Casemate Publishers Fall 2014 Catalog by Casemate Publishers Ltd

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We are pleased to introduce you to our Fall 2014 catalog, featuring a terrific array of new military history titles from Casemate itself and from our distribution client publishers based in the US, the UK, and around the world.

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30 Degrees South / Andrea / Lorimer

Airfile Publications / Harpia

Many of the titles featured here are reprints of famous World War I titles that have long been unavailable, as well as other reprinted classics such as Desert Rats at War from Air Sea Media. We are also pleased to be introducing our newest distribution partner, Fonthill Media. Though recently founded, Fonthill has already made a splash in the military history market with interesting titles such as Beheaded by Hitler, revealing the horrors caused at the dictator’s behest during World War II.

Amber Books

Amberley

Air Sea Media / Birlinn / Fighting High Publishing

Fonthill Media

Frontline Books

Pen & Sword, along with its customarily superb list of books on the Great War and other conflicts throughout history, will be publishing several fantastic new additions to its Images of War and Battleground series. If you have taken an interest in their recent Africa@War series, Helion & Company has released two more series of the same type, titled Asia@War and Middle East@War, covering the conflicts in both regions dating back to 1945. Aviation specialists Grub Street will be publishing their eagerly awaited Volume II of A History of the Mediterranean Air War. We cannot forget to mention one of Casemate’s own titles, A Street in Arnhem, which follows the experiences of Dutch civilians as well as Allied and German soldiers at the very epicenter of Operation Market Garden in World War II.

Grub Street Publishing

Heimdal

Helion & Company

Histoire and Collections

Kagero

Clear Vue / Model Centrum / Tattered Flag

MMP Books

Oxbow Books / Arabian Publishing / Countryide Books

Pen & Sword

Each season we take great pleasure in introducing an abundance of unique new publications, and with this catalog—our largest yet— each subject has grown exponentially and we look forward to presenting you with even more in the future.

Pen and Sword Digital

Savas Beatie

Seaforth Publishing

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Casemate The Dakota Hunter In Search of the Legendary DC-3 on the Last Frontiers Hans Wiesman This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in post-war Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, aka the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon, as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957 his family left the island, and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation he started a career as a corporate executive, and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an alibi to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them.

$37.95 • 320 pages • 8.5 x 11 • b/w and color photos throughout • October 2014 hardback • 978-1-61200-2583 eISBN 978-1-61200-2590

As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords and con men. This book describes his multiple expeditions in search of the remains of the Dakota legend. It takes the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.

A Street in Arnhem The Agony of Occupation and Liberation Robert Kershaw In this long-awaited book, Robert Kershaw follows up his best-selling account of Operation Market Garden—It Never Snows in September—to focus on the experiences of Dutch civilians and British and German soldiers in one street while fighting to survive at the heart of one of the most intense battles of World War II. He tells the story from the perspective of what could be seen or heard from the Utrechtseweg, a road that runs seven kilometers from the Arnhem railway station west to Oosterbeek.

$32.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • photos throughout • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2644

This stretch of road saw virtually every major event during the fighting for Arnhem—the legendary “Bridge Too Far”—during September 1944. The story is about the disintegration of a wealthy Dutch suburb caught unexpectedly in the war it had escaped for so long. The book charts the steady destruction of an exclusive rural community, where wealthy Dutch holiday-makers had relaxed before the war. The destruction of this pretty village is charted through the eyes of British, Polish and German soldiers fighting amid its confused and horrified inhabitants. It portrays a collage of human experiences, sights, sounds, visceral fears and emotion as ordinary people seek to cope when their street is so suddenly and unexpectedly overwhelmed in a savage battle using the most deadly weapons of the day. Kershaw’s new research reveals the extent to which most people in this battle, whether soldiers or civilians, saw only what was immediately happening to them, with no idea of the larger picture. Many original Dutch, German and English accounts have been unearthed through interviews, diary accounts and letters, as well as post-combat reports charting the same incidents from both sides. The story is told as a docudrama following the fortunes of participants within a gripping narrative format.

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Casemate The Ardennes, 1944–1945 Hitler’s Winter Offensive Christer Bergström In December 1944, just as World War II appeared to be winding down, Hitler shocked the world with a powerful German counteroffensive that cracked the center of the American front. The attack came through the Ardennes, the hilly and forested area in eastern Belgium and Luxembourg that the Allies had considered a “quiet” sector. Instead, for the second time in the war, the Germans used it as a stealthy avenue of approach for their panzers. Much of U.S. First Army was overrun, and thousands of prisoners were taken as the Germans forged a 50-mile “bulge” into the Allied front. But in one small town, Bastogne, American paratroopers, together with remnants of tank units, offered dogged resistance. Meanwhile the rest of Eisenhower’s “broad front”strategy came to a halt as Patton, from the south, and Hodges, from the north, converged on the enemy incursion. Yet it would take an epic, six-week-long winter battle, the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Army, before the Germans were finally pushed back. $69.95 • 508 pages • 9 x 12 • illustrated throughout • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2774

Christer Bergström has interviewed veterans, gone through huge amounts of archive material, and performed on-the-spot research in the area. The result is a large amount of previously unpublished material and new findings, including reevaluations of tank and personnel casualties and the most accurate picture yet of what really transpired. The Ardennes Offensive has often been described from the American point of view; however, this balanced book devotes equal attention to the perspectives of both sides. With nearly 400 photos, numerous maps, and 32 superb color profiles of combat vehicles and aircraft, it provides perhaps the most comprehensive look at the battle yet published.

Artillery Scout The Story of a Forward Observer with the U.S. Field Artillery in World War I James Bilder The American Doughboys of World War I are often referred to as the “Lost Generation”; however, in this book we are able to gain an intimate look at their experiences after being thrust into the center of Europe’s “Great War” and enduring some of the most grueling battles in U.S. history. Len Fairfield (the author’s grandfather) was an Artillery Scout, or Forward Observer, for the U.S. Army, and was a firsthand witness to the war’s carnage as he endured its countless hardships, all of which are revealed here in vivid detail. His story takes the reader from a hard life in Chicago, through conscription, rigorous training in America and France, and finally to the battles which have become synonymous with the U.S. effort in France—St. Mihiel and the Argonne Forest, the latter claiming 26,000 American lives, more than any other U.S. battle.

$34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp photos October 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2712 eISBN 978-1-61200-2729

Fairfield, with his artillery in support of the 91st (“Wild West”) Division, was on the front lines for it all, amidst a sea of carnage caused by bullets, explosives and gas, with the occasional enemy plane swooping in to add strafing to the chaos. Entire units were decimated before gaining a yard, and then the Doughboys would find German trenches filled with dead to indicate the enemy was suffering equally. The AEF endured a rare close-quarters visit to hell until it was sensed that the Germans were finally giving way, though fighting tooth-and-nail up to the very minute of the Armistice. This action-filled work brings the reader straight to the center of America’s costly battles in World War I, reminding us once again how great-power status often has to be earned with blood on battlefields.

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Casemate Grunt An Illustrated History of the US Infantry in Vietnam – Weapons, Equipment and Lifestyle, 1965–1973 Antonio Arques Fifty years after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing US forces to defend South Vietnam, this incredible book arrives with a one-stop visual tour of every item of gear employed by American infantrymen in the long years of battle that followed. With over 2,000 photos accompanied by insightful text (did we know that the US buildup was so sudden that initial divisions had to be issued black leather footwear instead of tropical boots?) this work digs into every nook and cranny of the infantry’s experience “in-country.” M-16s, Claymores, M60s, grenades and knives and knives are naturally examined in full color. But so is every variety of clothing, rations, helmets, hats and caps, as well as medals, patches and insignia.

$99.00 • 456 pages • 9 x 12 • 2000 full color pictures • August 2014 • Andrea Press • hardback 9788496658493

This remarkable collection does not stop there, however, as it also examines the soldiers’ pastimes, from music to magazines (not just Life or Time but Mad, Playboy and the periodical Grunt) as well as the brands of beers, cigarettes and other leisure elements. Rare photos of soldiers themselves in Nam spot the narrative, as well as glimpses of what was going on back in the States meantime, including protests. Carefully compiled and lavishly illustrated, this unique book provides a visceral tour down memory lane for every soldier who served in Vietnam. It is also a revealing guide to those in the general public who may have wondered exactly what our troops felt, handled and experienced during that tumultuous American war in remote Southeast Asia.

Marine Corps Tank Battles in the Middle East Oscar E. Gilbert In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The tank, the very symbol of power and violence, would play a key role in a new concept of mobile warfare, not seen since the dashes of World War II. The emphasis would be not on brutal battles of attrition, but on paralyzing the enemy by rapid maneuver and overwhelming but judicious use of firepower. Yet in two wars with Iraq, the tankers, as well as the crews of the new Light Armored Vehicles, quickly found themselves in a familiar role—battering through some of the strongest defenses in the world by frontal assault, fighting their way through towns and cities. In America’s longest continual conflict, armored Marines became entangled in further guerilla war, this time amid the broiling deserts, ancient cities, and rich farmlands of Iraq, and in the high, bleak wastes of Afghanistan. It was a familiar kind of war against a fanatical foe who brutalized civilians, planted sophisticated roadside bombs, and seized control of entire cities. It has been a maddening war of clearing roads, escorting convoys, endless sweep operations to locate and destroy insurgent strongholds, protecting voting sites for free elections, and recapturing and rebuilding urban centers. $34.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • photos throughout • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2675 eISBN 978-1-61200-2682

Our fights against Iraq in 1991 and in the post-9/11 years have seen further wars that demanded that unique combination of courage, tenacity, professionalism, and versatility that makes a Marine no better friend, and no worse enemy.

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Casemate The Old Front Line The Centenary of the Western Front in Pictures Dr. Stephen Bull Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject— governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history. The anguish and privations are a bit further away, but there is still huge interest in the awful conditions and carnage endured by a generation of youth who sacrificed their lives for their country.

$29.95 • 192 pages • 10.5 x 10.5 • b/w and color illustrations throughout • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-61200-230-9

“The Old Front Line” is a phrase first coined by the poet John Masefield when he looked back on the battle of the Somme from a distance of just one year, in 1917, and speculated how the Western Front might look in the future. Stephen Bull’s copiously illustrated work—part travel guide, part popular history—a century on, answers his speculations. The main source material is new and contemporary photographs, as well as some from the intervening century. Taken together these provide a series of exciting vistas and informative details that tell the story of the battles and landscapes. Aerial photography, old and new ground shots—and in a few cases even images taken underground— provide an authoritative summary of the war on the Western Front. Following an introduction that sets the scene and looks at the early stages of the war, eight chapters examine the Western Front geographically, looking closely at the main areas of fighting and what is visible today: not just the “iron harvest”—the scars left by trench and battle—but also the cemeteries, war memorials and statues that remind the visitor starkly of the loss of a generation.

Year of Desperate Struggle Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, from Gettysburg to Yellow Tavern, 1863–1864 Monte Akers By the summer of 1863, following Chancellorsville, it was clear to everyone on both sides of the Civil War that the Army of Northern Virginia was the most formidable force Americans had ever put in the field. It could only be “tied” in battle, if against great odds, but would more usually vanquish its opponents. A huge measure of that army’s success was attributable to its cavalry arm, under Major General J.E.B. Stuart, which had literally “run rings” around its enemies.

$32.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp illustrations • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2828 eISBN 978-1-61200-2835

But Northern arithmetic and expertise were gradually catching up. In this work, the sequel to his acclaimed Year of Glory, author Monte Akers tracks Stuart and his cavalry through the following year of the war, from Gettysburg to the Overland Campaign, concluding only when Jeb himself succumbs to a gunshot while fending off a force three times his size at the very gates of Richmond. Gettysburg put paid to the aura of unstoppable victory surrounding the Army of Northern Virginia. But when Grant and Sheridan came east they found that Lee, Stuart, Longstreet, and the rest still refused to be defeated. It was a year of grim casualties and ferocious fighting—in short, a year of “desperate struggle” with the gloves off on both sides. This work picks up where Year of Glory left off, with a minute examination of Stuart’s cavalry during the controversial Gettysburg campaign, followed by the nine months of sparring during which the Army of Potomac declined to undertake further major thrusts against Virginia. But then the Union’s western chieftains arrived and the war became one huge “funeral procession,” as Grant and Sheridan found that their prior victories had by no means prepared them for meeting the Army of Northern Virginia.

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Casemate Fabled Fifteen The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, and 65 damaged in aerial combat, plus 348 destroyed, 161 probably destroyed, and 129 damaged in ground attacks. Twenty-six Fighting 15 pilots became aces, including their leader, Commander David McCampbell, who became the U.S. Navy’s “Ace of Aces.” Twenty-one squadron pilots were killed in action and one in an operational accident aboard the carrier Essex. The fighter squadron’s partners, Bombing Squadron 15 and Torpedo Squadron 15, scored 174,300 tons of enemy shipping, including 37 cargo vessels sunk, 10 probably sunk, and 39 damaged. As well, Musashi, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk, along with a light aircraft carrier, a destroyer, destroyer escort, two minesweepers and other craft—plus the Zuikaku, the last surviving carrier that participated in the Pearl Harbor attack. Incredibly, every pilot of Torpedo 15 was awarded the Navy Cross, the highest award for bravery after the Medal of Honor. $32.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp photos September 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2576

All of this took place between May and November, 1944. No other American combat unit in any service came close to a similar score in such a short time period. Air Group 15 participated in the two greatest naval battles in history, the Philippine Sea—also known as the Marianas Turkey Shoot—and Leyte Gulf, which saw the end of Japanese naval power. On June 19, 1944, Fighting 15 shot down 68.5 attacking Japanese aircraft, a one-day record unmatched by any other U.S. fighter squadron. In documenting the saga of Air Group 15’s momentous six months at war, the author provides an intimate and insightful view of the group’s fabled combat tour, including details of daily life and human interactions aboard the fleet carrier USS Essex during the busiest phase of the Pacific War.

Operation Thunderclap and the Black March Two Stories from the Unstoppable 91st Bomb Group Richard Allison In February 1945, the Allies launched Operation Thunderclap, a series of maximum efforts against cities in eastern Germany, partly to pave the way for the Red Army that would soon be overrunning that territory. These deep-penetration raids would tax the bomber crews immensely, as well as bring new devastation to cities yet untouched by U.S. airpower. Two B-17 crew members, a co-pilot and gunner, trained together in Gulfport, MS, and in fall 1944 were assigned to the longest-serving and most decorated U.S. bomb group in England. However, their paths then diverged. The co-pilot flew 31 missions until war’s end; the gunner was shot down and captured on his very first combat mission. These crew members both lived—one through Thunderclap and one through the Black March—and this is their story: an account of both constant air combat and travail on the ground.

$34.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp photos October 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2651 eISBN 978-1-61200-2668

This work includes a firsthand view of the bombing of Dresden, perhaps the worst cataclysm inflicted by bombers in the West. The co-pilot participated in these attacks, where he witnessed a city already too far destroyed to expend additional bombs. Meantime the gunner, shot down and parachuting into enemy territory, was taken prisoner by the Germans, and then forced to endure “The Black March,” an effort by the Nazis to move all their prisoners beyond the Red Army’s advancing spearheads. Of 6,000 Allied POWs put on the roads from northern Poland, in a 500-mile, three-month trek, a quarter died due to the elements, disease and starvation. The gunner survived the March, and once the sands ran out for Germany experienced a period in Soviet captivity. During the day he thought their men behaved; but after dark there was chaos as the Red Army wreaked its revenge. This unique book on the Allied air campaign offers new insights into what our fliers truly saw and experienced during the war.

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Casemate America’s Modern Wars Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam Christopher A. Lawrence While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions—Panama and the Gulf War under the first President Bush—our campaigns have taken on the character of endless slogs without positive results. This fascinating book takes a ground-up look at the problem in order to assess how our strategic objectives have recently become divorced from our true capability, or imperatives. The book presents a unique examination of the nature of insurgencies and the three major guerrilla wars the United States has fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. It is both a theoretical work and one that applies the hard experience of the last five decades to address the issues of today. As such, it also provides a timely and meaningful discussion of America’s current geopolitical position.

$32.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp photos November 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-2781 eISBN 978-1-61200-2798

It starts with the previously close-held casualty estimate for Iraq that The Dupuy Institute compiled in 2004 for the U.S. Department of Defense. Going from the practical to the theoretical, it then discusses a construct for understanding insurgencies and the contexts in which they can be fought. It applies these principles to Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, assessing where the projection of U.S. power can enhance our position and where it merely weakens it. It presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-WWII cases. The book explores what is important to combat and what is not important to resist in insurgencies. As such, it builds a body of knowledge based upon a half-century’s worth of real-world data, with analysis, not opinion.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Its History, Traditions, and Air, Sea, and Land Capabilities in the 21st Century Benjamin Lai When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People’s Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunderzone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s, when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result was that in the past quarter-century China has grown to be the second largest economy in the world, and its military has grown proportionately. Successive decades of economic growth have transformed China—in addition to the weapons revolution during the computer age—so that by now the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has become a modern fighting force. No longer having to rely on massed infantry attacks, it now features a formidable arsenal including nuclear submarines, ICBMs, stealth fighters, and modern battle tanks. Perhaps ominously for other maritime powers, the Chinese have also focused on beyond-the-horizon missile technology, as well as anti-aircraft systems, and have also explored the possibilities of cyber-warfare. $32.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp photos October 2014 • hardback 978-1-61200-236-1 eISBN 978-1-61200-2378

What is today’s PLA really like? What are its traditions and histories, and how is it armed and equipped? How does it recruit and train? This book describes some of the lesser known battles and wars the Chinese have undertaken, and the development of their key weapons systems. The United States, having opened the door to “drone warfare,” have had an attentive audience for such technologies in Beijing. The last chapter provides thoughts on how the Chinese view matters of security. It is not yet known whether foreign powers can still enforce their territorial wills on China, but future attempts will meet an increased challenge. This book will be of interest not only to general readers but to policy-makers and militaries in the West, who may not yet realize that a new China has replaced the old.

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Casemate Surprised at Being Alive An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond Robert Curtis $32.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp photos • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-61200-2750 eISBN 978-1-61200-2767 Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below. Whichever way it happens, it wasn’t your day. Which is why, after 24 years and over 5,000 flight hours with four armed services, Major Robert Curtis was so surprised at being alive when he passed his retirement physical. Starting with enlisting in the Army to fly helicopters during Vietnam, and continuing on through service with the National Guard, Marine Corps and Royal Navy, he flew eight different helicopters—from the wooden-bladed OH-13E, through the Chinook, SeaKnight and SeaKing, in war and peace around the world. During that time over 50 of his friends died in crashes, both in combat and in accidents, but somehow his skill, and not an inconsiderable amount of luck and superstition, saw him through.

Hollow Heroes An Unvarnished Look at the Wartime Careers of Churchill, Montgomery and Mountbatten Michael Arnold $34.95 • 304 pages • 16pp photos • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-61200-2736 • eISBN 978-1-61200-2743 The book reveals the truths behind the images of three of Great Britain's primary military leaders during and after the Second World War. In each case there was a totally different side to each man, which demonstrates that a great deal of their reputation was built on deception and dishonesty. It examines the influence and impediment of “class” on the performance of the British Army in World War II, and quotes the views of the Americans that far too often there was an unwillingness among the British to base officer promotion on effectiveness rather than on social background; conforming was more important than performing, as anyone who has served in the British Army’s ranks would agree. At the same time, Montgomery feared and was jealous of Patton, whose rate of advance was nearly always twice that of Monty’s.

The Lions of Carentan Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Volker Griesser $24.95 • 288 pages • 7 x 10 • photos throughout • September 2014 • paperback • 978-1-61200-2811 eISBN 978-1-61200-017-6 “It is said that it is the victors who write the histories of wars, so it is especially revealing to discover a book that was written from the viewpoint of those on the losing side. The great value of Griesser's superb, richly detailed, and fabulously illustrated work is that it fills in a very wide gap in our knowledge about one of Nazi Germany's elite branches of service.”—Flint Whitlock, editor of WWII Quarterly

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Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzz saw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered on that dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of paratroopers, who instead of dropping from the skies fought on the defensive, giving their Allied counterparts a tremendous challenge in achieving their objectives. This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, Fallschirmjäger 6, from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war.

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30 Degrees South / Andrea / Lorimer Tank Fight, 1916 How to Paint Armor, Ground and Figures Julio Cabos $21.90 • 40 pages • 8.2 x 11.6 • over 200 photos • June 2014 • Andrea Press • paperback • 978-84-96658-48-6 Master painter Julio Cabos shows how to paint a full diorama comprising armor, figures and ground with acrylic paints, airbrush and brush through clear step-by-step sequences. color charts included. ·· Detailed How to paint figures with airbrush. · Airbrush cleaning.

Kruger, Kommandos and Kak

One Beat of a Butterfly’s Heart

Debunking the Myths of the Boer War

A Tanganyika Police Notebook

Chris Ash

Ronald Callander

$34.95 • 560 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 b/w photos, 15 color • July 2014 • 30 Degrees South • paperback 978-1-920143-99-2 • eISBN 978-1-928211-22-8

$29.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 b/w photos July 2014 • 30 Degrees South • paperback 978-1-920143-95-4 • eISBN 978-1-928211-20-4

The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent British generals they were mowed down in their thousands.

In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police office, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, firsthand account of a rare period of recent history. It tells how an Australian veteran, fresh from the Korean War, became a colonial police officer in Tanganyika Territory (later Tanzania after federation with the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 1964). The reader is taken on a journey which tourists in Africa never see.

I Won’t Be Home Next Summer

Peacemakers How People Around the World are Building a World Free of War

Flight Lieutenant R.N. Selley DFC (1917–1941)

Douglas Roche

Ron Selley / Kerrin Cocks

$24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • July 2014 • Lorimer paperback • 978-1-4594-0623-0

$29.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 200 b/w illustrations July 2014 • 30 Degrees South • paperback 978-1-920143-94-7 • eISBN 978-1-928211-19-8 Ronnie Selley, a South African from rural Natal, joined the RAF on a short-service commission in 1937, considered the Golden Age of aviation. During these glory years of Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart few guessed at the brewing storm and dark days to come. After completing his training on antiquated First World War aircraft, Selley was posted to 220 Squadron Coastal Command, the RAF’s under-staffed and under-equipped poor relation to the more prestigious Fighter and Bomber Commands. Tasked with reconnaissance, convoy patrols and submarine-hunting the pilots of Coastal Command chalked up more flying hours than any other RAF Command.

A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A longtime Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a senator, Roche has been in the thick of international affairs for more than forty years. Though few of us realize it, today the world is more peaceful than in past centuries. Wars have diminished destruction dramatically in the past two decades. Roche documents the many successes of the past two decades in reducing conflict in the world, and in creating structures and institutions which are making war less likely and more difficult for states to initiate.

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Airfile Publications / Harpia Fairey Swordfish in Fleet Air Arm service 1936 to 1945 Neil Robinson $49.00 • 72 pages • 8.26 x 11.61 • 300 illustrations and 50 plus photographs May 2014 • Airfile Publications • paperback 978-0-9575513-1-2 Affectionately known as the ‘Stringbag’ by its crews, the Fairey Swordfish is one of World War Two’s most iconic and recognizable biplane aircraft. Introduced in to Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm service in 1936, the aircraft wasn’t operationally retired until May 1945, and despite its obsolescent and antiquated looks, outlived several ‘more modern’ types intended to replace it, remaining in front-line service through to the end of the war in Europe.

Air War Over the Western Front

BAe/McDonnellDouglas/Boeing Second Generation Harrier in Worldwide Service

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Glenn Ashley $49.00 • 72 pages • 8.26 x 11.61 • 100 illustrations and over 70 exclusive never seen before pictures • November 2014 • Airfile Publications • paperback • 978-0-9575513-4-3 Following on from the first volume, this volume covers the color schemes and markings applied to the second-generation Harriers, extensively redeveloped by McDonnell Douglas and British Aerospace, covering the AV-8B Harrier II and Harrier II Plus, used by several NATO countries, and the British Harrier GR.5/GR.7/GR.9s.

Hawker Hunter in RAF Service 19551990 Camouflage and Markings Neil Robinson $49.00 • 72 pages • 8.26 x 11.61 • 150 illustrations and 20 photos • May 2014 • Airfile Publications • paperback • 978-0-9575513-2-9 One of Britain’s classic postwar jet aircraft, the Hawker Hunter first entered RAF service as a single-seat fighter in July 1954. It was later operated in the fighter-bomber and fighterreconnaissance roles in RAF service, taking part in numerous conflicts around the globe, together with its twin seater variant, which was also heavily involved in trainer and second line duties until the early 1990s.

Beyond the Horizon

Arab MiGs Volume 5

The History of AEW&C Aircraft

October 1973 War: Part 1

Neil Robinson

Sérgio Santana / Ian Shaw

$49.00 • 72 pages • 8.26 x 11.61 • 150 illustrations and 20 photos July 2014 • Airfile Publications • paperback 978-0-9575513-3-6

$69.95 • 256 pages • 8.27 x 11.02 • Illustrations, color and b/w photos September 2014 • Harpia Publishing paperback • 978-0-9854554-3-9

Tom Cooper / David Nicolle / Holger Müller / Lon Nordeen / Martin Smisek

Commemorating the start of the Great War – the War to end War – this volume will cover the RFC/RAF and Luftstreitkräfte, from the opening stages in August 1914 to the Armistice in November 1918. A further volume is planned covering the Aéronautique Militaire and the Middle East and Eastern Front Theaters.

No modern air force would contemplate a critical air operation without the involvement of some kind of airborne early warning component. What we now know as airborne early warning began as long ago as the early 1940s, as part of a British project that has long been shrouded in secrecy. Beyond the Horizon provides a definitive account of how AEW&C has developed from its humble beginnings to become an essential element of modern warfare.

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$69.95 • 256 pages • 8.27 x 11.02 Illustrations, color and b/w photos September 2014 • Harpia Publishing paperback • 978-0-9854554-4-6 On 6 October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian air arms opened an Arab attack on Israeli military installations on the Sinai Peninsula and in the Golan Heights. Thus began a war for recovery of territories lost to Israel during the June 1967 War, but also a war that was intended to repair damaged military and national pride, and a war that was to bring Israel back to the negotiating table.

Amber Books Rifles & Muskets

Pistols & Revolvers

From 1750 to the Present Day

From 1850 to the Present Day

Michael E. Haskew

Martin J. Dougherty

$34.95 • 224 pages • 7.5 x 9.75 • 200 color and b/w photos and artworks • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-78274-151-0

$34.95 • 224 pages • 7.5 x 9.75 • 200 color and b/w photos and artworks • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-78274-150-3

Matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and caplock; muzzle-loading and breechloading; revolving and rifling – the history of muskets and rifles is a fascinating journey through the development of firearms technology.

Matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and caplock; .44 or 9mm; revolver and automatic – the history of handguns is a fascinating journey through the development of hand-held firearms technology.

From early matchlocks of the 15th century to the latest hunting rifles and assault rifles, Collector’s Guide to Rifles & Muskets traces the development of these small arms through their technical revolutions. From a 16th century wheel-lock to today’s Knight MK-85 muzzleloader, from the Winchester to the Ak-47 to the latest sporting rifles, Collector’s Guide to Rifles & Muskets offers a narrative history of the classics among these firearms. Throughout there are technical specifications for featured firearms.

From early hand cannon of the late 14th century to the latest automatics and machine pistols, Collector’s Guide to Handguns traces the development of these small arms as they evolved over the centuries. From a Thirty Years’War wheel lock to today’s Beretta 92, from the Luger to the Colt to the latest Ruger, Collector’s Guide to Handguns offers a narrative history of the classics among these firearms. Throughout the book there are technical specifications for featured firearms.

Illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white artworks and photographs, Collector’s Guide to Rifles & Muskets is an expertly written account of the history of sporting and military firearms.

Illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white artworks and photographs, Collector’s Guide to Handguns is an expertly written account of the history of sporting and military firearms.

Small Arms

Warships from the Golden Age of Steam

From the Civil War to the Present Day

An Illustrated Guide to Great Warships from 1860 to 1945

Martin J. Dougherty

David Ross

$34.95 • 224 pages • 8.5 x 11.5 • 300 color photos and artworks • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-78274-206-7

$34.95 • 224 pages • 8.5 x 11.5 • 110 color illustrations and photos August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78274-153-4

From classic US Civil War-period rifles such as the Springfield M1855 to the latest in personal defense weapons and hand-held rocket launchers, Small Arms covers all of the most significant and successful small arms produced during the past 150 years. Each category of small arms-handguns, rifles, submachine guns, automatic support weapons, grenades, and launchers-is explored in turn and all the most famous examples of each type of weapon are featured, such as the M16, Colt .44 Magnum, and Maxim machine gun. Informative and accessible text places each weapon within military, political, and technological context and includes a complete design and development history. Full-color photographs and artworks of the weapons accompany the text, and specification tables provide key technical data. Stunning photographs and paintings show the weapons in action in conflicts ranging from the Crimean War to the recent war in Iraq. Special double-page features also provide a more detailed comparison of key weapons within specific categories including combat magnums, precision rifles and submachine guns for VIP protection. With over 200 weapons and more than 300 color and black-and-white photographs and illustration, Small Arms – Compared and Contrasted is an authoritative and accessible reference work.

The great era of the steam warship was from the mid-1860s to the mid1940s—an 80-year period in which a huge variety of large ships was built, ever-greater in size, fire-power, and technical sophistication. Capital ships were the most expensive and destructive weaponry prior to the atomic bomb, and their development can be traced decade by decade. Arranged in chronological order, Warships from the Golden Age of Steam provides concise coverage of the most famous warships of the period, including HMS Devastation, the first seagoing turreted ship; the Chinese Ting Yuen, sunk at the Battle of Wei-Hai-Wei in 1894; Mikasa and Retvizan, which fought each other at the Battle of the Yellow Sea in 1904; HMS Indomitable, Nassau, and HMS Lion, which all fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916; HMS Prince of Wales, which took part in the hunt for the Bismarck, and was eventually sunk by Japanese air attack off the coast of Malaya in December 1941; and the Tirpitz, which remained a constant threat to Allied shipping in the North Atlantic until it was sunk by aerial bombers in a Norwegian fjord in late 1944. Filled with colorful artworks, expertly-written background text, and useful specifications of 100 warships, Warships from the Golden Age of Steam is a visually lavish guide to major fighting ships from 1860 to 1945.

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In the Footsteps of Alexander The Soldiers who Conquered the Ancient World Miles Doleac

The Ultimate Survival Guide Chris McNab $34.95 • 448 pages • 9 x 11.25 • 750 b/w artworks • August 2014 • paperback 978-1-78274-142-8 The world is a hostile environment, capable of throwing the unexpected at you at any moment. Bringing together the knowledge gained by those who have learnt it the hard way, The Ultimate Survival Guide is the only book you will ever need. Personal grit and courage count for a lot, but if you don’t know how to find food and water, make shelter, light fires, and apply basic first-aid, amongst many other skills, your chances of survival can be slim. For every scenario that you might find yourself in, from the humid heat of the tropics to the frozen poles, The Ultimate Survival Guide teaches you the fundamental survival techniques you need to survive without external help, and often without specialized equipment. Relying on the experiences of those who have survived in harsh situations themselves, the book tells you how to find food, water and shelter, and how to make back to safety if necessary. Illustrated throughout with easy to follow artworks demonstrating how to perform essential survival tasks, The Ultimate Survival Guide requires no previous knowledge or experience, but will give you the core skills you need to survive, whatever the world might throw at you.

$34.95 • 224 pages • 8.5 x 11.5 • 200 color illustrations, photos and maps • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-78274-165-7 In just 11 years, Alexander the Great’s army marched 22,000 miles and secured the Balkans, conquered Asia Minor, the Levant and Egypt, defeated the Persian Empire and invaded India. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world. And even after he died, aged just 32, undefeated in battle, his influence remained, not just across Europe, but into Asia, too. But what was it like to be soldier in Alexander’s army? To march from Macedonia to India? To serve as a hoplite, a Phalangite or a cavalryman for Alexander? In the Footsteps of Alexander – the soldiers who conquered the ancient world explores the achievements of one of history’s great military leaders from the point of view of his warriors. The book is divided into four parts, with part one covering the extent of Alexander’s campaigns; part two examining the recruitment, equipment, tactics and lives of his infantrymen and cavalrymen; part three looking at the cities that he founded, such as Alexandria and Kandahar; and part four explaining how after his death his great empire fell apart, but his Hellenic influence lived on throughout Europe and Asia.

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The Samurai Warrior The Golden Age of Japan’s Elite Warriors 1560–1615 Ben Hubbard $34.95 • 224 pages • 8.5 x 11.5 • 200 color illustrations, photos and maps • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-78274-168-8 During Japan’s Warring States period, centuries of strife had left the country divided and leaderless. Those who filled the power vacuum were the daimyo, warlords who ruled over the clans and provinces of Japan. Serving their daimyo, the samurai were the ultimate warriors at a time when military prowess won out over hereditary power and position. The nature of warfare itself changed—romantic ideas of mounted duels and battlefield decorum became as rare as aristocratic samurai leaders. Marching in to replace them were the common foot soldiers, the ashigaru, armed with pikes and matchlock rifles. The Samurai Warrior examines the fighting men of this key period in Japanese history. Divided into six chapters, the book describes the unification under the Tokugawa bakufu, the major battles of the era, the weapons and armor used, the social structure of Japanese society, myths about the samurai, and finally the decline of the samurai amidst the modernization of the Meiji period. Including more than 200 photographs, illustrations, paintings, and maps, The Samurai Warrior is a colorful, accessible study of Japan’s famous but often misunderstood warrior elite.

Amber Books Allied Tanks of Word War II

Allied Aircraft of World War II

David Porter

Chris Chant

$34.95 • 384 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 500 artworks and photos • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-78274-208-1

$34.95 • 384 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 500 artworks and photos • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-78274-207-4

Allied Tanks of World War II offers a highly illustrated guide to the main armored fighting vehicles used by the Western Allies and the Red Army from 1939–1945. This volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level. Divided into two parts – the Western and the Soviet spheres – the book is then organized chronologically, offering a comprehensive survey of armored fighting vehicles by campaign, including the fall of Poland, the defense of the Low Countries and France, desert warfare in North Africa, German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Stalingrad counteroffensive, the push through Italy, the Normandy landings, the battle of the Bulge, and the final defeat of Axis forces in Berlin, Vienna and Budapest in May 1945. All the major and many minor tank variants are featured, including every variation of the BT fast tank, as well as the T-26 light tank and T-34, the M4 Sherman, Churchill and Matilda.

Illustrated with outstanding color profile artworks, Allied Aircraft of World War II is the definitive study of the aircraft of all Allied powers from 1939 to 1945. Arranged in two parts – Allied Fighters and Allied Bombers – and then by theater of war, the book describes in depth the various aircraft for different nations, from the RAF to USAAF, from Soviet to the Brazilian Air Forces and many more.

Modern Tanks and Artillery 1945–Present

The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II

Featuring aircraft that served from Australia to the Aleutians, from the French border to Okinawa, more than 400 cooler artworks illustrate both the famous and the lesser-known aircraft (fighters, bombers, transports and reconnaissance) from a large array of services and nations. Types featured include the With information boxes accompanying the artworks, Allied Aircraft of World War II is an excellent reference work for modelers and any enthusiast with an interest in the history of World War II.

The Comprehensive Guide to over 1500 Weapons Systems, including Tanks, Small Arms, Warplanes, Artillery, Ships and Submarines

Michael E. Haskew $34.95 • 384 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 500 artworks and photos • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-78274-205-0

Chris Bishop

Illustrated with hundreds of detailed artworks of AFVs and their markings, Modern Tanks and Artillery is a comprehensive study of the armored fighting vehicles and guns of every nationality from the beginning of the Cold War to the present. The book is split into two volumes, the first detailing tanks and AFVs, and the second covering artillery guns, rockets and self-propelled guns. Each volume is further subdivided by theater and conflict.

$50.00 • 608 pages • 8.75 x 10.75 • 1600 color and b/w photos and artworks • September 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78274-167-1

The first volume provides a comprehensive study of the AFVs in service from the end of World War II until the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well-known tanks deployed in various wars are included, such as the Soviet IS-3, T-54 and T-72 tanks, as well as the German Leopard, British Chieftain, and American M1A1 Abrams. The second volume provides a detailed analysis of artillery since the end of World War II, including ubiquitous workhorses such as the 2S3 (M1973) 152mm Howitzer, the FH-70 howitzer and the G5 howitzer.

The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II is an easy-to-read illustrated compendium of the military hardware – from air, sea or land – which was used in engagements around the globe from 1939 to 1945. It includes more than 1500 pieces of equipment from handguns to aircraft carriers. Each weapon system is illustrated with a detailed profile artwork and a photograph showing the weapons system in service. Accompanying the illustrative material is detailed text that lists each weapon’s service history, the numbers built, and its variants, as well as full specifications.

What was the armament and crew of the German Tiger tank and its Soviet equivalent, the T-34? What was the calibre and effective range of the Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle? World War II spawned a massive variety of weapons systems, many complex, all fascinating and exciting.

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Amberley M4 Sherman Tank Amberley Armour 1 John Christopher $26.95 • 128 pages • 9.75 x 6.75 • 200 illustrations • June 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4456-3859-1 The Sherman tank was never the equal of the German heavies, but tough, reliable and maneuverable it was built in such prodigious quantities that it played a vital role in the Allies’ victory in WW2. Published to commemorate 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Once described as the worst tank that ever won a war it was built in the States by car factories, railway works and vast purpose-built factories. The M4 Sherman saw service in all theaters of the Second World War as well as in later conflicts in Korea and Israel. It came in many variants. The British gave it a bigger gun, they made ‘funnies’ that could throw flames or swim ashore and wade rivers or ditches, they were used to lay bridges, clear minefields and even launch rockets. Many Sherman’s were sold overseas to countries such as Uganda, Italy, Paraguay, Argentina and Mexico.

We Were Eagles Vol. 1 July 42 to November 43 Martin Bowman $34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 32pp color illustrations • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-4456-3363-3 On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time. A small operation involving six US crews in Boston medium bombers, it was nonetheless a harbinger of things to come. The first heavy bombardment group of B-17s had crossed the Atlantic in June 1942, another arriving by 1 August, the first small steps in the massive build up of B-17s and B-24s that would be based in Britain as part of the Eighth Air Force. In this book, illustrated with both black and white and period color pictures, aviation historian Martin Bowman tells the story of US Eighth Air Force operations in the words of the men who flew them, from that first raid over the Netherlands and the first attack by the Fortresses against Rouen to the first attack on Germany itself and the infamous B-24 raid against the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti.

We Were Eagles Vol. 2 December 43 to May 44 Martin Bowman $34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 32pp color • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-4456-3366-4 Cover not yet available

The Americans’ third year of the war saw the Eighth Air Force finally bombing Berlin or ‘Big B’ as it was known and the arrival in theater of ever-increasing number of escort fighters such as the P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang meant that the close-knit formations of bombers could roam further afield without the punitive losses suffered a year earlier. ‘Little Friends’ rode to the rescue of their ‘Big Friends’ but ‘tail end Charlies’ could be cut down almost unnoticed and ‘unlucky’ groups such as the ‘Bloody Hundredth’ and the 445th Bomb Group B-24 Liberators who roamed too far suffered grievously. An Allied victory was never in doubt and the air offensive hastened its end but German aircraft production never faltered despite the assault on the war industries. City bombing failed to break German spirit, enemy oil still flowed and ‘revenge weapons’ and jet planes would offer the enemy hope, and the bomber boys pain. In this second volume, Martin Bowman tells the story of the Eighth Air Force’s campaign over Germany and Occupied Europe in the words of the men who flew the missions.

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Ancient Rome

The Roman Army

The Emperors

The Truce

The Rise and Fall of an Empire 753BC-AD476

A History 753 BC – AD 476

How Europe’s Greatest Rulers Were Destroyed by World War I

The Day the War Stopped

Patricia Southern $20.00 • 384 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 16pp color • June 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-1978-1 Patricia Southern’s masterly new book narrates the history of Rome from a settlement of primitive huts to a sophisticated city ruling and then losing an Empire, the lives of such towering figures as Julius Caesar, the successes and setbacks and what the Romans learned on their way to Imperial rule and final disintegration.

Patricia Southern $42.00 • 512 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp color • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-4456-2089-3 This book covers the complete history of the Roman Army from 753 BC to AD 476, including its successes and failures against Rome’s enemies such as Gauls, Carthaginians, Goths and Persians.

Gareth Russell $34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 16pp mono • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-4456-3433-3 In this new book, Gareth Russell tells the story of the Austrian, German and Russian imperial families during the four years of the First World War and the political and personal struggles that brought about their ruin.

Chris Baker $29.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp color • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-4456-3490-6 The Christmas Truce is regarded as a satisfying and hopeful event in a war that is often regarded as unnecessary, bitter, hopeless and futile. Inspired by the centenary, and in the light of documentary evidence unavailable when previous accounts have been published, Chris Baker examines the events leading up to truce.

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Roman Shields

Roman Helmets

Fighting Fit 1914

How to Fly a Plane

John Travis / Hilary Travis

Adam Culling

$42.00 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 16pp color • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-4456-3838-6

$42.00 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 16pp color • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-4456-3842-3

$16.00 • 288 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3759-4

The First World War Pilot’s Manual

In this book, Roman military experts John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the shields used by the historic Roman stalwarts, drawing on their expertise, their wealth of illustrated material and the world of reenactments.

In its study of the panoply of helmets used by the Romans, Roman Shield looks at the component parts, how they are physically put together, and attempting to reproduce the aspects of the artifacts observed through reconstructing them and subjecting them to regular use and combat conditions.

A collection of facsimile materials showing how the soldiers recruited for the First World War became, and stayed, fighting fit for battle, including how to fight, carry a bayonet and stay in peak physical condition.

Captain Barber RFC $14.50 • 160 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 20 illustrations • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3583-5 The training aid for many a pilot from one of the leading instructors of the First World War. There are 160 pages with many illustrations of leading aircraft of the period. Chock full of handy tips for the budding aviator.

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Richthofen The Red Baron in Old Photographs Louis Archard $20.00 • 128 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 September 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3348-0 Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen, was the top ace of the First World War, with eighty confirmed victories. Using period images with captions taken from von Richthofen’s 1917 autobiography, Der Rote Kampfflieger, this book will illustrate his story.

An Illustrated Introduction to The First World War

An Illustrated Tomorrow is D-Day Introduction to The Stella Rutter Second World War $26.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25

Phil Carradice

$16.00 • 96 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 70 illustrations • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3848-5

$16.00 • 96 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 June 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3296-4 This wonderfully illustrated, accessible introduction to the First World War is presented chronologically and breaks down how the war started and how events unfolded.

Henry Buckton

July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3294-0

In these pages, Stella recounts her war story. After leaving art college, she obtained a post in the Drawing The Second World War is so far the Office of HMS Excellent, only truly global war that has ever Portsmouth. A year later she was taken place. This wonderfully commandeered to work for the illustrated, accessible introduction to Technical Publication Section of the Second World War follows the Supermarine, the designers of the major events that led up to the war Spitfire. and occurred during it, year by year.

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The Luftwaffe in Colour The Second World War in Colour Series 1 Hauptmann / Medem John Christopher (ed.) $34.95 • 128 pages • 9.75 x 6.75 100 illustrations • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3892-8 This unique collection of wartime color photos brings the Luftwaffe – aircraft and personnel – to life in a dramatically vivid way. Here, over 100 color and 50 black and white images have been assembled to tell the story of the war as it unfolded.

How to Fly a Second World War Heavy Bomber Lancaster, Halifax, Stirling

How to Fly a Battle British Posters of of Britain Fighter the First World War Spitfire, Messerschmitt, Hurricane

Louis Archard (ed.)

Campbell McCutcheon (ed.)

$16.00 • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 80 illustrations • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3672-6

$16.00 • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 80 illustrations • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3665-8

How do you fly a Lancaster, or a Halifax or even a Stirling? Using original Pilot’s Notes, Louis Archard introduces you to the famous aircraft of the Bomber Offensive. Everything was included, from bomb jettisoning to flying on two engines.

How do you fly a Spitfire, or a Messerschmitt or even a Hurricane? Using original Pilots Notes, Campbell McCutcheon introduces you to the famous aircraft of the Battle of Britain.

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John Christopher $34.95 • 192 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 July 2014 • hardback 978-1-4456-3316-9 How do you fly a Lancaster, or a Halifax or even a Stirling? Using original Pilot’s Notes, Louis Archard introduces you to the famous aircraft of the Bomber Offensive. Everything was included, from bomb jettisoning to flying on two engines.

Amberley Building for War From Shadow Factories to Cold War Bunkers Bob Clarke $34.95 • 208 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 175 illustrations (30 color) • June 2014 • paperback • 978-1-84868-112-5 Britain was unprepared at the start of the Second World War for what it was to endure. Bombed mercilessly during the Blitz and under threat of invasion, all sorts of defenses sprang up around the coasts and along ‘stop lines’ such as canals and rivers. Bob Clarke tells the story of Britain’s building for war as the Communist scourge behind the iron Curtain threatened peace and nuclear oblivion.

Fighter Ace The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Bader, Battle of Britain Hero Dilip Sarkar

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The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having lost both his legs, defies fiction. A fighter ace and highly decorated war hero, he became a household name in the 1950s thanks to the best selling book and blockbuster film Reach for the Sky, which charted his wartime exploits.

Paras Roger Payne OAM

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$34.95 • 384 pages • 6 x 9 16pp color and b/w September 2014 • hardback 978-1-4456-3841-6 Impressed by the performance of the German paratroopers in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a British Airborne force of no less than 5,000 parachutists. The result was the 1st and 6th Airborne divisions, and this is their story, as told by the men themselves.

A True Story of Love and War

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Barbara Harper-Nelson / Genevieve Monneris

$18.00 • 320 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • November 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3819-5

Voices of the British Airborne Forces in World War Two

The French Squadron

$29.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp color and b/w illustrations • July 2014 • hardback • 978-14456-3939-0 Now aged 88, Barbara Harper-Nelson (neé Rigby), was the one-time girlfriend, living in Liverpool, of 22 year old Francis Usai. Amazingly she still had the 350+ letters from this witty and amusing young French airman exiled from his conquered country and based near York. Along with her own diaries, these letters constituted a unique, evocative, often amusing two-way conversation between young people during a time unprecedented in history.

Churchill’s Angels How Britain’s Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of The Second World War Bernard O’Connor $16.00 • 384 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • 8pp b/w illustrations • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3431-9 Over 70 female agents were sent out by Britain’s Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Their job was to work with resistance movements both before and after D Day. Bernard O’Connor relates the experiences of these agents by drawing on a range of sources, including many of the women’s accounts of their wartime service.

Organisation Todt From the Autobahns to the Atlantic Wall John Christopher (ed.) $34.95 • 256 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 32pp color • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3856-0 Founded by the charismatic Fritz Todt, the engineering organization which bore his name built Germany’s Autobahn network before the war and went on to construct major defensive works across occupied Europe; from the Siegfried Line – know to the Germans as the Westwall – to the Atlantic Wall which stretched from Norway and down the Atlantic coast of France to keep the Allies out of occupied Europe.

Blitzkrieg The Second World War in Colour Campbell McCutcheon (ed.)

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$34.95 • 128 pages • 9.75 x 6.75 • 140 illustrations June 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3891-1 Color photography was a rare thing in the 1930s. Various systems of color photography had been tried, including Dufaycolor and Kodachrome but the processes were time consuming and difficult to process. Here, over 70 color and 70 black and white images tell the story of the Blitzkrieg as it happened.

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Fighting Fit 1939

Land Girls

Adam Culling

Joan Mant

$16.00 • 288 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 October 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3817-1

$16.00 • 224 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 16pp mono • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-1979-8

The Second World War prompted the recruitment and training of British soldiers on a scale never seen since. The training and equipment manual, books, photographs and inspirational lectures collected in this publication provide an insight into how the Physical Training Instructor kept the British soldier Fighting Fit.

Joan Mant’s history draws upon the reminiscences of over 300 ‘land girls’, to tell the story of life on the wartime farm. Land Girls is a fitting tribute to the WLA’s heroic effort to keep food on the nation’s table and establishes their well-earned place in the archives of war.

Battles of the Crimean War

I Was a Kamikaze

William H Russell

$14.50 • 192 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 June 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3482-1

$14.50 • 224 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 September 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-3789-1 The British and French expeditionary force landed on the beaches of Calamita Bay, on the south-west coast of the Crimean Peninsula, in September 1854. Russell’s accounts shocked the public and made him world famous. This book reprints Russell’s dispatches from the Alma, Sevastopol, Balaclava and Inkerman, and from the field hospitals which so shocked Nightingale.

Ryuji Nagatsuka

Ryuji Nagatsuka and his fellow kamikaze pilots had to be highly trained to crash exactly on target and to evade dense antiaircraft fire. Here in this extraordinary document, Nagatsuka gives us a unique insight into what it was that enabled these young men to die for their country in such a way – and to die willingly.

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Arnhem, the Battle of the Bridges William F Buckingham $42.00 • 608 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp mono • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-84868-109-5 Arnhem, the Battle of the Bridges combines analysis and new research by a leading authority on Operation Market Garden with the words of the men who were there, and provides the most comprehensive account of the battle to date.

How to Pilot a Submarine The Second World War Manual US Navy $14.50 • 224 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 20 illustrations • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3585-9 The US Navy based this book on the USS Perch and it gives in depth detail on all aspects of submarine work. The training aid for the US Submarine fleet, this book gives us an idea of just what life was like underwater and the various tasks a submariner would have to do.

Cut and Thrust

Raise the Clans

European Swords and Swordsmanship

The Wargamer’s Guide to Jacobite Britain

Martin Dougherty

Martin Hackett

$28.50 • 192 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 16pp color • November 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3966-6

$26.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 16pp color • June 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-0379-7

Of all the weapons ever invented, none has the mystique of the sword. Martin Dougherty uses his familiarity with historical European swords to take the reader through the background behind each of these weapons and techniques for their use. This is an invaluable guide for all those interested in historical swordsmanship.

Martin Hackett brings his extensive wargaming experience and historical background to the Jacobite Wars, taking us from the Glorious Rebellion of 1685 until 1746. He takes us on a tour of the sites, gives us historical facts to make game play more fun as well as simple rules and tips on making Jacobite war games more realistic.

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The English Resistance Peter Rex $20.00 • 256 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-0479-4

Great Writers on the Great War Revolt in the Desert T. E. Lawrence $14.50 • 288 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 30 illustrations • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3578-1

The Second Battle of Newbury 1644 John Barratt

A Tommy’s Guide to Life on the Western Front

$18.00 • 128 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • 34 illustrations • November 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-0170-0

$16.00 • 256 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 • June 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3671-9

Geoffrey Whittaker

The Writers’ War The Great War in the Words of Great Writers Who Witnessed It

Breverton’s First World War Curiosities

Felicity Trotman

Terry Breverton

Emily Brewer

$34.95 • 352 pages • 6 x 9 • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-4456-3806-5

$16.00 • 320 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 30 illustrations • June 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-3341-1

$20.00 • 224 pages • 4.75 x 7.75 July 2014 • hardback 978-1-4456-3783-9

Women in Early Aviation Dean Juniper $34.95 • 192 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • June 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-0095-6

Britain’s Forgotten Fighter Ace

Tommy, Doughboy, Fritz Soldier Slang of World War I

Born of Adversity Britain’s Airlines 1919-1963

Captain Albert Ball VC

Guy Halford-Macleod

Walter A. Briscoe / H. Russell Stannard

$28.50 • 160 pages • 6.75 x 9.75 • 52 illustrations • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-84868-993-0

$22.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 33 Illustrations June 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4456-2236-1

Somewhere in France

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Amberley

1914 The First World War at Sea in Photographs Grand Fleet v German Navy

1940 The Second World War in the Air in photographs Blitzkrieg and the Battle of Britain

Phil Carradice $22.95 • 144 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 240 illustrations • May 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2233-0

Louis Archard $24.50 • 160 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 16pp color • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-2239-2

1915 The First World War at Sea in Photographs

1941 The Second World War in the Air in Photographs

Phil Carradice $22.95 • 144 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 240 illustrations • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2237-8

Louis Archard $24.50 • 160 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 16pp color • September 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2241-5

1916 The First World War at Sea in Photographs

1942 The Second World War in the Air in Photographs

Phil Carradice $22.95 • 144 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 180 illustrations • October 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2242-2

Louis Archard $24.50 • 160 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 16pp color • November 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2246-0

1917 The First World War at Sea in Photographs

1939 The Second World War at Sea in Photographs

Phil Carradice $22.95 • 144 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 180 illustrations • December 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2247-7

Phil Carradice $22.95 • 144 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 240 illustrations (35 in color) June 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4456-2235-4

1914 The First World War in Old Photographs Over by Christmas

1940 The Second World War at Sea in Photographs

John Christopher / Campbell McCutcheon $24.50 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 16pp color and mono • May 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2181-4

Phil Carradice $22.95 • 144 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 240 illustrations • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2240-8

1941 The Second World War at Sea in Photographs 1915 The First World War in Old Photographs John Christopher / Campbell McCutcheon $24.50 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 16pp and mono • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-2205-7

Phil Carradice $22.95 • 144 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 180 illustrations • November 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2245-3

1939 The Second World War in Old Photographs 1916 The First World War in Old Photographs A War of Attrition John Christopher / Campbell McCutcheon $24.50 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 16pp color and mono • October 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2208-8

John Christopher / Campbell McCutcheon $24.50 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 16pp color and mono • June 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2182-1

1940 The Second World War in Old Photographs

1917 The First World War in Old Photographs Mud and Tanks

John Christopher / Campbell McCutcheon $24.50 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 16pp color and mono • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2207-1

John Christopher / Campbell McCutcheon $24.50 • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 • 16pp color and mono • December 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2210-1

1941 The Second World War in Old Photographs A Global Conflict

1939 The Second World War in the Air in Photographs Louis Archard $24.50 • 160 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 16pp color • May 2014 • paperback 978-1-4456-2234-7

John Christopher / Campbell McCutcheon $24.50 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp color and mono • November 2014 paperback • 978-1-4456-2209-5

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Air Sea Media / Birlinn / Fighting High Publishing Desert Rats at War North Africa. Italy. Northwest Europe George Forty $29.95 • 224 pages • 7.25 x 9.5 • over 350 photos and 22 maps • June 2014 • Air Sea Media • paperback • 978-0-9576915-2-0 70 years ago, on 7 June 1944, the British 7th Armored Division landed in Normandy, halfway through a wartime journey that had started in north Africa. Formed on 16 February 1940, it adopted the Jerboa as its divisional sign—and while many units that fought in the desert call themselves by the name, 7th Armoured Division are the original ‘Desert Rats’. The division helped destroy the Italian Tenth Army at Beda Fomm on 7 February 1941, defeat the Desert_Fox—Rommel—at El Alamein in October 1942, and drive Axis forces out of North_Africa. After the desert, 7th Armored Division landed at Salerno on 15 September 1943, in time to help repulse concerted German counterattacks, before—as part of U.S. Fifth Army’s British X Corps—it took Naples and crossed the Volturno. Desert Rats at War is an evocation of what it was like to serve with the division, in the African desert and Europe, from the first encounters by the Mobile Force in 1940 to Berlin in 1945. Full of eyewitness accounts and private photos, Desert Rats at War has been completely revised and updated, with additional text, maps and photographs.

With the Argylls

Out in Front

A Soldier’s Memoir

A Polish Fighter Pilot’s Dramatic Air War

Ray Ward

Witold ‘Lanny’ Lanowski

$12.95 • 144 pages • 5 x 8 16 pages b/w photos July 2014 • Birlinn • paperback 978-1-84341-066-9

$39.95 • 320 pages 6.25 x 9.25 • b/w picture section • September 2014 • Fighting High Piublishing • hardback • 978-0-9926207-4-5

When Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glasgow. These papers contained a collection of their father’s memoirs, which detailed his experiences as an infantry officer during the Second World War, when he served in the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

Decorated Polish fighter pilot Witold ‘Lanny’ Lanowski tells his remarkable Second World War story beginning with his dramatic escape from Nazi aggression in Poland, fighting with the reformed Polish Air Force in France, and eventually arriving in England to combat the Luftwaffe.

His memoirs give vivid accounts of Ray Ward’s time in Eritrea, Abyssinia, Egypt, the Western Desert, Sicily and mainland Italy, and bring to life individual episodes of bravery, adventure and danger that characterized the North African and Italian campaigns.

Wojtek the Bear

Lanny Lanowski’s exploits have become legendary, as has his rebellious nature. His memoir, supported by previously unpublished photographs, recounts an extraordinary personal journey within the life or death context of the European air war – a gripping and revealing insight in to what it was like to be ‘Out in Front’.

Artie – Bomber Command Legend

Polish War Hero Aileen Orr / Neal Ascherson

The Remarkable Story of Wing Commander Artie Ashworth DSO, DFC and Bar, AFC and Bar, MID

$12.95 • 224 pages 5 x 8 • 16 pages b/w photos • July 2014 • Birlinn paperback • 978-1-84341-065-2

Vince Ashworth

This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War’s most unusual combatants – a 500-pound cigarette smoking, beer-drinking brown bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek soon took on a more practical role, carrying heavy mortar rounds for the troops and going on to play his part as a fully enlisted ‘soldier’ with his own rank and number during the Italian campaign.

$34.95 • 240 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • b/w picture section • October 2014 • Fighting High Publishing • hardback 978-0-9926207-5-2

After the war, Wojtek, along with some of his Polish compatriots from II Corps, came to Berwickshire, where he became a significant member of the local community before subsequently moving to Edinburgh Zoo.

Vincent Ashworth pieces together the compelling story of one of the most distinguished pilots to fly operational bombers during the Second World War.

The story of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War has been told many times, but rarely has it been painted as vividly as this accounting of Artie Ashworth's experiences - a tale of extraordinary bravery and sacrifice set within the greatest air battle of all time.

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Fonthill Media Beheaded by Hitler Cruelty of the Nazis, Civilian Executions and Judicial Terror 1933–1945 Colin Pateman

The Hermann Goering Albums Herman Goering in the First World War, 1914–18 Blaine Taylor

$29.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 black and white • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-343-5

$40.00 • 320 pages • 7 x 10 • 100 black and white • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-62545-046-3

From 1933 during the Nazi era when Hitler refashioned the German judicial system in line with his oppressive regime, many crimes became capital offenses which led to a drastic increase in the number of executions. In 1936, the Reich Minister of Justice, Franz Gurtner, acting upon Hitler’s direction, ordered that the fallbeil, a variation on the guillotine, replace the hand ax as the official method for all civil executions throughout Germany. This book provides the reader with a chilling insight into the judicial terror that took place and the harrowing stories of execution by fallbeil of civilians who were convicted of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime, treason and other offenses after so called ‘trials’ by the Volksgerichtshof or People’s Court. This exceptionally well researched book also explains the Nazi judicial system, the prisons selected for central execution sites and the Nazi officials and executioners that carried out Hitler’s cleansing.

When modern readers think of Hermann Goring, what probably comes to mind is the overweight drug addict and convicted war criminal who cheated the hangman’s noose at Nuremberg by committing suicide just hours before he was due to be hanged. Next up might be the image of his powerful German air force in the Second World War—-the Luftwaffe—bombing defenseless European cities and towns in the early part of the war, until it was defeated by the British Royal Air Force in the epic Battle of Britain in 1940. Next might come Goring the debauched art collector who pirated captured collections all over Nazi Europe during the Occupation years. All of these images are correct, but here we see another Hermann Goring: the slim, dashing fighter pilot and combat ace of an earlier struggle, the Great War, or World War I of 1914-18, which he began as an infantry officer fighting the French Army in the 1914 Battle of the Frontiers.

Guarding the Fuhrer

Never Wars

Sepp Dietrich and Adolf Hitler

The US Plans to Invade the World

Blaine Taylor

Blaine L. Pardoe

$32.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 100 black and white • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78155-387-9

$29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-293-3

German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most controversial politicians and military commanders in all recorded history. As such, his life was conspired against by all manner of enemies, both foreign and domestic. Dozens of attempts were made on his life over the course of two decades, including a bomb explosion in his own headquarters- and yet, he survived them all. This is the story of how he did so, as told via the exciting sagas of Sepp Dietrich and his SS, as well as of German government security leader Johann Rattenhuber and his Reich Security Service, the RSD.

Every major government’s military makes plans for waging wars, hoping that they never have to be employed. In the early part of the last century the US government prepared a number of war contingency plans for invading a number of nations – both hostile and friendly. These color-coded plans were designed for various political and military events, some of which actually unfolded in WWII. Never Wars explores and provides details on a number of these key military invasion plans, their triggers, units involved, etc.. Some of these plans, if executed, would have altered the globe or changed the events of the 20th century and beyond. Included with this was the naval war in the Pacific against Japan in the 1930’s, the US plans to land forces in France in the event that it fell during WWI, the US planned invasion of Ireland, Canada, Iceland, Mexico, and even China!

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Fonthill Media Heinrich Himmler A Photo History of the Reichsfuhrer-SS Max Williams $65.00 • 704 pages • 7 x 10 • 1000 black and white • August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-405-0 “I was following orders.”The answer most commonly quoted by SS men accused of atrocious crimes after Germany had surrendered in 1945. But who gave those orders? Who was the mastermind behind the sophisticated machinery which allowed men from normal family backgrounds to kill on such a scale? The right man at the right time, fate steered Heinrich Himmler to take control of an organization destined to carry out Hitler’s racial policies. This study not only sets out in detail how Heinrich Himmler’s daily routine allowed him to implement Nazi strategy, but it also provides illustrations of the man behind much of it, both at work and at home. Of all the personalities of history demonized by postwar writers, Heinrich Himmler ranks among the most reviled. His legacy is one of hatred, violence and cold blooded murder on a vast scale. A Jekyll and Hyde character, variously described by his generation and those who followed as charming, loyal, polite, a pedant, an eccentric, an organizational genius, a fool, a desk killer and a loving father. The camera allows us into his world, albeit temporarily, and we can equate his busy, but mostly mundane schedule with contemporary images frozen in time.

Swastikas in the Arctic U-boat Alley through the Frozen Hell Jak P. Mallmann Showell $29.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-292-6 During the Second World War, the Arctic saw an unusually high intensity of action, adventure, excitement and tragedy, and Swastikas in the Arctic: U-boat Alley Through the Frozen Hell describes the German military activities in that harsh frozen hell. Based mainly on original logs, the bare facts have been fleshed out with help from veterans and researchers from the United States, Iceland, Britain, Norway, Germany and Russia. This has made it possible to describe some of the now forgotten battles, the secret U-boat activities, the German struggle to broadcast essential weather data to Berlin and the incredible surface ship activity that forced Britain to launch major offensives against heavy odds. The Arctic also saw intense British efforts to help with the cracking of the highly complicated Enigma radio code. Many studies of the Second World War give scant attention to activity in this ice-studded ocean. However, as becomes apparent reading this book, those who fought, suffered and died there were shot at and bombed more heavily than in any other theater of war and the contribution they made influenced military actions far away in warmer regions. Gloriously illustrated with many unpublished photographs, Swastikas in the Arctic: U-boat Alley Through the Frozen Hell is a thrilling account of a war fought in very difficult circumstances.

Küstenflieger The Operational History of the German Naval Air Service 1935-1944 Adam Thompson $28.00 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 black and white • August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78155-283-4 Küstenflieger: The Operational History of the German Naval Air Service 1935-1944 is a work that covers the history of the German naval air arm between the two World Wars as well as unit histories for the major Küstenfliegergruppen during the Second World War. The impact of the Treaty of Versailles on the buildup of German forces in the inter war period and the influence of Hermann Göring greatly influenced the design, capability and size of the Küstenfliegergruppen. While Germany operated seaplanes throughout the war, the Kriegsmarine’s naval air arm was constantly under threat from the Luftwaffe. In 1944, the last Küsenfliegerstaffeln was disbanded in favor of the Luftwaffe’s own naval air units. Covering operational histories, the title also looks at the involvement of various Sonderkommandos during the war, but also in the Spanish Civil War. The title also covers the camouflage and marking systems of the Küstenfliegergruppen prior to and during the Second World War. Küstenflieger: The Operational History of the German Naval Air Service 1935-1944 is a must for military historians, modelers and those fascinated in the Second World War on an more obscure but heavily engaged Luftwaffe unit. Also, the book contains many unpublished photographs and memoirs making it highly collectable.

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Fonthill Media Legions in Crisis Transformation of the Roman Soldier AD 192–284 Paul Elliott $29.95 • 176 pages • 7 x 10 • 32 full color • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-334-3 The third century AD was a turbulent and testing time for the Roman Empire. A new and powerful foe in the east had risen up to challenge Rome directly. Barbarians on the northern frontiers were now more aggressive and more numerous than before and internally the population of the empire had to contend with rampant inflation and a series of terrible plagues. Unfortunately, the chaos became magnified by a lack of continuity on the imperial throne. Armor, shields, helmets, swords and javelins all began to be replaced with new styles. Legions in Crisis looks closely at the new styles of arms and armor, comparing their construction, use and effectiveness to the more familiar types of Roman kit used by soldiers fighting the earlier Dacian and Marcomannic Wars.

Prelude to the First World War The Balkan Wars 1912-1913 Edward Robert Hooton

From Deveron to Devastation Brother Officers of the 7th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the First World War James Bourhill $29.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-354-1 Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Daniel Reid was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. His body was never recovered; however, there is nothing singular about that. What is remarkable is that his eloquent journal has survived untouched for 100 years. The context for Alexander Daniel Reid’s account are provided partly by the memoirs of his brother, Harry, who was the transport officer in the same battalion, and partly from historical research.

Britain’s Forgotten Fighters of the First World War Paul R. Hare

$29.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-180-6 The fuse to the First World War was lit in the Balkans where simmering hatreds exploded into violence. Like a string of firecrackers, these hatreds had been fueled by attacks on the Turkish Ottoman Empire in the previous few years. The First World War saw echoes of these campaigns in Salonika and especially in the Dardanelles, while the ethnic tensions would erupt into further bloodshed after the Cold War ended as Yugoslavia collapsed during the 1990s.

$29.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-197-4 Those with any interest in the First World War will have have heard of the planes most associated with that conflict - the legendary Sopwith Camel and Royal Aircraft Factory’s S.E.5a, which are often called the “Spitfire” and “Hurricane” of the Great War. Aviation enthusiasts might even know of the Camel’s predecessors, the Sopwith Pup or the Triplane. But what of the many other planes that saw active service in the war? This is the story of those armed airplanes whose names few people can recall, the ‘Forgotten Fighters’ of the First World War.

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Great Scientists Wage the Great War William Van der Kloot $40.00 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 32 black and white • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-402-9 Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. The information comes from their memoirs, letters, reports in the archives, and from coworkers recollections. Four of these brilliant and diverting men were Nobel laureates and one became the president of Israel. The work of two outstanding women is described in the narrative.

Voices of Colditz The YMCA Notebook from Oflag IVc Peter Clay $40.00 • 320 pages • 7 x 10 • 64 black and white • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-386-2 Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain in 1945, a battered log book from a Canadian Red Cross parcel now reveals its longheld secrets though over a hundred handwritten stories. In 1942, two Canadian Army officers in Colditz Prison in Germany passed a blank hard-cover log book among their fellow officers, so that as many as possible could write their own accounts, to be printed after the war ended.

Fonthill Media Yank Bomber Boys in Norfolk A Photographic Record of the USAAF in the Second World War Peter W. Bodle FRAeS $40.00 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • 600 black and white • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-356-5 During the Second World War, thousands of American servicemen were uprooted from the US and deposited in rural England and immediately thrust unceremoniously into the front line of the largest conflict the world has ever seen. Fortunately, many remembered to pack small cameras in kitbags and snapped photographs of their everyday lives as the war unfolded.

Blueprint for Victory

Zero to Hero

Silent Invaders

From a Boys’ Home to RAF Hero

Combat Gliders of the Second World War

Peter Bodle

Gary Best

$29.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 32 black and white • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-303-9

$32.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 64 black and white September 2014 • hardback 978-1-62545-000-5

In this radical reappraisal, Greg Baughen has used archive material to build up an intriguingly different picture of how air power developed in Britain before and during the First World War. Gone are the archetypal conservative army commanders stubbornly refusing to accept the new aerial weapon. Instead, Baughen reveals how even before the outbreak of war, the British Army had appreciated the potential of the airplane.

Zero to Hero follows the short life of Victor Roe DFM, CGM, a child from an extremely dysfunctional family from poverty stricken beginnings in a Norwich slum. We plot his progress through council care in Norfolk, to a Boys Home in Northamptonshire and a training farm in Kent, through to RAF Pathfinder aircrew.

Combat gliders were called by some as ‘Death Crates’, ‘Purple Heart Boxes’, ‘Flying Coffins’ and ‘Tow Targets’. Beautifully written, profoundly illustrated and researched, this is a work that is dedicated to those brave men under impossible odds from the British and American servicemen on D-Day, the doomed Operation Market Garden in Holland and Hitler’s radical commando raid to rescue Mussolini.

Sinking the Beast

Blenheims over Greece

Gloster Aircraft Company

The RAF 1944 Lancaster Raids Against Tirpitz

Operations of 30, 84 and 211 Squadrons 1940-1941

Derek N. James

Jan Forsgren

Brian Cull

$29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-318-3

$29.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-280-3

During the autumn of 1944, three RAF raids – using Avro Lancaster heavy bombers – finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz. Many previous attempts, including the use of midget submarines and raids by carrier-based aircraft, had damaged Tirpitz at her Norwegian hideout. Throughout the war, Tirpitz had become a much feared asset of the Third Reich war machine, almost gaining mythical status.

The Bristol Blenheim entered Bomber Command service in 1937 and became one of the Command’s most important aircraft. On its inception, the Blenheim was fast and sleek, and at the outbreak of war, achieved a number of early firsts. It was the first British aircraft to enter German airspace and attacked warships near Wilhelmshaven.

Britain’s First World War Blitzkrieg Air Force Greg Baughen $29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-392-3

$29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 100 black and white • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78155-259-9 The Gloster Aircraft Company had its foundation in 1917 and in 1934 the company was taken over by Hawker Aircraft, though it continued to produce aircraft under its own name. In that same year the company produced the famous Gladiator biplane. Having no modern designs of its own in production, Gloster undertook manufacture for the parent company Hawker.

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Fonthill Media Howard’s Whirlybirds Howard Hughes’s Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits Donald J. Porter $26.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-419-7 Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Covering the period from the Second World War until the mid-1980s, you will learn why Hughes military aircraft contracts came under close scrutiny by the US government.

Mount of Aces The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a Paul R. Hare $28.00 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 50 black and white • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-288-9

Paint Locker Magic William Tate / Jim Meehan $40.00 • 256 pages • 7 x 10 100 full color • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-62545-041-8

Arguably, the Sopwith Camel may be the best known British fighter plane of the First World War that took on the mighty and feared Jastas over the killing fields that were the trenches. However, almost all the highest scoring aces including McCudden and Mannock preferred the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a. It was well-armed, fast, highly maneuverable and a superb gun platform.

Naval aviation special markings and nose art is a field that has been largely ignored, primarily due to the lack of coverage in mainstream aviation history publications. Research into archives, feedback from veterans, and personal photographs by the authors, Jim Meehan and William Tate, have documented thousands of previously unknown individual aircraft with these markings.

Tupolev Tu-128 Fiddler

The Phantom in Focus

Alan Dawes Sergey Burdin

A Navigator’s Eye on Britain’s Cold War Warrior

$55.00 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 August 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-404-3 The first comprehensive account in English of the development and operation of Russia’s least known postwar jet fighter. Only ever operated over the former Soviet Union’s vast northern territory by an elite group of Soviet Air Force aircrew, it was little known even to most Russian military personnel and the majority of Soviet citizens.

Operation Tonga – The Glider Assault 6 June 1944 Stephen Wright / Kevin Shannon $29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 black and white July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-397-8 This book is an account of the Glider Pilot Regiment’s role in Operation Tonga, the first stage of the airborne assault in the Normandy landings in June 1944. The story is told through the eyes of those who were there and covers the operation from training through to evacuations after D-Day.

Flying Blind The Story of a Second World War NightFighter Pilot

David Gledhill

Flight Lieutenant Bryan Wild / Elizabeth Hall

$29.95 • 336 pages • 7 x 10 • 100 full color August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78155-421-0

$29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78155-345-9

This is the story of life on the front line during the Cold War told in the words of a navigator who flew the iconic jet. Unique pictures, many captured from the cockpit, show the Phantom in its true environment and show why for many years the Phantom was the envy of NATO.

Bryan Wild joined the RAF in 1940, a raw recruit not long out of school. Over the next five years, he flew fourteen different types of aircraft and saw action over Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Germany. This book portrays the full flavor of wartime RAF life and one pilot’s journey from boyhood to manhood.

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Fonthill Media Voices from the Arctic Convoys Peter C. Brown $29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white • June 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78155-284-1 With the invasion of Russia by Germany in 1941, Britain gained a new ally and a responsibility to provide material for the new front. This book is dedicated to these men and the stories of the immeasurable contribution they made to the Allied efforts during the Second World War.

Thetis

Monty’s Northern Legions

Submarine Disaster

Patrick Delaforce

David Paul

$24.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78155-399-2

$25.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white • July 2014 paperback 978-1-78155-271-1 The true story of the loss of submarine HMS Thetis is still shrouded in mystery, even now, some seventy-five years after her tragic sinking. David Paul examines the issues which led to the disaster and draws some convincing and devastating conclusions.

Monty’s desert legions - 7th Armored Division, 51st Highland Division and 50th Northumbrian Division - helped him win at El Alamein and throughout North Africa, and eventually in North West Europe after D-Day. Monty’s Northern Legions is the story of two distinguished formations who played significant roles in the liberation of North West Europe.

From Gazala to Tunis

T. E. Lawrence

422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade

Tormented Hero Andrew Norman

Phillip Harding

$24.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78155-019-9

$40.00 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 black and white • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78155-355-8 This book tells the story of the riflemen and their battles of Gazala to the successful end of the North African campaign. These 422 days include the bitter battles of Gazala, the conflict around the Cauldron, the loss of Tobruk before the forced withdrawal with the remainder of the Eighth Army, along the Mediterranean Coast and finally digging in at Alamein.

In T. E. Lawrence: Tormented Hero, Andrew Norman sheds new light on the aspects of the life of Lawrence of Arabia that remain a mystery to this day. Lawrence’s sexual orientation is discussed in detail, including his dislike of physical relationships and it is suggested that he suffered from sexual aversion disorder. New light is shed on his fatal motorcycle crash in May 1935 and evidence is presented that it occurred in a different location and manner to that which is generally supposed. Photographs taken at the time are compared with the present day topography of the site to support this entirely new theory.

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Frontline Sparta at War Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 950–362 BC Dr Scott M Rusch

$24.95 • 272 pages 6 x 9 • November 2014 • paperback 978-1-78303-011-8

During the eighth century bc, Sparta became one of the leading cities of ancient Greece, conquering the southern Peloponnese, and from the mid-sixth century bc until the mid-fourth, Sparta became a military power of recognized importance. For almost two centuries the massed Spartan army remained unbeaten in the field. Spartan officers also commanded with great success armies of mercenaries or coalition allies, as well as fleets of war galleys. Although it is the stand of the Three Hundred at Thermopylae that has earned Sparta undying fame, it was her victories over both Persian invaders and the armies and navies of Greek rivals that upheld her position of leadership in Greece. Even a steady decline in Spartiate numbers, aggravated by a terrible earthquake in 464 bc, failed to end their dominance. Only when the Thebans learned how to defeat the massed Spartan army in pitched battle was Sparta toppled from her position of primacy. Scott Rusch examines what is known of the history of Sparta, from the settlement of the city to her defeat at Theban hands, focusing upon military campaigns and the strategic circumstances that drove them. Rusch offers fresh perspectives on important questions of Spartan history, and illuminates some of antiquity’s most notable campaigns.

Hitler’s Last Battles Seelow and the Halbe Encirclement, April-May 1945 Richard Lakowski $32.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp of plates August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84832-208-0 The battle of the Seelow Heights (16-19 April 1945), marked the last stage of the Soviets’ offensive against Nazi Germany and saw the most severe fighting of the crossing of the Oder-Neisse line, between German Ninth Army and Marshal Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian Front. After three days and massive losses, the Soviets broke through and the Eastern Front collapsed. The Ninth Army was encircled, and in the ensuing battle of Halbe, attempted to break out to link up with other German forces. This study of the last battles of the Third Reich is drawn from original documents, maps and firsthand accounts. It also features photographs of the battlefields as they are today. This is a fascinating and powerful account of the last cataclysmic battles of the Second World War in Europe.

Hitler’s Paratroopers in Normandy Gilberto ViLlahermosa $34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • February 2015 hardback • 978-1-84832-771-9 In June 1944, Allied forces fighting desperately to establish a foothold in Normandy and then breakout of the confining bocage found themselves opposed by a bewildering array of formations of the German Wehrmacht. Among them were the newly formed German II Parachute Corps. This gripping new account examines the exploits of Germany’s II Parachute Corps and its commander, Eugen Meindl from the Allied invasion on 6 June to the end of August 1944.

Hitler Was My Friend

Survivors of Stalingrad

The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer

Eyewitness Accounts from the 6th Army, 1942–1943

Heinrich Hoffmann $19.95 • 264 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • 2x16 and 1x8 plate sections • August 2014 • paperback 978-1-84832-772-6 As official ‘court’photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann played a critical role in the painstaking cultivation of Hitler’s public image and the glorification of the Third Reich. However, his influence stretched far beyond the realm of propaganda. Not only was he present during many of the key moments in the history of the Third Reich – he was also a close, personal friend of the Führer with exclusive and intimate access to Hitler’s inner circle and to the man himself. It was Hoffmann who introduced Hitler to Eva Braun, his studio assistant.

Reinhold Busch $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16 pages of plates September 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84832-766-5 In November 1942 Soviet forces smashed the German siege and encircled Stalingrad, trapping some 290,000 soldiers of the 6th Army inside. For almost three months, during the harshest part of the Russian winter, the German troops endured atrocious conditions. The book includes firsthand accounts of soldiers who were wounded or fell ill and were flown out of the encirclement; as well as those who fought to the bitter end and were taken prisoner by the Soviets.

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Frontline Aces of the Luftwaffe The Jagdfliegern and Their Tactics of World War II Peter Jacobs $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp of plates • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-84832-689-7 The air battles of the Second World War were fought ferociously and with extraordinary skill and courage on both fronts. In Luftwaffe Fighter Aces, Peter Jacobs examines the many campaigns fought by the Luftwaffe from its fledgling days during the Spanish Civil War to its last days defending the Reich.

German UBoat Losses During World War II

“Set Europe Ablaze”

Details of Destruction

The Brutal War of Resistance Behind German Lines, 1940–1945

Axel Niestlé

Randolph Bradham

$39.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp of plates, 9 maps • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-84832-210-3

$32.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp of plates October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84832-742-9

No other publication on this subject comes even close to including the amount of detail provided in this book. An introduction both summarizes previous works on the subject and describes the difficulties of obtaining and verifying information from either the Germans or the Allies on U-boat losses.

Germany’s High Sea Fleet in the World War Admiral Reinhard Scheer $50.00 • 396 pages 6 x 9.25 • 1 portrait and 28 plans • July 2014 hardback • 978-1-84832-209-7 In his own account of the war in the North Sea, first published in 1920, Admiral Scheer, the German commander at Jutland, gives his own explanation for the failure of either fleet to achieve the decisive victory expected of it, particularly the failure of his own operation plans that resulted in the battle of Jutland.

This was a brutal war of reprisal and counterreprisal, where conflicts between different Resistance factions could be almost as fierce as those with the Germans. This is a fascinating account of a vital yet often neglected aspect of the war against Nazi Germany.

No Cloak, No Dagger Allied Spycraft in Occupied France Benjamin Cowburn $24.95 • 224 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • October 2014 • paperback 978-1-84832-776-4 The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set about establishing secure networks with the French Resistance.

Fatal Fortnight Arthur Ponsonby and the Fight for British Neutrality in 1914 Duncan Marlor $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 16pp of plates • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-4738-2286-3 Numerous books have been published about the First World War but few have focused on the machinations in the British parliament and the role it played in the decision to go to war. This book reexamines the arguments which Parliament heard against British war entry and reflects on how the world might have been had the decision gone a different way.

Codenamed Dorset The Wartime Exploits of Major Colin OgdenSmith Commando and SOE Peter Jacobs $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 16 pages of plates • October 2014 hardback 978-1-84832-686-6 This gripping new history tells the little-known story of one of the most courageous men to have served with the newly formed Commandos and SOE during the Second World War. It is a story of extreme courage and a revealing portrait of a man who ultimately gave his life to the liberation of France.

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Medieval Combat A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat Hans Talhoffer $24.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated throughout • July 2014 paperback • 978-1-84832-770-2 Talhoffer’s fencing manual illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the ‘judicial duel’ and personal combat. This unparalleled guide provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication and ruthlessness.

The Agincourt War A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1369 to 1453 Alfred H. Burne $29.95 • 360 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • September 2014 • paperback • 978-1-84832-765-8 Henry V’s victory at Agincourt was a pivotal battle of the Hundred Years War, reviving England’s fortunes and changing the course of European warfare. This exciting account recreates the years leading up to Agincourt and its bitter aftermath.

Gallantry and Discipline The 12th Light Dragoons at War with Wellington

Dead Was Everything Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War

Bearskins, Bayonets & Body Armour Welsh Guards, 1915-2015

Andrew Bamford

Keith Smith

Trevor Royle

$50.00 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp of plates, 5 maps • October 2014 hardback • 978-1-84832-743-6

$50.00 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • 16 pages of plates • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-84832-731-3

The 12th Light Dragoons served throughout Wellington’s campaigns in the Peninsula, most notably at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812, and later at Waterloo where they suffered heavy casualties supporting the Union Brigade’s famous charge.

The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 still intrigues both scholars and enthusiasts alike more than 130 years after it was fought. Its story contains tragedy, high drama and the heavy loss of human life; it involved five major battles and two lesser fights; and led to the snuffing out of the direct male Napoleonic line of France.

$50.00 • 320 pages • 8.5 x 10.75 color images integrated December 2014 • hardback 978-1-84832-735-1

Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807

Sheriffmuir 1715

Alexander Mikaberidze $39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp plates • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-84832-762-7 This is the first book to bring together dozens of Russian letters, memoirs and diaries, with authors ranging from the commander-inchief (Benningsen) to NCOs. We see the brutal conditions of the winter campaign at first hand, and gain fresh insight into the infamous Treaty of Tiltsit and the diplomatic maneuvering that followed it.

Stuart Reid $50.00 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp of plates, maps • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-84832-732-0 Sheriffmuir 1715 is the military history of a doomed Jacobite rising in Scotland, which enjoyed far more public support and arguably far more chance of success than Bonnie Prince Charlie’s attempt 30 years later. Unlike the ’45, the uprising which culminated in the brutal battle of Sheriffmuir was very much a Scottish affair, fought without either French troops or assistance.

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This book traces the Welsh Guards from their foundation in the First World War and their baptism of fire at the Battle of Loos in 1915, through their fighting at Dunkirk up to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 21st century.

If You’re Reading This ... Last Letters from the Front Line Siân Price $24.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • 16 pages of b/w plates • November 2014 • paperback 978-1-84832-740-5 In this collection of ‘farewell letters’ written by servicemen and women to their loved ones, Siân Price offers insight into the hearts and minds of some of the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the past three hundred years. These voices speak eloquently and forcefully of the tragedy of war and answer that fundamental human need to say goodbye.

Grub Street Publishing Christopher Shores Titles, Now Back in Print

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

Volume One: North Africa, June 1940–January 1942

Volume Two: North African Desert, February 1942 – March 1943

Christopher Shores / Giovanni Massimello Russell Guest

Christopher Shores / Giovanni Massimello

$75.00 • 560 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • maps and photos throughout • Now Available • hardback 978-1-908117-07-6 • eISBN 978-1-909808-75-1 It is now more than 40 years since Fighters over the Desert was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by Fighters over Tunisia. Both volumes have long been out of print and collectors’ items, but, despite much prompting, Christopher Shores has resolutely refused to permit their reprinting until he amassed so much more information.

$95.00 • 738 pages • 6 x 9 • illustrated • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-909166-12-7 Volume I of this series dealt with the 19 months of the air war over the Western Desert of North Africa. This volume picks up as the 8th Army was forced back midway between the Cyrenaican/Tripolitanian border of Libya and the frontier with Egypt. It covers the lull prior to the defeat of the 8th Army in June 1942 and the loss of the important port and fortress of Tobruk.

Bloody Shambles Volume One

Bloody Shambles Volume Two

First Comprehensive Account of Air Operations Over South-East Asia, December 1941-April 1942

The Complete Account of the Air War in the Far East, from the Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma, 1942

Christopher Shores / Brian Cull / Yasuho Izawa

$59.95 • 416 pages • 6.25 x 9.5 • 180 b/w photos • September 2014 • hardback 978-094881750-2

$59.95 • 496 pages • 6.25 x 9.5 • 180 b/w photos • September 2014 • hardback 978-094881767-0

This is the story of the Allied air campaign across Singapore, Malaya, Burma, Ceylon and the Philippines during World War II.

This is the story of the Allied air campaign across Australia, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, Burma and Ceylon during World War II. It documents the Allied underestimation of Japanese ability, and ends with the Japanese at the extremities of their advance.

It documents the Allied underestimation of Japanese ability, which led to the destruction of 50% of the British bomber force in two days.

Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942 Christopher Shores and Brian Cull / Nicola Malizia $90.00 • 704 pages 6.25 x 9.5 • illustrated throughout with b/w photos • September 2014 • hardback 978-094881716-8 Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942 is an authoritative account of the final Allied victory over Malta. Christopher Shores details the great efforts of Britain’s servicemen to defeat their enemy.

Air War for Burma The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia 1942-1945 Christopher Shores $59.95 • 416 pages • 6.25 x 9.25 • 200 photos and tabular material • September 2014 hardback 978-190401095-1 eISBN 978-1-909166-57-8 In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942. Described herein are the operations during the First and Second Arakan Campaigns; support for the Chindits in their long-range penetrations deep into enemy-held territory; the savage sieges of Imphal and Kohima; and the final victorious advance across the plains of Central Burma to Mandalay and Rangoon.

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Grub Street Publishing Wimpy

Arrival of Eagles

A Detailed History of the Vickers Wellington in service, 1938–1953

Luftwaffe Landings in Britain 1939-1945

Steve Bond $49.95 • 256 pages • 7 x 9.7 November 2014 • hardback 978-1-909808-14-0 To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft. Among its claims to fame are the following: the only RAF bomber to serve in its original role from first day of war to last, and in every theater; the first type to bomb Germany; the first type to bomb Berlin; the first type to drop the 4,000 lb. ‘Cookie’ bomb; and so on. A serious study is well overdue, drawing not just on official documentation but relying greatly on personal accounts and anecdotes from the veterans who were there, both air and ground crew. Operational detail will include, for example, the early bombing campaigns, the switch to main force activity, the use of OTU aircraft and crews on operations, the protection of Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys, and the continued use as bomber and transport aircraft. A worthy tribute, then, replete with original photographs throughout.

WWI in Cartoons Mark Bryant $24.95 • 160 pages • 9 x 12 • July 2014 • paperback • 978-1-909808-09-6 Using images from a wide variety of international wartime magazines, newspapers, books, postcards, posters and prints Mark Bryant tells the history of World War I from both sides of the conflict in an immediate and refreshing manner that brings history alive. The book contains more than 300 cartoons and caricatures, in color and black and white, many of which are published here in book form for the first time. Artists featured include such famous names as Bruce Bairnsfather, H.M.Bateman, F.H.Townshend, Alfred Leete, E.J. Sullivan, Lucien Metivet and Louis Raemaekers, with drawings from the Bystander, London Opinion, Daily Graphic, Punch, Le Rire, Simplicissimus and Kladderadatsch amongst many others.

Andy Saunders $39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-909808-12-6 During World War Two a great many Luftwaffe aircraft arrived on the ground in the UK or its coastal waters, but, as with Rudolf Hess, not all of them through ‘conventional’ combat circumstances. Some had got lost, others were brought by defectors; some were lured through electronic countermeasures by the RAF, others brought down in unusual combat circumstances. All manner of types appeared – He111, Go145, Me110, Ju88, Me109 F and G, FW190, Do217 – and all were of great interest to the RAF. In some cases aircraft were repaired and test flown, betraying vital and invaluable information. Distinguished author Andy Saunders examines a selection of such fascinating cases and draws upon his own research, interviews, official reports and eyewitness accounts to bring alive these truly unusual accounts, all richly illustrated with contemporary photographs.

WWII in Cartoons Mark Bryant $24.95 • 160 pages • 9 x 12 September 2014 • paperback 978-1-909808-11-9 The cartoon has a special place in the history of World War II, and the power of its message was felt by all sides of the conflict. Acclaimed cartoon historian Dr Mark Bryant has amassed a marvelous collection of images in color and black and white, some famous, others not so – from, amongst others, British, French, American, Italian, German, Soviet and Japanese sources – which now appear in paperback form for the first time.

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Grub Street Publishing Vulcan Boys From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber Tony Blackman $39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9.2 • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-909808-08-9 The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape instantly recognizable as is the howling noise it makes when the engines are opened for takeoff. Vulcan Boys is the first Vulcan book recounted completely first hand by the operators themselves. It tells the story of the aircraft from its design conception through the Cold War when it played out its most important job as Britain’s nuclear deterrent; before unbelievably, at the end of its service life, also playing a significant role, with its bombs and missiles, in liberating the Falkland Islands for which it gained much celebrity. The individual accounts detail how hours at a time were spent on readiness, waiting to be scrambled to defend their country in the event of a third world war. In addition how their aggressive skills were honed by carrying out Lone Ranger sorties flying to the States and westward around the world, and taking part in Giant Voice and Red Flag, competitive exercises against the United States Strategic Air Command. The attacks in the Falklands using Shrike missiles are described accurately and in great detail for the first time including the landing at Rio de Janeiro alongside a vivid account of Black Buck 2.

Jaguar Boys True Tales from Operators of the Big Cat in Peace and War Ian Hall $39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9.2 • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-909808-15-7 Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weaponaiming and navigational equipment, eventually became the backbone of the RAF’s tactical strike-attack and recce forces for a decade from the mid 1970s. In these pages, the Jaguar Boys – pilots, engineer and ground crew – tell of the aircraft’s drawbacks and joys, their sadness at losses, and their pleasure at its development into a readily deployable and outstandingly capable fighter-bomber for the post-Cold War era. Then came the Gulf War which signaled the start of a hectic sequence of operational adventures and upgrades for the ‘Boys’ and seasoned veterans tell of action over Iraq and in the Balkans. One of the best-loved of RAF types, the Jaguar commanded a fierce loyalty and affection which shines through in these accounts of an aircraft that will live forever in the memory.

Billy Bishop VC Lone Wolf Hunter The RAF Ace Re-Examined Peter Kilduff $39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9.7 • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-909808-13-3 William Avery Bishop is recognized as the British Empire’s highest-scoring WWI ace, credited with 72 combat victories, third-ranking behind von Richthofen and René Fonck. He scored many of his successes on his own, prevailing only by dint of personal courage, daring and superior marksmanship. This remarkable man’s story has been detailed in many books and articles, but renowned author Peter Kilduff is adamant that so far the full truth has not been told. Famed for his evenhanded, thorough, exhaustive and forensic research, Kilduff sets out to bring new light to missions and kills so far steeped in controversy. As so many of Bishop’s victories were achieved during solo combat, all will be examined and scrutinized, drawing on German, British and Canadian archival sources, Bishop’s private correspondence, and accounts by friends and foes. Such an approach provides as complete an account as possible which also serves as a valuable reference work containing many previously unpublished images.

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Heimdal Commando Kieffer

The Night of Liberation

Jean-Charles Stasi

Normandie June 1944-Embark with the American paratroopers

$43.00 • 80 pages • 8.5 x 12 • July 2014 hardback • 978-2-84048-387-8 Tuesday, June 6, 1944, 130,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. Among them were 177 French soldiers. While the number may appear small at first glance, the symbolic significance is immense. These men, who fought against the Nazi occupation have now been able to return to their homeland, with their weapons in hand, nearly four years after being forced to leave. This group of French solders belong to the commandos, an elite corps created by Churchill after the costly evacuation of Dunkirk. At their head is Philippe Kieffer, a banker of 40 years whose enthusiasm and persistence finally convinced the British to accept these French soldiers into their shock troops. However, “commando Kieffer’s”success in Operation Overlord is not merely symbolic. It is on this fateful day—D-Day—that the French Green Berets will achieve, at the expense of heavy losses, all of their objectives, which includes taking of the Ouistreham casino that had been transformed by the Germans into a heavily fortified bunker.

Ils étaient cinq dans les tranchées Hitler-Mussolini-Churchill-Patton-de Gaulle Philippe Conrad $58.00 • 96 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • November 2014 • hardback • 978-2-84048-390-8 French Text August 1914...The outbreak of the Great War throws against each other millions of men against one another in the mud of Flanders or on the heights of Verdun, who are called to write about one of the most tragic epics of the bloody twentieth century. Among the crowds of anonymous soldiers enduring the trials and sacrifices of war, a select few will discover in themselves “the divine coupling of courage and fear,” and their calling as leaders. Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, George S. Patton, these five men, initiated in the fire of the First World War will become the major decision makers in the next war. The tribulations they experienced will deeply mark and influence the course of their careers and the course of history in a decisive manner. For the first time, these five destinies are presented together in a single volume, representing a key document for understanding history.

Gilles Vallée / Christophe Esquerré $44.00 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11 • July 2014 hardback • 978-2-84048-388-5 On the night of 5 to 6 June 1944, some 15,000 American paratroopers were dropped into Normandy to outflank the German troops. Among them were the men of the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, commanded by Lt. Col. Robert Wolverton. Dropped behind Utah Beach, their mission was to seize two bridges on the Douve, near Carentan, to prevent enemy reinforcements accessing the coast. As a result of long and painstaking research, Gilles Vallée has been able to reconstruct the route of Wolverton and his men as they embarked with him on board the C-47 «Stoy Hora», piloted by Colonel Frank Krebs of the 440th Troop Carrier Group. In this richly illustrated book with vintage photos and drawings by Christopher Esquerré, the author brings to life, by sharing the actions of a handful of paratroopers during this heroic night, events that marked the beginning of the end the Third Reich.

A la soupe La cuisine dans les tranchées Jérôme Delile / Anne-Elisabeth Groult $58.00 • 96 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 November 2014 • hardback 978-2-84048-391-5 • French Text 2014 marks the centenary of the declaration of the Great War. The First World War disrupted everyday life and particularly French gastronomy well beyond the conflict. During the period between 1914-1918 eight million five hundred thousand French solders were mobilized for duty, representing three meals a day for 1500 days. The French were forced to fulfill this fantastic challenge of supplying four million meals to fighters directly from the front. And from this one can trace the foundations of the modern “catering.” History buff Jérôme Delile has compiled many historic utensils: bowls , flasks etc .... And after a careful restoration, they have now found their usefulness through authentic and simple-to-make recipes. This book, profusely illustrated with enticing photos invites the reader on a journey through time in a simple and effective manner. It immerses you in the time of “cooks,” which were indispensable to the successful outcome of the conflict.

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Heimdal Villers-Bocage

Caen-Carpiquet 1940–1945

Au cœur de la bataille Frédéric Deprun / Yann Jouault

un aérodrome dans la guerre François Robinard / Thierry Quittard

$78.00 • 192 pages • 8.5 x 12 • December 2014 hardback • 978-2-84048-384-7 French Text Villers -Bocage is undoubtedly one of the most emblematic events of the Battle of Normandy. Many historians have recounted the highly documented events of June 13, 1944, notably the destruction of a British armored column by Obersturmführer Tiger Michael Wittmann. Although one might think nothing more could be said, the veil of fog of this war still hangs heavy in 2014, and the battle continues to reveal more secrets! Yann Jouault and Frédéric Deprun have undertaken a thorough and extremely detailed analysis of the battles that took place on that fateful day. Such a thorough examination of the battle has now been made possible thanks to the testimonies and unpublished photographs that have surfaced over the last ten years, thus compelling the authors to continue their research and to establish an accurate and uncompromising chronology of events which include the breakthrough of the 7th Armored Division to the Wittmann attack, and the destruction of the last Tiger SS- Panzer-Abteilung 101 in the village.

$78.00 • 160 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • August 2014 hardback • 978-2-84048-386-1 French Text Before the war, the young Air Minister chooses Carpiquet in order to create, far from the future front, an airfield dedicated to bomber instruction, strafing and surveillance. In June 1940, the Germans created there a significant military base dedicated first to the Battle of Britain (previously unpublished photos), then to the Dieppe Raid. Throughout its time, the base suffered heavy bombing, and between June and July 1944, it became the cornerstone of the Battle of Caen. Additionally, the Hitlerjugend put up a fierce resistance to Canadians at this site. After the war, it was employed to train hundreds of pilots involved in the Algerian conflict and would become army base before returning entirely to civilian use in 2010. The reader will find here outstanding documentation about a military base that found itself at the heart of history.

WN62

362nd Fighter Group

Mémoires à Omaha Beach Normandie, 6 juin 1944

dans la bataille de Normandie Philippe Trombetta

Hein Severloh

$43.00 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • October 2014 hardback • 978-2-84048-381-6 French Text

$39.00 • 150 pages • 6 x 9.25 • June 2014 paperback • 978-2-84048-195-9 French Text In his moving autobiography, Heinrich Severloh recounts the largest amphibious landing operation in history. Severloh describes when the Allies, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, launched their dawn offensive on the Normandy coast against the Atlantic Wall with 7,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft. Severloh was positioned in his battle station on the fulcrum of 62 WN (Widerstandsnest 62), and for nine hours he fired his gun on the GI’s who were on the beach –over 2,000 of them will not return. In a ruthless and vividly told account, Severloh describes these dramatic hours during which 34,000 GIs landed in the sector called “Bloody Omaha,” and who collided with only 350 German soldiers, defending their posts defended fiercely. Severloh survived the deluge of fire during these events that were both terrifying and chaotic; memories of which would remain with him for the rest of his life.

It has been 70 years that the engine noise and the noise of bombs have filled the French sky. After conducting extensive research and interviews with veterans and other eyewitnesses in preparation for this publication, Philippe Trombetta has embarked upon a study of American fighter groups who fought in Normand skies. Following volume one, which presented the 404th Fighter Group, here is the second, dedicated to 362nd Fighter Group, based on Headcon Advanced Landing Group in Kent, then A-12 Lignerolle and finally A-27 Rennes. This unit is the most successful in the European theater of operations, with no fewer than six pilots in the Top 10 of the 9th Air Force. Presented are many unpublished photos—portraits of pilots, views of the Group’s daily life, in addition to numerous images of aircraft and land vehicles.

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Helion & Company The End of Empire Napoleon’s 1814 Campaign George F. Nafziger $79.95 • 656 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 b/w illustrations, 16 color maps • December 2014 • hardback • 978-1-909982-96-3 “The End of Empire” is a continuation of Nafziger’s definitive military studies of the Napoleonic era beginning with the 1812 campaign and progressing through the 1813 campaign. Having suffered a massive reversal of fortunes in Russia Napoleon found himself confronted, in Germany, by the combined forces of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. After the disaster of Leipzig Napoleon’s German allies fell away and he was forced to fall back, beyond the borders of France. Offered a negotiated peace on the basis of a return to the pre-1792 borders, Napoleon chose to continue to fight, trusting in his star. Eventually, after several terrible defeats, the Allies refused to engage him in battle when he confronted them. Instead they pushed their other two armies forward, slowly driving him back as he rushed to block the advance of the other armies on Paris. This strategy proved successful and eventually Napoleon was obliged to abdicate when his marshals refused to fight further.

Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937–1945 Volume 2: Weapons of the Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces Leland Ness $69.95 • 448 pages • 6 x 9 • 320 b/w photos, 60 tables • December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-909982-75-8 This is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This second volume covers the armament of the ground forces. It takes advantage not only of postwar Japanese research, but also the extensive technical intelligence efforts of the Allies near the end of the war, and the postwar investigations that have heretofore generally been ignored to provide a complete examination of wartime Japanese armament.

The Battle of Kursk 1943 The View through the Camera Lens Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton (ed. & translator) $99.95 • 416 pages • 10.5 x 11.5 575 b/w photos • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-85-7 The Battle of Kursk continues to attract great attention even today. The combat operations, which unfolded in the summer of 1943 in the center of the Eastern Front were a pivotal stage not only in the struggle of the Soviet people with the Nazi aggressors, but also in the Second World War as a whole. This book includes a significant number of captured German photographs, as well as aerial reconnaissance photographs taken in the spring and summer of 1943.

Barbarossa Derailed

Sunwheels and Siegrunen

The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 4 – Atlas

Wiking, Nordland, Nederland and the Germanic Waffen-SS in Photographs Volume 1

David M. Glantz $99.95 • 272 pages • 10.5 x 11.5 • 120 color maps • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-83-3 At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center’s Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany’s Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. This volume provides over one hundred specially commissioned color maps that trace the course of the campaign, each accompanied by a detailed caption.

Marc Rikmenspoel $99.95 • 432 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 c 715 b/w photos • November 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-88-8 Western European collaboration with the Germans is still misunderstood, nearly 70 years after the end of World War II. On the one hand, the countries involved have usually played down the number of volunteers they provided, while on the other, German propaganda often overstated the participation of foreigners, especially in the Waffen-SS. The photos include personalities, rare insignia, uniform details, and many vehicle shots, along with highly detailed captions.

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Helion & Company Himmler’s Favourite The Combat History of III SS Panzerkorps Volume 1: From Formation to Autumn 1944 Lennart Westberg / Martin Månsson / Geir Brenden $120.00 • 628 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 1,000 b/w photos, 36 page color map book • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-94-9 These two photographic volumes depict Himmler´s favorite unit in the Waffen-SS: the III ‘Germanic’ SS Panzerkorps, for it fulfilled Himmler´s longtime political plans of recruiting ‘Germanic’ volunteers for the creation of a greater Germanic Reich in the future. As such, it consisted in part of SS volunteers from western and northern European countries. Although largely forgotten today, this elite SS unit fought on a variety of battlefields ranging from Croatia and Ingermanland´s snow-covered forests near Leningrad to the historic Estonian city of Narva, where it defended the Baltic countries of Estonia and Latvia against the Red Army in 1944-45. The remnants of the Panzerkorps ended up in both the hopeless defense of Pomerania and the final apocalypse at the battle for Brandenburg and Berlin in April-May 1945, when the Third Reich went down in a storm of fire and steel.

Days of Adversity

Four Flags, The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier

The Warsaw Uprising 1944 Evan McGilvray

Part 1 - US Marine Corps Vietnam 196972, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77

$49.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 100 b/w photos, 8 color maps • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-95-6

Dave Barr $39.95 • 416 pages • 6 x 9 • c 16 color photos September 2014 • paperback • 978-1-909982-70-3

This work is a reexamination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised are, was the uprising necessary and why was it so poorly conducted by a totally indifferent leadership?

Dave Barr had had a penchant for trouble since day one, born in the back of a car, shooting by the time he was five, riding a motorbike at seven, Dave regularly got into fights at school. The only reading Dave would do growing up involved motorbikes, shooting, westerns and the military. After reading Battle Cry by Leon Uris aged 12 he knew he wanted to be a Marine.

This work is supplemented with Polish sources as well as interviews with five women who had been involved in the Warsaw Uprising as young women and girls in 1944.

This is the first volume in the gripping and action-packed memoirs of Dave Barr, providing a rich and colorful account of one man’s odyssey as a professional soldier, seeing war at the ‘sharp end’.

The Chopper Boys

The SADF in the Border War 1966–1989

Helicopter Warfare in Africa Al J. Venter

Leopold Scholtz

$59.95 • 264 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 500 color and b/w photos • December 2014 • paperback 978-1-909982-68-0

$49.95 • 540 pages • 6 x 9 • 67 b/w photos, 13 b/w maps, 4 tables • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-909982-76-5

When “The Chopper Boys”was published 20 years ago, there were three editions, one each for Britain, the United States and South Africa. The book sold out in a short time and a revised edition of the work has been asked for many times in recent years from aviation enthusiasts but in particular from the men and women who flew these beautiful machines. It was left to Helion and Company to redress this need.

The SADF in the Border War 1966-1989 offers the first comprehensive analysis of the South African Defense Force’s role in the Border War in Namibia and Angola since the end of this conflict in 1989. It investigates the causes of the Border War and follows its progress and escalation in the 1980s. It also considers the broader international context against which this conflict took place. The author brings vital new information to light gained from documents which have since been declassified.

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Helion & Company Bush War Operator Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

Green Leader Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military’s Response to the Viscount Tragedy

The Equus Men Rhodesia’s Mounted Infantry: The Grey’s Scouts 1896–1980 Alexandre Binda

Andrew Balaam

Ian Pringle

$29.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 40 color and b/w photos • October 2014 • paperback 978-1-909982-77-2

$49.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 color and b/w photos, maps • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-93-2

Twice decorated – with the Member of the Legion of Merit (MLM) and the Military Forces’ Commendation (MFC) – Andrew Balaam was a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and later the Selous Scouts, for a period spanning twelve years. This is his honest and insightful account of his time as a pseudo operator. His story is brutally truthful, frightening, sometimes humorous and often sad.

In this fascinating account, Ian Pringle describes the background leading up to the Viscount tragedy. He uses exclusive interviews with a survivor of the crash and the massacre, and with the first person to arrive at the horrendous crash scene (commanding officer of the Rhodesian SAS Regiment), as well as accounts from other witnesses, to recreate the tragic event.

This all new work by accomplished military historian Alexandre Binda, former paymaster to the Grey’s Scouts, tables the remarkable story of Rhodesia’s mounted infantry, the Grey’s Scouts. Working closely with the last commanding officer, squadron commanders and a whole host of regimental personalities, all of whom have given The Equus Men their unequivocal support Binda has enjoyed unparalleled access to thousands of pages of archival documents and many hundreds of previously unpublished photographs.

Rhodesian Fire Force 1966–80

Modelling Modern South African Armour

Beyond No Mean Soldier

Kerrin Cocks $29.95 • 72 pages 8.25 x 11.5 • 150 color and b/w photos, maps November 2014 • paperback 978-1-910294-05-5 In spite of the overwhelming number of enemy pitted against them, Rhodesian Fire Forces accounted for thousands of enemy guerrillas, with a kill ratio exceeding 80:1. At the end of the war, ZANLA generals admitted their army could not have survived another year in the field-in no small part due to the ruthless efficiency of the Fire Forces, described by Charles D. Melson, the Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, as the ultimate “killing machine”.

Modelling Techniques, WalkArounds, Colours & Markings William Marshall $59.95 • 164 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 410 color photos, profiles • November 2014 • paperback 978-1-910294-03-1 The first in this all new series ‘Conflict 100: A Century of Warfare Remembered through Military Modeling’, exclusively published by GG Books and Helion & Company, showcases modern South African Armor. Through a series of step-by-step builds by leading modelers, which are accompanied by detailed walk arounds, a selection of vehicles and weapon systems are explored by serving South African Army Officer William Marshall, for military modelers and students of military history alike.

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$79.95 • 224 pages 8.25 x 11.5 • 300 color and b/w photos, 4 maps September 2014 • hardback 978-1-910294-04-8

The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator Peter McAleese $35.00 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • c 90 color and b/w photos • December 2014 • paperback 978-1-910294-01-7 This completely revised and expanded edition sees a philosophical McAleese revisiting his time with Britain’s Parachute Regiment, the SAS, Rhodesia’s SAS and the South African Defense Force’s 44 Para Brigade. Oh, and a few other adventures in and between - Colombia, private military companies and near fatal skydiving accidents; mercenary, soldier of fortune or flawed ideologist? Now’s your time to consider this and more – as has McAleese himself.

Helion & Company Asia@War Series— Following on from Helion & Company’s highly successful Africa@War Series, Asia@War replicates the same format. Here you will find concise, incisive text, rare images and high quality color artwork providing fresh accounts of both well-known and more esoteric aspects of conflict in this part of the world since 1945.

Counterinsurgency in Paradise

A War Within A War

Seven Decades of Civil War in the Philippines

Brian Miller

Turkey’s Stuggle With the PKK since 1984

Aaron Morris

$29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-910294-09-3

$29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-910294-06-2

IRichly illustrated with unique photographs, artworks and maps, this book provides a unique source of reference about the often forgotten, if not outright ignored conflicts in the Philippines since 1945.

Rising from the remains of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, Turkey inherited many ethnic and sociological problems from its predecessor. Of these the Kurdish question has been the most challenging one to the state itself. The young republic survived many revolts in its predominantly Kurdish-inhabited southeastern regions, but the PKK (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan: Kurdistan Workers Party) has been the most crucial threat to the integrity of the country. During the 1960s Turkey was a battlefield for many right and left wing groups and organizations, resulting with the 1980 coup d’etat. Based on the ethnic strains and socioeconomic inequity, the PKK was configured as a Marxist-Leninist organization, with both political and armed branches. Virtual elimination of almost all leftist organizations during the 1980 coup helped the PKK flourish in its hometown. Eliminating rival Kurdish organizations with brutal blows, the PKK successfully constructed both its ideological and logistical foundation.

The Easter Offensive – Vietnam 1972

Volume 1: Invasion across the DMZ

Volume 2: Tanks in the streets

Albert Grandolini

$29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-910294-07-9

$29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-910294-08-6

On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers. Caught in a series of outposts of what was the former ‘McNamara Line’, the shocked defenders had just enough time to emerge from their bunkers at the end of the barrage before they were attacked by regular North Vietnamese Army divisions, supported by hundreds of armored vehicles that crashed though their defensive lines along the border. Thus began one of the fiercest campaigns of the Vietnam War but also one of the less well documented because by then most of the American ground forces had been withdrawn.

On 30 March 1972, while peace negotiations had been dragging on for four years in Paris, the North Vietnamese launched a wide scale offensive in order to break the stalemate. At that date, practically no American ground forces remained in South Vietnam where a limited offensive was expected in the Central Highlands area. But nobody imagined the magnitude of the multidivisional, armor led onslaught. The blow fell first across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the North from South Vietnam (see Volume 1). Following from the initial attack, in a surprise move, three communist divisions with T-54 tanks attacked from their sanctuaries in Cambodia just north of Saigon. Their tanks ventured into the streets of An Loc City where they were checked by a desperate and heroic stand by the South Vietnamese soldiers and their American advisers, thus saving the capital of South Vietnam.

Best known in the USA as a former colony and exotic tourist location, the Republic of the Philippines has seen civil unrest, insurgencies and separatism movements ever since independence in 1946. Endemic corruption, human rights violations, ethnic strife and a shaky economy have fueled wars that have been raging on and off for almost 70 years. Since the end of the Cold War, the Philippines have been in the unique and unfortunate situation of simultaneously facing the terrorist Abu Sayyaf group and so called ‘lost commands’, the Marxist uprising of the New People’s Army, while trying to maintain a tenuous cease fire with the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Following on from the details of the downsizing of American forces and the setting up of the ‘Vietnamization’ policy, the build up of both the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in the South and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in the North is discussed at length.

Finally, the third prong of the North Vietnamese offensive swept across the northern Central Highlands, destroying a whole South Vietnamese division.

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Helion & Company Middle East@War Series— Following on from Helion & Company’s highly successful Africa@War Series, Middle East@War replicates the same format. Here you will find concise, incisive text, rare images and high quality color artwork providing fresh accounts of both well-known and more esoteric aspects of conflict in this part of the world since 1945.

Syrian Conflagration The Syrian Civil War, 2011-2013 Tom Cooper $29.95 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • October 2014 paperback • 978-1-910294-10-9 The Syrian Civil War, (the colloquial name of the ongoing conflict in Syria), has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years. It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, known as the Arab Spring. Contrary to events in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, where oppressive governments were toppled by the end of that year, the government of Syria deployed the full force of its military, its intelligence apparatus, and para-military groups, launching an unprecedented crackdown that resulted in the arrest, detention and killing of many thousands. Despite its brutality, this effort backfired: it provoked mass desertions of the Syrian military and then an armed uprising.

Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1956 Suez War, 29 October – 8 November 1956 Shlomo Aloni $29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • October 2014 • paperback 978-1-910294-12-3 By participating in 1956 Suez Crisis Israel exploited an opportunity to join forces with France and the United Kingdom in an attack against Egypt in order to accomplish diplomatic, military and political objectives: to open the Red Sea international shipping lane to ships sailing from and to Eilat; to strengthen its alliance with France; to end – or at least to scale down – Egyptian hosted Palestinian terror attacks against Israel; to launch a preventive war in order to crush Egyptian military power before its completion of the transition to Soviet weapons could tempt Egypt to attack Israel and in order to accomplish a profound victory to deter Egypt from pursuing a another round of war policy. Operation KADESH was the Israeli part in the Anglo-French attack and this title chronicles Israeli Air Force operations along the timeline of Operation KADESH.

Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1948 War Israeli Winter Offensive Operation Horev 22 December 1948-7 January 1949 Shlomo Aloni $29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • October 2014 paperback • 978-1-910294-11-6 Operation HOREV – the Israeli winter offensive from December 1948 until January 1949 – practically ended Israel’s War for Independence (also known as the 1948 Arab-Israeli War), with an Israeli victory that forced Egypt to seek ceasefire and to negotiate a settlement with the fledgling nation. From HOREV Day 1 on 23 December 1948 until HOREV Day 16 on 7 January 1949, this title presents Israeli Air Force missions during Operation HOREV in heretofore unseen depth and detail. This title chronicles Israeli Air Force sorties during Operation HOREV; from Austers and Pipers to C-46s and C-47s; from Messerschmitts, Spitfires and P-51s to Beaufighters and B-17s; Israel Air Force operations are detailed spanning the timeline of the conflict down to every unearthed sortie in depth, and shown in a way that Israeli Air Force operations during Operation HOREV had never been presented before.

Iranian Tigers at War Northrop F-5A/B, F-5E/F and SubVariants in Iranian Service since 1966 Babak Taghvaee $29.95 • 72 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • c 150 color and b/w photos, color profiles, maps • October 2014 paperback • 978-1-910294-13-0 The development of the F-5 lightweight supersonic fighter in the mid 1950s was almost a gamble for the Northrop Corporation, but ultimately resulted in one of most commercially successful combat aircraft in modern history. Iran was one of its major export customers, yet the long and often violent history of deployment of the F-5 in that country has largely escaped attention of historians. No less than 309 aircraft of five major variants of the jet – the F-5A, F-5B, RF-5A, F-5E and F-5F – have provided the backbone of the front line strength of the Iranian Air Force since the mid 1960s. Additional examples were clandestinely purchased from Ethiopia and Vietnam in the 1980s. The type bore the brunt of combat operations during the long war with Iraq, 1980-1988, and remains a mainstay of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force as of today.

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Helion & Company If You Get Yourself Killed, You’re Fired! The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Reporter on the Front Lines of Africa Wilf Nussey $49.95 • 640 pages • 6 x 9 • c 50 b/w photos • December 2014 paperback • 978-1-909982-54-3 This is the story of a most unusual life from beginnings in the South African wilderness to a career reporting on the watershed second half of the last century in Africa. It is a saga of exotic places, people and events from which the new and turbulent Africa has emerged.

Operation Neptune The D-Day Landings, 6 June 1944 Tim Benbow (ed.) $79.95 • 376 pages • 6 x 9 • c 24 color and b/w maps • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-97-0 The D-Day landings of June 1944 were one of the most ambitious undertakings of all time, and their success one of the greatest military accomplishments. Operation Neptune was the initial assault stage of the broader Operation Overlord, the liberation of northwest Europe.

Brown Waters of Africa Portuguese Riverine Warfare 1961-1974

The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War A Reexamination

John P. Cann

Boris Sokolov

$89.95 • 280 pages • 6 x 9 • 33 photos, 24 maps, 21 tables August 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-57-4

$79.95 • 148 pages • 6 x 9 2 tables • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-64-2

This is the story of that conversion and the great “battle of the rivers” in Africa. This naval reorientation was a remarkable achievement, in that Portugal not only learned to fight a new kind of war, it built a navy to accomplish this and did so while shouldering its NATO commitments.

This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative answers. The primary question explored by the author, however, regards the effectiveness of both the Red Army and of the Soviet military economy.

Operation Dragoon The Invasion of the South of France, 15 August 1944

Hitler’s Last Levy in East Prussia Volkssturm Einsatz Bataillon Goldap (25/235) 1944-45

Andrew Stewart (ed.)

Bruno Just Frederick Steinhardt (ed. & $69.95 • 128 pages • 6 x 9 • 4 color translator) and b/w maps • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-98-7 $29.95 • 72 pages • 6 x 9 • 2 b/w photos, 1 map • September 2014 The Allied landings that took place paperback • 978-1-909982-72-7 in Southern France in August 1944 There are very few personal represented both one of the accounts of Hitler’s last levy, the concluding elements of the wartime Mediterranean campaign Volkssturm. For years, the handwritten diary and a copy and a decisive follow-on to the typed by the author, remained in invasion of Normandy that had taken place two months before. the files of the Bundesarchiv (L) in This is the second volume in Bayreuth. Helion’s new series, ‘Naval Staff Histories of the Second World War’.

The Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory! Michael Alfred Peszke $89.95 • 238 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 photos, 4 maps • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-60-4 This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March 1939 and then throughout the Second World War.

Hitler’s Turkestani Soldiers A History of the 162nd (Turkistan) Infantry Division Paolo A. Dossena $69.95 • 400 pages • 6 x 9 • c 260 photos, 2 maps • December 2014 paperback • 978-1-909982-73-4 This is the story of the 162nd (Turkistan) Infantry Division, a World War II German division composed of Central Asian Turkistanis. The book covers the political background of the founders of this unit in German service, debunks some historical myths surrounding it and focuses on the most crucial events in the history of the division.

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Helion & Company From Tobruk to Tunis The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa, 1940–1943 Neal Dando $79.95 • 216 pages • 6 x 9 12 b/w photos, 24 color maps November 2014 • hardback 978-1-910294-00-0 This book focuses on the extent to which the physical terrain features across Egypt, Libya and Tunisia affected British operations throughout the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War.

Leaders of the Storm Troops Volume 1 Oberster SA-Führer, SAStabschef and SAObergruppenführer (B – J) Michael D. Miller / Andreas Schulz $69.95 • 416 pages • 6 x 9 453 b/w photos • October 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-87-1 Michael Miller and Andreas Schulz have compiled the first in-depth study yet produced on the SA leadership corps, a series designed to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of the hauptamtlicher (full-time, actively serving) and ehrenamtlicher (honorary) SA-Führer.

‘The German Corpse Factory’ A Study in First World War Propaganda Stephen Badsey $29.95 • 180 pages • 6 x 9 10 b/w photos, illustrations November 2014 • paperback 978-1-909982-66-6 The “German Corpse Factory” is one of the most famous and scandalous propaganda stories of the First World War. This book uses the scandal of the “German Corpse Factory” as a case-study to explore the true nature of British official propaganda and its organizations in the First World War.

The Horns of the Beast The Swakop River Campaign and World War I in South-West Africa 1914-15 James Stejskal $29.95 • 140 pages • 6 x 9 65 b/w photos, illustrations, 8 maps • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-909982-78-9 Using primary sources, on the ground research, and accurate maps and charts of the battles, the author sheds new light on the operations of the South African Army in its first foreign war and the Schutztruppe defense of German South West Africa.

A Moonlight Massacre The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917 The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres Michael LoCicero

Get Tough Stay Tough Shaping the Canadian Corps 1914–1918 Kenneth Radley $59.95 • 328 pages • 6 x 9 September 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-86-4

$69.95 • 432 pages • 6 x 9 • 70 b/w This book rigorously analyses some photos, 8 pages color maps of the elements that made the November 2014 • hardback Canadian Corps effective and 978-1-909982-92-5 formidable. The approach taken The Third Battle of Ypres was tracks discipline and morale as officially terminated by Field these were conceived and Marshal Sir Douglas Haig with the established within the corps and opening of the Battle of Cambrai then details their respective on 20 November 1917. This application and development and volume is a necessary corrective to their influence and impact upon previously published campaign fighting performance. narratives of what has become popularly known as ‘Passchendaele’.

Churchill’s War Against the Zeppelin 1914–18 Men, Machines and Tactics Leon Bennett $59.95 • 424 pages • 6 x 9 186 b/w photos, illustrations December 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-84-0 Over a thousand British citizens were killed and over three thousand were wounded by Zeppelin bombing during the course of World War I. In Churchill’s War Against the Zeppelin 1914-18 Leon Bennett explores the development of the airship, the efforts to defend Britain against the attacks, and Winston Churchill’s role in these efforts.

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Gott Strafe England The German air assault against Great Britain 1914–1918 Volume 1 Nigel J Parker $59.95 • 276 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 b/w photos, illustrations, maps December 2014 • paperback 978-1-909982-71-0 “Gott Strafe England” is the definitive account detailing the German air attacks against Great Britain during the First World War. This two-volume series will explore all the German air operations against the British Isles during 1914 to 1918.

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The Danish Campaign of 1864 Recollections of an Austrian General Staff Officer Wilhelm von Gründorf $79.95 • 64 pages • 6 x 9 • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-63-5

The Campaign of the Army of the North 1870–71 Louis Faidherbe $79.95 • 64 pages • 6 x 9 October 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-62-8

The Battle of Spicheren August 6th 1870

G.F.R. Henderson

Lt Col G. F. R. Henderson

$79.95 • 120 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 illustrations, maps • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-56-7

$89.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • many b/w illustrations and maps • October 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-61-1

Swords trembling in their Scabbards The changing status of Indian officers in the Indian Army 1757–1947

Discipline, System and Style The Sixteenth Lancers and British Soldiering in India 1822–1846

Michael Creese

John H Rumsby

$79.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 7 b/w illustrations • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-81-9

$79.95 • 352 pages • 6 x 9 • 26 b/w illustrations, maps • November 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-91-8

With Tegetthoff at Lissa The Memoirs of an Austrian Naval Officer 1861–66 Maximilian Rottauscher $79.95 • 96 pages • 6 x 9 • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-65-9

The Battle of Woerth August 6th 1870

Three Republics One Navy A Naval History of France 1870–1999 Anthony Clayton $69.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-99-4

William Simpson’s Afghanistan Travels of a Special Artist and Antiquarian during the Second Afghan War, 1878–1879 Peter Harrington (ed.) $69.95 • 248 pages • 10.5 x 11.5 c 16 color and c 85 b/w illustrations • December 2014 paperback • 978-1-909982-80-2

Thinking Wisely, Planning Boldly The Higher Education and Training of Royal Navy Officers, 1919–39 Joseph Moretz $79.95 • 528 pages • 6 x 9 • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-90-1

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Frontline Medic – Gallipoli, Somme, Ypres The diary of Captain George Pirie, R.A.M.C. 1914-17

Knight’s Cross Holders of the SS and German Police 1940-45 Volume 1: Miervaldis Adamsons – Georg Hurdelbrink

Michael Lucas $59.95 • 204 pages • 6 x 9 • 35 b/w photos, illustrations, 10 maps • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-909982-89-5

Michael D. Miller $59.95 • 400 pages • 6 x 9 • 800 b/w photos December 2014 • paperback 978-1-909982-74-1

Voices of British Combat Cameramen of WWII Frederick McGlade $49.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-909982-79-6

Stout Hearts The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944

The Terrible Ones A Complete History of 32 Battalion Volume 1

The Terrible Ones A Complete History of 32 Battalion Volume 2

Ben Kite $79.95 • 504 pages • 6 x 9 • c 100 b/w photos, 16 color maps • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-55-0

Piet Nortje $89.95 • 636 pages • 7 x 10 • 299 color and b/w photos, 50 maps, 9 figures/tables • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-909982-58-1

Piet Nortje $89.95 • 754 pages • 7 x 10 • 298 color and b/w photos, 34 maps, 5 figures/tables • July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-909982-59-8

A Welch Calypso A Soldier of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the West Indies, 1951–54 Tom Stevens / Professor Peter Stanley (editor) $35.00 • 188 pages • 6 x 9 • 26 b/w photos July 2014 • paperback • 978-1-909982-67-3

Deter Suppress Extract! Royal Military Police Close Protection, The Authorised History Richard Keightley $35.00 • 196 pages • 6 x 9 • c 150 color and b/w photos • November 2014 • paperback 978-1-910294-02-4

Eye of the Firestorm The Namibian – Angolan – South African Border War – Memoirs of a Military Commander

From Fabric Wings to Supersonic Fighters and Drones A History of Military Aviation on both sides of the Northwest Frontier

Roland de Vries $59.95 • 960 pages • 6 x 9 • c 250 color and b/w photos, 18 maps, 18 tables and figures. November 2014 • paperback 978-1-909982-69-7

Brian Cloughley / Lester W. Grau / Andrew Roe $59.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • 40 b/w photos, 3 maps • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-909982-82-6

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Histoire & Collections Supermarine Spitfire

Painting Guide for AFV

Volume II

Of World War Two and Modern Era

Philippe Listemann

Jose Luis Lopez

$29.95 • 96 pages • 8 x 9.5 November 2014 • paperback 978-2-352-50366-8 This book is the second of a series of three volumes devoted to the most famous fighter of the Royal Air Force. This one combined with the equally famous Hurricane gave to the British control of the skied against the Luftwaffe. It covers the different versions of the place from the Spitfire Mk I to the Spitfire MK V which appeared in February 1941 and was equipped with Rolls-Royce Merlin 45, one of the most powerful engines of the Second World War.

MiG 15, MiG 17

$29.95 • 84 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 July 2014 • paperback 978-2-35250-387-3 Luis Lopez Ruiz is a renowned Spanish modeler, also well known to Steelmasters magazine’s reader. The talented modeler spent the last years to develop and improve his own technique, inspire by the zenithal painting effect, to achieve a stunning color finish on his military scale models : the black and white technique. Following the best selling Paint Guide for Figures of WWII, this new book explains, through detailed step by step photos, how to give your model José the perfect enhance of contrast and a eye catching look. Variety of materials used, black and white priming technique and different type of weathering are presented. Five examples of AFV’s, from WWII to modern era, are illustrated with many photos. The understanding and the mastery of these method and related techniques are essentials to give a striking realism to military vehicles of WWII and modern era. A gallery of finished scale models completes this highly recommended book for modelers.

Combat Vehicles of the 21st Century

Gerard Paloque $29.95 • 72 pages • 8 x 9.5 • July 2014 • paperback 978-2-35250-330-9

Youri Obratztsov

At the beginning of the Korean War, the west discovered the MiG15, the first mass-produced jet fighter built in the Soviet Union. This small device entered service at the end of 1950 in its improved version, the MiG-15bis, and in turn was quickly deployed to Korea where, with its powerful armament and handling, it was an unpleasant surprise for the forces of the United Nations, after finding their air superiority with the arrival of the latest version of the famous F-86 Sabre. While the “bundle” – a nickname given by NATO to the MiG-15 – was barely in use, MiG conceived its successor, the more efficient and wing modified MiG-17 (“Fresco”).

$34.95 • 128 pages • 7.5 x 10 • June 2014 • paperback 978-2-35250-337-8 French Text A modern army is inseparable from its armored combat vehicles, a guarantee of performance and efficiency. Each year, many new vehicles are developed, and the equipment already in service follows a modernization campaign to keep a maximum operational level. This book presents all types of modern combat vehicles in worldwide service: tanks, infantry, artillery, engineers and support. These specialized combat vehicles have extraordinary capabilities that are indispensable to today’s military tools.

The type was withdrawn from service in the USSR in the late sixties, however it had great success abroad. The “Fresco” was the most exported Soviet fighter until the arrival of its indirect successor, MiG-21 (see Planes & Pilots No. 12).

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Histoire & Collections Russian Women Snipers In the Great Patriotic War Youri Obraztsov $35.95 • 114 pages • 8.25 x 10 • September 2014 • paperback • 978-2-35250-388-0 The commitment of Soviet women in World War II, by their number and their role is an unprecedented event in the history of the world. More than 100,000 of them will engage in the regular army or join the partisans. Of all the trades that women could do in the war, one of the toughest, most unlikely, is the sniper. Here is the incredible destiny of those who before the war were teachers or students, and the will to defend their country and avenge their family will become snipers.

German Soldiers of World War Two Jean de Lagarde $39.95 • 160 pages • 9.5 x 12.5 • illustrated • July 2014 • paperback • 978-2-352-503-477 This corrected, revised, and expanded edition includes significant additional material. Every soldier is shown on a full page, front and back with numerous detail shots of head gear, equipment etc. The chronological order of the original edition is retained, while the widest selection of types of Third Reich armed forces members is featured, from the most famous uniforms to the more obscure. In addition to land forces, this book also offers a wide selection of airmen and sailor uniforms.

Battlefield Relics: Normandy 1944 Regis Giard $29.95 • 80 pages • 8 x 9.5 • July 2014 • paperback • 978-2-35250-379-8 Through their photographic representation, the stories they tell and their actual historical significance, the battlefield relics shown here cast a different light on D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, and extoll the enthusiasm and worthiness of the collectors who preserved them. This important heritage, discovered on the battlefields of a hundred day struggle that spans from June 6, 1944 to the liberation of Paris, the capture of le Havre and the battle for Brest, features many surprising and unexpected artifacts, expressing the sacrifice of civilian victims or the happier times of a long awaited liberation.

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Histoire & Collections The French Army in 1814 The Campaign of France, from Champagne to Paris $29.95 • 8 x 9.5 • November 2014 • paperback • 978-2-35250-374-3

La Guerre des Gaules Frederic Bey $19.95 • 64 pages • 8.25 x 10 • 120 illustrations • July 2014 • paperback • 978-2-352-50352-1 French Text In the last century BC, the still independent Gaul was involved in the process of expanding the Roman power. In a more direct way, Gaul became a purely political issue between the triumvirs Pompey, Crassus and Caesar, when they got hold of an ending Republic. It was therefore a victim of issue that was foreign to Gaul when it entered the political strategy of Julius Caesar.

Napoleon Chef De Guerre Jean-Phillippe Imbach $19.95 • 64 pages • 8.25 x 10 • 120 • August 2014 paperback • 978-2-35250-353-8 • French Text The qualities of Napoleon Bonaparte as a warlord are undisputed and passed to posterity. But his military skills did not emerge from nothing. Discover how the future emperor learned the profession of arms and the main innovations he had brought to the art of war … while also highlighting the shortcomings of this extraordinary man in his role as military commander.

L’Uniformes des SapeursPompiers de 1700 a nos jours Frederic Coune $49.95 • 176 pages • 9 x 12 • 700 illustrations July 2014 • paperback • 978-2-352-50359-0 French text The firefighter appeared only at the beginning of the eighteenth century with the invention of the hand pump. In order to be recognizable, they needed a distinctive sign. First it was the corporate medal, the headdress, hat, and helmet, followed by a uniform. This publication presents the headdresses and uniforms worn by military and civilian firefighters, from their origins to the latest technological advances.

1944, L’ete Chaud des Collabos Du front de Normandie aux rue de Paris

L’extraordinaire épopée du Lieutenant Marchal Pilote de Missions Speciales Pendant La Grande Guerre Marie-Catherine Villatoux / Paul Villatoux $32.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9.5 • July 2014 paperback • 978-2-35250-360-6 • French Text In 1919, Anselme Marchal published an account of his war years. The book was a great success with the public, who had come to know this figure of aeronautics who was the only pilot to have flown over Berlin between 1914 and 1918. This testimony, revealed for the first time in nearly a century, seeks to put the story in its context and to trace the course of this pilot's life in military aeronautics.

Charles Dupont Memoires du chef des Services Secrets Francais Durant la Grande Guerre

Olivier Pigoreau

Olivier Lahaie

$32.95 • 300 pages • 6 x 9.5 • July 2014 paperback • 978-2-35250-383-5 • French Text

$32.95 • 300 pages • 6 x 9.5 • September 2014 • paperback • 978-2-35250-358-3 • French Text

For the French there, the Allies who landed in Normandy were not liberators. Recruited by the German intelligence service “sleeper agents” infiltrated the front line, volunteered in the Doriot’s PPF rescue parties of the Normandy population, integrated into the SS division’s war correspondents: all will fight their way to repel the “invasion”.

An officer from the Polytechnique, Charles Dupont performed several secret missions in Germany before taking head of the 2nd office of the General Staff of the Army in 1913 and then the General Headquarters in August 1914. His memoirs, remained unpublished for some time, are an exceptional testimony to the character of General Joffre, Nivelle and Petain, but also the politicians whom he crossed paths with.

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Kagero The Battleship HMS Warspite Witold Koszela $19.95 • 8.25 x 11.5 • drawings sheets and color profiles • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-92-5 The battleship HMS Warspite is packed with countless drawing sheets and color profiles of the famous ship.

The Battleship HMS Duke of York

The Japanese Destroyer Kagero

Witold Koszela

Waldemar Gorlaski

$19.95 • 32 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • color profiles July 2014 • paperback • 978-83-64596-02-5

$22.95 • 68 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 134 graphics Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-85-7

HMS Duke of York was the third of the King George V class battleships to be built after a lull in battleship design and construction following the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. The battleship was laid down on May 5, 1937 at John Brown & Company Limited, Shipbuilding & Engineering Works in Clydebank, Scotland. She was commissioned four and a half years later, on November 4, 1941.

The Japanese destroyers truly made their mark during the war in the Pacific. Fast, heavily armed and manned by welltrained crews, they took part in some of the most memorable surface and air-sea battles of the Pacific War, but also in hundreds of lesser known actions. Those workhorses of the Imperial Navy were employed in a wide variety of roles – from direct action against enemy fleet to escort duties and even pure transport tasks. Commander Hara Tameichi rightly observes that it was the destroyers that bore the brunt of the fighting at sea.

The Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen

The Battleship USS Massachusetts

Waldemar Goralski

Stefan Draminski

$22.95 • 96 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 176 graphics Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-86-4

$22.95 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 80 drawings, 146 graphics • July 2014 • paperback 978-83-62878-98-7

Following the defeat in the World War I, the Treaty of Versailles limited the tonnage of the German Navy to 144 thousand tons. Moreover, the treaty stipulated that new warships could only be built to replace the decommissioned ones. In 1921 a new law was enacted which brought about the creation of the Reichsmarine. The few warships that Germany was allowed to keep were modernized and new ones were being built to replace the obsolete ones.

The text part of this book describes history of the ship’s construction and service. This is accompanied by more than 100 color illustrations showing USS Massachusetts’ appearance towards the end of her service in the Pacific, 1945. Elements that are shown in detail include superstructures, armament, fire control instruments, aircraft, boats, equipment, rig, etc. Blueprints in 1:350, 1:200, 1:100 and 1:50 scales (general views and details) are included on a separate sheet. The publication is a great reference for building a detailed model of USS Massachusetts.

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Kagero Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao 1937–1946

The Battleship USS Missouri

The Battleship Bismarck

Stefan Draminski

Waldemar Goralski

Janusz Skulski Waldemar Goralski

$22.95 • 80 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 140 graphics July 2014 • paperback 978-83-64596-03-2

$22.95 • 100 pages 8.25 x 11.5 • 170 graphics • July 2014 paperback • 978-83-64596-01-8

The text part of this book describes history of the ship’s construction and service. This is accompanied by more than 100 color illustrations showing USS Missouri’s (BB-63) appearance on 2 September 1945, when Japanese officials signed formal surrender on her board. Elements that are shown in detail include superstructures, armament, fire control instruments, aircraft, boats, equipment, ri

The 28th book of the Super Drawings in 3D series gives us completely refreshed look on Bismarck warship which has been already described in numerous publications. Our new book includes not only more than 160 significantly improved renders but also anaglyphs 3D of Bismarck which can be seen through special paper anaglyph filters added to the book. Render artist has focused mainly on warship details this time thus limiting the number of the hull general layouts.g, “surrender deck” fittings etc.

B-17 Flying Fortress in Combat Over Europe

JG 53 “Pik As”

$22.95 • 92 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 21 archive photos, 80 drawings, 100 graphics • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-90-1 The design of four-member Japanese Takaoclass heavy cruisers built between 1927–1928 - was based on earlier Myoko-class heavy cruisers. The Takao-class was better armored and equipped including the main artillery being modified to engage air targets. The Takao-class had a distinctive look thanks to the massive superstructure and the first chimney being inclined towards the second one which was set vertically.

Lictorian Fasces over England Regia Aeronautica in action against England 1940–1941 Marek Sobski $16.95 • 60 pages • 8 x 11 • 67 archive photos, painting schemes • July 2014 • paperback 978-83-62878-96-3 “Lictorian Fasces over England”is the story of Corpo Aero Italiano, the Reggia Aeronautica detachment operating against Britain in 1940 – 1941. Established for propaganda and political reasons, the corps had to face two equally formidable enemies over the Channel: the RAF and the brutal weather conditions to which they were hardly accustomed. The book presents a blow by blow account of the unit’s operations in addition to detailed descriptions of the aircraft used in the campaign.

Tomasz Szlagor $19.95 • 92 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 130 b/w photos, 11 color photos, 4 profiles • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-91-8 The B-17 Flying Fortress epitomized the American airpower for most of the Second World War. It was by far the most effective weapon to carry out the strategic, daylight bombing campaign in Europe. The battles fought by B-17 crews during raids on such tough targets as Schweinfurt, Berlin or Ploesti were nothing short of epic.

Marek J Murawski $19.95 • 28 pages • 8 x 11 • 41 archive photos, 4 painting schemes, decals • Now Available • paperback 978-83-62878-94-9 The book presents the history and combat operations of JG 53 “Pik As” - one of the Luftwaffe’s most famous fighter wings. A collection of forty original photographs is supplemented by a list of all JG 53 commanders, details of each of the wing’s squadrons and flights and a listing of the unit’s equipment used during the war.

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Kagero Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate Leszek A. Wieliczko $22.95 • 92 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 8 painting schemes, 14 artworks • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-87-1 The monograph on the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate, WW2 Japanese fighter plane, discusses its origins and development (including subsequent modifications and variants: Ki-106, Ki-113, Ki-116, Ki-84R, Ki-84P and Ki84N), camouflage and markings and operational history since its combat debut over China in Summer of 1944 till the end of the WW2. Each version is specified and described. The author uncovers the fates of Ki-84s captured by the Americans and presents an evaluation of the aircraft. The book includes a comprehensive technical description, technical data, a glossary of some Japanese terms and names and lists of the IJAAF units equipped with Ki-84s and the IJAAF ranks.

Ju 87 D/G Vol. 1

Ju 87D/G Vol. 2

Marek J Murawski / Marek Rys

Marek J. Murawki / Marek Rys

$24.95 • 112 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 110 archive photos, painting schemes, 77 graphics • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-93-2

$24.95 • 112 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 86 archive photos, 78 graphics • July 2014 • paperback 978-83-62878-97-0

This monograph of the most famous dive bomber of World War II focuses on the design and combat operations of the late marks of the Stuka: the Ju 87D dive bomber and strike aircraft and the Ju 87G tank buster. In addition to the detailed description of the design, the book covers combat operations of the Luftwaffe units equipped with the D and G models, as well as the biographies of the most prominent aircrews who flew those aircraft in combat. The text is supplemented by original photographs and 3D drawings showing details of the design.

Part two of the monograph on the legendary World War II dive bomber takes a closer look at the history of the final production versions the Ju 87: the “Dora” – a dedicated dive bomber and strike platform and the Ju 87 G tank buster. In addition to combat histories of the front-line units that operated the types, the book presents profiles of some of the most prominent Stuka pilots. The text is supplemented by firsthand accounts of the men who flew the Ju 87s in combat, as well as a large selection of original photographs and 3D drawings.

Messerschmitt BF 109 E. The Blitzkrieg Fighter

Pacific Lightnings Part 1

Marek J. Murawski / Jakub Plewka $29.95 • 188 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 212 archive photos, color profiles of 44 aircraft • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-84-0 The latest addition to the ‘Monographs Special Edition’ series is devoted to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 E. This new book gives not only a thorough insight into the development, variants, technical features and camouflage of the ‘Emil’, but also an excellent overview of the aircraft’s service with the Luftwaffe. Packed with period photos, color profiles and scale drawings, this title is a perfect guide for aviation modelers.

Maciej Goralczyk / Andrzej Sadlo $16.95 • 16 pages • 8 x 10.8 • decal sheet • Now Available • paperback 978-83-62878-88-8 Two decal sheets with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:32 individual markings for 8 P38 Lightnings with sexy nose art. The decal sheets were printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn 4-view color profiles and described in the 18 page guidebook with English and Polish text.

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Kagero Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank Vol. I Robert Griffin $19.95 • 80 pages • 8 x 11 • 280 archive photos • Now Available • paperback • 978-83-62878-95-6 The Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank was Great Britain’s second purpose-designed Main Battle Tank and served as the spear point of the Royal Armored Corps for nearly 20 years. The Challenger 1 proved to be an excellent combat vehicle in Operation Granby after a controversial early career in the British Army, and it continues to serve the Jordanian army to the present day. Robert Griffin tells the story of the Challenger 1’s development and service, in this first volume of a two part study for the Kagero Photosniper series.

Challenger 1

AMX-30

Main Battle Tank Vol. II

Char de Bataille 1966-2006

Robert Griffin

M.P. Robinson

$19.95 • 80 pages • 8 x 11 • 485 archive photos, 10 color profiles, 3 reference drawings • July 2014 • paperback • 978-8364596-00-1

$19.95 • 80 pages • 8 x 11 • 110 archive photos, 8 color profiles • July 2014 paperback • 978-83-62878-99-4

In Challenger 1 Volume 2 Robert Griffin outlines the service career of the Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank and Challenger Repair and Recovery Vehicle. This exciting Photosniper title includes numerous period photographs in color and in black and white, ten color plates and vehicle plans for the Challenger 1 Mk.3 as deployed into combat during Operation Granby. The photos selected for this book include original images from the vehicle’s trials, its service in BAOR, in Bosnia and in Operation Granby. The Challenger 1 and CRARRV are documented in many unpublished photos and detailed walk around photos include examples taken of the Challengers employed in Operation Granby in 1991 and of the CRARRV in its most recent guise. The highs and lows of the Challenger 1’s career in the British Army are described in detail. This work is an excellent reference for the modeler, AFV enthusiast and former crewman, and follows Challenger 1 Volume 1, also available from Kagero Publishing’s Photosniper series.

The AMX-30 was France’s principal battle tank for over 30 years and continues to serve the French Army in later forms even to this day. In this first work of a two volume study examining the history of the AMX-30 battle tank, M.P. Robinson describes the development and introduction to service of this long serving weapon system. Photographic coverage in Volume 1 is focused on the AMX-30B gun tank, its service life and the supporting vehicles that served alongside it in the Arme Blindée Cavalerie in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Captured Panzers

Jagdpanther

German Vehicles in Allied Service

$19.95 • 108 pages • 8 x 11 • 17 archive photos, 71 color photos, 8 painting schemes, 39 graphics • Now Available paperback • 978-83-62878-83-3

Lukasz Gladysiak / Adam Rejmak

Marek Jaszczolt / Arkadiusz Wrobel $16.95 • 16 pages • 8 x 10.8 decal sheet • Now Available paperback • 978-83-62878-89-5 A big decal sheet with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:35 markings for no less than 16 German armored fighting vehicles captured by Allied troops and used against their former owners. The decal sheet was printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn color profile and described in the 18 page guidebook with English and Polish text.

Self-propelled tank destroyers constituted an essential component of the Third Reich’s armored arm. Vehicles, which were especially useful in defensive warfare, in which the German army found itself after losing strategic initiative on the Eastern Front in the summer 1943 and following the Allied landing in Italy and France, with time began to effectively compete in armored sub-units with classic tanks. One of the largest vehicles of that type was Jagdpanther Sd.Kfz. 173, based on the chassis of the famous Panther tank.

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Clear Vue / Model Centrum / Tattered Flag Festung Guernsey 1.2 Information about Guernsey $23.00 • 76 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 71 illustrations • July 2014 • Clear Vue Publishing • paperback • 978-0-9926671-1-5 This guide to the fortification of the Channel Island of Guernsey during the second world war was produced by the German forces themselves, containing the original German and an English translation, it gives a unique insight into German defensive strategy. This volume covers the history of the island.

Friends and Enemies The Natal Campaign in the South African War 1899–1902 Hugh Rethman $34.95 • 400 pages • 6 x 9 • b/w photos • December 2014 • Tattered Flag • paperback • 978-0-9576892-3-7 eISBN 978-0-9576892-4-4 When the Boer Republics invaded Natal in 1899, the invaders could have been driven out with casualties measured in hundreds. Instead Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in action, more than 13,000 to disease and a further 75,000 wounded and sick were invalided back to Britain. The war ended in 1902 with a very unsatisfactory Peace Treaty. At the start of the conflict Britain’s Generals were faced with problems new to the military establishment. Shows of force did little to intimidate a determined opposition; infantry charges against a hidden enemy armed with modern rifles resulted in a futile waste of lives. Artillery could now destroy unseen targets at great range. Lack of mobility resulted in more than half the army being besieged in Ladysmith bringing with it concomitant civilian involvement. Some generals learnt quickly – others were slower and yet others still, perhaps through pride and stubbornness, refused to alter their ways and thus their men paid with their lives. The bravery and sacrifice of men during the campaign have been described in many books, as have the faults – real and imagined – of the generals. But little attention has been paid to the greatest blunder of all: a failure to take proper cognizance of local advice, opinion and capability. This deeply researched study of the Boer War includes, for the first time, the experiences of the inhabitants of Natal – soldier and civilian, men, women and children, black and white. Diaries and letters vividly portray the actions at Talana, Elandslaagte, Colenso, Acton Homes and Spion Kop, as well as the siege of Ladysmith in which 15,000 military personnel and 2,500 residents and refugees were incarcerated for four months, slowly but surely dying from starvation and sickness until their relief.

Camouflage and Markings of Allied Armor in the Battle for Cassino, January–May 1944 Jeffrey Plowman $38.95 • 56 pages • 8 x 11.5 • 78 b/w and color photos, 20 full-color plates • April 2014 • Model Centrum Progres paperback • 978-83-60672-22-8 Published to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the battle for Cassino, this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by the Allies over the course of the fighting for this strategic objective. Covering American, British, Indian, Canadian, French, New Zealand and Polish armor, this book includes a number of rare and unpublished photos with detailed captions. It includes: M3A1 Scout Cars, Universal Carriers, Indian Wheeled Carriers, M8 HMCs, M10s, Stuarts, Shermans, Churchills, Grant ARVs, M31 TRVs and Valentine Bridgelayers. Contains: 56 pages, 78 b&/w photos and 20 full color plates of artwork.

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MMP Books Finnish Fighter Colours Vol. 1

Finnish Fighter Colours Vol. 2

Kari Stenman / Karolina Holda

Kari Steman / Karolina Holda

$69.00 • 200 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • b/w photos, color photos and color profiles • July 2014 • hardback • 978-83-63678-07-4

$69.00 • 200 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • b/w photos, color photos and color profiles January 2015 • hardback 978-83-63678-44-9

The next book in the Rainbow Series covers Finnish Fighters used during WWII. Camouflage and markings of the fighters obtained from France, USA, Germany, UK and the USSR are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish author Kari Stenman. Many unpublished photos, and color profiles.

Second volume covers Finnish Fighters used during WWII. Camouflage and markings of the fighters obtained from France, USA, Germany, UK and the USSR are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish author Kari Stenman. Many unpublished photos, and color profiles.

Vol. 1 covers: Bristol Bulldog Fokker D XXI Gloster Gladiator FIAT G 50 Morane Saulnier MS 406 including Mörkö-Morane Brewster Model 239

Vol. 2 covers: Hawker Hurricane I & II Caudron CR 714 Curtiss Hawk 75A Messerschmitt Bf 109 G VL Myrsky I-153 I-16 LaGG-3 Curtiss P-40M Warhawk

Fouga Magister

Portuguese Fighter Colours 1919–1956

Tine Soetaert

Piston-engine fighters

$39.00 • 124 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • B/W photos, color photos, 1/48 Scale plans, About 40 color profiles • October 2014 paperback • 978-83-63678-38-8

Luis Armando Tavares / Armando Jorge Soares $69.00 • 200 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • b/w photos, color photos and color profiles December 2014 • hardback 978-83-63678-45-6

An illustrated technical history of the Fouga Magister – 1950s French two-seat jet trainer. The different versions of the plane are described and illustrated; all the changes in specification, equipment and performance are recorded. Drawings and data from the original technical manuals, full dimensional details and photographs of surviving examples preserved in aviation museums illustrate all aspects of the airframe, inside and out. Brief operational history of all export users including Israel, Finland, Belgium, Katanga, Ireland, Brazil and others. Color photographs and many pages of color illustrations complete the book’s comprehensive coverage. About 40 color profiles. Profusely illustrated with photos, including walk-around section showing all aspects of the airframe, and diagrams from official manuals. Includes 1/72nd and 1/48th scale plans, and color profiles showing many of the colorful schemes applied to the Fouga Magister by its users, including anniversary schemes.

The newest volume in MMP’s “Rainbow Series” covers the colors and markings of all the piston-engine fighters that served with the Portuguese military from the end of WW1 to the 1960s. A small nation with modest-sized air arms, Portugal nonetheless used a wide variety of iconic fighter aircraft over this period, from the SPAD S.VII of WW1 to the F-47 Thunderbolt after WW2. French, British and American aircraft were used, including such famous types as the Hawker Fury and Hurricane, the Spitfire and the Bell P-39 Airacobra. This profusely illustrated book covers all these aircraft, with brief details of their service use and comprehensive details of the colors and markings they carried. Besides the many photos, full color profiles illustrate the markings used. Detailed color notes and precise description and illustration of national markings over the period complete a book that will be invaluable to aircraft enthusiasts, historians and modelers.

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MMP Books Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

˘ – Romanian Vânator hunter

Jaroslaw Dobrzy´nski

The I.A.R.80 and I.A.R.81 in Ultimate Detail

$39.00 • 124 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • B/W photos, colour photos, 1/72 Scale plans, About 40 color profiles • October 2014 • paperback 978-83-63678-39-5 An illustrated technical history of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter supersonic interceptor and fighter-bomber. The different versions of the plane are described and illustrated; all the changes in specification, equipment and performance are recorded. Drawings and data from the original manuals, full dimensional details and photographs of surviving examples illustrate all aspects of the airframe, inside and out.

Radu Brînzan $120.00 • 352 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • B/W photos, color photos, 1/48 Scale plans, About 60 color profiles • September 2014 • hardback • 978-83-63678-40-1 A detailed and comprehensive illustrated technical history of the I.A.R.80 and I.A.R.81 – Romanian World War II fighter and groundattack aircraft. This elegant but little-known aircraft was the mainstay of the Romanian air force's fighter arm throughout WW2, involved in fighting against both the Allies and then against the Axis.

Bristol Bulldog and Gloster Gauntlet

Blackburn Skua and Roc

Alex Craford

$35.00 • 160 pages • 7 x 10 • 100+ B/W photos, 25 colour photos, 1/72 scale plans, about 25 color profiles • May 2014 • paperback 978-83-89450-44-9

$35.00 • 144 pages • 7 x 10 • b/w photos, color photos, scale plans and 50 color profiles • June 2014 • paperback • 978-8389450043

Matt Willis

This is the story of two of Britain’s most successful and popular inter-war (1930s) fighter aircraft. It contains: A complete and comprehensive history of the development & service of both types. Includes scale plans, photos and drawings from technical manuals, and superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, and walk-around color photographs of surviving examples.

The development and operational history of the Skua, and its turret-fighter derivative the Roc, are told in this book. Designed as a dive-bomber, the Skua was also used as a fighter, and later as a target tug. The Roc was even less successful than its RAF counterpart. Contains color illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare b/w archive photographs, and firsthand accounts of Skua operations.

Hawker Fury and Nimrod

Il-2 Shturmovik

Alex Crawford $40.00 • 168 pages • 7 x 10 • b/w photos, color photos, scale plans and 99 color profiles • June 2014 • paperback • 978-83-89450-41-8 The Hawker Fury was perhaps the most beautiful biplane fighter ever built, and was the RAF's first aircraft capable of exceeding 200mph in level flight. Together with its naval counterpart, the Nimrod, the Fury served with many air forces right up until the beginning of WW2. This book describes the design, development and service of the Fury and Nimrod.

Viktor Povinsky $65.00 • 160 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • B/W photos, color photos, 1/72 Scale plans, About 100 color profiles • August 2014 • hardback 978-83-63678-37-1 An illustrated technical history of the most famous Soviet warplane of World War Two. Built in larger numbers than any other aircraft, the Il-2 ground-attack and close-support aircraft was perhaps the most important aircraft on the Eastern Front in WW2. The different versions of the plane, from the prototypes to the final aircraft of 1945 are described and illustrated.

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MMP Books Russian Aviation Colours 1909–1922 Camouflage and Markings, Vol. 1 Early Years Mark Khairulin / Boris Stepanov $75.00 • 200 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 • 94 color profiles, 400 b/w photos • November 2014 • hardback • 978-83-63678-48-7 This book describes the history of the little-known emblems and distinctive markings of Russian military aviation from the early origins of domestic military aviation up to the Russian exit from WW1. The book catalogues the differences aviation motifs from the beginning of the formation of Russian military aviation. The collected material is presented in a clear and attractive form - color plates, reconstructed logos, and original photographs from public and private archives.

Scale Plans No. 3 MiG-15 Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 Dariusz Karnas $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • scale plans Now Available • paperback • 978-83-63678-34-0 1/48 and 1/32 scale plans of following aircraft: MiG-15 MiG-15bis UTI MiG-15 all Polish Variants

Scale Plans No. 6 IA-58 Pucara Dariusz Karnas

Scale Plans No. 4 PZL.23 Karas´

Scale Plans No. 5 A6M Zero

PZL.42 / PZL.43 PZL.46 Sum

Dariusz Karnas

Dariusz Karnas $11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • scale plans Now Available • paperback • 978-83-63678-35-7 1/72 nad 1/48 detailed scale plans of following aircraft: PZL.23 KaraÊ PZL.42 /PZL.43 PZL.46 Sum

Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale. All Zero versions. A6M2 model 21 A6M3 model 22 and model 23 A6M5 model 52 and model 52c A6M7 model 62

Scale Plans No. 7 Scale Plans No. 8 Me 262 A Schwalbe Republic P-47D Dariusz Karnas ‘Bubbletop’

$11.99 • 8.25 x 11.75 • scale plans • Now Available • paperback 978-83-63678-33-3

$11.99 • 10 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 scale plans • Now Available paperback • 978-83-63678-43-2

1/72 and 1/48 scale plans of the IA-58 Pucara includes all versions: Prototype Bigua IA-58C

7 Me 262 A Schwalbe. 1/48 and 1/32 scale plans of the Me 262 A Schwalbe includes all A versions: Me 262 A-1a Me 262 A-1a/Jabo Me 262 A-2a Me 262 A-1a/U3 Me 262 A-1a/U4

$11.99 • 24 pages • 8.25 x 11.75 • scale plans Now Available • paperback • 978-83-63678-36-4

Scale Plans No.9 Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2 and G-6

Dariusz Karnas

$11.99 • 14 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 scale plans • May 2014 paperback • 978-83-63678-46-3

$11.99 • 12 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 June 2014 • paperback 978-83-63678-49-4 Scale plans in 1/48 and 1/32 of Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2 & G-6 versions. Includes all subversions

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Oxbow Books / Arabian Publishing / Countryside Books Feeding the Roman Army The Archaeology of Production and Supply in NW Europe Sue Stallibrass (ed.) Richard Thomas (ed.) $60.00 • 169 pages • 8.75 x 6.75 • b/w illustrations • Now Available • Oxbow Books paperback • 978-1-84217-323-7 These ten papers from two Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (2007) sessions bring together a growing body of new archaeological evidence in an attempt to reconsider the way in which the Roman army was provisioned. Clearly, the adequate supply of food was essential to the success of the Roman military. Case studies come from Roman Britain, France, the Netherlands and the Rhine Delta, looking at evidence from animal products, military settlements, the size of cattle, horses, pottery and salt.

Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns

Violence and Civilization

Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100

Roderick Campbell (ed.)

Letty ten Harkel (ed.) / D. M. Hadley (ed.) $65.00 • 272 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • b/w and color illustrations • Now Available • Oxbow Books hardback • 978-1-84217-532-3 The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns. The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns (c. 800–1100) from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusing on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements.

Yes, the Arabs Can Too

The Trench

Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber Michael Worton

Trevor Yorke

$40.00 • 176 pages 6.25 x 9.25 • Now Available • Arabian Publishing • hardback • 978-0-9571060-9-3 Much has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in the world at the beginning of this millennium, and their ability to meet the challenges overwhelming our planet, bristling as it is with science, technology and latest lethal weapons. The author gives us a practical and precise summary of his own contemporary Arab experience from an intercontinental perspective, notable for its success, variety and modernity.

Life and Death on The Western Front 1914-1918

Studies of Social Violence in History and Prehistory $45.00 • 160 pages 6.25 x 9.25 • b/w and col. illustrations • Now Available • Oxbow Books • paperback 978-1-78297-620-2 This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The papers range from China to the Americas and from the 2nd millennium BCE to the 21st century CE.

Bomber Command The Victoria Cross Raids Martyn Chorlton

$12.95 • 96 pages 5.8 x 8.25 • illustrated throughout • Now Available • Countryside Books • paperback 978-1-84674-317-7

$31.90 • 192 pages b/w photos and maps November 2014 • Countryside Books paperback • 978-1-84674-322-1

The horrors of the First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, one hundred years later, we are asked to reflect upon it and remember what a disastrous episode of history it was.

RAF Bomber Command lost 55,000 men during WWII. Their motto was Press on Regardless and the majority of their operational missions involved flying into the fiery, smoke-filled skies of occupied Europe. No less than 23 of their members were awarded Britain’s highest decoration for valor – The Victoria Cross; most of them posthumously.

This book offers a brief, straightforward, illustrated history of the First World War in some 96 pages. In particular, it explains the trenches and what it was like to live and fight in them.

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Martyn Chorlton’s book tells the stories of each of them – detailing how and why they won their medal. It recalls feats of unparalleled heroism and self sacrifice; memorable and terrifying.

Pen & Sword Belisarius

Xerxes: King of Kings

The Last Roman General

The True Story

Ian Hughes

Ian MacGregor Morris

$24.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp plates, 15 B+W drawings, 27 maps, 18 Battle Plans December 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2297-9

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 8pp b/w photos or none. 3 or 4 maps • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-4738-2299-3 v

A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly), from the barbarians. It discusses the evolution from classical Roman to Byzantine armies and systems of warfare, as well as those of their chief enemies, the Persians, Goths and Vandals. It reassesses Belisarius’generalship and compares him with the likes of Caesar, Alexander and Hannibal. It will be illustrated with line drawings and battle plans as well as photographs.

Xsaya-rsa (Khshayarshan) to the Persians, Ahasuerus to the Jews, Xerxes to the Greeks. So great was his power, that he was hailed by the Persians as ‘King of Kings’, and by the Greeks as “The Great King”. Famed for his beauty and magnificence, he ruled over the greatest empire the world had known, and built cities the like of which the world had never seen. He was the king who re-conquered Egypt and subdued the rebels of Babylon; he was the king who captured Athens and burnt the temples of the Acropolis; and of course he was the king who defeated Leonidas, the greatest of the Warrior-Kings of Sparta. Some claim that he was the king who saved the Jews. The life of Xerxes, however, has never been told – until now. Ian McGregor Morris brings together a variety of evidence, literary and archaeological, to create a nuanced account that fully takes into account the context of fifth-century Persia.

The Spartan Supremacy 412-371 BC

Surrender at New Orleans

Mike Roberts / Bob Bennett

General Sir Harry Smith in the Peninsula and America

$39.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • approx 16 photos, 17 b/w maps and battle plans • June 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84884-614-2

David Rooney / Michael Scott

Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history, in the late fourth and early third century BC, did the home of these grim warriors seem set to entrench itself as the dominant power in the Greek world. This period includes the latter stages of the Peloponnesian War from 412 BC to the Spartan victory in 402, and then down to the Spartan defeat by the Thebans at Leuctra in 371 BC, where it all began to unravel for the Spartan Empire Surprisingly few previous books have covered the tumultuous first decades of the fourth century BC, particularly when compared to the ample coverage of the Peloponnesian War.

$34.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates September 2014 • hardback 978-1-78383-120-3 General Sir Harry Smith won the lifelong respect and affection of the Duke of Wellington. Famously married to the Spanish beauty, Juana, after the siege of Badajoz in 1812, they served together to the end of the Peninsula war. With the French defeated, Harry left with the British expedition to America in 1814, and witnessed the burning of the White House. The fiery Admiral Cochrane raged bitterly “I am sorry you left a house standing in Washington – depend on it, it is a mistaken mercy”. Later, Harry joined Wellington’s brother-in-law, Ned Pakenham, in the invasion of Louisiana. The book covers the extraordinary lives of Harry and Juana, including their achievements and legacy in South Africa, and Harry’s model victory in India in 1846, which made him a hero to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The outline of their lives may be known to many, but the details in this carefully researched book will come as a revelation.

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Pen & Sword Captured Germans – British POW Camps in WWI

Blood in the Trenches

Rise of the Tank

A Memoir of the Battle of the Somme

Armoured Vehicles and their use in the First World War

Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore

Michael Foley

Norman Nicol $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-348-0

$24.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • October 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-311-4

$34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 100 b/w integrated illustrations • December 2014 • hardback • 9781-78346-393-0

When we consider prisoner of war camps in the First World War we inevitably think of those on the Continent. We seem to have forgotten that in the UK there were huge numbers of enemy combatants and alien civilians interned in camps right across the realm.

Written by Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore of the King’s Own Light Infantry, this personal memoir provides an excellent account of the Great War up to the Battle of the Somme. A wide ranging and perceptive relation of events, Radclyffe Dugmore’s pedigree as a professional writer shines through. In 1914, Radclyffe Dugmore traveled to Belgium as a civilian observer where he was wounded before spending a brief time in German captivity.

Rise of the Tank will be concentrated on the period of the development of the tank and its use in the First World War. This will appeal to those interested in new developments in war and those interested in the First World War generally. The book will be especially relevant due to the forthcoming centenary of the beginning of the war and for this reason it will be easy to promote the book as there will be a lot of media interest.

The Kaiser’s Captive

The Great War Explained

In the Claws of the German Eagle

Philip Stevens

By the end of the war there were almost 500 internment camps in England and Wales, with another twenty-five in Scotland, two on the Isle of Man and one each in Ireland and Jersey.

Major and Mrs Holt’s Pocket Battlefield Guide to the Somme Battles The Big Push: 1 July – 17 November 1916; The Kaiser’s Offensive: 21 March – 25 April 1918; American/Canadian/ French Sectors 1918. Major and Mrs Holt $13.95 • 112 pages • 6.75 x 4.75 • illustrated throughout • Now Available • paperback • 978184415395-4 • eISBN 978-1-78383-023-7 The Somme is the epicenter for most people in the study of the First World War from a UK and Commonwealth perspective. Today the landscape and terrain are dedicated to the soldiers that fought and died there and Major and Mrs. Holt’s Pocket Guide to the Somme has been put together to take you around the area.

Albert Rhys Williams $24.95 • 144 pages 6 x 9 • November 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-308-4 Albert Rhys Williams was an American journalist and author. In 1914, Williams traveled to Europe as the special war correspondent for Outlook magazine, tasked with the duty of reporting the events of the Great War. In these early days of the conflict, Williams had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Imperial German Army. He was arrested in Belgium and marched into captivity on the suspicion that he was a British spy. This fascinating book details Williams’ experiences both on the front and in German captivity.

$19.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 16 pages of plates • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2121-7 This is much more than just another book to add to the thousands on The Great War. It sets out to fill a gap. Written for the layman by a layman (who is also an articulate and experienced battlefield guide) it summarizes the key events and contributions of key individuals, some well, others unknown but with a story to tell. To get a true picture of this monumental event in history, it is necessary to grasp the fundamentals, be they military, political, social or simply human. The slaughters at Verdun, Somme and Passchendaele are no more than statistics without the stories of those that fought, drowned and died there.

This book contains selections from the Holts’ more detailed guides of the most popular and accessible sites plus hand tourist information, capturing the essential features of the Battles.

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Pen & Sword The History of the War in the Air 1914–1918

Crossing The Waal

Operation Tonga

The U.S. 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen

Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery

Professor Sir Walter Raleigh

Jon Cooksey

$39.95 • 416 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 10 b/w Maps and sketches August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78346-248-3 This magnificent and comprehensive volume was written in 1922 by Professor Walter Raleigh. Originally entitled The History of the War in the Air (Being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force) this all embracing and vital work features the most important account of the aerial battles, the men and the machines.

Invasion ‘44 The Full Story of DDay John Frayn Turner $19.95 • 200 pages 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78159-270-0 In the pre-dawn darkness of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen began to disembark an Allied invasion force on the beaches of France’s Normandy peninsula. Invasion ’44 tells the story of that assault from the day over four years earlier, and only a few short weeks after the British disaster at Dunkirk, when a few individuals in the High Command began to turn their thoughts to the possibilities of an eventual return to the mainland, and the story continues up to the time when the Allied beachhead was firmly established on French soil.

$19.95 • 144 pages 6.75 x 9.5 • 50 Illustrations color • November 2014 • paperback • 978-1-84415-228-5 This is much more than just another book to add to the thousands on The Great War. It sets out to fill a gap. Written for the layman by a layman it summarizes the key events and contributions of key individuals, some well, others unknown but with a story to tell. The slaughters at Verdun, Somme and Passchendaele are no more than statistics without the stories of those that fought, drowned and died there.

Jon Cooksey $24.95 • 144 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • 50 Illustrations • September 2014 paperback • 978-1-84415-203-2 The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal near Bénouville, Howard’s men took and held the bridges in a remarkable coup de main operation with minimal casualties. The 7th Parachute Battalion dropped in soon afterwards to relieve Howard’s men and the action remains, by any standards, a remarkable feat of arms.

Soviet Conquest

The Battle of the Bulge

Berlin 1945

Hitler’s Final Gamble

Tony Le Tissier

Patrick Delaforce

$39.95 • 240 pages 6 x 9 • 20 illustrations November 2014 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2110-1

$39.95 • 376 pages • 6 x 9 Integrated b/w photos July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78346-359-6

How did top Red Army commanders see the assault on Berlin in 1945 – what was their experience of the last, terrible battle of the Second World War in Europe? Personal accounts by the most famous generals involved – Zhukov, Koniev and Chuikov – have been published in English, but the recollections of their principal subordinates haven’t been available in the west before, and it is their role in the final Soviet offensive that is the focus of Tony Le Tissier’s fascinating book.

By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long run of victories and there was no intelligence even from ULTRA to suggest a German counteroffensive. So the major December attack through the mountainous Ardennes by massed Panzers and infantry took the Allies totally by surprise. All this and more is graphically narrated in this fine study of a pivotal battle, that so nearly changed the course of war.

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Pen & Sword Surviving the Nazi Onslaught

Hitler – Personal Recollections

The Defence of Calais to the Death March for Freedom

Memoirs of Hitler From Those Who Knew Him

Carole McEntee-Taylor

Heinz A. Heinz

$34.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • 100 b/w integrated images • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78383-106-7

$19.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • September 2014 paperback • 978-1-78346-321-3

Ted Taylor, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was sent to France in May 1940 as part of Calais Force. Initially sent to open up supply lines to the rapidly retreating BEF, they soon found themselves defending Calais against the might of the 10th Panzer Division. Outnumbered by at least three to one they held out for 4 days until they ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender.

D-Day Assault The Second World War Assault Training Exercises at Slapton Sands Mark Khan $34.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 32 b/w Illustrations August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78159-384-4 Preceded by a massive airborne assault, the largest amphibious operation ever undertaken began on 6 June 1944 – D-Day. Over a fiftymile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline 160,000 Allied troops came ashore on the beaches of Normandy. Packed with the firsthand accounts of those who lived or trained at Slapton Sands, the author, a military historian brought up in the area, investigates all aspects of the military exercises undertaken here.

Heinz A. Heinz was the only writer authorized by the Nazi Party to draw a biography of the Fuhrer for publication in the English speaking world. The result was the 1938 authorized biography of Adolf Hitler entitled Germany’s Hitler. The book was based on interviews supplied first hand by those friends, helpers and comrades who had believed in him from the beginning of his political career.

The 7th Panzer Division in France and Russia Rommel’s Ghost Division Dr Russel H.S. Stolfi $14.95 • 144 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 integrated maps and original documents • Now Available paperback • 978-1-78346-246-9 This excellent study was commissioned by the U.S. Marine Corps from the distinguished academic and military historian Russel Stolfi. This groundbreaking work is more than just a Divisional history. The whole basis of Rommel’s exceptional handling is summed up in Stolfi’s masterful conclusion ‘Rommel had a bias for action.’

Kampfgruppe Peiper The Race for the Meuse David Cooke / Wayne Evans $19.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 100 b/w illustrations • November 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2704-2 On 16 December 1944 Hitler’s last great offensive commenced, pushing through the difficult terrain of the Ardennes in Belgium. Its objectives were the Meuse bridges and, beyond them, Antwerp. Hitler’s aim was to cut off the northern British and American armies and force them to surrender or retreat. At the forefront of the German assault was Kampfgruppe Peiper of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division. It was the most powerful force in the German order of battle.

Dönitz and the Wolf Packs Bernard Edwards $34.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 8pp b/w plates • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2293-1 This book faithfully records the progress of the Battle of the Atlantic, which began within hours of the declaration of war on 3 September 1939 and continued without let-up until the last torpedo was fired on the night of 7 May 1945, just one hour before Germany surrendered. The story is told from both sides of the periscope.

The book traces the actions of the 7th ‘Ghost’ division in France during 1940 and the early part of the campaign in Russia during 1941.

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Pen & Sword Hitler’s Spyplane Over Normandy 1944 The World’s First Jet Philippe Bauduin $39.95 • 192 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-4738-2339-6 In addition to many top-secret aerial images, this book is enriched with around twenty photographs from the personal archives of Erich Sommer, the Arado pilot, which have never before been published. The book is packed with both color and black and white images and represents an impressive pictorial history of the world’s first jet. In addition to many top-secret aerial images, this book is enriched with around twenty photographs from the personal archives of Erich Sommer.

The Mighty Eighth at War USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers Versus the Luftwaffe 1943–1945 Martin Bowman $24.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 32pp b/w Photos December 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2277-1 From the beginning of World War Two the RAF’s Bomber Command had been the only means of striking Hitler’s Reich and its war machine. This book explains how the American bomber force helped fight to eventual victory by decimating German industry, transport systems and breaking the Nazi war spirit. This book explains, including many firsthand accounts, how the American bomber force helped fight to eventual victory by decimating German industry, transport systems and breaking the Nazi war spirit.

Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose

Battlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack

The Story of the HK1 Hercules

Martin Bowman

Graham M Simons $34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 25 images November 2014 • hardback 978-1-78383-155-5 Howard Hughes’ life ambition was to make a significant contribution to the field of aviation development. The book goes on to explore the political issues that sprung up as a result of Hughes’ endeavors, looking into the Senate War Investigations Committee’s findings which explored the extent to which government funds had been utilized in the development and construction of the airship.

Valkyrie: The North American XB-70 The USA’s Ill-fated Supersonic Heavy Bomber

$39.95 • 216 pages 6 x 9 • 2 x 16 pages of black and white plates December 2014 • hardback 978-1-78383-197-5 The Battlefield Bomber series details both daylight and night time bombing operations by RAF Bomber Command crews from 1939 until the end of the Second World War. Featuring a unique selection of wide-ranging experiences of British and Commonwealth Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two, this new release details the deep sea bombing raids that occurred within this timeframe.

The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815-1945: The Central States

Graham M Simons

Germany, Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia

$19.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 170 mono within text • August 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2285-6

J E Kaufmann / H W Kaufmann

This book is full of unpublished details, photographs and firsthand accounts from those closely associated with the project. Although never put into full production, this giant six engined aircraft became famous for its breakthrough technology, and the spectacular images captured on a fatal air-toair photo shoot when an observing Starfighter collided with Valkyrie A/V-2 which crashed into the Mojave Desert.

$50.00 • 256 pages • 6.75 x 9 • 150 illustrations October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84884-806-1 After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building, and this is the subject of this highly illustrated new study. The authors describe how defensive lines and structures on a massive scale were constructed along national frontiers to deter aggression.

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Pen & Sword Battleground Series

Retreat of I Corps 1914

Anzac - Sari Bair

Jerry Murland

Stephen Chambers

$19.95 • 176 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • 100 b/w Images November 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78346-373-2

$24.95 • 240 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • 175 b/w Images and Maps • September 2014 • paperback 978-1-78159-190-1

On 23 August 1914 only the two divisions of General Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps were engaged with the German First Army along the line of the Mons-Conde Canal. As the British Expeditionary Force withdrew, Sir John French ordered the British Expeditionary Force to continue their retirement the next day and to avoid the forest roads.

The August Offensive was born out of the failures of the Gallipoli landings and the subsequent battles of late spring and early summer 1915. This is the story, told using a rich mix of letters, diaries, photographs and maps, of Gallipoli’s last battles; the forlorn hope for a decisive victory.

Consequently II Corps used the roads to the west of the Forêt de Mormal and Sir Douglas Haig’s I Corps those to the east. It was an intention that was ambushed by circumstance as I Corps encountered units of the German 7th Division at Landrecies on 25/26 August.

Ypres 1914: Messines Early Battles 1914 Jack Sheldon Nigel Cave $19.95 • 176 pages 5.25 x 8.5 • 125 b/w Pics and Maps • October 2014 • paperback 978-1-78159-201-4

Ypres 1914: The Menin Road Early Battles 1914 Jack Sheldon Nigel Cave

Ypres 1914: Langemarck Early Battles 1914 Jack Sheldon Nigel Cave

$19.95 • 176 pages 5.25 x 8.5 • 125 b/w Pics and Maps • December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78159-200-7

$19.95 • 208 pages 5.25 x 8.5 • 125 b/w pics and maps • August 2014 • paperback 978-1-78159-199-4

These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high.

At the end of October 1914 an increasingly desperate Falkenhayn decided to make one final effort to break through the Allied lines south of Ypres. Pulling together a large strike force, the so-called Army Group Fabeck, he launched a violent offensive designed to capture the Messines Ridge and to use this dominating terrain as a springboard for a further advance.

The most direct route to Ypres for the advancing German columns in October 1914 was along the axis of the Menin Road. It was here that the Old Contemptibles of the BEF earned their heroic status as they fought off desperate German assaults day after day, whilst place names such as Zandvoorde, Polygon Wood and Gheluvelt were first etched into the British consciousness.

When, in October 1914, the newly created German Fourth Army attacked west to seize crossings over the Yser, prior to sweeping south in an attempt to surround the BEF, two things prevented it.

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Pen & Sword Images of War Series

Belsen and its Liberation Ian Baxter $24.95 • 176 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 250 b/w illustrations • August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78159-331-8 Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi’s most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS’s murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another disturbing side to them relaxing in their barracks or visiting their families and loved ones. The book is an absorbing insight into how the SS played a key part in murdering, torturing and starving to death tens of thousands of inmates. During the latter part of the war as many as 500 a day were perishing from the long-term effects of starvation as well as the resultant diseases. There is a wealth of information on how the camp was run and all aspects of life inside the camp for the inmates are covered. The final episode of Belsen is witnessed by British soldiers of the Second Army, who were completely unprepared for what they encountered when they arrived at the gates of the camp.

Stilwell and the Chindits

Great War Fighter Aces 1914–1916

The Allied Campaign in Northern Burma 1943–1944

Norman Franks

Jon Diamond

$24.95 • 168 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 170 illustrations December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78383-182-1

$24.95 • 176 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 250 b/w images November 2014 • paperback 978-1-78383-198-2 This latest book in the highly successful Images of War series covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border. The plan involved two separate but concurrent operations. US Army General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to train up two Chinese divisions and together with a US special force (Merrill’s Marauders) advance to seize the key Japanese base at Myitkyina.

Here, Norman Franks tells the story, in words and images, of the emergence of some of the greatest fighter aces to see action during the first half of the First World War. He explores the manner in which the situation developed from late 1914 to the late summer of 1916, the point at which Oswald Boelcke helped form the German Jasta system that would prove so devastating to the RFC and RNAS.

As this highly informative and well illustrated book reveals, the concept was ultimately successful with Myitkyina falling to Stilwell’s Chinese/US force in mid 1944.

Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz

Hitler – A Life in Pictures $24.95 • 240 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • September 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78346-322-0 This exceptional source is probably the best of the contemporary accounts of Hitler in power, albeit from a heavily pro-Nazi stance. The testimonies collected together were based on interviews conducted by Heinz A. Heinz in 1933 and 1934, shortly after Hitler had taken power. The book incorporates sections on Hitler and the German people, Hitler and the German workers, Hitler and public works and so on, all accompanied by a series of excellent photographs which form a remarkable record of the public face of a man during his brief spell of absolute power.

Andy Saunders $24.95 • 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 140-150 illustrations • August 2014 • paperback 978-1-78303-040-8 Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of the work of RAF and civilian salvage squads during the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and beyond. The images will depict losses across Britain, both RAF and German. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail. The author will be covering a topic that has rarely been examined in this detail.

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Pen & Sword Images of War Series

Luftwaffe Bombers in the Battle of Britain Andy Saunders $29.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 150 illustrations • September 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78303-024-8 Luftwaffe Bombers in the Battle of Britain will contains some 140-150 images of German bomber aircraft during the summer of 1940. The images will cover the entirety of the battle and will depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail. Each section will have a short introduction and the images will include those of shot down aircraft, including relatively intact machines, badly damaged/destroyed wreckages, photographs of pilots and other related illustrations. All images are from the author’s unique collection of wartime photographs of Luftwaffe losses, collected from a variety of sources across some thirty-five years of research.

Luftwaffe Fighters in the Battle of Britain Andy Saunders

Luftwaffe’s Attacks on Britain 1941–1945 Andy Saunders

$24.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 150 illustrations November 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78303-026-2

$24.95 • 160 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • Illustrated December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78303-025-5

Luftwaffe Fighters in the Battle of Britain will comprise of some 140-150 images of German fighter aircraft during the summer of 1940. The images will cover the entirety of the battle and will depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail.

Luftwaffe Attacks on Britain will comprise of some 140-150 images of German fighters and bombers during the Luftwaffe’s attacks on the United Kingdom between 1941 and 1945. The images will cover the entirety of the attacks and will also depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail.

Each section will have a short introduction and the images will include those of shot down aircraft, including relatively intact machines, badly damaged/destroyed wreckages, photographs of pilots and other related illustrations.

Luftwaffe Bombers in the Blitz 1940–1941

Battleships of the United States Navy

Andy Saunders

Michael Green

$24.95 • 176 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 150 illustrations October 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78303-022-4

$24.95 • 192 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 250 color and b/w images • December 2014 • paperback 978-1-78303-035-4

Luftwaffe Bombers in the Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of German bomber aircraft during the Blitz of 1940-1941. The images will cover the entirety of the Blitz and will also depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail. Each section will have a short introduction and the images will include those of shot down aircraft, including relatively intact machines, badly damaged/destroyed wreckages, photographs of pilots and other related illustrations.

From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the SpanishAmerican War and the ‘Great White Fleet’s’ circumnavigation of the world, US battleships played only a minor role in the First World War. They came into their own in WW2 primarily bombarding enemy held coastal regions and supporting Allied operations in Europe and the Pacific.

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Pen & Sword Antigonus The OneEyed Greatest of the Successors

Marcus Agrippa Right-hand man of Caesar Augustus

Jeff Champion $34.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • B/w maps and battle diagrams. Poss 8pp b/w plates • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-78303-042-2

$44.95 • 384 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp color photos, 6 maps • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-84884-617-3

Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) ‘as ‘the oldest and greatest of Alexander’s successors,’Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. Jeff Champion narrates the career of this titanic figure with the focus squarely on the military aspects.

Marcus Agrippa personified the term ‘right-hand man’. As Emperor Augustus’deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years - but he served always in the knowledge he would never rule in his own name.

Cataclysm 90 BC

Mark Antony

The forgotten war that almost destroyed Rome

A Plain Blunt Man

$34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 8pp plates, 3 or 4 b/w maps December 2014 • hardback 978-1-84884-789-7 At the start of the first century BC, Rome faced a hostile army less than a week’s march from the Capitol. This tells the story of the revolt of Rome’s Italian allies. Because these Italian allies had the arms, training and military systems of the Roman army all Rome’s usual military advantages were nullified.

Waterloo

Myth and Reality 14152015

Myth and Reality Gareth Glover

Stephen Cooper

Lindsay Powell

Philip Matyszak

Agincourt

Paolo De Ruggiero

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 40 color and black$32.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 illustrations • July 2014 • hardback and-white illustrations December 2014 • hardback 978-1-84884-462-9 978-1-78159-356-1 This epic story of how an Gareth Glover has spent a decade exhausted, outnumbered army, uncovering hundreds of previously commanded by an inspirational unpublished eyewitness accounts leader, crushed a huge French force on French soil has given rise of the battle and campaign, which have highlighted many of the to legends and misconceptions myths and errors surrounding the that make it difficult for us to Waterloo campaign. In this reach a clear understanding of groundbreaking history he what really happened on the provides a beautifully balanced battlefield 600 years ago. account of the entire campaign while challenging these distorted claims and myths.

Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras

Waterloo Battlefield Guide

The French Perspective

$24.95 • 304 pages • 5.75 x 8.25 Over 100 color and b/w images July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78303-513-7

Andrew W. Field $39.95 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • 8pp photos • Now Available • hardback 978-1-78346-270-4 In this book, Paolo de Ruggiero reassesses this pivotal figure, analyses the arguments of his many detractors, and concludes that he was much more than a simple soldier, revealing a more complex and significant man, and a decisive agent of change with a precise political vision for the Roman world.

$44.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 1 b/w and 1 color section • October 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-384-8 Drawing on French eyewitness recollections and later commentary, the author reconstructs the French experience of the battle – and the French interpretation of it. He quotes extensively, and subjects to critical analysis, the conflicting accounts written by Napoleon and his subordinates as they sought to justify their decisions and actions at this pivotal moment in the campaign.

David Buttery

The defeat of Napoleon’s French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world history. The battle was a milestone, and it cannot be properly understood without a detailed, on-the-ground study of the landscape in which it was fought

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Pen & Sword The Battle Book of Ypres A Reference to Military Operations in the Ypres Salient 1914-18 Beatrix Brice $39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2123-1 This book, originally published in 1927 and now presented again as a special Centenary Edition, comprises a chronological account of the fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War, followed by a useful and unique alphabetical reference to the events in and around each hamlet, village or wood.

Walking Into Hell 1st July 1916 Memoirs of the First World War Edward G.D. Liveing Geoffrey Malins $24.95 • 128 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 50 b/w Images • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-314-5 The 1st July 1916 was the blackest day in the history of the British Army when 60,000 unsuspecting men of the British 4th Army advanced into the teeth of a hurricane of German fire. This well-illustrated anthology examines the events of that terrible day from two very different perspectives.

Retreat and Rearguard – Somme 1918 The Fifth Army Retreat Jerry Murland $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78159-267-0 Historian Jerry Murland has researched and visited the scenes of desperate actions during late March 1918. He describes in graphic detail the battles fought by British, Irish and South African regiments in the area from St Leger in the North to La Fere in the South.

Visiting the Somme and Ypres Battlefields Made Easy A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals Gareth Hughes $24.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • 100 b/w images August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2139-2 This splendid and timely book will be invaluable to those visiting the battlefields, sites, museums, memorials and cemeteries of France and Belgium. It is intended for those planning and leading school groups and similar parties but is also ideal for individual/family visitors.

Bloody Red Tabs Frank Davies $24.95 • 240 pages 6 x 9 • 8 pages of b/w plates • July 2014 paperback 978-1-78346-237-7 Biographies of over 200 officers who held the rank of Brigadier-General or above who were killed or wounded during the war show how closely involved the men at the top were with the men at the front. It is the purpose of this book to show not only how the myth was born and grew but how totally at odds it is with the facts.

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With the Kaiser’s Army in 1914 A Neutral Observer in Belgium & France Sven Hardin $39.95 • 528 pages • 6 x 9 • 100 original photographs and author sketches • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-318-3 In 1914 Swedish professor, Sven Hedin, was granted a car and escort and given a comprehensive tour of the German Armies fighting in Belgium and France during September and October 1914. This study of the Kaiser’s Army in the early stages of the First World War provides a rare glimpse into the German Army of 1914.

Escaping from the Kaiser The Dramatic Experiences of a Tommy POW H W Tustin $39.95 • 226 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates November 2014 • hardback 978-1-4738-2194-1 Only a week after joining the 8th Durhams in April 1915 Private Herbert Tustin was captured at the Battle of Ypres. He describes the horror of trench warfare, his treatment on being taken a POW and the three day train journey into Germany.

Pen & Sword The Courage of Cowards The Untold Stories of First World War Conscientious Objectors Karyn Burnham $29.95 • 144 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 pp b/ws photos July 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78159-295-3 An innovative new history of conscientious objectors during the First World War. Drawing on previously unpublished archive material, Karyn Burnham reconstructs the personal stories of several men who refused to fight, bringing the reader face-to-face with their varied, often brutal, experiences.

Visions of War

Spirits of the Somme

Private Hitler’s War

Bob Carruthers

$24.95 • 176 pages 6 x 9 • Approx 50 b/w Images • July 2014 hardback • 978-1-4738-2275-7

$24.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 50 original b/w Images • July 2014 hardback 978-1-4738-2276-4

The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. In a major new documentary film premiering on the Discovery Channel next year, Emmy Award winning film maker Bob Carrruthers returns to the battlefield on 1st July and retraces the events which unfolded on that disastrous day.

Reporting the Great War

Somme Campaign

Sniping in France

Andy Rawson

Stuart Hylton

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 16 b/w pictures and 80+ Maps October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78303-051-4

Winning the Sniping War in the Trenches

$34.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 illustrations • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-357-2 The Great War of 1914-1918 was the world’s first total conflict. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labor market.

A concise, account of each stage of the Somme battles, whether a set piece attack or a minor action. The emphasis of the book would be to explain the art of waging trench warfare during the Somme campaign.

The producers of the groundbreaking documentary Private Hitler’s War have resolved the century long controversy over Hitler’s service in the Great War. This powerful documentary tie-in book finally turns the Nazi myth on its head and reveals the full unvarnished truth concerning Adolf Hitler’s actions in the Great War.

H Hesketh-Prichard, DSO, MC

A Wood Called Bourlon The Cover-up after Cambrai, 1917 William Moore

$24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 Integrated images • Now Available paperback 978-1-78346-180-6

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 12 pages of b/w plates • December 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2126-2

Available for the first time in years, this is a new edition of the classic account by the adventurer and big game hunter who developed and ran the British Army sniping program in the First World War. A glossary of terms and a photograph of the author have been added.

After the great victory in the famous tank battle at Cambrai in 1917 the church bells, having been silent for three years, rang out joyously all over Britain. But within ten days triumph had turned to disaster. How did this happen and why? William Moore, a distinguished First World War historian, attempts to explain what went wrong.

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Pen & Sword The Pegasus and Orne Bridges Their Capture, Defence and Relief on D-Day Neil Barber $24.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 100 pictures within the text August 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2274-0 The glider-borne operation to capture Pegasus Bridge has an established place in the annals of warfare. Conducted by Major John Howard and his company of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry it was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed ‘coup de main’ assault.

Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941–1942

Eighth Army in Italy 1943–45 The Long Hard Slog

Schwerpunkt

Richard Doherty

Robert Forczyk

$19.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w photos • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2278-8

$39.95 • 304 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 illustrations • Now Available hardback • 978-1-78159-008-9 The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. Robert Forczyk’s incisive study offers fresh insight into how the two most powerful mechanized armies of the Second World War developed their tactics and weaponry during the critical early years of the Russo-German War.

This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a matter for the infantry than for the armor.

Berlin Battlefield Guide

Singapore’s Dunkirk

Arnhem Odyssey

Geoffrey Brooke

Third Reich and Cold War

$19.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 October 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2291-7

The Story of Three Men of the Border Regiment

Tony Le Tissier $29.95 • 320 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 120 color and 180 b/w photos plus 38 Maps • August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2282-5 On 16 April 1945 the Red Army unleashed a colossal offensive against Berlin with the aim of destroying Hitler’s armies in the East and capturing the German capital before the Western Allies. Over two million soldiers confronted each other in the last act in the war against Nazi Germany.

Battles of a Gunner Officer

When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942 many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. It was truly ‘every man for himself’. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who chose this option.

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Peter Taylor $39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • 160 illustrations • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-4738-2316-7

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Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and the Long Road to Germany Peter Pettit John Phillip Jones $50.00 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 illustrations • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-78337-606-3 Since Peter Pettit served as a field officer in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy and during the Allied advance across France and Belgium into Germany, his account shows the wide range of challenges that confronted the artillery in different conditions at each stage of the war.

Commando Despatch Rider From D-Day to Deutschland 1944-5 Raymond Mitchell $19.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated • August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2292-4 In 1944, Ray Mitchell landed in Normandy with his unit 41 Royal Marine Commando. His role in bringing the Third Reich to its knees was that of dispatch rider. This is a fighting soldier’s account of war and it describes in vivid terms his and his fellow commandos’ experiences and emotions.

Pen & Sword Despatches from the Front Series – this series covers various dispatches gathered over major wars dating back to the late 19th century. This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history.

The Boer War 1899–1902 Ladysmith, Magersfontein, Spion Kop, Kimberley and Mafeking John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated September 2014 hardback • 978-178159-328-8

The Italian Campaign 1942–1944 John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated December 2014 hardback • 978-178346-213-1

Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 1915–1916 John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated August 2014 hardback 978-178159-344-8

Liberating Europe: D-Day to Victory in Europe 1944–1945 John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated August 2014 hardback • 978-178346-215-5

Western Front 1917–1918 John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated November 2014 hardback • 978-178159-323-3

The BEF in France 1939–1940 Manning the Front through to the Dunkirk Evacuation John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated August 2014 hardback • 978-178346-211-7

Defending Britain’s Skies 1940–1945

Far East Air Operations 1943–1945

John Grehan Martin Mace

$39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated September 2014 hardback • 978-178346-207-0

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated October 2014 hardback • 978-178346-212-4

Operations in the Middle East 1939–1942 John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • Illustrated • October 2014 • hardback • 978-178346-217-9

The Royal Navy and the War at Sea 1914–1919 Martin Mace $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated September 2014 hardback • 978-178159-317-2

North African Campaign 1940–1943

Disaster in the Far East 1941–1942

John Grehan Martin Mace

$39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated December 2014 hardback • 978-178346-194-3

$39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated December 2014 hardback • 978-178346-209-4

Capital Ships at War 1939 – 1945

The War at Sea in the Mediterranean 1940–1944

John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-204-9

John Grehan Martin Mace $39.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-222-3

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Pen & Sword Airbus Gerhard Lang $18.95 • 128 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 114 color images November 2014 • paperback 978-1-78383-171-5 Airbus is a leading manufacturer on the world market for large civil aircraft, with a product range extended to include military variants. Highly innovative concepts distinguish aircraft from Airbus, and most recently the development of the impressive giant A380 put these claims to the test.

Boeing 747: A History Delivering the Dream Martin Bowman $44.95 • 256 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • Integrated color and black and white images August 2014 • hardback 978-1-78303-039-2 The book focuses not only on the iconic 747, but also its many variants, including the YAL-1A, which Boeing developed for the US Air Force, and the Evergreen 747 Supertanker, a 747-200, modified as an aerial application for firefighting. Across its types, the 747 carries around half the world’s air freight.

Boeing Commerical Aircraft Jo Beeck $18.95 • 128 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • 7 b/w photographs and 59 color images October 2014 • paperback 978-1-78383-168-5 With their pioneering designs, the Boeing Company has paved the way for the commercial aviation in its present form. In this Fact File edition, all civil aircraft are featured with all the relevant data and images.

The Airbus A380: A History Graham Simons $50.00 • 232 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • Integrated black and white and color images October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78303-041-5 The Airbus was initially designed and developed in order to provide a contender to the Boeing’s growing monopoly of the skies in the biggest large-aircraft market in the world. Ambitious in design, the undertaking seemed mammoth. Yet scores of aviation engineers and pilots worked to get the design off the ground and the Airbus in our skies.

MIG

Messerschmitt

Rudolf Hofling

Manfred Griehl

$18.95 • 128 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • 140 illustrations • November 2014 paperback • 978-1-78383-170-8

$18.95 • 128 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • 115 b/w photos, 14 color photos and 3 drawings October 2014 • paperback 978-1-78383-169-2

At the beginning of the Second World War, MiG was founded by two aircraft engineers, Artyom Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. For decades, MiG aircraft have been among the most well-known and powerful military aircraft in the world and broke a number of records. The world famous aircraft manufacturer and its products are presented in this Fact File edition.

Operation Oyster: WW II’s Forgotten Raid The Daring Low Level Attack on the Philips Radio Works Kees Rijken / Paul Schepers Arthur Thorning $34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 87 illustrations and 8 maps • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-4738-2109-5

Messerschmitt’s single most important design was the Bf 109, designed in 1934 which remains the most-produced fighter in history. Another Messerschmitt model, the Me 209, broke the absolute world airspeed record. Messerschmitt AG also produced the first jet-powered aircraft in the world, the Me 262.

The British Aerospace Hawk: A Photographic Tribute Michael Leek $39.95 • 240 pages • 8.5 x 10.75 Integrated black and white and 150 color images • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-78159-294-6

Through a collection of dramatic and informative photographs, supplemented by cutaway illustrations, this book, the first in Operation Oyster was carried out a mini series of three, highlights on the 6th December, 1942 by 2 the agility and flexibility of this Group RAF. Considered to be a dedicated RAF and RN trainer. notable success for the allies, it cost the Germans an estimated six With the T1 and T1A versions soon months of lost production time at to be retired from UK service this book looks set to represent a a critical point in the conflict. Operation Oyster struck at the very fitting tribute to the type. heart of what Churchill termed ‘the wizard war’ against German radio navigational technology by attacking a central hub of activity.

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Pen & Sword Glider Pilots at Arnhem Major M L Peters Luuk Buist $32.95 • 368 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w Photos August 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2279-5 The fierce struggle between the British 1st Airborne Division and the superior German forces in and around Arnhem is well documented. This book tells of the role played in the battle for Oosterbeek and the bridge at Arnhem itself by the men of the Glider Pilot Regiment.

Black Night for Bomber Command The Tragedy of 16 December 1943 Richard Knott $19.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 November 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2295-5 This book relates the tragic circumstances of individual crews as they struggled to find their home bases in low cloud and fog. It also includes stories from the local people who remember hearing a low-flying aircraft and all too often the frightful explosion as it struck unexpected high ground or even trees.

An Expendable Squadron The Story of 217 Squadron, Coastal Command, 19391945 Roy Conyers Nesbit $50.00 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 200 illustrations • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-4738-2328-0 Roy Nesbit’s highly illustrated history of Coastal Command’s 217 Squadron – the squadron in which he served – gives a firsthand insight into the hazardous lowlevel missions the squadron flew against enemy shipping and ports during the Second World War.

Constant Vigilance RAF Regiment in the Burma Campaign Dr Nigel W. M. Warwick $32.95 • 320 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 40-60 Integrated b/w photos, 4page color Photos, 14 b/w maps September 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2284-9 The RAF Regiment was created in the early years of World War II for the active dedicated defense of RAF airfields and installations. This book concerns the Regiments operational history in South-east Asia Command and draws on the diaries and recollections of the men who served in that theater.

Fight for the Air Aviation Adventures from the Second World War John Frayn Turner $34.95 • 248 pages • 6 x 9 • b/w integrated • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-303-9

Lost Wings of WWI Downed Airmen on the Western Front 1914 –1918 Martin Bowman $44.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 2 x 16 pages of black and white plates October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78383-195-1

These popular air warfare stories cover the entire span of World War II, beginning when the Royal Air Force faced fascist forces on its own until the dropping of the Atomic bombs on the Japanese in 1945.

This new publication from eminent military historian Martin Bowman chronicles the stories of airmen downed on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, representing a contribution on the author’s part to the 100th anniversary of the Great War.

The Secret Betrayal of Britain’s Wartime Allies The Appeasement of Stalin and its Post-War Consequences

The Men Who Gave Us Wings Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

Jim Auton MBE $39.95 • 216 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 illustrations • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-78383-158-6

Peter Reese $50.00 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 120 illustrations including maps July 2014 • hardback 978-1-84884-848-1

Peter Reese, in this highly readable and highly illustrated As a British airman of the Second account, delves into the fascinating early history of World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over aviation as he describes what central and Eastern Europe. In this, happened and why. He recalls the his second work of brilliant theoretical work of Sir autobiographical memoir, Auton George Cayley, the inventions of provides an enthralling firsthand other pioneers of the nineteenth account of intrigue, assassination, century and the daring exploits of espionage and shameful betrayal the next generation of airmen. on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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Pen & Sword The Millionaires’ Squadron The Remarkable Story of 601 Squadron and the Flying Sword Tom Moulson $44.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 40 black and white images in plates November 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-339-8 601 (Auxiliary) Squadron of the RAF is famed for a host of reasons. Notable for the social caliber of its members, gleaned from the eccentric and elite membership of the exclusive White’s Club, London, the unit came to be known as ‘The Millionaires’ Squadron’, seeing real action in the Battles of Britain and Malta, with many of its members securing distinguished victories.

A Century of Air Warfare With Nine (IX) Squadron, RAF Still Going Strong Gordon Thorburn $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 150 b/w integrated images • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78303-634-9 In the earliest days of World War One, when IX Squadron was formed, we went to the fight in little 50mph machines that were barely capable of taking pilot into the sky, especially on a windy day. We go from those beginnings in to the world’s first Tornado squadron in the Gulf wars, over Kosovo and Afghanistan, and so to the present.

The Disastrous Fall and Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945

The Bomber Command War Diaries An Operational Reference Book

Henry ‘Hank’ Adlam

Martin Middlebrook Chris Everitt

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 December 2014 • hardback 978-1-4738-2113-2 In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm’s policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its history from 1912 to 1945, logging the various milestones, mistakes and successes that characterized the service history of the Fleet Air Arm.

Howard Pixton – Test Pilot and Pioneer Aviator The Biography of the first British Schneider Trophy Winner Stella Pixton

$50.00 • 808 pages • 6 x 9 Illustrated • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78346-360-2

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates • October 2014 hardback • 978-1-4738-2256-6

Bomber Command’s campaign started on the very first day of the Second World War and ended within a few hours of the final victory in Europe five and a half years later. This has become the standard basic work of reference on this extraordinary campaign.

This book is a truly remarkable account that captures the atmosphere, thrills and danger of the pioneering days of aviation. Howard Pixton was flying for A V Roe at Brooklands in 1910 when S F Cody at Laffan’s Plain tried to persuade him to join him. Throughout The Great War Pixton test flew many of the rapid evolving designs.

1 Group Bomber Command An Operatonal Record Chris Ward $50.00 • 344 pages • 6 x 9 • Plates • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-4738-2108-8 During the period immediately before the Second World War, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, each flying the same type of aircraft, including Wellingtons, Sterlings, and Lancasters. The book contains individual squadron statistics, their commanding officers, stations and aircraft losses.

Lost Legend of the Thryberg Hawk

That Quiet Earth: A First World War Tale

Jack Holroyd

Bruce Fellows

$34.95 • 352 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 10 Maps and 8 pages of color pictures • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-78383-181-4

$32.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 black and white images • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-78383-180-7

Marksmanship skills honed to perfection, driven by necessity and desperation, Edmund Hawksworth hunted with his crossbow to keep his ailing mother alive, only to have her die in his arms.

George Bridge has a secret, a wrong he did a lifetime ago that he must confess. Back in the summer and autumn of 1918 he lived life at a pitch he never experienced again; any moment could have been his last. He was a pilot in the RAF.

With the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and the ascent of the Lancastrian Tudors the many stories of the Yorkist boy hero were suppressed. However, for fifty years fanciful tales of ‘The Hawk’lingered on in the towns and villages of the West Riding of Yorkshire until in 1509 Edmund’s brother arrived in chains at Conisbrough Castle.

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That Quiet Earth is rich in the kind of ‘boys own’ descriptions of combat that characterize this kind of fiction.

Pen & Sword Unknown Warrior: The Search for Australia’s Greatest Ace Mike Rosel $39.95 • 144 pages • 6 x 9 • 24 images • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-394-7

They Gave Me A Seafire

Special Forces Pilot

RHNS Averof

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

A Flying Memoir of the Falklands War

$39.95 • 144 pages • 6 x 9 16pp b/w photos, deck plans and a few maps • August 2014 hardback • 978-1-78303-021-7

$39.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • 50 black and white photographs September 2014 • hardback • 9781-4738-2191-0

Colonel Richard Hutchings DSC $24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates • Now Available paperback • 978-1-4738-2317-4

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.

As a Commando helicopter pilot, the author served with 846 Naval Air Squadron in the Falklands War and was decorated for gallantry (DSC). The author re-lives his part in operations, in particular Special Forces intelligence gathering and direct action missions, including the Pebble Island raid.

The Flatpack Bombers

HMS Bellerophon

The Royal Navy and the Zeppelin Menace

$39.95 • 304 pages 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-240-7

Voices in Flight: The Royal Naval Air Services during WWI

Few people beyond aviation historians are familiar with Captain Robert Alexander (Alec) Little’s forty-seven victories with the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force, nor the fact that he earned a chestful of medals before his death at the tragically young age of twenty-two in a solo night-chase after a bomber in May 1918.

Ian Gardiner $19.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates • August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2280-1 This book is the story of those largely forgotten very early bombing raids. It explains the military and historical background to the first British interest in military and naval aviation, and why it was that the Navy pursued long distance bombing, while the Army concentrated on reconnaissance.

C.A. Pengelly

The story of HMS Bellerophon is a record of the many and varied duties which the Royal Navy had to carry out in the period 1793 – 1815. It was involved in the first great fleet action of the War and was involved in the last moments of the struggle with the surrender of Napoleon.

Malcolm Smith $50.00 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 25 images • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78346-383-1 Following in the same style as his previous book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Malcolm Smith has collected a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War.

John Carr

Built at Livorno in 1910, the 10,000-ton RHNS Averof had the distinction of being the flagship, and by far the biggest warship, of the Royal Hellenic Navy until 1951. More than a century after its construction, she is still afloat, one of just three armored cruisers still in existence in the world.

The Battle of the Atlantic Donald Macintyre $19.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 24 pages of plates • September 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2287-0 The Battle of the Atlantic - a name coined by Churchill - was the unremitting assault that went on throughout the war on Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great Britain and, from 1941, Russia by aircraft, surface ships but, above all, by the U-boat. The author describes the battle from the viewpoint of the participants themselves.

Whole chapters are dedicated to some of the most vocal members to see service during the course of the RNAS’s Great War history.

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Pen & Sword Nelson’s Mediterranean Command Denis Orde $29.95 • 248 pages 6 x 9 • b/w illustrations December 2014 paperback • 978-1-78346-290-2 In 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte, who was all but Master of Europe, assembled a formidable expeditionary force at Toulon. While its purpose was unknown there was every reason to believe that Great Britain was its destination and the Nation was on invasion alert.

Gunboat Command

Britain’s Future Navy

The Biography of Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO* DSC** RNVR

Nick Childs

Antony Hichens $24.95 • 368 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w Photos December 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2296-2 This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or ‘Hitch’ as he was universally known).

$29.95 • 208 pages 6 x 9 • 8pp color plates July 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2324-2 What kind of Royal Navy does Britain need now? The 21st century promises to be one of huge uncertainties and challenges for the senior service. Does Britain have the right naval strategy to cope with emerging threats (does it have a naval strategy at all, and should it?) and, if so, does the Navy have the right ships and enough of them to implement it?

The overwhelming British priority was for a fleet to be assembled and sent to the Mediterranean to destroy this threat before the French force could set sail.

After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his Aston Martin) and RN training, the book focuses on his exceptional wartime experiences. Hitch was the most highly decorated RNVR officer of the war with two DSOs, three DSCs and three Mentions in Despatches.

Churchill and The Admirals

Beware Raiders!

Deep Sea Hunters

Stephen Roskill

Captain Bernard Edwards

$24.95 • 352 pages 6 x 9 • 12 b/w Illustrations + Charts August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2112-5

$19.95 • 224 pages 6 x 9 • Illustrated August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2283-2

RAF Coastal Command and the War Against the UBoats and the German Navy 1939 –1945

Winston Churchill enjoyed two stints as First Lord of the Admiralty, at the start of the First World War and at the start of the Second. He retained close interest in naval matters, especially as the defeat of the U-boat menace was so vital in both wars to maintain the vital supplies so necessary for Britain’s war efforts. Indeed, Churchill later said that this was the only thing that had threatened the ultimate Allied victory.

This is the fascinating story of two German surface raiders and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the 8-inch gun cruiser Admiral Hipper, fast, powerful and Navy-manned: the other a converted merchant man, Hansa Line’s Kandelfels armed with a few old 5.9s manned largely by reservists, and sailing under the nom de guerre of Pinguin. The author emphasizes the striking contrast between the conduct of Ernst Kruder, captain of the Pinguin and the callous Captain Meisel of the Admiral Hipper.

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Nick Childs looks at the changing strategic environment (including economic difficulties and the growth of other navies such as China and India).

Martin Bowman $50.00 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 2 x 16 pages of black and white plates • November 2014 hardback • 978-1-78383-196-8 This enthralling new release from Martin Bowman details all of the operations at sea carried out by RAF Coastal Command against the U-boats and the German Navy during the Second World War. Beginning with the disastrous Norwegian Campaign, it takes in the numerous attacks on the bustling German submarine base at Lorient, the attack on Brest, as well as many other pivotal and memorable events.

Pen & Sword Painting Wargaming Figures Javier Gomez Valero $29.95 • 192 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 200+ images, full color throughout • December 2014 • paperback • 978-1-84884-822-1 Javier Gomez, a highly talented figure painter of long experience and excellent reputation, shares the secrets of his success in this accessible ‘how-to’ guide to painting miniatures. He takes the reader step-by-step through the whole process, from choice of materials (unlike other available guides it is not linked to any specific figure manufacturer) and preparation of the miniatures to basing and even advice on photographing the finished item. Techniques such as dry-brushing, ink-washing, shading and highlighting are all explained clearly with the help of step-by-step photographs and color charts. Specific case studies tackle a variety of useful subjects across all periods, such as mixing realistic flesh tones for different races; painting horses; guns and limbers; Medieval heraldry; Napoleonic uniforms; WW2 and modern camouflage patterns. Javier also clearly explains how these techniques and processes can be applied to all the major wargaming scales, from 40mm down to 6mm.

One-hour Wargames

Fix Bayonets!

Practical Tabletop Battles for those with limited time and space

John Norris $44.95 • 240 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • Approx 100 b/w photos • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78159-336-3

Neil Thomas $19.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 maps/set-up diagrams • November 2014 • paperback 978-1-4738-2290-0 One of the biggest problems facing wargamers is finding the time to actually play. Most commercially available sets of rules require several hours to set up and play to a conclusion; some can easily swallow up a whole day or weekend. For many gamers this means that their lavishly prepared miniature armies rarely get used at all. Apart from time, the other consideration is space, which further constrains the opportunities for a game. In One-hour Wargames, veteran gamer and rule-writer Neil Thomas has addressed both these problems. Now it is practical to play a game in around an hour on a normal dining table or living room floor.

The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier’s kit even on today’s modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the ‘cult of the bayonet’ as espoused by the Russian General Alexander Suvorov who asserted that “The bullet misses, the bayonet does not”. The first bayonets appeared in France in the early 17th century and soon they were being used by every army in Europe. The author examines the spread of this simple weapon and how it led to fundamental changes being made in battlefield tactics.

Tank Tracks to Rangoon

Britains Toy Soldiers The History and Handbook 1893-2013

The Story of British Armour in Burma

James Opie

Bryan Perrett

$50.00 • 240 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • approx 250 color images throughout • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-84884-444-5

$24.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 12 black and white illustrations • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-78383-115-9

This is the first full-color history of the worldfamous toy soldiers to chart the whole story of their development from Victorian table toy to 21st Century collectable. Prior to 1893 the family toy business of the Britain family was struggling as the toy industry was dominated by German manufacturers and importers.

Fighting in a somewhat forgotten corner of Empire during the Second World War, the British and Indian armored regiments called upon to harness the power of tank warfare to extreme new levels did so in an effort to outwit an army until that point considered invincible - the Imperial Japanese Army. Their collective efforts were heroic and massively effective, giving the Japanese a taste of mechanized warfare from which they never recovered.

Illustrated with lavish color photographs, many of them featuring items from the author’s own collection, the book includes feature sections such as collectors’ favorites and prices, high-value and famous sets, artistic highlights, quirks and mysteries.

Bryan Perrett describes the full course of the armored units’ efforts, illustrating the importance of the mighty 7th Armored Brigade; a ‘magnificent formation’ in General Slim’s estimation.

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Pen & Sword The True Story of the Wooden Horse

Goodwood Over The Battlefield Ian Daglish

Graham Stewart John Sheen

Robert J Laplander

$19.95 • 272 pages 6.75 x 9 • 120 photos August 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2281-8

$50.00 • 320 pages 6.75 x 9 • Illustrated December 2014 hardback • 978-1-4738-2301-3

For the first book in our new series Over The Battlefield, we have chosen Ian Daglish to describe the events of Operation GOODWOOD, July 1944, the dramatic attempted British armored breakout from the Normandy bridgehead. This was the greatest armored battle undertaken by the British during the Second World War.

Although called the Tyneside Scottish, very few of the men who made up this Brigade were of Scottish descent. Many came from local villages or were from the Northumberland pits. They saw action at the Battle of the Somme and after it were allowed to put tartan behind their cap badges because of their bravery.

$39.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78383-101-2 Whilst there have been many accounts from specific escapees who took part in the famed Wooden Horse escape from Stalag Luft III, there have been few objective historical studies of the camp as a whole. Many attempts at escape characterized its history, and the story of its establishment is a fascinating one.

Tyneside Scottish

What is so special about this book is the discovery and use of superb aerial photos taken during the fighting by the RAF.

Belgium in the Second World War

Manchester Pals

Exocet Falklands

Michael Stedman

Jean-Michel Veranneman De Watervliet

$29.95 • 240 pages 6.75 x 9 • Illustrated December 2014 paperback 978-1-4738-2300-6

The Untold Story of Special Forces Operations

$34.95 • 240 pages 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates • December 2014 hardback • 978-1-78337-607-0 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. As described in this authoritative book, Belgians continued the fight both outside and inside their country. There were eventually two complete Belgian RAF squadrons.

Unlike its near neighbor, working-class Salford, Manchester proved able to raise eight Pals battalions. Initially, these battalions were composed of middle-class men who experience before the war years was within the commercial, financial and manufacturing interests which formed the foundations of Edwardian Manchester’s life and prosperity. Manchester was undeniably proud of its pals battalions; that the area was capable of raising.

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Ewen Southby-Tailyour $50.00 • 344 pages 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-387-9 This is a revelatory account of three untabulated special forces operations, Plum Duff, Mikado and Kettledrum, that failed to destroy Argentina’s Exocet missiles during the 1982 Falkland’s campaign. In that context alone this book is of international military importance. Using previously unknown material and through interviewing key players who have remained silent for 30 years, Ewen SouthbyTailyour has finally established the truth: that it has taken so long reflects the sensitivities, both military and personal, involved.

Pen & Sword The Gulf War Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991 Anthony Tucker-Jones $24.95 • 128 pages 7.5 x 9.5 • 180 color and black-and-white illustrations • August 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78159-391-2 Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm and they show the vast array of military equipment deployed by both sides.

Honourable Warriors Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan - A Front-line Account of the British Army’s Battle for Helmand

Sniper in Helmand James Cartwright $18.95 • 192 pages • 5 x 7.75 • 8pp b/w plates September 2014 paperback 978-1-4738-2273-3 Few soldiers are deemed good enough to be selected and trained as snipers and even fewer qualify. As a result, snipers are regarded as the elite of their units and their skills command the ungrudging respect of their fellows - and the enemy.

Gillian Mawson $39.95 • 144 pages 6 x 9 • 100-125 b/w Photos • December 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78383-153-1 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.

Spirit of Resistance

A Personal Perspective of the Korean War 19501953

Nigel Perrin

Brigadier Brian Parritt CBE CNI

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 illustrations color plates • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-227-8

$24.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates October 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78337-372-7

Children’s Lives on the WW2 Home Front

Chinese Hordes and Human Waves

Richard Streatfeild

In 2009 Major Richard Streatfeild and his men fought for six months against the Taliban in Sangin, northern Helmand. They were engaged in over 800 fire-fights. They were the target of more than 200 improvised explosive devices. Ten men in his company were killed, 50 were wounded. This is their story.

Evacuees

The North Koreans’ attack on their Southern neighbors shocked and surprised the World. The conflict rapidly escalated with China soon heavily involved on one side and the United States and United Nations on the other. The author describes firsthand what it was like to be at the infamous Battle of the Hook, where UN troops held off massed attacks by the Communists.

The Life of SOE Agent Harry Peulevé, DSO MC $19.95 • 240 pages 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w Plates • December 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2302-0 One of the most determined and courageous secret agents of the Second World War, Harry Peulevé joined the BEF in 1940 before volunteering for F Section of the Special Operations Executive. Sadly Peulevé never fully recovered from his wartime traumas but nothing can detract from his outstanding courage and contribution.

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Pen & Sword Great Walls and Linear Barriers Peter Spring $50.00 • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 maps, 16pp photos June 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84884-377-6

In the Name of Lykourgos The Rise and fall of the Spartan Revolutionary Movement (243-146BC) Miltiadis Michalopoulos $39.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • 8pp section of color maps and photos • Nov 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78303-023-1

The Rise of the Seleukid Empire (323-223 BC) Seleukos I to Seleukos III John D Grainger $34.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 5 or 6 b/w maps September 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78303-053-8

The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean Rome’s Dealings with the Ancient Kingdoms of India, Africa and Arabia Raoul McLaughlin $44.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • 18 illustrations • Nov 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-381-7

The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain M.C. Bishop $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 24 maps and plans; 8pp plates • May 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84884-615-9

Warfare in Northern Europe Before the Romans Evidence from Archaeolgy

John Dunn Cetywayo and the three Generals 1861–1879 D. C. F. Moodie $39.95 • 176 pages • 6 x 9 • 8 pages of b/w plates August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78346-324-4

Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War The Hon. Gerald French D.S.O. $50.00 • 360 pages • 6 x 9 • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-323-7

Letters from the Light Brigade The British Cavalry in the Crimean War Anthony Dawson $50.00 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 illustrations September 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78303-027-9

The Retreat from Mons 1914: North Casteau to Le Cateau – The Western Front by Car, by Bike and on Foot Cooksey / Murland $24.95 • 160 pages • 5.25 x 8.5 • 100 color and b/w illustrations • August 2014 • paperback 978-1-78303-038-5

Victoria Crosses on the Western Front August 1914 - April 1915 Mons to Hill 60 Paul Oldfield $44.95 • 352 pages • 6 x 9 • Over 350 original b/w images and maps • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78303-043-9

The Battle of Bellewaarde, June 1915

Julie Rosemary Wileman

Carole McEntee-Taylor

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 30-40 Illustrations • June 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78159-325-7

$39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 100 integrated images • November 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78340-052-2

Decisive Battles of the English Civil War

Temporary Heroes Lieutenant Norman Cecil Down

Malcolm Wanklyn $29.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 illustrations September 2014 • paperback • 978-1-78346-975-8

British Campaigns in the South Atlantic 1805–1807 John D Grainger $39.95 • 256 pages • 6 x 9 • 3 maps • July 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-364-0

Richard Van Emden $29.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-78159-196-3

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather In Search of the Better ‘Ole Tonie Holt / Valmai Holt $29.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • September 2014 paperback • 978-1-4738-2723-3

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Pen & Sword Marshal Joffre The Triumphs, Failures and Controversies of France’s Commander-in-Chief in the Great War André Bourachot

Barbara McClune

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • September 2014 hardback • 978-1-78346-165-3 •

$39.95 • 208 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 • Highly illustrated color/b/w • December 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78346369-5

Memoirs from the British Expeditionary Force 1914-1915

With the British Army on the Somme Memoirs From the Trenches

Lord Edward Gleichen KCVO CB CMG DSO

Sir William Beach Thomas

$24.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • Approx 8 b/w Maps November 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78346-249-0

$24.95 • 208 pages • 6 x 9 • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-310-7

A French Soldier’s War Diary 1914–1918

Veteran Volunteer Memoir of the Trenches, Tanks and Captivity 1914–1918 by Frank Vans Agnew MC

Henri Desagneaux $39.95 • 128 pages • 6 x 9 • 15 illustrations December 2014 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2298-6

Jamie Vans $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 16pp b/w plates • August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78346-277-3

Armageddon Road A VC’s Diary 1914 –1916 Billy Congreve $39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 19 b/w Images and 27 original sketches and maps by Congreve • October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-4738-2119-4

Those Measureless Fields A First World War Story

Britons Experience the Great War Life at Home and Abroad 1914–1918 Peter Liddle $29.95 • 232 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 150 illustrations September 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2116-3

Poetry and Myths of the Great War How Poets Altered our Perception of History

Caroline Scott $32.95 • 376 pages • 6 x 9 • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-396-1

Martin Stephen $29.95 • 272 pages • 6 x 9 • October 2014 • paperback 978-1-78346-386-2

In Battle and Captivity 1916–1918 A British Officer’s Memoirs of the Trenches and a German Prison Camp

Irishmen in the Great War Reports from the Front 1914

Henry Gilbert Nobbs

Tom Burnell

$24.95 • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-78346-312-1

$39.95 • 240 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 b/w pictures spread over 8pp of plates • November 2014 • hardback 978-1-4738-2120-0

Amateur Gunners The Adventures and Letters of a Soldier in France, Salonika and Palestine Ian Ronayne $39.95 • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 16 pages of black and white plates • December 2014 • hardback • 978-178383-201-9

I Survived Didn’t I? The Great War Reminiscences of Private ‘Ginger’ Bryne

Kitchener’s Army The Raising of the New Armies 1914–1916 Peter Simkins $24.95 • 384 pages • 6 x 9 • 18 b/w Photos • October 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2128-6

The Suffragette Bombers Britain’s Forgotten Terrorists Simon Webb

Joy Cave $19.95 • 144 pages • 6 x 9 • 8 pages of b/w plates October 2014 • paperback • 978-1-4738-2124-8

Star Shell Reflections 1916 The Great War Diaries of Jim Maultsaid

$39.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 8 pages of b/w plates October 2014 • hardback • 978-1-78340-064-5

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Pen & Sword Digital Isandlwana Zulu Battlefield F R Lock / P R Quantrill $24.95 • 60 minutes 5.25 x 7.5 • July 2014 DVD NTSC 5060247621067 In 1879 the Colonial Government of Natal ordered a British army, led by General Lord Chelmsford and equipped with the most modern weaponry, to invade the Zulu Kingdom. Overconfident and contemptuous of his Zulu adversaries, Lord Chelmsford believed that his biggest problem would be in bringing the Zulus to battle. Shortly after crossing the Buffalo River the British column set up camp in the shadow of a Sphinx shaped hill called Isandlwana. The following day, Lord Chelmsford, with over half his force, went in pursuit of what he believed to be the vanguard of the Zulu army.

Mons 1914 Battlefield History TV Ltd $24.95 • 90 minutes 5.5 x 7.5 • August 2014 • DVD NTSC 5060247621111 As Europe slid into war in 1914 the UK Government mobilized the British Expeditionary Force and declared war just before midnight on 4 August. A well oiled deployment to northern France followed, where in accordance with Plan WF (With France), the BEF would fight on the left wing of General Lanrezac’s Fifth French Army. Field Marshal Sir John French and his allied counterpart, however, got on badly from the start and when the British advance reached Mons and tangled with German patrols on 22 August around Mons, the BEF’s intent was to continue the advance into Belgium alongside their ally but Lanrezac only informed the BEF of his withdrawal from Charleroi late in the day.

Special Forces:

Le Cateau

Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret

Battefield History TV Ltd $24.95 • 85 minutes 5.25 x 7.5 September 2014 DVD NTSC 5060247621135

Battefield History TV Ltd

Having temporarily checked the Germans at Mons the BEF had no alternative but to withdraw as they were outnumbered by the enemy and Lanrezac’s Fifth French Army was falling back. The Germans, however, were soon in hot pursuit, sensing the BEF were at their mercy. In a series of rear guard actions the BEF managed to hold – just. Despite Field Marshal French’s instructions General Smith-Dorrien knew that he had to turn and fight on the open chalk hills above the town of Le Cateau. Here II Corps stood as the German pressure mounted and a desperate battle resulted as more and more German troops came into action; men fell, guns were lost and saved but again the BEF were able to escape.

$24.95 • 80 minutes • 5.25 x 7.5 • August 2014 DVD NTSC • 5060247621142

The Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and the Race to the Sea

The Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper

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Battlefield History TV Ltd $24.95 • 80 minutes • 5.25 x 7.5 • October 2014 • DVD NTSC • 5060247621128 While the Allied Generals were nearing panic as the Germans approached Paris, Marshal Foch quickly realized the German intent and that the Schlieffen plan was unraveling. In a master piece of military diplomacy he persuaded Filed Marshal French to join the Attack on the exposed flank of the Germans as it wheeled to the east of Paris. The battle was monumental and indeed a miracle, with the British playing a key part alongside the French in halting the German advance and driving them back behind the next river – The Aisne.

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During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the site of the UK’s main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School, where ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park, code named Ultra, provided crucial assistance to the Allied war effort.

BHTV / Tim Saunders

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$16.99 • 80 minutes 5.25 x 7.5 • May 2014 • DVD NTSC • 5060247620350 Sepp Dietrich’s Sixth SS Panzer Armee was allocated the main effort in Hitler’s last throw of the dice in the West. Under cover of poor winter weather that would ground the Allied air forces they were to punch through weak American positions in the Ardennes to the River Meuse and on to Antwerp cutting of and destroying the northern Allied Armies. The German generals protested that it was too ambitious but Hitler insisted, hoping that his elite SS troops in the Leibstandarte Panzer Division would deliver a war changing victory.

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The Finnish Front 19411944

The Siege of Leningrad

Hitler’s War Machine

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$14.95 • 60 minutes • 5.25 x 7.5 • July 2014 DVD NTSC • 5060247621074 The German Propaganda Kompanien (PK) captured the events of Hitler’s war on every front. Their footage was used to produce Die Deutsche Wochenschau, a weekly cinema newsreel detailing the events of World War II on land, sea and air. For the first time these unique primary source films have been collated, edited and translated into English in order to produce a complete military history of the third Reich drawn exclusively from German primary sources.

The Russian Front Late 1943

Hitler’s War Machine

The German Propaganda Kompanien (PK) captured the events of Hitler’s war on every front. Their footage was used to produce Die Deutsche Wochenschau, a weekly cinema newsreel detailing the events of World War II on land, sea and air. This volume featuring translated Wochenschau newsreels dating from 1941 records the one thousand day siege of Leningrad - one of the decisive actions of World War II.

Blitzkrieg Lightning War

The Concentration Camps $14.95 • 60 minutes • 5.25 x 7.5 • July 2014 DVD NTSC • 5060247621005 This harrowing film was produced in May 1945 at the personal insistence of US General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was so shocked by what he witnessed with his own eyes at them first concentration camps to be liberated that he ordered that this film should be made as a lasting testament to the barbarism which had occurred under the Nazi regime.

Hitler – A Journey Through His World

Hitler’s War Machine

Michael Leighton

$14.95 • 60 minutes • 5.25 x 7.5 • August 2014 • DVD NTSC • 5060247621036

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Despite the draconian provisions of the Versailles treaty, the German armed forces operating under the new Nazi regime were able to secretly assemble a modern mechanized strike force incorporating tanks, artillery and aircraft. Determined to avoid a repeat of the static warfare of the trenches the Wehrmacht honed its new tactics and the result has become known to posterity as ‘Blitzkrieg’ or Lightning War.

Join Emmy AwardTM winning film maker Bob Carruthers on a journey into the world of Adolf Hitler. The environmental factors which shaped Hitler are explored and assessed in this unique film which retraces the footsteps of Hitler from his first boyhood experiences through the years of struggle in Vienna, his Great War adventures, the bungled Beer Hall Putsch, his triumph over democracy and his final defeat in the ruins of Berlin.

This volume featuring translated Wochenschau newsreels records the events following the failure at Kursk.

Then and Now

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Savas Beatie The Devil’s to Pay John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour. Eric J. Wittenberg $32.95 • 264 pages • 6 x 9 • 17 maps and 100 images • October 2014 • hardback 978-1-61121-208-2 • eISBN 978-1-61121-209-9 Although many books on Gettysburg have addressed the role played by Brig. Gen. John Buford and his First Cavalry Division troops, there is not a single book-length study devoted entirely to the critical delaying actions waged by Buford and his dismounted troopers and his horse artillerists on the morning of July 1, 1863. Awardwinning Civil War historian Eric J. Wittenberg rectifies this glaring oversight with “The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour. This comprehensive tactical study examines the role Buford and his horse soldiers played from June 29 through July 2, 1863, including the important actions that saved the shattered remnants of the First and Eleventh Corps. Wittenberg relies upon scores of rare primary sources, including many that have never before been used, to paint a detailed picture of the critical role the quiet and modest cavalryman known to his men as “Honest John” or “Old Steadfast” played at Gettysburg.

The Soldiers’ General Major General Gouverneur K. Warren and the Civil War Paula C. Walker / Robert I. Girardi $37.95 • 576 pages • 6 x 9 • 21 maps and 60 photographs and illustrations • December 2014 • hardback 978-1-61121-206-8 • eISBN 978-1-61121-207-5 History is indeed written by the victors, and it has not been kind to the memory of Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren. The traditional image of Warren as a self-important, sullen, and cautious commander who, despite his many talents, was unreliable in a crisis was cemented into place by Gens. Phil Sheridan and Ulysses S. Grant— the two men who removed him from command. The Soldiers’ General: Major General Gouverneur K. Warren and the Civil War, by Paula C. Walker and Robert I Girardi, offers readers a thorough examination of his record and a chance to weigh the facts for themselves. In May of 1864, Warren was regarded by his superiors as the best corps commander in the Army of the Potomac. One high-placed staff officer described the bold, courageous, and accomplished engineer as “the only man of inborn originality in the army.” Commanding generals Joseph Hooker and George G. Meade relied upon Warren’s judgment and counsel during the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Mine Run campaigns.

Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History James A. Hessler / Wayne E. Motts $37.95 • 320 pages • 7 x 10 • 35 maps and 50 images • September 2014 • hardback 978-1-61121-200-6 • eISBN 978-1-61121-201-3 150 years after the event, the grand near-suicidal attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enthusiasts like no other aspect of the battle. On the afternoon of July 3, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered more than 12,000 Southern infantry to undertake what would become the most legendary charge in American military history. This attack, popularly but inaccurately known as “Pickett’s Charge,” is often considered the turning point of the Civil War’s seminal battle of Gettysburg. Although much has been written about the battle itself and Pickett’s Charge in particular, Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg is the first battlefield guide for this celebrated assault. After the war, one staff officer perceptively observed that the charge “has been more criticized, and is still less understood, than any other act of the Gettysburg drama.” Unfortunately, what was true then remains true to this day.

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Savas Beatie The Last Citadel

Richmond Redeemed

Petersburg, June 1864 – April 1865

The Siege at Petersburg, The Battles of Chaffin’s Bluff and Poplar Spring Church, September 29 – October 2, 1864

Noah Andre Trudeau $32.95 • 504 pages • 6 x 9 • 23 maps and 20 images • August 2014 • hardback 978-1-61121-212-9 eISBN 978-1-61121-213-6

Richard J. Sommers

This revised Sesquicentennial edition of Noah Andre Trudeau’s The Last Citadel, which includes updated text, redrawn maps, and new material, is a groundbreaking study of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War—the investment of Petersburg, Virginia. The Petersburg campaign began on June 9, 1864, and ended on April 3, 1865, when Federal troops at last entered the city. It was the longest and most costly siege ever to take place on North American soil, yet it has been overshadowed by other actions that occurred at the same time period, most notably Sherman’s famous “March to the Sea,” and Sheridan’s celebrated Shenandoah Valley campaign. The ten-month Petersburg affair witnessed many more combat actions than the other two combined, and involved an average of 170,000 soldiers, not to mention thousands of civilians who were also caught up in the maelstrom. By its bloody end, the Petersburg campaign would add more than 70,000 casualties to the war’s total.

$37.95 • 768 pages • 6 x 9 • 22 maps and 82 images • September 2014 • hardback • 9781-61121-210-5 •eISBN 978-1-61121-217-4 Richmond Redeemed pioneered study of Civil War Petersburg. The original (and long out of print) award-winning 1981 edition conveyed an epic narrative of crucial military operations in early autumn 1864 that had gone unrecognized for more than 100 years. Readers will rejoice that Richard J. Sommers’s masterpiece, in a revised Sesquicentennial edition, is once again available. This monumental study focuses on Grant’s Fifth Offensive (September 29 – October 2, 1864), primarily the Battles of Chaffin’s Bluff (Fort Harrison) and Poplar Spring Church (Peebles’ Farm). The Union attack north of the James River at Chaffin’s Bluff broke through Richmond’s defenses and gave Federals their greatest opportunity to capture the Confederate capital. The corresponding fighting outside Petersburg at Poplar Spring Church so threatened Southern supply lines that General Lee considered abandoning his Petersburg rail center six months before actually doing so. Yet hard fighting and skillful generalship saved both cities.

The Siege of Petersburg

“The Bloody Fifth”

The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864

The 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia

John Horn

John F. Schmutz

$32.95 • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • 26 images and 20 maps • August 2014 • hardback • 978-161121-216-7 • eISBN 978-1-61121-217-4

$39.95 • 612 pages • 6 x 9 • 48 maps and 10 illustrations • November 2014 • hardback 978-1-61121-204-4 • eISBN 978-1-61121205-1

The nine-month siege of Petersburg was the longest continuous operation of the American Civil War. A series of large-scale Union “offensives,” grand maneuvers that triggered some of the fiercest battles of the war, broke the monotony of static trench warfare. Grant’s Fourth Offensive, August 14-25, the longest and bloodiest operation of the campaign, is the subject of John Horn’s revised and updated Sesquicentennial edition of The Siege of Petersburg: The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864. Frustrated by his inability to break through the Southern front, General Grant devised a two-punch combination strategy in an effort to sever the crucial Weldon Railroad and stretch General Lee’s lines. The plan called for Winfield Hancock’s II Corps (with X Corps) to move against Deep Bottom north of the James River to occupy Confederate attention while Warren’s V Corps, supported by elements of IX Corps, marched south and west below Petersburg toward Globe Tavern on the Weldon Railroad.

The 5th Texas Infantry—“The Bloody Fifth”—was one of only three Texas regiments to fight with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Much like the army in which it served, the 5th Texas established a stellar combat record. The regiment took part in 38 engagements, including nearly every significant battle in the Eastern Theater, as well as the Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Knoxville campaigns in the Western Theater. John F. Schmutz’s “The Bloody Fifth”: The 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia is the first full-length study to document this fabled regimental command. “The Bloody Fifth” presents the regiment’s rich history from the secession of the Lone Star State and the organization of ten independent east and central Texas companies, through four years of arduous marching and fighting. The 5th Texas’s battlefield exploits are legendary, from its inaugural fighting on the Virginia peninsula in early 1862 through Appomattox.

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Savas Beatie The Chickamauga Campaign—Glory or the Grave The Breakthrough, Union Collapse, and the Retreat to Chattanooga, September 20-23, 1863 David A. Powell $39.95 • 768 pages • 6 x 9 • 25 maps and 30 images • December 2014 • hardback • 978-1-61121-202-0 eISBN 978-1-61121-203-7 David Powell’s The Chickamauga Campaign—Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, Union Collapse, and the Retreat to Chattanooga, September 20-23, 1863 is the second volume in his magnificent projected three-volume study of this overlooked and largely misunderstood campaign. According to soldier rumor, Chickamauga in Cherokee meant “River of Death.”The name lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged a sprawling bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek. This installment of Powell’s tour-de-force depicts the final day of battle, when the Confederate army attacked and broke through the Union lines, triggering a massive rout, an incredible defensive stand atop Snodgrass Hill, and a confused retreat and pursuit into Chattanooga. Powell presents all of this with clarity and precision by weaving nearly 2,000 primary accounts with his own cogent analysis. The result is a rich and deep portrait of the fighting and command relationships on a scale never before attempted or accomplished.

No Turning Back A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 - June 13, 1864 Robert M. Dunkerly / Donald C. Pfanz / David R. Ruth $12.95 • 192 pages • 6 x 9 • 25 maps, 194 images • Now Available • paperback • 978-1-61121-193-1 eISBN 978-1-61121-194-8 “[T]here will be no turning back,” said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all. With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending to draw the Army of Northern Virginia into one final battle. Short of that, he planned “to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him . . . .” Almost immediately, though, Robert E. Lee’s Confederates brought Grant to bay in the thick tangle of the Wilderness. Rather than retreat, as other army commanders had done in the past, Grant outmaneuvered Lee, swinging left and south. There was, after all, no turning back. “I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer,” Grant vowed.

The First Battle for Petersburg The Attack and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864 William Glenn Robertson $27.95 • 216 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 images and 5 maps • August 2014 • hardback • 978-1-61121-214-3 eISBN 978-1-61121-215-0 The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well known to students of the Civil War. Surprisingly few readers, however, are aware that Petersburg’s citizens felt war’s hard hand nearly a week before the armies of Grant and Lee arrived on their doorstep in the middle of June 1864. Distinguished historian William Glenn Robertson rectifies this oversight with the publication of The First Battle for Petersburg in a special revised Sesquicentennial edition. During his ill-fated Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler in late May took note of the “Cockade City’s” position astride Richmond’s railroad lifeline and its minuscule garrison. When two attempts to seize the city and destroy the bridges over the Appomattox River failed, Butler mounted an expedition to Petersburg on June 9. Led by Maj. Gen. Quincy Gillmore and Brig. Gen. August Kautz, the Federal force of 3,300 infantry and 1,300 cavalry appeared large enough to overwhelm Brig. Gen. Henry Wise’s paltry 1,200 Confederate defenders, one-quarter of which were reserves that included several companies of elderly men and teenagers. The attack on the critical logistical center, and how the Confederates managed to hold the city, is the subject of Robertson’s groundbreaking study.

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Seaforth

British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863

The Warship Mary Rose

Cold War Command

The Life & Times of King Henry VIII’s Flagship

The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner

Rif Winfield

David Childs

Richard Woodman / Dan Conley

$100.00 • 352 pages • 9.5 x 11.5 • 200 illustrations • July 2014 • hardback 978-1-84832-169-4

$32.95 • 240 pages • 7.5 x 9.5 • 175 b/w and color illustrations • July 2014 • paperback 978-1-84832-211-0

$44.95 • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 16 b/w photos September 2014 • hardback • 978-1-84832-769-6

The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories of every significant British warship between 1603 and 1863. Following three earlier volumes, this one carries forward the story from the post Napoleonic War reorganization of the Royal Navy’s rating system to the end of sail as the principal mode of propulsion.

This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII’s famous warship right up to date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artifacts in the new museum in Portsmouth.

Design, Construction, Careers & Fates

Although apparently well documented, this is a period of great complexity in the procurement and naval architecture of ships. The introduction of steam radically altered the design of vessels under construction and was later retrofitted to others, while many ‘names’ lived a ghostly existence on the Navy List: ships ordered but not started, and in some cases having their intended drafts altered more than once before being canceled entirely. This book meticulously sorts out and clarifies these confusions – a major contribution in itself – but for the first time it also provides outline service histories for an era that is largely neglected. Like its companion volumes, the book is organized by Rate, classification and class, with significant technical and building data, followed by a concise summary of the careers of each ship in every class.

Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognizable symbol of Britain’s maritime past, while the extraordinary richness of the massive collection of artifacts gleaned from the wreck has meant that the ship has acquired the status of some sort of ‘time capsule’, as if it were a Tudor burial site. But she is much more than an archaeological relic; she was a warship, and a revolutionary one, that served in the King’s navy for thirtyfour years, almost the entire length of his reign. This book tells the story of her eventful career, placing it firmly within the colorful context of Tudor politics, court life and the developing administration of a permanent navy. And though the author also brings the story right down to the present day, with chapters on the recovery, the fresh ideas and information thrown up by the massive program of archaeological work since undertaken, and the new display just recently opened at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, it is at heart a vivid retelling of her career and, at the end, her dramatic sinking.

The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities. Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; he describes the Royal Navy’s shortcomings in ship and weapons procurement and delivers many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defense budget in the first decade of the 21st century. In command of the hunter killer submarines Courageous and Valient in the 1980s, he achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and divulges hitherto un-revealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period. This gripping read takes you onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean, and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy.

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