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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