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Casemate Spring 2022 New Books Catalog Welcome to the Casemate Publishers Spring 2022 catalog!

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Spring 2022 brings another selection of excellent titles on a wide range of military history. From battles in the ancient world through to twenty first century conflicts, there is something for every reader, library patron, and history buff among these pages.

Casemate Publishers

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Casemate Academic

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Air World

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This season we welcome Key Publishing to our list of distributed publishers.

They publish highly illustrated books for enthusiasts across the globe. With expertise in aviation, transport, history, and sport, they focus on high quality rare or little-known images that bring these stories to life. You can find their books starting on page 54.

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Fonthill Media

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In our own publishing program the highly successful Casemate Illustrated series is branching into the American Revolution. On page 4 you will find the first two titles in a seven-volume mini-series that provides a clear overview of the course of the revolution as well as the overall strategy deployed, all contained within the familiar and highly illustrated series format.

Frontline Books

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Greenhill Books

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Gettysburg Publishing

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Grub Street Publishing **

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From Pen & Sword, Radioman – Twenty Five Years in the Marine Corps (page 69) tells one man’s story of his service in the Marine Corps from lowly grunt to decorated air officer. Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito and Hitler from Frontline Books (page 23) is an alternate history that explores the end of the Second World War and examines what might have happened if the atomic bombs had been ready earlier. Thunder in the Harbor from Savas Beatie (page 104) mines a wealth of primary sources to present an in-depth and fascinating account of the intricacies, complexities, and importance the campaigns around Fort Sumter in the Civil War.

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Australian Scholarly Publishing** 19 Avonmore Books 19

Heimdal 30 Helion and Company

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HMH Publications

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Kagero 50 Key Publishing

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MMP Books**

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Monroe Publications**

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Model Centrum Progres **

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PeKo Publishing**

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Pen and Sword

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Savas Beatie

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Seaforth Publishing

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US Army Diamond T Vehicles

World War II Snipers The Men, Their Guns, Their Stories

Didier Andres Alan McKay

Gary Yee

Casemate Illustrated Special, Vol. CISS0012 • $37.95 • Hardback 8x10 • 250 illustrations • July 2022 HIS027240 • 978-1-63624-160-9

A detailed summary of all the types of Diamond T vehicles used by the US Army during World War II, packed full of period photos and diagrams.

Between 1940 and 1945, Diamond T Motor Car Company supplied just over 50,000 vehicles to the US military, and also to the Allies. Of this, just over 30,000 were heavy 4-ton 6x6 trucks of varying types: cargo, tow truck, pontoon carrier, engineer, cartographic, etc. The “Diamond” would serve in all theaters of operations, wherever its robustness and reliability were necessary to complete the mission. Due to its expertise, Diamond T also produced the famous half-track, with more than 10,000 manufactured.

All of these models are described in this work by Didier Andres, an expert in the subject. The text is illustrated throughout using archival and period photographs and diagrams.

Drawing from memoirs, government documents and interviews, World War II Snipers incorporates eyewitness accounts to weave a comprehensive narrative of snipers in World War II. The scope of World War II Snipers is extensive with three chapters each on the major theaters of the war including Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Pacific. This is supported by a lengthy chapter on the sniper rifles used by the snipers and their equipment. Finally, the last chapter discusses many overlooked or ignored subjects not raised by other researchers and provides much food for thought. The bibliography is a valuable resource to future researchers and writers. For the long-range rifle shooter and today’s snipers, the lessons of the past are as relevant today as they were when learned and practiced in World War II.

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SOG - A Photo History of the Secret Wars

From Cotentin to Falaise, June–July 1944 Friedrich Hayn Linden Lyons

Maj John L Plaster USAR (ret)

Die Wehrmacht im Kampf • $45 Hardback • 200 pages • 6x9 16 maps • March 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-63624-156-2

$49.95 • Hardback • 456 pages 8x10 • Fully illustrated • April 2022 HIS027070 • 978-1-63624-084-8 Maj John L Plaster USAR (ret) lives in Iron River, WI

In 1972 the U.S. military destroyed all known photos of the top-secret Studies and Observations Group, with the intention that details could never be made public. But unknown to those in charge, SOG veterans had brought back with them hundreds of photographs of SOG in action and would keep them secret for more than three decades.

In this new edition of SOG: A Photo History, more than 700 irreplaceable photos bring to life the stories of SOG legends Larry Thorne, Bob Howard, Dick Meadows, George Sisler, “Q” and others, and document what really happened deep inside enemy territory: Operation Tailwind, the Son Tay raid, SOG’s defense of Khe Sanh, Hatchet Force operations, Bright Light rescues, HALO insertions, string extractions, SOG’s darkest programs and much more.

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Casemate Illustrated Special, Vol. CISS0013 • $49.95 • Hardback 480 pages • 8x10 • 100 photographs May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-63624-098-5 Gary Yee lives in Aguilar, CO

A unique perspective on the decisive early weeks of the invasion in 1944, written by a German Army Corps Intelligence officer stationed in Normandy at the time of the Allied invasion, who during the invasion was the department head for enemy messages processing (Ic) in the staff of the LXXXIV AK. It discusses in detail the events leading up to the creation of Falaise Pocket, described by the author as “tragic turning point of an entire front.” It discusses in detail the conditions in the American landing section and explains how the German troops based there came to be defeated.

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Casemate Arden The Northern Strategy, 1776

The Coming Storm, 1763–75

David Smith

Rachael Abbiss

Casemate Illustrated, Vol. CIS0026 $24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 7x10 • Fully Illustrated • June 2022 HIS036030 • 978-1-63624-078-7

Casemate Illustrated, Vol. CIS0025 $24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 7x10 • Fully Illustrated • June 2022 HIS036030 • 978-1-63624-092-3

Despite declaring their independence on 4 July 1776, Britain’s former colonies in North America would need to fight for their liberty. The response from the other side of the Atlantic was slow, but when it arrived it appeared overwhelming. Hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of troops gathered to re-establish the Crown’s control. If the Revolution was not to die in its first year, the Americans would need to take on the largest expeditionary force ever sent by Great Britain up to that point… with an army of amateurs.

This Casemate Illustrated volume discusses the northern strategy in 1776—the year in which Britain’s war effort became hopelessly disjointed, with two armies operating on entirely different agendas. It covers the battles of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton, among others.

British America’s success in the French and Indian War might have been expected to lead to a period of peace and prosperity, however the exchange of territory following the 1763 peace treaty led to dramatic changes in the political landscape of North America, the disruption of alliances and trade networks, and increased conflict between settlers and Native Americans. Meanwhile disagreement on how the huge costs of the concluded war should be paid drove a wedge between the colonies and the British government, tensions that eventually erupted into the protests of the early 1770s, and led to the First Continental Congress.

This Casemate Illustrated volume discusses the escalation of simmering tensions in the American colonies in the years after the end of the French and Indian War and the path to the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord, and Bunker Hill.

The Soviet Baltic Offensive 1944-45

12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

German Defense of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Massimiliano Afiero Raphael Riccio

Ian Baxter

Casemate Illustrated, Vol. CIS0027 $24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 8x10 • 150 photographs and maps June 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-63624-168-5

Casemate Illustrated, Vol. CIS0024 $24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 6x9 • Fully illustrated • June 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-106-7

This is a compelling account of the German defense of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The book outlines in dramatic detail how Hitler forbade his troops to withdraw, ordering them to follow his Halt Order Decree and fight to the death. However, exhausted and demoralized by continuous Soviet assaults, Army Group North became cut-off and isolated, fighting fanatically to hold the capital cities of Tallin, Vilnius and Riga. What followed were German forces fighting to the death in the last few small pockets of land surrounding three ports: Libau in Kurland, Pillau in East Prussia and Danzig at the mouth of the River Vistula. In the Kurland, German divisions became surrounded and fought a vicious defense until May 1945.

Drawing on a host of rare and unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions and text, the book provides an absorbing read of the Red Army’s conquering of the Baltics.

Created in 1943 from members of the Hitler Youth born in 1926, the division was attached to I SS Panzer Corps in March 1944 and transferred to Normandy. Based around Caen, it was intended to repel a possible and expected invasion from the sea. When the invasion came in June, it was one of the two closest panzer divisions to the landing beaches. The defensive battles that took place in Normandy saw the young soldiers of the Hitlerjugend demonstrate determined resistance, conceding only due to being greatly outnumbered.

After the battles fought in Normandy, the division was withdrawn first to the Franco-Belgian border, then to Germany for reorganization. Other difficult and demanding battles followed during the offensive in the Ardennes, on the Bastogne front, in Hungary and finally the last battles fought in Austria, on the sacred ground of the Reich, where the soldiers of the Hitlerjugend, despite the desperate situation and the superiority of the enemy, managed to achieve local success and launch desperate counterattacks even into the last weeks of the war, in the name and in defense of their homeland.

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Take Charge and Move Out - The Founding Fathers of TACAMO

7 Seconds to Die

True Believers and the Rise of Navy Strategic Communications

Col. John F Antal (Ret).

Dr Alexander Kott

A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting

$22.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 6x9 B&W Illustrations • February 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-63624-123-4 Col. John F Antal (Ret). lives in Dallas/ Fort Worth, TX

Lewis McIntyre VADM Nora Tyson USN (Ret) $34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6x9 20 photographs • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-63624-154-8

The US Navy’s “Take Charge and Move Out” (TACAMO) mission provides essential airborne communications to the US nuclear deterrence forces.

Today it is a thriving community, respected by the Navy and the US strategic defense forces.

But it wasn’t always so. Despite the enormous importance of the mission, for the first decade, the TACAMO squadrons were a “one and done” tour for the junior officers. A second tour was considered professional suicide. But in 1975, a handful of lieutenants put their faith in a community that did not yet exist, betting their careers on that second tour. From their faith and courage was born the TACAMO community. This is the story of the birth of TACAMO, in the words of those who built the community from scratch.

General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa 1914–1917

Portugal’s Bush War in Mozambique Al J Venter

David Brock Katz

$34.95 • Hardback • 6x9 • 50 photos April 2022 • HIS001020 978-1-63624-110-4

$34.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6x9 Photographs and maps • May 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-63624-017-6 David Brock Katz lives in Johannesburg, South Africa

World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa – the demise of which would end the Kaiser’s grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa’s borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions.

Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917.

General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa 1914 - 1917 makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa.

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The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war—fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020—was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.

This 44-day war resulted in a decisive military victory for Azerbaijan. Armenia was outfought, outnumbered, and outspent and lost even though they controlled the high ground in a mountainous region that favored traditional defense. Azerbaijan’s alliance with Turkey, and close technological support from Israel, strategically isolated Armenia. The fact that Azerbaijan won the war is not extraordinary, considering the correlation of forces arrayed against Armenia. What is exceptional is that this was the first modern war primarily decided by unmanned weapons. In this war the Turkish-made BAYRAKTAR TB2 Unmanned Air Combat Vehicle (UCAV) and the Israeli-made HAROP Loitering Munition (LM) dominated the fighting and provided Azerbaijan with a war-winning advantage.

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.

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James Montgomery Abolitionist Warrior Robert C Conner $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6x9 20 illustrations and photographs • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-63624-142-5 Robert C Conner lives in Ballston Spa, NY

James Montgomery was a leader of the free-state movement in pre-Civil War Kansas and Missouri, associated with its direct-action military wing. He then joined the Union Army and fought through most of the war.

A close associate and ally of other abolitionists including John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Colonels Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Robert G. Shaw, Montgomery led his African-American regiment along with Tubman and other civilians in the 1863 Combahee River raid, which freed almost 800 slaves from South Carolina plantations. He then commanded a brigade in the siege of Fort Wagner, near Charleston.

In 1864, still in brigade command, he fought at the Battle of Olustee in Florida, helping prevent the collapse and disintegration of Union General Truman Seymour’s army. Later that year he returned home and played a significant role in defeating Confederate General Sterling Price’s great raid, especially at the Battle of Westport.

This is the first published biography of Montgomery, who was and remains a controversial figure.

It uncovers and deals honestly with his serious flaws, while debunking some wilder charges, and also bringing to light his considerable attributes and achievements. Montgomery’s life, from birth to death, is seen in the necessary perspective and clear delineation of the complex racial, political and military history of the Civil War era.

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet and Innovative Military Strategy in the Civil War

The Lion of Round Top

The Most Misunderstood Civil War General

$34.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6x9 10 illustrations • May 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-63624-111-1 Hans G Myers lives in Erie, PA Hans G Myers lives in Dickinson, ND

F. Gregory Toretta $34.95 • Hardback • 304 pages • 6x9 40 photographs and 5 maps • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-63624-117-3 F. Gregory Toretta lives in Ossining, NY

With the advent of the highly accurate and longrange rifled musket, offensive tactics became questionable and risky. Longstreet advocated for defensive warfare, this caused him to come into conflict with General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg.

Longstreet opposed the Gettysburg campaign and at Chickamauga, Longstreet was at odds with General Bragg on how to proceed after the stunning victory by the Army of Tennessee.

Longstreet was never given full authority over an army in the field. He was a pragmatic and methodical general and had his suggestions been utilized there would have been a better outcome for the South. Many historians and biographers have misunderstood Longstreet and his motives, not focusing on the total picture.

This work offers a fresh and unique perspective on Lieutenant-General James Longstreet and the Civil War. This narrative takes a new viewpoint of the Civil War and the generals who tailored their designs to pursue the war, analyses Longstreet’s views of the generals and the tactics and strategy they employed and examines why Longstreet proposed and urged a new type of warfare.

The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War Hans G Myers Dr Frank P Varney

Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of pilgrims and religious refugees, husband, father, brother. But his greatest contribution to history is as the savior of the Federal left on the second day at Gettysburg, when he and his men held Little Round Top against overwhelming Confederate numbers.

Forgotten by history in favor of his subordinate, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Vincent has faded into relative obscurity in the decades since his death.

This book restores Vincent to his rightful place among the heroes of the battle of Gettysburg: presenting his life story using new, never-before-published sources and archival material to bring the story of one of the most forgotten officers of the American Civil War back to the attention of readers and historians.

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Birlinn Casemate In the Shadows of Guadalcanal

Echo Among Warriors

Phillip Parotti

Close Combat in the Jungle of Vietnam

Casemate Fiction • $22.95 Paperback • 264 pages • 6x9 April 2022 • FIC014050 978-1-63624-162-3 Phillip Parotti lives in Silver City, NM

Richard D Camp

Twice torpedoed during the Battle of the Atlantic, LT. Tony Colombo is appointed to command a new Navy ship, PC-450, a 173 foot, steel-hulled submarine chaser. After a period of escorting convoys up and down the Atlantic coast, Tony suddenly finds himself escorting ships loaded with Marine Corps equipment all the way to Wellington, New Zealand and then to Brisbane, Australia.

In the summer of 1942, as PC-450 begins to escort numerous convoys from Australia to New Caledonia, the United States suddenly invades Guadalcanal with the result that Tony begins guiding convoys north in support of the invasion while fending off the multiple day and night air raids. Following the hard fought victory on Guadalcanal, PC-450 participates in the invasion of the Russell Islands and then, during the grinding fight for New Georgia, PC-450 twice engages in surface actions when the Japanese attempt to infiltrate troops onto the island. Wounded in a sudden air attack that radar could not detect in advance, Tony returned to Brisbane for convalescence and new assignments.

Casemate Fiction • $22.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 6x9 • February 2022 FIC032000 • 978-1-63624-034-3 Dick Camp lives in Fredericksburg, VA

In war, every action has a beginning and an end.

Echo Among Warriors is a story of close combat between two opposing, equally committed adversaries. The powerful narrative immerses the reader in both sides of the battle, playing and replaying the same battle sequence from alternating viewpoints—through the eyes of the Marines and through the eyes of the North Vietnamese. The bullet fired from a Marine’s M-16 at a silhouetted enemy solider crouched on the jungle path will in the next chapter tear into the flesh of that crouched NVA trooper. The story—unfolding from the initial contact to the final horrific ending—represents just one of perhaps thousands of deadly encounters that reflect the reality of battle—a mind-numbing, intensely personal experience that forever changes the participant.

Leaving Gettysburg

Baghdad Blues

Curtis Crockett

A Novel of the Iraq War

Casemate Fiction • $22.95 • Paperback 6x9 • February 2022 • FIC032000 978-1-63624-170-8 Curtis Crockett lives in Indian Trail, NC

Paul Kendel

Pickett’s charge has just ended, the battle of Gettysburg is over. The Confederate army is defeated and must retreat to the Potomac River forty miles away with thousands of wagons full of wounded soldiers, provisions and tens of thousands of animals.

Asa Helms is torn between serving his country and going home to take care of his wife. He faces a long, seemingly impossible march with little food, little hope and the Yankees on his heels.

Captain Louis Young begins to doubt the ability of the Confederacy to gain another major victory and thus independence. His objective is to get the rebel army across the Potomac River to preserve it to fight another day.

Colonel George Gray is hell-bent on putting down the rebellion before it divides the country that has been so good to him. He has gotten on the wrong side of his superior, General George Custer, and sees a chance to cut off the Confederate army and end the war before it reaches the Potomac River.

The journey ends at the Potomac River where each soldier must face the bitter realities of this unnatural war.

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Casemate Fiction • $22.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 6x9 • April 2022 FIC032000 • 978-1-63624-172-2 Paul Kendel lives in Jacksonville, FL

At a dusty intersection in Baghdad, Sergeant Thomas Kierkegaard is seconds away from unleashing a hail of bullets on a possible suicide bomber when he’s stopped by the unexpected—the piercing dark eyes of a young girl sitting on her mother’s lap in the passenger seat. For a split second he’d held the life of this child and her family in his hands. Plagued by fear and anxiety, Sergeant Kierkegaard struggles with his own inner demons as he confronts a population around him that wishes him dead. But he confronts more than just an external enemy, as he discovers the darkness that exists not just within himself, but in his fellow soldiers.

A starkly honest and gut-wrenching account of the Iraq war from the perspective of an infantry soldier patrolling the dusty and deadly roads of South-West Baghdad. The threat of IEDs and ambushes are ever-present, but as Sergeant Kierkegaard and his comrades soon learn, modern war can take many shapes and forms. Grappling with a myriad of emotions—fear, anger, confusion, and anxiety—they face many external threats, but they begin to discover that the enemy within themselves can often be more challenging and dangerous than the one they were sent to fight.

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Casemate Birlinn Direct Legacy James Stejskal

Leading Like the Swamp Fox

The Snake Eater Chronicles, Vol. 3 $27.95 • Hardback • 304 pages • 6x9 July 2022 • FIC032000 978-1-63624-119-7 James Stejskal lives in Alexandria, VA

The Leadership Lessons of Francis Marion

It is the height of the Troubles and Northern Ireland lies under a shadow…

When Neil Fitzpatrick, a rogue Green Beret soldier, is recruited by the Irish Republican Army to help prepare a terrorist attack, Paul Stavros, his former teammate, is sent to stop him and bring him home alive. Fitzpatrick, the American son of an Irish rebel who was forced to flee his birthplace, is a Special Forces demolitions expert.

Fitzpatrick knows his trade and has a personal agenda with the IRA. Paul Stavros is also a Special Forces veteran. He knows little of the Irish Troubles but is about to learn. What he does know is how to fix problems and Neil has just become his biggest headache. The British aren’t happy with Stavros on their turf; they’d rather do the job themselves.

Once, Fitzpatrick and Stavros were comrades and friends. Now they are pawns on opposite sides of an ugly war where all is fair and no one is innocent. The British want to kill one, the IRA wants to kill the other. It’s a race to see who will be first.

$34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6x9 10–20 photographs • May 2022 HIS036030 • 978-1-63624-115-9 Kevin Dougherty lives in New York, NY

The US Army Engineer Pocket Manual

The US Military Intelligence Pocket Manual

1941–45

1941–45

Chris McNab

Chris McNab

The Pocket Manual Series • $16.95 Hardback • 160 pages • 5x7.8 diagrams and illustrations • June 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-136-4

The Pocket Manual Series • $16.95 Hardback • 160 pages • 5x7.8 diagrams and illustrations • June 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-138-8

Though often overlooked, engineering in the field was key to Allied success in World War II. Often close to the front line, engineers were responsible for constructing field fortifications and laying, maintaining and repairing routes of communications so commanders could stay in touch with troops in battle. Engineers were trained in explosives and demolitions meaning that they could set booby traps and lay mines and also help to counter enemy minefields, often while under fire. They could enable crossings of rivers and other natural obstacles, or rig bridges and buildings to blow in order to divert or slow enemy movement. Another crucial task was ensuring that vehicles and installations were camouflaged, not just to disguise command posts from enemy ground forces, but to disguise airfields or troops from air attack and perhaps even invite attack on an unimportant area by creating fake buildings and vehicles. This pocket manual provides an in-depth insight into the training and tasks undertaken by US Army engineers during World War II in all theaters, based on original manuals and reports.

On December 7, 1941, an Imperial Japanese carrier strike force attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, taking advantage of what was one of the greatest intelligence failures in US history. Galvanized into action, the branches of the US military subsequently developed one of the greatest intelligence-gathering and analyzing systems of the combatant nations, giving the American forces a window into the intentions of their enemies.

The picture of US military intelligence during World War II is a complex one, divided between the fields of signal intelligence (SIGINT) and human intelligence (HUMINT), combat intelligence and War Department intelligence, and between numerous different organizations. The documents collected in this manual reveal the theoretical and practical efforts in this massive intelligence operation. It ranges from fundamentals such as how to observe and record enemy activity and intercept enemy radio traffic through to specialist activities such as cryptanalysis, photoreconnaissance, interrogating prisoners, and undercover agent operations.

Kevin Dougherty Steven D Smith

After futilely chasing his nemesis through miles of swamps, British dragoon Banastre Tarleton told his exhausted men, ‘Come, my Boys! Let us go back, and we will find the Gamecock [Thomas Sumter], but as for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him.’ From Tarleton’s lament, Francis Marion acquired the nickname ‘Swamp Fox’ and became the very symbol of the Patriot cause in the South Carolina lowcountry. Yet, Tarleton and those like him seemed to have all the advantages. More men and equipment. Better training. Greater firepower.

Still somehow Marion routinely got the best of his foes. How? Surely Marion benefited from his local intelligence and the fervor of his cause, but in and of themselves, these advantages would not have been sufficient to overcome the British military preponderance. It took leadership to defeat the British and Marion delivered it. This book explains how he did it.

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A Machine Gunner’s War

Among the Firsts The Biography of Lt Colonel Gerhard L. Bolland

From Normandy to Victory with the 1st Infantry Division in World War II

Matthew T Bolland $34.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6x9 Photographs and maps • February 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-63624-121-0 Matthew T Bolland lives in Toughton, WI

Ernest Albert “Andy” Andrews jr David B Hurt $34.95 • Hardback • 408 pages • 6x9 Photographs and maps • April 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-63624-104-3 Ernest Albert “Andy” Andrews jr lives in Nashville, TN

Ernest “Andy” Andrews began his training as a machine gunner at Fort McClellan in Alabama in July 1943. In early 1944, he arrived in the UK for further training before D-Day. Fighting in Normandy, Andy was nicked by a bullet and evacuated to England in late July when the wound became infected, before returning to participate in the Normandy breakout.

For a month, Andy’s squad defended a bunker position in the Siegfried Line against repeated German attacks. Early on the morning of November 19, Andy engaged in his toughest battle of the war as the Germans attempted to retake Hill 232. Andy was wounded in the shoulder.

After surgery and a month convalescence he rejoined H Company in time to fight in the Battle of the Bulge. Andy’s outfit ends the war fighting in Czechoslovakia, where Andy witnesses the German surrender in early May. Following occupation duty, Andy returned to the States in October 1945.

This vivid firsthand account takes the reader along from Normandy to victory with Andy and his machine-gun crew.

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Unconventional warfare tactics can have a considerable effect on the outcome of any war. During World War II, the United States government developed and employed two new methods of fighting. The first was the development of “paratroop” units, as they were first called. The second was the formation of a covert and sabotage operations branch called the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Lt. Colonel Bolland was involved in both of these “firsts.” During the D-Day invasion he parachuted behind enemy lines. After fighting with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment for thirty-three days straight, he returned to England and became involved with the OSS. He served as Field Commander for their Operation, code named Rype.

Lt. Colonel Bolland’ military career lasted seventeen years. He ended up with numerous decorations including the Norwegian Liberation Medal and Citation, the Bronze Star for valor, the French Fouragerre of Croix de Guerre with Palms and posthumously the Congressional Gold medal awarded to the OSS Society on behalf of all former OSS members that served during the war.

His story reveals the struggles, successes, failures and ultimate victories, detailing what went right and what went wrong with these new unconventional methods of fighting.

Hell in the Streets of Husaybah The April 2004 Fights of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines in Husaybah, Iraq Lt Col David E Kelly USMC (Ret) $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6x9 30 photographs • February 2022 • HIS027170 978-1-63624-150-0 Lt Col David E Kelly USMC (Ret) lives in Springfield, PA

During the April 2004 fights throughout Iraq, most media attention was focused in the city of Fallujah. However, at the same time, out on the border with Syria in and around the city of Husaybah, fighting was equally intense.

This book tells the story of that period through many first-person accounts of intense fighting in the town of Husaybah, Iraq, during April 2004. It is based on interviews with Marines at all levels of the fight, from battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lopez, USMC, to infantrymen and squad leaders. When the Lima Company commander Captain Chris Gannon (Call sign Lima 6) was killed on entry to an enemy-held building, the company’s executive officer, Lieutenant Dominique Neal (Lima 5) informed his Marines that he had assumed command with the radio message, “Lima 5 is now Lima 6.” It also details other events, including the heroic actions of Corporal Jayson Dunham who saved the Marines around him by covering an enemy grenade with his body.

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The Human Face of D-Day Walking the Battlefields of Normandy: Essays, Reflections, and Conversations with Veterans of the Longest Day

Men of Armor: The History of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in World War II

Bomb Group

Part Two: Cassino and Rome

Paul Bingley Mike Peters

Col Keith Nightingale (Ret)

Jeff Danby

$34.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6x9 40 photographs plus 3 maps • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-102-9 Col Keith Nightingale (Ret) lives in Ojai, CA

$37.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6x9 60 photographs, 15 maps, plus graphics June 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-015-2 Jeff Danby lives in Granville, OH

Soldier Keith Nightingale has conducted terrain walks in Normandy for over forty years with veterans, active-duty military, and local French civilians. Over the decades Nightingale conducted dozens of formal interviews and informal conversations with many of the principals of the day, including Generals Bradley, Collins, Gavin, Ridgway and Hill. Added to this rare, new primary material from the top brass are numerous conversations with lower-ranking vets who did the heavy lifting—Major Howard of Pegasus Bridge, LTC Otway of Merville Battery, Cpt Raeen of the 5th Rangers, and SSG Lem Lomell of Pointe Du Hoc. This unique approach to D-Day combines the author’s discussions with veteran and civilian participants, his personal reflections on Operation Overlord, and the insights that occur often at the very site of a battle. Interspersed with veterans’ remarks, Nightingale’s personal essays are inspired by specific discussions or multiple interviews. Taken together, the succinct, human observations of these participants illuminate the hard facts to create a unique work of long-lasting interest that will attract specialists, military history buffs, armchair generals, and general readers alike.

This second volume follows on from the first in recounting the WWII history of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in vivid detail. The outfit, since upgraded from M5 light tanks to M4 ‘Sherman’ mediums, claws through some of the toughest battles of WWII—from a horrific stalemate at Cassino in February 1944, through the bloody Operation Diadem May breakout, to the stunning capture of Rome on 4 June 1944.

This unique multi-volume history covers the full spectrum of experiences of the men in one tank company from inception in June 1941 through the occupation of Germany in 1945. An American tank company in WWII consisted of only five officers and approximately 100 enlisted men— all living, traveling and fighting in seventeen tanks, two jeeps, one truck, one half-track and one tank retriever.

Uniting the official record with the rich, personal accounts of the participants, the reader is swept along a highly detailed and shocking journey chronicling the evolution of American armor doctrine and tank design from June 1941 through VE Day.

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The Story of the 381st Bomb Group (H), Eighth Air Force, USAAF and its Part in the Allied Air Offensive

$34.95 • Hardback • 336 pages • 6x9 50–60 photographs • September 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-61200-960-5

In February 1942, a reconnaissance party of United States Army Air Force officers arrived in England. Firmly wedded to the doctrine of daylight precision bombing, they believed they could help turn the tide of the war in Europe.

In the months that followed, they formed the Eighth Air Force – an organization that grew at an astonishing rate. To accommodate it, almost seventy airfields were hastily built across the eastern counties of England.

At the heart of the Eighth Air Force was its bombardment groups, each equipped with scores of heavily armed, four-engine bombers.

This book tells the story of just one “Bomb Group” – the 381st, which crossed the Atlantic in May 1943. Arriving at RAF Ridgewell on the Essex-Suffolk border, its airmen quickly found themselves thrown into the hazardous and attritional air battle raging in the skies over Europe. The 381st’s path led from its formation in the Texan desert, to its 297th and final bombing mission deep into the heart of Hitler’s Third Reich.

This is the remarkable story of one group and the part it played in the strategic bombing campaign of “The Mighty Eighth.”

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BirlinnCasemate • BC Books The Silent Service in World War II

Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper

The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who Lived It

The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the Battle of the Bulge

Michael Green Edward Monroe-Jones

Frank van Lunteren $24.95 • Paperback • 368 pages 6x9 • 16pp photos • March 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-128-9

$22.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 6x9 16 pages of photos • February 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-126-5 Michael Green lives in CA

The Silent Service in World War II tells the story of America’s intrepid underwater warriors in the words of the men who lived the war in the Pacific against Japan.

This book takes you through the war as you learn what it was like to serve on submarines in combat, the exhilaration of a successful attack, and the terror of being depth-charged. And aside from enemy action, the sea itself could prove to be an extremely hostile environment as many of these stories attest. From early war patrols in obsolescent, unreliable S-boats to new, modern fleet submarines roving the Pacific, the forty-six stories in this anthology give you a full understanding of what it was like to be a U.S. Navy submariner in combat.

In December 1944 an enormous German army group crashed through the thin American line in the Ardennes forest. Colonel Reuben Tucker’s elite 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment was resting and refitting in France when news came of the German breakthrough. Most dangerous to the Allies was the German spearhead of the 1st SS Panzer Division led by Jochen Peiper, which aimed to sever the Allied front. The 504th was committed to block the SS advance, and within 48 hours of their arrival Colonel Tucker’s paratroopers were attacking the SS-Panzergrenadiers of Peiper’s battlegroup, eventually forcing them to withdraw.

Using never before published diaries, letters, battle reports and interviews with over 100 veterans, a comprehensive account is painted of a triumphant U.S. regiment in one of the fiercest fought campaigns in the history of the U.S. Army.

The Battle for Tinian

The True Story of Catch-22 The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller’s 340th Bomb Group in World War II

Vital Stepping Stone in America’s War Against Japan Nathan N. Prefer

Patricia Chapman Meder

$22.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6x9 • fully illustrated • February 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-131-9 Nathan N. Prefer lives in Fort Myers, FL

In July 1944, the 9,000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps, descended on their neighboring island, Saipan, just three miles away. There were 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan. The sudden silence only indicated it was now Tinian’s turn.

When the battle for Tinian finally took place the US acted with great skill.

Historian Samuel Elliot Morrison called it “the most perfectly executed amphibious operation of the entire war.” In the end some 8,000 Japanese were killed, with only 300 surrenders, plus some others who hid out for years after the war.

In the end some 8,000 Japanese were killed, with only 300 surrenders. After Tinian was secured the US proceeded to build the biggest airport in the world on that island—home to hundreds of B-29 Superfortresses. Among these, just over a year later, were the Enola Gay and Boxcar, which with their atomic bombs would quickly bring the Japanese homeland itself to its knees.

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$24.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6x9 • 100 photos • August 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-132-6 Patricia Chapman Meder lives in Annandale, VA

After the publication of his bestselling novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group the novel’s characters were indeed recognizable.

In this book, we finally encounter the real men and combat missions on which the novel was based. While Heller’s fully developed characters stand solely, solidly and uniquely on their own merits, The True Story of Catch-22 proves that any resemblance to persons living or dead is, in fact, actual.

Now all of the men upon whom Heller based his characters are gone.

However, the last survivor, George L. Wells, the model for Catch-22s Capt.

Wren, is the common thread who weaves through this book, allowing the reader to truly feel the war and even thumb through George’s well-worn mission book describing attacks on Axis ports, ships, bridges, and the notorious Brenner Pass. In this book the reader will discover that truth is indeed as fascinating as fiction!

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America’s War in Syria

Corporal Cannon

The Good Captain

A Female Marine in Afghanistan

A Personal Memoir of America at War

Fighting with Kurdish Anti-ISIS Forces

Richard D Hooker Jr

Dr Till Paasche John Foxx

Savannah Cannon $34.95 • Hardback • 264 pages • 6x9 20–30 photographs • June 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-63624-166-1 Savannah Cannon lives in San Diego, CA

Not even old enough to drink, Corporal Savannah Cannon is a young enlisted United States Marine deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2010. As a tactical data networking specialist, she is sent away from everyone she knows and attached to a Regimental Combat Team where women are not allowed to repair communications. Her experiences over the next few months shed light on the unique and difficult positions women are placed in when supporting combat roles, while offering a raw look at the painful choices women must sometimes make.

Cannon finds herself in a combat zone, ostracized from family, friends, and even her fellow Marines as the men are told to avoid her. The connections she makes are born from trauma and desperation and the choices she makes will echo throughout many lives.

Corporal Cannon is not the story of a heroine; it is the hard-hitting account of just one of the flawed individuals who make up the United States’ fighting forces. Mistakes in the battlefield can have dire consequences, personally and professionally. Reflecting on her time in service, the author weaves a story of past and present, and the healing that can come with admitting our mistakes and moving past them.

$34.95 • Hardback • 344 pages • 6x9 20–30 photographs • May 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-63624-148-7 Richard D Hooker Jr lives in Elgin, SC

R. D. Hooker, Jr. was a combat soldier and leader in five wars. He then served as a senior Pentagon advisor and as a White House staff member in four different administrations. At the time of his retirement from the military in 2010 he was the most decorated colonel in the US Army.

Beginning with his enlistment at 18 in 1975, this memoir chronicles his experiences in the post-Vietnam Army as a young paratrooper, as a West Point cadet, and as a combatant in the many military conflicts which followed. Hooker served in the invasion of Grenada, in the earliest days of the Somalia intervention, as one of the first American responders to the Rwandan genocide, with the first American units to enter both Bosnia and Kosovo, in peace-keeping operations in the Sinai desert, in the Pentagon on 9/11, and again in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. When not serving with troops, he taught at West Point and served in several high-level Pentagon assignments.

Few if any memoirs of this genre can match the narrative arc shown here. In addition, the author describes each of these campaigns from a strategic and policy perspective informed by his White House and Pentagon experiences as well as years of academic training. The juxtaposition of these contrasting perspectives is compelling and unique.

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$34.95 • Hardback • 304 pages • 6x9 20-30 photographs • April 2022 • POL037000 978-1-63624-152-4 Dr Till Paasche lives in Canada John Foxx lives in Tampa, FL

With America’s War on Terror and the subsequent democracy experiments in Afghanistan and Iraq having turned into geopolitical disasters, the US military campaign in alliance with the Kurdish forces in Syria remains a rare success story.

Considering the overwhelming military victory, the functioning Kurdish civilian governing structures that followed the fighting, the extremely light military footprint and the strong link to Kurdish partners, many political analysts, military experts and politicians in Washington, DC, judge the intervention against ISIS in Syria as the nation’s most successful campaign since World War II. However, since neither these experts nor many journalists were on the ground during the fighting, they struggle to explain exactly how this particular operation turned into a just war.

The authors, however, were there. Between the three of them, they fought for over two years with the Kurdish forces. They participated in all the large Kurdish operations against the Islamic State between late 2014 and mid-2016.

Based on the authors’ unique insights, this book analyses America’s war in Syria and structures the intervention into different phases including the secretive build up and the ultimate destruction of the ISIS Caliphate.

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Birlinn Casemate A Storm of Spears

The Blue & Gray Almanac

Understanding the Greek Hoplite in Action

The Civil War in Facts & Figures, Recipes & Slang

Christopher Matthew

Albert Nofi

$22.95 • Paperback • 360 pages 6x9.25 • 33 b/w diagrams, 50+ color and b/w photos (in 16 page plate section) • January 2022 HIS002010 • 978-1-63624-133-3

The backbone of classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armored spearmen, or hoplites. These were the soldiers that defied the might of Persia at Marathon, Thermopylae and Plataea and, more often, fought each other in the countless battles of the Greek city-states. For around two centuries they were the dominant soldiers of the Classical world, in great demand as mercenaries throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. Yet, despite the battle descriptions and copious evidence of Greek art and archaeology, there are still many aspects of hoplite warfare that are little understood or the subject of fierce academic debate.

Christopher Matthew’s groundbreaking reassessment combines rigorous analysis of the literary and archaeological evidence with the new disciplines of reconstructive archaeology, re-enactment and ballistic science. He focuses meticulously on the details of the equipment, tactics and capabilities of the individual hoplites. In so doing he challenges some long-established assumptions.

General Gordon Granger

Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts.

Did you know...

• During the final days of the war, some Richmond citizens would throw “Starvation Parties,” at which elegantly attired guests would gather at soirees where the finest silver and crystal tableware was used, though there were usually no refreshments except water.

• Union Rear-Admiral Goldsborough was nicknamed “Old Guts”, not so much for his combativeness as for his heft, weighing about 300 pounds, and was described as “. . . a huge mass of inert matter.”

• 30.6 percent of the 425 Confederate generals, but only 21.6 percent of the 583 Union generals, had been lawyers before the war.

• Major General Loring was reputed to have so rich a vocabulary than one of the men once remarked he could “curse a cannon up hill without horses.”

The Day Rommel Was Stopped

The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind “Juneteenth”

The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942 Major F. R. Jephson MC TD Chris Jephson

Robert C Conner $22.95 • Paperback • 264 pages 6x9 16pp photos • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-63624-130-2 Robert C Conner lives in Ballston Spa, NY

$22.95 • Paperback • 304 pages 6x9 • photos and maps • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-63624-127-2

This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, and went on to play major roles in the Chattanooga and Mobile campaigns. Immediately after the war, as commander of U.S. troops in Texas, his actions sparked the “Juneteenth” celebrations of slavery’s end, which continue to this day.

Granger’s first battle was at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, and he soon thereafter rose through the ranks—cavalry, then infantry—in early 1863 vying with Forrest and Van Dorn for control of central Tennessee. The artillery platform he erected at Franklin, dubbed Fort Granger, would soon overlook the death knell of the main Confederate army in the west.

This long-overdue biography sheds fascinating new light on a colorful commander who fought through the war in the West from its first major battles to its last, and even left his impact on the Reconstruction beyond.

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$19.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6x9 May 2022 • HIS036050 978-1-63624-125-8 Albert Nofi lives in NY

At dusk on Wednesday 1 July 1942, Rommel broke through the center of the British defenses at Alamein. His tanks had overwhelmed the gallant defense of the 18th Indian Infantry Brigade in the Deir el Shein at the foot of the Ruweisat Ridge. At that moment, and for the next twelve hours, there was no further organized defense between the spearhead of the Afrika Korps and Alexandria. Throughout the next day, only a handful of men and guns stood between Rommel and his prize.

In Cairo, black clouds of smoke from burning files showed that many people believed Rommel would not stop short of the Suez Canal, his stated objective. But, on Friday 3 July at 22.56 hrs., only 48 hours later, Rommel called off his attack and ordered his troops to dig in where they stood. The Delta was saved. Just a few weeks earlier, the 18th Indian Infantry Brigade, which took the brunt of the initial attack on 1 July, and the guns of the small column known as Robcol that stopped Rommel on 2 and 3 of July, had been in northern Iraq. General Auchinleck’s desperate measure, pulling them 1,500 miles from Iraq into the Western desert, just succeeded but it greatly increased the price of failure.

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Arden Casemate Nations in the Balance

Argentine Perspective of the Falklands War

The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943– August 1944

The Calvi Report

Christopher L Kolakowski $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6x9 50 photographs and 12 maps April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-63624-096-1 Christopher L Kolakowski lives in WI

Nicholas van der Bijl $34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • x9 20–30 photographs • August 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-63624-164-7

In 1982, the United Kingdom and Argentina fought a war over an historical disagreement over the colonial “ownership” or rights over the Falkland Islands. Within months of the From December 1943 to August 1944, Allied Argentinian defeat, General Edgardo Calvi, and Japanese forces fought the decisive then the Argentine Head of the Army Joint battles of World War II in Southeast Asia. Fighting centered around North Chief of Staff, was instructed to undertake a wide-ranging and formal inquiry Burma, Imphal, Kohima and the Arakan, involving troops from all over the to investigate the performance of the Argentine Army during the Falklands. world. The campaigns brought nations into collision for the highest stakes: Calvi concluded that while the Army had the motivation, it lacked the British and Indian troops fighting for Empire, the Indo-Japanese forces organization, equipment, training, and ability to oppose an army capable of seeking a prestige victory with an invasion of India and the Americans and operating in a variety of environments. The war exposed political, military, Chinese focused on helping China and reopening the Burma Road. This was and public weaknesses in a period of considerable internal unrest during also the first U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, and Gen Stilwell’s operations the seven years of the Dirty War. Several senior officers who fought in the in some ways foreshadowed battles in Vietnam two decades later.

Falklands were imprisoned for offenses committed during the Dirty War. Secrecy and political disagreements isolated the Service chiefs of staff from The Burma and India battles of 1944 offer dramatic and compelling stories of people fighting in difficult conditions against high odds, with far-reaching the logistic and operational planning. This book tells the story of the Falklands War from the Argentine Army perspective. results. They also proved important to the postwar future of the participant nations and Asia as a whole, with effects that still reverberate decades after the war.

Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals The Gallant Life of Commander D. G. H. ‘Jake’ Wright DSC** RNVR Captain Chris O’Flaherty Royal Navy Admiral Jerry Kyd CBE $22.95 • Hardback • 208 pages • 6x9 35 photographs • April 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-63624-140-1

Whiet Hitler’s U-Boats were torpedoing shipments of tea bound for Great Britain, Jake Wright reciprocated by torpedoing Axis coastal shipping off Europe. His first Command was MTB 331, trained for a daredevil mission to puncture German boom defenses protecting their battleships.

After demobilization he returned to the tea trade, rising to become one of Brooke Bond’s senior directors supplying Britain’s beloved beverage.

Blue Water War

Maritime Strike

The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940– 1945

The Untold Story of the Royal Navy Task Group off Libya in 2011 Rear Admiral John Kingwell CBE

Brian E Walter $39.95 • Hardback • 336 pages • 6x9 32 illustrations • June 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-63624-108-1 Brian E Walter lives in Burnsville, MN

$34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6x9 20 photographs • August 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-63624-113-5

For three millennia the Mediterranean Sea served as the center of western civilization and the scene of many colossal wars and naval battles. In the early summer of 1940, this ancient body of water again played host to a new and extensive conflict as the Kingdom of Italy challenged Britain for This book tells the story of this epic struggle, waged at differing times against the combined forces of Italy, Germany and Vichy France over a wide area stretching from the coastal waters of Southern Europe in the north to Madagascar in the south and Africa’s Atlantic coast in the west to the Persian Gulf in the east.

In April 2011, the newly created Royal Navy Response Force Task Group deployed to the Mediterranean to provide a range of military options in response to the Arab Spring. For the next six months the group planned and prepared for a range of potential operations including noncombatant evacuations from Libya, Yemen and Syria, maritime interdiction operations off the Libyan coast, and amphibious landings.

This is a personal account by the Group’s Commander, which brings to life the challenges of command – including authorizing strikes and mitigating risk to UK aircrew.

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Casemate Academic • Air World z Generals and Admirals of the Third Reich For Country or Fuhrer, Vol 1

The Soviet Army High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992

James “Jack” Webb

Richard W Harrison

$50 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6x9 150 photographs • May 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-952715-12-9

$45 • Hardback • 480 pages • 6x9 Photos and maps • July 2022 HIS032000 • 978-1-952715-10-5 Richard W Harrison lives in Carlisle, PA

This three-volume set offers concise biographical information for over five thousand generals and admirals of the Third Reich. It covers all branches of service, ordered alphabetically and provides a brief, though scholarly, overview of each individual, including personal details and dates for all attachments to unit, and medals awarded, offering a readily accessible go-to reference work for all World War II researchers and historians.

In addition to the biographic information, each volume includes extensive appendices.

The books are packed with information on these senior officers of the Third Reich, many of whom are little documented in the English language.

The Dangers of Automation in Airliners

From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot

Accidents Waiting to Happen

Steven K Ladd

Jack J Hersch

$26.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 6.1x9.1 • May 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-52-679795-7

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.

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The war on the Eastern Front during 1941–45 was an immense struggle. The vast distances involved forced the Soviet political-military leadership to resort to new organizational expedients.

These were the high commands of the directions.

In all, five high commands were created along the northwestern, western, southwestern, and North Caucasus strategic directions, however, they were abolished in mid-1942. A High Command in the Far East was established in 1945 and oversaw the Red Army’s campaign against Japanese forces in Manchuria.

The Far Eastern High Command was briefly resurrected in 1947 as a response to the tense situation along the Korean peninsula and again in 1979, followed a few years later by the appearance of new high commands in Europe and South Asia. However, these did not long survive the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and were abolished a year later.

$28.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 6.1x9.1 • May 2022 • TRA002040 978-1-52-679827-5 Jack J Hersch lives in New York City

Automation in aviation can be a lifesaver, expertly guiding a plane and its passengers through stormy weather to a safe landing. Or it can be a murderer, crashing an aircraft and killing all on board in the mistaken belief that it is doing the right thing.

In The Dangers of Automation in Airliners, you’ll be in the cockpits of the two doomed Boeing 737 MAXs, the Airbus A330 lost over the South Atlantic, and the Bombardier Q400 that stalled over Buffalo. You’ll discover exactly why a Boeing 777 smacked into a seawall, missing the runway on a beautiful summer morning. And you’ll watch pilots battling – sometimes winning and sometimes not – against automation run amok. This book also investigates the human factors at work. You’ll learn why pilots might overlook warnings or ignore cockpit alarms. You’ll observe automation failing to alert aircrews of what they crucially need to know while fighting to save their planes and their passengers.

The future of safe air travel depends on automation. This book tells its story.

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AirzWorld The Kassel Raid, 27 September 1944 The Largest Loss by USAAF Group on any Mission in WWII Eric Ratcliffe $26.95 • Paperback • 200 pages • 6.1x9.2 55 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679826-8

In September 1944, a force of 283 Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, took off from their bases in Britain.

Due to a navigational error, the 445th Heavy Bombardment Group missed Kassel altogether.

The change of direction meant that the bombers lost their escorting Mustangs and on the return flight they were pounced on by 150 enemy fighters – and massacred. Within just six minutes, the 445th experienced the greatest single-day losses suffered by any group from one airfield in the history of aviation warfare.

Johnnie Johnson’s 1942 Diary The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces

Dmitry Degtev Dmitry Zubov $28.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 black and white illustrations • March 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679805-3

On a night of in 1944, the roar of an unknown aircraft was heard over the dense forests to the south-east of Moscow. The German pilot managed to pull his aircraft up in time to brush over the top of the trees and disappear back into the dark Soviet sky. This was just one of many vivid episodes in the operational service of the Luftwaffe’s special and secret units which engaged in the delivery of agents and saboteurs in the rear of the enemy throughout the Second World War. Drawn from German and Russian sources, the authors expose for the very first time the Luftwaffe’s secret operations and reveal the fate of many of the pilots.

Spitfire!

The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron Dilip Sarkar

Dilip Sarkar $32.95 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 black and white illustrations • January 2022 BIO034000 • 978-1-52-679823-7

As a ‘lowly Pilot Officer’, Johnnie Johnson learned his fighter pilot’s craft as a protégé of the legless Tangmere Wing Leader, Douglas Bader.

After Bader was brought down over France and captured on 9 August 1941, Johnnie remained a member of 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron, in which he became a flight commander and was awarded the DFC a month after Bader’s devastating loss.

In this diary, published here for the first time, we get a glimpse of the real Johnnie. Presented on a day-by-day basis, each of Johnnie’s entries is supported by an informative narrative written by the renowned aviation historian Dilip Sarkar.

Bomber Command’s War Against Germany

The Luftwaffe’s Secret WWII Missions

$38.95 • Paperback 496 pages • 6.1x9.1 October 2021 • HIS027140 978-1-39-908280-8

During the mid-1980s, Dilip Sarkar began researching 19 Squadron, forging close friendships with many of the unit’s surviving Battle of Britain pilots and support staff. This enabled the publication in 1990 of Dilip’s first ever book, Spitfire Squadron: 19 Squadron at War 1939-41.

Nearly thirty years later, sadly all of the survivors are now deceased, but Dilip’s close relationship has provided a huge archive of correspondence and a unique photographic collection.

This completely new Spitfire Squadron covers everything we would ever need to know about such a unit during the critical pre and early war period.

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Planning the RAF’s Bombing Offensive in WWII and its Contribution to the Allied Victory An Official History $34.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 16 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679825-1

In compiling this official analysis of the effectiveness of the RAF’s strategic bombing campaign, the author was granted unrestricted access to Air Ministry, Cabinet, and other relevant departmental documents that were maintained for internal government use, enabling him to gain a complete and unbiased assessment of the contribution made by Bomber Command to the defeat of Germany.

Hawker’s Secret Cold War Airfield Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier Christopher Budgen $38.95 • Paperback • 328 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 black and white illustrations illustrations March 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-679800-8

In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements. It would, however, take three hard years before Dunsfold Aerodrome would be made available by a reluctant Air Ministry and the company was able to launch its first jet aircraft design – the Sea Hawk – into series production for the Royal Navy, closely followed by the superlative Hunter. Hawker Aircraft would go on to produce nearly 2,000 Hunters before other projects came to the fore.

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Birlinn Air World Bader’s Big Wing Controversy

Bader’s Spitfire Wing

Duxford 1940

Tangmere 1941

Dilip Sarkar

Dilip Sarkar

$49.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations January 2022 • BIO034000 978-1-39-901715-2

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On 30 August 1940, 12 Group was requested to reinforce 11 Group and intercept a raid on an aircraft factory at Hatfield. This was Douglas Bader and 242 Squadron’s first experience of a mass German raid. Bader was authorized to lead three, then five, squadrons – a controversial formation that came to be known as the ‘Duxford Wing’ or ‘Big Wing’.

In Bader’s Big Wing Controversy, Dilip Sarkar not only explores the full story of the people and events that led to the creation of the ‘Big Wing’ at Duxford, he also fully investigates the part that its men and machines played in the Battle of Britain story. While Bader was not personally intending disloyalty, as such, to his Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, he was, as the latter once commented, ‘the cause of a lot of the trouble’. In his burning desire to propel 242 Squadron and himself, its leader, into the forefront of the action, the newsworthy acting squadron leader found himself used by darker forces, men with axes to grind and personal ambitions to further.

In March 1941, the role of ‘Wing Commander (Flying)’ was created.

This was the fighter pilot’s dream appointment because the Wing Leader’s sole responsibility was leading his wing in action, unfettered by tedious administration and logistical matters.

Douglas Bader was amongst the first wing leaders. He was even given the choice of which Wing he preferred. He chose to take command of that based at Tangmere on the South Coast – right at the fore of the RAF’s battle against the Luftwaffe.

In Bader’s Spitfire Wing, Dilip Sarkar not only explores the full story of the men and machines of the Tangmere Wing in 1941, as well as the controversy that surrounds their use, he also fully investigates the part that they played in the RAF’s efforts to take the offensive to the Luftwaffe on the opposite side of the English Channel. It was in one such sortie in August 1941 that the Tangmere Wing lost its famous leader. Bader went on to spend the rest of the war in captivity.

The High Peak Dambuster

A Spitfire Named Connie

Sergeant Jack Marriott DFM

Letters from a North Africa Ace – A Tale of Triumph and Tragedy

Frank Pleszak $49.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 mono illustrations • April 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-39-909746-8

Air Marshal ‘Black’ Robertson

Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is arguably one of the most famous airborne attacks in history. During the night of 16/17 May 1943, 133 men in nineteen specially-adapted Lancasters – the famous Dambusters – set off to attack six dams deep in the heart of Germany. Eight of the bombers, and 56 of the aircrew, did not come home.

Three of the aircrew who took part were from the High Peak region of Derbyshire, including Sergeant Jack Marriott from Chinley, the flight engineer on Lancaster ED937.

Marriott’s Lancaster, Z-Zebra, reached the Möhne Dam, only to discover that it had been breached, some five bouncing bombs already having been released at it. The crew, led by Squadron Leader Henry Maudslay DFC, then flew on to the Eder Dam where their ‘bouncing bomb’ exploded beneath the Lancaster after hitting the parapet of the structure.

The damaged Lancaster struggled homeward, but was shot down on the Dutch border; Jack, together with his crew, was killed in the crash.

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A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story. ‘Robbie’ Robertson begins his RAF training during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. He opens his account against the Luftwaffe in the spring of 1942. Six months later, he is wounded and shot down by one of the Luftwaffe’s most celebrated Experten, his Spitfire crashes to the ground.

Desk-bound for the remainder of the war, the second and more poignant period of his RAF life begins. The young schoolgirl, Connie Freeman, with whom he has been in regular correspondence since her evacuation, becomes his wife.

It is literally hundreds of Robbie’s letters that form the basis of this powerful, moving and emotional story. Together with his own and Connie’s diaries, correspondence from RAF colleagues and his flying logbook, they bring a unique authenticity to this highly-charged tale.

A Spitfire Named Connie reads like a novel, filled with excitement, pathos and compassion. Yet, incredible as it may seem, every single word is true.

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z Air World Hawker’s Early Jets Dawn of the Hunter Christopher Budgen $49.95 • Hardback • 296 pages 6.7x9.6 • 100 black and white illustrations • March 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-52-679217-4

On 2 September 1947, Hawker Aircraft Ltd figuratively and literally took to the air with their first jet design, the P.1040.

As this project slowly wound its way through the government bureaucracy against a background of national insolvency, Hawker continued their research into more potent forms of jet travel with their first swept wing aircraft, the P.1052, their first rocket powered example, the P.1072, and, finally, the sleek, all swept P.1081. These essentially research aircraft gave the company the experience and expertise it required to produce a powerful, transonic fighter. That aircraft, the P.1067 Hunter first flew in 1951 and was, at the time, the fastest fighter in the world.

Such was the haste with which this occurred that many teething problems remained to be resolved, as detailed here, but eventually the aircraft would become the day fighter of choice for many of the world’s air forces and remain in service for decades to come.

Barnstormers, Wing-Walking and Flying Circuses Peter Brown $49.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 black and white illustrations May 2022 • TRA002010 978-1-52-679418-5

While large numbers of airplanes had been produced in America for the war effort overseas at the Western Front, it was found that that the British, French and Germans were far ahead of them when it came to flight technology, which led to a huge surplus of airplanes in the United States. The government’s solution to recover some of the money was to sell the surplus stock off for as little as $200 dollars each.

With no license being required to fly a plane, the offer attracted many ex-fighter pilots as well as civilians, who developed a new American pastime known as barnstorming. Part entertainers, part thrill-seekers, the barnstormers made their way across the country as solo acts and in groups called ‘Flying Circuses’.

The American flier Ormer Locklear wowed the crowds by climbing out of his airplane and walk along the wing, and it wasn’t long before flying circuses held less appeal for spectators if it didn’t have a wing-walking act.

Commando Helicopter Aircrewman

Fighter Pilot: From Cold War Jets to Spitfires

51 Years in Action with the RN and RAF

The Extraordinary Memoirs of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Pilot

John Sheldon $49.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6.1x9.1 • 45 mono illustrations April 2022 • BIO034000 978-1-39-909379-8

Having joined the Royal Navy in 1968, as a fifteen-year-old boy entrant not long out of school, John Sheldon was recruited into the Fleet Air Arm as a junior electrician. He went on to become a Commando Aircrewman and flew in all types of service helicopters and in all of their roles, from Arctic training in Norway to the balmy Mediterranean and the wilds of Canada.

Having initially been involved in the evacuation of Cyprus and the Turkish invasion in 1974, in which his helicopter had to recover bodies from the water with a sprawl net, John went on to serve in Northern Ireland, was deployed to the South Atlantic in the Falklands War, where he operated from HMS Fearless and helped lift survivors from the RFA Sir Galahad tragedy, undertook a tour in Lebanon, and then saw action during the First Gulf War, in Bosnia, Sierra Leone and then in Afghanistan.

This unique memoir covers the military action that John encountered, the many incidents and close shaves he was involved in and the friends he lost during his long and illustrious career.

Christopher Coville $49.95 • Hardback • 248 pages 6.1x9.1 • 32 black and white illustrations January 2022 • BIO034000 978-1-39-901557-8

While this is a book about a young man from Liverpool who joined from grammar school and became a three-star Air Marshal, it is also, above all, a story written by a passionate aviator, whose affection for flying leaps out of every line, in a book which is full of excitement, deep knowledge of flying and affection for his fellow servicemen and women. But it is also a wonderful narrative about people, the great characters forged by military life, and honed by fear, exhilaration, and occasional tragedy.

Fighter Pilot: From Cold War Jets to Spitfires is a unique perspective on aviation, written by a talented and dedicated pilot at the very top table of the RAF. This book culminates with his retirement, as the No.3 in the RAF, and being invited to have lunch with The Queen.

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Aviation Collectables

AB 205

G.91Y Yankee

Federico Anselmino Claudio Col

Federico Anselmino Claudio Col

Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC11L • $24.95 Paperback • 64 pages 8.3x11.7 • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-8-89-052319-9

Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC17L • $24.95 Paperback • 64 pages 8.3x11.7 • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-8-89-410506-3

HU-16A Albatross Federico Anselmino Claudio Col Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC20L • $24.95 Paperback • 64 pages 8.3x11.7 • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-8-89-410509-4

F-16A

SH-3 Sea King

G.91 PAN/R/T

Air Defense Fighter

In Service with Italian Naval Aviation and Air Force

In Service with Italian, German and Portuguese Air Forces

Foxtrot36 Claudio Col

Federico Anselmino Claudio Col

Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC28L • $27.95 Paperback • 72 pages • 8.3x11.7 Currently Available • HIS027140 978-8-83-199307-4

Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC27L • $33 Paperback • 128 pages • 8.3x11.7 c. 300 photographs • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-8-83-199306-7

Federico Anselmino Claudio Col Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC02L • $24.95 Paperback • 64 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 124 color photographs, 13 reproductions of patches, 11 documents, and 6 profiles • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-8-89-052311-3

AB 212 In Service with Italian Navy, Air Force and Army Foxtrot36 Claudio Col Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC32L • $27.95 Paperback • 72 pages 8.3x11.7 • Currently Available • HIS027140 • 978-8-83-199311-1

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Storie di Grilli e di Paperi A brief history of Italian 102nd Squadron Pierpaolo Maglio Claudio Col Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC25L • $24.95 Paperback • 64 pages • 8.3x11.7 Currently Available • HIS027140 978-8-83-199305-0

F-84F Thunderstreak/ RF-84F Thunderflash Federico Anselmino Claudio Col Italian Aviation Series, Vol. ACC31L • $31.95 Paperback • 88 pages • 8.3x11.7 Currently Available • HIS027140 978-8-83-199310-4

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Australian Scholarly Publishing z • z • Avonmore Books Guy Griffiths The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral Peter Jones $40 • Paperback • 312 pages • 6x9 Currently Available • BIO008000 978-1-92-245468-3

Guy Griffiths: The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral is the authorized biography of Rear Admiral Guy Griffiths AO, DSO, DSC, RAN. In his long career in the Royal Australian Navy, Guy Griffiths participated in its emergence from Depression-era stricture, pre-World War II, to its reinvention in the 1950s and 60s as a capable middle-power force centered on aircraft carriers in the missile age.

In this time, he personally experienced the RAN’s darkest days in the face of the Japanese onslaught and its finest hour in the Philippines Campaign of World War II, and its close involvements in the Korean War and then the Vietnam War. He witnessed the realities of war in positions of increasing responsibility.

South Pacific Air War Volume 5 - Crisis in Papua September – December 1942 Michael Claringbould Peter Ingman $48.95 • Paperback • 180 pages 6.93x9.84 • April 2022 • HIS027140 978-0-64-892629-0

Volume Five of this series chronicles aerial warfare primarily in the New Guinea theater in the critical period between September and December 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous four volumes which span the first nine months of the Pacific War. By early September the strategic picture in the theater had changed markedly within just six weeks. From their new Buna beachhead, the Japanese Army commenced a Papuan mountain campaign which threatened the Allied bastion of Port Moresby. Meanwhile the battle for Guadalcanal was raging, with the outcome of the wider Pacific War in the balance.

Never before has this campaign been chronicled in such detail, with Allied and Japanese accounts matched together for a truly factual account of the conflict.

Pacific Profiles

Pacific Profiles

Volume 6 - Allied Fighters: Bell P-39 & P-400 Airacobra South & Southwest Pacific 1942-1944

Volume 7 - Allied Transports: Douglas C-47 series South & Southwest Pacific 1942-1945

Michael Claringbould

Michael Claringbould

$42.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 6.93x9.84 • April 2022 • HIS027140 978-0-64-524690-2

$42.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 6.93x9.84 • February 2022 HIS027140 • 978-0-64-524691-9

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served in the South Pacific theater.

Volume Six covers a dozen USAAF Fifth and Thirteenth Air Force squadrons which operated the Bell P-39 and P-400 Airacobra from April 1942 until March 1944. They were used in a variety of roles including as fighters, dive-bombers, and strafers. The wide-ranging colorful heraldry and nose art of Fifth Air Force Airacobras is partly explained by the frequent trading of particular airframes between units. Until now there has been a paucity of information about the markings of Thirteenth Air Force Airacobras, and this volume fills much of this wide gap. The first and last Airacobras lost in the theater are illustrated, along with rare markings of a night fighter and a P-39 used by Fifth Fighter Command.

This volume includes the early P-400s through to the P-39D/F/Ks and then the late model P-39N/Qs. The development of markings for each squadron is explained, together with brief squadron histories accompanied with supporting photos.

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served in the South Pacific theater.

Volume Seven covers the Douglas C-47, including numerous derivatives such as the C-53, R4D, and DC-3. This was the most universal aircraft type to appear in the South Pacific and was deployed from day one to the cessation of hostilities. It was utilized by every military organization including eighteen Fifth and Thirteenth Air Force USAAF squadrons, and also by the USN, USMC, RAAF, RNZAF, RAF, and Dutch Air Force.

This volume illustrates the development of unit markings from the first commandeered DC-3 airliners in Australia through to the RNZAF C-47s used in the last days of the Pacific War in the Solomons. The profiles are accompanied by unit histories and photos. A wide range of reference material has been consulted including photos, color movies, official records, diaries, and information from wreck sites.

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Fonthill z Media Soviet Fighters of the Second World War

Fighters of the Dying Sun The Most Advanced Japanese Fighters of the Second World War

Jason Nicholas Moore $55 • Hardback • 416 pages 6.75x9.75 • 276 illustrations Currently Available • HIS027140 978-1-78155-825-6 Jason Nicholas Moore lives in Seguin, TX

Justo Miranda $45 • Hardback • 256 pages 6.75x9.75 • 159 illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-78155-811-9

The Soviet Air Force had just started to re-equip with modern fighters when the Germans opened Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hundreds of fighters were destroyed in the first few days, but many of these were obsolete biplanes and monoplanes. The remaining fighters, including more modern types such as the MiG-3 and LaGG-3, tried to stem the Nazi advance.

This book details the development of the Red Air Force fighters, from the dark days of Operation Barbarossa, to eventual triumph over the ruins of Berlin.

Starting with obsolete aircraft such as the Polikarpov biplane and monoplane fighters, the Soviets then settled on two main lines of development; the inline-engined LaGG-3 and its radial-engined derivatives, the La-5 and La-7, and the inline-engined Yakovlev fighters, which were produced in greater numbers than any other series of fighters.

The Royal Aircraft Factory Paul Hare

$52 • Hardback 384 pages 6.75x9.75 350 illustrations • Currently Available HIS027090 • 978-1-78155-841-6

Originally established to build observation balloons for the Victorian British Army, the Royal Aircraft Factory later expanded to employ over 3500 people by mid-1916, at which time it became the subject of a political controversy. In 1918 its title was changed to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, not only to avoid a clash of initials with the newly formed Royal Air Force but to better define its changing role.

Each of the many designs for airships and airplanes that were produced by the Factory between 1908 and 1918 is described in detail, illustrated by photographs, and with three-view drawings provided for the more prominent designs.

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The first B-29 flew over Tokyo on 1 November 1944. It was a photographic reconnaissance aircraft ironically named ‘Tokyo Rose.’ The Ki.44 fighters of the 47th Sentai took off to intercept it but as it turned out the Superfortress flew at such an altitude and speed that they could not reach it. The Ki-44-II-Otsu had been specifically designed for this type of interception and could reach the astonishing rate of climb of 5,000 m in four minutes; however it was not good enough.

During the following ten months, a devastating bombing campaign of thousands of Superfortresses destroyed 67 Japanese cities and half of Tokyo. It was realized that the Japanese industry was not able to produce the specially heat and stress-resistant metallic alloys that were required to manufacture the turbo superchargers needed by the fighters in charge of defending the Japanese mainland.

Gotha Aircraft From the London Bomber to the Flying Wing Jet Fighter Andreas Metzmacher $35 • Hardback • 144 pages • 6.75x9.75 137 illustrations • November 2021 • HIS027140 978-1-78155-706-8

The Gothaer Waggonfabrik (GWF), originally a German rail vehicle manufacturer, entered the aircraft industry in 1913. Gotha aircraft managed to make a name for themselves internationally.

As with ‘Fokker’ regarding fighter aircraft, the name ‘Gotha’ is synonymous with German bomber aircraft of the Great War. Even successful seaplanes and the world’s first asymmetric aircraft were a part of GWF’s production at this time, and lasted until the postwar Treaty of Versailles forced the abandonment of aircraft production. Aircraft could not be built in Gotha again until 1933.

Macchi C.202 Folgore Italy’s Best Fighter of the Second World War Davide Jabes Alessandro Romanello $45 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.75x9.75 67 illustrations • November 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-78155-830-0

The Macchi C.202 was probably the most successful Italian fighter during the Second World War. It is not by chance that virtually all the Italian top scoring aces flew this plane. At the same time, the Mc.202 is the symbol of the dysfunctions in the Italian military-industrial complex: the lack of sound industrial planning; the lack of the development of adequate engines limiting aircraft performance and reducing capacity to house weapons with a proper punch; the corruption of politics and the culpable connivance of the high military spheres. The Mc.202 was therefore produced in limited numbers.

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Fonthillz Media •z American Aircraft Development – World War Two Legacy

Vietnam War Army Helicopter Nose Art

1945-1953 and the Korean War

John Brennan

Volume 2 $32 • Paperback • 128 pages 8.5x11 • 135 illustrations Currently Available HIS027070 978-1-78155-780-8 John Brennan lives in CA

William Norton $55 • Hardback • 512 pages 6.75x9.75 • 364 illustrations November 2021 • HIS027140 978-1-78155-828-7

This volume focuses on the influence of America’s Second World War aviation development and experience, subsequent aviation technological advances, and world events, in shaping American choices in military aircraft and associated weapons development during the few years following the war.

It shows how air warfare weapons from the last conflict were carried forward and altered, how new systems evolved from these, and how the choices fared in the next war—Korea. The period was one of remarkable progress in a short span of time via a great many aircraft and weapons programs, and associated technological progress. These systems were of immense importance influencing and growing the engineering, production, and operational capabilities to be exploited for the next generation of weapons.

Here in Volume 2 one will find equally astonishing photos on par with Volume 1, together with some self-help and researched info for sure to tease and delight the aficionado or veteran to unknown degrees.

Besides the 165 images, there are search aids for locating one’s former in-country Army helicopter. A listing is available of American sites where Huey & Cobra rides are available. The Army museum in Alabama offers a listing they have compiled of two-dozen recommended Huey photo-books.

A tabulation of 300 AH-1 Cobra war survivors, their former units, and present locations are included. Also offered is a database of 500 newly found in-country Army helicopter names. There’s a little something for everyone.

T-34 Shock The Soviet Legend in Pictures Francis Edward Pulham $55 • Hardback • 496 pages • 6.75x9.75 672 black-and-white and 28 color photographs Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-78155-846-1

With nearly six hundred photographs, mostly taken by soldiers who both operated and fought against the T-34, this book seeks to catalog and contextualize even the subtlest details to create a true ‘T-34 continuum’.

The book begins with the antecedents of the T-34, the ill-fated BT ‘fast tank’ series and the influence of the traumatic Spanish Civil War before moving to an in-depth look at the T-34’s prototypes. After this, every factory production change is catalogued and contextualized, with never-before-seen photographs and stunning technical drawings.

Operation Mallory Major from Below Soldiers under a Hailstorm of Bombs Paolo Dossena $35 • Paperback • 144 pages • 8.5x11 150 illustrations • November 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-78155-808-9

The Allied Operation Mallory Major aimed at the destruction of all bridges across the Po River.

Women played a major role in this campaign.

Axis, guerrillas, and Allied intelligence used women to infiltrate the enemy. Another aspect of this battle was the Hitler-Beneš confrontation, an intelligence-guerrilla war which took place within the ranks of the Regierungstruppe.

Panzersoldaten!

Italian Blackshirt Division of the Eastern Front 1941-1943 Paolo Morisi $45 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.5x9.25 31 illustrations • November 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-78155-819-5 Paolo Morisi lives in Garden City, NY

Panzersoldaten! is a history of the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN), commonly referred to as the Blackshirts due to their wartime attire. They were an anti-Communist paramilitary organization that fought for Mussolini while Italy was under fascist rule; following the Duce’s removal from power, the organization was quickly swept up by the Italian Army.

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Frontline z Books I Served With Hitler in the Trenches

Martin Bormann

In the Field, 1914–1918

$28.95 • Paperback 248 pages • 6.1x9.1 January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-679751-3

Hans von Mend $34.95 • Hardback • 192 pages 6.1x9.1 • 16 black and white illustrations • April 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-39-901001-6

Hitler’s Executioner Volker Koop

Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third This remarkable book details the Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it shared experiences of Hans von was Bormann who helped steer Mend and his comrade in arms, Hitler’s apparatus of terror so Adolf Hitler, throughout almost the effectively that he became the whole of the First World War. clandestine ruler of Nazi Germany.

Together, they marched out to the Feared by ministers, Gauleiters, front, and to Flanders, where the regiment was involved in the struggle for civil servants, judges and generals alike, Bormann identified strongly with Wytschaete, where few men survived unscathed. Hitler was one of those, Hitler’s ideas on racial politics, destruction of the Jews and forced labour and being promoted to lance-corporal and assigned to the position of regimental made himself indispensable as the Führer’s executioner. runner.

In January 1945, with the Third Reich collapsing, Bormann returned to the Mend wrote of Hitler’s conversations during quieter periods in the trenches, of Führerbunker with Hitler. Following Hitler’s suicide on 30 April, Bormann how the future Führer spoke of his favorite topics, including art and painting. was named as Party Minister, thus officially confirming his rise to the top of Mend claims that he ‘listened to him willingly and was amazed how he knew the Party. Late the following day he fled from the bunker in an attempt to about this field … He could explain, like a professor, about German history of escape the encircling Red Army; his fate remaining a mystery for many years. art.’ But, intriguingly, according to Mend, Hitler’s political views, which he was In October 1946 he was found guilty in absentia by the International Military never shy in expounding, made enemies of some of his fellow soldiers.

Tribunal at Nuremberg and sentenced to death.

The SAS ‘Deniables’

The Death Railway

Special Forces Operations, Denied by the Authorities, from Vietnam to the War on Terror

The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad

Tony May

Charles Kappe

$42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.2 Central Plate Section • April 2022 • HIS027180 978-1-39-909630-0

$39.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901777-0

With their names changed for security and personal safety reasons, this is a dramatized story of events that actually happened involving a small band of Australian Special Air Service trained specialists involved in covert intelligence activities who were co-opted into the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) repertoire of Plausibly Deniable assets deployed worldwide into the shadows of political indulgence in locations where Australian forces should not be seen or heard.

This astounding exposé opens the closed door behind which governments operate.

They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they were told that they would be transferred to another healthier location where conditions would be more benign and food far more abundant. A total of 7,000 men were to be moved, the men being told that they would not be compelled to work.

From the outset, the prisoners realized that none of the promises the Japanese had made would be fulfilled.

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Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway Accounts of Life, Death and War Crimes by Those Who Were There With F-Force John Grehan $49.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 mono illustrations • March 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-909562-4

In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration.

The prisoners received only one reply – that all copies of the documents must be destroyed. As one officer later recalled, ‘Of course, this was not done’ and copies of these reports survived, stored away in dusty files, for future generations to learn the truth.

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The Hitler Assassination The Battle of Tinian The Capture of the Atomic Attempts The Plots, Places and People that Almost Changed History John Grehan $34.95 • Hardback • 296 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901890-6

Throughout his political life, Adolf Hitler was the subject of numerous assassination plots, some of which were attempted, all of which failed. While a few of these have become well known, particularly the bomb explosions at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich in 1939 and the Stauffenberg Valkyrie attempt carried out at the Wolfsschanze on 20 July 1944, many others have received far less attention – until now.

In this book, John Grehan has examined the known planned or proposed assassination attempts on Hitler, from Chicago to London and from Sweden to the Ukraine – some of which have not previously been presented to the general public by historians.

All manner of methods were proposed by those willing to bring Hitler’s life to a premature and sticky end and Hitler was well aware of the danger which lurked potentially around every corner of every road, railway track, every building and even every individual. As a result, an immense, multi-layered security apparatus surrounded the Führer day and night. Despite this, and knowing the risks they faced, many people sought to kill the German leader, and some very nearly did. Yet Hitler survived, often by just a minute or a millimetre, to die ultimately of his own hand.

Bomb Island, July-August 1944 John Grehan Alexander Nicoll Images of War • $24.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 7.4x9.6 • 150+ archive images May 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-39-908527-4

The dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and of a second nuclear device on Nagasaki three days later, is known throughout the world. But what is often forgotten is that these missions were only possible following the savage battles to seize the Northern Mariana Islands – which, crucially, were within the B-29’s operational range of Japan. With the capture of these islands, the defeat of Hirohito’s Imperial Japan became a certainty as for the first time in the war land-based heavy bombers could fly all the way to Tokyo and back.

The sparsely-populated island of Tinian was turned into the biggest air base in the world.

With six runways, four of which were built for the huge Superfortresses, it was from there that atomic destruction of Japan began.

But, before all this, had been the battle for the island – the preliminary naval bombardment, the aerial strikes and the amphibious assault.

The story of that battle is told here, in the words and images of the men who took part in that memorable, and ultimately epoch-changing, campaign.

Few stories encapsulate human endeavor, achievement, sacrifice, and failure in quite such stark contrasts as the taking of the island of Tinian, once the centre of USAAF operations in the Pacific and now just a little-visited speck in the largest ocean in the world.

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Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito and Hitler What Might Have Happened if the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early Jim Mangi $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 mono illustrations • March 2022 FIC040000 • 978-1-39-909315-6

Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito and Hitler: What Might Have Happened if the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early is a highly accurate, thoroughly researched, alternative history presenting a narrative of events exploring what might have happened if the atom bomb had been available somewhat earlier than it really was. What if the atomic bomb had been ready for deployment in, say, February 1945?

Had the atomic bomb been ready sooner, how would this have affected the war in Europe, and in particular Germany’s surrender? What would the impact have been in the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan, and how would the Soviets have reacted? And what would the following Cold War have looked like? These are all questions and scenarios that the author rigorously examines.

Solidly based on real people and actual events, in this book James Mangi describes the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb getting an earlier start after President Roosevelt appointed an energetic scientist, Walter Mendenhall, to study the feasibility of the bomb, instead of the more traditional bureaucrat, Lyman Briggs, he actually chose. This scenario, he reveals, might well have produced a war-ending atomic bomb earlier.

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Frontline z • z Books Defending Heaven China’s Mongol Wars, 1209-1370 James Waterson $29.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 pages of plates May 2022 • HIS027000 • 978-1-39-908325-6

Defending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song and Ming dynasties’ wars fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two centuries, these wars, fought to defend Chinese civilisation against a brutal and unrelenting foe, pitted personal heroics against the inexorable Mongol war machine and involved every part of the Chinese state.

Setting the Mongol war in the wider context of Chinas ancient and almost perpetual conflict with the northern nomads, this book sheds light on the evolution of China’s military society and the management, command and control of the army by the Chinese state.

The Great Waterloo Controversy

Voices from the Past

The Story of the 52nd Foot at History’s Greatest Battle

John Grehan

Gareth Glover $26.95 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6.1x9.1 January 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-52-679750-6

As the Battle of Waterloo reached its momentous climax, Napoleon’s Imperial Guard marched towards the Duke of Wellington’s thinning red line. The Imperial Guard had never tasted defeat and nothing, it seemed, could stop it smashing through the British ranks. But it was the Imperial Guard that was sent reeling back in disorder.

The controversy of which corps deserved the credit for defeating the Imperial Guard has continued down the decades and has rightly become a highly contentious subject over which much ink has been spilled.

With Winston Churchill at the Front Winston in the Trenches 1916

Destructive and Formidable British Infantry Firepower, 1642–1765 David Blackmore $29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 14 line diagrams • April 2022 • HIS037010 978-1-39-901450-2

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army’s victories over the French were largely credited to its infantry’s particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time, David Blackmore has gone back to original drill manuals and other contemporary sources to discover the reasons behind this.

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Andrew Dewar Gibb $29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.2 color and b&w plates • December 2021 BIO008000 • 978-1-39-908234-1

On 5 January 1916, Churchill took up his new post with the 6th (Service) Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. The battalions adjutant was Captain Alexander Dewar Gibb who formed a close relationship with Churchill that lasted far beyond their few weeks together in the war.

Dewar Gibb subsequently wrote an account of his and Churchill’s time together in the trenches.

Packed with amusing anecdotes and fascinating detail, Gibb’s story shows an entirely different side to Churchill’s character from the forceful public figure normally presented to the world.

Waterloo 1815 $34.95 • Paperback 368 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 pages of b/w plates • March 2022 HIS027200 • 978-1-39-909207-4

Composed of more than 300 eyewitness accounts, official documents, parliamentary debates and newspaper reports, Voices From the Past tells the story of Napoleons last battles as they were experienced and reported by the men and women involved.

Heroic cavalry charges, devastating artillery bombardments, terrible injuries, heart-breaking encounters, and amusing anecdotes, written by aristocratic officers and humble privates alike, fill the pages of this ambitious publication. Many of these reports have not been reproduced for almost 200 years.

Over the Top Alternate Histories of the First World War Spencer Jones Peter Tsouras $26.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.2 16 pages of b/w plates • January 2022 FIC040000 • 978-1-39-909206-7 Spencer Jones lives in Alexandria, VA

This thought-provoking book explores ten alternate scenarios in which the course of the First World War is changed forever. How would the war have changed had the Germans not attacked France but turned their main thrust against Russia; had the Greeks joined the allies at Gallipoli; or had the British severed the communications of the Ottoman Empire at Alexandretta? What if there was a more decisive outcome at Jutland; or if the Americans intervened in 1915, rather 1917?

Expertly written by leading military historians, this is a compelling and credible look at what might have been.

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Frontline z •Books z Winston Churchill and the Art of Leadership How Winston Changed the World William Nester $28.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 6.1x9.1 • January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-52-679769-8 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 place him in positions of power.

The House of Commons was Churchill’s political temple where he exalted in the speeches and harangues on the floor and the backroom horse-trading and comraderie.

This is the first book that explores how Churchill understood and asserted the art of power, mostly through hundreds of his own insights expressed through his speeches and writings.

In the Hell of the Eastern Front The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 Arno Sauer $26.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.1 March 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-679770-4

On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa – Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out 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.

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 neighbouring crater were hit by a shell. He became a casualty himself when he was badly wounded in the legs during a counterattack.

Based on Fritz’s own recollections and narrative, this account of a young soldier’s experiences in the Second World War was brought together by his son. It is a moving and graphic description of one man’s involvement in the largest military confrontation in history – the Hell that was the Eastern Front.

Hitler’s Attack U-Boats The Kriegsmarine’s Submarine Strike Force Jak P. Mallmann Showell $26.95 • Paperback • 232 pages 6.1x9.1 • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-679766-7

The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain’s vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler and when, in March 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed up to an Anglo-German Naval Agreement. This allowed the Germans to build their submarine strength up to one third of the British Royal Navy’s tonnage.

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.

In this book by the renowned Kriegsmarine historian Jak Mallmann Showell, these U-boats are explored at length. This includes details of their armament, capabilities, crew facilities, and just what it was like to operate such a vessel, and of course the story of their development and operational history.

Luftwaffe X-Planes German Experimental Aircraft of World War II Manfred Griehl $17.95 • Paperback • 80 pages 6.7x9.3 • December 2021 • HIS027140 978-1-39-901825-8

Despite the Allied authorities ban on research, countless aircraft were designed and tested by the Luftwaffe and German manufacturers before World War II. The research took place at secret evaluation sites in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the USSR. After the outbreak of the war this work continued. Many projects remained on the drawing board or at prototype stage because either they were deemed unsuitable or, as is the case with most of those in this selection, the developers simply ran out of time and the projects never went into production.

Renowned aviation expert Manfred Griehl has painstakingly assembled a valuable selection of images which shows the remarkable range of projects dreamed up by the German designers. Had these innovative projects ever been realized the course of the World War II could have been dramatically different.

Luftwaffe X-Planes is a definitive, revelatory guide to the remarkable range of secret planes that the Third Reich failed to complete.

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Arden Frontline Books SOE in Czechoslovakia The Special Operations Executive’s Czech Section in WW2 An Official History

The majority of the successful SOE operations in Europe took place in countries occupied by the Germans after the outbreak of war in 1939, Hitler’s forces being regarded as foreign invaders.

In Czechoslovakia it was different. The country, which had large numbers of ethnic Germans living within its borders, had been occupied since 1938, allowing the Germans to establish a strong hold on the country which limited the opportunities for subversive action by resistance movements. This is the first full, official account of SOE in Czechoslovakia, compiled by SOE headquarters staff.

Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty’s Secret Anti-Submarine Reports Jak P. Mallmann Showell $29.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • March 2022 HIS027150 • 978-1-39-908532-8

The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dnitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. Now, for the first time noted naval historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dnitz’s memoirs in a parallel text with the British Admiralty’s secret Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports to produce a unique view of the U-boat war as it was perceived at the time by both sides.

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A Risky Meeting at Sea that Saved Democracy Michael Kluger Richard Evans

$39.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 8 page plate section • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-908275-4

Long Range Desert Group

Roosevelt & Churchill The Atlantic Charter

Lines

Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy

W.B. Kennedy Shaw

$32.95 • Paperback • 248 pages • 6.1x9.1 March 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679783-4

Off the coast of Newfoundland, aboard the USS Augusta, there began a meeting which could be seen as one of immense profit for the future of mankind. It was a meeting that allowed FDR and Churchill to get to know each other, and also produced a document, strangely never signed, called The Atlantic Charter – an eight point agreement designed to act as a guide for how the world’s nations should behave towards each other in the post-war years. Many of the principles laid out in this document are incorporated into the Charter of the United Nations.

$29.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-909205-0

During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, the Long Range Desert Group was engaged in daring exploits and reconnaissance far behind the enemy’s lines. The LRDG would raid important airfields or attack Axis lines of communication along the Mediterranean coast, and then vanish back into the desert, to reappear hundreds of miles away.

With its brilliant description of the harsh beauty of the desert, and its exiting chronicle of the LRDG activities, this book is as fascinating today as it was when was first published in 1945.

Men of the Battle of Britain

Lessons in Imperial Rule

A Biographical Directory of the Few

Instructions for British Infantrymen on the Indian Frontier

Kenneth G. Wynn HRH The Prince of Wales $79.95 • Paperback • 616 pages • 9.6x11.4 120 black and white illustrations January 2022 • BIO034000 978-1-39-901465-6

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

It records the service details of the airmen who took part in the Battle of Britain in considerable detail. Where known, postings and their dates are included, as well as promotions, decorations, and successes claimed flying against the enemy. There is also much personal detail, often including dates and places of birth, civilian occupations, dates of death, and place of burial or, for those with no known grave, place of commemoration.

Andrew Skeen Robert Johnson $24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.2 December 2021 • HIS027060 978-1-39-901383-3

During the first half of the twentieth century, the mountainous North West Frontier represented one of the British Empire’s most strategically important borders. For thousands of inexperienced British and Indian troops facing a local resistance the methods and lessons of their predecessors were vital for their survival.

General Sir Andrew Skeen’s unofficial but authoritative textbook was written with these junior officers in mind. His work provided them with pragmatic and practical information on hill warfare in an accessible fashion.

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Birlinn Greenhill Books

Life and Death on the Eastern Front

StuG III Brigade 191, 1940–1945

The Battle of Halbe, 1945

Rare Colour Photographs From the Second World War

The Buffalo Brigade in Action in the Balkans, Greece and from Moscow to Kursk and Sevastopol

Eyewitness Accounts from Hell’s Cauldron Eberhard Baumgart Roger Moorhouse

Bruno Bork

$29.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 May 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-78-438711-2

Anthony Tucker-Jones Ian Spring $34.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6.7x9.6 260 color illustrations • March 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-78-438723-5

This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front features more than 250 images from the the PIXPAST Archive, a collection of more than 32,000 original color photographs taken between 1936 and 1946.

Collated into three parts and organized thematically, the book begins with images of the ground war, including Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union and the tanks, vehicles, weaponry and infantry on both sides. Moving into the war in the skies, the images depict aircraft in flight and on the ground, the bombers, fighters, Luftwaffe personnel and the destruction wrought from battle. And finally, the images take us behind the lines, to the prisoners of war, partisans, medics, the daily lives and leisure activities of soldiers and civilians along the front and the impact of the harsh Russian winter.

Accompanied by text by renowned author and commentator Anthony Tucker-Jones, these images offer a rare, often surprising insight into the realities of the Second World War and people caught up in it, in vivid color detail.

$34.95 • Hardback • 368 pages • 6.1x9.1 More than 300 photographs • December 2021 HIS027100 • 978-1-78-438695-5

Based on their experiences during the First World War, the Reichswehr decided that the infantry support gun of the future should be an armored, motorized vehicle with an effective caliber of cannon: the Sturmgeschütz III. The weapon was used in the ‘fire brigade role’ at hotspots along the Front, where it was much feared by enemy forces.

This illustrated volume tells the tale of Brigade 191, aka the ‘Buffalo Brigade’, who used the Sturmgeschütz III as they took part in Operation Barbarossa in the Ukraine, saw action during the fight for Greece in 1941 and were deployed to the areas of heaviest fighting in the campaign against the Soviet Union. This began with the infantry advance from Ukraine to Moscow; then to Voronezh, Kursk, the Caucasus and Kuban; then the Kertsch Peninsula and the Crimea; before they were finally evacuated from Sevastopol.

Keen to write an account recording the tactical significance of the Sturmgeschütz III, while surviving members of Brigade 191 also wished for a cohesive documentary record of the war, Bork set about gathering military records and literature, as well as interviewing as many ex-Brigade men as possible, in order to bring this detailed account into being.

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In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin. Rather than surrender, their orders were to attempt to break out, westward, and join up with the German 12th Army. A brutal battle ensued, with an estimated 30,000 German and 20,000 Russian soldiers killed, along with thousands of civilians.

This collection of first-hand accounts tells the story of the battle and its aftermath from the German perspective. It is an eclectic mix, containing the recollections of ordinary soldiers, SS-men and men of the Panzer Divisions, as well as civilians caught up in the battle as they attempted to flee ahead of the advancing armies.

It brings to life the grim realities of this one-sided engagement, revealing the brutal vengeance of the Soviets and the desperation to escape the slaughter.

Translated into English for the first time, this is an important insight into this devastating and little-known aspect of World War II history.

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Birlinn Books Greenhill

Fallschirm-PanzerDivision ‘Hermann Göring’ A History of the Luftwaffe’s Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945 Lawrence Paterson Professor Richard Overy $39.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.1 32pp black & white photos • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-78-438610-8

In the early years of the Third Reich, Hermann Göring, one of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich, worked to establish his own personal army to rival Himmler’s SS and Reichswehr. The result: a private Prussian police force which grew into one of the most powerful armored units in Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht.

This unit fought throughout the Second World War, meeting Anglo-American forces in vicious battles across the European theaters of Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy before finally being defeated by the Red Army on the Eastern Front. The Hermann Göring Panzer Division incorporates technical details of these battles with the turbulent politics and Machiavellian maneuvering of Hitler’s inner circle, giving military-history enthusiasts fresh insights into the development and role of this unusual division through the war.

Drawing on first-hand accounts and extensive archive material, World War II historian Lawrence Paterson presents a comprehensive and unbiased history of the establishment of the famous 1.

Fallschirm-Panzer Division.

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Voices of Snipers

Trajan

Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars

Nicholas Jackson

John Walter $29.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 24 color & black and white illustrations May 2022 • HIS027090 • 978-1-78-438627-6

Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and II. John Walter draws on meticulous research and the reminiscences of more than fifty snipers, tracing their journeys from recruitment and selection through training, combat and its aftermath to reveal a surprising commonality of experience, even across nationalities.

Laying bare the triumphs and brutalities of sniping, the personalities and psychologies of those who found themselves doing it and considering the immediate implications on both the sniper and the wider theater of war, this is a fascinating, detailed insight into frontline combat and the experience of sharpshooting in its historical context.

The book is appended with the complete diary of Russian sniper Roza Shanina, who is still celebrated today for her remarkable shooting accuracy and astonishing bravery. Her diary offers a rare insight into the complexities of what it was to be both a sniper and a woman on the frontline.

Rome’s Last Conqueror $34.95 • Hardback • 352 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 black and white illustrations • April 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-78-438707-5

Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan’s life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history, featuring a comprehensive array of maps, illustrations, and photographs to help orientate and bring the text to life.

Trajan rose from fairly obscure beginnings to become the emperor of Rome. He was born in Italica, an Italic settlement close to modern Seville in present-day Spain, and is the first Roman Emperor to be born outside of Rome. His remarkable rise from officer to general and then to emperor in just over 20 years reveals a shrewd politician who maintained absolute power.

Trajan’s success in taking the Roman Empire to its greatest expanse is highlighted in this gripping biography.

Trajan’s military campaigns allowed the Roman Empire to attain its greatest military, political and cultural achievements. The book draws on novel theories, recent evidence and meticulous research, including field visits to Italy, Spain, Germany and Romania to ensure accurate, vivid writing that transports the reader to Trajan’s territory.

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Greenhill Books • Gettysburg Publishing • Grub Street Publishing z Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana

Spitfire Pilot A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

22nd January 1879: Minute by Minute

Flight Lieutenant David Crook Air Vice Marshal Sandy Hunter

Chris Peers

Renaissance Combat Jörg Wilhalm’s Fightbook, 1522-1523 Jörg Wilhalm Dierk Hagedorn $45 • Hardback • 416 pages • 6.1x9.2 200 color illustrations • Currently Available HIS027080 • 978-1-78-438656-6

This book will appeal to enthusiasts of historical European martial arts, re-enactors, jousters, as well as art historians - particularly those with an interest in the armor and clothing of the 16th century. Comprehensive in its scope, it is a striking and fascinating insight into the ancient art of swordplay.

The Horse at Gettysburg Prepared for the Day of Battle Chris Bagley $26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 7x10 152 illustrations • Currently Available HIS036050 • 978-0-9993049-6-9

Horses are one of the many unsung heroes of the American Civil War. These majestic animals were impressed into service, trained, prepared for battle, and turned into expendable implements of war.

There is more to this story, however. When an army’s means and survival is predicated upon an animal whose instincts are to flee rather than fight, a bond of mutual trust and respect between handler and horse must be forged.

Ultimately, the Battle of Gettysburg resulted in thousands of horses killed and wounded. Their story deserves telling, from a time not so far removed.

$24.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6.1x9.2 battlefield maps and photographs January 2022 • HIS001040 978-1-78-438756-3

The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army.

Later the same day, a Zulu force of around 3,000 warriors turned their attention to a small outpost at Rorke’s Drift defended by around 150 British and Imperial troops. The British victory that ensued – against remarkable odds – would go down as one of the most heroic actions of all time.

$14.99 • Paperback • 208 pages • 5.1x7.8 December 2021 • BIO034000 978-1-78-438748-8

Spitfire Pilot is the exhilarating and moving memoir of D. M. Crook, an airman in the legendary 609 Squadron - one of the most successful RAF units in the Battle of Britain.

This definitive edition, the first for more than sixty years, includes a new foreword by David Crook’s daughter and Air Vice Marshal Sandy Hunter, Honorary Air Commodore of the 609 Squadron. The book also has an introduction by Professor Richard Overy.

Beaufighter Boys

Wimpy A Detailed Illustrated History of the Vickers Wellington in Service, 1938-1953

True Tales from Those who Flew Bristol’s Mighty Twin Graham Pitchfork ACM Sir David Cousins KCB, AFC $24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6x9.2 illustrated throughout • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-91-166716-2

Researched by the author for a project which did not come to fruition, Beaufighter air and ground crew gave freely of their stories which ranged from complete memoirs to brief anecdotes. And there were a plethora of original photographs for him to choose from.

Graham Pitchfork has built on these reminiscences to trace the roles of Beaufighter squadrons spread across all the theaters of World War Two operations. From home bases, through north-west Europe, North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean to the far Far East and south-west Pacific. All are covered in this quite unique book.

Steve Bond $24.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.9x9.7 illustrated throughout • April 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-166721-6

To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft. Among its claims to fame are the following: the only RAF bomber to serve in its original role from first day of war to last, and in every theater; the first type to bomb Germany; the first type to bomb Berlin; the first type to drop the 4,000-lb ‘Cookie’ bomb; and so on.

A serious study is well overdue, drawing not just on official documentation but relying greatly on personal accounts and anecdotes from the veterans who were there, both air and ground crew. And here it is. Through his diligent research over many years, author Steve Bond has produced an outstanding work.

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Harpia Publishing • Heimdal z•z Cuban MiGs

AMX

The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force

Brazilian-Italian Fighter-Bomber

Hélio Higuchi Paulo Roberto Bastos Junior

João Paulo Zeitoun Moralez $39.95 • Paperback • 144 pages 8.27x11.02 • photos • July 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-95-039408-1

$39.95 • Paperback • 144 pages 8.27x11.02 • Over 170 photographs and color profiles • July 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-95-039409-8

The Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicized air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defense of Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion and in support of Cuban leader’s efforts to export their revolutionary ideals.

With its MiG fighters, Cuba’s FAR was one of the symbols of the Cold War. This book tells the history of a small Caribbean island that challenged the might of the United States. Based on extensive research with veteran airmen, historians, Cuban publications, and documents, the introduction and utilization of all MiG models in FAR service is described, from the aircraft’s arrival, their deployment, and their final fate, while reviewing at the same time the history of Cuban military aviation to present times. Richly illustrated with over 170 photographs and color profiles, it details the history of all 20 models of MiG fighters operated by Cuba from 1962 to the present day.

Italy began work on a new fighter-bomber in the late 1970s, aiming to field an aircraft capable of surviving in heavily defended Cold War airspace, flying at very low level, and releasing its weapons deep in enemy territory with a high degree of accuracy. In the early 1980s, Brazil joined the program, resulting in the AMX. Developed to meet the demands of the Cold War scenario, the AMX program resulted in one of the world’s most capable fighter-bombers, a type that has seen action in several conflicts and campaigns since it entered in service the early 1990s. This book covers the entire AMX story, from the origins of the program to its daily operations. This book is a must-have for specialists and enthusiasts alike, containing exclusive material, including photos and interviews that have never previously been published, and first-hand accounts of tactics and operations.

La Waffen-SS

1800

Les Grenadiers Volume 2

L’ultime année d’un siècle de sang

Hervé Bertin

Marquis Lionel

$99 • Hardback • 256 pages 8.26x11.69 • November 2021 HIS027100 • 978-2-84-048424-0

Text in French This second volume traces the history, organization, uniforms, and equipment of the Waffen SS between 1939 and 1945. This elite wing of the Nazi party counted nearly one million volunteers from all the countries of Europe. With the full support of the Nazi regime, the Waffen SS fought on all European fronts between 1939 and 1945.

The variety of uniforms presented shows how, from 1941 onwards, the German superintendence reserved its most modern equipment for the “beloved child of the regime”.

Items presented include caps, helmets, helmet covers, hooded jackets, camouflage outfits, belt buckles, equipment, and weaponry. All the Waffen SS panels and objects are scrupulously detailed in this two-volume book.

Accompanied by many previously unpublished photographs from private archives, this book covers an area that no comprehensive study has made before.

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$77 • Hardback • 304 pages 29.7x29.7 • August 2022 • HIS027000 978-2-84-048586-5

Text in French A century of blood is coming to an end.

Begun with the War of the Spanish Succession under the reign of an elderly Louis XIV, it ended with the American War of Independence and that of the first years of the Revolution. From now on, we find at the head of France, a “triumvirate.” All, except Napoleon, are new men who have not soaked in the political combinations of the late Directory. Hope for a peaceful future rests on them.

In 1800, Napoleon was thirty-one. He is new to politics. Will he succeed in restoring confidence in the country; to be treated as equals with the belligerent powers? And will the extraordinary victory of Marengo be, finally, herald of a new found peace? The last element of the triptych dedicated to the glory years of General Bonaparte, this abundantly illustrated work by Lionel Marquis recounts the political and military events that took place in this year 1800, a crucial year which marks the birth of a new century.

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Helion andzCompany •z Age of Alexander Fast Play Rules for Exciting Ancient Battles Philip Garton Helion Wargames • $29.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 10 color images, photos TBC, 30 b/w tables March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-91-507027-2

Before the birth of the Roman Empire, the history of the Classical world was dominated by the history of Greece, its cities, and kingdoms. The best known of these stories is the achievement of Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon, who would become known to the world as Alexander the Great.

This book provides an expansion to the Three Ages of Rome wargames’ rules.

The four historical scenarios span the Age of Alexander and link directly into the first period of the ‘Three Ages’ rules. The new army lists introduce armies from across the period of the expansion set. They complement the armies in the original set of rules enabling players to recreate more battles from the ancient period.

As in the ‘Three Ages’, in battle nothing is certain but generals that practice their skills are more likely to be victorious.

One King!

A Wargamer’s Companion to Argyll’s & Monmouth’s Rebellion of 1685 Stephen M. Carter Helion Wargames • $49.95 Paperback • 168 pages • 7x9.75 20 full color maps, 24 other maps, 12 b/w plates, 34 ills • June 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507025-8

One King! is the perfect companion to the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 covering every encounter and unit in England, and for the first time in Scotland. Its sits alongside the book Fighting for Liberty as the ideal companion and provides the information needed to bring the Monmouth Rebellion to life on the tabletop.

One King! includes fast play campaign rules that uses the strategies, maps, deployments, and military objectives allowing the enthusiast or wargamer to follow in the footsteps of the commanders - even change the course of history over a coffee.

The battlefield plans give all the information needed to fight out all the encounters as accurately as possible. While the orders of battle and unit sheets will guide the tabletop wargamer in the recreation of their miniature armies or navies!

One King! has everything for the wargamer or military enthusiast, even the chance to change the course of history and crown the one true King James II & VII.

Three Ages of Rome Fast Play Rules for exciting ancient battles Philip Garton Helion Wargames • $39.95 • Paperback 104 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 10 color images, photos TBC,50 b/w tables March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-91-507026-5

Designed for ease of play, Three Ages of Rome offers a player experience based on the commander’s problems. The rules are designed to create a feel for the uncertainty of ancient battles. Most games should take 2-3 hours to play.

The Age of Expansion (300BCE – 30BCE) starts with Rome’s wars against Carthage. Followed by Rome against Macedon, Rome against the Gallic Celts, and several civil wars between the Romans themselves.

In the Age of Empire (30BCE-200CE) the Romans moved north and west conquering territories in Germania and Britain. Spreading east, they campaigned against the Dacians and the Parthians.

The Age of Decline (200CE-450CE) sees Rome struggling against pressures from outside the Empire. The wars with the Sassanids continued with successes and included defeats for both sides.

Pigs, Missiles and the CIA Volume 2: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro, the Unholy Trinity, 1962 Linda Rios Bromley Latin America@War • $29.95 Paperback • 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 60 photos • June 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507075-3 Linda Rios Bromley lives in USA

The Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 executed by Cuban patriots to overthrow Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, ended in a catastrophic failure. Leaders in Washington and Cuban exiles in Florida expected the result to install a democratic government in place, but Castro remained in charge. Finger pointing among the Cuba Task Force in Washington, DC resulted in many fired from their government jobs.

The pot continued to simmer and discovery of Soviet missiles by U-2 spy planes confirmed Washington’s worst fear, another showdown with the Soviet Union. At the time, no telephones between Washington and Moscow existed, no real-time communications or computers to accurately identify the location of undersea vessels.

John F. Kennedy, the 43-year-old President of the US, and his administration had no experience dealing with or negotiating through a crisis involving nuclear weapons. However, they understood what the results could be for the US and even the world.

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Helion zand • z Company From Julietts to Yasens

Ukraine War Volume 1 - Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic

Development and Operational History of Soviet Nuclear-Powered Cruise-Missile Submarines, 1960-1994

Edward Crowther Europe@War • $29.95 Paperback • 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 c 40 images & 4 maps April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507066-1

Alejandro A. Vilches Alarcón Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 70 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027150 • 978-1-91-507068-5

Available for first time, a detailed study of submarines, missiles and operations of all submarines developed and built in the USSR with the main objective of sinking the US Navy Carrier Battlegroups. New technologies and the extreme sacrifice from the crews, sometimes resulting in nuclear accidents and loss of human life, helped create this class of submarine unique to the USSR. This book explores the mentality of the Russian Submarine Designers and how the Russian Navy developed its strategy based in these underwater behemoths.

COIN Operations in Paraguay

Urgent Fury Grenada 1983 Sanjay BadriMaharaj

Latin America@War • $29.95 • Paperback 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 • HIS027110 978-1-91-507073-9

In 1983, the United States launched a military operation to remove the military junta that had taken over the Caribbean island of Grenada. This operation, code-named Urgent Fury, was held out by the Reagan Administration as a major military success and a victory against communism. In some ways it was. In others it was a foregone conclusion, a victory against a discredited regime with little support internally or externally.

Urgent Fury examines the genesis of the Grenadian Revolution of 1979 and the eventual fall of the Gairy Regime and establishing the English-speaking Caribbean’s only Soviet-bloc client state, and the rise and fall from grace of the populist Maurice Bishop.

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The title focuses on the armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the largest of the two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine. Ukraine War: Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic aims to provide an overview of their formation in 2014, present status, and combat equipment, while also exploring issues around identity and symbology.

One area of focus of the title explores the unusual and little-known ‘home grown’ military technological developments made by the Donetsk People’s Republic, including multiple launch rocket systems, armored vehicles, sniper rifles, small arms and remote weapons stations.

This book also presents a wealth of unique visual material including unit patches, photographs, diagrams and maps, and will be of interest to anyone studying the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Handbrake!

Dirty Little Wars 1956-1980

Dassault Super Etendard Fighter-Bombers in the Falklands/ Malvinas War, 1982

Antonio Luis Sapienza

Mariano Sciaroni Alejandro

Latin America@War • $29.95 • Paperback 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 130 photos, 12 artworks, 4 maps • February 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507074-6

In 1959, some members of the Liberal Party and the “Febreristas” in exile in Argentina formed a guerrilla group called “14 de Mayo” (M-14) and planned a series of attacks against government installations. Some of them were veterans of the Chaco War with military training but the rest were not trained at all. They got some weapons through donations of exiled supporters and ammunition, explosives and radio equipment from the Argentinean Army.

The M-14 did not have the support of the authorities and many of them were exterminated.

120 were captured and sent to prison and 42 escaped to Brazil in 1961.

Amendolara

Latin America@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 80-90 photos, 8-10 maps, c 6 tables, 8-10 profiles/artwork March 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507072-2

“Handbrake!”- the codeword that was shouted aboard Royal Navy ships upon the detection of an emission from the Thomson-CSF/EMD Agave radar of the Argentine Super Étendard, which carried the dreaded AM-39 Exocet missiles.

This is the story of a military unit that revolutionized modern naval warfare, addressing both the military equipment involved and the people who were there. Known as the Lora (after the squadron badge showing a female parrot armed with a club), the squadron terrorized British sailors in the South Atlantic and is still in service with the Naval Aviation of the Argentine Navy.

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Helion and Company z We Were Never There Volume 2 - CIA U-2 Asia and Worldwide Operations 1957-1974 Kevin Wright Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 40 color photos, c 50 b/w photos, 1 map, 6 tables • January 2022 • HIS027110 978-1-91-507069-2

Devised by Kelly Johnson and operated by the CIA from 1956-74, the U-2 is the world’s most famous ‘spyplane.’ It flew at unprecedented altitudes and carried the most sophisticated sensors available, all in the greatest secrecy.

The second volume of We Were Never There concentrates on the period of operational missions mainly across Asia from 1957-74. The book utilizes a large number of declassified documents to explore some of the remaining secrets of these missions.

It ends with the phasing out of Agency U-2 operations, the closure of projects TACKLE and JACKSON and an evaluation of the U-2’s contribution to aerial intelligence collection.

The Hunt for the Storozhevoy The 1975 Soviet Navy Mutiny in the Baltic Michael Fredholm von Essen Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 20 photos, 3 maps • March 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-91-507070-8

In 1975, Lieutenant Commander Valeriy Sablin led his crew in a mutiny on the Soviet warship Storozhevoy. Sablin’s avowed intention was to foment a new communist revolution by taking the warship to Leningrad, where he expected to receive the support of the navy and the masses. However, the Soviet leadership thought that Sablin intended to defect to Sweden, bringing with him a warship of modern design with all its armaments, electronics, communication devices, and code books. As a result, Soviet supreme leader Leonid Brezhnev ordered the destruction of the warship. After several dramatic, but ultimately failed, attacks on the Storozhevoy, Colonel General Sergey Gulyayev, commander of the Naval Aviation of the Baltic Fleet, personally ordered a missile launch against the Storozhevoy, employing the special protocol for the launch of nuclear missiles. The purpose of the launch was to destroy the warship.

However, by then the crew had already detained Sablin and announced their intention to surrender.

Defending Rodinu

Ejército del Aire

Volume 1 - Build-Up and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1945-1960

The Spanish Air Force from 1939 to the Present Day

Krzysztof Dabrowski Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507071-5

When the Second World War ended the Soviets had numerous conventional anti-aircraft guns and piston engine fighters in service but with the rapid advances of aviation technology much of this was facing obsolescence.

Worse, the war-ravaged country was facing new challenges as the end of the war did not bring a time of universal peace but instead a new rivalry with the West in a Cold War, which could at any time turn hot both figuratively and literally. Western competitors for world domination, primarily the United States, could boast a huge bomber fleet capable of delivering devastating nuclear strikes. Developing and fielding technologically and qualitatively new ground-based defenses and fighter aircraft became a most urgent imperative and in a relatively short time remarkable progress was achieved in these fields. Guided surface to air missiles were developed and fielded, and jet powered fighters entered service, their performance ever improving from high-subsonic to supersonic speeds and even higher. Similar advances were made in the fields of air-to air armaments and detection and early warning technology.

Pere Redón-Trabal Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 26 color photos, 34 b/w photos, 4 maps, 60 tables, c 30 colored badge illustrations • June 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-507067-8

This book includes, for the first time and in great detail, the current types of aircraft in service in the Ejército del Aire (EA), the Spanish air force, with a brief history of their incorporation into the various Wings, Squadrons and Groups. Several tables, updated in 2021, contain the name given by the manufacturer and the EA to each aircraft type, as well as registration numbers, unit indicative, serial numbers of the aircraft of North American origin, the constructor number, the date of entry into service and, if applicable, the date of technical withdrawal or accident.

In this way the reader will be able to identify each aircraft, the unit to which it belongs and the base from which it operates.

This book summarizes the history of the EA from its creation in 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War, to the present day. It is divided into five periods: 1939-1952; 1953-1969; 1970-1999; 2000-2020; and the future from 2021.

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Helion z • z and Company Red Star Versus Rising Sun

The Darkest Hour Volume 1 The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean

Volume 1 The Conquest of Manchuria 1931-1938

Michal A. Piegzik

Adrien Fontanellaz

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 80 b/w photos, colored profiles, maps, 7 tables • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507061-6

Asia@War, Vol. 22 • $29.95 Paperback • 80 pages • 6x9 100 b/w photos/illustrations, 21 color profiles/figures, 1 color map Currently Available • HIS027130 978-1-91-437780-8

Volume 1 of the Red Star Versus Rising Sun mini-series examines the origins of the rapidly modernizing Imperial Japanese Army and its expansion, largely unfettered by civilian political constraints, into mainland Asia from the late 19th century up until 1938. It examines the culture, structure and equipment of the IJA and its campaigns in warlord-era China, along with an overview of the purge-ravaged Red Army of the same period. This volume culminates in a detailed description of the major clash of the Soviet and Japanese armies at Lake Khasan in 1938.

Volume 1 includes a range of specially commissioned color illustrations of the men, AFVs, artillery pieces, and aircraft that fought at Lake Khasan in 1938.

Carrier Killer The Threat and Theatre of China’s AntiShip Ballistic Missiles Blake Herzinger

Gerry Doyle

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback • 72 pages 8.25x11.75 • 42 photos, 16 graphics, maps & ills March 2022 • HIS027080 • 978-1-91-507064-7

The idea of an anti-ship ballistic missile has taken root in China’s military planning. The country is not only building more of its first version of such a weapon, the DF-21D, but has developed an anti-ship warhead for another such missile, the more-numerous DF-26, billed as having a 2,500-mile range — more than enough to hit Guam from several hundred miles inland in China. In theory, that puts any naval adversary at risk long before it is in Chinese waters, let alone within striking distance of China’s coastline.

That makes the development, deployment and threat posed by the DF-21D and China’s other ASBMs crucial to study.

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The Darkest Hour presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March–April 1942, the main goal of which was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the eastern flank of the Pacific War on the eve of the Battle of Midway.

It describes the strategic planning of both sides in February–March 1942, including the Japanese navy projections on the last steps of the first stage of the Pacific War, and the Royal Navy’s hopes to halt the enemy advance without taking any significant risks.

The Darkest Hour is the first systematic attempt to describe the less-well known part of the Pacific War by researching both British and Japanese archive documents and other secondary sources published in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, and India.

90 Years of the Indian Air Force Present Capabilities and Future Prospects Sanjay Badri-Maharaj Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback • 80 pages 8.25x11.75 • March 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-507058-6

90 Years of the Indian Air Force examines the Indian Air Force as it exists today and its moves towards modernization. Each element of the IAF, along with the current inventory of aircraft as they relate to its combat squadrons, its transport fleet, its helicopter forces and its training and electronic warfare and surveillance assets are discussed. In addition, the IAF’s air defence network and its large SAM inventory are detailed along with the fledgling Defence Space Agency which operates with Air Force assistance. India’s existing space assets are discussed as they relate to airspace surveillance and management.

Operation Allied Force Volume 2 Air War over Serbia, 1999 Bojan Dimitrejevic Lieutenant-General Jovica Dragani?

Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 8.25x11.75 • 140 color photos, 10 diagrams & tables, 8 or 16pp color profiles & artworks February 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-507065-4

In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization launched Operation Allied Force against Serbia, claiming that Serb forces in Kosovo were engaged in ethnic cleansing. Serbia, in turn, claimed to be fighting against an insurgency.

The second volume of Operation Allied Force provides in depth analyses of the operation. The authors have analyzed the experiences of both sides, starting from the command chain of the aviation of both air forces and the operations of the Yugoslav/Serb air defenses.

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Arden Helion and Company Nine Lives of the Flying Tiger Volume 1 - America’s Secret Air Wars in Asia, 1945-1950 Albert Grandolini Marc Koelich Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 150 photos, maps & profiles • June 2022 HIS027110 • 978-1-91-507059-3

The famed American Volunteer Group (AVG) created in August 1941, under the command of Claire Lee Chennault set an example of heroism for the American public opinion at the onset of the Second World War. This band of volunteer aviators serving under the Chinese Government tried to stem the tide of the Japanese onslaught throughout Southeast Asia. Highly publicized in the US as the Flying Tigers, the AVG set up the origin and legacy of further United States clandestine air wars in Asia, and elsewhere in the world in the coming decades.

From that point on, the name of Claire Lee Chennault was associated with paramilitary and secret air operations on behalf of the United States Government in Asia. However, if his involvement in China in late 1930s is well documented, his involvement in various clandestine air operations after the Second World War is far less well known.

The Erawan War Volume 2 - The CIA Paramilitary Campaign in Laos, 1969-1974 Ken Conboy Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 75 b/w photos, 35 color photos, 4 maps January 2022 • HIS027110 978-1-91-507060-9 Ken Conboy lives in Cincinnati, OH

During a closed-door meeting of Washington policy makers on 31 March 1971, a senior CIA officer informed National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger that the agency was controlling up to 8 divisions of indigenous troops in Laos. “When the CIA reaches the point of having the largest army in Southeast Asia,” retorted Kissinger, “we better review the program!”

The Erawan War Volume 2 details how the CIA operation in Laos reached that point, becoming its largest paramilitary operation of the Cold War. With photos and maps, it covers the wide range of CIA-supported units in Laos, from guerrilla regiments that went toe-to-toe with the North Vietnamese army in pitched campaigns, to top-secret commandos that crossed borders to wage clandestine sabotage attacks.

Hunting the Viet Cong

The Armed Forces of North Korea

Volume 1 - The Counterinsurgency Campaign in South Vietnam, 1961-1963

Volume 1 - Ground Forces Stijn Mitzer Joost Oliemans

Darren Poole Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 120 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027070 • 978-1-91-507063-0

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 112 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 16 artworks, 1 map, c 7 b/w images, c 160 color images • April 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507062-3

The early 1960s are considered to be a period of failure in the fight against the Viet Cong. However, new research reveals that the VC came very close to being defeated. They were - in their own words - being ‘cut up’.

Hunting the Viet Cong: Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, 1961-1963 presents a new perspective on the early stages of the Vietnam War. It shows how the counterinsurgency policy of the American-backed Diem government was effective in separating the Viet Cong from many of their supporters, forced many VC into hiding and created a platform for further government success.

The book examines both the Counterinsurgency Plan and the Strategy Hamlet program (based upon British success in the Malayan Emergency) and explains how these began to strangle insurgent activity. In many parts of South Vietnam, the VC were reduced to scavenging and intimidating the local people in order to survive. Tragically, this was a period when victory against the VC was possible but political ineptness, arrogance and military delusion threw this chance away.

To many, North Korea has become synonymous with the threat of nuclear war, having seen a succession of escalating strategic weapons tests. The international focus on this topic has resulted in an imbalance of information, where its equally significant and numerically vast conventional forces are typically ignored. More than just posing a threat in its immense proportions however, the KPA remains a force to be reckoned with due to a continuing drive for modernization. Any assessment of its abilities that omits such developments is invariably inaccurate, and with literature sparse and available sources often disseminating misinformation more than anything else, there is no definitive framework for placing new information about the KPA’s ground forces in its proper context.

This book aims to provide precisely such a framework by setting out its history in detail and mapping pretty much all there is to know about the DPRK’s current military endeavors. This comprehensive information is accompanied by well over 150 unique images, most of which have never been seen by the general public.

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HelionArden and Company The June 1967 ArabIsraeli War

Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955

Volume 1 The Southern Front

Volume 6 The Arab Air Forces in Crisis April 1941 -

E.R. Hooton Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 80 illustrations March 2022 • HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507077-7

In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times.

The success was almost a decade in the making following the Suez Crisis of 1956 with the Israeli forces being radically changed under the direction of the Magi. These changes created an army and air force upon which the country would rely when it became obvious the international community would take no action to implement guarantees made after the Suez Crisis.

December 1942

David Nicolle Air Vice Marshal Gabr Ali Gabr Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • March 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507076-0

Volume 6 of Air Power and the Arab World, 19091955 continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World. These years saw the Arab countries and their military forces already caught up in the events of the Second World War. For those Arab nations which had some degree of independence, the resulting political, cultural and economic strains had a profound impact upon their military forces.

Iran Iraq Naval War Volume 2 From Khark to Sirri, 1982-1986 Tom Cooper E.R. Hooton Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • June 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-91-507080-7

Well away from major land battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War, and curious eyes of the public, the navies of the two involved parties fought a major naval war. Ironically, the mass of their efforts remain entirely unknown until this very day.

The Iran-Iraq Naval War describes and illustrates the key combatants and the most intense operations of both sides. Destroyers, frigates, corvettes, and fast missile crafts are all covered in thoroughly researched text, photographs and custom-drawn color profiles, as are aircraft and helicopters supporting them. This book is thus taking the taking the reader in the middle of the action at sea and in the skies above it.

Syrian Conflagration The Syrian Civil War 2011-2013 Tom Cooper

Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 150 color & b/w photos, color profiles, maps • February 2022 HIS026000 • 978-1-91-507081-4

The Syrian Civil War has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years. It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, known as the Arab Spring.

Contrary to events in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, where oppressive governments were toppled by the end of that year, the government of Syria deployed its military, its intelligence apparatus, and para-military groups, launching an unprecedented crackdown that resulted in the arrest, detention and killing of many thousands.

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Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East

Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East

Volume 2 - Egypt, 1948-1990

Volume 3 - North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran, 1948-1990

Martin Smisek Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • February 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507078-4

During the Cold War, communist Czechoslovakia was one of the largest arms exporters to the Middle East among the Soviet Bloc countries. The second volume of this mini-series describes the history of arms exports from Czechoslovakia to Egypt including related military assistance.

Martin Smisek Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507079-1

During the Cold War, communist Czechoslovakia was one of the largest arms exporters to the Middle East among the Soviet Bloc countries.

The third volume of this mini-series describes the history of arms exports from Czechoslovakia to North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran including related military assistance.

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Helion andzCompany •z Koevoet Volume 1 - South-West African Police Counterinsurgency Operations during the South African Border War, 1978-1984 Steve Crump Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 50 color & b/w photos, 3 maps March 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507056-2

Koevoet tells of the origination and deployment of the South West African Police’s elite counter-insurgency capability during the South African Border War, 1978 – 1989. Drawing reference from a number of previously unpublished sources and from interviews with a number of key personalities, including former members of Koevoet, this volume, the first of two, documents the formation of Koevoet and its early operations up to 1984.

The book examines the background and context to the South West African conflict and details the early experiences of the South African Police in seeking to counter SWAPO/PLAN activities.

Color profiles detail some of the Mine-Protected Vehicles (MPV’s) used by Koevoet including the iconic Casspir and Wolf. Uniforms and insignia of Koevoet are presented in specially commissioned full color plates.

War of Intervention in Angola Volume 5 - Angolan and Cuban Air Forces, 1987-1992 Adrien Fontanellaz Tom Cooper Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507055-5

Through late 1987, the battlefields of southern Angola moved ever further away from the border to South-West Africa (Namibia), until the show-down between the Soviet-supported government in Luanda and South African-supported insurgency of UNITA culminated in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.

Initially reluctant to become involved, the Cubans reinforced their contingent in Angola, and then decided to force Pretoria into negotiations about mutual withdrawal. Ironically, while Cuba and South Africa eventually agreed to withdraw their troops from the Angolan War, and then did so, in 1988-1989, the government in Lunda – still supported by the Soviet Union – then reinforced its effort to crush the UNITA. The result were additional large-scale operations, the mass of which evaded attention outside Angola, because dramatic developments in Europe not only distracted attention, but also ended the decades-long stand-off between the East and the West.

Belgian Military Forces in the Congo

Somalia

Volume 1 - The Force Publique, 1885-1960

Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 8pp color photos, c 100 b/w photos, maps • January 2022 HIS027110 • 978-1-91-507057-9

Stephen Rookes Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 80 b/w photos, 30 color photos, 4 maps, 12-15 color profiles • April 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507054-8

Though the dynamics of the Congo Crisis have received, and continue to receive, a good deal of literary and scholarly attention, missing from the canon of work on military forces in the Congo is a study of the Force Publique, a paramilitary police force established

by King Léopold II to secure the Congo Free State and to protect a vast geographical swathe of Central Africa that had become his own personal possession following the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.

In many ways, the absence of any study on the origins of the Force Publique to its dissolution in 1960 means that our knowledge surrounding the history of the Belgian Congo and the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo is incomplete.

For aviation enthusiasts, this volume is significant in that its objective is to provide a history of the development of air travel to and from the Belgian Congo in addition to examining the evolution of military air forces in the colony.

US Intervention 1992-1994 Peter Baxter

The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the superpowers. With collapse of the Soviet Union, all this changed. The question of global/strategic security devolved into regional peacekeeping and peace enforcement, characterized primarily by the Balkans War, but also many other minor regional squabbles across the developing world that erupted as old regimes fell and nations sought to build unity out of the ashes. In Africa the situation was exacerbated by an inherent tribalism and factionalism that had tended to be artificially suppressed by powerful, often military, dictatorships, generally unconcerned with the needs and requirements of an oppressed population.No more striking example of this can be found than Somalia.

This book tells the story of the international intervention that took place in Somalia, the successes, failures and lessons learned. Many broad assumptions were made based on an unclear understanding of the dynamics of a regional conflict, coupled with the necessity for the first time in modern military history to balance political necessities with military.

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Helion and z Company The Italian Wars

The Art of Shooting Great Ordnance

Volume 4 - The Battle of Ceresole, 14 April 1544

A History of the Development, Manufacture and Use of Artillery, 1494-1628

Massimo Predonzani Vincenzo Alberici

Jonathan Davies

From Retinue to Regiment • $39.95 Paperback • 192 pages • 7x9.75 40 b/w ills, 8 color plates • June 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507029-6

After almost twenty years from the legendary Battle of Pavia, the two most powerful European States faced each other again in battle. On one side, French and Swiss. On the other side, Imperials and the dreaded Landsknechts. The memory of the carnage of the Black Bands and Swiss soldiers is still vivid in the Swiss veterans’ minds.

On Easter day 1544, the two armies engaged in battle but the outcome remained unclear.The day after, however, the men led by Bourbon seemed to prevail. The Imperial cavalry was defeated by the French – who demonstrated again their bravery.

The initial success of the Spanish infantry was soon jeopardized by the gruesome clash between the Imperial square formations and the Swiss. The Enfants perdus detached from the Swiss square and massacred the enemy with their halberds with a flank attack. A wrong maneuver of the Imperial cavalry broke their companions’ formation and signed the Imperial defeat.

The Shogun’s Soldiers

From Retinue to Regiment • $49.95 Paperback • 280 pages • 7x9.75 100 b/w ills, diagrams, drawings; c 12 color photos, over 30 tables May 2022 • HIS027080 978-1-91-507028-9

Through the extensive use of contemporary sources, the author has written what may be called a modern version of the The Compleat Gunner. This is a summary of all the best advice on how to inspect, load, aim a cannon and even how to hit the target. This book deals with every aspect of the gunners’ art including the loading, instruments and ammunition as well as the manufacture of gunpowder and saltpeter.

This book contains the first authoritative summaries of the recent manufacture and trials of guns from this period. These were by the Royal armories/ Mary Rose Trust, the Vasa Museum and the Danish Middle Ages Center. These trials have provided invaluable hard evidence of the reliability, accuracy and hitting power of a range of contemporary weapons. This material is well supplemented with contemporary evidence concerning the use and effect of guns on land and sea.

Soldiers and Buccaneers of the Sun King 1643-1715

The Daily Life of Samurai and Soldiers in Edo Period Japan, 1603-1721

West Indies and Latin America

Michael Fredholm von Essen

René Chartrand

Century of the Soldier • $60 Paperback • 552 pages • 7x9.75 c 290 b/w ills, 8 color plates, 3 maps, 16 tables • February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507033-3

Century of the Soldier • $50 Paperback • 320 pages • 7x9.75 200 b/w ills. 42 color ills • May 2022 HIS027000 • 978-1-91-507035-7

Tokugawa Ieyasu’s decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shogun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated the Edo period (1600-1868), so named because Ieyasu after the battle established his capital in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). By then, Japan was an advanced, outward-looking country.

Having defeated their enemies early in the century, the shogunate warriors settled down in castle towns. Many Tokugawa retainers settled permanently in Edo. There they soon lost the military edge they once had enjoyed. After 1615, the shogun’s soldiers were no longer needed for war. Technically, there was no demobilization. However, with no more wars to fight, the shogun’s soldiers in all but name became townsmen.

The focus of the present book is a military and social history of how the formerly so powerful Tokugawa clan army rapidly lost its combat preparedness, and how this persuaded the Tokugawa shogunate to initiate a policy of enforced seclusion.

Louis XIV, France’s Sun King, had global Overseas Grand Visions for his nation. In America, his transformation of struggling small Caribbean settlements into an extensive and very prosperous French domain amidst many challenges and battles are mostly unknown.

Thanks to research mostly in France’s overseas archives, we offer this study.

In its first nine chapters, covering the 16th to the early 18th century, the West Indies and much of coastal Latin America were in near-perpetual hostilities largely caused by the fantastic riches found in America. Spain claimed the continent with its gold and silver, often eliminating foreigners by the sword.

The remaining chapters and appendices outlay the organization of regular troops, notably the hitherto largely unknown establishments of Compagnies franches de la Marine (independent companies of the navy) of the Islands as permanent garrisons in the West Indies and Guyana, their services, lifestyles, weapons, uniforms and colors.

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Helion and Company z Cromwell’s Buffoon The Life and Career of the Regicide, Thomas Pride

Waging Civil War in Shropshire 1642-1648

Robert Hodkinson Century of the Soldier • $47.50 • Paperback 224 pages • 6x9 • 15 b/w ills • January 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-91-507093-7

Cromwell’s Buffoon is a detailed and engaging account of the life of soldier and regicide, Colonel Thomas Pride, a Somerset farmer’s son who fought his way through the Civil Wars to become one of the English Commonwealth’s most forceful personalities. Robert Hodkinson’s lively and authoritative study charts Thomas Pride’s rise from businessman and brewer, through his association with London Puritanism, the experiences of the seventeenth century battlefield, obtaining military command through army mutiny, to finally brushing aside accusations of hypocrisy self-gain to claim ownership of a former Royal estate and a seat in Cromwell’s House of Lords.

The Colonial Ironsides English Expeditions under the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1650–1660

Colonel Francis Thornhaugh (1617-1648) and the Nottinghamshire Horse

Jonathan Worton Century of the Soldier • $37.50 • Paperback 208 pages • 6.75x9.75 • c 60 maps, tables, and b/w & color plates • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507094-4

This book reveals for the first time the extent of military activity in Shropshire, describing the sieges, skirmishes and larger engagements, while reflecting on the nature of warfare elsewhere across Civil War England and Wales.

In also providing a social context to the military history of the period, it explains how Royalist and Parliamentarian activists set local government on a wartime footing, and how the populace generally became involved in the administrative and material tasks of war effort.

Stuart B. Jennings Century of the Soldier • $35 • Paperback 120 pages • 7x9.75 • 23 ills, maps tbc May 2022 • BIO008000 • 978-1-91-507034-0

By the time of his death at the age of 31 at the Battle of Preston in 1648, Francis Thornhagh had achieved considerable military and political success. Appointed colonel and commander of the Nottinghamshire at the age of 26, with Henry Ireton as his major, he saw considerable military action, including fight against Prince Rupert and Charles Gerard. This book explores both his military activities alongside other leading parliamentarians and his support of the army as an Independent MP over the years 1646-48.

The Army of Occupation in Ireland 1603-42

The Second Battle of Preston, 1715 The Last Battle on English Soil

Defending the Protestant Hegemony

Jonathon Riley

Malcolm Wanklyn

Century of the Soldier • $45 • Paperback 284 pages • 7x9.75 • 125 ills, 26 maps, 16 tables January 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507037-1

Century of the Soldier • $42.50 • Paperback 232 pages • 7x9.75 • 2-4 maps, ills TBC June 2022 • HIS027000 • 978-1-91-507036-4

The Colonial Ironsides is a comprehensive survey of the role played by Oliver Cromwell’s expeditionary forces in subduing royalist outposts abroad after the conclusion of the Civil Wars in the Three Kingdoms: the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the Scillies, the West Indies and North America. Beyond that, the book details the launch of the Western Design against Spain in the Caribbean and during its course, the failure of the expedition against San Domingo and the conquest of Jamaica.

A Very Gallant Gentleman

To Settle the Crown

Established in 1603 and initially composed almost entirely of English officers and soldiers for the first thirty years of its existence, the army’s strength waxed and waned in accordance with the English government’s assessment of the security situation in Ireland. However, during the governorship of Thomas Wentworth it was seen as a possible instrument for enforcing royal rule in all three of the Stuart kingdoms. In 1640, some 8,000 strong, it was geared up for a campaign against Charles I’s rebellious Scottish subjects, but it never left Ireland as by the time it was ready to do so the Scots had defeated the king.

Jonathan David Oates Century of the Soldier • $55 • Paperback 272 pages • 7x9.75 • 12 b/w pictures, 8 color pictures, tables, 8 maps/plans, 3 pie charts, 155 tables • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507031-9

The second battle of Preston was the first battle of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 and was the last to be fought on English soil. This book provides a new account of the events leading up to the campaign, focussing on events in England but not neglecting those in Scotland and on the Continent. It then moves onto explore the movements of both armies, British and Jacobite, and not neglecting civilian forces, as they marched through Northumberland, the Scottish Lowlands and then in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire.

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Helion z • z and Company Charles X’s Wars

The English Garrison of Tangier

Volume 2 - The Danish Wars, 1657-1660 Michael Fredholm von Essen

Charles II’s Colonial Venture in the Mediterranean, 1661-1684

Century of the Soldier • $55 Paperback • 240 pages • 7x9.75 100 b/w ills, color artwork TBC June 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507030-2

Andrew Abram

The book describes and analyses the two devastating wars fought between Sweden and Denmark-Norway during the reign of Swedish King Charles X Gustavus, an experienced former general from the Thirty Years’ War. The Dano-Swedish War of 1657-1658 was initiated by King Frederick III of Denmark and Norway, who saw an opportunity to recover the territories lost in 1645 and attacked Sweden while the Swedish King was fighting two simultaneous wars in the east. Fighting also took place on the border between Sweden and Norway.

Put to the Sword

Wars 1774-1819

An Account of the Actions and Services of the British Army in India During the Anglo-Maratha

David C.J. Howell From Reason to Revolution • $55 • Paperback 424 pages • 6.75x9.75 • 37 b/w & color ills May 2022 • HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507045-6

In 1774 the British East India Company engineered a war against one of India’s most challenging peoples, the Marathas, in order to strengthen the security of its existing dominions and to expand territory and influence.

It was a mistake which caused the surrender, retreat and humiliation of a British army and left the Marathas in an improved position militarily.

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Century of the Soldier • $65 Paperback • 376 pages • 7x9.75 40 b/w ills, 6 color ills, 8pp color plates, 6 maps • March 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507032-6

Based on primary archival research and published sources, this book represents a focused, and modern assessment of the raising, equipping and composition of the standing army of Charles II, and the role played by the garrison of Tangier between 1661 and 1684.

When Charles landed in Dover in 1660 he inherited two regular armies, both owing him allegiance – the New Model (by then regular or standing army) in England under Monck; and the force of exiled royalists in Flanders and the garrison of Dunkirk.

No Want of Courage

The Soldiers are Dressed in Red

The British Army in Flanders, 1793-1795 R.N.W. Thomas From Reason to Revolution • $55 • Paperback 320 pages • 6.75x9.75 • 10-20 color & b/w ills, 2 maps, 48 tables • February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507040-1

The historiography of eighteenth and early nineteenth century campaigns is dominated by operational narratives and biographies of senior officers. How armies were staffed, fed and medically provisioned was critical to their successful performance in the field, yet much less is known of these key issues.

By using predominantly unpublished sources, including the General Orders issued by the Duke of York’s headquarters, it has been possible to provide considerable detail on the structures necessary for the daily functioning of an army on campaign.

The Quiberon Expedition of 1795 and the CounterRevolution in Brittany Alistair Nichols From Reason to Revolution • $45 • Paperback 256 pages • 7x9.75 • 8pp color section, c 12 b/w ills, 6 maps • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507043-2

In 1795, French émigrés came ashore to expand their fight against the French republican regime.

Landing from British ships, they were part of an expedition that was paid for, supplied and supported by Britain.

Little has been written about the expedition in English, this book seeks to provide a comprehensive account of the expedition. Drawing on memoirs, archival material and historical works it seeks to place the expedition within the context of wider events.

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Helion z • z and Company Far Distant Ships

By Fire and Bayonet

The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815

Grey’s West Indies Campaign of 1794

Quintin Barry

Steve Brown

From Reason to Revolution • $45 Paperback • 352 pages • 6x9 21 ills & 7 maps/charts February 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507091-3

From Reason to Revolution $42.50 • Paperback • 248 pages 6x9 • 12 b/w ills & 8 maps January 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507090-6

There have been few books about Grey’s glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey’s expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington’s Peninsula army; another two commanded the Iron Duke’s Royal Artillery; and one (Richard Fletcher) - famously - the Royal Engineers.

Sir Charles Grey was one of the most aggressive British generals of the era - something his gentlemanly appearance and demeanor did not immediately indicate. Ever cheerful and optimistic - and humane and loyal to his friends - his ability to deliver needle-sharp assaults and then harry a defeated enemy makes him one of the more interesting personalities of the early portion of the ‘Great War with France.’

From Ushant to Gibraltar The Channel Fleet 1778-1783 Quintin Barry From Reason to Revolution • $45 • Paperback 336 pages • 6x9 • c 25 b/w images; c 4 maps • February 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-91-507039-5

In 1778, when the expected war finally broke with France, Lord Sandwich, the long serving First Lord of the Admiralty, had to find the resources to match the French fleet not only in the Channel but in other theaters of war such as the West Indies, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.

In addition, the Royal Navy had to protect Britain’s extensive maritime commerce, covering the large inbound and outbound convoys on which the country’s economy depended.

This book is a study of the men who led and the men who managed, both afloat and ashore, the Channel Fleet.

Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. The American naval historian A.T. Mahan memorably summed up the contribution of the Royal Navy to the ultimate defeat of Napoleon when he wrote: “Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the domination of the world.”

Drawing on the official and personal correspondence of those involved, this book traces the development of British naval strategy, as well as describing the crucial encounters between the rival fleets and the single ship actions which provided the press with a constant flow of news stories for its readers.

Worthy of Praise

To Conquer and to Keep

The Dutch Army in the War of Liberation and the Hundred Days 1813-1815 Marc Geerdink-Schaftenaar From Reason to Revolution • $42.50 Paperback • 204 pages • 7x9.75 • 8 color plates, c 60 b/w ills • May 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507046-3

Although it contains lots of detailed information about uniforms, arms and equipment, is packed with maps, orders of battle, and regimental genealogies, contains full color artwork, and shows much previously-unpublished material from contemporary sources and private collections, Worthy of Praise is first and foremost a book about the men who served in that army.

In this book, that story is told through the exploits of the men that answered the call and joined the army during the War of Liberation.

Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814 Yuhan Kim From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 360 pages • 6.75x9.75 8pp color plates, c 30 b/w ills, 30 maps June 2022 • HIS027200 • 978-1-91-507047-0

Napoleon once famously remarked “If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it.”

To Conquer and to Keep is the first English-language book to focus on the operations of Louis-Gabriel Suchet and his army in Eastern Spain in its detailed entirety. Despite being universally accepted as among the best of Napoleon’s marshals, the pivotal role Suchet played in the Peninsular War has largely been overlooked thus far.

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Helion and z Company The Ottoman Army of the Napoleonic Wars, 1798-1815 A struggle for survival from Egypt to the Balkans Bruno Mugnai From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 320 pages • 7x9.75 16 color plates, 100 b/w images, pictures, diagrams & maps • June 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507048-7

The book examines changes and development of the Ottoman army from the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt until the Serbian uprisings in 1804-13 and 1815, also including a detailed description of dress and equipment of the Ottoman soldiers of this period.

Armies and Enemies of Napoleon, 1789-1815 Proceedings of the 2021 Helion and Company ’From Reason to Revolution’ Conference Robert Griffith Andrew Bamford From Reason to Revolution • $39.95 Paperback • 168 pages • 6x9 • 20 illustrations March 2022 • HIS027200 • 978-1-91-507041-8

Containing chapters from some of the leading specialists in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, this volume covers a diverse range of topics that examine in detail aspects of the armies that fought for and against France from 1792-1815.

Containing chapters from some of the leading specialists in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, this volume covers a diverse range of topics.

Fit to Command

Confronting Napoleon Levin von Bennigsen’s Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807.

Volume I - Pultusk to Eylau Alexander Mikaberidze Paul Strietelmeier From Reason to Revolution • $42.50 Paperback • 224 pages • 6.75x9.75 36 b/w ills, 5 maps • April 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507044-9

Translated for the first time into English, this memoir offers unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland during the winter of 1806-1807.

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British Regimental Leadership in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars Steve Brown From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 344 pages • 6.75x9.75 c 30 b/w ills • March 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507042-5

This book seeks to bring the battalion commanders of the British army in the period 1793 to 1815 into sharp focus and enable to see their progression - how the field officers of Wellington’s victorious Peninsula army of 1814 were dramatically better equipped for their roles than their earlier counterparts in Flanders in 1793.

There have been other books covering the general workings of the British Army of the era, never one purely concentrated on Field Officers, and their contribution to unit leadership.

Waterloo After the Glory Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle Michael Crumplin Gareth Glover From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 312 pages • 6.75x9.75 177 original b/w line drawings, 19 b/w ills, 23 b/w photos • March 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507092-0

After the Battle of Waterloo5, around 62,000 Allied and French wounded flooded into Brussels, Antwerp, and other towns.

New data concerning the fate of the thousands of Allied and some French casualties has emerged from the library of the University of Edinburgh.

This has revealed a collection of over 170 wound sketches, detailed case reports, and the surgical results from five Brussels Hospitals.

The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare Essays in Honour of Christopher Duffy Alexander S. Burns From Reason to Revolution • $65 • Hardback 280 pages • 6.75x9.75 • 10-20 b/w maps & tables • June 2022 • HIS027060 978-1-91-507038-8

Over the last 60 years, British historian Professor Christopher Duffy has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of warfare in the late Old Regime.

The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare is a festschrift honoring Professor Duffy’s legacy in writing on this pivotal period of military history.

The book collects sixteen essays by scholars from seven countries on three continents, which together tell the story of the dynamic nature of warfare in the Old Regime.

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Helion and Company z The Rise of the Sikh Soldier

The Republic Fights Back: The FrancoGerman War 18701871

The Sikh Warrior through the ages, c17001900 Gurinder Singh Mann From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $37.50 Paperback • 264 pages • 6x9 • 2 8pp color sections, 10 maps, b/w images TBC February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507052-4

The might and prowess of the Sikhs has been noted in the annals of history but what actually constitutes this development has seldom been discussed or understood in a meaningful context.

The book considers the rise of military methods from the time of the Gurus and what the tenth preceptor Guru Gobind Singh was trying to achieve with the formation of the Khalsa or fraternity of the pure.

Forgotten Victorian Generals

1837-1901

Studies in the Exercise of Command and Control in the British Army

Christopher Brice From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $49.95 Hardback • 284 pages • 6x9 • 8 b/w illustrations, 6 b/w maps • Currently Available BIO008000 • 978-1-914377-28-0

Many of the British Army’s actions during the Victorian Era are forgotten, misunderstood and misrepresented. This new work provides some examples of the many interesting and talented officers who exercised command during the Victorian Era. It is hoped that such a work will be of interest to both the casual reader and the student of military history. Much of the military history of this age has been unfairly ignored, and there are many powerful and important lessons to be learned from the careers of the men included in this book.

Vol 2 - Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Republican Phase of the War. Ralph Weaver From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $35 Paperback • 156 pages • 7x9.75 20 color plates, b/w ills • March 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507050-0

Many books have been written on the campaigns and battles of the Franco-German War of 1870-71; this is the first to center on the armies themselves.

Victorian Crusaders

Onwards to Omdurman The AngloEgyptian Campaign to Reconquer the Sudan, 1896-1898 Keith Surridge From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $45 Paperback • 200 pages • 7x9.75 c15 b/w ills, 10 maps • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507051-7

On 2 September 1898, the Anglo-Egyptian army under General Kitchener crushed the Mahdist Sudanese army of the Khalifa Abdallahi at the battle of Omdurman. Depictions of the battle, in books and films, have too often depicted it as the hapless slaughter of the Mahdists by a modern, well-equipped professional army. This book seeks to show, however, that the battle was not a foregone conclusion and that the result might have been closer if the Mahdists had conformed to their battle-plan.

British and Irish Volunteers in the Papal Army 1860-70

The Battle for the Swiepwald, 3rd July 1866

Nicholas Schofield

English Translation

From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $42.50 Paperback • 256 pages • 7x9.75 45 b/w ills, mostly photos, paintings or engravings/prints, 3 maps (TBC) • May 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507053-1

This book focuses on the turbulent period between 1860 and 1870, which saw a Piedmontese invasion of the Papal States, an attempted capture of Rome by Garibaldi and finally the newly formed Italian Army’s attack of 1870, which left Rome as the kingdom’s capital. It was also a time of reform and modernization in the pontifical army, with the introduction of new weapons and technologies.

Based on contemporary accounts and archives, Victorian Crusaders studies the Catholic volunteer movement between 1860 and 1870 from a British and Irish perspective.

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Colonel (Oberst) Heidrich Ernst Gerard Henry From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $59.95 Paperback • 440 pages • 6.75x9.75 6 b/w photos, 3 maps • June 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507049-4

The battle of Königgrätz was the largest battle ever fought in western Europe until the advent of WWI and its political consequences were no less epic. The demise of Austria as a European Great Power, the loss of her historic pre-eminence among the German nations, and the final, incontestable rise of Prussia.

This meticulous translation of Heidrich’s brilliant monograph, takes us through the fighting, hour by hour and foot by bloody foot, in a narrative unsurpassed for detail or accuracy.

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Helion and z Company Ham & Jam

At all Costs

6th Airborne Division in Normandy - Generating Combat Effectiveness: November 1942 – September 1944

The British Army on the Western Front 1916

Andrew Wheale Wolverhampton Military Studies • $42.50 Hardback • 224 pages • 6.75x9.75 10 photos, 14 maps, 10 tables/charts April 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507085-2

The highly effective leadership of Major-General Richard Gale overcame the haphazard nature of airborne operations 1939-1945, and enabled the unproven British 6th Airborne Division to achieve its objectives during the Normandy Campaign.

Despite its scattered parachute landings 6th Airborne achieved its D-Day goals, and held the line for three months, a task for which it was not equipped. This study examines the factors that made this possible and analyses Gale’s impact on the Division’s organizational development, preparation and training.

Everything Worked like Clockwork The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942 Roger Salmon Wolverhampton Military Studies • $45 Paperback • 240 pages • 6x9 53 b/w ills, 10 tables • January 2022 HIS027080 • 978-1-91-507096-8

The mechanization of British and Household Cavalry regiments took place between the two World Wars and on into 1942. This book describes the process by which many horsed cavalrymen were re-trained to operate and fight in armored Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) and the experiences of some of the men and regiments involved.

Extensive use has been made of regimental and War Office archives, and particularly from the Imperial War Museum’s sound archives - the oral testimonies of soldiers who had experienced this huge change.

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Spencer Jones Professor Peter Simkins

Stemming the Tide Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force 1914 Spencer Jones

Wolverhampton Military Studies • $55 Paperback • 533 pages • 6x9 • 16pp color map section, 3 b/w maps, 68 b/w photos, 26 b/w ills, 9 tables, 2 figures • March 2022 • HIS027090 978-1-91-507095-1

Wolverhampton Military Studies • $50 Paperback • 384 pages • 6x9 20 b/w photos, 8pp maps • February 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-91-507097-5

1916 was a pivotal year for the British Army. It was a year of intense combat that was defined by the Battle of the Somme and the appalling casualties of the 1st July 1916. Yet it was also the year in which the British Army began to master industrial warfare and the tide of the war began to turn in favor of the Allies. This book brings together leading scholars of the First World War to examine the experience of the British Army in this controversial year. It includes essays which consider Britain’s grand strategy, intelligence gathering, the development of logistics and the performance of Dominion forces.

The British Expeditionary Force of 1914 was described by the official historian as “incomparably the best trained, best organized, and best equipped British Army that ever went forth to war.” The BEF proved its fighting qualities in the fierce battles of 1914 and its reputation has endured. However, the same cannot be said for many of its commanders, who have frequently been portrayed as old fashioned, incompetent, and out of touch with events on the battlefield.

This book is a revised and expanded second edition including amendments, a new introduction and additional images.

Those Bloody Kilts The Highland Soldier in the Great War Thomas Greenshields $47.50 • Paperback • 536 pages • 6.75x9.75 c 56 b/w photos, c 30 color ills,15pp tables April 2022 • HIS027090 • 978-1-91-511308-5

The book is the first to examine comprehensively the experience of the Highland soldier in the Great War, seeking the truth behind the myths.

It does not deal with the operational history, but with the life and character of the Highland soldier. It involves a far more comprehensive search of the original sources than previously attempted, being based on the original letters, diaries and accounts of serving soldiers and officers, principally from the Imperial War Museum, the Liddle Collection, the National Library of Scotland and the Regimental Museums, which together provide great richness of personal detail.

Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915 Rodney Ashwood $47.50 • Paperback • 336 pages • 6x9 38 b/w photos, 20 b/w maps & 6 b/w tables May 2022 • HIS027090 978-1-91-511301-6

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, between April 1915 and January 1916.

By December 1914, the war on the Western Front had ground to a halt in a stalemate of trench warfare, and Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, proposed a strategy to take Turkey, a German ally, out of the war. This could force Germany to fight on two fronts and could free up the Dardanelles waterway at Gallipoli. While the concept was sound, its execution was not.

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Helion and Company Bauhan Publishing • Banovallum South Africa’s Border War 1966-89 Willem Steenkamp Al J Venter

San Carlos to Stanley 40 Commando in the Falklands War Peter Jackson-Lee

$49.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 8.25x11.75 • 300+ color & b/w photos • February 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-511300-9

$29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6x9 • 37 b/w photos March 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507089-0

Of all the books about South Africa’s 21-year ‘Border War’ - fought on both sides of Angola’s frontier with present-day Namibia - South Africa’s Border War has always been rated as among the best. A significant, full-color volume, it originally sold 31,000 copies in South Africa alone and has been out of print for decades.

This version is the first re-issue of the original, written by Willem Steenkamp.

Almost all the photos were taken by Al J. Venter who covered that conflict intermittently for almost two decades. Both Steenkamp and Venter have gone on to produce other works on that bitter conflict, but neither they nor anybody else has been able to match this beautiful coffee-table volume.

San Carlos to Stanley dispels the belief that 40 Commando just looked after the beachhead during the Falkland’s. Commadore Clapp requested the men of 40 Commando remain at San Carlos as he knew he could trust them to defend his anchorage and use his assets with intelligence as without this there would be no advance. Elements of 40 Commando was initially tasked to fly from RAF St Mawgan to Ascension Island and then to the Falkland’s via an RFA as tension heightened with Argentina. A Company, 40 Commando eventually left the UK onboard HMS Hermes ahead of the main task force.

San Carlos to Stanley has many personal accounts from officers and men of 40 Commando.

Chasing the Great Retreat

The Long Range Desert Group

The German Cavalry Pursuit of the British Expeditionary Force Before the Battle of the Marne August 1914

History & Legacy

Colonel (Ret) Joseph Robinson Sabine Declercq

Karl-Gunnar Norén Lars Gyllenhaal $29.95 • Paperback • 160 pages 6x9 • 30 b&w ills, 31 color ills, 5 maps • February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-511306-1

The world’s most respected special forces unit, the Special Air Service (SAS), was inspired by another $65 • Paperback • 396 pages irregular unit, the Long Range Desert 6.75x9.75 • 27 b/w photos/ills, 15 b/w maps • February 2022 Group (LRDG) or simply Ghost Patrol.

HIS027090 • 978-1-91-507083-8 You may now accompany the authors in Ghost Patrol vehicles far, far behind Written as a sequel to the award Rommel’s lines. While doing so you will acquire insights into some extreme winning German Failure in Belgium which won the Tomlinson Book Award raids and reconnaissance missions. You will become familiar with tactics and for the best book on World War I in the English language for 2020, this inventions of the Ghost Patrol that are still relevant today. This book is also the book stands alone as the German army chases the well documented “Great story of an LRDG research expedition to modern Egypt undertaken in original Retreat.” We focus on the German side of the retreat of the British ExpeditionWWII Jeeps and described as a “2300-mile Sahara epic” by Classic & Sports Car ary Force (BEF). We show that the Great War should have ended on 23 August magazine. Original LRDG training notes and other tips for extreme travellers 1914 but, due to the ‘fog and friction of war’, as explained by General Carl Graf are included. von Clausewitz, it did not. So, Chasing the Great Retreat was born.

This is an incredible story of missed opportunities made more astonishing by the amount of propaganda extolled by some British authors.

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Helion z • z and Company Horses Worn to Mere Shadows

With My Face to My Bitter Foes

The Victorio Campaign 1880

Nana’s War 1880-1881 Robert N. Watt

Robert N. Watt

$59.95 • Paperback • 376 pages 6.75x9.75 • 50 b/w photos, 10 color maps, 27 tables, 5 figures January 2022 • HIS037060 978-1-91-511309-2

$59.95 • Paperback • 500 pages 6.75x9.75 • 109 b/w photos, 25 color maps, 2 b/w sketches, 29 tables, 8 figures • January 2022 HIS027110 • 978-1-91-511303-0

This study, following on from the author’s acclaimed book I Will Not Surrender a Hair of a Horse’s Tail, commences with Victorio’s return to New Mexico in January 1880.

The US army’s January to February campaign illustrates the operational decoy strategy employed by Victorio to protect his own logistic support while simultaneously undermining that of his opponents.

By the end of May 1880, Victorio’s warriors have rendered the Ninth Cavalry unfit for field service. This was achieved through the Apache strategy of directly and indirectly targeting the US army’s horses and mules. Yet the Apaches also suffer their first major defeat of the campaign at the end of May.

Barbarossa Derailed

Red Army Forces

Volume 3 - The Documentary Companion Tables Orders and Reports prepared by participating

David M. Glantz $59.95 • Paperback • 632 pages • 6x9 16 b/w maps • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507098-2 David M. Glantz lives in Carlisle, PA

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. This book includes the daily operational summaries of the participating Soviet fronts, armies, and some divisions and many if not most of the orders and reports issued by the struggling Soviet armies.

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The third volume takes up the story of the continued struggle for the return of their Ojo Caliente reservation after Victorio’s death at Tres Castillos.

Led by Nana, the surviving Chihenne Apaches regrouped and, despite their losses, decided to continue the fight. In January 1881, these Apaches launched several attacks in southern New Mexico but, for the moment, avoided direct confrontation with the US army, choosing to evade their pursuers. Having returned to northern Mexico, Nana returned to New Mexico in July and August to lead one of the legendary raids of the Apache wars between 1860 and 1886. While this event deserves legendary status, the numbers of US troops deployed against the Apaches has been exaggerated. Moreover, the numerical advantage of the actual numbers of US troops deployed was usually offset by the scope and knowledge of the terrain traversed by the Apaches.

Barbarossa Derailed Volume 4: Atlas David M. Glantz

$69.95 • Paperback 152 pages • 10.5x9.5 120 color maps • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507099-9 David M. Glantz lives in Carlisle, PA

Serving as both a companion to the previous three text volumes in this monumental study, and as a standalone battlefield atlas, this volume provides over one hundred specially-commissioned color maps that trace the course of the campaign, each accompanied by a detailed caption.

The IasiKishinev Operation The Red Army’s Summer Offensive into the Balkans Soviet General Staff Richard W. Harrison $49.95 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6.75x9.75 3 maps • February 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-511304-7

The Iasi—Kishinev Operation, 20-29 August 1944: The Red Army’s Summer Offensive into the Balkans details the Soviet preparation and conduct of the Red Army’s massive offensive into Romania in the summer of 1944. The seventh of the ten strategic operations conducted by the Soviet armed forces that year, the operation successfully carried out the task of destroying German forces in northern Romania and taking Germany’s Romanian satellite out of the war, and was the first step in Stalin’s consolidation of a Balkan empire.

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Helion andz Company •z The Planning & Preparation for the Battle of Kursk Volume 2 Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton $59.95 • Paperback • 568 pages 6.75x9.75 • 79 b/w photos, 39 tables, 7 color maps January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507082-1

Verified Victories Top JG 52 Aces over Hungary 1944-45 Daniel Horvath Gabor Horvath $49.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 8.25x11.75 • 49 color images, 107 B/W images, 147 tables, 13 charts, 5 color maps • February 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507087-6 Daniel Horvath lives in Canada

As new military archival materials began to surface internationally, it became necessary to update Volume 2 is devoted to the prepaand correct some of the legendary ration by Moscow of hostilities chapters of aviation history including near Kursk in the spring and early world records of the Luftwaffe’s famous and most successful fighter unit, summer of 1943 and consists of two parts.

Jagdgeschwader 52. In this book, the reader will find a fundamental analysis Part I analyzes the activities of the Stavka B of the Air Command, the General of the aerial victory claims of the top eight JG 52 fighter aces over Hungary Staff of the Red Army, the command of the Central and Voronezh fronts throughout 1944-1945. to restore troops after the battles in the winter of 1942-1943 and their The method of analysis within this book is very simple: if a plane was shot strengthening before the summer campaign. down by a pilot, then the opposing side had to lose a corresponding plane.

In the second part the author describes the Red Army’s planning in the area While it is true that Soviet aerial losses were inaccessible to most researchers of the Kursk salient in late June - early July 1943, and also considers the major for the past several decades, it is also true that this lack of information created problems that arose for them during this period. a plethora of legends of the aerial war over the Eastern Front.

The Battle of Kursk Controversial and Neglected Aspects Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton $49.95 • Paperback • 416 pages 6.75x9.75 • 154 photos & 8pp color maps • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-511305-4

In this book, noted historian of the Battle of Kursk Valeriy Zamulin, the author of multiple Russian-language books on the Battle of Kursk takes a fresh look at several controversial and neglected topics regarding the battle and its run-up.

He starts with a detailed look at the Soviet and Russian historiography on the battle, showing how initially promising research was swamped by Party dogma and censorship during the Brezhnev area. Zamulin then transitions to discussions of how the southern shoulder of the Kursk bulge was formed, preparations for the battle on both sides, and the size and composition of Model’s Ninth Army. He then examines such controversial topics as whether or not the II SS Panzer Corps was aware of the pending Soviet counterattack at Prokhorovka, and the effectiveness of the Soviet preemptive barrage that struck the German troops that were poised to attack.

Stalin’s Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 2 From Lublin to Berlin July 1944-May 1945 Igor Nebolsin Stuart Britton $59.95 • Paperback • 552 pages 6.75x9.75 • c 400 b/w photos, numerous tables, 16pp color maps • March 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-91-511307-8

The author Igor Nebolsin continues with his detailed chronology of the 2nd Guards Tank Army’s combat operations.

This volume includes the hard fighting outside of Warsaw in the summer of 1944; the 2nd Belorussian Front’s winter offensive in the Vistula – Oder operation and the ensuing combat in Pomerania; and the final assault on Berlin, when the 2nd Guards Tank Army enveloped the German capital from the north and entered the city from north and west, fighting its way to the Tiergarten Park in the heart of Berlin.

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Helion z • z and Company Snow, Ice and Sacrifice

British and American Aircraft in Russia prior to 1941

The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 Massimiliano Afiero Ralph Riccio

Vladimir Kotelnikov

$55 • Hardback • 264 pages 6.75x9.75 • 120-150 photos May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507086-9

$75 • Paperback • 536 pages 8.25x11.75 • c 750 b/w photos, c 10 scale drawings, c 50 color side views • June 2022 HIS027140 978-1-91-507088-3

From the end of the 1920s onwards almost all the aircraft operating in the USSR were indigenously produced machines.

Following President T. Roosevelt’s accession to power in the USA, the center of gravity for Soviet aviators shifted to the United States. In the mid-1930s a series of licensing agreements were concluded, and as a result three American types entered series production in the Soviet Union. Of these, the most widespread was the PS-84 (the Li-2), the Soviet variant of the DC-3.

The history of these types is documented in full, taking the story beyond the confines of 1941.

Faces from the Front

This book is the first comprehensive account in the English language that addresses the genesis, organization, and operations of Italian forces that fought alongside the Germans and other contingents allied with the Germans in Russia beginning with Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 until the defeat of the Italian forces there in early 1943.

In accordance with his anti-Bolshevik ideology, Mussolini felt obligated to join with Germany’s attack against the Soviet Union. Italy thus formed the CSIR (Corpo di Spedizione in Russia – Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia).

The Italians were unprepared for the brutal Russian weather as well as for the overwhelming Soviet superiority in men and equipment that they had to face. Nevertheless, the Italians fought well, especially the troops of the Italian alpine corps, but ultimately were defeated.

No Bad Soldiers

119 Infantry Harold Gillies, Brigade and The Queen’s Brigadier-GenHospital, eral Frank Percy Sidcup and Crozier in the the Origins of Great War Modern Plastic Michael Anthony Taylor Surgery Andrew Bamji $55 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.75x9.75 61 color ills, 232 b/w ills, 2 tables • March 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-91-511302-3

$55 • Paperback • 292 pages • 6.75x9.75 30 b/w photos, 6 maps, 23 tables • April 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-91-507084-5

On 20 November 1916 the newly promoted Brigadier-General Frank Percy Crozier took Faces from the Front examines the British response command of 119 Brigade, one of three infantry brigades that made up the 40th Division, once to the huge number of soldiers who incurred labeled “the forgotten Fortieth”. This book brings facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, the history and achievements of the brigade to but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not a wider audience and adds to the story of the necessarily lead to death due to developments in controversial Frank Crozier. anesthesia and improvements in the treatment Drawing on a unique collection of personal and family accounts of the post-war lives of patients treated at Sidcup, the author explores surgical and aesthetic outcomes and the emotional impact of facial reconstruction.

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A Thousand Battles An Intelligence Officer’s Battle Behind Enemy Lines in Wartime Burma Serena Merton $29.95 • Paperback • 122 pages • 6.1x9.2 35 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w maps Currently Available • BIO008000 978-1-91-437741-9

Born in Canada in 1905, Cecil Gerald Merton studied forestry at Cambridge before starting work as an Assistant Forestry Manager in 1930.

He spent the next decade living in the jungles of Burma with his wife and two small daughters.

War came to his corner of South East Asia in early 1942; he joined the 2 Burma Rifles and walked out of Burma in the Retreat to India.

Awarded the MC and bar for his bravery, he survived the war to be reunited with his wife and children.

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Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet

Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot

Aircraft in Detail

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck Duke Hawkins, Vol. DH-018 • $31 • Paperback 116 pages • 9.45x9.45 • 250+ illustrations Currently Available • HIS027140 978-2-931083-08-6 • Robert Pied lives in Belgium • Nicolas Deboeck lives in Belgium

A close-up of the Alpha Jet, a widely used trainer and close-support aircraft in use with many countries. This is the first time an extensive and complete close-up of the jet has been made.

Aircraft in Detail

Duke Hawkins, Vol. DH-017 • $31 • Paperback 116 pages • 9.45x9.45 • 250+ illustrations Currently Available • HIS027140 978-2-931083-07-9 • Robert Pied lives in Belgium • Nicolas Deboeck lives in Belgium

A close-up of the Su-25, the Russian A-10, a widely used close-air support jet usually flying at low altitudes and in use with many air forces.

Includes basic version as well as all updated versions.

Airbus A-400M Atlas

C-160 Transall

Aircraft in Detail

Aircraft in Detail

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Duke Hawkins, Vol. DH-019 • $35 • Paperback 140 pages • 9.45x9.45 • 350+ images November 2021 • HIS027140 978-2-931083-09-3 • Robert Pied lives in Belgium • Nicolas Deboeck lives in Belgium

Duke Hawkins, Vol. DH-022 • $31 • Paperback 116 pages • 9.45x9.45 • 250+ illustrations November 2021 • HIS027140 978-2-931083-12-3 • Robert Pied lives in Belgium • Nicolas Deboeck lives in Belgium

The first close-up look of the new European military transport in detail and action. Aircraft of all current operators are included.

The first close up look at a true workhorse in European Military aviation. The Transall, a two-engine transport aircraft is seen in every detail, inside and out as well in spectacular action with the Luftwaffe, Armée de l’Air and Turkish AF. Includes a chapter on maintenance and the cockpit, plus walk-around and action photography!

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Sukhoi Su-35S Flanker E Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck Duke Hawkins, Vol. DH-020 • $31 • Paperback 116 pages • 9.45x9.45 • 250+ images Currently Available • HIS027140 978-2-931083-10-9 • Robert Pied lives in Belgium • Nicolas Deboeck lives in Belgium

The first close-up look at the newest version of the Flanker, recently taken into service by the Russian Air Force. Including spectacular, never before seen details such as cockpit, thrust-vectoring engine exhausts and more.

Grumman EA-6B Prowler Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck Duke Hawkins, Vol. DH-021 • $35 • Paperback 140 pages • 9.45x9.45 • 320+ illustrations November 2021 • HIS027140 978-2-931083-11-6 • Robert Pied lives in Belgium • Nicolas Deboeck lives in Belgium

A close up look at the EA-6B Prowler, which was the electronic warfare aircraft for the US Navy and US Marines. This book contains walk-around and action photography.

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Kagero

Focke-Wulf Ta 154

Panavia Tornado

Marek Rys

GR. 1, GR. 4, IDS/GR. 1B, ECR, ADV

TopDrawings, Vol. 7114 • $24.95 • Paperback 24 pages • 8.3x11.7 • drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-41-0

Anirudh Rao TopDrawings, Vol. 7115 • $24.95 • Paperback 20 pages • 8.3x11.7 • drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-42-7

The French Aircraft Carrier Clemenceau Witold Koszela TopDrawings, Vol. 7116 • $24.95 • Paperback 28 pages • 8.3x11.7 • drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027150 978-83-66673-56-4

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

Nakajima B6N Tenzan

Junkers Ju 188/388

Anirudh Rao

Oleg Pomoshnikov

Marek Rys

TopDrawings, Vol. 7118 $24.95 • Paperback 20 pages • 8.3x11.7 • drawing sheets, color profiles Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-58-8

TopDrawings, Vol. 7119 • $24.95 • Paperback 20 pages • 8.3x11.7 • drawing sheets, color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-59-5

M3/M5/M9 Half-Track

Grumman TBF Avenger

PZL P.11 C

Armored Personnel Carrier

Albert Grzywa Richard Kovalcik

Grzegorz Szymanowski Robert Wasik

Kit Build, Vol. 41007 • $27.95 • Paperback 56 pages • 8.25x11.69 • 110 photos, 3 color profiles, poster • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-83-66673-49-6

Famous Airplanes, Vol. 5014 • $51.95 Paperback • 204 pages • 8.3x11.7 Color profiles, 504 color and archival photos, drawing sheets • November 2021 • HIS027140 978-83-66673-64-9

TopDrawings, Vol. 7117 • $24.95 • Paperback 24 pages • 8.3x11.7 • drawing sheets, color pofiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-57-1

Slawomir Zajaczkowski TopDrawings, Vol. 7120 • $24.95 • Paperback 20 pages • 8.3x11.7 • drawing sheets, color profiles • November 2021 • CRA020000 978-83-66673-63-2

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Kageroz Barbarossa Campaign in 1941

Soviet Heavy Fighters 1926–1949

Hungarian Perspective

Dariusz Paduch

Peter Mujzer

Connoisseur’s Books, Vol. 016 $46.95 • Paperback • 172 pages 8.3x11.7 • 210 archival photos, color profiles, drawings • November 2021 HIS027140 • 978-83-66673-66-3

Connoisseur’s Books, Vol. 015 $46.95 • Paperback • 160 pages 8.3x11.7 • 292 archival photos, color profiles • November 2021 HIS027100 • 978-83-66673-67-0

The Barbarossa campaign started on 22 June 1941, pitting the forces of the Soviet Union against those of the Third Reich and its allies.

Hungary was among the less willing allies who participated on the side of the Germans. The Hungarian involvement during the first phase of the war against the Soviet Union was minimal. On the other hand, the Hungarian committed their most modern, partially motorized units - the Mobile Corps and the elite mountain jagers and border guard troops of the VIII Corps and the selected units of the Royal Hungarian Air Force.

This lavishly illustrated book will show what war meant for ordinary soldiers and civilians from the Hungarian perspective in 1941.

Dornier The Yugoslav Saga 1926-2007 Djordje Nikolic Aleksandar M. Ognjevic Connoisseur’s Books, Vol. 014 $46.95 • Paperback 336 pages • 8.3x11.7 583 archival photos, drawing sheets, 26 color profiles Currently Available HIS027140 978-83-66673-61-8

From 1926, when Do D was first introduced in the Naval Air Force (PV - Pomorsko Vazduhoplovstvo), various Dornier airplanes and floatplanes served with distinction and outlasted numerous changes in politics, names of countries, borders, flags, kings, dictators, and presidents. Three of those, Do 17K, Do 22, and Do Wal, took part in the brief 1941 April war opposing the German Reich who itself fielded Do 17 bombers in its ruthless attacks against the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade.

After over 90 years of distinguished service, the retirement of Dornier Do 28D-2 brings the closure to the magnificent - and without precedent Dornier Saga in the western Balkans. Even 50 years after the passing of great Claude Dornier, his brand of airplanes is still leaving a lasting mark in the world as well as Yugoslav and Serbian aviation history.

Soviet Heavy Fighters 1926 – 1949 showcases some of the lesser known, often forgotten, aircraft types, as well as a group of young and prolific aircraft designers who never had a chance to flourish under difficult wartime conditions and limitations inherent to the Soviet aviation industry of the time.

Many of the aircraft designs discussed in the book never went into full-scale productions, others didn’t progress beyond the prototype stage and some were complete failures. Nonetheless, quite a few of them featured interesting and innovative design solutions. This comprehensive book will shed light on some of the lesser known episodes in the history of Soviet aviation and save them from falling into obscurity.

History of the 40/43M Zrínyi Assault Howitzer Peter Mujzer In Combat, Vol. 88008 • $26.95 Paperback • 64 pages • 8.3x11.7 8 Drawing sheets, 8 color profiles, 106 archival photos, A4 poster Currently Available • HIS027100 978-83-66673-37-3

The 40/43M Zrínyi assault howitzer was a truly stopgap weapon, bore the same resemblance of the Italian Semovente self-propelled guns. The design used the already outdated chassis of the Turán tank with the complicated running gear and the only available 105mm light field howitzer to built in the widened hull of the vehicle. The howitzer fired separated ammunition, which reduced the rate of fire. The 75mm version of the Zrínyi did not materialize due to the difficulties of the gun. The mass production started in 1944 but was stopped by the Allied air raids in July 1944. All in all, about 66-76 Assault howitzers were produced.

This book focuses on the design and production of the 40/43M Zrínyi assault howitzer as well as the organization of the Hungarian Assault Artillery Branch and the operational history of the assault artillery battalions equipped with Zrínyi assault howitzers containing original black-white photos, drawings, and color materials.

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Kagero

The German Battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger

SS Red Oak Victory Mariusz Motyka

The Japanese Cruiser Asama

Super Drawings in 3D, Vol. 16083 • $37.95 Paperback • 80 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 100 renders Currently Available • HIS027150 978-83-66673-52-6

Aleksander Suchaniewicz

The MAS.15 Italian Navy Torpedo-armed Motorboat

The Japanese Cruiser Oyodo

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-G

Alexandr Sukhanevich

Arkadiusz Wróbel

Oleg Pomoshnikov

Super Drawings in 3D, Vol. 16084 • $37.95 Paperback • 80 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 100 renders November 2021 • CRA020000 978-83-66673-65-6

Camouflage & Decals, Vol. 55005 • $27.95 Paperback • 40 pages • 8.3x11.7 • color profiles, free decal • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-39-7

Curtiss P-40

Warsaw Pact

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A

Zbigniew Kolacha

Marcin Górecki

Camouflage & Decals, Vol. 55004 • $27.95 Paperback • 40 pages • 8.3x11.7 • color profiles, free decal • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-38-0

Camouflage & Decals, Vol. 55007 • $27.95 Paperback • 40 pages • 8.3x11.7 • color profiles, free decal • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-43-4

Marsden Samuel & Gary Staff Super Drawings in 3D, Vol. 16079 • $37.95 Paperback • 88 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 140 profiles, B2 drawing sheets • Currently Available CRA020000 • 978-83-66673-05-2

Super Drawings in 3D, Vol. 16081 • $37.95 Paperback • 56 pages • 8.3x11.7 70 profiles, A4 drawing sheet Currently Available • HIS027150 978-83-66673-36-6

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Super Drawings in 3D, Vol. 16082 • $37.95 Paperback • 64 pages • 8.3x11.7 100 profiles, drawing sheet • Currently Available HIS027150 • 978-83-66673-44-1

Arkadiusz Wróbel Camouflage & Decals, Vol. 55006 • $27.95 Paperback • 40 pages • 8.3x11.7 • color profiles, free decal • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-40-3

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Kagero z•z I-16 Rata The fighter that saved the USSR Oleg Pototskiy

Mitsubishi A6M Reisen Zeke

Mitsubishi A5M Claude Dariusz Paduch

Volume 2 Dariusz Paduch Monographs Special Edition, Vol. 96014 • $49.95 Paperback • 180 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 300 archive photos, 24 color profiles, sheets with scale drawings • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-50-2

The purpose of this monograph is the author’s desire to introduce the reader to a remarkable fighter aircraft, that which had a great influence on both the pre-war development of Soviet aircraft, and the military developments that occurred in the first few months of the war between Germany and the USSR. And at the same time about its creator - Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, who had the unspoken title of “King of fighters” during his lifetime.

Monographs, Vol. 3073 • $28.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 134 archival photos, 22 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-33-5

Monographs, Vol. 3075 • $33.95 • Paperback 76 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 132 archival photos, 10 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-35-9

The result of years of experimentation by the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen is perhaps the best known Japanese World War II fighter type. The Zero, or “Zeke,” in official Allied reporting, saw action in practically all battles waged by the Imperial Japanese Navy, from the attack on Pearl Harbor all the way through the defense of the Home Islands against the B-29s. During the first months of the war in the Pacific the Zero emerged as a world-class fighter, unrivaled in the air by anything the enemy could muster. However, with no worthy successor in sight, by 1943 the Zero was all but obsolete.

The mid-1930s saw the ever increasing numbers of fast monoplane fighters entering service with many of the world’s air forces. This was not the case in naval aviation, where biplane designs still reigned supreme. Prevalence of biplanes among naval fighters of the time was due to very strict limitations on landing speeds imposed by small flight decks of contemporary aircraft carriers.

It was in the middle of that decade, in 1935, that the Mitsubishi A5M entered the stage – a low-wing, monoplane carrier-based fighter, which set new standards for aircraft of its class.

Volume 1

Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa

Dariusz Paduch

Volume 1

Tawoczkin Ta-5

Boeing (Mcdonnell Douglas) F/A-18 A/B/C/D Hornets

Dariusz Paduch

Monographs, Vol. 3076 • $33.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 8.3x11.7 120 archival photos, 10 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-46-5

This monograph describes the La-5 - Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter from World War II. The plane was developed in the S.A. design office. The Lavochkin was a development version and successor of the LaGG-3, a wooden low wing with an inline engine. It was one of the best fighter planes in Soviet aviation and the first to compete on an equal footing with the German Messerschmitt Bf 109.

Monographs, Vol. 3077 • $33.95 • Paperback 76 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 90 archival photos, 10 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-48-9

Nakajima K-43 Hayabusa, code-named Oscar by the Allies, was the Imperial Japanese Army’s equivalent of the Zero fighter in service with the Imperial Navy. In combat units the machine replaced the aging Ki-27. Manufactured in large numbers, the fighter remained in frontline service until the end of the war. By the time its final version entered production, the development of its successor – the Ki-84 – had already started.

Hayabusa was the pinnacle of the Japanese fighter design development until the lessons learned in the Pacific laid the ground for new approaches to the construction of tactical aircraft.

The First Generation Of A True Multirole Jet, Volume I Salvador Mafe Huertas Monographs, Vol. 3078 • $35.95 • Paperback 150 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 380 archival photos, 4 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-51-9

The F/A-18 Hornet is a single- and two-seat, twin engine, multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft that can operate from either aircraft carriers or land bases. The F/A-18 fills a variety of roles: air superiority, fighter escort, suppression of enemy air defenses, reconnaissance, forward air control, close and deep air support, and day and night strike missions. The F/A-18 Hornet replaced the F-4 Phantom II fighter and A-7 Corsair II light attack jet, and also replaced the A-6 Intruder as these aircraft were retired during the 1990s.

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Key Publishing z AMARG

US Department of Homeland Security Aviation

America’s Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve

Tom Kaminski

Jim Dunn Nicholas A Veronico $24.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 6.69x9.57 • January 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-913870-61-4

The United States military stores more than 4,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG). Known as the “Boneyard,” this facility is much more than a place where aerospace vehicles come to die.

AMARG’s storage rows are home to massive fleets of F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 fighters, aerial refueling tankers, C-130 and C-5 transports, helicopters of varying sizes, and bombers from the frontline B-1 to B-52s. Among the rows are special use aircraft including the AWACS, P-3 maritime patrol bombers, aeromedical evacuation aircraft, and reconnaissance planes. As well as bringing the reader up to date with recent activities at AMARG, this book presents new, never-before-seen images that provide a visual tour of the Boneyard.

$24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 120 color photos January 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-913870-60-7 Tom Kaminski lives in Michigan

The US Department of Homeland Security’s aviation assets comprise those of the US Coast Guard and the US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO).

Today the DHS is responsible for over 200 aircraft operated by the world’s largest Coast Guard, and around 240 are flown by the AMO, which is the world’s largest aviation and maritime law enforcement organization. Since the creation of the DHS much work has been done within both organizations to integrate, consolidate, and update their varied fleets of fixed wing, rotary wing and remotely piloted unmanned aircraft. This title is fully illustrated with over 120 color photographs and provides insight into the department’s creation and the history, aircraft, and operations of the Coast Guard and AMO.

Aircraft of Red Flag

North Korean Aviation

The Ultimate Air-to-Air Combat Exercise

An Eyewitenss Account Gerry Manning $22.95 • Paperback • 80 pages 6.69x9.57 • color photos May 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-80-282037-9

Scott Cuong Tran Nick Tran $29.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 9.69x6.61 • Over 140 color photos January 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-913870-11-9 Scott Cuong Tran lives in California

Red Flag is the world’s premier air-to-air combat exercise. Run by the US Air Force from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, its aim is to provide aircrew with a safe environment in which to take part in interview air combat sorties. It takes place over the vast Nevada Test and Training Range and is attended by participants from allied nations around the world, with 29 countries having taken part with the US since 1975. These visitors bring with them their own variety of aircraft, adding to the diverse array gracing the skies over Las Vegas.

Illustrated with over 140 full-color photographs, this stunning collection looks at the many aircraft involved in Red Flag, including firefighters such as the Eagle, Super Hornet, and Raptor; support aircraft such as the Stratotanker and Sentry; helicopters such as the Black Hawk and Apache; and a multitude of other aircraft from both sides of the Atlantic. Also included are ‘Red Force’ fighters, with their unique paint schemes, which aim to replicate the look and tactics of potential adversaries.

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North Korea is often referred to as the “Hermit Kingdom” and not without reason. However, although tourism to this secretive country is rare, it does happen, albeit with limited numbers.

In 2016, North Korea hosted its first ever airshow and invited a number of foreign visitors to watch. Unlike most airshows, this was not an international event, and all participants were from North Korea. There were a selection of aged Soviet-era airliners from the national flag carrier Air Koryo and fighters, helicopters, and light transport aircraft from the air force. None of the military aircraft are ever seen outside North Korea’s borders, and even the airline only operates limited international services, making the opportunity to see them in action, and photograph them, a once in a lifetime event.

This volume is the personal account of a rare visit to one of the most isolated counties in the world. Not only does the book give a fully illustrated look at North Korea’s aircraft, both military and civilian, but it then goes on to give a pictorial look at the country itself from a tourist’s point of view.

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Key Publishing z•z Mustang The Untold Story Matthew Willis $34.95 • Hardback • 304 pages 6.14x9.21 • black and white photos January 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-913295-88-2

The North American Mustang is one of the most well-studied aircraft.

However, much of what is commonly understood about it, particularly its early, Allison-powered variants, is not entirely correct. This book examines the history of the aircraft afresh, within the orbit of tactical doctrine, strategy and even politics, as well as the changing nature of World War II. The Allison Mustang proved to be no worse than the best aircraft of the war in the roles where it found its niche and, through this new study, it is hoped that the significance of this vital aircraft can finally be appreciated.

British Aircraft of World War One A Photographic Guide to Modern Survivors, Replicas, and Reproductions Lee Chapman $29.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 9.69x6.61 • Currently Available HIS027090 • 978-1-80282-000-3

World War One took place just after the birth of powered flight, when aerial technology was still in its infancy. At the outbreak of war, the military potential of this novelty invention was not fully recognized until commanders began to use the aeroplane to see what the enemy was planning on the other side of the hill. During the course of the war, the role of the aeroplane evolved from a stable, lumbering observation platform to a more agile fighter, capable of shooting down another aircraft.

This book features a plotted history of the British aircraft that were involved in World War One. The story is supported by high-quality images of surviving, reproduction, replica and restored aircraft.

Fort Worth Swinger

Republic F-105 Thunderchief

Bob Archer

Peacetime Operations

Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 3 • $24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 180 color photos February 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91387063-8

Theo van Geffen Gerald Arruda

F-111

At the time of its introduction into service, the F-111 was a revolutionary aircraft and was, without doubt, extremely popular.

Capable of delivering a wide variety of ordnance, with a high degree of survivability, it was arguably one of the best tactical aircraft of its time. Illustrated with 180 color photographs, this book covers the operational period of the F-111 Aardvark and EF-111 Raven including details of all versions produced, including color schemes and special markings, and the units that flew the aircraft operationally from the first in the 1960s through to eventual retirement by the test community in the 1990s.

Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 6 • $24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.61x9.57 Over 150 images • March 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-913870-66-9

The F-105 Thunderchief was primarily designed for tactical nuclear operations. For this reason, it was on nuclear “Victor” alert in Europe (Bitburg and Spangdahlem Air Bases in Germany) and the Far East (Kadena on Okinawa and Osan in the Republic of Korea). After President John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, shifted the USAF’s focus more and more to conventional warfare including, through modifications, the mission of the F-105. When the air war against North Vietnam was initiated in earnest on March 2, 1965, the USAF needed an aircraft with a load-carrying ability, and the only aircraft that could do that job was the Thunderchief. This book not only gives in-depth accounts of various historical F-105 events, with inputs from the pilots involved, but is also lavishly illustrated with over 150 images, many of which have never been published before.

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z Key Publishing Hawker Typhoon The RAF’s GroundBreaking Fighter-Bomber

Fairey Firefly

Avro Vulcan

Matt Willis

The Early Years 1947–64 David W Fildes

Tony Buttler Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 5 • $24.95 Paperback • 128 pages • 6.69x9.57 • Over 180 photos • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-1-913870-90-4

The Typhoon’s offensive ground-attack work is well known, but that tends to overshadow the type’s successes operating from 1942 as a true fighter based in the UK. Nevertheless, during the final year of World War Two, following the D-Day landings in June 1944, the Typhoon performed a crucial role in the European theater.

Many books that document the Typhoon cover it in conjunction with its successor, the Hawker Tempest. However, this work, fully illustrated with over 180 photographs, gives this heavyweight machine a well-deserved volume of its own.

British GroundAttack Aircraft of the 1970s and ‘80s

Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 1 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 160 photos • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-1-913295-89-9

The Fairey Firefly two-seater strike-fighter emerged from troubled beginnings to become one of the most widely used and effective aircraft of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. It first saw service in 1944 during the attacks on the battleship Tirpitz, then served in the Far East as the Fleet Air Arm tussled with the kamikaze threat.

It went on to form an important part of several embryonic naval air arms in the early years of the Cold War and performed a vital combat role in Korea. In this book, naval aviation historian Matthew Willis tells the story of this important aircraft using more than 160 photographs, many of them rare or unpublished

British Fighters of the 1970s and ‘80s

Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 7 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 • Over 150 illustrations • June 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-80-282028-7

The design of the Delta wing Vulcan was a major gamble by all concerned. However, it proved an incredibly valuable asset, especially during the Cold War. It performed some of the longest bombing and anti-radar missions by the RAF during the Falklands War. After serving over three decades with the RAF, the Vulcan was retired in1984, but it continued display flying with the Vulcan to the Sky Trust until 2015, delighting the public with its noise and maneuverability.

Fully illustrated with over 150 images, this book explores the history of the Vulcan, from concept to manufacture to service, providing insight from those who developed, designed, and flew it.

British Midland Airways Charles Woodley

Chris Goss

Chris Goss Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 8 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 180 illustrations • June 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-80-282041-6

Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 2 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 • Over 180 photographs • January 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-913870-39-3

The Société Européenne de Production de l’avion École de Combat et d’Appui Tactique (SEPECAT) Jaguar came into service with the RAF in 1974 and flew with eight operational squadrons before finally being retired in 2007. The unique Harrier entered service with the RAF in 1969. It flew operationally with four squadrons, as well as being deployed in Belize and the Falkland Islands.

With over 180 photographs, both black and white and color, this book, the third in a series on British combat aircraft of the 1970s and ’80s, is an essential addition to the libraries of those who flew or worked on these aircraft, aviation historians and enthusiasts, and modelers alike.

Two of the RAF’s most memorable aircraft are the English Electric Lightning and the McDonnell Phantom. The Lightning, which flew with nine RAF squadrons before being retired in 1988, is fondly remembered for is astonishing rate of climb, while the Phantom, which flew with three Royal Navy squadrons and 15 RAF squadrons, started out in the ground-attack and reconnaissance roles but became more predominant in the tactical fighter role before being retired in 1992.

Illustrated with more than 180 photographs, this book covers in great detail the Lightning and Phantom fighter aircraft and the part they played in the latter stages of the Cold War.

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Airlines Series, Vol. 3 • $24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 • Over 140 images June 2022 • TRA002040 • 978-1-80-282036-2

British Midland Airways existed under different identities for over 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying training school into a scheduled transatlantic airline operating wide-bodied Airbus aircraft. Later in its life, British Midland Airways felt confident enough to go “head to head” with British Airways on the UK domestic trunk routes. The acquisition of a major financial stake by Lufthansa in 2009 led to membership of the prestigious Star Alliance partnership, but even the German national airline could not find a way to stem accumulating losses, and, in 2011, the carrier was absorbed into British Airways. With over 140 images, this book charts the rise and fall of British Midland Airways.

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Key Publishing z Ethiopian Airlines

Garuda Indonesia

The African Aviation Powerhouse

Jozef Mols

Boeing 707 Boeing’s First Jetliner Ron Mak

Jozef Mols

Airlines Series, Vol. 2 • $24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 • Over 100 illustrations June 2022 • TRA002040 • 978-1-80-282002-7

Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 with a fleet of war-surplus Dakotas. At first, only domestic and regional destinations were served, forcing the airline to build makeshift airstrips.

However, in 1957, Douglas DC-6s and a Lockheed Constellation were obtained and flights to Europe commenced. Despite various political, economic, and social obstacles, Ethiopian Airlines continued to invest and grow, expanding to other African countries and further abroad. As passenger transport has declined it currently utilizes its cargo business to transport medical supplies.

Illustrated with over 100 images, this book shows how Ethiopian Airlines has remained the powerhouse of African aviation.

Airliners of the 1990s

Airlines Series, Vol. 1 • $24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 • Over 120 illustrations April 2022 • TRA002010 978-1-913870-58-4

Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol. 2 $24.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 180 photos • Currently Available TRA002040 • 978-1-913870-89-8

On January 26, 1949, Garuda Indonesia was officially established as Indonesia’s government-owned flag carrier. Initially, the airline focused on domestic and regional travel, in the mid-1980s, a massive reorganization led to Garuda offering international flights, which required the modernization of the entire fleet.

This fully illustrated volume looks at Garuda’s turbulent history from its involvement in Indonesia’s postwar struggle for independence to operations during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Initially flown mainly by Pan American, the Boeing 707 was soon operated by both domestic and international airlines around the world, and the popularity of the aircraft led to increased development of air-traffic-control systems, airport terminals, runways and airport infrastructure. The 707 remained in production until late 1978, by which time it was too small to handle the increased passenger densities on many routes, and it was retired to make way for more-modern jetliner types.

This book provides a fascinating portfolio of images depicting a wide range of Boeing 707 variants in service around the world.

Avro 748

Soviet-Era Airliners

Barry Lloyd

Gerry Manning

The Final Three Decades Christopher Buckley

Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol. 4 $29.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 300 illustrations • May 2022 TRA002040 • 978-1-80-282023-2

The 1990s brought with it many important developments for the aviation world. The dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia led to a rise of new countries and airlines. The aircraft faced changes as well. The early jetliners found themselves hauling cargo in many cases, and the new wide-bodies became the normal mode of passenger transport for long-haul travel, along with the creation of a whole new generation of types for short-haul. However, in parts of the world the old piston-powered props could be found plodding on, albeit in declining numbers.

With over 300 color photographs this book reflects the many ways in which the air transport industry changed during the decade.

Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol. 3 $24.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 6.61x9.57 Over 100 photos • June 2022 • TRA002040 978-1-913870-87-4

Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol. 1 $24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 220 photos • February 2022 • TRA002010 978-1-913870-62-1

The vision of Alliott Verdon Roe and his team in designing and building the 748 resulted in a highly successful commercial airliner, that since the 1960s has been responsible for opening new air routes in many corners of the world. Many of the airstrips into which the 748 formerly operated are now fully fledged international airports, but it was not always this way. In the early days, the 748 proved its worth worldwide by operating on dirt airstrips. Spanning almost 30 years, this book sets out to illustrate some of the many operators of the type, from the initial Series 1 to the final Series 2B. Fully illustrated with over 100 photographs, many of which have not previously been in the public domain.

This book follows the fortunes of the great Soviet airliners over the last three decades and looks at what happened to this immense fleet: the fragmentation of Aeroflot into a myriad of new operators in the 1990s, the bankruptcies and consolidation of so many airlines that followed, and then the slow, inevitable disappearance of these aircraft from our skies. Illustrated with 220 photographs, most of which have never been published before, and supported by many anecdotes, facts and figures, this book conveys the nostalgia and wonder of this special, tumultuous time in aviation history.

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Victory 1940 The Battle of Britain as Never Seen Before John Dibbs Tony Holmes $29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 11.61x8.27 archive images • May 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-913870-08-9

RAF Aircraft and the Battle of Britain Lee Chapman $29.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 9.69x6.61 Over 150 photos • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-1-913295-82-0

Allied Aircraft of D-Day A Photographic Guide to the Surviving Aircraft of the Normandy Invasion Lee Chapman $29.95 • Paperback • 144 pages • 9.69x6.61 Over 170 color images • February 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-913870-40-9

In 1940, the skies over Britain were full of dogfighting aircraft as young pilots of the RAF fought to repel the might of the German war machine. Described by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as “their finest hour,” the Battle of Britain is a defining moment in recent history and remains an inspiration to us all.

Victory 1940 presents a pictorial chronology of the legendary fight, when the Luftwaffe was defeated for the first time, by Churchill’s few.

The Battle of Britain is widely considered to be Britain’s finest hour. The ‘Few’ who so bravely fought to save the nation will not be forgotten, nor will they be around forever. In contrast, the number of restored and preserved aircraft in our museums and skies is at an all-time high.

This book features a brief history of all the front-line RAF fighter aircraft that were involved in the famous battle and explores some of the major training and support aeroplanes. The story is told using over 160 photographs of surviving and restored aircraft in the air and on the ground.

RAF Aircraft of the Cold War, 1970–90

Qantas and the Empire Flying Boat

British Aviation

Air-to-Air Images

David Crotty

Tony Paxton

$29.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 9.69x6.61 Over 160 illustrations • April 2022 • TRA002010 978-1-913870-37-9

David Willis Richard Molloy

$29.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 9.69x6.61 Over 100 photos • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-1-913295-84-4

This striking photographic collection looks at the large variety of RAF aircraft involved in the Cold War. As the war progressed, some types of aircraft would be replaced by other, more advanced machines. The Vulcan was eventually replaced by the Tornado GR1 in the UK, the Tornado F3 took over the UK air defense role from the Lightning and TWU Hawks were introduced as part of the Mixed Fighter Force. This book brings these classic aircraft to life with stunning photography, displaying them in all their glory, flying through the skies of a world divided by an iron curtain.

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Between 1938 and 1948, Qantas Short Empire flying boats navigated a dramatic and dangerous period for commercial aviation. They flew the Singapore–Sydney section of the prewar Imperial Airways UK–Australia air route, introducing a new level of luxury travel to the route. However, the outbreak of war cut short this brief glamorous time and brought the Qantas boats increasingly onto the front line. Containing over 160 stunning illustrations, this book details the history of the Empire flying boats as they went from luxurious carriers to military service.

The 1944 Allied invasion of France was a combined effort. The force comprised the RAF, its commonwealth allies and the USAAF, which resulted in an eclectic mix of gliders, heavy bombers, fighters, ground-attack aircraft and transport aeroplanes. Illustrated with over 170 color images of modern-day surviving and restored aircraft, this book features many of the aircraft types that were involved in the operations surrounding the Normandy invasion, including the aircraft the flew on D-Day itself.

The First Half-Century

$39.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 9.69x8.27 Over 170 colorized images • April 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-80-282134-5

The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to take to the air had given way to jet-powered aircraft flying near the “sound barrier,” a rate of technological British Aviation: The First Half-Century chronicles the wide variety of aircraft produced in Great Britain before 1950. With over 170 period images, carefully colorized, this book goes through the aircraft of the first half-century, portraying them in their full glory once more.

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Key Publishing z•z US Naval Air Power West Coast 2010–20

US Air Forces in Europe

Patrick Roegies

The 1980s

Air Forces Series, Vol. 2 • $29.95 Paperback • 128 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 150 images • May 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-91-387024-9

Kevin Wright

The United States Naval Aviation service celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011 and since then it has continued to be at the forefront of military aviation developments. The past ten years have been significant for continuous improvement, development, and efficiency.

In that time, the service has dealt with highlights and various challenges, such as a sequestration in 2013, the resulting reduction in combat readiness, and aircraft manufacturing delays. Focusing on the squadrons of the US Navy and Marine Corps, and illustrated with over 150 images, this book delves into the various carrier air wings, the aircraft, such as the F/A-18 and E2 variants, and the training that together make US Naval Aviation the force it is today.

It describes the developments of the West Coast bases over the past decade, the successes the United States Navy has achieved, and the methods used to further standardize and optimize the fleet.

Air Forces of Latin America Argentina Santiago Rivas Air Forces Series, Vol. 1 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 140 photos • Currently Available HIS027140 • 978-1-913870-92-8

Military aviation in Argentina has a long history and for many years it was the most powerful in Latin America, achieving worldwide fame in 1982 when it confronted British forces over the South Atlantic. Sadly, as a result of Argentina’s more recent economic woes and a lack of political commitment over more three decades, it is now struggling to maintain its capabilities and replace old aircraft. Ironically, this situation makes for a varied and interesting aviation scene, with Argentine military aviation flying many classic types that are not easy to see in operation today with a military force, as well as some less-common indigenous aircraft. Illustrated with more than 140 photographs, this book shines a spotlight on the Argentine Air Force, Naval Aviation and Army Aviation, as well as the paramilitary forces of the Coast Guard, Gendarmerie and Presidential Flight. Author Santiago Rivas gives a fascinating insight into their histories, comprehensive details of their current organization, their missions and the aircraft they operate, and full ‘orders of battle’ for each air arm.

Air Forces Series, Vol. 4 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 180 images • May 2022 HIS027110 • 978-1-80-282035-5

The US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) rapidly expanded its presence in the 1980s, as it became the most dangerous decade of the Cold War. Most controversially, a new generation of intermediate-range nuclear weapons was deployed by both sides. As tensions between the East and West escalated, a new generation of aircraft arrived at bases across Western Europe – state of the art F-15 Eagle air superiority fighters were followed by the A 10 tank busters and the multi-role F-16 Fighting Falcons. Illustrated with over 180 images, this book examines the aircraft and bases of the USAFE during the 1980s. it also describes the vital support provided by other arms of the USAF, including Military Airlift Command’s transport and tanker fleet. The part played by Strategic Air Command’s iconic SR-71s, U-2s, and giant B-52 bombers is outlined, as is the role of Tactical Air Command, which would have rapidly reinforced USAFE in time of war.

The Forgotten American Volunteer Group US Volunteers in the Colombia–Peru War, 1932 Dan Hagedorn $24.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 6.69x9.57 • photographs • January 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-913870-02-7

While volumes have been devoted to the legendary “Flying Tigers,” the ultimate American Volunteer Group, another virtually unknown band of flyers preceded them in 1932. When Colombia and Peru became embroiled in what is known as the “Leticia Affair,” a little-heralded arms race ensued.

The Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation saw an opening and soon had not only sold the Colombians on an impressive assortment of aircraft types but also an American cadre to bridge the gap until their own crews were ready. Illustrated with rare contemporary illustrations, this books tells the fascinating story of these oft-forgotten men and the aircraft they flew.

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Key BC Publishing Books Su-57 Felon

Air-to-Air Refuelling Aircraft

Piotr Butowski Modern Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 2 • $24.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 6.69x9.57 • Over 170 color photos March 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-913870-44-7

Chris Gibson

In December 2020, the first Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed Felon by NATO, entered service with the Aerospace Forces, making it Russia’s most recent combat aircraft. It is a multirole aircraft combining the functions of both a fighter and strike aircraft, with design features that include stealth, supersonic cruising speed and maneuverability, the latest sensors and weaponry, and network-centric warfare capability.

Fully illustrated with over 170 full-color photographs, this book describes the trials of the T-50 prototypes and the implementation of the Su-57 into series production, as well as looking at the design, characteristics and combat capabilities of this fifth-generation fighter.

Modern Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 3 $24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 April 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-913870-69-0

Modern strategists talk about “force multipliers,” and, for air operations, air-to-air refueling is without doubt the greatest force multiplier of all. In-flight refueling has allowed not only the longest bombing missions in history but also persistence in air defense, transport reach and flexibility in ground-attack tasks. Covering a range of refuelers — including the Boeing KC-97 and KC-135, Vickers Valiant, Handley Page Victor, Lockheed TriStar, Vickers VC10, McDonnell Douglas KC-10 and the Airbus MRTT Voyager — this book details the history of air-to-air refueling and celebrates the key role played by tanker aircraft in the application of air power around the world.

Britain’s Military Helicopters

Dassault Super Etendard

Chris Gibson

Frédéric Lert

Modern Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 4 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 photographs • May 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-80282-026-3

Modern Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 5 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 160 images • June 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-80-282033-1

From its beginnings as a curiosity with little operational use, Britain’s armed forces soon embraced the helicopter with the Whirlwind for the Royal Navy and RAF and the Skeeter for the Army Air Corps.

In Britain’s Military Helicopters, Chris Gibson describes the evolution of the helicopter in British service, from their beginnings with the Sikorsky R-4B test flown by Fleet Air Arm pilots in the USA to the latest Wildcat and Apache Guardian. Lavishly illustrated throughout, this book includes original photographs and images from archives, many of which are previously unpublished.

The Dassault Super Étendard, which became the Super Étendard Modernisé in due course, had a remarkable career. It was a humble aircraft that was often faced with thankless and difficult tasks.

There was no excessive power in this aircraft, but simply a remarkable versatility that made it the backbone of French carrier aviation for 40 years.

Solid, reliable, well-designed, and adaptable, the Super Étendard was an aircraft that France regularly upgraded, enabling it to maintain its rank with increasingly sophisticated equipment and armaments.

With over 160 images, this book looks at the history of the Super Étendard and the impact it had on aviation.

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Lynx The Final Year in French Service Henri-Pierre Grolleau

Modern Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 1 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 • Over 200 color images • April 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-913870-12-6

When introduced in 1978, the Westland Lynx constituted a massive improvement over the helicopters then in service with the French Navy for antisubmarine duties and quickly became a highly popular rotorcraft. From an asset specializing in antisubmarine warfare, it was soon turned into a multirole platform that proved incredibly versatile, performing an extremely wide range of roles. However, after more than 40 years in service, the Lynx was an aging design, and in August 2020, it was withdrawn from Aéronautique Navale service. Containing over 200 full-color images, this book charts the final year in French service of this much-loved machine.

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Key Publishing z•z Military Jeeps John Carroll Military Vehicles and Artillery Series, Vol. 3 • $24.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 6.69x9.57 • Over 220 photos May 2022 • HIS027240 978-1-80-282130-7

In 2021, as the Jeep celebrates its 80th anniversary, there is no doubt that itis one of the world’s most famous automobiles. The utility 4x4 machine was designed to help win a war – something that it did with aplomb – and a legend was born, spawning both evolved models that remain in production to this day and numerous imitators around the globe. The Jeep also led to the establishment of four-wheeling as a form of recreation, something else that has spread around the globe. The idea of preserving wartime Jeeps as classic vehicles with a tangible link to World War Two became established during the 1970s and, over 50 years, has become ever more popular and led to the formation of organizations such as the MVPA. This book looks at the history of military Jeeps made by Willys and Ford in the US, as well as the likes of Hotchkiss and NEKAF in Europe. Illustrated with over 220 photographs, this book provides an up-to-date view of Jeeps within the military vehicle preservation scene.

German Tanks of World War Two Craig Moore Military Vehicles and Artillery Series, Vol. 1 • $24.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 6.69x9.57 • color illustrations Currently Available • HIS027100 978-1-913295-74-5

In World War Two, allied armies were issued with identification guides to the enemy armor they might encounter on the battlefield. These black and white printed books were a vital aide for soldiers dealing with the confusion of fighting and the difficulty of identification at distance or in all weathers. The German tanks were often lethal to become entangled with and known to be formidable pieces of military engineering. The German army deployed a wide variety of tanks in many different variants and forms of camouflage.

The likes of the Tiger have become famous and continue to be fascinating examples of World War Two firepower. This book features a unique collection of color illustrations, showing in detail the vehicles’ development and differences in design. The artwork is accompanied by descriptions and technical information about each tank, written by respected expect Craig Moore, making this an essential handbook for anyone interested in the German armed forces and World War Two armor

Surviving D-Day Tanks in Normandy Craig Moore Military Vehicles and Artillery Series, Vol. 2 • $24.95 • Paperback 112 pages • 6.69x9.57 • February 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-913870-23-2

On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France began.

Thousands of Allied soldiers, along with their equipment and vehicles, landed in Normandy on five main beaches. Most tanks arrived on the beaches by landing craft, and a few days later, after the construction of the temporary Mulberry harbor at Arromanches-les-Bains, tanks, along with supply trucks and more troops, started pouring from the ships into the ever-expanding beachhead.

This guide book examines the surviving World War Two tanks, tank turrets and other armored fighting vehicles currently on display in Normandy, France, most of which took part in the fighting following the D-Day landings.

The background history of each vehicle is explored, and location details are given. Many of the tanks are exhibited in museums, but a number are on display as war memorials, with some being in difficult-to-find places. Also included are the fascinating, little-known stories of the Allied tank attacks on two separate German beach defense fortifications at Gold Beach, both of which survived the initial Air Force bombing and Navy bombardment. They have been preserved and can be visited.

Hungarian Arms and Armour of World War Two Peter Mujzer Modern War Series, Vol. 3 • $24.95 Paperback • 96 pages • 6.69x9.57 Over 170 illustrations, including 18 colorized photos and 18 painted profiles • March 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-913870-64-5

Between the world wars, Hungary was a relatively small country aiming to recover territory lost because of World War One, and its Army was trained, equipped, armed and prepared to fight with its neighbors, to this end. At the outset of World War Two, Hungarian involvement in the war was minimal.

Then, suddenly, this small country found itself in a total war with the Allied nations, primarily the Soviet Union. Although in 1941, this war was remote, in 1944–45 it arrived in Hungary, crushing the kingdom. This book gives a brief history of the Hungarian Army (Honvédség), focusing on the main armament of the land forces: armored vehicles, artillery pieces, infantry weapons and motor vehicles. The Hungarian Army had an interesting mix of weaponry and equipment inherited from the Austro-Hungarian Army, purchased from Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland and produced by the Hungarian war industry, based on licences or its own designs. The 170 illustrations include 18 original color photos and 18 color profiles, skillfully painted by Tamás Deák.

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AirForces of the World

AirForces of the World

Avro Lancaster

Pacific Asia

South America

Landmark Raids

Mark Ayton

Mark Ayton

Tom Allett

$18.99 • Paperback • 100 pages • 8.27x11.69 June 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-91-329548-6

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B-52

Battles for Empire

The Berlin Wall

Jerry Gunner

James Hoare

John Grehan

$18.99 • Paperback • 108 pages • 8.27x11.69 March 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-91-387071-3

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The Blitz 1940-1941

C-130 Hercules

John Grehan

Mark Ayton

Dakota - 85 years of the DC-3 and C-47

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Chris Clifford $18.99 • Paperback • 100 pages • 8.27x11.69 April 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-91-329556-1

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Drones

F-15 Eagle

The Gulf War

Mark Ayton

Mark Ayton

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Desert Storm 30 Years On Tim Ripley $18.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 8.27x11.69 January 2022 • HIS027110 • 978-1-91-387041-6

Hitler’s War

Pacific Hell

Pacific Victory

John Grehan

John Grehan

John Grehan

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RAF Air Campaigns

Revolution- The American War of Independence

Road to Waterloo

1991-2021 Tim Ripley $18.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 8.27x11.69 February 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-220535-6

James Hoare

James Hoare $18.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 8.27x11.69 April 2022 • HIS027200 • 978-1-91-329507-3

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SAS 80th Anniversary

Scale Modelling Step by Spitfire 85th Step, 3rd Edition Anniversary

Gavin Mortimer

Stu Fone

John Dibbs

$18.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 8.27x11.69 May 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-91-387077-5

$18.99 • Paperback • 100 pages • 8.27x11.69 April 2022 • CRA020000 • 978-1-91-387072-0

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Spy Planes

Super Carriers

Typhoon to Tempest

Mark Ayton

Tim Ripley

Mark Ayton

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Victory in Europe

Vietnam Air War

World War Two

John Grehan

Phil Chinnery

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Volume 1 1939-40 John Grehan $18.99 • Paperback • 116 pages • 8.27x11.69 January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-329580-6

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7TP

Przemyslaw Skulski

Przemyslaw Skulski

Single Vehicle, Vol. 1 • $11.95 • Paperback 28 pages • 8.2x11.8 • photos, color profiles, scale plans • November 2021 • HIS027080 978-8-36-654957-9

Single Vehicle, Vol. 2 • $11.90 • Paperback 28 pages • 8.2x11.8 • photos, color profiles, scale plans • November 2021 • HIS027240 978-8-36-654960-9

7TP TwinTurret Przemyslaw Skulski

Single Vehicle, Vol. 3 • $11.90 • Paperback 28 pages • 8.2x11.8 • photos, color profiles, scale plans • November 2021 • HIS027240 978-8-36-654961-6

Type 95 Ha-Go

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21MF

Przemyslaw Skulski Andrzej M. Olejniczak

Single Vehicle, Vol. 4 • $11.95 • Paperback 24 pages • 8.2x11.8 • photos, color profiles, scale drawings • January 2022 • HIS027240 978-8-36-654970-8

Adam Go??bek Andrzej M. Olejniczak

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 Dariusz Karnas Andrzej M. Olejniczak

Polish Wings, Vol. 32 • $28 • Paperback 96 pages • 8.2x11.8 • 200 photos, 30 color profiles • January 2022 • HIS027140 978-8-36-654969-2

Scale Plans, Vol. 72 • $11.95 • Paperback 24 pages • 8.2x11.8 • photos, color profiles, scale drawings • January 2022 • HIS027140 978-8-36654971-5

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MMP Books Banovallum Finnish Aces

Mitsubishi Babs

Their Planes and Units, 1939-1945

The world’s first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft

Kari Stenman Artur Juszczak

Giuseppe Picarella

White Series • $55 • Hardback 220 pages • 8.2x11.8 • photos, color profiles • February 2022 • HIS027140 978-8-36-654959-3

$62 • Hardback • 200 pages • 8.2x11.8 photos, color profiles, scale drawings April 2022 • HIS027140 978-8-36-654973-9

The small number of Finnish fighter pilots who defended Finland in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945 amassed scores only bettered by the Luftwaffe’s pilots. Initially equipped with a mixed collection of fighters acquired from sources across the world, the Finnish Air Force was thrust into combat in the defensive Winter War against an invasion by the Soviet Union in 1939, followed by the Continuation War, together with Germany and the other Axis powers against the Soviets, in 1941–1944. The third conflict, the Lapland War against Germany, occurred in 1944–1945.

Aircraft of the famous Finnish aces are described in detail with many photos and color profiles. This book includes the aircraft of Ilmari Juutilainen, Hans Wind, and Eino Luukkanen, among others. It is an essential reading for aviation enthusiasts and scale aeromodelers.

This book was written to tell the true story behind the development and operational deployment of the world’s first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft, which began 6,000 miles further east and four years prior to the momentous events in Europe, under the guidance of the Imperial Japanese Army and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co Ltd. Faced with similar preconceptions, technical arguments, and a very rigid operational doctrine, the Mitsubishi Babs was developed during a brief golden aeronautical period (between the mid 1930s and early 1940s), when the Japanese aircraft industry flourished under constant military aircraft competitions and production orders. Free from prying eyes and shrouded within a self-imposed veil of secrecy, the Japanese developed numerous designs that were equal to and in some cases ahead of contemporary Western manufacturers.

Saab 37 Viggen Mikael Forslund Andrzej M. Olejniczak

The Fighting Colours of Richard J. Caruana 50th Anniversary Collection.

2 - Malta George Cross Richard J. Caruana The Fighting Colours of Richard J. Caruana.

50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 2 • $36 Paperback • 66 pages • 11.8x8.2 • photos, 200+ color profiles • January 2022 • HIS027140 978-8-36-654974-6

Maltese aviation artist and historian Richard J. Caruana, who started his career just over 50 years ago, celebrates this special milestone with a work dedicated to his country’s struggle for survival during the Second World War. This short narrative gives an outline of the Malta Battle’s history which is then illustrated with close to 200 color profiles and other drawings.

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Yellow Series, Vol. 6147 • $39 •Paperback 200 pages • 8.2x11.8 • photos, color profiles, scale drawings • May 2022 • HIS027140 978-8-36-654972-2

The Saab 37 Viggen is a Swedish single-engine, short-medium range combat aircraft. Development work on the type was initiated at Saab in 1952 and, following the selection of a radical delta wing configuration, the resulting aircraft performed its first flight on 8 February 1967 and Viggen entered service in 21 June 1971.

This book is the most comprehensive on the Viggen yet published in English, with numerous photographs of the aircraft in service, several of which have never been published before, walkaround photographs of the preserved aircraft, illustrations from contemporary manuals, and color artwork.

German Aircraft Instrument Panels Dariusz Karnas Dariusz Karnas

Inside, Vol. 6 • $25 • Paperback • 40 pages 8.2x11.8 • photos, color drawings • March 2022 HIS027140 • 978-8-36-654968-5

This book from the series “Inside” shows detailed drawings of the German aircraft instrument panels in great detail.

Instrument panels of the following aircraft: Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4, Messerschmitt Me 262 A, Heinkel He 111 P-1, Henschel Hs 126 B, Dornier Do 17 Z, Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4, Fieseler Fi 156, Henschel HS 123, Focke Wulf Fw-190 A-3, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-12, and Junkers Ju 87 B-1.

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Monroe Publications • Model Centrum z • z Progres • PeKo Publishing Pearl Harbor and the Day of Infamy 80th Anniversary Edition Jay Wertz World War II Comix • $4.95 Paperback • 24 pages • 6.75x10.25 Currently Available • CGN007000 978-1-7326315-3-3

Starting with the background of Japan’s rise to military prominence and the Asian country’s aggressive behavior against its neighbors, this graphic history covers all the significant events leading up to that fateful aerial attack on December 7, 1941. Japan’s simultaneous surprise attacks in the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific are included, as is America’s reaction to the bombing of Hawaii. Also includes the introduction to a serialized adventure graphic novel set during the War in the Pacific entitled “Separated by War.”

Panama Canal Defenders Camouflage and Markings of US Sixth Air Force and Antilles Air Command 19411945 Volume 1 Single-engined Fighters Dan Hagedorn Warplane Color Gallery, Vol. 4 • $41.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.5x11 115 b&w photos, 25 full color plates of artwork • December 2021 HIS027140 • 978-8-36-067234-1

The culmination of more than 50-years of research, this first volume in a multi-volume set describes in detail, for the first time, the extraordinary array of classic aircraft that deployed to defend the vital Panama Canal and its approaches during World War II. Unlike their combat brethren in the European and Pacific theaters, the units, aircraft, and airmen of the Sixth Air Force – often cited as the “Forgotten Air Force” – have been all but ignored in the vast body of literature that has been published since the war.

German Support Vehicles on the Battlefield

Boeing B-47 Stratojet & B-52 Stratofortress

World War Two Photobook Series, Volume 22

$49.99 • Hardback • 150 pages 8.7x11.3 • January 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-911658-76-4

Tom Cockle

The famous B-52 Stratofortress has been in service with the USAF for more than 65 years and its iconic shape is known and recognized all over the world. Yet the B-52 and its predecessor, the B-47 Stratojet, started out looking very different indeed. Each aircraft was the end product of a lengthy design process which saw numerous configurations studied – with plenty of diversions taken and missteps made along the way.

In Boeing B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress: Origins and Evolution, aerospace engineer Scott Lowther reviews and explains the many different projects put forward for these two iconic aircraft, including a wide variety of rare and forgotten designs.

Providing full-page diagrams, a wealth of new artwork and accurate data, the book will be useful for model makers interested in new and unique projects, aerospace engineers curious about the process of design evolution and those interested in these fascinating aircraft.

World War Two Photobook Series • $41.95 • Hardback • 112 pages • 12x8.5 over 100 photographs • Currently Available • HIS027240 978-6-15-558355-1

This volume will present the reader with photographs of a variety of motorized transport vehicles including cars and trucks, armored cars, and half-tracks, both armored and unarmored, used by the German Wehrmacht during World War II, along with some captured enemy vehicles that were pressed into service.

This hardcover, landscape format book’s brief introduction is followed by more than one hundred mainly unpublished photographs, printed in the highest possible quality. Both the introduction and the captions are bilingual (English/Hungarian).

Origins and Evolution Scott Lowther

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Phoenix 13

The Americans and Germans at Bastogne

Americal Division Artillery Air Section Helicopters in Vietnam

First-Hand Accounts from the Commanders Who Fought

Darryl James

Gary Sterne

$26.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.1 45 color illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027070 978-1-52-679802-2 Darryl James lives in Texas, USA

$28.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6.1x9.1 April 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679742-1

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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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.

Into Helmand with the Walking Dead A Story of Combat in Afghanistan Miles Vining Kevin Schranz $26.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6.1x9.2 20 color illustrations • January 2022 HIS027190 • 978-1-39-900793-1

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 straight-forward manner. But war, in and of itself, is only playing a small part. The culture and environment from which they re-entered 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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Radioman Twenty-Five Years in the Marine Corps From Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom Andrew Hesterman Robert Einaudi $34.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations • April 2022 • HIS027110 978-1-39-909075-9 Andrew Hesterman lives in Seattle, WA

From a Gulf War grunt to a full-fledged Marine Major in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Andrew Hesterman saw it all. Radioman offers a highly personal and unfiltered view of the Marine Corps as it transitioned from the post-Vietnam analog Reagan era to the post-9/11 high-tech George W. Bush and Obama years.

Radioman begins with Andy as a recruit at boot camp and the ensuing training that leads to formally becoming a Marine. After comm school and the reserves, Andy is called to active duty in 1991 for the Gulf War, where he experiences combat up close in Kuwait. The next personally, professionally, and politically tumultuous decade brings marriage (and divorce), flight school and helicopter missions in Kosovo, the shock of 9/11, another marriage, and children. Andy’s journey culminates as an officer in Iraq, where he directs air support for the Marines in Fallujah.

Co-authored by Robert Einaudi, a close friend of Hesterman’s since high school, Radioman provides an honest and vivid military portrait of the Marine Corps and the modern US military seen through the experiences of one Marine.

Hawk Recon Vietnam An Airborne Combat Medic in Battle with the A Shau Valley Raiders William Parkman Osgood $28.95 • Hardback • 328 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 color & black and white illustrations May 2022 • HIS027070 • 978-1-52-678293-9 William Parkman Osgood lives in Hawaii

It took courage and a certain sense of wild adventure to be a combat medic during the Vietnam War, and William ‘Doc’ Osgood exemplified their daring attitude. Serving in the 101st Airborne Division, Osgood would see combat in the deadly A Shau Valley and all along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Hawk Recon Vietnam is a story of what arguably was the most dangerous job in the deadliest part of Vietnam as told by a US Special Forces Green Beret. This is the tale of paratrooper combat medics of the 101st Airborne Air Cavalry fighting in the largest NVA base camp in South Vietnam-the A Shau Valley. Their war was was fought mostly in the mountains and on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

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The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker Codebreaker Girls Jan Slimming $34.95 • Hardback • 328 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 black and white illustrations • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-678415-5 Jan Slimming lives in Atlanta, GA

The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker is the true account of Janice Martin, a college student recruited to the military in 1943, after she was secretly approached by a college professor at Goucher College, a liberal arts establishment for women in Baltimore, USA. Destined for a teaching career, Janice became a prestigious professor of classics at Georgia State University, but how did she spend three years of her secret life during the war working in Washington D.C.’s Top Secret Intelligence?

Why was she chosen? How was she chosen?

What did she do? Questions everyone asks are answered in this study of not just one but several Second World War codebreakers, male and female.

Backed by extensive research, unpublished photographs and recorded interviews, we discover the life of Janice Martin from Baltimore and her Top Secret Ultra role in helping to combat U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic; the work she and her colleagues undertook in a foundation provided by both British and American Intelligence. From ‘the early days’ to D-Day and beyond, the book includes other hidden figures who were part of this huge wheel of an incredible time in history.

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•z Pen & zSword The Waffen SS at Arnhem

Waffen-SS Armour on the Eastern Front 1941–1945

Ian Baxter Images of War • $26.95 Paperback • 144 pages 7.4x9.6 • 250 black and white illustrations • March 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901294-2

Ian Baxter

The 1944 Arnhem airborne operation, immortalized by the film A Bridge Too Far, will forever be remembered as a great British feat of arms. British and Polish paratroopers displayed outstanding courage and tenacity in a desperate last stand situation. And yet, as this book describes, the plan was fatally flawed as the 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions were recuperating and concealed nearby. What followed was a bloody battle of attrition the result of which was arguably inevitable.

Drawing on rare and unpublished photographs, this Images of War series work reveals the historical combat record of the `Hohenstaufen` and `Frundsberg` divisions. It describes the intensity of the fighting in and around Arnhem between these elite SS and supporting units against a lightly armed yet equally determined enemy. In spite of the war being only months away from its end and the defeat increasingly certain, the SS soldier remained fanatically motivated.

Images of War • $22.95 • Paperback 128 pages • 7.4x9.6 • 250 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-909003-2

Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, codename Operation Barbarossa, was arguably the pivotal moment of the Second World War. Initially the onslaught was staggeringly successful with, as the superb contemporary images in this book show, Waffen- SS armored divisions leading the charge. But the Nazis had underestimated the Russians’ determination to defend their homeland and the logistical problems compounded by the extreme winter weather conditions.

After early victories such as the recapture of Kharkov in early 1943 and the Kursk offensive, commanders and crews of armored vehicles such as Pz.Kpfw.I, II, III, IV, Panther, Tiger, King Tiger, assault and self-propelled guns had to adapt their tactics and equipment to what became a desperate defensive withdrawal eventually back across a scarred and devastated Eastern Front. Even during the last months of the war as the Panzers withdrew through Poland and into the Reich, these exhausted elite units, broken down into small battle groups or Kampfgruppen, fought to the bitter end.

The WaffenSS Ardennes Offensive

Waffen-SS in Normandy, 1944

Ian Baxter

Images of War • $22.95 Paperback • 128 pages • 7.4x9.6 250 black and white illustrations April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-909141-1

Ian Baxter

Images of War • $22.95 Paperback • 128 pages 7.4x9.6 250 black and white illustratuons May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901289-8

In late 1944 under extreme pressure on both the Eastern and Western fronts, Hitler realized he needed to force the Allies into negotiating a truce thereby saving Germany from total defeat. Using the Christmas period to enhance the vital element of surprise, he ordered a devastating attack through the rugged and mountainous Ardenne region with the key Allied port of Antwerp as the objective.

This book, with its extensive text and rare photographs with detailed captions, tells the story of the Waffen-SS offensive, known as `Wacht am Rhein` (Watch on the Rhine). These formidable SS armored units with supporting Wehrmacht divisions initially achieved dramatic success making full use of the harsh winter conditions and terrain. Gradually the Allies regained the upper hand on the attackers who were increasingly suffering from lack of reinforcements and resupplies. After defeat at the pivotal battle of Bastonge, remaining Waffen-SS units withdrew and were transferred back to the Eastern Front. As described in this classic Images of War book, the Fuhrer’s gamble so nearly paid off and the ruthless fighting spirit of the elite Waffen-SS divisions caused the Allied command serious concern.

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In June 1944, Operation OVERLORD, the greatest ever amphibious invasion, initially overwhelmed German Normandy defenses. To attempt to stabilize the situation, Hitler deployed his elite Waffen-SS divisions to avert the crisis.

This classic Images of War book describes how the formidable Leibstandarte, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend, Hohenstaufen, and the Frundsberg SS divisions with supporting Wehrmacht divisions fought fanatically despite facing overwhelming enemy airpower and determined well-led Allied armies.

Mounting losses and supply and fuel problems culminated in the Falaise Pocket defeat, when twenty-five out of the thirty-eight German division were completely destroyed. As a result, the remaining Waffen-SS units had to be reluctantly withdrawn and transferred back to Holland and, Belgium to recoup, or sent to the Eastern Front to attempt to stem the relentless Soviet advance.

With many rare and unpublished photographs with detailed captions, Waffen-SS in Normandy is a graphic account of the Waffen-SS operations in Normandy and their subsequent retreat through France.

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•z Pen & zSword SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941–1945 Ian Baxter Images of War • $22.95 Paperback • 128 pages 7.4x9.6 250 black and white illustrations December 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901298-0

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS. Unlike her Latvian neighbor, Lithuania had no plans to provide Germany with a National Legion. Although volunteers came forward, the majority did not. This was not the case for Latvia and Estonia, which undertook huge recruitment programs, and thousands of men were drafted into their own foreign legion of Waffen-SS Grenadier divisions. After intensive training, these divisions saw action on the Eastern front as the Red Army smashed its way through the Baltic States in 1944.

The story of these divisions is graphically told with detailed captions and text together with many contemporary images in true Images of War style.

Schnellbootwaffe Adolf Hitler’s Guerrilla War at Sea - S-Boote 1939-45 Hrvoje Spajic Images of War • $22.95 Paperback • 184 pages • 7.4x9.6 150 black & white images January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-909175-6

The Schnellbootwaffe was created in the early 1930s, before the Second World War, in concurrence with the regenerated Kriegsmarine, and young officers, most of whom learned their craft in the old Imperial Navy, would take responsibility for the operational use of these revolutionary vessels.

Working with the naval engineers of Lürssen Shipyard, the Germans designed combat weapons that were never surpassed by their opponents.

After the first series of Schnellboote were launched, constantly improved versions of these vessels would follow. The Schnellbootwaffe would achieve significant victories for the Kriegsmarine at the beginning of the war by using these vessels in high-level strategies, including a style of guerrilla warfare. Allied air bombardment of German torpedo boat bases from 1944 onwards failed to destroy the offensive potential of the Schnellboote and their crews.

This book tells the fascinating story about these special people, whose guerrilla style of naval combat is reminiscent of the ancient pirates.

P-51 Mustang Martin W Bowman Images of War • $26.95 Paperback • 144 pages • 7.4x9.6 120 black and white illustrations March 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-52-674639-9

Today, the Mustang is a living legend and is remembered as probably the finest long-range single-seat piston-engined fighter ever built.

Here, in words and images, the esteemed aviation historian Martin Bowman tells the story of an aircraft that continues to provoke enthusiastic praise.

We look at the Mustang’s involvement in the Second World War and the Korean War, as well as other conflicts and engagements.

This new addition to the Images of War series serves as a tribute to an aircraft with a particularly impressive wartime record, the legacy of which is still felt today.

Narvik and the Norwegian Campaign 1940 Philip Jowett Images of War • $26.95 Paperback • 192 pages 7.4x9.6 • 200 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679654-7

The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed, yet it was a close contest from the military point of view and it had a far-reaching impact on the rest of the war. Philip Jowett’s photographic history is a vivid introduction to it.

In a concise text and a selection of over 150 photographs he traces the entire course of the fighting in Norway on land, at sea and in the air. He describes how important it was for the Allies – the Norwegians, British and French – to defend northern Norway against the Germans, in particular to retain control of the strategic port of Narvik.

The book documents in fascinating detail the troops involved, the aircraft and the large naval forces, and gives an insight into the main episodes in the conflict including the struggle for Narvik and the major clashes at sea which culminated in the loss of the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier Glorious.

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•z Pen & zSword Tiger I, German Army Heavy Tank

The Battles of El Alamein

Eastern Front, 1942

The End of the Beginning

Dennis Oliver

Ben Skipper

TankCraft • $24.95 • Paperback 64 pages 8.3x11.7 • 100 color & 100 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027240 978-1-39-901808-1

BattleCraft • $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.2x11.6 • 200 color & black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900762-7

In the seventh and final book on the Tiger in this series, Dennis Oliver examines the first tanks that left the production line to go into service on the Eastern Front in an effort to break the Russian defenses around Leningrad. As reinforcements steadily arrived, the same units played an important part in the blunting of the Soviet offensive efforts and in the retaking of Kharkov in eastern Ukraine in early 1943, a tactical achievement that is studied in military academies around the world today. In addition to archive photographs and painstakingly researched, exquisitely presented color illustrations, a large part of this 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 providing everything the modeler needs to recreate an accurate representation of the Tigers of 1942 and early 1943.

The early battles of North Africa between the Axis powers and the British Commonwealth and her European allies were among the very last clashes of chivalry. At the small town of El Alamein belligerents met and fought, on two occasions, for overall control of both Egypt and the Suez in the latter half of 1942. For the Allies, the battles were also a chance to destroy Axis ambitions in the Western Desert, while gaining mastery of the Mediterranean and a foothold in Southern Europe.

This Battle Craft title also looks at four pieces of military hardware that were involved in these legendary battles. Representing the land forces are the Crusader and Panzer III, both working to the limits of their designs and already legends in their own rights. The Desert Air Force’s Curtiss P40Es and the Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Bf109 Es represent the battle for air superiority that raged overhead.

Scorpion and Scimitar

Landing Craft & Amphibians

British Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles, 1970-2020

Seaborne Vessels in the 20th Century Ben Skipper

David Grummitt

LandCraft • $24.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.2x11.6 • 200 color and mono integrated • March 2022 HIS027150 • 978-1-39-909213-5

TankCraft • $28.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 11.6x8.2 • 200 color illustrations • March 2022 HIS027240 • 978-1-52-677414-9

The British Scorpion and Scimitar are among the most successful armored reconnaissance vehicles ever built and, almost fifty years after the initial design was introduced, updated versions are still in service today. These compact, maneuverable and fast-moving light tanks played a significant peace-keeping role in conflict zones around the world and went into action during wars in the Falklands, the Gulf and Iraq. They are also a popular subject with tank modelers and enthusiasts which is why David Grummitt’s expert history and guide is such a valuable source of reference.

As well as describing in detail their technical development and operational 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 Scorpions and Scimitars serving with different nations and a section of large-scale color profiles which provide both information and inspiration for modelers and military enthusiasts alike.

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From the wars of antiquity to the recent events in South West Asia, landing craft and amphibians have been an ever-present sea borne and battle space asset in one form or another for the commander wanting to get boots on the ground. Refined during the Second World War with the introduction of the Amphibian, and again with the perfection of the hovercraft, the landing craft’s finest hour in popular consciousness occurred on 6 June 1944.

This LandCraft title focuses on Landing Craft and Amphibian development during the Second World War as versatile sea borne assets. The book also looks at the post-war evolution of the Landing Craft and Amphibians, and how the simple concepts of their design remain alive and in use almost a century later.

This LandCraft title offers the modeler an exciting range of subjects, era and theater choices, especially those modeling the Second World War.

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Escape from Java The Extraordinary World War II Story of the USS Marblehead John J Domagalski $34.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.1 25 black and white illustrations & 5 black and white maps • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-678441-4 John J Domagalski lives in Chicago, IL

The old light cruiser Marblehead was living out her final years of naval service as a member of the United States Asiatic Fleet in 1941. The small group of mostly antiquated ships based in the Philippines sailed the waters of East Asia to show the American flag in places like China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore. The sudden eruption of World War II in the Pacific put the warship on the front lines of the conflict as Imperial Japan unleased a series of devastating attacks across the region.

On the morning of February 4, 1942, the warship was surprised by Japanese planes northeast of Java. Two large bombs slammed into Marblehead causing fires, casualties, and knocking out her steering gear. A third bomb exploded close by underwater. The near miss ripped a large gash into her hull allowing a torrent of water to rush inside the ship.

Escape from Java takes the reader all throughout the ship as the story unfolds – next to gunners toiling to keep their guns firing, with medical staff tending to the wounded, and alongside damage control sailors working in flooded compartments. The damage was critical, so much so the Japanese radioed they had sunk the ship.

In fact, through courage, sacrifice, and super-human effort, Marblehead would successfully make a harrowing 13,000 mile journey back to the US.

The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion Fighting on Both Fronts

United States Tanks and Tank Destroyers of the Second World War

Samuel de Korte

Michael Green

$29.95 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900868-6

$34.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.8x9.7 200 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS027080 978-1-52-678747-7 Michael Green lives in California

The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was activated on 25 July 1942 at Camp Carson, USA and, like many other tank destroyer battalions, would be sent to Europe. It saw combat in France, where a platoon earned the Distinguished Unit Citation, and later continued to fight gallantly in Germany and Austria until the war was over.

However, unlike many other tank destroyer battalions that fought in the Second World War, this unit was crewed only by black soldiers.

The men had been subjected to racism from their countrymen during training, although the battalion did eventually win the respect of the white soldiers they fought alongside. When the third platoon deployed their guns on the slopes near Climbach, France, they weren’t just fighting against the Germans, but also against any prejudices that their white countrymen might have had.

Having earned the respect of the 103d Infantry Division, the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion shared in their triumphs and tragedies. So when the division needed to retreat during a blizzard, or when Task Force Rhine pushed its way across the German plains, or when the division suffered heavy losses at Schillersdorf, the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was there with them.

Included in this book are lists of medals awarded to the men during the war, as well as a list of casualties and those that served in the unit.

Only after the Nazis invaded Poland and France did the United States Government authorize mass production of tanks. By the end of the War American industry had built nearly 90,000 tanks, more than Germany and Great Britain combined.

The first big order in May 1940 was for 365 M2A4 light tanks, the initial iteration of the Stuart series, with almost 24,000 constructed. The Stuart series was supplemented by almost 5,000 units of the M24 Chaffee light tank. There was also the failed M22 Locust light tank intended for airborne operations.

The M4 series of medium tanks, best known as the Sherman, were the most numerous with some 50,000 in service with not only the American military but British and other Allied armies. It was not until later in the war that the M26 Pershing heavy tank was built.

Initially the US Army doctrine saw tanks as primarily for the exploitation role. Later the concept of tank destroyers evolved to counter large scale German armored offensives. These defensive AFVs included the half-track-based 75mm Gun Motor Carriage M3 and the full-tracked M10, M18, and M36.

This comprehensive and superbly illustrated book describes in authoritative detail the characteristics and contribution to victory of these formidable fighting vehicles.

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Pen z& Sword Armies of the Germanic Peoples, 200 BC to AD 500

Armies of the Vikings, AD 793–1066 History, Organization and Equipment

History, Organization and Equipment

Gabriele Esposito

Gabriele Esposito

Armies of the Past • $34.95 Hardback • 176 pages • 6.8x9.7 50 color illustrations Currently Available • HIS027230 978-1-39-900839-6

Armies of the Past • $34.95 Hardback • 176 pages • 6.7x9.6 80 color & black and white illustrations • Currently Available HIS027220 • 978-1-52-677270-1

Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their Gabriele Esposito presents an ferocious reputation has survived overview of the military history of down to the present day. This the Germanic peoples of this period and describes in detail the weapons and book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to tactics they employed on the battlefield. He starts by showing how, from very the final failure of their expansionist ambitions directed against England. early on, the Germanic communities were heavily influenced by Celtic culture.

In that period Viking warbands and increasingly large armies had left their He then moves on to describe the major military events, starting with the first Scandinavian homelands to range across vast regions, including the whole major encounter between the Germanic tribes and the Romans: the invasion of Northern Europe and beyond, even reaching North America. The British by the Cimbri and Teutones.

Isles were terrorized for two centuries and at times largely conquered, in Julius Caesar’s campaigns against German groups seeking to enter Gaul are Normandy, Russia and elsewhere they also settled and founded states. Tough, described in detail as is the pivotal Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, which skilled and resourceful, with a culture that embraced the pursuit of immortal effectively halted Roman expansion into Germany and for centuries fixed the fame and a heroic death in battle, their renown as warriors was second to Rhine as the border between the Roman and Germanic civilizations. none. As far afield as Constantinople, the Byzantine emperors employed them as their elite Varangian Guard.

Áedán of the Gaels

Forts and Roman Strategy

King of the Scots Keith Coleman

$34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 April 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-52-679490-1

This is the first full-length work devoted to Áedán mac Gabráin, 6th century king of Dál Riata in Scotland. An associate of the famous St. Columba, he was the first recorded king to be ordained in the British Isles and was the most powerful ruler in his generation.

Modern writers highlight Áedán as the father of a prince named Arthur, which has led to his place in Arthurian studies. Áedán’s prominence in his era qualifies him as a fascinating figure, whose life and legend are accessibly explored in this exciting account of this unique ruler.

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Byzantine Fortifications

A New Approach and Interpretation

Protecting the Roman Empire in the East

Paul Coby

Nikos D Kontogiannis

$42.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.7x9.6 16 color illustrations & 60 color maps May 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-677210-7

Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defense they underpinned.

This is a new and original contribution to the long-running debate over whether the Roman Empire had a coherent grand strategy or merely reacted piecemeal to emerging needs.

$42.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027230 978-1-52-671025-3

The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, in particular widespread fortifications, was essential for its defense. Yet this aspect of its history is often neglected, and no detailed overview has been published for over thirty years. That is why Nikos Kontogiannis’s ambitious account of Byzantine fortifications – their construction and development and their role in times of war – is such a valuable and timely publication.

This survey is essential reading and reference for anyone with a special interest in the Byzantine empire and in the wider history of fortification.

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•z Pen & zSword The Battles of Antiochus the Great The Failure of Combined Arms at Magnesia that Handed the World to Rome

The Seleucid Army of Antiochus the Great Weapons, Armour and Tactics

Graham Wrightson

Jean Charl Du Plessis

$34.95 • Hardback • 176 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 black and white illustrations March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-679346-1

$42.95 • Hardback • 352 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 mono illustrations • April 2022 HIS027220 • 978-1-39-909179-4

Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of Macedonian-founded kingdoms, Antiochus had a greater variety of units that he could field in his army. He was in a unique position among the other kings because he had access to the traditional infantry-based Greek cultures in Asia Minor as well as the cavalry-dominant cultures of Mesopotamia and Western Asia. Yet, despite these advantages, Antiochus repeatedly came up short on the battlefield and his tactical shortcomings were no more obviously laid bare than at the Battle of Magnesia-ad-Sipylum in 190 BC. There his huge combined army, one of the largest ever fielded by Hellenistic rulers, was soundly thrashed by the smaller Roman force.

The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon Manousos E Kambouris $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6.7x9.6 • 28 color maps • May 2022 HIS027220 • 978-1-39-909329-3

Manousos Kambouris gives excellent detail on the Persian perspective and sets the war in the context of the rise of Achaemenid Persia as the superpower of the day and the expansion of their empire into Europe. After relating the earlier Persian campaigns in Europe the author shows how the Ionian Revolt, by the Greeks of Asia Minor already under Persian rule, was instrumental. Darius I, the Persian King of Kings ordered the invasion of Greece ostensibly to punish the Greeks, and more specifically the Athenians, for their support of the Revolt and to contain further insurgencies but in truth to achieve god-ordained world dominance.

Describing the invasion in great detail, the author analyses the king’s immense (even if occasionally exaggerated) army, considering its composition and logistical constraints. The campaign leading to Marathon and the decisive battle itself are then clearly narrated. Manousos Kambouris’ meticulous research brings fresh insights to this timeless tale of defiance of the odds and victory for the underdog.

Jean Charl Du Plessis has produced the most in depth study available in English devoted to the troop types, weapons and armor of Antiochus’ army. He combines the most recent historical research and latest archaeological evidence with a strong element of reconstructive archaeology, that is the making and using of replica equipment.

Sections cover the regular, Hellenistic-style core of the army, the auxiliaries from across the Empire and mercenaries, as well as the terror weapons of elephants and scythed chariots. Weapons and armor considered in great detail, including, for example, useful data on the performance of slings and the wounds they could inflict, drawing on modern testing and the author’s own experience.

The army’s performance in its many battles, sieges and campaigns is analyzed and assessed.

The Greek Hoplite Phalanx The Iconic Heavy Infantry of the Classical Greek World Richard Taylor $52.95 • Hardback • 560 pages • 6.1x9.2 40 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-678856-6

The Greek hoplite and the phalanx formation have been the subject of considerable academic debate over the past century. Dr Richard Taylor provides an overview of the current state of play in the hoplite debate in all its aspects, from fighting techniques to the social and economic background of the ‘hoplite revolution’, in a form that is accessible for the general reader and military history enthusiast.

But the book goes further: offering a new perspective on the hoplite phalanx by putting it in the context of other military developments in the Mediterranean world in the middle of the first millennium BC. He argues that the Greek phalanx was different in degree but not in kind from other contemporary heavy infantry formations and that the hoplite debate, with its insistence on the unique nature of the hoplite phalanx, has obscured the similarities with other equivalent formations. The result is a fresh take on a perennially popular subject.

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Penz •&zSword The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC

Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships, 336-30 BC

Tristan Hughes $42.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations & 69 black and white maps • January 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-677511-5

War at Sea from Alexander to Actium

Surrounding Alexander the Great ’s deathbed were his highest subordinates: young, experienced and charismatic commanders – some of the greatest military minds of antiquity – each with their own insatiable ambitions for power, glory and legacy. Only recently these men had fought side-by-side on the battlefield, kept in line by Alexander’s overarching aura. But now, with Alexander dead and leaving no clear successor, many of these former brothers-in-arms quickly became fierce foes as they vied for dominance.

What followed was an extraordinary time for military campaigns. Powerful warlords and warrior queens attempted to assert their authority throughout the length and breadth of Alexander the Great’s former empire; from Afghanistan to Athens, from Africa to Asia powerful armies decided matters by the spear. This first book covers the initial years of the conflict and several major campaigns that immediately seized the kingdom.

Alexander the Great’s Legacy

Successors

The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the

Mike Roberts $42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations • March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-678852-8

Explores how both the unique character and the particular legacy left when Alexander died at Babylon in 323 ensured that his homeland failed to gain the kind of imperial dividend that accrued to others of the world’s great Empires.

For Macedon there was not the thousand years of glory that was the destiny of the Romans, nor even the two hundred years of Persian primacy, only 50 or so years of strife and trauma ending in a Galatian deluge that threatened the sacred site at Delphi and had remarkable parallels to the earlier Persian invasions of the Greek world that Alexander had claimed to avenge.

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Michael Paul Pitassi $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 6.7x9.6 • 80 color and 40 mono illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-39-909760-4

The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor States that culminated in a plethora of ship types and the largest oared vessels ever built.

Michael Pitassi gathers all the available evidence and comparative data to reconstruct the various classes of warship. Each is illustrated with clear diagrams and scale models, with particular attention paid to the arrangement of oars and rowers, the subject of much ongoing debate. He narrates the key naval battles of the period, huge affairs involving hundreds of ships, describing the forces engaged and the tactics employed. Strategic factors such as the location of port facilities, the supply of timber and maritime trade are also considered.

The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 When the Gods Abandoned Rome Paul N Pearson $42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 color illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-39-909097-1

This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome’s millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260.

It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome, involving a series of civil wars, several major invasions by Goths and Persians, economic crisis, and an empire-wide pandemic, the ‘plague of Cyprian’. There was sustained persecution of the Christians. A central theme of the book is that this was a period of moral and spiritual crisis in which the traditional state religion suffered greatly in prestige, paving the way for the eventual triumph of Christianity.

Religion & Classical Warfare The Roman Empire Matthew Dillon Christopher Matthew $49.95 • Hardback • 336 pages • 6.1x9.1 30 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027220 • 978-1-47-383430-9

Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly overlooked by modern scholars examining the conflicts of these times. This volume addresses that omission by drawing together the work of experts from across the globe. The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study.

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•z Pen & zSword The Real Gladiator The True Story of Maximus Decimus Meridius Tony Sullivan $34.95 • Hardback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations May 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901757-2

The Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC) Caesar, Pompey, and the Early Campaigns of the Third Roman Civil War Gareth C Sampson

“Are you not entertained?” shouts Russell Crowe, playing the part of General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the Oscar winning 2000 film Gladiator. The crowd, having witnessed Maximus defeating several gladiators, cheer in response. Film goers too were indeed entertained with the film grossing nearly half a billion dollars. This book covers the historical events that film was based on. From the Germanic wars on the northern frontier to the gladiatorial arena in Rome. From the philosopher emperor, Marcus Aurelius to the palace intrigues during the reign of his son.

We will discover how Commodus really died and which of the characters actually fought in the arena.

The reader will discover that fact is not only stranger than fiction, it is often more entertaining. The real history was certainly as much, if not more, treacherous, bloodthirsty, murderous and dramatic than anything the film industry has created. Anyone who answered “yes!” to the question posed by Russell Crowe’s character in the film, will indeed be entertained by this book.

$34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages 6.1x9.1 • 16 black and white illustrations May 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-679358-4

Constantius III

Alexander the Great versus Julius Caesar

Rome’s Lost Hope Ian Hughes $34.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS002020 978-1-52-670024-7

Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of Troops) to Honorius, the young Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. His predecessor, Stilicho, had been murdered by his own troops and much of Gaul and Hispania had been overrun by barbarians or usurpers.

One by one Constantius eliminated the usurpers and defeated or came to terms with the various invading groups. Most notoriously, he allowed the Visigoths to settle in Gaul in return for their help in defeating the Vandals and Alans who had seized parts of Hispania, a decision with far-reaching consequences.

Constantius married Honorius’ sister and was eventually proclaimed his co-emperor. However, the Eastern Roman Emperor, Honorius’ nephew, refused to accept his appointment and Constantius was preparing a military expedition to enforce this recognition when he died suddenly, having been emperor for just seven months. Ian Hughes considers his career, assessing his actions in the context of the difficult situation he inherited.

In 49 BC the Roman Republic collapsed once more into bloody civil war. At the heart of this war lay the two greatest living Roman commanders, and former allies, Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar, each having built their own factions within the Roman oligarchy and refusing to compromise. The subsequent civil war would be fought for control of the Republic with each man determined to restore peace and stability to Rome, under their leadership. Yet despite this clash it was eighteen months before the two men met in Battle at Dyrrhachium in Albania.

Gareth Sampson outlines the strategic background, describing the early campaigns of the civil war and the factions of Caesar and Pompey that fought for control of the vast resources of the Republic.

Who was the Greatest Commander in the Ancient World?

Simon Elliott $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 12 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-676564-2

In the annals of ancient history the lights of Alexander the Great and Gaius Julius Caesar shine brighter than any other, inspiring generations of dynasts and despots with their imperial exploits. Each has been termed the greatest military leader of the ancient world, but who actually was the best? In this new book Dr Simon Elliott first establishes a set of criteria by which to judge the strategic and tactical genius of both. He then considers both in turn in brand-new, up-to-date military biographies, starting with Alexander, undefeated in battle and conqueror of the largest empire the world had seen by the age of 26. Next Caesar, the man who played the crucial role in expanding Roman territory to the size which would later emerge as the Empire under his great nephew, adopted son and heir Augustus. The book’s detailed conclusion sets each of their military careers against the criteria set out earlier to finally answer the question: who was the greatest military leader in the ancient world?

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Penz •&zSword The Kingdom of the AngloSaxons

The Templars at War

The Wars of King Alfred 865-899

$34.95 • Hardback 192 pages • 8.4x11 • 28 color and 8 b/w pics, 7 color maps May 2022 • HIS027230 978-1-47-389840-0

Zvonimir Grbasic

Paul Hill $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6.1x9.1 • 30 color & 90 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027230 • 978-1-52-678249-6

In this compelling military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill explores England’s birth amidst the devastation and fury of the Danish invasions of the ninth century.

This is a human, as well as a military story: how a king demonstrated his right to rule was important. Alfred sought to secure the succession on his son Edward, who led his own forces as a young man in the 890s. But not everybody was happy in Alfred’s England. Despite the ever-present threat from the Danes, the greatest challenge facing Alfred arose from his own kin, centered deep in the heart of ancient Wessex. Alfred knew very well that his was not the only branch of the family who claimed a right to rule.

Bosworth The Archaeology of the Battlefield Richard Mackinder $42.95 • Hardback 192 pages • 6.7x9.6 80 color & 30 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027230 • 978-1-39-901052-8

The Wars of the Roses came to a bloody climax at the Battle of Bosworth on 22 August 1485.

In a few hours, on a stretch of otherwise unremarkable fields in Leicestershire, Richard III, Henry Tudor and their Yorkist and Lancastrian supporters clashed. This decisive moment in English history ought to be clearly recorded and understood, yet controversy has confused our understanding of where and how the battle was fought. That is why Richard Mackinder’s highly illustrated and personal account of the search for evidence of the battle is such absorbing reading. He shows how archaeological evidence, discovered by painstaking work on the ground, has put this historic battle into the modern landscape.

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The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar or simply the Templars, are the most famous of the Crusading knightly orders.

Formed in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, this curious hybrid of military unit and monastic brotherhood were the staunchest defenders of the Crusader States of Outremer for nearly two centuries. Knights joining the Templars renounced their worldly possessions and vowed to follow a strict code, which included the command to fight the infidel enemy bravely regardless of the odds. They provided Christian armies with a lethal cutting edge in open battle, launching fanatical charges to break the enemy formations, as well as garrisoning a network of forts as a stubborn bulwark against reconquest.

Zvonimir Grbasic outlines their history, narrating many of their greatest victories and defeats in detail.

Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630–1632

The Thirty Years War, 1618 - 1648 The First Global War and the end of Habsburg Supremacy

Lars Ericson Wolke

John Pike

$42.95 • Hardback • 248 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations • April 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-52-674959-8

$70 • Hardback • 480 pages • 6.1x9.1 8 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-52-677575-7

As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century Gustavus Adophus, king of Sweden, played a vital role in defending the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years War. In the space of two years – between 1630 and 1632 – he turned the course of the war, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld and conquering large parts of Germany. Yet in English remarkably little has been written about him and no full account of his extraordinary career has been published in recent times. That is why Lars Ericson Wolke’s perceptive and scholarly study is of such value.

The ‘Defenestration of Prague’, the coup d’etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localized political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict.

It was a tragic war of attrition but also an epic story of remarkable individuals including the ‘titans’ of the era.

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Pen & zSword •z In the Words of Wellington’s Fighting Cocks

Marching, Fighting, Dying

The After-action Reports of the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War 1812–1814

Gareth Glover

Moisés Gaudêncio Robert Burnham $49.95 • Hardback • 352 pages • 6.1x9.1 30 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027200 • 978-1-52-676168-2

The authors provide an introduction tracing the history of the Portuguese Army prior to the Salamanca campaign of 1812, while tracking its organizational changes and assignment of commanders from 1808 to 1814. They include detailed notes on the after-action reports which set them in the context of each stage of the conflict.

Experiences of Soldiers in the Peninsular War

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Gareth Glover, who has established a reputation as a leading authority on the Napoleonic Wars, uses letters sent home from the Peninsular War

by British soldiers to give a candid account of what it was like to serve in the army during the long campaign against the French. The vivid excerpts, which are set in their historical context by the author’s expert commentary, are largely drawn from the correspondence of the other ranks, and they fully explore the everyday experience of these men through their own words.

Wellington’s Cavalry and Technical Corps, 1800–1815

Martin Sheppard $49.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-39-908998-2

The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, a resounding success, has unjustly been overshadowed by the blunders that led to the heroic defeat of the Charge of the Light Brigade. James Scarlett himself has also been unfairly ignored due the focus on the enmity between the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan. The strategic significance of the Heavy Brigade’s victory, preventing the Russians capturing the key British base, the port of Balaklava, has been overlooked, as has General Scarlett’s decisive part in thwarting Russia’s best chance of winning the Crimean War.

Salamanca Campaign 1812 Tim Saunders

Never a Finer Army Carole Divall

Gabriele Esposito

$49.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 30 black and white illustrations November 2021 • HIS027200 978-1-52-677402-6

While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle. This volume covers both British cavalry and artillery of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as supporting units such as engineers. Gabriele Esposito describes the history, organization and uniforms of the various units in full detail, following the evolution and combat history of each. Mounted troops deployed in the various British colonies as well as foreign cavalry units in British service are covered.

The Life and Letters of the Commander of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava

Wellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813

Including Artillery $34.95 • Hardback • 144 pages • 6.7x9.6 50 color illustrations • December 2021 HIS027200 • 978-1-39-900547-0

General Sir James Scarlett

Over two hundred years ago, on 21 June 1813, just southwest of Vitoria in northern Spain, the British, Portuguese, and Spanish army commanded by the Duke of Wellington confronted the French army of Napoleon’s brother Joseph. Hours later Wellington’s forces won an overwhelming victory and, after six years of bitter occupation, the French were ousted from Iberia. This is the critical battle that Carole Divall focuses on in this vivid, scholarly study of the last phase of the Peninsular War.

$42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027200 • 978-1-39-900136-6

In the past it has been difficult to place the fighting on the ground in the center of the Salamanca battlefield, where ‘vast clouds of smoke and dust that rolled along the basin’ obscured vision even for those fighting. Supplementing their letters, diaries and memoirs with modern geographical aids, archaeology and a stout pair of boots, it is now possible to reconcile the sequence of the battle with locations, in a way in which it was not feasible even a few years ago.

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Penz •&zSword Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front

Hitler’s Court The Inner Circle of The Third Reich and After Heike B Görtemaker $34.95 • Hardback • 304 pages 6.1x9.1 • January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-52-679070-5

A German Soldier’s Memoir of War and Captivity Luis Raffeiner Hannes Heer

Hitler was not a lonely, aloof dictator.

Throughout his rise in the NSDAP, he gathered a loyal circle around him, which later took on the features of a regular court, and was surrounded by people who celebrated, flattered and intrigued him.

$32.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 25 mono illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-909770-3

Biographies of Hitler often concentrate on his obsession with self-image: “If you subtract what politics is about him, little or nothing remains,” said Ian Kershaw, and Joachim Fest asserted: “He did not have a private life.” For Alan Bullock the “Führer” was an “uprooted man without a home or family”. Hitler’s inner circle, the Berghof Society, was his private retreat. But the court was more than that. It provided him with the support he needed to be able to take on the role of “Führer” at all, while at the same time allowing him to use its members as political front men. Most of all, it represented a conspiratorial community whose lowest common denominator was anti-Semitism.

Firestorm Hamburg The Facts Surrounding the Destruction of a German City 1943 Middlebrook

Martin

$34.95 • Paperback • 432 pages • 6.1x9.2 24pp B&W plates • Currently Available HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901351-2

In July 1943 a series of heavy bombing raids virtually destroyed the North German city of Hamburg. In one night alone, some 40,000 people were killed largely as a result of the terrible firestorm. To this day controversy rages as to the morality of these attacks and their consequences.

Firestorm Hamburg is a masterly description of a major air campaign and the author’s aim of achieving a better understanding of the background, conduct, and results is fully realized.

He does not shirk from studying the moral dilemma.

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Raffeiner describes his family life in a remote village in the Tyrol in the 1930s, his military service in Italy, his transfer to the Wehrmacht and his training as a mechanic on assault guns, and then his march into the Soviet Union in 1941.

There he experienced, as he himself says, ‘war in its brutal and cruel reality’.

He was captured by the Red Army, barely survived as a prisoner of war and, many years later, he recounted his vividly remembered experiences in order to produce this insightful – and thought-provoking – book.

His memoir is not a heroic tale – it shows how a man from an ordinary background can become acquainted with, and a participant in, the horrors of war.

The Last German Victory

EbenEmael and the Defence of Fortress Belgium, 1940

Operation Market Garden, 1944 Bates Aaron $42.95 • Hardback 240 pages • 6.1x9.2 30 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-900076-5

Operation Market Garden is one of the most famous and controversial Allied failures of the Second World War. Many books have been written on the subject seeking to explain the defeat.

Historians have generally focused on the mistakes made by senior commanders as they organized the operation. The choice of landing zones has been criticized, as has the structure of the airlift plan. But little attention has been paid to the influence that combat doctrine and training had upon the relative performance of the forces involved. And it is this aspect that Aaron Bates emphasizes in this perceptive, closely argued, and absorbing reevaluation of the battle.

Clayton Donnell $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.2 50 black and white illustrations November 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-52-677982-3 Clayton Donnell lives in Southampton, PA

In the darkness of the pre-dawn, German DFS 230 gliders drifted silently over the southern Netherlands, landing one by one on top of Eben-Emael, considered to be Belgium’s most powerful fortress. Within minutes German Special Forces troops destroyed most of the fort’s weapons and observation capabilities. The following day, the garrison surrendered, and the door to Belgium and France was open.

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Pen & zSword •z A Photographic History of Airborne Warfare, 1939–1945 Simon Forty Jonathan Forty $42.95 • Hardback • 232 pages 6.7x9.6 • 400 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901114-3

On 10 May 1940, German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and take notice.

Improved parachutes and the creation of gliders that could carry troops meant that assault forces could be dropped or landed behind enemy lines.

This was a significant new tactic which had a dramatic impact on several of the key campaigns, and it is the subject of Simon and Jonathan Forty’s in-depth, highly illustrated history.

They tell the story of the development of airborne forces, how they were trained and equipped, and how they were landed and put into action in every theater of the global conflict.

Fortress Europe From Stone to Steel Fortifications, 1850–1945 J E Kaufmann H W Kaufmann $62.95 • Hardback • 400 pages 8.4x11 • 200 color & black and white illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-39-900272-1

A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But they tend to distract attention from the wide range of fixed defenses constructed across Europe on an enormous scale after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, during a period of insecurity and aggression. That is why this new, highly illustrated study, which covers the entire continent, is so valuable. The authors examine the major fortified positions and describe their strategic purpose, their design and construction, and the role they played in military planning and operations.

The outstanding contribution of the major military architects of the time is a key theme. The work of Séré de Rivières, Brialmont and others had a major influence on the course of the First World War and on the fortifications built before and during the Second World War. Their approach is visible in the designs for the Maginot Line, the East and West walls of Germany, the Vallo Alpino in Italy, the Soviet Stalin and Molotov lines, the Mannerheim and Salpa lines of Finland, the Greek Metaxas Line, the Beneš Line of Czechoslovakia as well as the defenses built by the Dutch and Scandinavians.

The War on the Eastern Front The Soviet Union, 19411945 - A Photographic History Alexander Hill $34.95 • Hardback • 336 pages 6.7x9.6 • 360 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678610-4

The RIA-Novosti press agency – now known as Sputnik in the West – has one of the best archives of Soviet Second World War photographs and for this remarkable book Alexander Hill has made a superb selection of them.

Every aspect of the struggle is depicted – the fighting on the front lines and behind the lines, aerial combat and naval warfare, the ordeal of living under German occupation, the war industries and Lend-Lease and the massive sacrifices made at every level of Soviet society to defeat the Germans.

The photographs and captions take the reader through the entire course of the war, from the Nazi-Soviet Pact and Soviet expansion into Poland, Finland and the Baltic Republics, through Operation Barbarossa and the German advances of 1941 and 1942, to the momentous battles at Stalingrad and Kursk and the sequence of massive offensives mounted by the Red Army that drove the Wehrmacht back to Berlin.

Armoured Warfare in the British Army, 1914-1939 Richard Taylor $49.95 • Hardback • 248 pages 6.7x9.6 • 150 black and white illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027080 978-1-39-900118-2

This is the first volume in a three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army, covering the period from 1914 until 1939. Author Dick Taylor’s tour de force covers the evolution of the tank and armored cars in response to the specific conditions created by trench warfare, the history of the use of tanks during the war, as well as the critical period between the wars in which the tank was both refined and neglected. He also looks in detail at the amalgamations and mechanization of the horsed cavalry which led to the formation of the Royal armored Corps in 1939.

His detailed and absorbing narrative covers the social and human aspects of the story as well as the technology, and explains how the nation that invented and first fielded the tank in 1916 struggled to maintain the lead after the Armistice.

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z Pen & Sword Air Power Supremo A Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor William Pike $49.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6.1x9.1 30 mono illustrations • May 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-909552-5

Sir John Slessor became a First World War pilot in the Sudan and on the Western Front, and a squadron and wing commander in India between the wars. In the Second World War, as the Commander-in-Chief of Coastal Command, he made a remarkable contribution to the success of Allied air power. Then, after the war, he established himself as one of the foremost experts on strategic bombing and nuclear deterrence. That is why this insightful biography of a great British airman and his achievements is so timely and important as we enter a new era of strategic doubts and deterrence at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Secret Service Against the Nazi Regime Edward Harrison $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900727-6

An edited collection of peer-reviewed articles using newly-released sources - British, German and Italian - integrated to form a fascinating narrative of the intelligence-led fight of the British Secret Service in the existential struggle with Nazi Germany.

This is a uniquely human story of survival with all the drama of power struggles, personality clashes, errors, heroism, human intelligence.

Hitler’s Air Defences

The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler’s General

Stephen Wynn

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$34.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-673630-7

The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time. The port at St Nazaire, which sits on the Loire estuary and the Atlantic Ocean, has a dry dock that was capable of accommodating some of Germany’s biggest naval vessels. By putting the port out of action, any repairs or maintenance work that needed to be carried out would instead have to be undertaken back home at the German port of Bremerhaven. To do this, the German vessels would either have to navigate the waters of the English Channel or the North Sea, with both journeys potentially bringing them to the attention of the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy.

Joachim Peiper and the Nazi Atrocities of 1944 Stephen Wynn

Stephen Wynn

From a German perspective, the highly decorated and well respected General Erwin Rommel was one of their biggest and brightest assets: a military strategist who thought ‘outside of the box’, a tactic which more than once either brought him an unexpected victory, or saved him from almost certain defeat.

Such was his influence not only as a military strategist but on the morale of the men who served under him, as well as that of the German public, that Rommel was the only German officer of the Second World War that the allied authorities were prepared to put such time, manpower and commitment into eliminating.

Stephen Wynn

How Our Spies Dealt with Hitler

Target Rommel

$34.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900712-2

St Nazaire Raid, 1942

$34.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6.1x9.2 250 black and white illustrations December 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-52-674026-7

Initially, Nazi Germany hadn’t given much thought about its aerial defenses. being attacked in its ‘own back yard’ wasn’t something that was anticipated to be an issue. Germany had been on the offensive from the beginning of the war and Hitler believed that the Luftwaffe was the much stronger air force.

With the Allied tactic of ‘area bombing’, Germany’s anti-aircraft capabilities became harder to maintain as demand increased. The longer the war went on, along with the increased Allied bombing raids, sometimes involving more than 1,000 bomber aircraft, so the worth and effectiveness of German air-defenses dwindled.

$34.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-673711-3

On 17 December 1944, Joachim Peiper and his men were responsible for what became known as the Malmedy massacre, involving the murder of eighty-four unarmed American prisoners of war.

In1946 he faced an American military tribunal for the Malmedy masssacre. Although found guilty and sentenced to death, his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment but he was eventually released in 1956.

In 1972, Peiper moved to the French village of Troves in north east France. On 14 July 1976, his home was attacked and set on fire. Overcome by smoke, he died in the flames.

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Pen & Sword z Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hitler Germany’s Generals and the Rise of the Nazis Alexander Clifford $34.95 • Hardback • 368 pages • 6.1x9.1 30 black and white illustrations January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-52-678333-2

A Judge in Auschwitz Konrad Morgen’s Crusade Against SS Corruption & ‘Illegal’ Murder Kevin Prenger $34.95 • Hardback • 208 pages 6.1x9.2 • 33 black and white illustrations November 2021 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901876-0

They are two of twentieth-century history’s most significant figures, yet today they are largely forgotten – Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany’s First World War leaders. Although defeat in 1918 brought an end to their ‘silent dictatorship’, both generals played a key role in the turbulent politics of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis.

Alexander Clifford, in this perceptive reassessment of their political careers, questions the popular image of these generals in the English-speaking world as honorable ‘Good Germans’. For they were intensely political men, whose ideas and actions shaped the new Germany and ultimately led to Hitler’s dictatorship.

In autumn 1943, SS judge Konrad Morgen visited Auschwitz concentration camp. While there Morgen found the SS camp guards engaged in widespread theft and corruption.

Worse, Morgen also discovered that inmates were being killed without authority from the SS leadership. While millions of Jews were being exterminated under the Final Solution program, Konrad Morgen set about gathering evidence of these ‘illegal murders’.

Remarkably, the apparently fearless SS judge also tried to prosecute other Nazi criminals including Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss. He even claimed to have tried to indict Adolf Eichmann.

This intriguing work reveals how the lines between justice and injustice became blurred in the Third Reich. As well as describing the actions of this often contradictory character, the author questions Morgen’s motives.

First Polish Armoured Division 1938-47

A Jew Who Defeated Nazism

A History Evan McGilvray

Herbert Sulzbach’s Peace, Reconcilliation and a New Germany Ainslie Hepburn

$52.95 • Hardback • 208 pages 6.1x9.2 • 33 black and white illustrations March 2021 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901876-0

$49.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.1 8 black and white illustrations • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-679322-5

The First Polish armored Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its commander, Stanislaw Maczek, and many of its men had previously served in Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade (10 BKS), which had taken part in the Polish invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and given a good account of itself in the defense of Poland against German and Soviet invasion of 1939.

Under Maczek’s leadership the division was trained and equipped along British lines in preparation for the invasion of France.

Attached to 1st Canadian Army, the division was sent to Normandy in late July 1944. It suffered heavily during Operation Totalize but went on to play a crucial role in preventing an orderly German withdrawal from the Falaise Pocket by its stand at Hill 262. They then played their part in the advance across Western Europe and into Germany.

This detailed history, supported by dozens of archive photos, concludes by looking at the often-poor treatment of Maczek and his men after the war.

Herbert Sulzbach (1894-1985), was an influential figure in Britain and Germany who made a remarkable personal contribution to Anglo-German reconciliation following the Second World War. Working with German prisoners of war in Britain in camps that included fanatical Nazis, he guided men of all ranks - including senior officers - to personal educational and cultural achievements in preparation for peace and reconciliation. This graphic and moving account of an untold story shows where reconciliation, and a ‘new Germany’, were fostered.

It is also a personal and family story and a microcosm of European history.

Sulzbach was from an elite German Jewish banking family, and educated in the ideals of the German Enlightenment. Sulzbach’s life in Berlin with his artistic fiancé, Beate, was cushioned by wealth and the cultural life of the city, but National Socialism brought this to an end and he fled with Beate to exile in England where they were interned as ‘enemy aliens’. On release, Sulzbach served with the British army and found his calling as an interpreter and educator in PoW camps where his work of ‘de-nazification’ and re-education paved the way to reconciliation.

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Pen & Sword z The Gurkha Diaries of Robert Atkins MC India and Malaya, 1944 - 1958

Captured Behind Japanese Lines With Wingate’s Chindits – Burma, 1942–1945

Robert Atkins MC

Daniel Berke Col Richard Kemp CBE

$39.95 • Hardback • 144 pages • 6.1x9.2 16 mono • Currently Available • BIO008000 978-1-39-909145-9

$39.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6.1x9.2 32 black and white illustrations • Currently Available • HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901688-9

How fortunate it is that Robert Atkins wrote up his experiences as a young Gurkha officer in India and later Malaya as, seventy years on, they form an important contemporaneous record of two historically significant periods.

The two diaries are introduced with helpful narratives setting each in their historical context.

Written with admirable modesty, this superb personal account informs and entertains.

No-one meeting Frank Berkovitch, a quiet, reserved tailor, could have guessed that he had served with the Chindits in Burma and suffered prolonged Japanese captivity. Yet not only had he fought as a Bren-gunner on Operation LONGCLOTH, their first deep penetration mission, but he was the legendary General Orde Wingate’s batman.

Superbly researched, this inspiring book vividly describes the Chindits’ first operation and the hardship suffered by, and heroism of, Frank and his comrades, many who never returned.

Memories of an SOE Historian M.R.D. Foot

Britain’s Railways in the Second World War Michael Foley

Birds in the Second World War We Also Serve Nicholas Milton Chris Packham

$49.95 • Hardback • 252 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679414-7

A love of birds has always been an important part of the British way of life but in wartime birds came into their own, helping to define our national identity. Tom Harrisson, the mastermind behind Mass Observation, watched people ‘as if they were birds’ while POW Guy Madoc wrote a truly unique book on Malayan birds, typed on paper stolen from the Japanese commandant’s office. For Field Marshall Alan Brooke, Britain’s top soldier, filming birds was his way of coping with the continual demands of Winston Churchill.

With a foreword by Chris Packham CBE Birds in the Second World War is the story of how ornithology helped to win the war.

Running the Gauntlet Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939–1945 Bernard Edwards

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.2 December 2021 • BIO006000 978-1-39-901446-5

Michael (M.R.D.) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carre novel. A highly significant tribute to the man entrusted with writing the official record of the Special Operations Executive.

With his own war service background and academic reputation M.R.D. was an inspired choice for these historic tasks. He was fearless in pursuit of the truth and in thwarting bureaucratic attempts to muzzle him.

His career has brought him into close contact with an astonishing cast of characters and his tongue-in-cheek account of academic life makes lively reading.

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$29.95 • Paperback • 216 pages • 6.1x9.1 104 black & white historic and modern-day photographs • March 2022 • TRA004010 978-1-39-900324-7

The outbreak of World War II had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory but in this second major war, the task was to prove very different.

The logistics of the mass evacuation of children, and transporting thousands of troops during the evacuation of Dunkirk and the preparations for D-Day, for instance, were unprecedented.

This book is a fascinating account of the important role that the railways played in the defense of the country as well as in their support of the Allied forces.

$39.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 mono • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-909786-4

The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation.

This superbly researched book describes numerous dramatic incidents. Some ended in disaster while others were triumphs.

The common denominations in all these historic voyages were the courage and skilled seamanship of the Merchant Navy crews. As Running The Gauntlet vividly illustrates, their contribution to victory, too long overlooked, cannot be overstated.

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z Pen & Sword Asia in Flanders Fields Indians and Chinese on the Western Front, 1914–1920 Dominiek Dendooven $49.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 10 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-52-676333-4

The First World War brought peoples from five continents to support the British and French Allies on the Western Front. Many were from colonial territories in the British and French empires, and the largest contingents were Indians and Chinese - some 140,000.

It is a story of the encounter with the European ‘other’, including the civilian European local populations, often marred by racism, discrimination and xenophobia both inside and outside the military command, but also lightened by moving and enduring ‘human’ social relationships.

Keeping the Home Fires Burning

the Great War

Entertaining the Troops at Home and Abroad During

Phil Carradice $39.95 • Hardback • 232 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 black and white illustrations • March 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-39-900441-1

Keeping the Home Fires Burning tells the story of how the troops and the general public were kept happy and content during the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918 there was entertainment of the masses for the sole purpose of promotion of the war effort. It was the first time that a concerted effort to raise and sustain morale was ever made by any British government and was a combination of government sponsored ideas and lucky happenstance. It was all picked up and used by the new Propaganda Ministry.

The Mountain War

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

A Doctor’s Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918

Richard van Emden

Dr Isaak Barasch $49.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 60 black and white illustrations November 2021 • HIS027090 978-1-39-901163-1

After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country.

Boys served in the bloodiest battles of the war, many broke down under the strain and were returned home. Other lads fought on bravely and were even awarded medals for gallantry.

In this, the final update of his ground-breaking book, Richard van Emden reveals new hitherto unknown stories and adds many more unseen images.

$39.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 mono illustrations • January 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-39-909310-1

The diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First World War gives the reader a remarkable insight into the conflict and into the man himself. Few personal accounts of service on the Italian front have been published in English and diaries from the Habsburg side are rarer still, so his writing is exceptional.

He doesn’t record military actions and maneuvers in detail, but concentrates on his own reflections and feelings as he coped with the sick and wounded on the front line.

Football’s Great War

MachineGuns and the Great War

Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918 Alexander Jackson $49.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • May 2022 SPO040000 • 978-1-39-900220-2

The wartime seasons saw football’s entire commercial model challenged and questioned.

In 1915, the FA banned the payment of players, reopening a decades-old dispute between the game’s early amateur values and its modern links to the world of capital and lucrative entertainment.

From grassroots to elite football, players to spectators, gambling to charity work, this study examines the social, economic and cultural impact of what became Football’s Great War.

Paul Cornish

$29.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.2 30 illustrations, 16 plates • December 2021 HIS027080 • 978-1-39-901451-9

The machine-gun is one of the iconic weapons of the Great War and indeed of the twentieth century. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. During a four-year war that generated unprecedented casualties, the machine-gun stood out as a key weapon. In the process it took on an almost legendary status that persists to the present day.

Paul Cornish, in this authoritative and carefully considered study, reconsiders the history automatic firepower, and he describes in vivid detail its development during the First World War and the far-reaching consequences thereof.

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z Pen & Sword The Band That Went to War

Military Operations from Kosovo to Kabul

The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War Brian Short $49.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.7x9.6 100 mono integrated • January 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-39-909640-9

The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world.

Why then when the Argentines invaded the Falklands in April 1982 did these superb musicians get involved in what became a serious and deadly military campaign? The answer is that, in addition to their musical expertise, the RM Band Service members are trained for military service.

The Band That Went to War is a graphic first-hand account of the Falklands War as it has never been told before.

The Decline of Empires in South Asia How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan Heather A Campbell $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 8 black and white illustrations • March 2022 HIS027000 • 978-1-52-677580-1

The post-First World War period was pivotal in global history, international relations and geopolitics. And no more than in South Asia, where for decades the ‘Great Game’ in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires - Britain and Russia - had dominated international relations.

But with the advent of Communism in Russia and growing nationalism and pan-Islamism in Afghanistan, Persia, and India, Britian’s imperial standing was under threat.

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Combat Lawyer

The Unique Experiences of a

James Nelson $39.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6.1x9.2 30 black and white illustrations January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-900461-9

In this highly unusual role for a lawyer, the author found himself as the newly promoted senior legal advisor to General Sir Mike Jackson, the commander who led the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps into strife-torn Kosovo the following year.

Trying to apply the law, balancing the need for aggression with compliance with Western notions of human rights, and vain efforts to win over the hearts and minds of a proud but impoverished people historically blighted by conflict proved to be unimaginably fraught.

The Mandela Revolution A British Soldier’s Inside View of His Rise to Power Huw Lawford $39.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-39-900905-8

On 27 April 1994, South Africa went to the polls and delivered the first black government in the country’s history. This was the Mandela Revolution. This is not the story of how the Rainbow Nation was formed, but focuses on how the military forces supporting the Apartheid regime and those committed to its overthrow came together to form a new national force, reflecting the new multi-racial, multi-faith democracy.

Within this revolution, there was a small detachment from the British armed forces that were charged with assisting this transition. This is a story of highs and lows, of sudden death, breakdowns and ultimately of hope.

Out of the Siege of Sarajevo Memoirs of a Former Yugoslav Jasna LevingerGoy $39.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 25 mono illustrations • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-39-909862-5

The horrors of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the very heart of Europe in 1992, may be all but forgotten – but not by everyone.

In this book, Jasna Levinger-Goy offers a vivid, personal story of a family of Jewish origin who identified as Yugoslavs. It traces their journey over a period of ten years, starting with their life in Sarajevo under siege and ending in the United Kingdom.

Set against the backdrop of a brutal conflict, this book reminds us of the very human cost of war.

Laughter is the Best Weapon The Remarkable Adventures of an Unconventional Soldier Charles Ritchie HRH Anne The Princess Royal $39.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6.1x9.2 16 color plates • Currently Available BIO008000 • 978-1-39-909188-6

“An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone.” So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know.

In Laughter is the Best Weapon , Charles abandons the popular trend for military heroism and angst-ridden confessions. Instead he leads the reader on a forthright yet light-hearted and self-deprecating journey through his 38 years’ service as a Royal Scot. In the process we witness his sometimes significant, but often comedic, participation in a wide range of recent British military operations.

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Pen & Sword z•z Roman Empire at War

Ancient Battle Formations

A Compendium of Battles from 31 B.C. to A.D. 565

Justin Swanton

Don Taylor

$28.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 6.1x9.1 • May 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-679758-2

Justin Swanton examines the principal battle-winning formations of the Ancient world, determining their composition, function and efficacy. An In a single volume, Roman Empire introductory chapter looks at the at War catalogs and offers a brief fundamental components of the description of every significant principal battle formations of battle fought by the Roman heavy and light infantry, cavalry, Empire from Augustus to Justinian elephants and chariots, showing how they bolstered the individual soldier’s I (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn willingness to fight. exclusively from Ancient, Late Antique, and Early Medieval texts, in order The rest of the book focuses on massed infantry that reigned supreme in to offer a brief description of each battle based solely on the information this era: the heavily armored Greek hoplite phalanx that was immune to the provided by the earliest surviving sources which chronicle the event. weaponry of its non-Greek opponents; the Macedonian pike phalanx that was This approach provides the reader a concise foundation of information to unbeatable against frontal attacks so long as it kept order; the Roman triplex which they can then confidently apply later scholarly interpretation presented acies which, contrary to popular opinion, consisted of continuous lines in in secondary sources in order to achieve a more accurate understanding of the open order, with file spaces wide enough to allow embattled infantry to fall most likely battlefield scenario. back after which those files closed up instantly against the enemy. $29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1x9.1 • 27 maps • May 2022 HIS027220 978-1-39-908520-5

An Invincible Beast Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action Christopher Matthew $38.95 • Paperback • 544 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 illustrations • April 2022 • HIS027060 978-1-39-908526-7

The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation. For nearly 200 years, the pike-wielding heavy infantryman formed the basis of nearly every Hellenistic army. And yet, despite this dominance, and the vast literature dedicated to detailing the history of the Hellenistic world, there remains fierce debate about how infantry combat in this age was actually conducted.

Christopher Matthews critically examines phalanx combat by using techniques such as physical re-creation, experimental archaeology, and ballistics testing, and then compares the findings of this testing to the ancient literary, artistic and archaeological evidence.

Sparta

Leading the Roman Army

Rise of a Warrior Nation Philip Matyszak

Soldiers and Emperors, 31 BC – AD 235 Jonathan Mark Eaton

$26.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.2 16 illustrations • January 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-39-901456-4

$28.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations • January 2022 HIS027220 • 978-1-52-679703-2

Ancient Sparta was a city of contrasts. We might admire their physical toughness and heroism in adversity but Spartans also systematically abused their children. They gave rights to citizen women that were unmatched in Europe until the modern era, meanwhile subjecting their conquered subject peoples to a murderous reign of terror. Though idealized by the Athenian contemporaries of Socrates, Sparta was almost devoid of intellectual achievement.

Philip Matyszak explores two themes: how Sparta came to be the unique society it was, and the rise of the city from a Peloponnesian village to the military superpower of Greece.

The Roman imperial army represented one of the main factors in the exercise of political control by the emperors. The effective political management of the army was essential for maintaining the safety and well-being of the empire as a whole.

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.

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Penz •&zSword Cataclysm 90 BC

Rome and Parthia: Empires at War

The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome

Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40–20 BC

Philip Matyszak $22.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.2 b/w maps • October 2021 • HIS027220 978-1-39-908518-2

Gareth C Sampson

Aa military and political history of the Social War of 90-88 BC. This tells the story of the revolt of Rome’s Italian allies (socii in Latin - hence the name of the war).

Because these Italian allies had the arms, training, and military systems of the Roman army which they usually fought alongside, all Rome’s usual military advantages were nullified. This brought the war down to a clash of generals, with the Roman rivals Gaius Marius and Cornelius Sulla spending almost as much time in political intrigue as combat with the enemy. The Italian leaders had to manage an equally fractious coalition of peoples. Some tribes sought negotiation with Rome, and others would settle for nothing less than the total extermination of the city and its people.

Romulus The Legend of Rome’s Founding Father Marc Hyden

$28.95 • Paperback • 344 pages 6.1x9.1 • 20 illustrations January 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-39-900287-5

In the mid-first century BC, despite its military victories elsewhere, the Roman Empire faced a rival power in the east; the Parthian Empire. The first war between two superpowers of the ancient world had resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the death of Marcus Crassus. When Rome collapsed into Civil War in the 40s BC, the Parthians took the opportunity to invade and conquer the Middle East and drive Rome back into Europe. What followed was two decades of war which saw victories and defeats on both sides. The Romans were finally able to gain a victory over the Parthians thanks to the great, but now neglected, general Publius Ventidius. These victories acted as a springboard for Marc Antony’s plans to conquer the Parthian Empire, which ended in ignominious defeat.

Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia Richard Evans

Septimius Severus and the Roman Army Michael Sage

$28.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6.1x9.1 4 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027220 • 978-1-39-900204-2

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.

Regardless of his foreboding flaws, Rome allegedly existed because of him and became massively successful.

This is the story that many ancient Romans believed.

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Roman Conquests $26.95 • Paperback 176 pages • 6.1x9.1 • 8pp color plates, including 4 specially commissioned color artworks, approx 6 b/w maps • March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-39-908521-2

The Roman army defeated the Seleucids at the epic battle of Magnesia in 190 BC, which marked the beginning of a long decline for Seleucid power in Asia. This, however, allowed other states to come to the fore, most notably Pontus. In the 1st century BC, Rome ‘s grip on its Asian provinces was shattered by the onslaught of Mithridates VI of Pontus, Rome ‘s most enduring foe.

Like the other volumes in this series, this book gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate.

$26.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.1 1 map • January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-900323-0 Michael Sage lives in San Diego, California

The assassination of Emperor Commodus in 192 sparked a civil war. Septimius Severus emerged as the eventual victor and his dynasty (the Severans) ruled until 235. He fought numerous campaigns, against both internal rivals and external enemies, extending the Empire to the east (adding Mesopotamia), the south (in Africa) and the north (beyond Hadrian’s Wall). The military aspects of his reign, including his reforms of the army, are the main focus of this new study.

After discussing his early career and governorship of Pannonia, Michael Sage narrates his war with Pescennius Niger, the siege of Byzantium, and the campaign in northern Mesopotamia.

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Pen & zSword •z Greece Against Rome

Military History of Late Rome 284–361

The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC

Ilkka Syvänne

Philip Matyszak $26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1x9.2 • 21 color illustrations October 2021 • HIS027220 978-1-39-900012-3

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.

Much of the narrative therefore focuses on the ‘game of thrones’ between the Hellenistic powers, a tale of assassinations, double crosses, dynastic incest, and warfare.

$34.95 • Paperback • 464 pages 6.1x9.2 • 32 color & black and white maps & battle diagrams January 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-39-908514-4

This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume gives a detailed account of the changes in organization, equipment, strategy, and tactics among both the Roman forces and her enemies in the relevant period, while also giving a detailed but accessible account of the campaigns and battles.

Volume I covers the period 284-361, starting with recovery from the ‘third-century crisis’ and the formation of the Tetrarchy. Constantine’s civil wars and stabilization are also major themes, with the pattern repeated under his sons. Constantius II’s wars against the usurper Magnentius, the Danubian tribes, and the Sassanid Persians illustrate the serious combination of internal and external threats the Empire faced at this time. The author discusses these and the many other dramatic military events in their full context and puts forward some interesting conclusions on strategic and tactical developments.

The Castle in the Wars of the Roses

Lepanto 1571

Dan Spencer

Nic Fields

$26.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 6.1x9.1 • January 2022 • HIS015020 978-1-52-679747-6

$28.95 • Paperback • 336 pages 6.1x9.1 • March 2022 • HIS027230 978-1-39-900286-8

The Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rivalries, political intrigues, and the rapid change of fortune on the battlefields of England and Wales. However, there is one aspect that has been often overlooked, the role of castles in the conflict.

Dan Spencer’s original study traces their use from the outbreak of civil war in the reign of Henry VI in the 1450s to the triumph of Henry VII some thirty years later. Using a wide range of narrative, architectural, financial and administrative sources, he sheds new light on the place of castles within the conflict, demonstrating their importance as strategic and logistical centres, bases for marshalling troops, and as fortresses Dan Spencer’s book provides a fascinating contribution to the literature on the Wars of the Roses and to the study of siege warfare in the Middle Ages.

The battle of Lepanto has long been considered one of the decisive naval battles of history. Yet, the savage fighting on Sunday, 7 October 1571 left the strategic map unchanged and the defeated Ottoman Turks were able to replace their losses and launch a new fleet the following year. Nic Fields reexamines the battle and concludes that, while it merely confirmed a strategic reality that had already emerged during the 16th century (i.e. that naval supremacy lay with the Sublime Porte in the eastern Mediterranean, and with Habsburg Spain and its Catholic allies in the western Mediterranean), it’s vital importance was psychological. It sank the perception of Ottoman dominance and the inevitability of Islam’s westward encroachment beyond the Balkans.

With over 200 ships per side, it was the largest naval battle in sixteen centuries and the last major fight between fleets composed entirely of the muscle-driven galley. These slender ships were the direct descendants of the Classical trireme but carried cannon and marines bearing firearms, although massed archery and cold steel still played a major rôle on the fateful day. Nic Fields gives an excellent account of this fascinating and spectacular battle.

The Madonna’s Victory

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Penz •&zSword Antiochus The Great

Pirate Killers

Michael Taylor

The Royal Navy and the African Pirates

$26.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 6.1x9.2 • 8pp plates, approx 6 b./w maps • December 2021 BIO008000 978-1-39-908524-3

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1x9.2 • December 2021 HIS057000 978-1-39-901356-7

Graham A. Thomas

A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of conquest and reunification.

Although repulsed by Ptolemy IV at the Battle of Raphia, his eastern campaigns reaffirmed Seleucid hegemony as far as modern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Returning westward, he defeated Ptolemy V at Panion (200 BC) and succeeded in adding Koile Syria to the Seleucid realm. At the height of his powers, he challenged growing Roman power, unimpressed by their recent successes against Carthage and Macedon. His expeditionary force was crushed at Thermopylae and evacuated. Refusing to bow before Roman demands, Antiochus energetically mobilized against Roman invasion, but was again decisively defeated at the epic battle of Magnesia.

The Highland Battles

Chris Peers

Warfare on Scotland’s Northern Frontier in the Early Middle Ages

$26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 March 2022 • HIS037010 • 978-1-52-679745-2

The wars fought in Scotland’s northern and western highlands between the ninth and fourteenth centuries were a key stage in the military history of the region, yet they have rarely been studied in-depth before. Out of this confused and turbulent period came the more settled and familiar history of the region. The Highlands and islands were controlled by the kings of Norway or

by Norse or Norse-Celtic warlords, who not only resisted Scottish royal authority but on occasion seemed likely to overthrow it.

That is why Chris Peers’s ambitious study is of such value for he provides a coherent and vivid account of the series of campaigns and battles that shaped Scotland.

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One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won. On West African shores they killed The King of the Pirates, Bartholomew Roberts, and captured his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court.

On the Barbary Coast of North Africa, pirates preyed on shipping in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as they had done for centuries and they terrorized the populations of the coastal towns. To them, piracy was a way of life, and the great sea-powers of the day couldn’t stop them. Then, in one of the most remarkable and neglected anti-piracy operations in maritime history, the Royal Navy confronted them, defeated them, and made the seas safe for trade.

The First and Second Italian Wars, 1494–1504 Fearless Knights, Ruthless Princes and the Coming of Gunpowder Armies Julian Romane $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 March 2022 • HIS027230 • 978-1-52-679759-9 Julian Romane lives in Zion, Illinois

The First and Second Italian Wars describes the course of military operations and political machinations in Italy from 1494 to 1504. These wars were not just another series of medieval fights. These battles were different from what had gone before: the French utilized a new method of artillery transport; the Spanish commander formulated a new system of military unit organization, and Cesare Borgia sought different systems of raising troops and forming states.

Worcestershire Under Arms An English County During the Civil Wars Malcolm Atkin $29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.2 80 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-39-901438-0

A ground-breaking new history of the English Civil War in Worcestershire which looks at the experience of local men who were recruited into the Royalist and Parliamentarian armies. The author gives a fascinating account of how the armies were raised, maintained, and equipped, and he records how major events in the Civil War across England affected the county.

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Pen & Sword z A Handful of Heroes, Rorke’s Drift

Gunner at Large

Facts, Myths and Legends

Rex Whitworth

The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759

The Diary of James Wood R. A. 1746– 1765

Johannes Hurter

Britain’s Other Trafalgar Nicholas Tracy

$29.95 • Paperback • 196 pages • 6.1x9.2 January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901605-6

$29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 8pp plates, 7 maps • October 2021 • HIS027150 978-1-39-901449-6

James Wood was one of the first cadets trained at Woolwich and served successfully as Volunteer, Mattross, Cadet, Cadet Gunner, and Fireworker in France, the Low Counties, Scotland, and n India between. His plainly written factual diary described in a professional manner the day to day routine for a junior rank in the field train of the army.

In editing James Wood’s diary, Rex Whitworth has been able to place Wood’s basic story in the contemporary military scene and so fill out the record of the professional British field gunner.

Revered naval theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, thought the Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 Nov 1759) was as significant as Nelson’s victory in 1805, calling it “the Trafalgar of this war [the Seven Years War].” Arguably it was even more vital.

Yet the battle and the admiral remain relatively obscure - there is no Quiberon Square or Hawke’s column.

Professor Nicholas Tracy studies the battle and its strategic consequences, particularly upon the war for North America.

The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1811– 1814 Napoleon on Campaign

The French at Waterloo Eyewitness Accounts

$26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 pages of black and white plates January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901489-2

Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the defense of Rorkes Drift, which will forever be one of the most celebrated British feats of arms.

Remarkably after such prolonged historical scrutiny, the authors research proves that there is yet more to discover about this famous incident of the Zulu War 1879 and her superbly researched book reveals a number of myths that have distorted what happened.

Tim Saunders Rob Yuill

Classic Images of Napoleon at War

$34.95 • Paperback • 368 pages • 6.1x9.1 30 black and white illustrations & 15 black and white maps • January 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-39-900794-8 Tim Saunders lives in Warminster, Wiltshire

H A Carruthers

With news of Napoleon’s disaster in Russia and with reinforcements from Britain, Wellington prepared his army to drive the French from the Peninsular. A lightening march across Spain to cut the Great Road found King Joseph and Marshal Jourdan at Vitoria and the resulting battle, in which the Light Division fought their way into the heart of the French position, was a triumph of arms for Wellington’s light troops.

Having thrown the French back and with the Sixth Coalition intact, the Light Division fought their way through into Napoleon’s France.

The rise and fall of Napoleon makes for a gripping, and tragic story, and these great works inside are arranged chronologically in order to let the images do the talking and provide an opportunity to allow the reader a unique chance to revel in the glorious and timeless work of the artists. Gathered together in a single volume for the first time this wonderful book makes for essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Napoleonic era.

$39.95 • Paperback • 184 pages • 11.6x8.2 color illustrations • October 2022 • HIS037060 978-1-39-901138-9

2nd and 6th Corps, Cavalry, Artillery, Foot Guard and Medical Services Andrew W Field $29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.2 August 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-52-679777-3

This second volume of French eyewitness accounts of Waterloo features graphic descriptions of the battle as it was remembered by men of the 2nd and 6th corps, cavalry, artillery, and Imperial Guard and medical services of Napoleon’s army.

Their words give us not only a telling inside view their actions during that extraordinary day, but they also record in graphic detail what they saw and show us how they reacted to Napoleon’s historic defeat.

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Pen & Sword z Victoria Crosses of the Zulu and Boer Wars Kevin Brazier $49.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.1 150 Mono pics integrated • May 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-39-909913-4

This complete chronological record of the Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Commonwealth soldiers during the Anglo-Zulu and Boer wars is an essential work of reference for everyone with a special interest in these major conflicts in southern Africa fought at the height of the British empire.

Each entry gives the name and rank of the VC holder and the date and location of the action in which the VC was earned. The episodes themselves are described, in vivid detail.

Information is also provided on the subsequent career of the VC recipients, the location of their medals and their place of burial.

The German Army on the Western Front 1915

The Charge of the Heavy Brigade Scarlett’s 300 in the Crimea

Jack Sheldon examines the German mindset at the close of 1914 when it became apparent that a quick victory was no longer a possibility.

Both sides were temporarily exhausted in static positions from the Channel to the Swiss Border.

In a reversal of roles, the French launched major offensives in Champagne and Artois, while the British Army, adapting to the demands of large scale continental warfare, went on the offensive in support at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Loos.

1915 was a transitional year on the Western Front with lessons being learned the hard way by both sides prior to the massive attritional battles of 1916 and 1917.

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Jean-Michel Veranneman De Watervliet

M J Trow $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 25 color illustrations • November 2021 HIS037060 • 978-1-39-909300-2

Everyone has heard of the charge of the Light Brigade, a suicidal cavalry attack caused by confused orders which somehow sums up the Crimean War (1854-6). Far less well known is what happened an hour earlier, when General Scarlett’s Heavy Brigade charged a Russian army at least three times its size. That ‘fight of heroes’, to use the phrase of William Russell, the world’s first war correspondent, was a brilliant success, whereas the Light Brigade’s action resulted in huge casualties and achieved nothing.

$26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.2 16pp B & W plates • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901141-9

When the Nazis invaded neutral Belgium in May 1940, defeat and occupation were inevitable but Belgian armed forces held out against a vastly superior enemy for 18 days. The elected Government went into exile in London but King Leopold III controversially remained with his people as a prisoner.

The Belgian Resistance organized escape routes, sabotaged their occupiers activities and spied for the Allies. 17,000 died or were executed and a further 27,000 survived detention. Meanwhile others collaborated and fought for the Nazis and large numbers were tried post-war for war crimes and treason.

Letters from the Trenches

Shell Shocked Britain

The First World War by Those Who Were There

The First World War’s Legacy for Britain’s Mental Health

Jack Sheldon $32.95 • Paperback • 336 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 original B&W Images • March 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-39-908512-0

Belgium in the Second World War

Jacqueline Wadsworth $29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.2 32 black and white illustrations January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-908509-0

A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.

Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups - from officers to conscripts and women at home to conscientious objectors.

Jacqueline Wadsworth skillfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War and what mattered to Britain’s servicemen and their feelings about the war.

Suzie Grogan $24.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6.1x9.2 December 2021 • HIS027090 978-1-39-909785-7

In 1922, the British Parliament published a report into the situation of thousands of mentally ill ex-soldiers still in hospital. Suzie Grogan has examined what happened to these men, what sort of treatments were on offer to them, and what reception did they receive from their families and society?

Drawing on a variety of original sources, Suzie Grogan combines personal stories with a wider narrative of the war to show the true extent of the trauma experienced by the survivors. She also uncovers fascinating neglected areas, like the surge in spiritualism and the effects of the Zeppelin raids on the Home Front.

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Pen & Sword z•z The Great War in the Argonne Forest

The Red Baron A History in Pictures Norman Franks

French and American Battles, 1914–1918

$29.95 • Paperback 200 pages • 6.1x9.1 150 illustrations • April 2022 BIO008000 978-1-39-908523-6

Richard Merry $26.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 January 2022 • HIS027090 978-1-52-679781-0

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicentre of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amidst the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood the German assaults. All sides suffered horrendous casualties, as each sought to break through the lines.

The epic four-year campaign is the subject of Richard Merry’s vividly written account. His great-uncle arrived there in September 1914 and started corresponding with his family. Richard traces the stories of some of the men – and women – who became embroiled in the epic forest struggle which culminated in the cold, gas-filled autumnal mist of 1918.

The German Army at Ypres 1914 Jack Sheldon

Keen First World War aviation enthusiasts will be familiar with Norman Franks’ previous books covering the life of Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, so why this new one? Well Manfred, the iconic Red Baron, has constantly remained at the forefront of First World War studies and, in commemorating the one hundred years that have elapsed since the beginning of hostilities, it seems like a good time to introduce a new arrangement of photographs covering the entire span of von Richthofen’s war (most of which will have been seen, but spread over a whole variety of books and magazines about First World War flying), consolidated in one book.

This collection represents the entire span of von Richthofen’s recorded history in pictures, some new and lesser-known, some iconic and widely circulated; all housed here under one roof, for the very first time.

The Great War Illustrated 1915

Germany in the Great War Arras, Third Ypres & Cambrai

Archive Photographs of WWI

Joshua Bilton $34.95 • Paperback • 400 pages • 6.1x9.2 16pp B&W plates • January 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-39-901452-6

$28.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 7.4x9.7 250 illustrations • December 2021 • HIS027090 978-1-47-387693-4

This book is the first complete account of the operations of the German army in the battles north of Lille in the late autumn of 1914. The main emphasis is placed on the battles around Ypres against the Old Contemptibles of the BEF, but the fighting against the French and Belgian armies are also featured, thus providing fresh insights into a campaign.

The book uses the comprehensive histories of the participating German regiments found in the Kriegsarchiv in Munich and the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Stuttgart. Their use adds authority and authenticity to the book.

This book documents the experiences of the Central Powers, specifically Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire during 1917, as they fought on land, at sea, and in the air.

Drawing on hundreds of contemporary photographs, many of them never previously published, this book examines the experiences of these three nations, spotlighting not only the events that occurred throughout the year, but the lives of those individuals fighting and dying to defend their homelands, families, and friends. Each chapter includes a succinct overview of a single front or theater of operation, complementing the hundreds of professional and amateur photographs contained within.

Jack Holroyd

William Langford

$28.95 • Paperback • 368 pages • 7.4x9.7 January 2022 • HIS027090 978-1-39-908516-8

This is the second in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically.

Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared, and continue to appear, in present-day publications and TV documentary programs. Many did not.

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zPen • z & Sword The Milk Cows

The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean

The U-Boat Tankers at War 1941 – 1945 John F. White

Brendan O’Carroll

$29.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 B&W plates • April 2022 HIS027150 978-1-39-908519-9

$34.95 • Paperback 328 pages • 6.1x9.1 • 32 black and white illustrations and 8 maps November 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-39-900368-1

During the Second World War the Germans developed a specially adapted U-boat oil tanker with two aims. First, by refuelling the attack U-boat fleet their range of operations and duration of patrol could be significantly increased. Secondly, these underwater tankers were far more likely to avoid detection than surface support ships.

The submarine tankers, affectionately known as Milk Cows, were regarded by both the Germans and the Allies as the most important element of the U-boat fleet. Allied forces had orders to attack the tankers first whenever a choice was presented.

The Milk Cows were highly vulnerable during the lengthy refuelling procedure as they lay stationary on the surface, hatches open. By the end of the war virtually every tanker had been sunk with severe loss of life.

The Terror Raids of 1942 The Baedeker Blitz Jan Gore

$29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.2 April 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679744-5

“We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide” the German Foreign Office announced in April 1942 as the Luftwaffe attacked Exeter, Bath, Norwich, York, and Canterbury. Over a thousand people died. These raids were direct retaliation for RAF raids on equally historic German cities.

Hitler had ordered that “Preference is to be given…where attacks are likely to have the greatest possible effect on civilian life” and in this narrow aim – as Jan Gore shows in the first full history of the raids to be published for over twenty years – they certainly succeeded.

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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.

In October the LRDG were ordered to assault the island of Levitha losing forty highly skilled men killed or captured. The Germans invaded Leros with overwhelming force on 12 November 1943, five days later the battle was over. While many British troops were captured most of the LRDG and SBS escaped. Their individual stories make for enthralling reading.

The author, an acknowledged expert on the LRDG uses official sources, both British and German, and individual accounts to piece together the full story of this dramatic, costly but little-known campaign. It is a valuable addition to the history of special forces in the Second World War.

German Night Fighters Versus Bomber Command 1943-1945 Martin W. Bowman $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901955-2

This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the closing years of the Second World War, as the tide turned against the German and Axis forces.

It includes riveting first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of the latter war years.

Viewing Bomber Command’s operations through the eyes of the enemy, the reader is offered a fresh and intriguing perspective. Set in context by Bowman’s historical narrative, these snippets of pilot testimony work to offer an authentic sense of the times at hand.

The Berlin Raids The Bomber Battle, Winter 1943–1944 Martin Middlebrook $28.95 • Paperback • 416 pages • 6.1x9.2 B & W plates • January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901142-6

The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. Bomber Commands Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, hoped to wreak Berlin from end to end and produce a state of devastation in which German surrender is inevitable. He dispatched nineteen major raids between August 1943 and March 1944 more than 10,000 aircraft sorties dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs on Berlin. It was the RAFs supreme effort to end the war by aerial bombing. But Berlin was not destroyed and the RAF lost more than 600 aircraft and their crews. The controversy over whether the Battle of Berlin was a success or failure has continued ever since.

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Pen & Sword z•z Kamikaze

Naval Aviation in the Korean War

Japan’s Last Bid for Victory Adrian Stewart

Aircraft, Ships, and Men

$26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1x9.1 • 32 black and white illustrations • March 2022 HIS027100 978-1-39-900024-6

Warren Thompson

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.

Airborne Landing to Air Assault A History of Military Parachuting Nikolaos Theotokis

$28.95 • Paperback 176 pages • 6.7x9.6 3x16pp color plates 250 75% color 25% mono INTEGRATED January 2022 • HIS027020 978-1-39-908515-1

The first part of this book covers the role of US aircraft carriers and aircraft in stopping the North Korean initial push to the south and also their role in the famous Inchon Landing and Pusan Perimeter Break out.The last part of the first chapter deals with naval operations during the Marine’s Chosin Reservoir march to the sea in December 1950.

The book goes on to describe the stabilization of the front lines after the Chinese had entered the war during 1951. At this time, the emphasis for naval air operations is centered on interdiction behind the lines. The focus is on trying to stop road and rail traffic from resupplying the communist troops and allowing them to build up to a major offensive.

The Strike Wings

Mosquito Mayhem de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45

Martin W. Bowman

Roy Conyers Nesbit

$28.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 March 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-679761-2

$28.95 • Paperback • 280 pages • 6.1x9.1 Approx 60 mono in plates • January 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-39-908506-9

Adapting the parachute for military purposes occurred with extraordinary speed during the First World War and, by the time of the Second World War, it had become an established technique for special operations and offensive actions on a large scale.

The range of parachute drops and parachute-led attacks was remarkable, and all the most dramatic examples from the world wars and lesser conflicts are recounted in this graphic and detailed study. The role played by parachute troops as elite infantry is also a vital part of the narrative, as is the way in which techniques of air assault have evolved since the 1970s.

The Mosquito was probably World War IIs most versatile combat aircraft. This book contains hundreds of first-hand accounts from many of the two-man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators. It portrays the dramatic experiences of flying in its many roles as pathfinder, night fighter, reconnaissance aircraft, precision bombing and low-level ground attack aircraft.

It describes many of the RAFs most audacious raids on prime but difficult targets where carpet bombing by heavy bombers was likely to be ineffective and cause unnecessary casualties to civilians. It is a remarkable record of the aircraft and the men that flew them.

$24.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.1 April 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-39-908282-2

In November 1942 the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended convoys that brought Germanys vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine.

In this classic account of one of the neglected yet crucial theatres of the air war Roy Nesbit, himself a survivor of strike aircraft of Coastal Command, describes these complex battles from British and German records, assisted by first-hand accounts from some of the brave airmen who took part. He also analyzes the effects of the tactics employed on the German war economy.

His book includes detailed diagrams of some of the key attacks and features some astonishing photographs taken in action.

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z Pen & Sword The Military Life and Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey Monty’s Army Commander Peter Rostron $29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.2 16pp B & W plates • Currently Available BIO008000 • 978-1-39-901448-9

Based on sources which include some of Dempsey’s previously unpublished work and the views of those who knew him, the book traces his career as a soldier of rare distinction, a talented sportsman, and a man of huge charm and shrewd intellect, dedicated to his beloved regiment and ever mindful of the lives of his soldiers. It examines his methods of command and his relationships with Montgomery, his Corps commanders, the Americans, and the RAF.

A German General on the Eastern Front The Letters and Diaries of Gotthard Heinrici 1941-1942 Johannes Hurter $19.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 illustrations • January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-908281-5

The Eastern Front, 1941. Operation Barbarossa.

Hitler’s armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici, a career soldier, a highly decorated First World War veteran, who observed and recorded in his diary and letters the unprecedented harshness of the German conduct of the campaign. With remarkable candour he described his experiences at the front and the everyday lives of the troops under his command - and the appalling conditions in which the war was fought.

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They Gave Me A Seafire

Tank Commander

Commander R. ‘Mike’ Crosley, DSC*, RN.

From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany The Memoirs of Bill Close

$29.95 • Paperback • 280 pages • 6.1x9.2 50 black and white photographs January 2022 • BIO034000 978-1-39-901444-1

The book charts Crosley’s service career in the Fleet Air Arm during the entire period of the Second World War. Part of his service saw him in action aboard HMS Eagle, flying Sea Hurricanes on the Harpoon and Pedestal Malta convoys of June and August 1942. It was during this time that he shot down his first enemy aircraft and survived the dramatic sinking of HMS Eagle.

The narrative is well written in a frank and often scathingly critical way of Fleet Air Arm operations during the Second World War and beyond. The book looks set to bring the endeavors of Crosley to a whole new generation of enthusiasts.

Bill Close $29.95 • Paperback • 280 pages • 6.1x9.2 50 black and white photographs December 2021 • BIO034000 978-1-39-901444-1

Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Regiment - and he survived. His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire, he was wounded three times. He finished the war as one of the most experienced and resourceful of British tank commanders, and in later life he set down his wartime experiences in graphic detail.

His book is not only an extraordinary memoir - it is also a compelling account of the exploits of the Royal Tank Regiment throughout the conflict.

A Reluctant Hero

Fight Another Day

The Life of Captain Robert Ryder VC

J.M. Langley

Richard Hopton $29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.1 April 2022 • BIO008000 • 978-1-39-908328-7

This is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C., Royal Navy (1908-1986), one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942 which completely destroyed the ports dry dock, depriving the Germans mighty pocket battleships of its use for the remainder of the war.

The raid was one of the most brilliantly-executed combined operations of the war, much of the credit for which must go to Ryder’s outstanding planning and courageous leadership.

$29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901382-6

As a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards, the author lost his arm at Dunkirk and was captured but eventually escaped via Lille, Paris, Marseilles, Spain, and Gibraltar. He describes the fierce fighting outside Dunkirk, his captivity, escape, and extraordinary life in Vichy France, before the Germans controlled it. His fellow escapees and the French who sheltered them make a rich cast of characters.

All this and more is brilliantly described in this gripping, beautifully written book.

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zPen • z & Sword Fighting for Spain

Allied Armour, 1939–1945

The International Brigades in the Civil War, 1936–1939

British and American Tanks at War Anthony Tucker-Jones

Alexander Clifford

$28.95 • Paperback 248 pages • 6.1x9.1 70 black and white illustrations May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-679784-1

$32.95 • Paperback 240 pages • 6.1x9.1 January 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-52-679763-6

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.

The Katyn Massacre 1940 History of a Crime Thomas Urban

During the first years of the Second World War, Allied forces endured a series of terrible defeats at the hands of the Axis powers.

Their tanks were outclassed, their armored tactics were flawed. But the advent of new tank designs and variants turned the tables.

Although German armor was arguably still superior at the end of the war, the competence of Allied designs and the sheer scale of their production gave them a decisive advantage on the armored battlefield. This is the fascinating story that Anthony Tucker-Jones tells in this book which is part of a three-volume history of armored warfare during the Second World War. Chapters cover each major phase of the conflict, from the early blitzkrieg years when Hitler’s panzers overran Poland, France and great swathes of the Soviet Union to the Allied fight back in tank battles in North Africa, Italy and northern Europe.

The Desert Air Force in World War II

The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942–1944 The Fleet that Had to Hide

$28.95 • Paperback • 296 pages • 6.1x9.1 70 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679708-7

Charles Stephenson

In the spring of 1940, Stalin‘s NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When Wehrmacht soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing US President Roosevelt of the German perpetration.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had no clear picture of the crime, and therefore made no public comments. Using thousands of recently released US documents, this book refutes the popular thesis that the Western Allies deliberately lied about the Katyn case in order not to endanger the alliance with Stalin.

The story of the British Eastern Fleet, which operated in the Indian Ocean against Japan, has rarely been told. Although it was the largest fleet deployed by the Royal Navy prior to 1945 and played a vital part in the theater it was sent to protect, it has no place in the popular consciousness of the naval history of the Second World War. So Charles Stephenson’s deeply researched and absorbing narrative gives this forgotten fleet the recognition it deserves.

$28.95 • Paperback • 336 pages • 6.1x9.2 August 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-679776-6

Air Power in the Western Desert, 1940– 1942 Ken Delve $34.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6.7x9.6 200 B&W Photos • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-908326-3

This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became known. It was formed in North Africa to support the 8th Army and included squadrons from the RAF, SAAF, RAAF and eventually the USAAF. The book includes descriptions of many notable defensive and offensive campaigns, the many types of aircraft used, weapons and the airfields that played host to these events.

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Pen & Sword z The Story of the Guards Armoured Division Commandos in Exile The Story of 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando, 1942–1945 Nicholas van der Bijl $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 16pp B & W plates • January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901385-7

Formed from members of Free Forces who had escaped from German occupation, 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando was one of the most unusual units in WW2. With no less than six national troops, plus X Troop drawn from exiled Jews, 10 Commando never fought as an entity but loaned troops for specific operations, such as One Troop, taking part in the Dieppe Raid, 2 Troop fighting at Arnhem, 5 Troop raiding the Lofoten Islands etc.

Evacuees Children’s Lives on the WW2 Home Front Gillian Mawson

$29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.1 100-125 B&W Photos • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-908507-6

On the outbreak of the Second World War, during the first week of September 1939 over three million people were evacuated. Operation Pied Piper was the largest ever transportation of people across Britain, and most of those moved to safety in the countryside were schoolchildren.

Social historian Gillian Mawson has spent years collecting the stories of former evacuees and this book includes the personal memories of over 100, in their own words. Their accounts reveal what it was like to settle into a new home with strangers, often staying for years.

A fascinating insight into the realities of wartime life, and a valuable oral history of a unique moment in British history.

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E. R. Hill The Earl of Rosse

Beating the Nazi Invader Hitler’s Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940 Neil R Storey

$29.95 • Paperback • 328 pages • 6.1x9.2 Black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901347-5

$34.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6.1x9.1 150-200 black and white illustrations January 2022 • POL036000 978-1-52-679723-0

Formed in June 1941, the Guards Armored Division proved that Household Troops could adapt their legendary high standards to a totally new role. Deploying to Normandy in 1944 under Major General Sir Allan Adair, the Division acquitted itself with distinction in the costly Operation GOODWOOD. After the breakout, the Welsh Guards liberated Brussels on 3 September and the Division played a leading role in Operation MARKET GARDEN. The Story of The Guards Armoured Division is a classic account of the division’s superb fighting record.

The author’s research describes the Nazi Party organization in Britain and reveals the existence of the Gestapo headquarters in central London.

The reader gains vivid insights into Nazi agents and terrorist cells, the Special Branch and MI5 teams who hunted them and investigated murders believed to have been committed by Third Reich agents on British soil.

Accessing a host of recently de-classified files the book explores the highly classified measures taken for the protection of the Royal Family, national treasures and gold reserves.

Scattered Under the Rising Sun The Gordon Highlanders in the Far East 1941 - 1945 Stewart Mitchell $29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 16pp B & W plates • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-908511-3

2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders was posted to Singapore in 1937 with their families. When the Japanese invaded Malaya in December 1941, the Battalion fought bravely until the surrender of Singapore on 14 February 1942. Those who were not killed became POWs. Of the 1000 men involved initially, over 400 had died by their liberation in summer 1945.

The author has researched the plight of these extraordinary men, so many of whom never saw their native Scotland again. Despite the grim conditions, he captures the strong collective regimental spirit and the humour and cooperation that saved so many who would have otherwise have perished - as many did.

Jocks in the Jungle The Black Watch and Cameronians as Chindits Gordon Thorburn $29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.2 1x16 mono plates • January 2022 • HIS027180 978-1-39-908508-3

In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training.

These were first-class British infantry, but not the super-selected special forces types that we know today. Nevertheless, it was a special-forces job they were supposed to do and that is what they were called, Special Force. The challenge in Madhya Pradesh was to turn themselves into jungle fighters as good as the Japanese. They had a few short months to become Chindits.

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Pen & Sword z•z One of Churchill’s Own

Johnnie Johnson’s Great Adventure

The Memoirs of Battle of Britain Ace John Greenwood

The Spitfire Ace of Ace’s Last Look Back

John Greenwood

Dilip Sarkar MBE

$29.95 • Paperback 168 pages • 6.1x9.2 50 photographs - 24 pages of black and white plates January 2022 • BIO034000 978-1-39-901445-8

$34.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 6.1x9.1 • 16 black and white illustrations • May 2022 BIO034000 • 978-1-52-679910-4

In May 1940, John Greenwood and his fellow pilots were sent to France with 24 hours notice where he shot down a Dornier 17 and a Messerschmitt 109 the very next day. This terrific start heralded a sorry return to England, with only four pilots and three aircraft remaining.

The squadron were sent to Kirton-in-Lindsey to reform, having lost half the Squadron in France, including the CO and both Flight Commanders.

At the end of August 1940, the reformed Squadron flew down to Kenley to join the tumult of the Battle of Britain. The next day, John shot down a Heinkel III, before subsequently being credited with 1/2 a Junkers 88 and a Messerschmitt 109. An impressive tally, yet despite being credited with 5 and half victories in France and The Battle of Britain, he was, controversially, one of the few aces never to be awarded a DFC.

The First Jet Pilot The Story of German Test Pilot Erich Warsitz Lutz Warsitz

In this book Johnnie Johnson re-visits certain aspects of his wartime service, including the development of tactical air cooperation with ground forces; his time as a Canadian wing leader in 1943, when the Spitfire Mk.IX at last outclassed the Fw 190; and details his involvement in some of the most important battles of the defeat of Nazi Germany, including Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings in 1944, Operation Market Garden and the airborne assault at Arnhem, and the Rhine Crossings, throughout all of which Johnnie also commanded Canadian wings.

Here, then, we have The Great Adventure – ‘Greycap Leader’s’ previously unpublished last look back.

Sunderland Over FarEastern Seas An RAF Flying Boat Navigator’s Story

$26.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6.1x9.1 138 illustrations within text • January 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-39-908327-0

Group Captain Derek K. Empson MBE, RAF (Rtd)

On 27 August 1939, Flugkapitan Erich Warsitz became the first man to fly a jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178 and in June of the same year he flew the first liquid-fuel rocket aircraft, the Heinkel He 176. His legendary flying skills enabled him to assist the pioneering German aircraft and engine design teams that included Wernher von Braun and Ernst Heinkel. He repeatedly risked his life extending the frontiers of aviation in speed, altitude and technology and survived many life-threatening incidents.

This book is written by Erich’s son who has used his father’s copious notes and log books that explain vividly the then halcyon days of German aviation history.

$29.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 Main text 142 (19 in color), 13 maps. Appendices 106 photos - most in color) • March 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-39-908510-6

This is the first book to give a detailed, firsthand account of post-World War II RAF Short Sunderland operations in the Far East. The author was a navigator with 88 Squadron and later 205 Squadron, flying operations during the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency and many other operations. He was based at Seletar in Singapore, Kaitak in Hong Kong, Iwakuni near Hiroshima and various other operational bases throughout his two and a half year tour.

Air Marshal Sir Keith Park Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta Murray Rowlands $29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 black and white illustrations • March 2022 BIO034000 • 978-1-39-900025-3

The Battle of Britain is one of the finest moments in UK history. While credit rightly goes to ‘The Few’, victory could never have happened without the inspirational command and leadership of New Zealander Keith Park.

He and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ensured that Fighter Command was prepared for the Nazi onslaught. Shamefully Dowding and Park were dismissed from their commands in the aftermath of victory due to internal RAF politics.

This balanced and well overdue account hopefully ensures that Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park receives the credit for victory that he so richly deserves.

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Pen & Sword z Frank Pantridge MC

Chindit Affair A Memoir of the War in Burma

Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator Cecil Lowry $29.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 black and white illustrations • May 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900292-9

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.

This stirring biography reveals the full story of a remarkable man who survived against the odds to save countless lives.

Brian Mooney

$29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 8pp of B & W plates • April 2022 • HIS037030 978-1-39-908525-0

In March 1944, some 2,200 battle trained men of 111 Brigade flew from India into northern Burma to land on improvised airstrips cleared from the jungle, They were part of General Orde Wingates Chindit force sent to fight the Japanese deep behind their lines. Five months later, 111 Brigade was down to 118 fit men eight British officers, a score of British soldiers and 90 Gurkhas. One of those eight officers was Frank Baines, and in Chindit Affair he tells, in vivid language and with shrewd insight, what happened.

At the Fifth Attempt

Fighting with the Fourteenth Army in Burma

An Escape Story John Elwyn

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.2 4pp mono plates • December 2021 BIO008000 • 978-1-39-901607-0

As a private soldier serving with the Welsh Guards, John Elwyn was taken prisoner before the evacuation from Dunkirk. At once his mind turned to thoughts of escape and it was not long before he was on the run. The cycle of recapture, retribution, and repeated escape which followed would have persuaded most prisoners that it was easier to sit out the war wherever one found oneself. But Elwyn was not cast in that mold and, not content with simply escaping, at one stage falls in love with and marries a Polish woman, a romance that sadly ended in tragedy.

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Original War Summaries of the Battle Against Japan 1943–1945 James Luto $29.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6.1x9.2 Illustrated • December 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901349-9

The Fourteenth Army was one of the most successful British and Commonwealth forces of the Second World War. It was not only the largest of the Commonwealth armies but was also the largest single army in the world with around half a million men under its command. Operating in the most inhospitable terrain, it drove the previously undefeated Japanese Army from the Indian border and out of Burma in an unrelenting offensive.

In the Shadow of Death The Story of a Medic on the Burma Railway, 1942–45 Idris James Barwick Elizabeth Garland $29.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 photos • January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901442-7

Idris (Taff) James was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps and one of the thousands of young British soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese in early 1942. He was ordered to become a medic by his Company Commander, who must have been a very shrewd judge of character. His account of the conditions and suffering endured by his fellow prisoners and himself makes for the most extraordinary and disturbing reading. Taff suffered from dysentery, malaria, beri beri and cholera but, unlike so many, he survived.

A Fearful Freedom Robert Hamond

$29.95 • Paperback • 184 pages • 6.1x9.1 4pp mono plates • May 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901606-3

This amazing survival story tells how Jim Wright, a Norfolk gamekeeper’s son, aged 23, managed to evade capture by the Japanese during the last few days of the battle on the Malayan mainland.

This is a very exciting story which tells of his jungle left with the guerillas and the action-packed narrative reads in places like a thriller. There are encounters with wild animals, snakes, Japanese soldiers, traitors and death – encounters whose description leaves one with the same chill of fear which Jim Wright must have felt. Finally he is rescued by British forces and taken to freedom in the most unorthodox way – too exciting to describe here.

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z Pen & Sword Flying to the Limit Testing World War II SingleEngined Fighter Aircraft Peter Caygill

De Havilland Enterprises A History Graham M. Simons

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 80 mono set within text • May 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-39-901439-7

$38.95 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6.7x9.6 200 illustrations • May 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-908517-5

During the years preceding and during WW2, the RAF and the Royal Aircraft Establishment were responsible for the selection and procurement of British military aircraft and also to evaluate their capabilities against captured enemy models whenever possible. During the lend-lease agreement with the USA, the RAF and Fleet Air Arm operated several American designs, each of which was tested to evaluate its potential.

This book looks at the key area of fighter aircraft and includes the test results and pilot’s own first-hand accounts of flying seventeen different models.

Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was one of the world’s true pioneers of powered flight.

This book explores the influences and milestones of his early years before going on to examine his company, The De Havilland Aircraft Company Limited, in detail.

Every one of De Havilland’s products are listed and recorded in detail here, as are all the designs that never left the drawing board and the products of De Havilland’s companies in Australia and Canada. Fully illustrated throughout, this volume is sure to be highly prized amongst serious collectors.

Scottish Lion on Patrol 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment T. Chamberlin W Kemsley $38.95 • Paperback • 416 pages • 6.1x9.2 96 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901874-6

Scottish Lion on Patrol was first published in 1950, the record of the 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiments formation, training, and service in the campaign that took them from Normandy to the Baltic. They played a key role in the liberation of Europe and the Regiment was unique in that it was in the forefront of the crossings of the Rivers Seine, Rhine, and Elbe.

The troops who landed in Normandy were highly trained but most of them had not experienced actual combat; however they very quickly learned the skills necessary to survive and defeat a cunning and resourceful foe.

Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose The Story of the HK-1 Hercules Graham M. Simons $26.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 Integrated black and white photographs January 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-39-901441-0

Howard Hughes’ life ambition was to make a significant contribution to the field of aviation development. But the monumental folly of his endeavors on the HK-I Hercules meant that he came to be known and remembered to a great extent for all the wrong reasons. The ‘Spruce Goose’ (a name Hughes detested) became a product of his wild fixation on perfection and scale. Yet it only completed one flight; flying for a mile on its maiden voyage above Long Beach Harbor, before being consigned to the history books as a failure.

Soldier in the Sand A Personal History of the Modern Middle East

The Brunei Revolt, 1962– 1963

Sir Simon Mayall KBE CB

Nicholas van der Bijl

$38.95 • Paperback • 368 pages • 6.1x9.2 32 black and white illustrations December 2021 • HIS026000 978-1-52-679837-4

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. General Mayall explains complex situations in a thoroughly accessible and human manner. This will come as no surprise to those who have listened to his lectures worldwide, but this important and entertaining book now brings his knowledge and commonsense approach to a far wider audience.

$29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1x9.2 16pp B & W plates • December 2021 HIS027130 • 978-1-39-901354-3

In December 1962, nationalists in Brunei, the hugely wealthy small kingdom on the North Coast of Borneo, formed the Army of North Kalimantan (TNKU) and, demanding greater democracy, engineered a rebellion against the Sultan and seized a large number of hostages.

Perceived to be an attempt by communists to destabilize the Sultanate and seize power, within twelve hours of its outbreak, British forces were dispatched by ship and aircraft from Singapore to restore order.

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Penz •&zSword Logistics in the Vietnam Wars, 1945–1975

Collecting Toy Soldiers in the 21st Century

N S Nash CBE

James Opie

$28.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 6.1x9.2 • 113 black and white illustrations • April 2022 • HIS027070 978-1-52-679814-5

$34.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 7.6x10.2 • Approx 220 color photographs • December 2021 ANT053000 • 978-1-39-901440-3

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.

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.

This book serves as an update of the author’s successful Collecting Toy Soldiers (Collins, 1987; pb edition, New Cavendish, 1991). In it, James Opie gives the collector the benefit of thirty years experience as the world’s leading authority on traditional toy soldiers (as opposed to model soldiers used in wargaming, etc) and a lifetime as a collector himself. This book combines authoritative advice on all aspects of collecting, including price trends and pitfalls to avoid when buying or selling at auction, with informative and often-amusing anecdotes from James’ own experiences. This is a completely new book, so even those many who bought the first one should welcome its appearance, as should anyone with an interest in this fascinating hobby.

HMS London From Fighting Sail to the Arctic Convoys & Tomorrow’s Wars Iain Ballantyne $29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.7x9.3 January 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-39-901286-7

Warships named HMS London have been associated with some of the most controversial episodes in British naval history, from the bungled sea battle that lost King George III his American colonies, to the shambles of Gallipoli in WW1, and the notorious decision by the Admiralty to abandon convoy PQ17 in WW2.

Iain Ballantyne’s fascinating and lively account of the lives of British warships named London is illustrated throughout with photographs, many of them never published before.

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British Concentration Camps A Brief History from 1900– 1975 Simon Webb $29.95 • Paperback • 200 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 illustrations • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-39-901140-2

The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans, who were the chief driving force behind the development and use of concentration camps in the Twentieth Century.

Not only did the British government run their own concentration camps, they willingly acquiesced in the setting up of such establishments in the United Kingdom by other countries.

This book tells the terrible story of Britai’ns involvement in the use of concentration camps, which did not finally end until the last political prisoners being held behind barbed wire in the United Kingdom were released in 1975.

On the Deck or in the Drink A Naval Aviator’s Story Lieutenant Brian R. Allen RN (Rtd) $29.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.2 30 B&W Photos - Plate section October 2021 • BIO034000 978-1-39-901447-2

Brian Allen first went to sea as a naval aviation officer cadet aboard HMS Indefatigable in 1952, bound for Gibraltar. In 1954, he was appointed to Lossiemouth for fighter training and flew the Vampire T22. In December 1955, Brian joined 737 Squadron where he was attached to the Anti-Submarine Training Course flying the Fairey Barracuda. On completion he was destined to fly the then new Fairey Gannet twin turbo prop anti-submarine aircraft. July 1955, and now with 825 Squadron, saw his introduction of the new aircraft, a very different machine to the Barracuda.

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Pen & Sword z•z The Royal Navy in Action Art from Dreadnought to Vengeance John Fairley $49.95 • Hardback • 160 pages 8.4x11 • 60 color illustrations May 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-39-900949-2

The Intelligencers British Military Intelligence From the Middle Ages to 1929 Brig. Gen. Brian Parritt $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 6.1x9.2 • 32 black and white illustrations December 2021 • HIS027000 978-1-39-900492-3

At the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with the British Empire encompassing the globe, the Royal Navy indisputably ruled the waves. Times change but the magnificence and drama of warships at sea, whether in peace or war, remain an inspiration to artists. This fine book brings together a collection of superb art works which bear witness to the majesty of these mighty ships in action and, at the same time, are a memorial to the dangers, heroism and victories at sea.

The reader is treated to a feast of the finest maritime paintings depicting the Royal Navy’s dramatic confrontations of the last 120 years. Masters such as Norman Wilkinson, Richard Eurich and William Wyllie cover the two World Wars. Other works illustrate the crucial role of the Navy in the Falklands War and the latest aircraft carriers are also represented.

The author draws on his own naval service experience to describe the background to, and significance of, the ships and conflicts that these paintings so vividly record.

Intelligence about the enemy is a fundamental part of any war or battle, knowledge of the enemy’s strength, dispositions, and intentions are essential for success. This book reveals that for 250 years the British Army resolutely failed to prepare for war by refusing to establish a nucleus of soldiers in peace, trained to obtain intelligence in war.

Yet the story of British military endeavor over 250 years is a remarkable story of individual bravery, achievement, and success. We read of the Scoutmaster whose role was to gather intelligence on the King’s enemies and of Walsingham’s secret organization at the time of Elizabeth I. During the long years of war against France culminating in the Napoleonic Wars, spymasters developed on an ad hoc basis. In the nineteenth century, despite the power and reach of Empire, no central intelligence organization existed.

Enterprising young officers worked wonders but failures such as those in the Boer War cost the Nation dearly. It took the reverses in the Great War to create an Intelligence Corps, but even that was disbanded post-war.

Confessions of an Airline Pilot – Why Planes Crash

The Supersonic BONE

Including Tales from the Pilot’s Seat Terry Tozer $34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations March 2022 • TRA002000 978-1-39-901204-1

How do you know if the airline you are planning to fly with is safe? What should you be worried about? Is it turbulence, lightning, or that the pilots might be asleep while the aircraft flies on, on autopilot?

Your questions are answered by providing the reader with a fly in the cockpit view of a series of real flights. Some result in accidents and incidents that demonstrate what the priorities for good safety are. Others are experiences from the author’s own flying career in both passenger airline flying to long haul cargo, with its hidden world of global commerce, military operations and more. Finally, the author offers a suggestion that would offer the passenger an easy way of choosing safe airlines; it could be the answer to equate choosing a flight with choosing other life altering purchases that are already in place.

A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber Kenneth Katz $42.95 • Hardback • 400 pages 6.7x9.6 • 300 color illustrations April 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-39-901471-7

When the B-52 Stratofortress entered operational service with the US Air Force in 1955, work was already underway on defining its successor - B-1A bomber, which flew at high speed and low altitude to evade enemy air defenses. The B-1, known as the BONE, was revived in 1981 as the improved B-1B to boost American military power and be a symbol of American strength at the peak of Cold War tensions.

After the Cold War, the B-1B lost its primary nuclear mission but remained relevant by transforming into a high-speed, long-range, high-payload delivery platform for conventional precision-guided munitions. The first combat use of the B-1B was in 1998 in Iraq. The BONE has proved a highly effective combat aircraft in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and the former Yugoslavia.

This superbly researched and illustrated book traces the BONE’s long development and operational history in fascinating detail.

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z • zBeatie Savas Thunder in the Harbor

“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”

Fort Sumter and the Civil War

The Army of Northern Virginia’s and Army of the Potomac’s March to Gettysburg Volume 1: June 3-22, 1863

Richard W. Hatcher, III $32.95 • Hardback • 336 pages • 6x9 50 Images, 3 maps • May 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-593-9

Fort Sumter. Charleston. April 1861. The bombardment and surrender of Sumter were only the beginning of the story.

Both sides understood the military significance of the fort and the busy seaport, which played host to one of the longest and most complicated campaigns of the entire Civil War. Richard Hatcher’s Thunder in the Harbor is the first modern monograph to document the role of both the fort and the city throughout the entire Civil War. Nearly 18 months of shelling had rendered Fort Sumter almost unrecognizable, but the significance of its location remained. During the eight decades that followed, the United States invested millions of dollars and thousands of hours rebuilding and rearming the fort to face potential foreign threats in three different wars.

Hatcher, the former historian at Fort Sumter, mined a host of primary sources to produce an in-depth and fascinating account of the intricacies, complexities, and importance of this campaign to the overall war effort.

$34.95 • Hardback • 432 pages • 6x9 50 images, 20 maps • June 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-584-7 Eric J. Wittenberg lives in OH Scott L. Mingus Sr. lives in York, PA

Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg, the authors of more than forty Civil War books, have once again teamed up to present a history of the opening moves of the Gettysburg Campaign in the two-volume study “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia’s and Army of the Potomac’s March to Gettysburg. This compelling study is one of the first to integrate the military, media, political, social, economic, and civilian perspectives with rank-and-file accounts from the soldiers of both armies as they inexorably march toward their destiny at Gettysburg. This first installment covers June 3-22, 1863, while the second, spanning June 22-30, completes the march and carries the armies to the eve of the fighting.

Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas

The Civil Wars of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston Volume 1: Virginia to Mississippi, 1861-1863

Including the Red River Campaign, Imprisonment at Camp Ford, and Escape Overland to Liberated Shreveport, 1864-1865

Richard M. McMurry $34.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6x9 10 images, 6 maps • October 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-61121-592-2 Richard M. McMurry lives in Dalton, GA

Joseph Eggleston Johnston was one of the original five full generals of the Confederacy. He graduated West Point in the same 1829 class as Robert E. Lee and served in the War with Mexico, the Seminole Wars in Florida, and in Texas and Kansas. By 1860 he was widely looked upon as one of America’s finest military officers. Yet, Johnston remains an enigma.

Richard McMurry’s masterful The Civil Wars of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston: Volume 1: Virginia to Mississippi, 1861-1863 unlocks Johnston the general and represents a lifetime of study and thinking about the officer, his military career, and his simultaneous battles with the government in Richmond in general, and with President Jefferson Davis in particular. This first installment opens with secession and the beginning of the war and continues through his appointment as full general, his role at Manassas, his literary duel with Davis, and stewardship at the helm of the Confederacy’s primary army in Virginia.

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Eric J. Wittenberg Scott L. Mingus Sr.

Jeaninne Surette Honstein Steven A. Knowlton $18.95 • Hardback • 168 pages • 6x9 • 18 images, 3 maps • May 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-61121-588-5 • Jeaninne Surette Honstein lives in Princeton, NJ • Steven A. Knowlton lives in Princeton, NJ

Thirteen Months in Dixie recounts Oscar Federhen’s often horrifying and sometimes thrilling ordeals as a starving prisoner of war. The captured artillerist tried to escape many times and faced sadistic guards and vicious hounds before making good his deadly effort. Making his way back to Union lines forced him to range cross-country through northeast Texas. He had to dodge regular Confederates, irregulars, and Comanches, but was captured a second time and escaped yet again, finally witnessing the collapse of Confederate army in the spring of 1865 in freedom.

This is not only a gripping true story of courage, adventure, and devotion to duty, but a valuable primary source about the lives of Civil War prisoners.

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z•z Savas Beatie

Man of Fire

John Brown’s Raid

William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War

Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859

Derek D. Maxfield Emerging Civil War Series • $14.95 • Paperback 192 pages • 6x9 • 150 images, 10 maps June 2022 • BIO008000 • 978-1-61121-599-1 Derek D. Maxfield lives in Churchville, NY

He has been accused of “studied and ingenious cruelty.” By turns he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a madman. But whatever you call William Tecumseh Sherman, you must admit he is utterly fascinating.

Sherman spent a lifetime in search of who he was, striving to find a place and a calling.

Informally adopted by the Ewing family of Lancaster, Ohio, when his own father died when he was just nine, the young redhead lived in a spacious mansion just up the hill from his mother. Later, as a young man he would marry his adopted sister, Ellen.

After attending West Point, the intrepid Ohioan found that being a soldier suited him. Yet he always seemed to miss his opportunity. The second Seminole War was in its closing days before he saw action. When the Mexican-American War broke out, he anticipated the opportunity to earn military glory only to be posted to Pittsburgh on recruiting duty. Transferred to California, he arrived too late after surviving two shipwrecks, then ended up on administrative duties.

Hounded by his family to leave the military, Sherman tried banking and practicing law.

Finally, he became superintendent of a new military academy in Louisiana and thought he had found his place—until civil war intervened.

Jon-Erik M. Gilot Kevin R. Pawlak Emerging Civil War Series • $14.95 • Paperback 192 pages • 6x9 • 150 images, 10 maps June 2022 • HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-597-7 Jon-Erik M. Gilot lives in Wheeling, WV Kevin R. Pawlak lives in Manassas, VA

The first shot of the American Civil War was not fired on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, but instead came on October 16, 1859, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia—or so claimed former slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

John Brown, the infamous fighter on the Kansas plains and detester of slavery, led a band of nineteen men on a desperate nighttime raid that targeted the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

There, they planned to begin a war to end slavery in the United States.

But after 36 tumultuous hours, John Brown’s Raid failed, and Brown himself became a prisoner of the state of Virginia.

Brown’s subsequent trial further divided north and south on the issue of slavery as Brown justified his violent actions to a national audience forced to choose sides. Ultimately, Southerners cheered Brown’s death at the gallows while Northerners observed it with reverence. The nation’s dividing line had been drawn.

Herman Melville and Walt Whitman extolled Brown as a “meteor” of the war. Roughly one year after Brown and his men attacked slavery in Virginia, the nation split apart, fueled by Brown’s fiery actions.

Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell The Battle of Seccessionville James A. Morgan III Emerging Civil War Series • $14.95 • Paperback 192 pages • 6x9 • 150 images, 10 maps June 2022 • HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-601-1

The small, curiously named village of Secessionville, just outside of Charleston, South Carolina was the site of an early war skirmish, the consequences of which might have been enormous had the outcome been different. It quickly would be forgotten, however, as the Seven Days battles, fought shortly afterward and far to the north, attracted the attention of Americans on both sides of the conflict.

The battle at Secessionville was as bloody and hard fought as any similar sized encounter during the war. But it was poorly planned and poorly led by the Union commanders whose behavior did not do justice to the courage of their men.

That courage was acknowledged by Confederate Lt. Iredell Jones who wrote, “let us never again disparage our enemy and call them cowards, for nothing was ever more glorious than their three charges in the face of a raking fire of grape and canister.”

For the Federals, the campaign on James Island was a joint Army-Navy operation which suffered from inter-service rivalries and no small amount of mutual contempt.

In Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell, historian Jim Morgan examines the lead up to the James Island campaign as well as the skirmish itself on June 16, 1862 and its aftermath.

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Savas Beatie z•z When Hell Came to Sharpsburg

The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor

The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home

An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor, Including all Cavalry Operations, May 7 through June 3, 1864

Steven Cowie $34.95 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6x9 35 images, 8 maps • May 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-590-8 Steven Cowie lives in Knoxville, TN

The Battle of Antietam, fought in and around Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day in American history. Despite the large number of books and articles on the subject, the horrendous effect that the battle had on area civilians is rarely discussed. When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home by Steven Cowie rectifies this oversight.

When Hell Came to Sharpsburg investigates how the battle and its armies wreaked emotional, physical, and financial havoc on the people of Sharpsburg. For proper context, the author explores the savage struggle and its gory aftermath and explains how soldiers stripped the community of resources and spread diseases.

South Mountain

Bradley M. Gottfried Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series $37.95 • Hardback • 352 pages 7x10 • 134 maps • June 2022 • HIS036050 978-1-61121-586-1 • Bradley M. Gottfried lives in MD

The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor breaks down the entire operation into thirty-five map sets or “action sections” enriched with 134 detailed full-page color maps. These cartographic originals bore down to the regimental and battery level and include the march to and from the battlefields and virtually every significant event in between.

This unique presentation allows readers to easily and quickly find a map and text on any portion of the campaign, from the march to Spotsylvania Court House to Cold Harbor.

The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

Volume I -

Volume II Antietam

General Ezra A. Carman Thomas G. Clemens

General Ezra A. Carman Thomas G. Clemens

$24.95 • Paperback • 576 pages • 6x9 images, 22 maps • May 2022 • HIS036050 978-1-61121-605-9 Thomas G. Clemens lives in Keedysville, MD

$26.95 • Paperback • 696 pages • 6x9 16 photos, 63 maps • May 2022 • HIS036050 978-1-61121-606-6 Thomas G. Clemens lives in Keedysville, MD

When Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in September 1862, the campaign included some of the most influential combat of the entire Civil War. One of the campaign’s participants was Ezra A. Carman, who wrote an 1,800-page manuscript on the campaign.

Thomas Clemens has spent more than two decades editing and richly annotating Carman’s exhaustively written manuscript. The result is The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, published for the first time in three volumes.

Antietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

Many have written about the climactic September 17 battle, but it is impossible to do so without referencing Carman’s definitive manuscript.

Carman’s prose is augmented by his detailed maps of the dawn to nearly dusk fighting on September 17, which have never appeared in their original form in any book on the battle.

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 Volume III Shepherdstown Ford and the End of the Campaign General Ezra A. Carman Thomas G. Clemens $22.95 • Paperback • 336 pages • 6x9 images, 4 maps • May 2022 • HIS036050 978-1-61121-607-3 Thomas G. Clemens lives in Keedysville, MD

The third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

This study concludes with Dr. Clemens’ invaluable bibliographical dictionary, a genealogical goldmine of personal information about the soldiers, politicians, and diplomats who had an impact on shaping Carman’s manuscript.

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z Savas Beatie War in the Western Theater Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Chris Mackowski PhD Sarah Kay Bierle Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series $29.95 • Hardback • 312 pages • 6x9 100 images, 10 maps • June 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-596-0 Chris Mackowski lives in NY Sarah Kay Bierle lives in Temecula, CA

Often relegated to a backseat by action in the Eastern Theater, the Western Theater is actually where the Federal armies won the Civil War. In the Eastern Theater, the principal armies fought largely within a 100-mile corridor between the capitals of Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, with a few ill-fated Confederate invasions north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

The Western Theater, in contrast, included the entire area between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, from Kentucky in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south—a vast geographic expanse that, even today, can be challenging to understand.

The Western Theater of War revisits some of the Civil War’s most legendary battlefields: Shiloh, Chickamauga, Franklin, the March to the Sea, and more.

The Second Battle of Winchester The Confederate Victory That Opened the Door to Gettysburg Eric J. Wittenberg Scott L. Mingus Sr.

Grant vs Lee Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Chris Mackowski PhD Dan Welch Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series • $29.95 • Hardback 312 pages • 6x9 100 images, 10 maps • April 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-595-3 Chris Mackowski lives in NY Dan Welch lives in Gettysburg, PA

By the spring of 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia had become battle-hardened, battle-weary foes locked in an ongoing stalemate. Abraham Lincoln needed to break the deadlock and so brought to the east the unassuming “dust-covered man” who had strung together victory after victory in the west: Ulysses S. Grant.

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant would come to symbolize the armies they led as the spring campaign got underway, and the clash that began in the Virginia Wilderness on May 5, 1864, turned into a long, desperate deathmatch that inexorably led to Appomattox Court House eleven months later.

The war would come to an end, but at what cost along the way?

Defending the Arteries of Rebellion Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861-1865 Neil P. Chatelain

$24.95 • Paperback • 528 pages 6x9 76 images, 18 maps • April 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-604-2 Eric J. Wittenberg lives in OH Scott L. Mingus Sr. lives in York, PA

$22.95 • Paperback • 336 pages 6x9 42 images, 8 maps • April 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-603-5 Neil P. Chatelain lives in Humble, TX

Milroy, a veteran Indiana politician-turned-soldier, was convinced Lee’s approaching Army of Northern Virginia consisted of nothing more than cavalry or was merely a feint, and so defied repeated instructions to withdraw, costing Milroy hundreds of killed and wounded and about 4,000 captured (roughly one-half of his command), with the remainder routed from the battlefield.

Today, the Second Battle of Winchester is largely forgotten. But in June 1863, the politically charged front-page news caught President Lincoln and the War Department by surprise and forever tarnished Milroy’s career. The beleaguered Federal soldiers who fought there spent a lifetime seeking redemption, arguing their three-day “forlorn hope” delayed the Rebels long enough to allow the Army of the Potomac to arrive and defeat Lee at Gettysburg. For the Confederates, the decisive leadership masked significant command issues that would become painfully evident during the early days of July on a different battlefield in Pennsylvania.

Most studies of the Mississippi River focus on Union campaigns to open and control it, overlooking Southern attempts to stop them. Now in paperback, Neil Chatelain’s Defending the Arteries of Rebellion is the other side of the story.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis realized the value of the Mississippi River and its entire valley, which he described as the “great artery of the Confederacy.” To protect these arteries of rebellion, Southern strategy called for crafting a ring of powerful fortifications supported by naval forces.

Different military branches, however, including the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Revenue Service, as well as civilian privateers and even state naval forces, competed for scarce resources to operate their own vessels.

A lack of industrial capacity, coupled with a dearth of skilled labor, further complicated Confederate efforts and guaranteed the South’s grand vision of deploying dozens of river gunboats and powerful ironclads would never be fully realized.

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Seaforth z • zPublishing The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters Linchpin of Victory 1935–1942 Andrew Boyd

The Battleship Builders Schnellboote

$29.95 • Paperback • 576 pages • 6.1x9.1 25 illustrations & 4 maps • January 2022 HIS027150 • 978-1-39-909654-6

This important work tells the story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt to Australasia through the first half of the Second World War; it explains why this contribution, made while Russia’s fate remained in the balance and before American economic power took effect, was so critical.

The book moves authoritatively between grand strategy, intelligence, accounts of specific operations, and technical assessment of ships and weapons. It challenges established perceptions of Royal Navy capability and will change the way we think about Britain’s role and contribution in the first half of the war.

Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships Ian Johnston Ian Buxton $34.95 • Paperback • 320 pages • 7.8x10.1 280 b/w photos and line drawings March 2022 • HIS027150 • 978-1-39-909204-3

Charts the rise of the large industrial conglomerates, looks at their reaction to fast-moving technical changes, and analyses the politics of funding a vast national effort, both before and during the Great War. It also attempts to assess the true cost and value of the Grand Fleet in terms of the resources consumed, and describes the effects of the post-war recession.

Battle in the Baltic

British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars

The Royal Navy and the Fight to Save Estonia and Latvia, 1918–1920 Steve Dunn Al Ross $24.95 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6.1x9.1 35 black & white • January 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-39-909655-3

For most participants, the First World War ended on 11 November 1918, but the Royal Navy found itself, despite four years of slaughter and war weariness, were fighting a fierce and brutal battle in the Baltic Sea against Bolshevik Russia in an attempt to protect the fragile independence of the newly liberated states of Estonia and Latvia.

Today few people are aware of this exhausting campaign and the sacrifices made by Royal Navy sailors (three VCs were won), but the pages of this book retell their exciting but forgotten stories and, using much first-hand testimony, bring back to life the critical naval operations that prevented the retaking of the new Baltic countries.

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From The John Lambert Collection Steve Dunn $70 • Hardback • 208 pages • 9.6x11.4 100 line drawings & 50 b/w photos January 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-52-679486-4

John Lambert was a renowned naval draftsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in, he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published. These were acquired by Seaforth and this title is the fourth of a planned series of albums on selected themes, reproducing complete sheets at a large page size.

A Complete Operational History Lawrence Paterson $26.95 • Paperback • 352 pages • 6.1x9.1 110 b/w photos and 4 maps • March 2022 HIS027150 • 978-1-39-908228-0

The Kriegsmarine’s Schnellboote fast attack boats, or E-boats to the Allies, were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War. There had been no comprehensive operational history of the S-boat service in all the theaters in which it saw service, but due to the relatively small number of units it is possible to recount the duties and fates of each individual craft and in this book the author examines the career of each in detail.

The Trafalgar Chronicle Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 6 Peter Hore $39.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 5.8x8.2 20 color & 100 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-52-675966-5

The Trafalgar Chronicle is the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes called ‘Nelson’s Navy’, though its scope includes all the sailing navies of the period from 1714 to 1837.

The theme of the 2021 issue is ‘Georgian Navy encounters with indigenous and enslaved populations.’ The theme is particularly relevant to current-day discussions and social activism occurring across the globe, that have brought new insights and perspectives to Western history of colonization, exploration, and slavery.

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