popular view that the Romans had little mythology of their own and idly borrowed and adapted Greek myth to suit their own ends. While this true to some extent, War in Roman Myth and Legend clearly demonstrates a rich and meaningful independent mythology at work in Roman culture.

The book opens by addressing how the Romans did adopt and adapt Greek myths to fashion the beginnings of Roman history; it goes on to discuss the Roman gods of war and the ubiquity of war in Roman society and politics and how this was reflected in the Aeneas Foundation Myth, the Romulus and Remus Foundation Myth and the legends associated with the founding of Rome. Warlike Women in Roman Epic and Trojan heroes are discussed next and the use of mythology by Roman poets other than Virgil. The Theban Legion and the vision of Constantine myths conclude the book.

Jonathan Mark Eaton $34.95 • Hardback • 216 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 color illustrations October 2020 • HIS027220 978-1-47-385563-2

Recent discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of the Roman army.

This study provides an up to date synthesis of a range of evidence from archaeological, epigraphic, literary and numismatic sources on the relationship between the emperor and his soldiers.

It demonstrates that this relationship was of an intensely personal nature. He was not only the commander-in-chief, but also their patron and benefactor, even after their discharge from military service. Yet the management of the army was more complex than this emperor-soldier relationship suggests.

Greece Against Rome

Ancient Battle Formations

The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC

Justin Swanton

Philip Matyszak $32.95 • Hardback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 illustrations • August 2020 • HIS027220 • 978-1-47-387480-0 Philip Matyszak lives in Rossland, BC

Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great’s short-lived empire) were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military power each individual kingdom was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philosophy and literature.

Philip Matyszak relates how, over the next two-and-a half centuries, Rome conquered and took over these kingdoms while adopting so much of Hellenistic culture that the resultant hybrid is known as ‘Graeco-Roman’ Refreshingly, the story is largely told from the viewpoint of the Hellenistic kingdoms. At the outset, the Romans are little more than another small state in the barbarian west, and less of a consideration than the Scythians or Jews.

$42.95 • Hardback • 264 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 147 black and white illustrations • October 2020 HIS027220 • 978-1-52-674006-9

Justin Swanton examines the principal battle-winning formations of the Ancient world, determining their composition, function and efficacy.

An introductory chapter looks at the fundamental components of the principal battle formations of heavy and light infantry, cavalry, elephants and chariots, showing how they bolstered the individual’s soldier’s willingness to fight.

The rest of the book focuses on massed infantry that reigned supreme in this era: the heavily armored Greek hoplite phalanx that was immune to the weaponry of its non-Greek opponents; the Macedonian pike phalanx that was unbeatable against frontal attacks so long as it kept order; the Roman triplex acies which, contrary to popular opinion, consisted of continuous lines in open order, with file spaces wide enough to allow embattled infantry to fall back after which those files closed up instantly against the enemy.

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Pen & Sword z • z Military Antigonus The OneEyed Greatest of the Successors Jeff Champion $22.95 • Paperback 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations, maps & battle diagrams • Currently Available BIO008000 • 978-1-52-677489-7

After Alexander’s death, Antigonus, then governor of the obscure province of Phrygia, seemed one of the least likely of his commanders to seize the dead king’s inheritance. Yet within eight years of the king’s passing, through a combination of military skill and political shrewdness, he had conquered the Asian portion of the empire. His success caused those who controlled the European and Egyptian parts of the empire to unite against him. For another fourteen years he would wage war against a coalition of the other Successors: Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Seleucus and Cassander.

The Collapse of Rome Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War Gareth Sampson $22.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations & 3 black and white maps • September 2020 HIS002020 • 978-1-52-678191-8

By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Roman armies had marched victoriously over enemies far and wide, but the Roman heartland was soon to feel the tramp of armies on campaign as the Republic was convulsed by civil war and rival warlords vied for supremacy, sounding the first death knell of the Republican system. At the center of the conflict was the rivalry between Marius, victor of the Jugurthine and Northern wars, and his former subordinate, Sulla.

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Hellenistic and Roman Naval Wars, 336 BC–31 BC John D. Grainger $26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS002020 978-1-52-678232-8

Taking the period between Alexander the Great’s conquests and the Battle of Actium, John Grainger analyzes the developments in naval technology and tactics, the uses and limitations of sea power and the differing strategies of the various powers. He shows, for example, how the Rhodians and the Romans eschewed the ever-larger monster galleys favored by most Hellenistic monarchs in favor of smaller vessels.

This is a fascinating study of a neglected aspect of ancient warfare.

The Wars of the Maccabees John D. Grainger $26.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 19 color & black and white illustrations & 4 black and white maps • November 2020 HIS042000 • 978-1-52-678226-7

Relying on guerrilla tactics the growing insurrection repeatedly took on the sophisticated might of the Seleucid army with mixed, but generally successful, results, establishing the Maccabees as the Hasmonean Dynasty of rulers over a once-more independent Israel. (It is Judah Maccabee’s ritual cleansing of the Temple after his victories over the Seleucids that is celebrated

by Jews every year at Hannukah).

Internal disputes weakened the revived state, however, and it eventually fell victim to the Romans who replaced the Seleucids as the local superpower.

The Tyrants of Syracuse

Aetius

Volume I: 480–367 BC

Ian Hughes

Jeff Champion $26.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 10 color maps & diagrams • December 2020 • HIS002010 978-1-52-678427-8

This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival.

Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens, and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily.

In this first volume, Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse’s wars under the tyrants from the Battle of Himera (480 BC) against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I (367 BC), whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city’s power and influence.

Attila’s Nemesis $26.95 • Paperback 304 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations & 14 black and white maps • October 2020 HIS002020 • 978-1-52-677884-0

Who was this man that saved Western Europe from the Hunnic yoke? While Attila is a household name, his nemesis remains relatively obscure.

Aetius is one of the major figures in the history of the Late Roman Empire and his actions helped maintain the integrity of the West in the declining years of the Empire.

During the course of his life he was a hostage, first with Alaric and the Goths, and then with Rugila, King of the Huns. His stay with these two peoples helped to give him an unparalleled insight into the minds and military techniques of these barbarians which he was to use in later years to halt the depredations of the Huns.

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Pen & Swordz Military Byzantium Triumphant

The Roman Emperor Aurelian

The Military History of the Byzantines, 959–1025

Restorer of the World–New Revised Edition

Julian Romane $26.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS037010 • 978-1-52-678200-7 Julian Romane lives in Zion, IL

John F. White

Byzantium Triumphant describes in detail the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The operations, battles and drama of their various bitter struggles unfold, depicting the new energy and improved methods of warfare developed in the late tenth century.

These emperors were at war on all fronts, fighting for survival and dominance against enemies including the Arab caliphates, Bulgars (Basil II was dubbed by later authors the Bulgar Slayer) and the Holy Roman Empire, not to mention dealing with civil wars and rebellions.

The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces.

Yet within the space of just five years, the general, later emperor Aurelian had expelled all the barbarians from with the Roman frontiers, reunited the entire empire and inaugurated major reforms of the currency, pagan religion and civil administration.

The Nisibis War The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337–363 John S. Harrel $26.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027220 • 978-1-52-678206-9

The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on a strategic offensive to bring about a decisive battle. Instead, the Emperor Constantius II adopted a defensive strategy and conducted a mobile defense based upon small frontier (limitanei) forces defending fortified cities, supported by limited counteroffensives by the Field Army of the East. These methods successfully checked Persian assaults for 24 years.

However, when Julian became emperor his access to greater resources tempted him to abandon mobile defense in favor of a major invasion aimed at regime change in Persia.

$22.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 24 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027220 • 978-1-52-678187-1

The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III, 223–187 BC John D. Grainger $22.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 6 black and white maps • November 2020 • HIS002020 • 978-1-52-677493-4

The second volume in John Grainger’s history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable rulers of the age. Having emerged from civil war in 223 as the sole survivor of the Seleukid dynasty, he shouldered the burdens of a weakened and divided realm. Though defeated

by Egypt in the Fourth Syrian War, he gradually restored full control over the empire.

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The Crisis of Rome The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius Gareth Sampson $19.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS002020 978-1-52-678177-2

In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down in a long difficult guerrilla war in a harsh environment when invasion by a coalition of Germanic tribes, the Cimbri, Teutones and Ambrones, threatened Italy and Rome itself, inflicting painful defeats on Roman forces in pitched battle.

Gaius Marius was the man of the hour. The first war he brought to an end through tactical brilliance, bringing the Numidian King Jugurtha back in chains.

Women at War in the Classical World Paul Chrystal $26.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • July 2020 • HIS027220 978-1-52-678146-8

Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men, there were plenty of exceptions with women directly involved in its direction and even as combatants, Artemisia, Olympias, Cleopatra and Agrippina the Elder being famous examples. And both Greeks and Romans encountered women among their barbarian enemies, such as Tomyris, Boudicca and Zenobia.

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Pen & Sword z • z Military The Norman Commanders

Warfare in the Age of Crusades

Masters of Warfare, 911–1135

The Latin East Brian Todd Carey Joshua B Allfree

Paul Hill

$34.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 illustrations and maps • December 2020 HIS027220 • 978-1-52-673021-3

$29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 color & black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS037010 978-1-52-678201-4

Robert Guiscard, William the Conqueror, Roger I of Sicily, and Bohemond Prince of Antioch are just four of the exceptional Norman commanders who not only led their armies to victory in battle but also, through military force, created their own kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Their brilliant careers, and those of Robert Curthose, William Rufus, Richard I of Capua and Henry I of England, are the subject of Paul Hills latest study of medieval warfare. In a narrative packed with detail and insight, and with a wide-ranging understanding of the fighting methods and military ethos of the period, he traces the course of their conquests, focusing on them as individual commanders and on their achievements on the battlefield.

Warfare in the Age of Crusades: The Latin East explores in fascinating detail the key campaigns, battles and sieges that shaped the crusading period of the Middle Ages, giving special attention to military technologies, tactics and strategies. Key personalities and political factors are addressed, including the role of papal monarchy in initiating the crusading expeditions, the relationship between Catholic Europe and the Byzantine Empire, the role of the religious military orders, and Islamic and Mongol military capabilities.

Chapters are devoted to each of the major crusades to the Levant—First, Second, Third and Fourth crusades—and an analysis of the Islamic response.

The rise of the Mamluks in Egypt, with their innovative military organization, is covered, as are the failed Egyptian and Tunisian campaigns.

James of St George and the Castles of the Welsh Wars

England, France and Aquitaine

Malcolm Hislop

Richard Ballard

From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War

$42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 150 color & black and white illustrations October 2020 • ARC005020 978-1-52-674130-1

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James of St George has a reputation as one of the most significant castle builders of the Middle Ages. His origins and early career at the heart of Europe, and his subsequent masterminding of Edward I of England’s castle-building programs in Wales and Scotland, bestow upon him an international status afforded to few other master builders retained by the English crown.

The works erected under his leadership represent what many consider to be the apogée of castle development in the British Isles.

This is a military history with technical detail, linked to high politics, courtly intrigue, dynastic ambition, and economic interest (wine trade and Bordeaux). The story revolves around the death of two Kings, Henry V of England, soon after his military triumphs, and Charles VI of France, in 1422. Both had historic claims to the ‘French fiefs’.

Henry was succeeded by Richard II, and Charles was succeeded by Charles VII. The contrast could hardly have been greater between Richard and Charles - an able politician, soldier and, in modern parlance, a ‘hard man’, who embodied the 15th century concept of kingship.

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The First and Second Italian Wars 1494–1504 Fearless Knights, Ruthless Princes and the Coming of Gunpowder Armies Julian Romane $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 14 color and 6 black and white pictures November 2020 • HIS027220 • 978-1-52675051-8 • Julian Romane lives in Zion, IL

The First and Second Italian Wars describes the course of military operations and political machinations in Italy from 1494 to 1504.

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Pen & Swordz Military Wellington and the British Army’s Indian Campaigns 1798–1805 Martin R Howard $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 illustrations - color August 2020 • HIS027200 978-1-47-389446-4

The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1811–1814 Tim Saunders Rob Yuill $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations & 15 black and white maps December 2020 • HIS027200 978-1-52-677013-4

The Peninsular War and the Napoleonic Wars across Europe are subjects of such enduring interest that they have prompted extensive research and writing. Yet other campaigns, in what was a global war, have been largely ignored.

Such is the case for the war in India which persisted for much of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods and peaked in the years 1798?1805 with the campaigns of Arthur Wellesley—later the Duke of Wellington— and General Lake in the Deccan and Hindustan. That is why this new study by Martin Howard is so timely and important.

After a period of outpost duty for the Light Division on the familiar ground of the Spanish borders, Wellington seized ‘the keys to Spain’ in the epic sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz.

Still reeling from the loss of General Craufurd, ‘The Division’ led the army against Marshal Marmont and after a protracted period of marching and counter marching, the French were finally brought to battle at Salamanca. As a result of King Joseph being driven out of Madrid, the French marshals united and in the autumn of 1812, the British were driven back to Ciudad Rodrigo in another gruelling retreat.

With news of Napoleon’s disaster in Russia and with reinforcements from Britain, Wellington prepared his army to drive the French from the Peninsular.

Bayonet to Barrage

The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts

Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield Stephen Manning $42.95 • Hardback • 240 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027080 • 978-1-52-677721-8

How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many miles apart.

How did this transformation come about, and what impact did it have on the experience of the soldiers of the period? Stephen Manning, in this meticulously researched and vividly written study, describes the developments in firepower and, using the first-hand accounts of the soldiers, shows how their perception of battle changed.

Innovations like the percussion and breech-loading rifle influenced the fighting in the Crimean War of the 1850s and the colonial campaigns of the 1870s and 1880s, in particular in the Anglo-Zulu War and the wars in Egypt and Sudan. The machine gun was used to deadly effect at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, and equally dramatic advances in artillery took warfare into a new era of tactics and organization.

Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps Andrew W Field $34.95 • Hardback • 176 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • Currently Available HIS027200 • 978-1-52-676846-9

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the French perspective of the campaign.

Using selected extracts from French eyewitness accounts that haven’t been published before in English, he has added a new dimension to our understanding of what happened on the battlefield on 18 June 1815. Now he takes his pioneering work a step further by publishing these accounts, with all their vivid and personal detail, in full.

For the first time readers will be in a position to make their own interpretations of them and compare them to the recollections of soldiers from the allied armies, in particular the British, which have largely determined our assumptions about the battle for the last 200 years.

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z Pen & Sword Military The Battle of the Berezina

Wellington Against Soult

Napoleon’s Great Escape

The Second Invasion of Portugal 1809

Alexander Mikaberidze

David Buttery

$22.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white Illustrations December 2020 • HIS027200 978-1-52-678371-4

$29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027200 978-1-52-678162-8

By late November Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina—the last natural obstacle between his army and the safety of the Polish frontier. But instead of finding the river frozen solid enough to march his men across, an unseasonable thaw had turned the Berezina into an icy torrent. Having already ordered the burning of his bridging equipment, Napoleon’s predicament was serious enough: but with the army of Admiral Chichagov holding the opposite bank, and those of Kutusov and Wittgenstein closing fast, it was critical. Only a miracle could save him…

In Soult, Wellesley met one of his most formidable opponents and they confronted each other during one of the most remarkable, and neglected, of the Peninsular campaigns. Soult’s invasion of Portugal is rarely studied in great depth and, likewise, the offensive Wellesley launched, which defeated and expelled the French, has also received scant coverage. As well as giving a fresh insight into the contrasting characters of the two generals, the narrative offers a gripping and detailed, reconstruction of the organization and experience of a military campaign 200 years ago.

Napoleon’s Paris

Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV’s France

A Guide to the Napoleonic Sites of the Consulate and First French Empire 1799–1815 David Buttery $26.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches • 70 color & black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027200 978-1-52-674947-5

Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most influential rulers in European history. Renowned as a military commander, he was also a great statesman, administrator, lawmaker and builder–and his civic achievements outlived and arguably eclipsed his victories on the battlefield.

Yet while there are a host of biographies and studies of his military and political career, few books have been written about his connections with Paris, the capital of his empire, where many remarkable buildings and monuments date from his time in power.

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James Falkner $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 75 color & black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027130 978-1-52-678185-7

James Falkner, in this perceptive and lively new account of Vauban’s life and work, follows his career as a soldier from a dashing and brave young cavalry officer to his emergence as a masterful military engineer. And he shows that Vauban was much more than simply a superlative builder of fortresses, for as a leading military commander serving Louis XIV, he perfected a method for attacking fortifications in the most effective way, which became standard practice until the present day.

Waterloo Myth and Reality Gareth Glover $26.95 • Paperback 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 color & black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS037060 978-1-52-677497-2

More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, willful distortion, and simple error has unfortunately led to the constantly regurgitated traditional ‘accepted’ version being significantly wrong regarding many episodes in the campaign.

Sister Janet Nurse & Heroine of the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 Brian Best Katie Slossel $24.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • November 2020 HIS037060 • 978-1-52-678337-0

Janet Wells achievements make for fascinating reading. She was only 18 when decorated for her nursing service to the Russians in the 1878 Balkan War. The following year she became the only nurse to serve at the Front in the Anglo-Zulu War. After a period in Northern Zululand, she was sent to the garrison at Rorkes Drift very soon after the legendary action. Revered by the soldiers, she had to make do in appalling conditions with scant supplies. She overcame extreme difficulties and prejudice despite her youth.

After returning to England in time for her 20th birthday, her achievements were recognized by the award of the Royal Red Cross the highest accolade and the equivalent of the Victoria Cross.

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Pen & Swordz Military Zulu Kings and their Armies

Conflict in the Crimea

Diane Canwell Jon Sutherland

British Redcoats on Russian Soil

$29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • November 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-678208-3

Don Richards

Covering nearly one hundred years of Zulu military history, this book focuses on the creation, maintenance, development, tactics and ultimate destruction of the Zulu army. It studies the armies, weapons and tactics under the rule of the five Zulu kings from Shaka to Dinizulu.

The rule of each of the five kings is examined in terms of their relationships with the army and how they raised regiments to expand their influence in the region. All the major battles and campaigns are discussed with reference to the development of the weapons and tactics of the army. Internal regimental dynamics, their history, customs and rituals are also examined, particularly the social importance of the regiments.

The FrancoPrussian War, 1870–1871 Touring the Sedan Campaign Maarten Otte Battleground Series $22.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches • 150 black and white illustrations & 50 black and white maps August 2020 • HIS037060 978-1-52-674412-8

In 1870 France embarked on a war with Prussia and her allied German states that was to be a complete disaster.

For Napoleon III, after his ignominious surrender with thousands of his troops from the Army of the Rhine and the Army of of Chalons, it meant his abdication and exile. For France it resulted in the humiliation of her army, a bitter civil war in Paris, the loss of two Provinces (Alsace and Lorraine) and a heavy indemnity.

Maarten Otte provides background chapters to place the lead up to the war and the issues that were involved; he describes the make up of the opposing armies and some of their principal commanders. The campaign around Sedan was short, fought in the fag end days of August and early September 1870, though the war was to drag on for four months.

$24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS037060 • 978-1-52-678338-7

The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men and women who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well as surviving the efforts of their determined enemy, the Russians, they had to overcome the harshest weather, rampant disease and woefully inadequate administrative support. As revealed to a shocked nation by the first war reporters, medical care was largely nonexistent and wounded faced the trauma of being left for days without medical attention.

This was where Florence Nightingale came in.

Battles were prolonged, desperate, and hugely costly.

The Crimean War was the catalyst for the modernization of the Army, due to the disgraceful injustice of conditions and lack of leadership and care by many in authority.

Into the Valley of Death The Light Cavalry at Balaclava Nick Thomas $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027000 • 978-1-52-672292-8

Into the Valley of Death tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the men who fought during the most heroic and yet futile engagement of the modern era.

By drawing on key evidence the author has not only provided a clear narrative of the events leading up to the 25th October 1854, but has painted a vivid picture of the Charge itself. No punches are pulled and the carnage which ensued is clear for all to read, dispelling the romantic myth of ‘death or glory’ fostered by the Victorians.

This work tells the blood and guts story of a desperate charge by 673 men in the face of what seemed insurmountable odds. It reveals the trauma endured by the rank and file who witnessed all around them men and horses cut to pieces while endeavoring to ride through walls of flying iron and lead, and not knowing if the next second would be their last.

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z • z Military Pen & Sword Missing

The Somme 1916

The Need for Closure after the Great War

& Other Experiences of the Salford Pals

Richard van Emden $29.95 • Paperback 312 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 64 black and white illustrations • July 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-52-676100-2

The twenty-two year old Royal Flying Corps pilot, along with his Observer, Lieutenant Edgar Martyn, had been shot down over no man’s land, both being killed instantly. If there was one crumb of comfort, it was the news that a brave Australian officer, Lieutenant A.H. Hill, had gone out under fire and recovered both bodies: there would, at the very least, be a grave to visit after the war.

No one knew where Mond’s and Martyn’s bodies were buried. There had been an initial trail: both bodies had been taken to the village of Corbie and a lorry summoned to take them away, but from that last sighting both men had simply disappeared.

Stedman

Michael

$29.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-52-678436-0

On the 1st of July 1916, the Somme offensive was launched and in the very epicenter of that cauldron the first three of Salford’s battalions were thrown at the massive defenses of Thiepval —the men were decimated, Salford was shattered.

Michael Stedman records the impact of the war from the start on Salford and follows the difficulties and triumphs. Whether the actions small or great the author writes graphically about them all.

Phillip Tardif $29.95 • Paperback 368 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-52-678193-2

Sent to France in August 1914 the North Irish Horse (NIH) were the first British reservist regiment to see action (at Le Cateau) before fighting as rearguard on the long retreat to the outskirts of Paris.

For the next four years they saw action in many of the major battles (Ypres, Somme, Passchendaele, Cambrai) and were involved in the final advance to victory.

The book not only describes the Regiments actions by squadron but focusses on the officers and men; their background, motivation and courageous deeds and sacrifices.

Battles on the Tigris

Douglas Haig

Real War Horses

The Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War

The Preparatory Prologue: Diaries & Letters, 1861–1914

The Experience of the British Cavalry, 1814–1914

Ron Wilcox

Douglas Scott

Anthony Dawson

$24.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027090 • 978-1-52678169-7

$29.95 • Paperback 350 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-52-678433-9

In 1914 the British expedition to Mesopotamia set out with the modest ambition of protecting the oil concession in Southern Persia but, after numerous misfortunes, ended up capturing Baghdad and Northern Towns in Iraq.

Initially the mission was successful in seizing Basra but the British under Generals Nixon and Townshend, found themselves drawn North, becoming besieged by the Turks at Kut. After various failed relief attempts the British surrendered and the prisoners suffered appalling indignities and hardship, culminating in a death march to Turkey.

As a young officer in the prestigious 21st Lancers (motto Death or Glory) Douglas Haig played a leading role in Kitcheners bold expedition which ended in the defeat of the Khalifa of Sudan at Omdurman. He described the action, as he did the whole campaign, vividly in words and diagrams which survived virtually untouched at the family home Bemersyde in the Borders.

These letters and diaries allow the reader to trace Haig’s career and developing character. What they reveal may well surprise his critics.

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The North Irish Horse in the Great War

$26.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-52678152-9

Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalry during a century of warfare. That is why it is of such value.

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Verdun (Map)

Scenes from Saxony’s War in Flanders 1914–1918

Bart Metselaar

Andrew Lucas Jürgen Schmieschek $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 7.5 x 9.5 inches • Over 300 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027000 • 978-1-52-674864-5

Following on from their pioneering account of the Saxon army in the First World War –Fighting the Kaiser’s War— Andrew Lucas and Jürgen Schmieschek have compiled this remarkable sequel which covers Saxony’s war in Flanders in much greater detail. Once again they draw on vivid extracts from personal accounts and letters as well as regimental and documents from the Saxon archives, and they illustrate their powerful study with hundreds of previously unpublished personal photos which show every aspect of wartime experience in the front line and the rear areas.

The role of the Saxon army in the three battles of Ypres is recorded in graphic detail, and rare photographs offer fresh perspectives on famous wartime locations on the Western Front including Ploegsteert Wood, the Menin Road, Bellewaarde, Wytschaete and Passchendaele.

Victory at Gallipoli, 1915 The German-Ottoman Alliance in the First World War Klaus Wolf $52.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 111 B&W illustrations & 13 color maps • July 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-52-676816-2

The German contribution in a famous Turkish victory at Gallipoli has been overshadowed by the Mustafa Kemal legend. The commanding presence of German General Liman von Sanders in the operations is well known. But relatively little is known about the background of German military intervention in Ottoman affairs.

Klaus Wolf fills this gap as a result of extensive research in the German records and the published literature. He examines the military assistance offered by the German Empire in the years preceding 1914 and the German involvement in ensuring that the Ottomans fought on the side of the Central Powers and that they made best use of the German military and naval missions.

He highlights the fundamental reforms that were required after the battering the Turks received in various Balkan wars, particularly in the Turkish Army, and the challenges that faced the members of the German missions.

$10.95 • Map • 2 pages • • 1 color map August 2020 • HIS027090 978-1-52-676820-9

For many years the Holts have provided tourers to the battlefields with excellent mapping for the Ypres Salient and the Somme. This map of the Verdun/Meuse area fills one of the many gaps in the coverage of the Western Front.

This map of the Verdun battlefield is in the same style, using a color coded system to distinguish the different types of features. It includes some 300 locations of memorials, cemeteries, significant remnants of the battle terrain, remaining fortifications, trenches, the destroyed villages and other vestiges of the war. On the reverse there is a cut out and enlarged section of the Verdun battlefield in particular - the most visited part of the area, which provides greater detail. This section includes the Ossuary at Douamont, Forts Douamont, Vaux and Souville and many more features.

The front line at key stages of the battle in 1916 is clearly indicated.

The Battle of Bellewaarde, June 1915 Carole McEntee-Taylor $29.95 • Paperback • 352 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS027090 • 978-1-52-678203-8

At the close of the 2nd Battles of Ypres, the German trenches between the Menin Road and the Ypres-Roulers railway formed a salient. From Bellewaarde ridge, situated on the eastern side of the lake, they were able to overlook the greater part of the ground east of Ypres. In early June it was decided to attack the salient, and take possession of Bellewaarde ridge. The attack was to be carried out by the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Division, with 7th Brigade in support.

The book is a tribute to those who fought and died at Bellewaarde on the 16th June 1915 and author royalties will be donated to a fund to help raise money for a memorial.

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Pen & Sword z • zMilitary Painting Wargaming Figures Rome’s Northern Enemies

Panzer III–German Army Light Tank

British, Celts, Germans and Dacians

Tank Craft Series $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 200 color & black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677171-1

Operation Barbarossa 1941 Dennis Oliver

Andy Singleton $26.95 • Paperback • 144 pages 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 180 color illustrations August 2020 • GAM010000 978-1-52-676556-7

If you are raising your own army to defy the might of Rome, Andy Singleton will help you get them ready for battle with ease.

The emphasis is on achievable results and practical advice to get your army painted and ready for gaming in a reasonable time frame, and achieve a fine collection that will look great on the shelf or table.

Most of the figures featured in the numerous illustrations are 28mm but the techniques described are easily adaptable to smaller scales and to plastic or metal. Step-by-step guidance takes the process from initial preparation and assembly of the figure, to finishing and basing. Themed chapters cover armor, clothing, skin tones, warpaint and tattoos, shields and horses.

In Dennis Oliver’s latest volume in the TankCraft series he uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Pzkpfw III and the units that operated this deservedly famous armored vehicle along a 1,000-mile front during the battles of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

A key section of his book displays available model kits and after-market products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales.

Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined, providing everything the modeler needs to recreate an accurate representation of these historic tanks.

Leopard 2

Challenger 2

NATO’s First Line of Defence, 1979–2020

British Main Battle Tank of the Gulf War

David Grummitt

Robert Griffin

Tank Craft Series $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 color illustrations August 2020 • CRA020000 978-1-52-677410-1

Tank Craft Series $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 100 color & black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027080 • 978-1-52-675657-2

The Leopard 2 is also a popular subject for modelers which is why David Grummitt’s highly illustrated expert guide is so valuable.

As well as describing in detail the Leopard 2’s design, development and combat history, he gives a full account of the wide range of modeling kits and accessories available in all the popular scales.

Included is a modeling gallery, which features six builds covering a range of Leopard 2s serving with different nations and a section of large-scale color profiles which provide both reference and inspiration for modelers and military enthusiasts alike.

The Challenger 2 is one of the most advanced and sophisticated tanks ever built, and it is a popular subject with tank modelers and enthusiasts.

That is why this volume in the TankCraft series on the Challenger, featuring hundreds of photographs and specially commissioned color profiles, is absorbing reading and such a valuable work of reference.

Archive photos of the Challenger 2 in service and extensively researched color profile illustrations depict the tank throughout its operational life.

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. Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined and provide everything the modeler needs to recreate an accurate representation of the Challenger 2.

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Jagdpanzer IV–German Tiger I & Tiger II Tanks German Army and Waffen-SS Army and Waffen–SS Normandy Campaign 1944 Tank Destroyers Western Front, 1944–1945 Dennis Oliver $22.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677167-4

Combining the destructive firepower of the 75mm gun with the mobility of the Pzkpfw IV medium tank , the Jagdpanzer IV was quite possibly the most effective tank destroyer of the Second World War. From early 1944 these vehicles were allocated to the anti-tank battalions of Panzer and Panzergrenadier divisions and saw action in Normandy, the Ardennes and the final battles in Germany.

In his latest book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses contemporary photographs and meticulously researched, superbly presented color and monochrome illustrations to tell the story of these self-propelled anti-tank guns and the units which operated them in the German defense of the Western Front. As with all the books in the TankCraft series, a large part of this work showcases available model kits and after-market products, complemented by a gallery of expertly constructed and painted models. Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also explained giving the modeler all the information and knowledge required.

Dennis Oliver

$22.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 color & black and white illustrations • September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677163-6

In spite of the relatively small numbers involved, the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS heavy Panzer formations played a central role in resisting the Allied invasion of France in the summer of 1944. British and American tank crews found to their dismay that the Tigers could survive numerous hits while a single round from one of their 88mm guns was enough to penetrate the strongest armor. In his latest book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses archive photographs and painstakingly researched, exquisitely presented color illustrations to examine the part these powerful tanks played in the Normandy battles and also the units that operated them.

As with previous titles, a large part of this book showcases available model kits and after-market products and accessories, complemented by a gallery of skillfully constructed and painted models. Descriptions of technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also provided giving the modeler all the information and knowledge required to recreate authentic miniature representations of the Panthers that fought in the fields and hedgerows of Normandy during the summer of 1944.

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Panther Tanks–German Army Panzer Brigades Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944–1945 Dennis Oliver $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677159-9

In July 1944, with the Eastern Front crumbling and the first cracks appearing in the Normandy defenses, Hitler ordered the creation of a new type of unit based on the ad-hoc Kampfgruppen which the Germans used so successfully throughout the war. Hastily assembled and short-lived these independent Panzer brigades nevertheless served on both fronts in some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict. The real striking power of the initial units would a battalion equipped with the Pzkpfw V Panther, perhaps the most effective armored vehicle produced by Germany during the Second World War. In Dennis Oliver’s latest volume in the TankCraft series he uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Panther battalions of the Panzer brigades that fought to hold back the Allied advance during the last months of 1944. A key section of his book displays available model kits and after-market products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales. Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined providing everything the modeler needs to recreate an accurate representation of these historic tanks.

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Pen & Sword Transportation • Air World z•z Jaguar E–Type

Porsche 911

Lance Cole

Lance Cole

Car Craft Series $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 color & black and white illustrations • October 2020 CRA020000 • 978-1-52-675684-8

Car Craft Series $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 CRA020000 • 978-1-52-675680-0

The third book in the new CarCraft series, Jaguar E-Type, frames the legend of what many call the world’s most beautiful car design. Sir William Lyons and Malcolm Sayer carved automotive history with this car across its 1960s-1970s incarnations from roadster to coupé amid the fitting of Straight-Six, to V12 engines.With its new definition of sculptural styling, performance, handling and innovative style, the E-Type or XKE series in the USA, created a car of global impact that remains a great classic of all time.

Here, experienced automotive writer, and industrial designer, Lance Cole pays tribute to the car in a detailed yet engaging commentary. New photography, the design story, and full coverage of the modeling options in synthetic materials and die cast metals, create a narrative of vital interest.

Recognized as one of the most important sports cars in the history of the automobile, Porsche’s 911 represents a vital story in the annals of the design and driving of the motor car. This new book delivers an innovative format to the car enthusiast by covering the engineering, design, and modeling of Porsche’s 911 series.

A true icon, 911 is the designer legend—and a driving tool par excellence: the 911 stemmed from the Porsche 356 yet created a new era and a new international definition of style amid a global motor sport record of success across race and rally events Here in CarCraft title Number Two, experienced automotive writer, industrial designer and Porsche enthusiast Lance Cole pays tribute to the car in a detailed yet engaging commentary. New photography, the design story, and full coverage of the modeling options in synthetic materials and die cast metals, create a narrative of vital interest.

Bugatti

Vickers VC10

Type 35 Grand Prix Car and its Variants

Lance Cole Flight Craft Series $28.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-52-676006-7

Lance Cole Car Craft Series $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 200 color & black and white illustrations • Currently Available TRA001000 • 978-1-52-675676-3

This new book, the first in the CarCraft series delivers an innovative presentation to the car enthusiast by covering the engineering, design, and modeling of one of motoring’s greatest cars across all its epochs.

Ettore Bugatti changed engineering history with his genius and innovations.

With its clever engine design, new suspension thinking, and distinct body style, Bugatti’s T35 and its variants defined a new era of design and driving and must surely rank as true ‘supercars’. A motor sport legend was also cast down by these Bugattis.

Experienced automotive writer, industrial designer and Bugatti Owners Club member Lance Cole pays tribute to the car in a detailed yet engaging commentary. New photography, the design story, and full coverage of the modeling options in synthetic materials and die cast metals, create a narrative of vital interest.

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Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain’s answer to the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8.

The VC10 was a second-generation jetliner designed in the 1960s and manufactured into the 1970s. It incorporated advanced engineering, new aerodynamics, and design features, to produce a swept, sculpted machine easily identifiable by its high T-tail design and rear-engine configuration.

The VC10 could take off in a very short distance, climb more steeply and land at slower speed than its rivals the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. These were vital safety benefits in the early years of the jet age. At one stage, the Super VC10 was the biggest airliner made in Europe and the fastest in the world.

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Pen & Swordz Military On Operations with C Squadron SAS

Soldier in the Sand A Personal History of the Modern Middle East

Terrorist Pursuit and Rebel Attacks in Cold War Africa

Sir Simon Mayall KBE CB

Michael Graham

$49.95 • Hardback • 320 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS026000 978-1-52-677773-7

$34.95 • Hardback • 208 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • August 2020 POL005000 978-1-52-677281-7

This is the third and final ‘standalone’ account of C Squadron SAS’s thrilling operations against the relentless spread of communist backed terrorism in East Africa.

Drawing on first-hand experiences the author describe operations against communist-backed terrorists in Angola and Mozambique, aiding the Portuguese and Renamo against the MPLA and Frelimo respectively.

Back in Southern Rhodesia SAS General Peter Walls, realizing the danger that Mugabe and ZANU represented, appealed directly to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This correspondence, published here for the first time, changed nothing and years of corruption and genocide followed.

The author, whose links with the area are deep and long-standing, successfully does just that in Soldier in the Sand. As well as analyzing its history and religions, which strongly influence people’s actions, attitudes and relationships, he draws on his own experiences and impressions based on his many years spent in key military and diplomatic appointments in numerous countries.

In addition to knowing many of the key players personally, he has studied, at leading universities, British policy and engagement in the area and he understands the effects of this long-term engagement.

This invaluable book’s unique mixture of history, politics, academic study and first-hand experience affords the reader an invaluable insight into a fascinating, fractured and frustrating area of the world.

Joys of War

He Who Dares

From the Foreign Legion and the SAS, and into Hell with PTSD

Recollections of Service in the SAS, SBS and MI5

John-Paul Jordan $29.95 • Paperback • 144 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 color & black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027000 • 978-1-52-676332-7

Irishman John-Paul Jordan, still only in his thirties, has led an extraordinary life, from the Foreign Legion and private security in Iraq, to serving multiple tours in Afghanistan and on to guiding journalists on the front line and behind enemy lines in Libya, or even hunting for gold in Afghanistan.

However, once back in Civvy Street, the camaraderie was gone; he found himself a prisoner of war to PTSD. Dehumanised by those professionals whom he had turned to for help, this Special Forces veteran and former Legionnaire was brought to his knees.

David Sutherland $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678222-9

There can be few veterans whose contribution to victory can rival Sutherland’s as readers of this superb memoir will discover.

Much of the action is set in the Aegean where the author served with the Special Boat Service, an offshoot of the infant SAS, raiding airfields on the German-held islands. This is made all the more moving by the author’s profound and lasting admiration for the Greek resistance fighters who risked not just their lives, but those of their families and entire villages, by giving their support.

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The SAS in Occupied France 2 SAS Operations, June to October 1944 Gavin Mortimer $34.95 • Hardback 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 120 black and white & color illustrations November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-676962-6

In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality TV shows about them. But what there hasn’t been is a guide to the scenes of some of their most famous Second World War operations. That is why Gavin Mortimer’s vivid two-volume account of their daring missions in German-occupied France in 1944 is such compelling reading.

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•z Pen & Sword Military z• Images of War Series

Hitler’s Anti–Tank Weapons 1939–1945

The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad

Knight’s Cross Winners of the Waffen SS

Hans Seidler

Ian Baxter

Marc Rikmenspoel

$22.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 inches • 250 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-52-674983-3

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$26.95 • Paperback • 136 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 inches • 150 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-676758-5

Hitler’s Wehrmacht and SS units will be remembered for their aggressive ‘Blitzkrieg’ tactics. But, as the war progressed, the Germans, recognizing the offensive capability of armored warfare, developed an impressive range of anti-tank warfare weaponry and munitions.

Using many rare unpublished images this Images of War book covers the full Nazi anti-armor capability from the 3.7cm Pak 35, 5cm Pak 38 and 7.5cm Pak 40 to the versatile 8.8cm Flak feared by the Allies. Also featured are the half-tracks and converted Panzers that pulled or mounted these weapons and carried forward observers and reconnaissance elements.

Later hand-held anti-tank weapons came into service and were effective and economic against Allied armor. The Panzerfaust, with its shaped charge warhead, became the first disposable anti-tank weapon in history.

This comprehensive book shows this formidable range of weapons in action from Poland in 1939, through North Africa and the Eastern Front to the final collapse in 1945.

The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare.

The annihilation of General von Paulus’ 6th Army epitomized the devastating defeat of Hitler’s ambition to conquer Stalin’s Soviet Union. After the successful Operation Blue offensive 6th Army reached the River Volga north of Stalingrad in summer 1942. With overextended supply lines and facing steely opposition, increasingly desperate attempts to seize the city repeatedly failed. Slowly 6th Army became encircled. The German High Command attempted a number of relief attempts, notably Field Marshal von Manstein’s ‘Winter Storm’ but all were defeated by the tenacity of the enemy and the Russian winter. To their credit the men of 6th Army fought to the end but by February 1943 the last pockets of German resistance were either destroyed or had surrendered.

Thanks to a superb collection of unpublished photographs, this Images of War book provides an absorbing insight into the dramatic events of the last months of 6th Army’s doomed existence.

Knight’s Cross winners of the Waffen-SS details some of the most-decorated personalities of that infamous organization. Rare photos will portray men such Sepp Dietrich, Theodor Eicke, and Michael Wittmann. The images are a mix of studio portraits and shots taken in the field.

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Hell in the Central Pacific 1944

Rommel’s Ghost Division

The Palau Islands

Dash to the Channel–1940

The Americans from the Ardennes to VE Day

Jon Diamond

David Mitchelhill-Green

Brooke S. Blades

$24.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 inches • 250 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-676216-0 Jon Diamond lives in Pennsylvania

$22.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 inches • 200 images • September 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-671517-3

$28.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 inches • 250 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-5267-6608-3 Brooke S. Blades lives in Pennsylvania

In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur’s planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans attacked Peleliu and Angaur in the Palau group of the Western Caroline Islands.

Admiral Halsey, commanding the US Third Fleet, feared the heavily defended Palaus would be costly for his III Amphibious Corps comprising the 1st Marine Division and the 81st Infantry Division.

While Angaur fell in four days, on Peleliu the Japanese resisted tenaciously using their underground fortifications on the Umurbrogel Ridge overlooking the airfield. It was only after over two months’ bitter fighting that the Americans finally controlled the island. Despite the heavy cost, the benefits of this hard fought and costly victory were doubtful. In the event, Mindanao and other Southern Philippine Islands were bypassed by MacArthur in favor of a direct assault on Leyte on 20 October. But, as the graphic images and well researched text bear witness, there is no denying the courage and determination shown by the attacking US forces.

Adolf Hitler invaded Western Europe on 10 May 1940. After breaking through the supposedly ‘impenetrable’ Ardennes, Erwin Rommel was at the forefront of the Wehrmacht’s audacious drive through France. Rommel, who had no prior experience leading an armored division in combat, moved with such speed and nerve that he frequently surprised French units by arriving far earlier than expected.

Crossing the Meuse River, we follow Rommel— in what he referred to as ‘practically a lightning Tour de France’—as he pushed through northern France to the English Channel. His spectacular victory at the coastal port of Saint-Valéry-enCaux was crowned by the capture of Cherbourg.

Following the armistice, Rommel was involved in reenacting certain battles, such as crossing the Somme, for the documentary Sieg im Westen (Victory in the West).

This is the story of Rommel and the 7th Panzer Division—the so-called ‘Ghost Division’—in France, 1940.

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The third and final volume of the author’s Americans in North-West Europe series covers the historic period December 1944 to May 1945.

Launched in December 1944, the Nazis’ Ardennes offensive, known as the Battle of the Bulge, was one of the most dangerous periods of the War. During six weeks of desperate fighting, more US soldiers were killed, wounded or reported missing than in any battle in American history.

The Rhine was crossed in March 1945, first by the seizure of the railway bridge at Remagen and then by the combined American, British and Canadian ground and airborne operation codenamed Varsity. In the closing stages of the war, the western allies pushed remorselessly in the heart of Germany. Shocking evidence of Nazi atrocities was uncovered.

Berlin fell to the Russians in early May and the Allies met up on the River Elbe. In the chaos that followed, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation. The immediate tasks were ensuring the survival of the civilian population, establishing law and order, and the capture of war criminals.

In true Images of War style, this book graphically describes the magnificent role played

by US forces under General Eisenhower’s overall command.

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The Ulster Tales

Stephen Twigge

A Tribute to those Who Served, 1969–2000

Images of the National Archives Series $26.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 inches • Black and white illustrations October 2020 • POL005000 978-1-52-673990-2

John Wilsey

Cold War tells the story of half a century of superpower confrontation from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book describes in chilling detail the military and ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that dominated the postwar landscape.

The book highlights the role played by Britain during the Cold War and its involvement in Cold War flash points including the Berlin Blockade, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The book describes the devastating consequences of nuclear war, the growth and influence of the peace movement and the exploits of the Cold War spy networks built up by both sides.

Based on previously secret government reports and papers, the book tells a compelling story of global conflict and superpower politics set against a backdrop of dramatic social and cultural change.

$24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS037030 • 978-1-52-678175-8

The Ulster Tales captures the lives and experiences of ten individuals who were caught up in the Troubles. Each has a very distinct story to tell according to their role and position.

Arranged roughly in chronological order, the book covers the media, military, intelligence, police, business, politics and civil service.

The first tale is that of Simon Hoggart, the journalist who reported for The Guardian in Belfast and London from the start. The military angle is covered by the GOC at a critical moment (General Sir Richard Lawson), a Private in The Green Howards from Barnsley and a widow. A member of MI5 and a key Source Handler represents the Intelligence effort. The politician is Tom King who was Secretary of State at the time of the Anglo-Irish Agreement and narrowly avoided assassination and we hear of the role of a top civil servant, Sir John Blelloch. The Policemans Tale is that of a young Met officer who transferred to the RUC.

Korean War Imjin River

Korean War Chinese Invasion

Fall of the Glosters to the Armistice, April 1951–July 1953

People’s Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951

Gerry van Tonder

Gerry van Tonder

Cold War 1945–1991 Series $22.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 24 color & 75 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027020 • 978-1-52-677813-0

Cold War 1945–1991 Series $22.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 24 color & 75 black and white illustrations • Currently Available HIS027020 • 978-1-52-677809-3

As of October 1950, a quarter of a million Communist Chinese troops, in twenty-seven divisions, had poured across the Yalu River into North Korea, with the singular objective of forcing General Douglas MacArthur’s United Nations troops back across the 38th Parallel and into the Sea of Japan.

Shortly before midnight on 22 April 1951, to the west of the US Eighth Army’s defensive front, the Chinese Sixty-third Army fell on the British 29th Brigade. On the left flank, the 1st Battalion, Gloucester Regiment (‘Glosters’) held a tenuous position at a ford on the Imjin River. Despite a gallant defense, the battalion was pushed back to make a desperate but futile stand on Hill 235. On what became known as ‘Glosters’ Hill’, the battalion ceased to exist. It was subsequently estimated that the attacking force of 27,000 Chinese troops suffered 10,000 casualties, forcing the Chinese army to be withdrawn from the front.

Communist Chinese forces, that have been secretly infiltrating North Korean territory by slipping across the Yalu from mid-October 1950, ambush a South Korean regiment in the mountains of central North Korea. This is the first of several Chinese victories over unsuspecting and overstretched South Korean and American units in the winter of 1950/1.

On 27 November 1950, Chinese leader Mao Zedong, ostensibly fearful of the consequences of hostile American forces on his country’s border along the Yalu River, orders 250,000 troops into Korea, with express orders to annihilate the UN forces. In the western half of the theater, US General Walton H. Walker’s Eighth Army front along the Ch’?ngch’?n axis is breached, while to the east, the US X Corps suffers a series of crushing defeats, including at the Chosin Reservoir, precipitating a massive evacuation from the North Korean port of Hungnam.

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Logistics in the Vietnam Phoenix 13 Elite Helicopter Units Wars, 1945–1975 N. S. Nash CBE in Vietnam $34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027070 978-1-52-675744-9

Americal Division Artillery Air Section

The combatants in the three Vietnam wars from 1945 to 1975 employed widely contrasting supply methods. This fascinating book reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems.

During the Indochina or ‘French’ war, France’s initial use of wheeled transport and finally air supply proved vulnerable given the terrain, climate and communist adaptability. The colonial power gave up the unequal struggle after the catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu. To stem the advance of Communism throughout the region, the Americans stepped in to support the pro-Western South Vietnam regime and threw vast quantities of manpower and money at the problem. The cost became increasingly unpopular at home. General Giap’s and Ho Chi Minh’s ruthless use of coolies most famously on the Ho Chi Minh Trail proved resistant to carpet-bombing and Agent Orange defoliation.

The outcome of the final war between the Communist North Vietnam and the corrupt Southern leadership, now with minimal US support, was almost a forgone conclusion.

The author is superbly qualified to examine these three wars from the logistic perspective.

His conclusions make for compelling reading and will be instructive to acting practitioners and inquiring minds.

$29.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 45 color illustrations • November 2020 HIS027070 • 978-1-52-675942-9 Darryl James lives in Texas

Darryl James

A collection of war stories closely based on the author’s experiences flying scout/observation helicopters in Vietnam. Story telling was a daily evening occurrence for the solo scout pilots.

These stories, called “TINS,” an irreverent pilot acronym for ‘this is no shit,’ allowed the solo pilots to learn from each other’s experiences and mistakes. The “TINS” within this collection reveal the brotherhood that developed between pilots and their crew chiefs in combat. The solo pilots relied on their courage, swapping stories and a bit of luck to survive.

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The Last of Africa’s Cold War Conflicts Portuguese Guinea and its Guerilla Insurgency Al J. Venter $42.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS037070 • 978-1-52-677298-5

Portugal was the first European country to colonize Africa. It was also the last to leave, almost five centuries later. During the course of what Lisbon called its “civilizing mission in Africa” the Portuguese weathered numerous insurrections, but none as severe as the guerrilla war first launched in Angola in 1961 and two years later in Portuguese Guinea. While Angola had a solid economic infrastructure, that did not hold for the tiny West African enclave that was to become Guine-Bissau. Both Soviets and Cubans believed that because that tiny colony- roughly the size of Belgium - had no resources and a small population, that Lisbon would soon capitulate. They were wrong, because hostilities lasted more than a decade and the 11-year struggle turned into the most intense of Lisbon’s three African colonies.

It was a classic African guerrilla campaign that kicked off in January 1963, but nobody noticed because what was taking place in Vietnam grabbed all the headlines. The Soviet-led guerrilla campaign in Portuguese Guinea was to go on and set the scene for the wars that followed in Rhodesia and present-day Namibia.

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z Pen & Sword Military 1000 Days on the River Kwai The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant Cary Owtram $24.95 • Paperback • 168 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677205-3

Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for a moving reading but Colonel Owtram’s account of his years of captivity has a special significance.

Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors.

Of course his account does not admit to this but what is clear is that in addition to the deprivation and hardship suffered by all POWs, the author bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese.

A History of the Artists Rifles, 1859–1947 Barry Gregory

Public Schools and the Second World War

A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis

Anthony Seldon David Walsh

The Incredible Life of Gino

$49.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-675039-6

Following on from Public Schools and the Great War, Sir Anthony Seldon and David Walsh now examine those same schools in the Second World War. Privileged conservative traditions of private schools were challenged in the inter-war years by the changing social and political landscape, including a greater role for the alumni of girls’ public schools. What was that public school spirit in 1939 and how did it and its products cope with, and contribute to, the requirements of a modern global conflict both physically and intellectually?

Alberto Toscano $34.95 • Hardback • 176 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 8 black and white illustrations • August 2020 BIO006000 • 978-1-52-675339-7

Italy, 1943. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation.

Among them was Gino Bartali.

A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d’Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice.

But these weren’t his only achievements. Deeply religious, Bartali never spoke about what he did during those dark years, when he agreed to work with the Resistance and pass messages from one end of the country to the other.

Churchill’s Flawed Decisions

The Undying Flame

Errors in Office of The Greatest Briton

Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War

Stephen Wynn

$29.95 • Paperback 368 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 48 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027000 • 978-1-52-678430-8

$34.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 32 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-670854-0

This is the long-awaited missing history of a unique London regiment. Thoroughly deserving of its name, the Artists Rifles traces its origins to a meeting to discuss the threat of invasion by Napoleon III in 1859, of students at Careys School of Art which led to the formation of the Corps of Artists.

This unit was composed of painters, sculptors, engravers, architects, musicians, poets and actors.

Remarkably many of the most famous names in British art (Millais, Rossetti, Frederick Leighton, etc) have proudly to served in The Artists.

Winston Churchill is undoubtedly one of the most respected and best-loved characters the nation has ever known. However, much of how people view him is based on his leadership during the bleak and dire times of the Second World War. If it wasn’t for him, Britain would almost definitely have lost the war: there were those in government who encouraged Churchill to strike a deal with Hitler at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, which took place just three weeks after he had been made Prime Minister, but he stuck resolutely to his guns and said, ‘no’.

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Bartali

Nigel McCrery $34.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 240 black and white illustrations • July 2021 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-674062-5

Over 60,000,000 people died worldwide during the course of the Second World War and, in contrast to those slaughtered in The Great War, it was civilian populations that bore the brunt. They perished in the Holocaust, in internment camps, in bombed towns and cities and as ‘collateral damage’, in war zones, such as the Eastern Front and in Asia.

Among this carnage were hundred of individuals of all nations who had competed in Olympic Games. Imagine the loss of so many of the world’s greatest sportsmen and women of the present era.

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Fighting for Spain

The History of the Intelligence Corps, 1940–2010

The International Brigades in the Civil War, 1936–1939

Nicholas van der Bijl $38.95 • Paperback • 432 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS027180 978-1-52-677495-8

This ground breaking book examines the colorful history of the Intelligence Corps from its formation in 1940 up to the present day. Even accepting that there are aspects of the Corps activities that cannot be revealed, there is a great wealth of fascinating material here for those interested in intelligence gathering. During WW2 over 400 members served with SOE, Field Security Sections carried out counterintelligence tasks at home and overseas, liaising with foreign services where appropriate. Intelligence gathering for commanders at all levels has been a key role using Sigint, human sources, interrogation and other covert ops. The Corps captured many key German and Japanese war criminals.

During the Cold War, Intelligence Sections were a vital part of all HQs above Brigade level and worked regularly with the SAS, SBS, RM Commandos, GCHQ and M15.

Alexander Clifford $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS027000 • 978-1-52-677438-5

In the English-speaking world, the Spanish Civil War is perhaps best remembered through the exploits of thousands of foreign volunteers from across the globe who joined the International Brigades—a force of communists, socialists and others who took their opposition to fascism to extraordinary lengths. Their passionate political commitment to Spain’s cause and determination in battle placed them among the crack troops of the Republic’s People’s Army.

Yet while much has been written about the political, social and cultural significance of the brigades and their experience in Spain, less has been said about their performance as front-line troops. It is this military history that Alexander Clifford focuses on in vivid detail in this highly illustrated new study.

China Station

Amateur Armies

The British Military in the Middle Kingdom, 1839–1997

Militias and Volunteers in War and Peace, 1797–1961

Mark Felton $24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS037060 • 978-1-52-678173-4

The author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.

He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842. This classic example of Imperial intervention saw the establishment of Hong Kong and Shanghai as key trading centers. The Second Opium War and the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions saw the advancement of British influence despite determined but unsuccessful efforts by the Chinese to loosen the grip of Western domination. The Royal Navy’s might ensured that, by gunboat diplomacy, trading rights and new posts were established and great fortunes made.

But in the 1940s the British grossly underestimated Japanese military might and intentions with disastrous results. After the Second World War the British returned to find that the Americans had supplanted them.

Stephen M Cullen $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027000 • 978-1-52-673443-3

Amateur Armies examines the military and social history of volunteer armies around the western world from the failed French invasion of South Wales in 1797 to the disastrous anti-Communist invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in 1961.

It brings together some fascinating military actions across more than a century and a half of history and explores the social and political context in the countries involved. Stephen Cullen’s absorbing and original book is the first general survey of the role of amateur armies during the period.

Included are chapters on a series of wars in which militias played critical parts. In each case, their actions and effectiveness are described as is the background from which they came, and the social and political circumstances in which they operated. This pioneering study offers a valuable insight into each of the amateur armies covered and opens up an important and hitherto neglected aspect of military history.

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Pen & Sword z • z Military Countering Hitler’s Spies

Stopping Hitler’s Invasion

Airborne Landing to Air Assault

British Military Intelligence, 1940–1945

The GHQ ‘Stop’ Line in the Landscape

A History of Military Parachuting

Stephen Wynn

Philip Rowe

Nikolaos Theotokis

$34.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 32 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-672552-3

When the military aspect of the Second World War is discussed, especially regarding how the war was won, people tend to talk about, Winston Churchill, D-Day, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the Dam Busters, the Allied bombing of German cities, Montgomery and the North Africa campaign, etc. However, there is one aspect, rarely mentioned and never quite fully appreciated, which played a massive role in winning the war. The Double Cross system, operated by MI5, involved capturing German spies who had been sent to the United Kingdom and offering them the opportunity to become double agents and spy for the British against the Germans.

In May 1940 the German army outmaneuvered Allied forces in northern France and Belgium, forcing its evacuation from Dunkirk. Fearing an invasion, General Headquarters Home Forces set about the rapid remilitarization of the United Kingdom to oppose, arguably, the first very real threat to the country’s sovereignty since 1066.

Erecting a series of defensive fieldworks and gun emplacements countrywide, the backbone of these anti-invasion measures was the ‘GHQ’ [Stop] Line.

Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck

From Shanghai to the Burma Railway

Evan McGilvray

The Memoirs and Letters of Richard Laird, A Japanese

$42.95 • Hardback 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 16 illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-671610-1

Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck is a study not only of the individual but also of how the British Army, Indian Army and the Empire were transformed during his long military career. Auchinleck was commissioned into the Indian Army from 1904 and served with distinction against the Turks in Egypt and the Mesopotamian campaign, earning a DSO. Between the wars he was involved in the pacification of the Northwest Frontier (now Pakistan).

In the Second World War he briefly led a division in the ill-fated Norway campaign before being appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. He is best remembered for his controversial stint in command in North Africa.

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Modern Conflict Archaeo;ogy Series $49.95 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 70 illustrations • December 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-671360-5 l

Prisoner of War Rory Laird

$39.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 32 black and white illustrations • July 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-677111-7

Richard Laird’s previously unpublished record of his wartime experience as a Japanese prisoner of war ranks among the most graphic of this shocking and deservedly popular genre.

Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign he was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labor with ‘F’ Force on the notorious Burma Railway. He was one of only 400 out of 1600 to survive Songkurai No 2 Camp, despite disease and terrible hardship.

$34.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 30 black and white illustrations • October 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-52-674699-3

Many books have been written about military parachuting, in particular about famous parachute operations like Crete and Arnhem in the Second World War and notable parachute units like the British Parachute Regiment and the US 101st Airborne Division, but no previous book has covered the entire history of the use of the parachute in warfare. That is why Nikolaos Theotokis’s study is so valuable.

He traces in vivid detail the development of parachuting over the last hundred years and describes how it became a standard tactic in twentieth century conflicts.

Frank Pantridge Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator Cecil Lowry $39.95 • Hardback • 176 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 16 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677733-1

Taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Frank Pantridge was forced to endure appalling deprivation. Conditions on the Burma railway were notorious and the death rate was horrendous.

On returning to Belfast in late 1945 Frank specialized in heart diseases. Convinced that the prompt application of electric shock after cardiac arrest could save lives he reasoned that ventricular defibrillation should be applied not just in hospitals but in the workplace, the home, the street or ambulance.

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The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan

The Americans and Germans in Bastogne

Stephen Wynn

First-Hand Accounts from the Commanders Who Fought

$34.95 • Hardback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • Black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-47-383578-8

The question is, how did a once great nation that built an empire lose it all? From the Meiji Restoration in 1868, restoring Imperial rule under Emperor Meiji, until Japan’s surrender at the end of the Second World War in 1945, the dream lasted a comparatively short period of time: seventy-seven years from beginning to end.

Under Emperor Meiji’s rule, Imperial Japan began a period of rapid industrialization and militarization, leading to its emergence as a world power and the establishment of a colonial empire. Economic and political turmoil in the early 1920s led Japan down the path of militarism, culminating in her conquest of large parts of the Asian and Pacific region. The beginning of this path can be traced back to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, when Japan’s proposal for racial equality was supported and approved by the other members, but overruled by the American President, Woodrow Wilson.

Was this rebuttal by the West, and in particular the United States, the moment that changed the course of history?

During the empire’s existence, Japan was involved in some sixteen conflicts, resulting in the occupation of numerous countries and islands throughout Asia and the Pacific regions.

Thousands were under the emperor’s control, not all of whom were treated as they should have been.

Gary Sterne $34.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white maps • August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677077-6

In December 1944 the Third Reich was retreating.

It was almost inconceivable that they could mount a counter offensive.

To the Allies, the capitulation of the Third Reich was just around the corner. Or was it?

Instead, could the Battle of the Bulge succeed in turning the tide of the war for the German high command?

The US 101st Airborne were the only Allied unit capable of slowing down the German advance towards Antwerp - and they were ordered to do just that - at a place called Bastogne.

The battle for the small Belgium cross-roads town is now world famous and to add to that historical narrative, the author has located declassified interviews with the German unit commanders who took part. Brought together for the first time - they provide a unique perspective on the battle as the Germans were forced to make continuous alterations to their plans - and the 101st resisted every attempt to dislodge them.

This book offers significant and fresh research on this famous battle and the narrative unfolds in words of the men who were actually there.

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Marching from Defeat Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944 Claus Neuber $34.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-52-670426-9

In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the massive offensive that crushed Hitler’s Army Group Centre. German soldiers who weren’t encircled and captured had to fight their way back towards their own lines across hundreds of miles of enemy territory. This is the story of one of them, Claus Neuber, a young artillery officer who describes in graphic detail his experiences during that great retreat.

His gripping account carries the reader through the desperate defensive battles and rearguard actions fought to stem the relentless Soviet advance and to breakout from the cauldrons between Minsk and the Beresina river. After almost seventy days as a fugitive, living in the open, depending on the kindness of villagers, enduring extremes of cold, wet and hunger, and living each day with the ever-present threat of betrayal and imprisonment, he found his way back to the German lines.

This unforgettable personal narrative, translated for the first time from the original German, gives a dramatic insight into the impact of the Soviet offensive and the disintegration of an entire German army.

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z Pen & Sword Military Fighting Through to Hitler’s Germany

The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean

Personal Accounts of the Men of 1 Suffolk 1944–45 Mark Forsdike $49.95 • Hardback • 304 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677286-2

After landing on D-Day, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment fought through France, Holland and into Germany as part of the 3rd (British) Infantry Division. Ever cheerful, the Battalion were opposed by an increasingly ruthless enemy determined to deny the invader their homeland.

As the campaign developed, 1 Suffolk acquired an enviable reputation for getting the job done with the minimum of fuss. Inevitably casualties mounted up and, of the 850 who landed on D-Day, just 178 were still serving on VE-Day; 215 had been killed and 640 wounded.

Tank Attack at Monte Cassino The Cavendish Road Operation 1944 Jeffrey Plowman $42.95 • Hardback • 182 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 100 color & black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-52-676490-4

Early morning, 19 March 1944. Tanks manned by New Zealanders, Indians and Americans launch a daring attack along a narrow mountain track on German positions north of Monte Cassino.

So began one of the most audacious Allied attempts to break through the Gustav Line and advance on Rome–and it almost succeeded. Yet the extraordinary story has seldom been told, and it has never been told before in the vivid detail Jeffrey Plowman brings to this new account.

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Brendan O’Carroll $42.95 • Hardback • 280 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677737-9

Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean.

The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding Forces, Middle East, along with the Special Boat Service and No 30 Commando. In support of 3,000 regulars in 234 Brigade, the LRDG landed covertly on Leros establishing observation posts, reporting movement of enemy shipping and aircraft.

Nazi Prisons in Britain Political Prisoners during the German Occupation of Jersey and Guernsey, 1940–1945 Gilly Carr Modern Conflict Archaeology Series $39.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 70 black and white integrated illustrations • December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677093-6

Nazi Prisons in Britain is a ground-breaking book–a systematic study of Jersey and Guernsey prisons during the German occupation of the Channel Islands based on the experiences of the prisoners. It brings to light for the first time the surviving sources–memoirs, diaries, official archival material, poetry, graffiti, autograph books, letters and material culture are all included. This dazzling array of evidence reveals the reality of life behind bars in Nazi prisons on British territory.

The SS Massacre at Le Paradis, 27 May 1940 The Vengeance of Private Pooley Cyril Jolly $34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-675111-9

On 27 May 1940, in the hamlet of Le Paradis, in northern France, almost a hundred soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were murdered. After a resolute defense of their positions while part of the rearguard that was protecting the retreat to the Dunkirk beaches, these soldiers, who had surrendered, were disarmed, marched as a body to a field and massacred by member of the SS Division that they had been fighting. However, two men survived: William O’Callaghan and Albert Pooley.

VCs of the Second World War Ten Stories of Bravery and Courage Stephen Wynn $29.95 • Paperback • 144 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-672580-6

Presented here are ten examples of those who showed the utmost gallantry and bravery ‘in the presence of the enemy’, with each individual case and the circumstances in which the award was won examined in close detail. One example includes the story of Charles Upham, 2nd Division, New Zealand Expedition Force, who was the only recipient of two Victoria Crosses: the first awarded during the Battle of Crete in 1941, and the second during fighting at El Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in 1942.

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Pen & Sword Military z•z Ending the Siege of Leningrad German and Spanish Artillery at the Battle of Krasny Bor Carlos Caballero Jurado $34.95 • Hardback • 216 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 170 black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-674102-8

Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941–1942 Schwerpunkt Robert Forczyk $22.95 • Paperback • 304 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 978-1-52-678154-3 Robert Forczyk lives in Washington DC

The Battle of Krasny Bor in 1943 was part of the Soviet Red Army’s efforts to lift the blockade of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive in history.

Previous works on the Battle of Krasny Bor have focused primarily on the infantry involved, especially when using veteran testimonies, and the use of artillery has been conspicuously absent.

This book aims to put the reader right in the heart of the battle, describing the action from an artilleryman’s point of view, seeing it fundamentally as a duel between the Soviet and German-Spanish soldiers.

The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield defined as Schwerpunkt–main effort– to smash through any defensive line and then advance to envelope their adversaries.

Initially, these methods worked well in the early days of Operation Barbarossa and the tank forces of the Red Army suffered defeat after defeat.

Although badly mauled in the opening battles, the Red Army’s tank forces did not succumb to the German armored onslaught and German planning and logistical deficiencies led to over-extension and failure in 1941.

Hitler’s Spies

Guarding Hitler

Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion

The Secret World of the Führer

Mel Kavanagh

Mark Felton

$42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676872-8

$26.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678212-0

September 1940: Britain stands alone against the might of the advancing German Army and the specter of invasion looms.

Using a wealth of primary material including sources previously designated secret, this is the first book, written in English, dedicated to the story of the first four German spies who successfully arrived in the south of England.

Using the codename Operation Lena, it was the initial undertaking to necessitate Hitler’s invasion of England, itself codenamed Operation Sealion.

These men were to be the pathfinders, the scouts, the eyes and ears that would help the first invasion of England for several hundred years.

This extraordinary story stands as evidence of the only part of the invasion actually to arrive, of the abysmal quality of their selection and training, of the extraordinary fair-mindedness of a British jury, especially when Britain was gripped by spy paranoia.

Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding Hitler provides the reader with a fascinating inside look at the secret world of Hitler’s security and domestic arrangements. The book focuses in particular on both the official and private life of Hitler during the latter part of the war, at the Wolfs Lair at Rastenburg, and Hitler’s private residence at Berchtesgaden, the Berghof.

Guarding Hitler manages to offer fresh insights into the life and routine of the Fuhrer, and most importantly the often indiscreet opinions, observations and activities of the little people who surrounded Hitler but whose stories have been overshadowed by the great affairs of state.

It covers not only the plots against Hitler’s life but the way security developed as a result. His use of doubles is examined as is security whilst traveling by land or air.

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Pen & Sword Military z Disarming Hitler’s V Weapons Bomb Disposal The V1 & V2 Rockets Chris Ransted

The Black Bull From Normandy to the Baltic with the 11th Armoured Division $24.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 black and white illustrations • July 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678428-5

In 1944 the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler’s vengeance weapons, were regarded by the Allied leaders in London as the single greatest threat they had faced.

It was feared that these flying bombs and rockets might turn the tide of war once again in Germany’s favor. Yet, little more than half of these missiles hit their targets, some failing to explode.

Their wreckage lay across the southern half of England or in Europe, with contents liable to sudden and deadly ignition. It was the job of specialist Bomb Disposal teams to render the V-weapons safe and uncover their secrets.

The 11th Armoured Division, famous for its Black Bull insignia, was widely recognized as being among the best armored divisions in north-west Europe during the Second World War. This book tells the story of the Division in the words of the soldiers who fought with it: of its part in the three ferocious battles in Normandy Operations Epsom, Goodwood and Bluecoat, the great Swan to Amiens, the taking of Antwerp; right flanking for Market Garden, back-up in the Ardennes and the final slog into Germany across well-defended river barriers, to the liberation of Belsen, Lbeck and the Danish frontier.

John Hall Spencer $24.95 • Paperback 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678136-9

After two years’ extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history.

The book tells of confused negotiations between the British and Greek governments; the misunderstandings between Winston Churchill’s War Cabinet and commanders in the field; the near capture of the King of Greece; the lack of preparation by the defenders and the suppression of a critical post-battle report by General Wavell.

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Second World War POW Experiences

Patrick Delaforce

$26.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678190-1

Battle for Crete

The War Behind the Wire Voices of the Vetrans

Patrick Wilson $24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 120 black and white illustrations December 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678231-1

War Behind the Wire focuses on the capture, interrogation, the comradeship of camp life, escape planning and forgery techniques, tunneling, the thrill of life on the run, re-capture and punishment, the joy of liberation. All these experiences and more are vividly described by former POWs of the Second World War and their German camp guards, in War Behind the Wire.

Secret Wartime Britain

By Hellship to Hiroshima

Hidden Places That Helped Win the Second World War

Terence Kelly

Colin Philpott $29.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 80 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-677494-1

The author of Secret Wartime Britain has compiled a fascinating collection of examples that still exist today, albeit often in different usage. They include underground factories, storage sites and headquarters; spy and communication centers; interrogation and POW camps; dummy sites; research facilities such as sinister Porton Down; treasure stores in stately homes and even royal retreats in the event of invasion such as Madresfield Court.

Where were these sites and why were they needed? How successfully were they kept secret?

What has happened to them since?

$29.95 • Paperback 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 56 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678189-5

Taken prisoner in Java, Terence Kelly’s captivity was full of incident.

Once in Japan, he was a slave in the Hitachi shipyards where he got to know other Japanese and learn their language. His book reveals more about the psyche of his captors than other similar works. His Hiroshima camp was unique and was possibly the best camp in which the Japanese held POWs. Many of the inmates were influential men, who knew the Far East and had held important posts.

The interaction between POWs and captors was fascinating and his book offers a rare insight into the Japanese character, as unthinkable defeat and humiliation became a reality.

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Great Escape Forger The Work of Carl Holmstrom– POW #221. An Artist in Stalag Luft III Susan Holmstrom Kohnowich $34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 150 color & black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-676798-1 Susan Holmstrom Kohnowich lives in Florida

Carl Holmstrom’s superb artwork depicts life as a ‘kriegie’ in a unique manner. But, more than that, he spent the major part of his captivity in Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War Camp, famous for ‘The Great Escape’. The audacity of the 76 escapees was only matched by the callousness of the Nazis who murdered 50 after recapture. As well as skillfully recording camp life, Carl forged invaluable official documents. He also sketched his fellow prisoners and encouraged others to take up drawing as hobby.

Remarkably he saved over 200 examples of his work by carrying them on the appallingly arduous 1945 winter march from Poland into Germany.

Post war, Carl Holmstrom said, “The drawings were made during imprisonment and represent a sincere effort to portray to the American people and especially to the relatives of the prisoners, intimate glimpses of Kriegie life.” His words proved to be prophetic.

An expansion of his earlier self-published Kriegie Life, this superb book honors Carl’s exceptional artistic gift. This book has strong claim to contain the finest collection of POW art to emerge from Nazi-occupied Europe.

The Defence and Fall of Greece, 1940–41

Monte Cassino

John Carr

Rudolf Bohmler

$26.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678182-6

$26.95 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678161-1

On 28th October 1940, the Greek premier, Ioannis Metaxis, refused to accept a deliberately provocative ultimatum from Mussolini and Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania.

This aggression was prompted by Mussolini’s desire for a quick victory to rival Hitler’s rapid conquest of France and the Low Countries. On paper, Greek forces were poorly equipped and ill-prepared for the conflict but Mussolini had underestimated the skill and determination of the defenders. Within weeks the Italian invasion force was driven back over the border and Greek forces actually advanced deep into Albania. A renewed Italian offensive in March 1941 was also given short shrift, prompting Hitler to intervene to save his ally. German forces invaded Greece via Bulgaria on 6 April.

The Greeks, now assisted by British forces, resisted by land, sea and air but were overwhelmed by the superior German forces and their blitzkrieg tactics. Despite a dogged rearguard action by Anzac forces at the famous pass of Thermopyale, Athens fell on the 27th April and the British evacuated 50,000 troops to Crete. This island, whose airfields and naval bases Churchill considered vital to the defense of Egypt and the Suez Canal, was invaded by German airborne troops the following month and eventually captured after a bitter thirteen-day battle. The remaining British troops were evacuated and the fall of Greece completed.

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A German View

As a German battalion commander Rudolf Bohmler fought in the front line during the fierce battles fought at Monte Cassino. After the war he wrote this remarkable history, one of the first full-length accounts of this famous and controversial episode in the struggle for Italy.

His pioneering work, which has long been out of print, gives a fascinating insight into the battle as it was perceived at the time and as it was portrayed immediately after the war. While his fluent narrative offers a strong German view of the fighting, it also covers the Allied side of the story, at every level, in graphic detail.

The climax of his account, his description of the tenacious defense of the town of Cassino and the Monte Cassino abbey by exhausted, outnumbered German troops, has rarely been equaled. His book presents a soldiers view of the fighting but it also examines the tactics and planning on both sides.

It is essential reading for everyone who is interested in the Cassino battles and the Italian campaign.

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Pen & Sword z • zMilitary Attack on the Scheldt

Freely I Served The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, 1941–1944

The Struggle for Antwerp, 1944 Graham A Thomas

Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski

$24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • November 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-678148-2

During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has been treated as a sideshow.

Using operational reports and vivid firsthand eyewitness testimony, the author takes the reader alongside 21 Army Group as it cleared the Channel ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk, then moved on to attack the Scheldt and the island stronghold of Walcheren. Overcoming entrenched German resistance there was essential to the whole operation, and it is the climax of his absorbing narrative.

$29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • August 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-678170-3

After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was commanding 21st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Warsaw against overwhelming German forces. Taken prisoner, he escaped to join the Polish Army in France before evacuating to England.

In 1941 he formed the First Polish Independent Parachute Brigade and trained and commanded it for the next three years. While created for the liberation of Poland, the Brigade and the author parachuted into Arnhem in September 1944 and fought with great courage. His frank style and opinions resulted in major disagreements with his British senior officers such as Boy Browning and he was forced to resign.

The Second World War Through Soldiers’ Eyes

Hitler’s Alpine Headquarters James Wilson $24.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 6.8 x 9.25 inches • 300 color & black and white illustrations • October 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678211-3

British Army Life, 1939–1945

Hitler’s Alpine Headquarters look at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small, long established farming community, into Hitler’s country residence and the Nazis southern headquarters.

Introducing new images and additional text, this book is a much expanded sequel to the authors acclaimed Hitler’s Alpine Retreat (Pen & Sword, 2005).

This book will appeal to those with a general interest in the Third Reich.

It explains how and why Hitler chose this area to build a home and his connection to this region.

New chapters focus on buildings and individuals of Hitler’s inner circle not covered in the earlier book. The development of the region is extensively covered by use of contemporary propaganda postcards and accompanying detailed text. Presenting the history of this region and the many associated important historical moments in contemporary postcards allows the reader to view the subject matter as it was presented to the masses at that time.

With over 300 images and three maps, and the opportunity to compare a number of then and now images, the story of Hitler’s Southern Headquarters is brought to life through this extensive coverage.

$24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678171-0

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James Goulty

What was it really like to serve in the British Army during the Second World War? Discover a soldier’s view of life in the British Army from recruitment and training to the brutal realities of combat. Using first-hand sources, James Goulty reconstructs the experiences of the men and women who made up the ‘citizen’s army’. Find out about the weapons and equipment they used; the uniforms they wore; how they adjusted to army discipline and faced the challenges of active service overseas.

What happened when things went wrong? What were your chances of survival if you were injured in combat or taken prisoner? While they didn’t go into combat, thousands of women also served in the British Army with the ATS or as nurses. What were their wartime lives like?

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Pen & Sword z • zMilitary Dunkirk to the Rhineland Diaries and Sketches of Sergeant C S Murrell, Welsh Guards C. N. Murrell $24.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS037030 • 978-1-52-678176-5

Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant).

This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail and occasional humor.

The second part begins on 20 June 1944 when the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards set sail for Normandy and they take part in the Battle for Caen with engagements at Cheux, Cagny and Colombelles and thence to the Bocage country with a particularly bloody fight at Montchamp.

Code Wars How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ led to Allied Victory John Jackson $22.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • July 2020 • HIS030000 978-1-52-677491-0

When the top secret codebreaking activities at Bletchley Park were revealed in the 1970s, much of the history of the Second World War had to be rewritten.

Code Wars examines the role of ULTRA (the intelligence derived from breaking secret enemy signals) on major events of the Second World War. It examines how it influenced the outcome of key battles such as D-Day, El Alamein, Crete, key naval battles, the controversy surrounding Churchill and Coventry, the shadowing of Hitlers V1 pilotless aircraft and the V2 rocket.

The book also examines the pioneering work in breaking Enigma by the Polish cryptographers, and the building of Colossus, the worlds first digital, programmable computer, which helped unravel the secret orders of Hitler and the German High Command. It also tells the story of the American successes in breaking Japanese signals, known as Magic.

The Battle for Norway, 1940–1942

The Second World War Illustrated

John Grehan Martin Mace

The Second Year–Archive and Colour Photographs of WW2

Despatches from the Front Series $22.95 • Paperback • 192 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678213-7

Dispatches in this volume include that on the first and second battles of Narvik in 1940; the dispatch on operations in central Norway 1940, by Lieutenant General H.R.S. Massy, Commander-in-Chief, North West Expeditionary Force; Dispatch on operations in Northern Norway between April and June 1940; the dispatch on carrier-borne aircraft attacks on Kirkenes (Norway) and Petsamo (Finland) in 1941, by Admiral Sir John C. Tovey; the dispatch on the raid on military and economic objectives in the Lofoten Islands (Norway) in March 1941, by Admiral Sir John C. Tovey, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet; and the dispatch on the raid on military and economic objectives in the vicinity of Vaagso Island (Norway) in December 1941, by Admiral Sir John C. Tovey.

This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history.

Jack Holroyd $24.95 • Paperback • 280 pages 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 1000 color & black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-675794-4

This second volume begins with the account of Mussolini attempting to mirror Hitler in acts of aggression by thrusting towards Egypt and capturing the important artery of the British Empire; the Suez Canal. The Italian initiative failed and when its army was driven back with heavy losses, Mussolini asked for help and Hitler sent Rommel.

Beginning in the spring of 1941, Axis forces, under a dynamic General Rommel, pushed the British back to Egypt. In the meantime, Mussolini decided on another easy target to spread his new ‘Roman Empire’ and invaded Greece. Once again, his superior numbers were repelled and the Greeks sent his army back to its starting point in Albania.

Hitler came to the aid of his Axis ally and Churchill sent the British to help Greece, but in doing so, depleted his forces in North Africa. During the Battle of Greece, Greek and British forces in the north of the country were overwhelmed by a rapid German advance.

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Pen & Sword z • zMilitary Escape From Auschwitz

Fighting Through From Dunkirk to Hamburg

Andrej Pogozhev

A Green Howard’s Wartime Memoir

$26.95 • Paperback • 192 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677649-5

On 6 November 1942, 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev.

He survived, and this is his story.

Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to Auschwitz.

The fact that Pogozhev survived the appalling conditions in the camp is remarkable in itself.

That he should also have taken part in one of the few successful escapes makes his gripping narrative rare indeed. His description of the escape and his subsequent journey as a fugitive to the east, through the Carpathian mountains into the Ukraine, is unforgettable reading.

$24.95 • Paperback • 176 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678370-7

First and foremost a Green Howard, Bill Cheal saw the sharp end of the Nazis Blitzkrieg and was evacuated exhausted. Next step, courtesy of the Queen Mary, was North Africa as part of Monty’s 8th Army. After victory in Tunisia, the Sicily invasion followed. The Green Howards returned to England to be in the vanguard of the Normandy Landings on GOLD Beach (his colleague, Sergeant Major Stan Hollis won the only VC on 6 June and Bill Cheall was wounded).

Once fit, Cheall returned to the war zone and finished the war as a Regimental Policeman in occupied Germany.

Tank Warfare, 1939–1945

Poland Betrayed The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939

Simon Forty Jonathan Forty

David G. Williamson

$34.95 • Hardback • 216 pages 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 200 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676762-2

Campaign Chronicles Series $22.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations • October 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678210-6

Hitler’s attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the rest of Europe. David Williamson, in this timely and thought-provoking study, reconstructs each stage of the battle in graphic detail. He looks at the precarious situation of the Polish nation caught between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, reconsiders the pre-war policies of the other European powers, particularly France and Britain, and assesses the state of the opposing armed forces before the Germans launched Operation White. In a vivid and fast-moving narrative he follows the course of the campaign as it moved across Poland in September 1939.

His book should encourage a fresh understanding of the Polish-German war and of its significance for the wider conflagration that followed. Critical episodes in the German offensive are reexamined: the mock attack at Gleiwitz, the battles at Westerplatte and Bzura, the siege of Warsaw and the impact of the intervention of the Red Army.

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Bill Cheall Paul Cheall

On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank warfare was transformed. This is the dramatic process that Simon and Jonathan Forty chronicle in this heavily illustrated history.

They describe the fundamentals of pre-war tank design and compare the theories formulated in the 1930s as to how they should be used in battle. Then they show how the harsh experience of the German blitzkrieg campaigns in Poland, France and the Soviet Union compelled the Western Allies to reconsider their equipment, organization and tactics—and how the Germans responded to the Allied challenge.

The speed of progress is demonstrated in the selection of over 180 archive photographs which record, as only photographs can, the conditions of war on each battle front. They also give a vivid impression of what armored warfare was like for the tank crews of 75 years ago.

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Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles Ray Westlake $24.95 • Paperback • 328 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS015000 978-1-52-678188-8

Newly revised and updated, Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles records the titles worn throughout the British Army by units of the Regular, Militia, Yeomanry, Volunteer, Territorial and Cadet forces.

Details of some two thousand patterns are set out in the text and illustrated by photographs from the author’s unique collection.

Ray Westlake is a recognized authority on British Army lineage and gives dates of formation, amalgamation, disbandment and changes in designation for all regiments.

Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles is recognized by collectors and military historians alike as the definitive reference work.

Today, some sixteen years after it first appeared, the book remains the only reliable guide to an increasingly popular form of collecting.

This edition, with two supplements, brings it abreast of the last round of mergers and amalgamations.

Cameras at War Photo Gear that Captured 100 Years of Conflict– From Crimea to Korea John Wade $34.95 • Paperback • 280 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 260 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS037070 • 978-1-52-676010-4

Books about war and the pictures that came out of conflict usually concentrate on the picture content. But behind every picture there is a camera—and that’s what this book is about.

Profusely illustrated throughout with pictures of the cameras, rather than the pictures they took, it looks at 100 years of conflict from the Crimean War to the Korean War. It begins in the days when a photographer needed to be more of a scientist than an artist, such were the difficulties of shooting and processing any photograph. It ends with the cameras whose compact dimensions, versatility and ease of use meant that photographers could largely forget the science and concentrate on the art. Some cameras simply recorded events.

Others defined and changed the way those events proceeded.

These were the cameras that went to war, and this is their story.

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A History of the Small Arms made by the Sterling Armament Company Excellence in Adversity James Edmiston Peter Laidler $60.00 • Hardback • 336 pages • 8.4 x 10.8 inches • 32 color & 350 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS027080 978-1-52-677330-2

An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until Sterling was purchase

by British Aerospace in 1989 and closed.

The Lanchester and the Patchett Machine Carbines were both developed at Sterling Engineering Co Ltd during World War II. With the appearance of the earliest Patchett prototypes the military began testing them in ever more rigorous trials, wherein the Patchett kept proving its merits. This led to limited UK adoption of the MkII Patchett as the L2A1 in 1953, and the ‘first Sterling’, the MkII, as the L2A2 in 1955.

Then came Sterling’s ‘Crown Jewel’, the superb Mk4, adopted as the general-issue UK ‘Gun, Sub-Machine, L2A3’ in September, 1955.

Manufactured briefly but intensively by ROF Fazakerley (1955-1959) and by Sterling for over 30 years, nearly 4000,000 were made.

Unlike wraparound bolt designs like the UZI, the Sterling was capable of being truly silenced with standard 9mm ball ammunition (as opposed to being merely suppressed).

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Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station

From Arlington to Appomattox

The Alamo’s Forgotten Defenders

The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21–November 20, 1863

Robert E. Lee’s Civil War, Day by Day, 1861–1865

The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution

Jeffrey Wm Hunt $32.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6 x 9 inches 25 maps, 30 images • November 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-61121-539-7 Jeffrey Wm Hunt lives in Austin, TX

Contrary to popular belief, the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals George Meade and Robert E. Lee continued where they had left off, boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war to gain a decisive strategic and tactical advantage.

Cavalry actions and pitched battles made it clear to anyone paying attention that the war in Virginia was a long way from having been decided at Gettysburg. This period of the war was the first and only time Meade exercised control of the Army of the Potomac on his own terms, but historians and students alike have all but ignored it. Jeffrey Wm Hunt brilliantly rectifies this oversight in Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, from Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863.

Hunt’s third installment in his award-winning Meade and Lee series is grounded upon official reports, regimental histories, letters, newspapers, and other archival sources. Together, they provide a day-by-day, and sometimes minute-by-minute, account of the Union army’s first post-Gettysburg offensive action and Lee’s efforts to repel it.

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Charles R. Knight $39.95 • Hardback • 576 pages • 7 x 10 inches 10 maps, 50 images • October 2020 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-502-1 Charles R. Knight lives in Norfolk, VA

Douglas S. Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning four-volume study on Robert E. Lee remains the most thorough history of the man.

After spending so many years with his subject, Freeman claimed he knew where Lee was every day of his life, from West Point until his death.

In fact, there are many gaps in Freeman’s Lee, and hundreds of sources have been discovered in the decades since that have changed many of the accepted “facts” about the general. In From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War, Day by Day, 1861-1865 author Charles Knight does for Lee and students of the war what E. B. Long’s Civil War Day by Day did for our ability to understand the conflict as a whole. This is not another Lee biography, but it is every bit as valuable as one, and perhaps more so.

Lost in all of the military histories of the war, and even in most of the Lee biographies, is what the general was doing when he was out of history’s “public” eye. We know Lee rode out to meet the survivors of Pickett’s Charge and accept blame for the defeat, that he tried to lead the Texas Brigade in a counterattack to save the day at the Wilderness, and took a tearful ride from Wilmer McLean’s house at Appomattox. But what of the other days? Where was Lee and what was he doing when the spotlight of history failed to illuminate him?

Phillip Thomas Tucker $18.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6 x 9 inches 12 b/w images and 4 maps • Currently Available HIS037060 • 978-1-61-121534-2 • Phillip Thomas Tucker lives in Upper Marlboro, MD

The important contributions of the Irish in winning the struggle against Mexico and establishing a new republic are noticeably absent from Alamo and Texas Revolutionary historiography. Phillip Thomas Tucker breaks new ground by rectifying the oversight with The Alamo’s Forgotten Defenders: The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution.

The Irish embraced a lengthy and distinguished Emerald Isle revolutionary tradition—a distinctive cultural, political, and military heritage reborn during the Texas uprising of 1835-1836.

Unbeknownst to most readers, the Irish comprised the largest single immigrant group in Texas during that time, and were among the most vocal and passionate of liberty-loving revolutionaries in all Texas. The largely Ireland-born garrison of Goliad raised the first flag of Texas Independence months before the Alamo’s fall. More than a dozen natives of the Old Country fought and died at the Alamo, and the old Franciscan mission’s garrison primarily consisted of soldiers of Scotch-Irish descent. Irish Protestants and Catholics made invaluable and disproportionate contributions in the struggle for Texas Independence.

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First Fallen

The Boy Generals

The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero

George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac

Meg Groeling

Adolfo Ovies

$29.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6 x 9 inches 1 map, 30 images • October 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-61121-537-3 Meg Groeling lives in Hollister, CA

$34.95 • Hardback • 480 pages • 6 x 9 inches 8 maps, 33 images • November 2020 HIS036080 • 978-1-61121-535-9 Adolfo Ovies lives in Miami, FL

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth was the first Union officer killed in the American Civil War. When it happened, on May 24, 1861, the entire North was aghast. Ellsworth was a celebrity and had just finished traveling with his famed and entertaining U. S. Zouave Cadets drill team. When Lincoln put out the call for troops after Fort Sumter was fired upon, Ellsworth responded. Within days he was able to organize over a thousand New York firefighters into a regiment of volunteers.

Was it youthful enthusiasm or a lack of formal training that resulted in his death? There is evidence on both sides. What is definite is that the Lincolns rushed to the Navy Yard to view the body of the young man they had loved as a son. Mary Lincoln insisted that he lie in state in the East Room of their home. The elite of New York brought flowers to the Astor House en memoriam. Six members of the 11th New York accompanied their commander’s coffin. When the young colonel’s remains were finally interred in the Hudson View Cemetery, the skies opened up. A late May afternoon thunderstorm broke out in the middle of the procession, referred to as “tears from God himself.” Only eight weeks later, the results of the battle of First Bull Run knocked Ellsworth out of the headlines. The trickle of blood had now become a torrent, not to end for four more years of war.

The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac is the first installment in a remarkable trilogy to examine the strategy, tactics, and relationships of the leading Union army’s mounted arm and their influence on the course of the Civil War in the Eastern Theater.

George Armstrong Custer’s career has attracted its fair share of coverage, but most Custer-related studies focus on his decision-making and actions to the exclusion of other important factors, including his relationships with his fellow officers. His relationship with his immediate superior, Wesley Merritt, was so acrimonious that even Custer’s wife Libbie described him as her husband’s “enemy.”

The Boy Generals examines in detail the steadily deteriorating relationship of two cavalrymen with opposing tactical philosophies, and how this relationship affected events in the field. Custer was a hussar—a firm believer in the shock power of the mounted saber charge—while Merritt was a dragoon, his tactics rooted in the belief that the purpose of the horse was to transport the trooper to the battlefield, where he could fight dismounted with his carbine. With these diametrically opposed belief systems, it was inevitable that these officers would clash.

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The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer Captain John C. Reed’s Civil War from Manassas to Appomattox William R. Cobb $29.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6 x 9 inches 4 maps, 8 images • November 2020 BIO008000 • 978-1-61121-514-4 William R. Cobb lives in Marietta, Ga

Reed was the son of a famous minister, educator, planter, and slave owner, and the understudy of Georgia’s preeminent pre-war lawyer. When his state left the Union, the 25-year-old joined a local volunteer unit as a 2nd lieutenant. The outfit mustered into Confederate service as Company I (The Stephens Light Guards) of the 8th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, rode the rails north to Virginia, and fought the entire war from First Manassas through Appomattox. As a line officer, Reed had a front row seat to the fighting. He was wounded at least twice (at Second Manassas and again at Gettysburg), promoted to captain during the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864, and led his company through the balance of the Overland Campaign and through the horrific siege of Petersburg all the way to the surrender on April 9, 1865.

The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer is a perceptive and articulate account filled with riveting recollections of some of the Civil War’s most intense fighting. Reed doesn’t shy away from providing his opinion on a variety of officers, decisions, and experiences, including the execution of deserters, premonitions of battlefield death, and what it was like to watch his friends and fellow soldiers die in battle.

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Too Useful to Sacrifice Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam Steven R. Stotelmyer $18.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6 x 9 inches 15 maps, 55 images • November 2020 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-544-1 Steven R. Stotelmyer lives in Sharpsburg, MD

The importance of Robert E. Lee’s first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate.

After his string of successes in Virginia, a decisive Confederate victory in Maryland or Pennsylvania may well have spun the war in an entirely different direction. Why he and his Virginia army did not find success across the Potomac was due in large measure to the generalship of George B. McClellan, as Steven Stotelmyer ably demonstrates in Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam, now available in paperback.

History has typecast McClellan as the slow and overly cautious general who allowed opportunities to slip through his grasp and Lee’s battered army to escape. Stotelmyer disagrees and argues persuasively that he deserves significant credit for moving quickly, acting decisively, and defeating and turning back the South’s most able general.

He accomplishes this with five comprehensive chapters, each dedicated to a specific major issue of the campaign:

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“Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken” Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4–14, 1863 Thomas J. Ryan Richard R. Schaus $22.95 • Paperback • 372 pages • 6 x 9 inches 15 maps, 33 images • November 2020 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-542-7 Thomas J. Ryan lives in Bethany Beach, DE Richard R. Schaus lives in Capon Springs, WV

Thousands of books and articles examine nearly every aspect of the Civil War, but the important retreat of the armies from the Gettysburg battlefield to the Potomac River has been but little covered. Until now, no one had produced a critical analysis of the command decisions made during that fateful time based upon available intelligence. Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4 to July 14, 1863, by Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus, now available in paperback, rectifies this oversight.

This comprehensive day-by-day account, which begins after the end of the Gettysburg battle, examines how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln’s mandate to bring about the “literal or substantial destruction” of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s defeated and retreating Army of Northern Virginia. As far as Lincoln was concerned, if Meade aggressively pursued and confronted Lee before he could escape across the flooded Potomac River, “the rebellion would be over.”

Johnsonville Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4–5, 1864 Jerry T. Wooten $18.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9 inches 9 maps, 52 images • November 2020 HIS036050 978-1-61121-541-0 Jerry T. Wooten lives in Nashville, TN

“Johnsonville” doesn’t mean much to most students of the Civil War. Its contribution to Union victory in the Western Theater, however, is difficult to overstate, and its history is complex, fascinating, and heretofore mostly untold.

Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4–5, 1864, by Jerry T. Wooten, Ph.D., now available in paperback, remedies that oversight with the first full-length treatment of this subject.

Wooten, a former Park Manager at Johnsonville State Historic Park, unearthed a wealth of new material that sheds light on the creation and strategic role of the Union supply depot, the use of railroads and logistics, and the depot’s defense. His study covers the emergence of a civilian town around the depot, and the role all of this played in making possible the Union victories with which we are all familiar.

This sterling monograph also includes the best and most detailed account of the Battle of Johnsonville. The fighting took place on the heels of one of the most audacious campaigns of the war, when Confederate Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry through western Tennessee and Kentucky on a 25-day campaign.

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F–15 Eagle Bertie Simonds $22.99 • Hardback • 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 200 illustrations • August 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-53-5

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is the undisputed king of fighter aircraft, scoring around 105 kills for zero losses in air-to-air combat.

Originally designed as a pure air superiority machine to replace the multi-role F-4 Phantom II, the Eagle has since morphed into one of the most technologically advanced fighter-bombers in its class: the Strike Eagle.

First taking to the air in 1972 and entering service in 1976, around 1600 F-15s have been built for six air forces around the world. Fast and agile but also large and expensive, only the wealthiest nations could afford the F-15.

With almost 40 years of combat operations to its credit, the Eagle has been at the very sharp end since entering service. The Cold War saw the Eagle as the defensive tip of the spear for the Free World, while the Israelis blooded the Eagle in the Middle East when they first took delivery in 1979.

Since then both fighter and strike versions have been in almost constant action, through Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and beyond in the war against terror. The story of the F-15 Eagle continues.

F–16 Fighting Falcon Bertie Simonds $22.99 • Hardback • 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 200 illustrations • November 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-56-6

Sleek, futuristic and deadly—the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon was born from the crucible of the air war over Vietnam and the need for cheaper, simpler, and more maneuverable fighter aircraft with which to combat the many thousands of Soviet-bloc supplied aircraft sold around the world.

Back in the early 1970s the F-16 was the pinnacle of modern design, integrating a powerful turbofan engine, unrivaled maneuverability —thanks to its relaxed static stability and fly-by-wire system with computer control, not to mention astounding value-for-money for air forces around the globe.

Today’s F-16 Viper is light years away from the simple, lightweight point-defense fighter first envisaged, but it has evolved and matured into the finest and most exported fourth-generation combat aircraft around the world. Many would argue that the latest variants offer a real-world capability and value-for-money that makes it a wiser choice than its logical successor—the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. Whatever the future holds for the Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon, it has already entered the annals of aviation history, but the beauty is that this versatile machine doubtless has more pages yet to write. The Viper story is far from over.

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Fifth Generation Fighters David Baker $22.99 • Hardback • 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 200 illustrations • September 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-59-7

The latest jet fighters deceive, evade, confuse, lock-on to their targets, and kill them without being seen, heard, or detected.

There is no place to hide for older combat aircraft and by the time the fourth generation know they are under attack they are already dead.

Fighter forces around the world are seeking out the best that technology can provide—pilots can increasingly put themselves outside their cockpit, peering far beyond visual range, leaving the aircraft to keep them out of harm’s way while they manage the mission.

In Fifth Generation Fighters, author David Baker explains how net-centric warfare and sensor fusion takes the fight into the very heart of the weapons systems computer, apportioning missiles to discriminated targets, tracking up to 100 hostiles and downing many beyond visual range. He also looks at how future fighters will connect to satellites in space for information about enemy air assets, control swarms of unmanned combat air vehicles and plan the endgame for an air battle that has yet to begin.

And when the sixth generation arrives it will be like nothing yet seen—trans-atmospheric air vehicles moving down from the edge of space faster than a ballistic missile, engaging at hypersonic speeds and killing with impunity.

The clock is ticking—a fifth generation fighter war is coming!

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Fleet Air Arm Legends: Fairey Swordfish

Aircraft in Profile

Matthew Willis

Chris Sandham-Bailey

$19.99 • Paperback • 116 pages 7.2 x 9.8 inches • 100 illustrations July 2021 • HIS027140 978-1-911658-49-8

$39.99 • Hardback • 200 pages 9.4 x 9.1 inches 200 illustrations • May 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-45-0

Few aircraft encompass as many contradictions as the The Battle of Britain Memorial Fairey Swordfish—the legendary Flight (BBMF) is a standing reminder of the heroism and sacrifice of countless ‘Stringbag’ naval torpedo bomber British and Commonwealth aircrew who flew and fought during the Second was approaching antiquation at World War. the start of the war yet struck Formed at RAF Biggin Hill on July 11, 1957, as the Historic Aircraft Flight, mortal blows against some of the most powerful battleships in the Axis fleets. today the BBMF’s incredible collection of aircraft includes six Spitfires, two Naval Aviation historian Matthew Willis explores how modern technology Hurricanes, one of only two airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers in the world, a such as radar kept the Swordfish effective in the early years of the war and Douglas C-47 Dakota and two de Havilland Chipmunks. enabled it to find and hit the Italian fleet at Taranto, and the Bismarck in the The Flight’s Second World War aircraft have survived against the odds to exist Atlantic, in circumstances where no other aircraft could have succeeded. in flying condition today and this book charts each of their careers over the The story of the Swordfish’s service across the majority of theaters in WW2, last seven decades or more. from the hunt for the Graf Spee to the beaches of Normandy, is told here with never-before-published accounts from veteran aircrews. Includes 100+ Author and illustrator Chris Sandham-Bailey has meticulously reproduced historic photographs and unique images of the Royal Navy Historic Flight’s every known paint scheme worn by each of the aircraft—as well as gathering together an unrivaled collection of photographs to show how the preserved aircraft. appearance of the aircraft has changed.

English Electric Lightning Genesis and Projects Tony Wilson $19.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 7.2 x 9.8 inches 80 illustrations • March 2021 • HIS027140 978-1-911658-40-5

Progress on the English Electric Canberra was the main topic of a report written by W E W ‘Teddy’ Petter on June 17, 1948, but a final paragraph headed ‘High Speed Fighter’ said, ‘Requirements for a high speed fighter are being sent to us...

There would probably be two or three prototypes attached to a successful design and a reasonable chance of production orders. Supersonic speeds would be required for short periods.’ This marked the beginning of the effort leading to production of the legendary Lightning fighter.program but others were studies to extend the aircraft’s capabilities.

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The Secret Horsepower Race Western Fighter Engine Development Calum E. Douglas $49.99 • Hardback • 300 pages • 8.7 x 11.3 inches • 200 illustrations • August 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-50-4

The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war.

Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters.

Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole.

This is the never-before-told story of a high-tech race, hidden behind the closed doors of design offices and intelligence agencies, to create the war’s best fighter engine.

Ronny Barr Profiles– British Two Seaters Ronny Bar $39.99 • Hardback • 132 pages • 9.4 x 9.1 inches 200 illustrations • November 2020 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-43-6

Artist Ronny Bar, a member of director Sir Peter Jackson’s New Zealand-based Wingnut Wings team, presents the first collection of his astonishingly detailed First World War aircraft profiles—British Two-Seaters of the Great War. This book features 260 meticulously researched profiles of the war’s most important and iconic British two-seaters: the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2a to B.E.2g, F.E.2b, F.E.2d and R.E.8; Avro 504, Vickers F.B.5, Sopwith 1½ Strutter, Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8, Bristol F.2B and Airco DH.4, DH.9 and DH.9A.

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Boeing 747 50 Years of an Aviation Icon Ingo Bauernfeind

Eagles of the Luftwaffe: Secret Projects of the Focke–Wulf Luftwaffe in Profile Daniel Uhr Fw 200 Condor

$22.99 • Hardback • 144 pages 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 200 illustrations • July 2021 TRA002040 • 978-1-911658-52-8

Eagles of the Luftwaffe

Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, aviation specialist Ingo Bauernfeind’s new Boeing 747 history celebrates more than half a century of an enduring aviation icon that has changed commercial aviation since its maiden flight in 1969. With personal accounts written by former pilots and crew members, it covers the aircraft’s early history and development, its groundbreaking technology and systems, its remarkable and distinguished commercial career and the numerous variants that have expanded its role and capabilities far beyond those originally intended by its designers.

Thanks to ongoing improvements and upgrades, new 747s continue to roll off the production line today and this incredibly durable and reliable aircraft looks set to remain at the forefront of civil aviation for the foreseeable future.

$19.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 7.2 x 9.8 inches • 100 illustrations • November 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-65-8

Matthew Willis

The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was conceived for peace but turned to a warlike purpose savaging convoys bringing vital supplies to Britain. The aircraft Churchill called “the scourge of the Atlantic” became synonymous with the struggle to supply the Allies by sea. As a truly long-range reconnaissance bomber, the Condor acted as the eyes and ears of the Kriegsmarine, while packing a powerful punch itself. As the Allies stepped up their efforts to address the vulnerability of their convoys to aerial reconnaissance and attack, however, the Fw 200’s weaknesses became ever more apparent.

Naval aviation author Matthew Willis tackles the career of the feared aircraft, from its beginnings as a cutting-edge airliner, through its early development into a military transport and a maritime bomber and ‘spyplane’, including the addition of ever more armament and technology such as radar and the carriage of radio-controlled glider bombs. From the expanses of the Atlantic, via the freezing Arctic seas to the heat and dust of North Africa, the operational history of the Fw 200 is examined.

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$39.99 • Hardback • 200 pages • 9.4 x 9.1 inches • 200 illustrations • October 2021 HIS027140 • 978-1-911658-62-7

The Second World War was a time of tremendous technological progress in aviation with innovations such as jet engines and swept wings being brought in as engineers on all sides desperately sought every possible performance advantage.

In Germany, the quest for better aircraft resulted in some astonishing designs—everything from bombers with forward-swept wings to ramjet fighters and disposable rocket-propelled interceptors.

In Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe in Profile, renowned aviation artist Daniel Uhr has brought the original German construction sketches and three-views of these designs to life like never before—offering a whole new perspective on images previously only seen as black and white line drawings.

Accompanying Daniel’s artworks is a full description of the competitions and requirements which produced such a huge number of innovative and unusual designs during the war, as well as descriptions of the designs themselves, written by German Second World War aircraft development specialist Dan Sharp and based on the latest historical research.

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The Canadians at Falaise

22nd April 1915

16th/17th August 1944

Yves Buffetaut $15.00 • Paperback 80 pages • 6.3 x 9.4 inches • 81 illustrations Currently Available • HIS027090 978-2-84-673104-1

On the 22nd April 1915, towards the end of the afternoon, a strange yellow-green cloud appeared over no man’s land and drifts on the wind towards the French lines in the Langemarck-Pilckem sector, held by the 45th Division and the 87th French Territorial Division. The Germans, meeting with little or no resistance, captured the Pilckem Ridge and right up to the Yser canal, opening a gaping breach between the French and Canadian lines. This volume retraces events as they unfold, as well as describing the lead-up to the battle and its immediate consequences. A large majority of the photographs which illustrate this volume have never been previously published.

The Infantry Tank M I, IV, V 1916–1918

Jean-Luc Leleu $15.00 • Paperback 80 pages • 6.3 x 9.4 inches • 79 illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-2-84-673056-3

“The mission to clear up the last strongholds of resistance in Falaise fell to the Mont-Royal Fusiliers and the task was far from easy. About 60 diehards from the Hitler Youth were entrenched in the Ecole Superieure in the town centre.

The building was surrounded by a thick wall and overhung the main street which crossed the southern side of Falaise from east to west.

Resistance ceased at 2 a.m. on 18th August while the riflemen were lauching an attack under a German air raid which pounded enemies and allies alike. Four Germans were reported to have escaped, the others fought to the death, non surrendered”. —official Canadian history,

Yves Buffetaut $8.00 • Paperback 32 pages • 5.9 x 9.4 inches • 44 illustrations Currently Available • HIS027090 978-2-84-673288-8

A 32-page monograph on the world’s first tanks, from the Infantry Tank Mark I used in September 1916 on the Somme and the famous Mark IV of the battle of Cambrai in November 1917, to the Mark V, the King of the battlefields during the summer and autumn 1918 (the Hundred Days). With colour profiles, maps and WW1 photographs.

The Battle of Verdun Yves Buffetaut

The Normandy Landing Beaches from above Yves Buffetaut François Levalet $10.00 • Paperback • 48 pages • 9 x 6.7 inches • 41 illustrations • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-2-84-673187-4

The Normandy landings have spawned hundreds of publications in the last 75 years, but until now, not a single one showed the main landings sites from above. The photographs in this book, taken

by François Levalet with the help of a kite form a series of astonishing compositions: a brand new way of seeing the landing beaches and of discovering, from a completely new angle, places you thought you know very well. Yves Buffetaut texts put the photos into perspective, and offer, in a few pages, a very complete overview of the D-Day landings.

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$15.00 • Paperback 112 pages • 5.5 x 8.7 inches • 137 illustrations Currently Available HIS027090 978-2-84-673175-1

This historical and tourist guide provides the reader with all the keys of a thorough understanding of this terrifying battle. It also deals with less famous battles which took place in the surrounding of the fortified aera of Verdun, as early as 1914: the Argonne, Vauquois, Woëvre plain, the Eparges ridge, Saint-Mihiel, without forgetting the Meuse Argonne offensive in 1918.

The historical part is composed of 80 illustrated pages with pictures of the time. The tourist part is composed of intineraries and colour pictures of the places today. It all amount to 130 illustrations, including 80 WW1 pictures, more than 35 colour pictures and a dozen of maps.

Douaumont Ossuary Olivier Gérard Jean-Luc Kaluzko $8.00 • Paperback • 32 pages • 5.9 x 9.4 inches 87 illustrations • Currently Available HIS027090 • 978-2-84-673198-0

It is important to remind visitors of the history of the most emblematic monument on the battlefield: this is the role of this small 32-page guide, Douaumont Ossuary.

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