Pen and Sword

The Americans and Germans at Bastogne

First-Hand Accounts from the Commanders Who Fought Gary Sterne

$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.

Phoenix 13

Americal Division Artillery Air Section Helicopters in Vietnam Darryl James

$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

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.

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.

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.

The Waffen SS at Arnhem

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

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.

The WaffenSS Ardennes Offensive

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.

Waffen-SS Armour on the Eastern Front 1941–1945

Ian Baxter

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.

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

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.

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.

Tiger I, German Army Heavy Tank

Eastern Front, 1942 Dennis Oliver

TankCraft • $24.95 • Paperback 64 pages 8.3x11.7 • 100 color & 100 black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027240 978-1-39-901808-1

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.

Scorpion and Scimitar

British Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles, 1970-2020 David Grummitt

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.

The Battles of El Alamein

The End of the Beginning Ben Skipper

BattleCraft • $28.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.2x11.6 • 200 color & black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900762-7

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.

Landing Craft & Amphibians

Seaborne Vessels in the 20th Century Ben Skipper

LandCraft • $24.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.2x11.6 • 200 color and mono integrated • March 2022 HIS027150 • 978-1-39-909213-5

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.

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 Samuel de Korte

$29.95 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900868-6

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.

United States Tanks and Tank Destroyers of the Second World War

Michael Green

$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

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.

Armies of the Germanic Peoples, 200 BC to AD 500

History, Organization and Equipment Gabriele Esposito

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

Gabriele Esposito presents an overview of the military history of the Germanic peoples of this period and describes in detail the weapons and tactics they employed on the battlefield. He starts by showing how, from very early on, the Germanic communities were heavily influenced by Celtic culture. He then moves on to describe the major military events, starting with the first major encounter between the Germanic tribes and the Romans: the invasion by the Cimbri and Teutones. Julius Caesar’s campaigns against German groups seeking to enter Gaul are described in detail as is the pivotal Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, which effectively halted Roman expansion into Germany and for centuries fixed the Rhine as the border between the Roman and Germanic civilizations.

Armies of the Vikings, AD 793–1066

History, Organization and Equipment 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

Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to the final failure of their expansionist ambitions directed against England. In that period Viking warbands and increasingly large armies had left their Scandinavian homelands to range across vast regions, including the whole of Northern Europe and beyond, even reaching North America. The British Isles were terrorized for two centuries and at times largely conquered, in Normandy, Russia and elsewhere they also settled and founded states. Tough, skilled and resourceful, with a culture that embraced the pursuit of immortal fame and a heroic death in battle, their renown as warriors was second to none. As far afield as Constantinople, the Byzantine emperors employed them as their elite Varangian Guard.

Áedán of the Gaels

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.

Forts and Roman Strategy

A New Approach and Interpretation Paul Coby

$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.

Byzantine Fortifications

Protecting the Roman Empire in the East Nikos D Kontogiannis

$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.

The Battles of Antiochus the Great

The Failure of Combined Arms at Magnesia that Handed the World to Rome Graham Wrightson

$34.95 • Hardback • 176 pages • 6.1x9.1 16 black and white illustrations March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-679346-1

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 Seleucid Army of Antiochus the Great

Weapons, Armour and Tactics Jean Charl Du Plessis

$42.95 • Hardback • 352 pages • 6.1x9.1 50 mono illustrations • April 2022 HIS027220 • 978-1-39-909179-4

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 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.

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.

The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 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

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.

Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships, 336-30 BC

War at Sea from Alexander to Actium 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.

Successors Mike Roberts

Alexander the Great’s Legacy

The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the

$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.

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.

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

“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.

Constantius III

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.

The Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)

Caesar, Pompey, and the Early Campaigns of the Third Roman Civil War Gareth C Sampson

$34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages 6.1x9.1 • 16 black and white illustrations May 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-52-679358-4

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.

Alexander the Great versus Julius Caesar

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?

The Kingdom of the AngloSaxons

The Wars of King Alfred 865-899 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.

The Templars at War

Zvonimir Grbasic

$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

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.

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.

Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630–1632

Lars Ericson Wolke

$42.95 • Hardback • 248 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations • April 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-52-674959-8

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. John Pike

The Thirty Years War, 1618 - 1648

The First Global War and the end of Habsburg Supremacy

$70 • Hardback • 480 pages • 6.1x9.1 8 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-52-677575-7

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.

In the Words of Wellington’s Fighting Cocks

The After-action Reports of the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War 1812–1814 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.

Marching, Fighting, Dying

Experiences of Soldiers in the Peninsular War Gareth Glover

$42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 30 color & black and white illustrations January 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-52-676022-7

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

Including Artillery Gabriele Esposito

$34.95 • Hardback • 144 pages • 6.7x9.6 50 color illustrations • December 2021 HIS027200 • 978-1-39-900547-0

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. Carole Divall

Wellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813

Never a Finer Army

$49.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 30 black and white illustrations November 2021 • HIS027200 978-1-52-677402-6

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.

General Sir James Scarlett

The Life and Letters of the Commander of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava

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

$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.

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

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. 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.

Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front

A German Soldier’s Memoir of War and Captivity Luis Raffeiner Hannes Heer

$32.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.1 25 mono illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-909770-3

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.

Middlebrook

Firestorm Hamburg

The Facts Surrounding the Destruction of a German City 1943 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.

The Last German Victory

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.

EbenEmael and the Defence of Fortress Belgium, 1940

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Target Rommel

The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler’s General Stephen Wynn

$34.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations • April 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-900712-2

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.

Secret Service Against the Nazi Regime

How Our Spies Dealt with Hitler 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.

St Nazaire Raid, 1942

Stephen Wynn

$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.

Hitler’s Air Defences

Stephen Wynn

$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.

Joachim Peiper and the Nazi Atrocities of 1944

Stephen Wynn

$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.

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

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.

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

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 History Evan McGilvray

$52.95 • Hardback • 208 pages 6.1x9.2 • 33 black and white illustrations March 2021 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901876-0

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.

A Jew Who Defeated Nazism

Herbert Sulzbach’s Peace, Reconcilliation and a New Germany Ainslie Hepburn

$49.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.1 8 black and white illustrations • March 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-52-679322-5

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. casematepublishers.com • customer service: (610) 853-9131

The Gurkha Diaries of Robert Atkins MC

India and Malaya, 1944 - 1958

Robert Atkins MC

$39.95 • Hardback • 144 pages • 6.1x9.2 16 mono • Currently Available • BIO008000 978-1-39-909145-9

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.

Memories of an SOE Historian

M.R.D. Foot

$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. 84

Captured Behind Japanese Lines

With Wingate’s Chindits – Burma, 1942–1945

Daniel Berke Col Richard Kemp CBE

$39.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6.1x9.2 32 black and white illustrations • Currently Available • HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901688-9

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.

Britain’s Railways in the Second World War

Michael Foley

$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.

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

$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.

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.

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

Richard van Emden

$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.

the Great War Phil Carradice

Keeping the Home Fires Burning

Entertaining the Troops at Home and Abroad During

$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.

Football’s 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.

The Mountain War

A Doctor’s Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918 Dr Isaak Barasch

$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.

MachineGuns and the 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.

The Band That Went to War

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.

Military Operations from Kosovo to Kabul

The Unique Experiences of a

Combat Lawyer 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.

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.

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.

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.

Roman Empire at War

A Compendium of Battles from 31 B.C. to A.D. 565 Don Taylor

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1x9.1 • 27 maps • May 2022 HIS027220 978-1-39-908520-5

In a single volume, Roman Empire at War catalogs and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian I (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient, Late Antique, and Early Medieval texts, in order to offer a brief description of each battle based solely on the information provided by the earliest surviving sources which chronicle the event. This approach provides the reader a concise foundation of information to which they can then confidently apply later scholarly interpretation presented in secondary sources in order to achieve a more accurate understanding of the most likely battlefield scenario.

Ancient Battle Formations

Justin Swanton

$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 introductory chapter looks at the fundamental components of the principal battle formations of heavy and light infantry, cavalry, elephants and chariots, showing how they bolstered the individual soldier’s willingness to fight. The rest of the book focuses on massed infantry that reigned supreme in this era: the heavily armored Greek hoplite phalanx that was immune to the weaponry of its non-Greek opponents; the Macedonian pike phalanx that was unbeatable against frontal attacks so long as it kept order; the Roman triplex acies which, contrary to popular opinion, consisted of continuous lines in open order, with file spaces wide enough to allow embattled infantry to fall back after which those files closed up instantly against the enemy.

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

Rise of a Warrior Nation Philip Matyszak

$26.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.1x9.2 16 illustrations • January 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-39-901456-4

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.

Leading the Roman Army

Soldiers and Emperors, 31 BC – AD 235 Jonathan Mark Eaton

$28.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 20 color illustrations • January 2022 HIS027220 • 978-1-52-679703-2

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.

Cataclysm 90 BC

The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome Philip Matyszak

$22.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.1x9.2 b/w maps • October 2021 • HIS027220 978-1-39-908518-2

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.

Rome and Parthia: Empires at War

Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40–20 BC Gareth C Sampson

$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.

Romulus

The Legend of Rome’s Founding Father Marc Hyden

$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.

Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia

Richard Evans

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.

Septimius Severus and the Roman Army

Michael Sage

$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.

Greece Against Rome

The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC 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.

The Castle in the Wars of the Roses

Dan Spencer

$26.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 6.1x9.1 • January 2022 • HIS015020 978-1-52-679747-6

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.

Military History of Late Rome 284–361

Ilkka Syvänne

$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.

Lepanto 1571

The Madonna’s Victory Nic Fields

$28.95 • Paperback • 336 pages 6.1x9.1 • March 2022 • HIS027230 978-1-39-900286-8

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.

Antiochus The Great

Michael Taylor

$26.95 • Paperback • 208 pages 6.1x9.2 • 8pp plates, approx 6 b./w maps • December 2021 BIO008000 978-1-39-908524-3

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.

Pirate Killers

The Royal Navy and the African Pirates Graham A. Thomas

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1x9.2 • December 2021 HIS057000 978-1-39-901356-7

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.

Chris Peers

The Highland Battles

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.

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.

A Handful of Heroes, Rorke’s Drift

Facts, Myths and Legends Johannes Hurter

$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.

Gunner at Large

The Diary of James Wood R. A. 1746–1765 Rex Whitworth

$29.95 • Paperback • 196 pages • 6.1x9.2 January 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-901605-6

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.

The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759

Britain’s Other Trafalgar Nicholas Tracy

$29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.1x9.2 8pp plates, 7 maps • October 2021 • HIS027150 978-1-39-901449-6

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

Tim Saunders Rob Yuill

$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

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.

Napoleon on Campaign

Classic Images of Napoleon at War H A Carruthers

$39.95 • Paperback • 184 pages • 11.6x8.2 color illustrations • October 2022 • HIS037060 978-1-39-901138-9

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.

The French at Waterloo - Eyewitness Accounts

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.

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

Jack Sheldon

$32.95 • Paperback • 336 pages • 6.1x9.1 40 original B&W Images • March 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-39-908512-0

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.

The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

Scarlett’s 300 in the Crimea 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.

Belgium in the Second World War

Jean-Michel Veranneman De Watervliet

$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

The First World War by Those Who Were There

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.

Shell Shocked Britain

The First World War’s Legacy for Britain’s Mental Health 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.

The Great War in the Argonne Forest

French and American Battles, 1914–1918 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 Red Baron

A History in Pictures Norman Franks

$29.95 • Paperback 200 pages • 6.1x9.1 150 illustrations • April 2022 BIO008000 978-1-39-908523-6

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 German Army at Ypres 1914

Jack Sheldon

$34.95 • Paperback • 400 pages • 6.1x9.2 16pp B&W plates • January 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-39-901452-6

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.

Germany in the Great War

Arras, Third Ypres & Cambrai Joshua Bilton

$28.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 7.4x9.7 250 illustrations • December 2021 • HIS027090 978-1-47-387693-4

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

The Great War Illustrated 1915

Archive Photographs of WWI 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.

The Milk Cows

The U-Boat Tankers at War 1941 – 1945 John F. White

$29.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 B&W plates • April 2022 HIS027150 978-1-39-908519-9

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 Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean

Brendan O’Carroll

$34.95 • Paperback 328 pages • 6.1x9.1 • 32 black and white illustrations and 8 maps November 2021 • HIS027100 978-1-39-900368-1

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.

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.

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.

Kamikaze

Japan’s Last Bid for Victory Adrian Stewart

$26.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1x9.1 • 32 black and white illustrations • March 2022 HIS027100 978-1-39-900024-6

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.

Naval Aviation in the Korean War

Aircraft, Ships, and Men Warren Thompson

$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.

Airborne Landing to Air Assault

A History of Military Parachuting Nikolaos Theotokis

$28.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.1 March 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-52-679761-2

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.

Mosquito Mayhem

de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII Martin W. Bowman

$28.95 • Paperback • 280 pages • 6.1x9.1 Approx 60 mono in plates • January 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-39-908506-9

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.

The Strike Wings

Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45 Roy Conyers Nesbit

$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.

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. 96

They Gave Me A Seafire

Commander R. ‘Mike’ Crosley, DSC*, RN.

$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. A Reluctant Hero

The Life of Captain Robert Ryder VC 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.

Tank Commander

From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany - The Memoirs of Bill Close

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.

Fight Another Day

J.M. Langley

$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.

Fighting for Spain

The International Brigades in the Civil War, 1936–1939 Alexander Clifford

$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.

Allied Armour, 1939–1945

British and American Tanks at War Anthony Tucker-Jones

$28.95 • Paperback 248 pages • 6.1x9.1 70 black and white illustrations May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-679784-1

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 Katyn Massacre 1940

History of a Crime Thomas Urban

$28.95 • Paperback • 296 pages • 6.1x9.1 70 black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-679708-7

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 Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942–1944

The Fleet that Had to Hide Charles Stephenson

$28.95 • Paperback • 336 pages • 6.1x9.2 August 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-52-679776-6

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.

The Desert Air Force in World War II

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.

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.

The Story of the Guards Armoured Division

E. R. Hill The Earl of Rosse

$29.95 • Paperback • 328 pages • 6.1x9.2 Black and white illustrations • January 2022 HIS027100 • 978-1-39-901347-5

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.

Beating the Nazi Invader

Hitler’s Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940 Neil R Storey

$34.95 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6.1x9.1 150-200 black and white illustrations January 2022 • POL036000 978-1-52-679723-0

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.

One of Churchill’s Own

The Memoirs of Battle of Britain Ace John Greenwood John Greenwood

$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

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.

Johnnie Johnson’s Great Adventure

The Spitfire Ace of Ace’s Last Look Back Dilip Sarkar MBE

$34.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 6.1x9.1 • 16 black and white illustrations • May 2022 BIO034000 • 978-1-52-679910-4

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.

The First Jet Pilot

The Story of German Test Pilot Erich Warsitz Lutz Warsitz

$26.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6.1x9.1 138 illustrations within text • January 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-39-908327-0

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.

Sunderland Over FarEastern Seas

An RAF Flying Boat Navigator’s Story Group Captain Derek K. Empson MBE, RAF (Rtd)

$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.

Frank Pantridge MC

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.

Chindit Affair

A Memoir of the War in Burma 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.

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.

At the Fifth Attempt

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.

Fighting with the Fourteenth Army in Burma

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.

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.

Flying to the Limit

Testing World War II SingleEngined Fighter Aircraft Peter Caygill

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 80 mono set within text • May 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-39-901439-7

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.

De Havilland Enterprises

A History Graham M. Simons

$38.95 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6.7x9.6 200 illustrations • May 2022 • BIO008000 978-1-39-908517-5

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.

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.

T. Chamberlin W Kemsley

Scottish Lion on Patrol

15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment

$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.

Soldier in the Sand

A Personal History of the Modern Middle East Sir Simon Mayall KBE CB

$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.

The Brunei Revolt, 1962–1963

Nicholas van der Bijl

$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.

Logistics in the Vietnam Wars, 1945–1975

N S Nash CBE

$28.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 6.1x9.2 • 113 black and white illustrations • April 2022 • HIS027070 978-1-52-679814-5

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.

Collecting Toy Soldiers in the 21st Century

James Opie

$34.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 7.6x10.2 • Approx 220 color photographs • December 2021 ANT053000 • 978-1-39-901440-3

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.

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.

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

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.

Confessions of an Airline Pilot – Why Planes Crash

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.

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

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. The Supersonic BONE

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.