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Volume VIII, Issue V, Autumn 2017

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Greetings from the Casemate Team!

Welcome to the latest edition of The Warrior catalog, bringing you a huge selection of new releases and selected backlist titles.

All three volumes of Savas Beatie’s The Chickamauga Campaign series are now available in paperback. This comprehensive examination of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War is a must-buy for any Civil War history enthusiast. These titles can be found on pages 17 and 18.!

The Road to Passchendaele, new from best-selling historian Richard van Emden, is the latest title in a highly-regarded World War I series that uses the winning formula of diaries, memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, to tell the story of life in and out of battle. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience Passchendaele as it was seen by the men involved. Find this book on page 43.

Texans at Antietam, the much-anticipated follow-up to Fonthill Media’s Texans at Gettysburg, is now available.This book brings the firsthand experiences of Hood’s Texas Brigade together with testimonials from the Union soldiers who fought them at Antietam together in one volume for the first time. Find this essential Civil War history title on page 17.

As always, thank you for your continued support of The Warrior. We welcome your comments and suggestions so we can continue to make sure The Warrior best serves you.

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Forthcoming from Casemate Prisoner of the Swiss A World War II Airman's Story

Daniel Culler and Rob Morris During World War II, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland.

The airmen were often incarcerated in local jails, and later transferred to prison camps. The worst of these camps was Wauwilermoos, where at least 161 U.S. airmen were sent for the honorable offense of escaping. To this hellhole came Dan Culler, the author of this incredible account of suffering and survival. Betrayal dominated his cruel fate - by the American authorities, by the Swiss, and in a last twist in a second planned escape that turned out to be a trap. But Dan Culler’s courage and determination kept him alive. Rob Morris’s introduction and notes provide historical background and context, including recent efforts to recognize the suffering of those incarcerated in Switzerland and afford them full POW status.

9781612005546, $25.00, $16.50, hardback, 144p.

First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Władysław Gnyś

Stefan W.C. Gnyś Polish pilot Władek Gnyś was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II. On 1 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Kraków to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neubert attacked, killing the captain. Władek evaded the pursuing Stukas and went on to make the first Allied kills, while Neubert was credited with the first aerial kill of the war. Fifty years after the invasion of Poland, Gnyś and Neubert met and shook hands, making news around the world. Drawing on his logbooks and his own words, this highly illustrated book tells Wladek's story from his childhood in rural Poland, through his time flying in three Allied air forces during World War II, to his reconciliation with Neubert and his commemoration as a national war hero in Poland.

9781612005560, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 304p.

The front cover image is from Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2 by Christophe Cony & Jean-Louis Roba, Casemate Publishers, 2017 Typeset by Versatile PreMedia Services, Pune, India

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•NEW FROM CASEMATE• Churchill Warrior How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours

Brian Lavery On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, issued numerous memos to the ministers and service commanders on different subjects, on both the grand strategy and the detail of the war effort. It was not just his work rate and his self-confidence which allowed him to do this. He had a unique and intimate inside knowledge of all three services which allowed him to assess their real needs – a crucial task when money, material resources, and especially manpower, were reaching their limits.

Churchill Warrior looks at how Churchill gained his unique insight into war strategy and administration, and the effect this had on his thinking and leadership. Each period (before, during and after the First World War, and in the Second World War) is divided into four parts – land, sea and air warfare, and combined operations. The conclusion deals with the effect of these experiences on his wartime leadership. Written in Brian Lavery’s acclaimed, insightful and anecdotal style, a grand narrative unfolds starting with the Marlborough toy soldiers and the army class at Eton, which then leads us through those early military and journalistic experiences, the fascinating trials and lessons of the First World War, the criticism and tenacity culminating in the ultimate triumph of the key events in the Second. It explores how some of Churchill’s earliest innovations were to bear fruit decades later, how his uncompromising, but uniquely informed, hands-on approach, and his absolute belief in combined forces in Normandy, led to a systemic victory against the odds.

9781910860229, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 448p.

7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day Lessons from the Longest Day—June 6, 1944

John Antal The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances, good leadership can be the defining factor in victory or defeat. This book is about the extraordinary leadership of seven men who led American soldiers on D-Day and the days that followed. Some of them, like Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Lieutenant Dick Winters, are well known, while others are barely a footnote in the history books. This book is not a full history of D-Day, nor does it cover the heroic leadership shown by men in the armies of the Allies or members of the French Resistance who also participated in the Normandy assault and battles for the lodgment areas. It is, however, a primer on how you can lead today, no matter what your occupation or role in life, by learning from the leadership of these seven. A critical task for every leader is to understand what leadership is. Socrates once said that you cannot understand something unless you can first define it in your own words. This book provides the reader with a means to define leadership by telling seven dramatic, immersive and memorable stories that the reader will never forget.

9781612005294, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 224p.

Miracle at the Litza Hitler's First Defeat on the Eastern Front

Alf R. Jacobsen and Frank Stewart In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would ensure Hitler supplies of nickel from Finnish mines, and bring the strategically important port city of Murmansk under German control. The roadless rocky terrain and extremes of weather created major challenges for the German troop movements. Despite this, Dietl's men made quick gains on his Russian foe, and they came closer to Murmansk. Despite repeated warnings of a German attack, Stalin had failed to mobilize, and the British hesitated to come to the rescue of the Red Army. But while the weather conditions steadily worsened, the Russians' resistance increased. Three bloody efforts to force the river Litza were repulsed and the offensive would develop into a nightmare for the inadequately equipped German soldiers. In an exciting and authoritative narrative based on previously unpublished material, Alf Reidar Jacobsen describes the heavy fighting that would lead to Hitler's first defeat on the Eastern Front. With firsthand accounts of the fighting on the front line, this is a dramatic new account of a forgotten but bloody episode of World War II. 9781612005065, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 208p.

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•NEW FROM CASEMATE• In the Shadows of Victory II America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II

Thomas D. Phillips During the course of America’s existence, history has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in the public’s collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the nation owes them considerable debts, the military history of the United States is replete with examples of leaders whose singular leadership is now little remembered or forgotten completely. This book is about those who have been overlooked; military leaders whose accomplishments have been too little acknowledged and too seldom celebrated. This volume covers leaders “in the shadows” during the four major conflicts the United States engaged in from the end of the 19th century to the middle years of the 20th: the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, World War I, and World War II. This book tells the stories of more than 20 and chronicles their activities through conflagrations spanning five decades. Additionally, of special interest to many audiences may be the commentaries regarding the World War I services of officers such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton, and Bradley—an aspect of their long military careers overshadowed by their World War II renown and too often minimized in consequence.

9781612005461, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 288p.

Panzer Operations Germany's Panzer Group 3 During the Invasion of Russia, 1941

Hermann Hoth and Linden Lyons This book, originally published in German in 1956, has now been translated into English, unveiling a wealth of both experiences and analysis about Operation Barbarossa, perhaps the most important military campaign of the 20th century. Hermann Hoth led Germany’s 3rd Panzer Group in Army Group Center—in tandem with Guderian’s 2nd Group—during the invasion of the Soviet Union, and together those two daring panzer commanders achieved a series of astounding victories, encircling entire Russian armies at Minsk, Smolensk, and Vyazma, all the way up to the very gates of Moscow. Hoth critically analyses the origin, development, and objective of the plan against Russia, and presents the situations confronted, the decisions taken, and the mistakes made by the army’s leadership, as the new form of mobile warfare startled not only the Soviets on the receiving end but the German leadership itself, which failed to provide support infrastructure for their panzer arm’s breakthroughs. He sheds light on the decisive and ever-escalating struggle between Hitler and his military advisers. Hoth concludes his study with several lessons for the offensive use of armored formations in the future. His firsthand analysis, here published for the first time in English, will be vital reading for every student of World War II. 9781612005621, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 200p.

Jungle Survival Manual 1939-1945 Instructions on Warfare, Terrain, Endurance and the Dangers of the Tropics

Alan Jeffreys During the Second World War, British and American soldiers were sent to new and challenging theaters, fighting to survive not only encounters with the enemy but the landscape they found themselves in. Being posted to South-East Asia and the Pacific to fight the Japanese meant soldiers had to learn to survive in the tropics, fighting and living in endless steamy jungle and perilous swamps. To help them in this completely alien environment, the British and US armies produced a number of official training manuals and guides to explain to the men how to identify and fight the Japanese and avoid their deadly panji traps, but also ‘jungle lore’: how to find and cook plants that were safe to eat; which animals and insects could kill them; how to identify and treat tropical illnesses and diseases; and avoid the dangers of polluted water and cannibals. The Jungle Survival Manual brings together the official manuals and information that enabled the Allies to fight in Burma, Malaya, Thailand, Indochina, Singapore and the Pacific Islands and win the war. This volume will appeal to those interested in the South-East Asian and Pacific theatres of WWII as well as those researching their family history.

9781612004365, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 144p.

Tommies The British Army in the Trenches

John Sadler and Rosie Serdiville British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with the British infantryman in the trenches of World War I. In August 1914, a small professional force of British soldiers crossed the Channel to aid the French and Belgians as the German army advanced. As it became apparent that the war would not, in fact, be over by Christmas, a vast drive for volunteer soldiers began. This introduction explores the experience of Tommies on the Western Front, explaining how their war evolved and changed from the mobile battles of August 1914 to the final days of the war, and discussing daily life as an infantryman on the front line using firsthand accounts, contemporary poems, and songs.

9781612004846, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 160p.

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•NEW FROM CASEMATE• 82nd Airborne Normandy 1944

Stephen Smith and Simon Forty On August 15, 1942, the 82nd Airborne became the US Army’s first airborne division.

Commanded by Major General Matthew B. Ridgway, they trained exhaustively for their new role, which involved parachuting from C-47s and insertion by Waco CG-4A gliders. In April 1943 the 82nd was shipped overseas to Casablanca, North Africa, and on July 9 made its first combat drop as part of Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. A second operation—night parachute drops onto the Salerno beachhead on September 13 and 14—provided more experience, and in December, the bulk of the division left for the United Kingdom and training for D-Day. Reorganized with two new parachute infantry regiments, the 507th and the 508th, joining the 505th, the division dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula between Ste-Mère-Église and Carentan on the night of June 5–6, in a mission codenamed Boston. Their glider-borne component, the 325th GIR, arrived the next day.

Widely dispersed on landing, the division overcame its problems and strong German defenses to take the important town of Ste-Mère-Église. Further intense action along the Merderet River ensured that the Utah beachhead wasn’t compromised, and subsequently, the division fought on losing 5,245 troopers killed, wounded, or missing.

9781612005362, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 64p.

The Falaise Gap Battles Normandy 1944

Simon Forty and Leo Marriott The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting, the Allies had broken loose from the bocage and the Germans’ deep defenses around Caen: by the end of September they would be close to the German border. As US First Army and British Second Army squeezed the western and northern edges of the German salient, so Third Army rushed headlong eastwards and then north to create the lower of two pincers—the other formed as the Canadian First Army and the Polish 1st Armored Division pushed south of Caen. As could be expected, the Germans did not simply give up: they fought furiously to keep the pincers from closing. When they did, attacks from inside the pocket to break out and outside the pocket to break in led to fierce fighting between Chambois and Argentan. When the dust settled, between 80,000 and 100,000 troops had been trapped by the Allied encirclement. Estimates vary considerably, but it seems safe to say that at least 10,000 of the German forces were killed and around 50,000 became PoWs. 9781612005386, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 64p.

1st Airborne Market Garden 1944

Simon Forty and Leo Marriott While the 6th Airborne Division had landed in France on D-Day and covered itself in glory, its counterpart, the 1st Airborne Division, had last seen action during an amphibious assault at Taranto on September 9, 1943, as part of the invasion of Italy. Returned to the UK in December 1943, it was held in reserve during the battle of Normandy and spent three months waiting for action. In September 1944, however, 1st Airborne played a leading role in Operation Market— the air component of Operation Market Garden, an audacious attempt by the Allies to bypass the Siegfried Line and advance into the Ruhr. It was to be 1st Airborne’s last action of the war.

Encountering more resistance than expected, including II SS Panzer Corps, the division landed too far from Arnhem bridge, and fought bravely but in vain. Held up en route, particularly at Nijmegen, XXX Corps’ advance to Arnhem stuttered and ran late. After nine days of fighting, 1st Airborne had lost 8,000 men around Arnhem when the survivors retreated across the Lower Rhine to safety.

9781612005409, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 64p.

Leibstandarte Ardennes 1944

Stephen Smith and Simon Forty The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler was the spearhead of the assault by Sepp Dietrich’s Sixth Panzer Armee on the northern flank of the German Ardennes offensive. Divided into Kampfgruppen, the lead was Kampfgruppe Peiper whose armored force included SS Heavy Tank Battalion 501 equipped with King Tigers. The attack was launched on a snowy, freezing December 16, but from the outset, the division lost time against schedule. It captured a fuel dump at Büllingen, but brave defense forced Peiper onto the southern Rollbahn D whose tight, winding roads proved difficult to negotiate and soon the Kampfgruppe was strung out over 25 kilometers with its heavy armor—the King Tigers—slowly losing ground as vehicle after vehicle succumbed to automotive failures. The Past & Present Series reconstructs historical battles by using photography, juxtaposing modern views with those of the past together with concise explanatory text. It shows how much infrastructure has remained and how much such as outfits, uniforms, and ephemera has changed, providing a coherent link between now and then.

9781612005423, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 64p.

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The Victoria Cross Wars

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

A total of 1,358 VCs have been awarded since the ‘cross of valor’ was first instituted in 1855, the latest of which was announced in February 2015.

The stories behind the awarding of these medals have been repeated in countless anthologies but The Victoria Cross Wars explains not just what the men did, but why they were there and what they were fighting for.

9781473887367, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 256p.

Valentine Baker's Heroic Stand At Tashkessen 1877 A Tarnished British Soldier's Glorious Victory

Frank Jastrzembski History has best remembered Valentine Baker for his embarrassments. But what about Baker's positive achievements? The most underappreciated event that took place in his controversial life came during the Russo-Turkish War in 1877. The exiled Baker, in command of 3,000 Ottoman soldiers, was dispatched to the village of Tashkessen to stall 25,000 advancing Russian soldiers.

Through his superb leadership and brilliant disposition of his troops, Baker was able to score a victory. This is the exhilarating tale of how Valentine Baker was able to find redemption at Tashkessen.

9781473866805, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 200p.

Chitral 1895 An Episode of the Great Game

Mark Simner In 1895, a small Indian Army garrison was besieged by a joint Chitrali and Pathan army at the fort of Chitral. Despite the odds being heavily stacked against them, the beleaguered little garrison held out for forty-eight days until a relief expedition was able to fight its way through to the rescue. The siege and subsequent relief is a story of valor and sheer determination in the face of a stubborn adversary and extreme weather conditions, all played out on the often-mountainous terrain of the northwestern border of British India. The siege and subsequent relief should be viewed as an important episode in Britain’s ‘Great Game’ with Russia.

9781781556184, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 224p.

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A Waste of Blood and Treasure The 1799 AngloRussian Invasion of the Netherlands

Philip Ball With the Netherlands overrun

by French Republican forces, the British and Russian governments sent an allied army of 48,000 men under the Duke of York to liberate the country and restore the House of Orange. This book examines British, French, Dutch and Russian sources to reveal a fascinating tale of intrigue, diplomatic skullduggery and daring action. Spies, politicians, sailors and soldiers all play a part in the exciting story of an expedition that made (and broke) reputations and tested alliances. It recounts in lavish detail the series of battles fought to liberate a people who showed little interest in being saved and explores the story behind the triumphs and failures of this forgotten campaign.

9781473885189, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 192p.

John Dunn Cetywayo and the three Generals 1861-1879

D. C. F. Moodie John Dunn was one of the most extraordinary characters of 19th century South Africa.

In 1852, at the age of 16 he turned his back on the fledgling colonial settlement of Port Natal and, headed into Zululand. Dunn became a Zulu chief in every respect except for the color of his skin. Later, when still under 20, he was educated by a British officer and accepted into colonial society thus allowing him to lead the double life of an English gentleman and, when he crossed back over the Tugela to his 49 wives, that of a powerful Zulu induna.

9781783463244, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 176p.

Brave as a Lion The Life and Times of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

Christopher Brice Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, is an interesting and controversial figure of the late Georgian and early Victorian British Army. It is said he commanded in more battles than any other British soldier of this period, save for the Duke of Wellington. Despite this there are many who have questioned his command capability and his competence, particularly where the two Sikh Wars are concerned. In this, the first major account of his life for over one hundred years, the author seeks not to defend Gough but to better understand him. This is done by attempting to draw out the other periods of his life. By so doing we gain a greater understanding of his background, experiences and influences.

9781910294611, $69.95, $45.50, hardback, 616p.

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•ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL WARFARE• ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BCE–500CE Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics

Simon Anglim Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Middle East in an age before gunpowder.

The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles with the technology available, and points out how little has changed in some respects in the art of war. Using specially commissioned color and black-and-white artworks to illustrate the battles, equipment and tactics of the era, Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World shows in detail the methods by which armies, including Assyrians and Roman forces, prevailed over their foes, and why other armies were far less successful. The book is an essential companion for any reader in warfare in the classical age.

9781909160460, $17.98, $11.99, paperback, 256p.

Cataclysm 90 BC The forgotten war that almost destroyed Rome

Philip Matyszak We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against foreign enemies.Yet at the start of the first century BC, Rome, outnumbered and out-generaled, faced a hostile army less than a week's march from the Capitol. This book is a military and political history of the Social War of 90-88BC. Because Rome’s former Italian allies had the arms, training, and military systems of the Roman army which they usually fought alongside, all Rome's usual military advantages were nullified. The interplay of personalities; high-stakes politics and full-scale warfare combine with assassination; personal sacrifice and desperate measures (such as raising an army of freed slaves) to make for a taut, fast-paced tale.

9781848847897, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 256p.

Legions in Crisis Transformation of the Roman Soldier AD 192–284

Paul Elliott 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. This book 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.

9781781553343, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 176p.

Rome, Parthia and India The Violent Emergence of a New World Order 150-140 BC

John D. Grainger Between 152 and 138 BC a series of wars from Africa to India produced a radically new geopolitical situation. In 150 Rome was confined to the western Mediterranean, and the largest state was the Seleukid Empire. By 140 Rome had spread to the borders of Asia Minor and the Seleukid Empire was confined to Syria. The new great power in the Middle East was Parthia. These two divided the western world between them until the Arab conquests in the seventh century AD. These wars have generally been treated separately, but they were connected.

John Grainger's lucid narrative shows how these seismic events, stretching from India to the Western Mediterranean, interconnected to recast the ancient world.

9781848848252, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

The Roman Navy Ships, Men & Warfare 350BC - AD475

Michael Paul Pitassi The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity; it was crucial to the extraordinary expansion and maintenance of Imperial power. The fabric and organization of this maritime force is at the core of this new book. Shipbuilding, rigs and fittings, and shipboard weaponry are covered as are all the principal ship from the earliest types to the very last. The command structure is outlined, as are all aspects of the crews’ lives, their recruitment, terms of service, training and uniforms. Life onboard, food and drink, discipline, religion and superstition are described, while seamanship and navigation are dealt with along with bases and shore establishments. Operations feature prominently, the allied and enemy navies compared, and specimen battles employed to explain fighting tactics.

9781848320901, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 224p.

Alésia, 52 BC The Victory of Roman Organization

Frédéric Bey The Romans had been at odds with the Gauls for a long time.

Somewhere between 390 and 386 BC, a Senoni warchief Brennus managed to capture Rome and ransom the city with his famous Vae Victis.

Subsequently there was great competition between the two powers until eventually Gaul became a political pawn in the hands of the triumvirs after they took over control of the Republic at the end of its decline, in the 60s BC. It was therefore as a victim of what was beyond its control that Gaul so dramatically became part of Julius Caesar’s political strategy. Alésia was the final manifestation of this deep mistrust between the two peoples.

9782352501237, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 80p.

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•ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL WARFARE• Crisis of Rome The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius

Gareth Sampson In the later 2nd century BC the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down in a long difficult guerrilla war when invasion by a coalition of Germanic tribes threatened Italy and Rome itself, inflicting painful defeats on Roman forces in pitched battle Gaius Marius was the man of the hour. Reorganizing and reinvigorating the demoralized Roman legions, he then led them to two remarkable victories. The Roman army emerged from this period a leaner, more professional force and the author examines the extent to which the ‘Marian Reforms’ were responsible for this and the extent to which they can be attributed to Marius himself.

9781844159727, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 192p.

A Storm of Spears Understanding the Greek Hoplite in Action

Christopher Matthew The backbone of classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armored spearmen, or hoplites. For around two centuries they were the dominant soldiers of the Classical world, in great demand as mercenaries throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. This groundbreaking reassessment combines rigorous analysis of the literary and archaeological evidence with the new disciplines of reconstructive archaeology, reenactment. and ballistic science. It focuses meticulously on the details of the equipment, tactics and capabilities of the individual hoplites. In so doing it challenges some longestablished assumptions.

9781612001197, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 360p.

Sparta At War Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 950–362 BC

Dr. Scott M. Rusch During the eighth century BC, Sparta became a military power of recognized importance.

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 illuminate some of antiquity’s most notable campaigns.

9781848325302, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 272p.

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The Attack on Troy

Rodney Castleden 3300 years ago Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth behind the legend has intrigued scholars ever since. In this fascinating new investigation Rodney Castleden reconsiders all the evidence in order to establish the facts and give a historical basis to the most potent myth of ancient warfare.

9781844151752, $39.99, $25.99, hardback, 224p.

Saladin Hero of Islam

Geoffrey Hindley The extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the Richard the Lion Heart, king of England, in one of the most famous confrontations in medieval warfare. Geoffrey Hindley's sympathetic and highly readable study of the life and times of this remarkable, many-sided man, who dominated the Middle East in his day, gives a fascinating insight into his achievements and into the Muslim world of his contemporaries.

9781848842038, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 224p.

Holy Wars 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land

Gary L. Rashba Holy Wars describes 3,000 years of war in the Holy Land with the unique approach of focusing on pivotal battles or campaigns, beginning with the Israelites' capture of Jericho and ending with Israel’s last fullfledged assault against Lebanon.

Its 17 chapters stop along the way to examine key battles fought by the Philistines, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, and Mamluks, the latter clash, at Ayn Jalut, comprising the first time the Mongols suffered a decisive defeat. The modern era saw the rise of the Ottomans, and an incursion by Napoleon who only found bloody stalemate outside the walls of Akko.

In the twentieth century conflict has continued first with World War I and then conflicts surrounding the nation of Israel.

9781612000084, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 288p.

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•ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL WARFARE • AUSTRALIA• Sacred Swords Jihad in the Holy Land, 1097–1291

James Waterson The names of the European nobles who fought in the Crusades are well known, yet the names and deeds of many of the Crusaders’ opponents in the Holy Land are often unfamiliar to Western readers.

Using primarily Muslim sources, Sacred Swords reconstructs the politics of the Levant on the eve of the First Crusade and places it in the wider context of the Muslim world of the period. Waterson tells the story of the famed leaders of the jihad–the lives and deeds of Zangi, Nur al-Din, Saladin and Baybars are all recounted.

Sacred Swords also illustrates the evolution of the jihad in which these Princes were engaged. The story of the Holy War that would eventually destroy the Latin Kingdom is traced and analyzed from its origins.

9781848325807, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 288p.

Sieges of the Middle Ages

Philip Warner In the Middle Ages the castle was an important military and administrative center, essentially utilitarian in its design and in the purposes it served.

Because it played so central a role in medieval history, and because the wealth of material is so great, the author has concentrated on English sieges undertaken in the period from the Norman Conquest to the War of the Roses. This includes many dramatic actions fought on the continental dominions of the English Crown such as Chateau Gaillard and Rouen. Drawing from contemporary records and his own inspection of sites, Philip Warner's narrative explores the skills of the architect, the engineer and the miner, as well as the courage of troops and their commanders.

9781844152155, $13.99, $9.50, paperback, 214p.

Les Vikings en Normandie (911-1066)

Georges Bernage This outstanding work presents a complete study of the Vikings and their culture.

Through brilliant illustrations and photographs we will learn about their civilization, their boats, and the various artistic styles unique to each period.

In addition, George Bernage provides an overview of the types of swords used and a historical perspective of the Viking raids in Normandy, from their first establishment in 911, the first dukes, and the Scandinavian vestiges in Normandy until the English invasion in 1066. French text.

9782840483052, $65.00, $42.50, hardback, 96p.

The Siege of Vienna

John Stoye The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was the last serious threat to Western Christendom and so great was its impact that countries normally jealous and hostile sank their differences to throw back the armies of Islam and their savage Tartar allies. The consequences of defeat were momentous: the Ottomans lost half their European territories and began the long decline which led to the final collapse of the Empire, and the Hapsburgs turned their attention from France and the Rhine frontier to the rich pickings of the Balkans.

9781843410379, $12.99, $8.50, paperback, 320p.

Crecy 1346 (Region 1)

On 11 July 1346, the Anglo/ Welsh army of Edward III started to disembark in the bay at St Vaast in the Cotentin Peninsula. In a period of 12 months, this army won 3 major battles Caen, Blanchtaque and Crecy and captured Calais.

In this program, the BHTV team uses their experience as soldiers and guides to bring this iconic campaign to life.

The team examines the political, military and economic background to the campaign and brings the subject to life by visits to all the major locations, skillful use of maps and complemented by re-enactment footage and vignettes of life and combat in 1346.

5060247620442, $29.95, $19.50, dvd ntsc

AUSTRALIA

The Battles Before Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War

David Connery Much of Australia’s military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? The Battles Before examines the role of senior leaders in preparing an army for war — fighting bureaucratic battles, mobilizing forces for operations, or preparing for a future that is impossible to anticipate.

The five cases examined in this book focus on strategic leadership and describe how major organizations grapple with political, strategic, economic and cultural change over time. The book uses recently declassified documents and interviews with key participants in a meticulous examination of a 30-year period characterized by profound and far-reaching change.

9781925520194, $16.99, $11.50, paperback, 136p.

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•AUSTRALIA • AVIATION• Lessons Learned The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine

Geoffrey Grant Quail Historically, prolonged campaigns have been frequently lost or won because of the greater fitness of one of the combatant armies. In the twentieth century, infection was still a major problem, many Australian campaigns have taken place in tropical locations; a substantial amount of scientific work to prevent and manage tropical diseases has therefore been conducted by the Army Medical Corps’ medical researchers. This book recognizes the efforts of both individuals and the Army’s Tropical Disease Research units since Federation in helping the Army succeed in battle.

9781925520224, $24.99, $16.50, hardback, 276p.

Malaya 1941-42

Brian Farrell and Garth Pratten When Imperial Japan unleashed the Pacific War in December 1941, Australian forces went into action to defend Malaya and Singapore. Australia’s principal contribution to defending Malaya and Singapore was the 8th Division. Originally raised for service in the Mediterranean, the division was committed piecemeal to Malaya and its performance was bedeviled by poor command decisions in the face of an enemy better prepared on all counts. However, the 8th Division reflected some strengths of the AIF at large.

Singapore was lost more in spite than because of Australian efforts, but its loss underlined Australia’s strategic dependence on ‘great and powerful friends’ during the Second World War. 9780980567441, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 254p.

Australia's Palestine Campaign 1916-18

Jean Bou With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years the Palestine Campaign was Australia's longest running militarily significant endeavor of the First World War after the Western Front. And yet apart from the battle of Beersheba, the Palestine Campaign receives little attention in Australia compared to Gallipoli and the Western Front. In contrast to the years of grinding trench warfare in France and Belgium, the Palestine Campaign was a war of relative movement and maneuver.

Cavalry, including Australia's light horse, played a prominent role, but it was a hard fought fully modern war, in which the latest military technologies and techniques were all used.

9780980810004, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 173p.

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Battle Scarred

Craig Deayton One of the shortest lived and most battle hardened of the 1st Australian Imperial Force’s battalions, the 47th was formed in Egypt in 1916 and disbanded two years later having suffered one of the highest casualty rates of any Australian unit.

Their story is remarkable for many reasons. Dogged by command and discipline troubles and bled white by the desperate attrition battles of 1916 and 1917, they fought on against a determined and skilful enemy in battles where the fortunes of war seemed stacked against them at every turn. Not only did they have the misfortune to be called into some of the A.I.F.’s most costly campaigns, chance often found them in the worst places within those battles.

9781922132000, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 432p.

AVIATION

American Eagles US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939 - 1945

Tony Holmes American Eagles provides a photographic snapshot of the lives of the American fighter pilots who volunteered their services during World War II, as well as the Spitfires and Hurricanes they flew. Men such as Don Blakeslee, Billy Fiske, ‘Gus’ Daymond and Jim Dunn, as well as many other notable pilots are featured in this volume, in photographs that have been carefully sourced from official and private archives across the globe.

Each image has a detailed caption, chronicling the wartime exploits of the elite ‘band of brothers’ known as the American Eagles.

9781473835665, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 144p.

Combat Aircraft of the United States Air Force

Michael Green In August 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps created its Aeronautical Division assigned: “to take charge of all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred matters.” That small portion of the U.S. Army would grow to become its own separate entity, named the U.S. Air Force in 1947. It became the world’s most powerful military establishment, able to deliver conventional and nuclear ordnance anywhere around the globe. As this book demonstrates that the Cold War demanded ever more powerful aircraft.

9781473834750, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 200p.

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•AVIATION• Star-Spangled Spitfires

Tony Holmes Through period photography, this book chronicles the combat operations of the USAAF units equipped with the iconic Supermarine fighter whilst employed in both the European and Mediterranean theaters of war, from the summer of 1942 right up to the end of the conflict. Only a handful of British combat aircraft wore the stars and bars of the USAAF during the Second World War, with the Beaufighter, Mosquito and Spitfire being the key types to see action with American crews in American squadrons.

9781473889231, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 112p.

The Diary of a Hurricane Pilot in the Battle of France Francis Blackadder of 607 Squadron

Robert Dixon The RAF and their new Hurricane fighter was first put through its paces in the ill-feted Battle of France. Robert Dixon first came across the diary of William Francis Blackadder when carrying out research on 607 Squadron, the squadron Blackadder flew with. The diary begins in August 1939 when the squadron was at its annual summer camp at Abbotsinch and it takes us through the last days of peace with the excitement of a coming war. The diary takes us through the 'Phoney War' and the worst winter on record. It shows the aerial war as it really was as the outnumbered RAF fought dogfights high over France and it highlights in realistic detail the tense drama, hopelessness and ultimate defeat against Hitler's Luftwaffe.

9781781553107, $36.00, $23.50, hardback, 192p.

Into the Swarm Stories of RAF Fighter Pilots in the Second World War

Chris Yeoman and Tor Idar Larsen This is a collaborative work

by Christopher Yeoman and Tor Idar Larsen which tells the sobering and heroic stories of RAF fighters pilots in the most ferocious air battles of the war.

Accompanying gripping and detailed stories of aerial combat are previously unpublished photographs and letter extracts which adds to the rich content provided by these enthusiastic authors whose passion for the subject matter is evidently apparent within each chapter. A fine tribute to the gallant aviators who took to the air in hostile skies, this book tells of courage and sacrifice in France, to daring and determination, to gain air supremacy over the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain and Malta.

9781781556153, $28.95, $18.99, paperback, 240p.

Bomber Command: Battle of Berlin Failed to Return

Steve Bond, Steve Darlow, Sean Feast, Andrew MacDonald, Robert Owen, Nicole Russell and Howard Sandall This book tells the story of some of the thousands of airmen who failed to return from operations as part of the 1943 and 1944 Bomber Command Battle of Berlin. The authors, utilizing family archives, personal testimony and records, wartime memoirs, diaries and letters, witness recollections, logbooks, and official documents, piece together the remarkable, yet ultimately tragic events surrounding the losses described. Illustrated throughout with previously unpublished black and white and color photographs this book ensures the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice is kept alive. ‘We Will Remember Them’.

9780993415272, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 128p.

Night Hawk Flight Lieutenant Karl Kuttelwascher DFC and Bar, the RAF’s Greatest Night Intruder Ace

Roger Darlington Karel Kuttelwascher may have had a German surname, but he was a Czech who became the scourge of the Luftwaffe bombers. Flying with the RAF’s legendary No. 1 Squadron, his destruction of fifteen aircraft in only three months earned him the DFC twice in a mere forty-two days, and made him the RAF’s top night intruder ace. It was in the lauded but lonely night intruder role that his individualistic skills came to the fore. Flying a long-range Hawker Hurricane IIC armed with 20-mm cannon, the man the wartime media dubbed the ‘Czech Night Hawk’ unleashed a reign of terror that included shooting down three Heinkel bombers in just four minutes.

9781781555910, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 192p.

Best Foot Forward The Autobiography of the RAF's Other Legless Fighter Pilot

Colin Hodgkinson In the whole of the Second World War, only two men succeeded as operational fighter pilots in the RAF after losing both legs. Douglas Bader was one and his story is wellknown. The other was Colin Hodgkinson. Colin was injured in a flying accident whilst training with the Fleet Air Arm in 1939. Colin developed a burning determination to prove himself a normal man by becoming a fighter pilot and flying Spitfires. With Douglas Bader as his example, and brilliant surgeons treating him, Colin achieved his aim with a handtailored pair of tin legs.

9781473897625, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 240p.

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•AVIATION• Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in the Battle for Sicily

Morten Jessen and Andrew Arthy A fascinating and thoroughly researched account of FockeWulf 190 units, personnel, and operations in the Sicilian campaign of the summer of 1943. Based on a variety of primary sources, this book describes many of the very eventful missions flown by a handful of Luftwaffe Fw 190s against a multitude of British and American land and naval targets. The book features numerous firsthand accounts from German, British, American and Commonwealth personnel, along with a wide selection of photographs and maps, and color aircraft profiles by well-known aviation artist Claes Sundin. This is the first time that the full story of the Fw 190 in the battle for Sicily has been told.

9788799335206, $55.00, $35.99, hardback, 224p.

Bomber Command Operation Hurricane The Story of Those who Flew, Fought, and Failed to Return on 14 and 15 October 1944

Marc Hall On the 14 and 15 October 1944 RAF Bomber Command unleashed one of the Second World War’s most devastating bombardments, targeting the German city of Duisburg.

Known as Operation Hurricane, Bomber Command’s maximum effort involved approximately 1000 four-engine heavy bombers on each attack, delivering a whirlwind assault on the enemy’s war machine as the Allied armies edged eastwards towards the Nazi homeland. This is the story of Operation Hurricane from RAF Bomber Command’s perspective, and that of the numerous crews who flew, fought, and failed to return.

9780957116337, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 256p.

The US Eighth Air Force in Europe. Volume 2 Black Thursday Blood and Oil

Martin W. Bowman This book describes the period when the American daylight offensive faltered and nearly failed and recalls the terrible losses suffered by Liberators on the low-level attack on the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania and by the B-17s on the notorious Schweinfurt and Regensburg raids which entered 8th Air Force folklore as ‘Black Thursday’. Fascinating anecdotes, eye-witness accounts and the hard-won experiences of the battle-scarred American ‘fly-boys’ reveal the grim realities of air combat. Here are stories of survival and soul-numbing loss, of ‘fly-boys’ who came together to fight an air war of the ferocity that had never been fought on such a vast scale before.

9781848847477, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 256p.

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D-Day Gliders

Philippe Esvelin Many troops of the 82nd and 101st Airborne had their introduction to the Normandy countryside by way of a perilous landing in a glider.

This is a too little told aspect of the war and Philippe Esvelin seeks, in this colorful book, to set the record straight and give due testimony to the courage of the brave men, both the paratroopers and pilots, who gave their lives in the first hours of the beginning of the liberation of Europe. It is a unique photographic record of their efforts.

9782840481430, $66.00, $42.99, hardback, 168p.

Beaufighters in the Night 417 Night Fighter Squardon USAFF

Lt Col ‘Brick’ Eisel, USAF The 417th Night Fighter Squadron USAAF was only the fourth such unit to be formed. In the early days of WWII, the US sent observers to England to study how the latest form of air warfare would take shape and it very soon became apparent to them that a night fighting capability was of increasing importance. When they joined the battle against the Reich they found themselves without a suitable American aircraft and were forced to utilize RAF Beaufighters. Having ‘re-learned to fly’ this British design the 417th were sent to North Africa. Most of the ex-RAF aircraft they had inherited were battle weary and no supplies of spares were available through the US supply chain.

9781844154838, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 208p.

Mosquito Mayhem de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

Martin W. Bowman “The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run.

Suddenly a tremendous flash lit up the sky about 50 yards ahead of our nose and exactly at our altitude. Within a tenth of a second we were through the cloud of dirty yellowish-brown smoke and into the blackness beyond."

This book contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from many of the two–man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators. It portrays the dramatic experiences of flying in its many roles as pathfinder, night fighter, reconnaissance aircraft, precision bombing and low-level ground attack aircraft.

9781848843233, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 280p.

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•AVIATION• 249 at Malta RAF's Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron

Brian Cull and Frederick Galea By the end of 1941, following its participation in the Battle of Britain, 249 was posted to Malta. Having been informed that its pilots would be required to fly from the deck of an aircraft carrier, intensive practice flights took place with two Hurricanes fitted with long-range tanks, making shortened take-off runs from an airfield runway. The following month, having been ferried to Gibraltar, the aircraft were off-loaded on to the Ark Royal and all 20 safely reached Malta. This was the beginning of 249’s Mediterranean adventure in the defense of Malta.

Spitfires would follow early in 1942 and by the time it moved to a new theater of operations, 249 had claimed 245 air victories in the skies over Malta.

9781781555545, $40.00, $26.50, hardback, 256p.

Luftwaffe Fighter Ace

Norbert Hannig and John Weal Norbert Hannig began operations with JG54 on the Eastern front in March 1943; initially he flew Messerschmitt Bf 109s before transitioning to the Focke-Wulf FW 190.

After a year’s fighting, he was ordered back to Germany as a flight instructor to oppose the bomber streams of the AAF and RAF. Returning to Russia at the end of 1944, he became a Staffel CO and claimed many aircraft shot down. In April 1945 he converted to the first jet fighter, the Me 262, and flew his last missions with this aircraft. Many and varied were his experiences in action against the rejuvenated Soviet Air Force in the east, and the powerful western Allies over the homeland during the final chaotic months of hostilities, which culminated in his captivity.

9781904010944, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 224p.

D Day Bombers The Veterans' Story

Steve Darlow This book is largely an eyewitness account of the heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe. It is told using considerable first-hand experience from the veterans of the campaign together with background information from primary source documents on the tactics and strategy employed. Eight different aircrews, five RAF and three USAAF, tell widely differing stories of operations before, during and after D-Day. Their vivid and dramatic accounts are supplemented by numerous contributions from other aircrew and ground crew veterans, army personnel and French civilians.

9781904010791, $36.95, $24.50, hardback, 256p.

RAF Acklington Guardian of the Northern Skies

Malcolm Fife At the beginning of the Second World War, RAF Acklington was the most important fighter station in northeast England. It started life in 1938 as a training base for RAF aircrew, but after the outbreak of hostilities it was given the role of protecting the skies over Newcastle and its important industrial hinterland. Acklinton’s Spitfires and Hurricanes were soon in action against German bombers, as many of the earliest air raids of the war took place over this part of Britain. Due to the importance of this region, it continued to attract the attention of enemy bombers long after the Battle of Britain had been won. By late 1940, most of the attacks took place after dark and RAF Acklington became the host for night fighter squadrons.

9781781556221, $28.95, $18.99, paperback, 288p.

The Stuka Trumpets of Jericho

Bob Carruthers Emmy award winning historian Bob Carruthers compiled this comprehensive overview of the stuka dive-bomber. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at the tactical and operational level.

Also featured are rare English translations of articles are taken from the pages of Der Adler, the Luftwaffe’s in-house magazine. They provided an absorbing study, from a unique primary source, of the world of the Stuka and its pilots, and convey to the modern reader a vivid sense of how they were viewed at the time.

9781781592205, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 144p.

Malta Spitfire The Diary of an Ace Fighter Pilot

George Beurling Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta – that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes. One of those Spitfire pilots was George Beurling, who in fourteen flying days destroyed twenty-seven German and Italian aircraft, and damaged many more.

Malta Spitfire tells his story and that of the gallant Spitfire squadron, 249. The reader has almost the sensation of being in the cockpit with him, climbing to meet the planes driving in from Sicily, diving down through the fighter screen at the bombers, dodging the bullets coming out of the sun, or whipping up under the belly of an Me for a deflection shot at the engine. This is war without sentiment or romance, told in terms of human courage, skill and heroism.

9781906502980, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 256p.

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•AVIATION• Propaganda Postcards of the Luftwaffe

James Wilson This book focuses on the efforts of the powerful Nazi propaganda machine to promote the technical achievements and might of the then newly created German air force. The Luftwaffe had been announced to the world in March 1935. All major aircraft types used by the Luftwaffe together with many lesser known, obscure and secondary types are represented in this book. There is a section covering the main figures of the Luftwaffe and the leading aces who flew the aircraft. The German Air and Propaganda ministries worked together and, using professional photographers produced quality images, which were then made available to the general public in an attempt to inspire the nation and create strong moral.

9781844154913, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 224p.

Clash of Eagles USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers versus the Luftwaffe in World War II

Martin W Bowman This is the story of the air war over Western Europe, told firsthand by the American and German pilots and aircrew who took part. It spans the period between 1942 and 1945 and covers the encounters between the audacious Luftwaffe fighter pilots and the Fortress and Liberator bomber crews of the American 8th Air Forces flying from East Anglia. Many unique experiences are recounted from both the night and day bombing raids that were hurled against Hitler's war machine. The author has sought the experiences of German fighter pilots, who explain how they stalked their prey in the skies over the Reich and how they pounced on their four engine victims from high.

9781526711465, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 352p.

HMS Gloucester

Ken Otter On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many hours before the survivors were finally rescued by boats searching for German soldiers who were victims of a previous British naval attack. The fact that Allied destroyers were in the proximity and were not sent to the rescue was a result of poor naval communications and indecision by the local fleet commanders.

9781526702111, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 224p.

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Hawker Hurricane The Multirole Fighter

Philip Birtles This book covers the design, development, production and operations of the Hawker Hurricane before, during and after the Second World War. The Hurricane was a simple rugged metal structure that did not require expensive assembly jigs, absorbed a lot of battle damage, and was also simple to repair. Its wide-track undercarriage allowed operations from rapidly prepared grass fields, and the ultimate cannon armament and rocket projectiles could destroy both soft skin and armored targets. Following the Battles of France and Britain, Spitfires took over much of the air-to-air interception, while Hurricanes roamed around occupied Europe destroying enemy ground targets.

9781781555873, $55.00, $35.99, hardback, 448p.

Phantom in the Cold War RAF Wildenrath 1977 1992

David Gledhill The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reconnaissance and air defense roles. Later it changed over to air defense. This book focuses predominantly on the aircraft’s role as an air defense fighter, exploring the ways in which it provided the British contribution to the Second Allied Tactical Air Force at RAF Wildenrath, the home of Nos. 19 and 92 Squadrons during the Cold War. 9781526704085, $44.95, $29.50, hardback, 288p.

From Jet Provost to Strikemaster A Definitive History of the Basic and CounterInsurgent Aircraft at Home and Overseas

David Watkins This book covers the complete and long overdue history of the Hunting/BAC Jet Provost and Strikemaster, which for thirtyeight years trained generations of pilots and pioneered the RAF’s all-through flying training program. David Watkins has produced an extensive look at these aircraft after years of painstaking research assisted by veterans and historians. Having accessed the archives of the Warton Collection, he has amassed a range of rare photography to accompany the extraordinary history of these jets. This is a work of narrative and technical detail which will satisfy the most avid aviation fans. Furthermore, Airfix have recently released a Jet Provost model, increasing interest in this long neglected aircraft.

9781910690352, $49.95, $32.50, hardback, 224p.

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•AVIATION• Canberra Boys Fascinating Accounts from the Operators of an English Electric Classic

Andrew Brookes The English Electric Canberra first came into production in the late 1940s and has since played a hugely significant part in world events. In Canberra Boys, Andrew Brookes takes us through its rich history with the help of those who operated this magnificent machine.

Contributors include Roly ‘Bee’ Beamont, the English Electric test pilot who first flew the aircraft in 1949. Other tales in the book include participation in the Sassoon Trophy competition, long-distance flights in Exercise Round Trip, and Operation Quick Flight. Concluding with the Canberra PR9’s final RAF flight on 39 Squadron in July 2006, this book provides a detailed and fascinating history of an outstanding aircraft alongside illuminating anecdotes from the men who served with this aircraft.

9781910690338, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 208p.

History of the de Havilland Vampire

David Watkins The de Havilland Vampire was the second of the RAF's first-generation, post-Second World War jet fighters to enter service. It began life as an interceptor but was soon retasked in the day fighter/ground attack roles with the 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany from 1948 to 1954 and with the RAF's Middle and Far East Air Forces. This comprehensive history covers the Vampire’s development and operational service. It has been written with the full co-operation of the manufacturer, MoD, RAF and other world air forces, comprehensive appendices include technical specifications, production details, serials and export details.

9781781556160, $40.00, $26.50, paperback, 384p.

Modern Israeli Air Power Aircraft and Units of the Israeli Air Force

Ofer Zidon Israel remains the cornerstone of Middle East conflicts and tensions, and the spearhead of Israeli military might remain the Air Corps (Kheil Ha'Avir) of the Israeli Defense Forces.

This book provides a compact yet comprehensive, up-to-date, and in-depth analysis and directory of modern Israeli air power, detailing flying units and relevant infrastructure, its aircraft and the armament they use. Using text and superb illustrations, the title covers every flying unit and every base, every aircraft type flown and every weapons system, offering a unique insight into what Israel considers its 'best defense'.

9780985455422, $65.00, $42.50, paperback, 256p.

Arab MiGs. Volume 1 Mikoyan i Gurevich MiG-15 and MiG-17 in Service with Air Forces of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and Syria

Tom Cooper and David Nicolle Starting in 1955, and for the following 20 years, MiG-15 and MiG-17 formed the backbone of several Arab air forces.

Covering the first decade of this period, this study provides a unique and previously unavailable insight into the service history of both types with five Arab air forces. The reason why Arab countries began purchasing MiGs and thus became embroiled in the Cold War is approached and discussed from an entirely new and original - Arab - point of view. Details about combat operations during three major wars between Arabs and Israel, as well as the war in Yemen of the 1960s, are reconstructed on basis of primary evidence.

9780982553923, $64.95, $42.50, paperback, 256p.

Arab MiGs. Volume 2 Supersonic Fighters, 1956-1967

Tom Cooper and David Nicolle Largely based on original, previously unavailable documentation from official archives, as well as interviews with participants and eyewitnesses, this is an unprecedented study of the developments of the Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian, Algerian, Lebanese and Jordanian air forces during the late 1950s and 1960s. The authors present the main topic – the introduction of supersonic fighters such as the MiG-19 and MiG-21 to service with these six air forces – against the geopolitical backdrop. They explain how and why specific air forces developed in the way they did, why they received specific aircraft types, and also why they suffered a defeat with such dramatic consequences during the June 1967 War with Israel.

9780982553961, $64.95, $42.50, paperback, 256p.

Arab MiGs. Volume 3 The June 1967 War

Tom Cooper, David Nicolle and Patricia Salti The June 1967 War fought between an Arab alliance and Israel was a pivotal event in the modern history of the Middle East. This study provides the most complete and detailed coverage ever of the Arab air forces during the course of that conflict. Supported by original documentation, and hundreds of blow-by-blow accounts from participants and eyewitnesses from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria, the result is a fascinating and gripping narrative that uncovers many new stories for the first time. Numerous vivid descriptions shed light upon Israeli attacks on Arab air bases, dozens of air combats, efforts to continue fighting against all odds, failures of Arab security and intelligence, and conflicts within the military chains of command.

9780982553992, $64.95, $42.50, paperback, 256p.

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•AVIATION• Arab MiGs. Volume 4 Attrition War, 1967-1973

Tom Cooper, David Nicolle and Lon Nordeen Volume 4 expands the history of the major Arab air forces that became involved in the wars with Israel during the period 1967 to 1973. It outlines the sequence of political and military events in chronological and geographic order. The reader is systematically taken through Egyptian attempts to reconstruct its battered air force and expand its air defense capabilities, and then reestablish control of its airspace in spite of increasing and ever more aggressive Israeli attacks.

9780985455415, $65.00, $42.50, paperback, 256p.

Arab MiGs. Volume 5 October 1973 War, Part 1

Tom Cooper, David Nicolle, Holger Müller, Lon Nordeen and Martin Smisek Clearly written and illustrated with a rich and unique collection of exclusive photography and original illustrations, Arab MiGs Volume 5 provides a detailed record of aerial warfare during the opening phases of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. Drawing on extensive research, declassified information, and interviews with dozens of participants, it recounts the origins, operational history, and battle performance of all the air forces involved. As such, it is the first comprehensive analysis of the aerial operations waged by both sides in this conflict.

9780985455446, $69.95, $45.50, paperback, 256p.

Arab MiGs. Volume 6 October 1973 War, Part 2

Tom Cooper, David Nicolle, Albert Grandolini, Lon Nordeen and Martin Smisek This book continues coverage of air actions by Arab air forces during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War. This conflict was one of the best examples of the ever increasing importance of electronic warfare and unmanned aircraft upon the modern-day battlefield, and therefore prompted fundamental changes in the tactics and strategy of the dominant air powers across the globe during the late 20th century. Descriptions based on the reminiscences of veteran aircrews provide an unprecedented insider’s view of key aircraft and operations, illustrating how developments in technology and information warfare added a new dimension to the history of air warfare. This is supported by a plethora of background information, more than 300 photographs, color profiles, maps and diagrams depicting the action, aircraft, camouflage patterns, markings, and weaponry deployed.

9780985455460, $64.95, $42.50, paperback, 256p.

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RAF Harrier Ground Attack: Falklands

Squadron Leader Jerry Pook MBE DFC During the Falklands war Jerry Pook, a pilot in No. 1(F) Squadron RAF, flew air interdiction, armed recce, close-air-support and airfield attack as well as pure photorecce missions. This is his story.

Most weapons were delivered from extreme low-level attacks because of the lack of navigation aids and the absence of Smart weapons. The only way he could achieve results was to get low down and close-in to the targets and, if necessary, carry out re-attacks to destroy high-value targets. Apart from brief carrier trials carried out many years previously there had been no RAF Harriers deployed at sea.

9781848845565, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 256p.

History of Air-To-Air Refuelling

Richard M.Tanner MBE This is a unique account of the development and operational use of air-to-air flight refueling since its early beginnings in the USA and the UK to the equipment that is in use today.

The author draws upon his life-long career as senior design engineer with the successful British company In-Flight Refueling who were responsible for the development of the hose and drogue technique now preferred by many of the world's air forces. The story begins in the early 1920s when the art of air refueling was part of the Barn Storming record-breaking attempts that were popular in the USA. The Royal Air Force was not interested in pursuing this great technical advantage during World War II and it was the USAAF who requested the British invention to experiment with on their B-17s and B-24s.

9781844152728, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 352p.

Aircraft of the Cold War 1945–1991

Thomas Newdick Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings, this is a comprehensive study of the planes in service with NATO and the Warsaw Pact and their respective units, from the end of World War II until the reunification of Germany. Arranged chronologically by theater, the book gives a complete organizational breakdown of the units of both sides. Each section includes a compact history of the role and impact of aircraft on the course of the Cold War, as well as orders of battle and lists of commanders and aces. Packed with 250 color profiles of every major type of combat aircraft from the era, this is an essential reference guide for modelers, military historians and aircraft enthusiasts.

9781906626648, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 192p.

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•AVIATION • CIVIL WAR• Howard's Whirlybirds Howard Hughes's Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits

Donald J. Porter 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.

Written by a technical expert and insider to the industry, this is a fascinating and alternative view on the phenomenal pioneer with unpublished photographs and material that will fascinate the aviation and military historian as well as the casual reader and cinema buff.

9781781554197, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 240p.

The U.S. Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4 An Account of the First Transatlantic Flight

Richard V. Simpson When humans learned, in 1903, they could cruise over land in a heavier than air flying machine, they never dreamed of using an advanced model of the airplane as an instrument of war. The novelty of flying intrigued a young Glenn H. Curtiss-an inventor obsessed with speed. In the decade before World War One, Curtiss a dedicated tinkerer developed speedy float planes and flying boats which came to the attention of the U.S. Navy. During the run-up to America's involvement in the war, ships carrying supplies to allies were being destroyed by the German U-boats. It was then Glenn Curtiss was contracted to draw plans for a large flying boat capable of flying across the Atlantic.

9781625450098, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 128p.

CIVIL WAR

First Bull Run First Victory for the South

Pascal Le Pautremat The Battle of Bull Run took place in July 1861 and although when all was said and done, its impact was relatively limited, it did have a far-reaching effect on the American Civil War itself.

The psychological impact of the battle on the combatants was indeed unquestionable, particularly for the North, and increased general consciousness of the reality of war and the challenges that lay ahead. The first Battle of Manassas was special because it was the first large-scale engagement in which troops were brought to the battle area by train, which enabled the Confederates to win this battle.

9782352501534, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 80p.

Texans at Antietam A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862

Joe Owen, Philip McBride and Joe Allport The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Antietam on 16–17 September 1862 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters, and speeches. This book collates their writings alongside speeches that were given in the decades after the battle, during the annual reunions of Hood's Brigade Association and the dedication of the Hood's Brigade Monument at the state capital in Austin, Texas. These accounts describe their actions at the East Woods, Dunker’s Church and Miller’s Cornfield, and other areas during the battle. Here, their experiences are compiled for the first time.

9781625450227, $28.95, $18.99, paperback, 272p.

Texans at Gettysburg Blood and Glory with Hood's Texas Brigade

Joseph L. Owen and Randy S. Drais The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters and speeches. These accounts describe their actions at Devil's Den, Little Round Top and other areas during the battle. For the first time ever, their experiences are compiled in Texans at Gettysburg: Blood and Glory with Hood's Texas Brigade.

9781625450609, $28.95, $18.99, paperback, 240p.

The Chickamauga Campaign - A Mad Irregular Battle From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22 September 19, 1863

David A. Powell In September 1863 the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek. Long considered a twoday affair, author David Powell embraces a fresh approach that explores Chickamauga as a three-day battle, with September 18 being key to understanding how the fighting developed the next morning. Powell’s study fully explores the battle from all perspectives and is based upon fifteen years of intensive study and research that has uncovered nearly 2,000 primary sources from generals to private, all stitched together to relate the remarkable story that was Chickamauga.

9781611213232, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 696p.

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•CIVIL WAR• The Chickamauga Campaign—Glory or the Grave The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863

David A. Powell 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. The massive rout that ensued was ameliorated somewhat by an incredible defensive stand atop Horseshoe Ridge, which Powell carefully dissects at the regimental level. No one understands Chickamauga like Powell, whose crisp prose and cogent analysis are based upon some 2,000 primary accounts. The result is a rich and deep portrait of the fighting and command relationships on a scale never before attempted, let alone accomplished.

9781611213836, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 744p.

The Chickamauga Campaign—Barren Victory The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863

David A. Powell Barren Victory is the concluding volume of the Chickamauga Campaign Trilogy. David Powell examines the immediate aftermath of this great battle with unprecedented clarity and detail. The narrative opens at dawn on Monday, September 21, 1863, with Union commander William S. Rosecrans in Chattanooga and most of the rest of his Federal army in Rossville, Georgia.

Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg has won the signal victory of his career, but has yet to fully grasp that fact or the fruits of his success. Unfortunately for the South, three grueling days of combat has broken down the Army of Tennessee and made a vigorous pursuit nearly impossible.

9781611213843, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 392p.

Maps of Chickamauga An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 September 23, 1863

David A. Powell This book explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of 120 full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil War. 9781932714722, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 320p.

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The Second Day at Gettysburg The Attack and Defense of Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863

David L. Shultz and Scott L. Mingus, Sr. This is most detailed study of this action ever written. In addition to demonstrating how the fighting on the far Union left directly affected the combat to come, the authors also address some of the most commonly overlooked aspects of the fighting. Based upon extensive research and graced with dozens of photographs and detailed original maps, this book offers a balanced, compelling, and ultimately satisfying account of one of the most overlooked and yet important aspects of the defining battle of the American Civil War. 9781611210743, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 552p.

Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions Farnsworth’s Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863

Eric J.Wittenberg This book examines three of the campaign’s central cavalry episodes. The first is the heroic but doomed legendary charge of Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth’s cavalry brigade against Confederate infantry and artillery. The second is Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt’s tenacious fight on South Cavalry Field. Finally, Wittenberg studies the short but especially brutal cavalry fight at Fairfield, Pennsylvania. This fully revised edition of a book which won the BachelderCoddington Award adds extensive new research and interpretations: nearly 15,000 words of new material based upon recently uncovered archival sources; and updated photographs to reflect the modern appearance of the Gettysburg battlefield, which now better reflects its 1863 appearance.

9781611210705, $17.95, $11.99, paperback, 244p.

Flames Beyond Gettysburg The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863

Scott L. Mingus, Sr. The Gettysburg Campaign has been examined in minute detail from nearly every aspect but one: the key role played by Richard Ewell’s Second Corps during the final days in June.

Flames Beyond Gettysburg vividly narrates both sides of Ewell’s drama-filled expedition, including key Southern decisions, the response of the Pennsylvania militiamen and civilians who opposed the Confederates, and the burning of the Columbia Bridge.

9781611210729, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 312p.

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•CIVIL WAR• One Continuous Fight The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4 - 14, 1863

Eric J.Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi and Michael F. Nugent This book is the first detailed military history of Lee’s retreat and the Union effort to destroy the wounded Army of Northern Virginia. It draws upon a massive array of documents, letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and published primary and secondary sources. It also features 18 original maps, dozens of photos, and a complete driving tour with GPS coordinates of the army’s retreat and the route of the wagon train of wounded. The result is a rich and comprehensive study loaded with incisive tactical commentary.

9781611210767, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 544p.

Sickles at Gettysburg The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg

James A. Hessler No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. No single action dictated the battlefield strategies of George Meade and Robert E. Lee more than Sickles’ unauthorized advance to the Peach Orchard, and the mythic defense of Little Round Top might have occurred quite differently were it not for General Sickles.

9781932714845, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 504p.

Dakota Dawn The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 1862

Gregory F. Michno The 1862 Dakota conflict, which encompassed perhaps the greatest massacre of whites

by Indians in American history, is filled with emotional drama, irony, tragedy, cowardice, and heroism. Michno’s Dakota Dawn focuses in great detail on one week in August 1862, a great paroxysm of destruction when the Dakota succeeded, albeit fleetingly, in driving out the white man.

Some 600 white settlers were killed in the Sioux Uprising.

Nowhere else in the West was there a record of such sustained attacks on a fort (Ridgely) or a town (New Ulm).

In addition to important secondary studies, Michno’s work is based upon 2,000 pages of primary sources including recollections, original records, diaries, newspaper accounts, and other archival records.

9781932714999, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 492p.

The Last Battle of Winchester Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7 September 19, 1864

Scott C. Patchan This is the first serious study to chronicle the Third Battle of Winchester. This combat was the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley. What began about daylight did not end until dusk, when the victorious Union army routed the Confederates. It was the first time Stonewall Jackson’s former corps had ever been driven from a battlefield, and their defeat set the stage for the final climax of the 1864 Valley Campaign. Based upon more than two decades of meticulous research and rich in analysis and character development, Scott Patchan’s vivid prose is complemented with numerous original maps and explanatory footnotes that enhance our understanding of this watershed battle.

9781932714982, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 576p.

The Petersburg Campaign. Volume 1 The Eastern Front Battles, June - August 1864

Edwin C. Bearss and Bryce A. Suderow The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. This volume includes the attack on Petersburg (June 9, 1864), the attack on Petersburg (June 15, 1864), the battle of the Jerusalem Plank Road (June 21 - 24, 1864), the battle of the Crater (July 31, 1864), the battle of the Weldon Railroad (August 18 - 21, 1864), and the battle of Reams’ Station (August 24, 1864).

9781611210903, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 456p.

Chicago's Battery Boys The Chicago Mercantile Battery in the Civil War's Western Theater

Richard Brady Williams The Chicago Mercantile Battery was organized in 1862 by a group of prominent Chicago merchants and participated in the long and arduous Vicksburg campaign. This book sets forth in stunning detail the magnificent history of this long-overlooked artillery outfit. Based upon years of primary research and a wealth of archival documents, this study features more than 100 previously unpublished wartime letters, diaries, and other eyewitness reports.

9781932714388, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 636p.

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•CIVIL WAR • COLD WAR• Indian Wars' Civil War

Michael Hughes A series of outstanding articles by leading scholars on what Native Americans experienced during our Civil War. Articles include" "Nations Asunder: Western American Indians During the Civil War"; "Minnesota Volunteers and the Coming of the 1862 Dakota War"; "The Most Terrible Stories: The Minnesota Dakota War and White Imagination"; "Stand Watie at First and Second Cabin Creek"; and interview with a leading historian, a look at Wisconsin's 1832 Black Hawk War Trail and much more, including book reviews, index.

9781882810819, $12.99, $8.50, paperback, 188p.

COLD WAR

The Cold War Spy Pocket Manual The Official FieldManuals for Espionage, Spycraft and CounterIntelligence

Philip Parker This book presents a meticulously compiled selection of recently unclassified documents, field-manuals, briefing directives and intelligence primers that uncover the training and techniques required to function as a spy in the darkest periods of modern history. Material has been researched from the CIA, MI5 and MI6, the KGB, the STASI as well as from the Middle East security services and on into China and the East.

9781910860021, $12.99, $8.50, hardback, 128p.

Abolishing the Taboo Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961

Brian Madison Jones Here Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific focus on his intellectual and political understanding of nuclear technology in general and nuclear weapons in particular.

Abolishing the Taboo presents an analysis of Eisenhower's thinking about nuclear weapons since 1945 as well as a survey of nuclear developments from 1953-1961. It shows how Eisenhower sought to reverse the perception that nuclear weapons were inherently dangerous by advocating steadily and consistently for the proper and acceptable use of nuclear technology to contribute to the safety of the republic 9781907677311, $49.95, $32.50, paperback, 176p.

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Yom Kippur

Peter Baxter On the afternoon of 6 October, 1973, the colossus of the Israeli Defence Forces was awakened by a wave of airstrikes, followed by an artillery bombardment along the Suez Canal that preceded a meticulously planned Egyptian invasion of the Israeli-held Sinai.

Simultaneously, a massive Syrian armored assault bore down on Israeli positions on the Golan Heights. The day was Yom Kippur, the most holy day on the Jewish religious calendar, and the commencement of a war that would bring the young state of Israel to the very brink of defeat.

9781526707901, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 128p.

Malayan Emergency

Gerry van Tonder By the time of the 1942 Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) had already been fomenting merdeka – independence – from Britain.

The Japanese conquerors, however, were also the loathsome enemies of the MCP’s ideological brothers in China. An alliance of convenience with the British was the outcome. Britain armed and trained the MCP’s military wing, the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), to essentially wage jungle guerrilla warfare against Japanese occupying forces. With the cessation of hostilities, anti-Japanese became anti-British, and, using the same weapons and training fortuitously provided by the British army during the war, the MCP launched a guerrilla war of insurgency.

9781526707864, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 128p.

Berlin Blockade

Gerry van Tonder Allied agreements entered into at Teheran,Yalta and Potsdam for the carving up of postwar Berlin now meant nothing to the Soviet conquerors. Their victory had cost millions of Russian lives – troops and civilians – so the hammer and sickle hoisted atop the Reichstag was more a claim to ownership than success.

Moscow’s agenda was clear and simple: the Western Allies had to leave Berlin. The blockade ensued as the Soviets orchestrated a determined program of harassment, intimidation, flexing of muscle, and Socialist propaganda to force the Allies out. History’s largest airborne relief program was introduced to save the beleaguered city. In a war of attrition, diplomatic bluff and backstabbing, and mobilizing of forces, the West braced itself for a third world war.

9781526708267, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 128p.

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•COLD WAR • FICTION• Lebanon Levantine Calvary, 1958-1990

Al J Venter It is axiomatic that the recent history of much of the Eastern Mediterranean is linked to the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948, incontestably so. The country emerged from a series of conflicts and these have continued intermittently ever since, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt – and in the latter phases, Iran – were all part of it.

For much of the period under review it was Lebanon that took the brunt of it, with resident Christian, Sunni, Shi’ite as well as Israeli interests deploying multiple levels of force – much of it clandestine – to jockey for predominance.

Throughout, land, sea and air forces were involved.

9781526707826, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 136p.

The Red Line A Railway Journey Through The Cold War

Christopher Knowles The Red Line is the story of a train journey from London to Hong Kong. It is set in 1981, the year Christopher made the first of twenty-four such journeys as a tour guide, when the Cold War was still very much a fact of life. Although China appeared to be on the brink of significant change, no one could know for certain; Poland was stirring but the prospect of change in the USSR and its other allies seemed remote. This made a journey by train across that landscape particularly fascinating, because by using standard, scheduled services that together created one of the longest possible railway routes, one was necessarily immersed in the various countries in ways that otherwise would have been impossible.

9781473887442, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 232p.

FICTION

Agincourt 1415 Field of Blood

Barry Renfrew On 25 October 1415, a trapped and vastly outnumbered force of exhausted and demoralized English archers and men-atarms faced a colossal army of French knights on a desolate field in northern France. What took place that day became one of the greatest moments of the Hundred Years’ War and English history. Based on chronicles of the times, Agincourt 1415: Field of Blood is a dramatic, minute-by-minute retelling of the battle as seen through the eyes of the commanders and soldiers on both sides. This is a brutal, bloody and captivating retelling of a major British victory written by a Pulitzer Price finalist This work sets a new standard for historical fiction.

9781784382124, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 208p.

Under Fire

Henri Barbusse and William Fitzwater Wray Under Fire, first published in French as Le Feu, was one of the first novels about WWI, appearing in December 1916, before the outcome of the war was clear. Set in early 1916, it follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers through the eyes of an unnamed foot soldier, who participates in and also observes the action.

It combines soaring, poetic descriptions with the mundane, messy, human reality of war. Through it all, they talk about the war, attempting to make sense of the altered world in which they find themselves. Under Fire drew criticism at the time of its publication for its harsh realism, but won the Prix Goncourt. The original translation by Fitzwater Wray which first appeared in 1917 is published here.

9781612003825, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 304p.

The Somme also including The Coward

A.D. Gristwood and H.G.Wells In The Somme and its companion The Coward, first published in 1927, the heroics of war and noble self-sacrifice are completely absent; replaced by the gritty realism of life for the ordinary soldier, and the unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Written under the guidance of H. G. Wells, they are classics of the genre. The Somme revolves around a futile attack in 1916 during the Somme campaign. Everitt behaves selfishly and unheroically, but in a manner with which it is hard for the reader not to identify. The Coward concerns a man who shoots himself in the hand to escape the war, during the March 1918 retreat.

He gets away with it, but is haunted by fear of discovery and self-loathing.

9781612003801, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 208p.

Patrol

Philip Macdonald In the Mesopotamian desert during World War I, the leader of a British patrol is shot and killed, by an unseen enemy. The officer is the only one who knows their orders and has not told anyone else where they are located. From then on the sergeant has to try to lead the men through a hostile desert landscape full of invisible Arab snipers. One by one they are picked off, and the group of diverse characters has to try to come together in order to survive. The decision making process proves far from easy as tensions and prejudices from their former lives come to the fore. This thrilling tale of suspense goes right to the last page, and was a bestseller in the 1920s.

9781612003788, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 246p.

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•FICTION• Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey?

W.F. Morris Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange, eerie scene in a ruined chateau. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and perplexed as to who would be playing the piano in the midst of shellfire, they discover a German officer lying dead at the keys, next to a beautiful woman in full evening dress, also deceased. But the officer is the spitting image of Bretherton, a British officer missing in action… So follows a tale of mystery and identity, first published in 1930, which is not only an authentic account of conditions at the Front, but also a remarkable thriller, with a highly unusual plot.

9781612003764, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 320p.

Pass Guard at Ypres

Ronald Gurner A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, in excited and nervous anticipation of what is to come; they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in, and slaughter surrounds them. We see the action through their eyes, from privates to the senior officers of the wider battalion, with a focus on Freddy Mann’s journey from idealistic officer, to battle-hardened cynic, barely hanging on as those around him are cut down, maimed, or crack. Freddy suffers a crisis of faith and loses his belief in the war and everything he once stood for.

9781612004112, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 242p.

Behind the Lines

W. F. Morris This is a thriller that follows on from the success of W. F. Morris’s first novel, Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey? Morris is again concerned with questions of identity, allegiance, chance, concealment and self-discovery.

A subaltern is forced to flee when he accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer: appearances are all against him and he does not trust to trench justice. A series of adventures and disasters ensue, including capture by the Germans and near death by firing squad. Only his own bravery and the devotion of his fiancé can rescue him from his plight.

9781612004136, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 314p.

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Mr Britling Sees it Through

H. G.Wells A profound, very human, revealing account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants. Mr. Britling lives in Matching’s Easy in Essex. He is a great thinker, an essayist, but most of all an optimist. When war arrives he is forced to reassess many of the things he had been so sure of. Written in 1916, this is both a fascinating portrait of Britain at war, and a chronicle of events seen from a contemporary perspective, and an insight into H G Wells himself, Mr. Britling being a largely autobiographical character.

9781612004150, $15.95, $10.50, paperback, 444p.

Roux the Bandit

André Chamson Set deep in the mountains of southern France, this charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cèvennes Mountains called Roux, who refuses to join the army at the outbreak of war in 1914.

Instead, he flees and hides in the hills, only returning occasionally to the farm where he left his mother and sisters.

As the horrors of the trenches become known, the local people start to understand Roux’s actions. Chamson explores questions of perception, morality and conscience with a lightness of touch coupled with an atmospheric picture of life in a WWI era rural community.

9781612004174, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 112p.

Pagan

W.F. Morris Charles Pagan and Dick Baron, who served together in WWI, embark on a walking holiday in the Vosges Mountains in France, in 1930. En route they meet Cecil and his sister Clare who is recovering from the loss of her fiancé during the war.

Pagan and Baron pitch camp at a guesthouse, but the strange behavior of locals piques their interest in the surroundings: in particular the old battlefield nearby. They express an interest in visiting it and are told by their host in no uncertain terms that it is not the place to go at night. When they discover they have been locked in their bedrooms, the pair lose no time in putting a rope out of the window and shinning down it.

9781612004648, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 304p.

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•FICTION • KOREAN WAR• The Whistlers' Room

Paul Alverdes The Whistlers' Room is the surprisingly gentle, sensitive story of a section in a German hospital where three soldiers try to recover from battle injuries. They are known as the Whistlers, as all were shot in the throat and their breathing results in a sound "like the squeaking of mice".

The author vividly captures the strong young men the soldiers used to be and the battered, wounded people they have become. The story progresses through a simple series of vignettes which are delicately presented without demanding empathy or flinging the reader into a maelstrom of emotion. It is all the more rare, precious and powerful as a result.

9781612004662, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 128p.

Forest of the Hanged

Liviu Rebreanu During the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of Transylvania which was then under Hungarian rule, he had naturally enough joined the Austro-Hungarian army. But soon Romania itself entered the war, and Bologa found himself fighting his own people. Forest of the Hanged asks a fundamental question about war: namely, why does a man fight? This very rare, richly descriptive novel lays bare the inner conflict engendered by a total war, yet seldom expressed.

9781612004686, $14.95, $9.99, paperback, 352p.

Exit Plan

Mike Sixsmith Bill Sloan, a former British Army intelligence officer and Shahid Al Sheehi, the son of a Pakistani British immigrant are caught up in a breathtakingly ambitious plan for a small Middle Eastern Emirate to seize regional power by acquiring weapons of mass destruction. The destinies of Sloan and Al Sheehi are irrevocably entwined. This novel draws the reader into a realm of political intrigue, characterized by thwarted terrorist plots, international duplicity, and a host of anxious preoccupations including the threat of WMDs. Incredibly timely, as these issues still continue to feature in contemporary headlines, this work acts to set our current perceptions of such issues is context.

9781781590973, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 272p.

KOREAN WAR

The Last War of the Superfortresses MiG-15 vs B-29 over Korea

Leonid Krylov and Yuriy Tepsurkaev This work is an attempt by the authors to give as full and detailed a history as possible of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the principal strike force of the United States Far East Air Force – the B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers during the course of the Korean War between 1950-1953.

Military documents, which the authors have studied over many years of work in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation form the basis of this book. Statistical material has been provided in this book, which characterizes combat operations carried out by the B-29s and the fighters of the 64th Fighter Air Corps, both within the text itself and in the form of easy-to-use tables.

9781910777855, $49.95, $32.50, paperback, 128p.

From the Imjin to the Hook A National Service Gunner in the Korean War

James Jacobs The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a ‘lottery’ basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war. In this gripping memoir, Jim calmly and geographically recounts his experiences and emotions from joining the Army through training, the journeys by troopship and on active service in the atrocious and terrifying war.

9781781593431, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 224p.

Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea

Oscar E. Gilbert The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America (and the Marine Corps) unprepared.

The Corps’ salvation was the existence of its Organized Reserve, the availability of modern equipment in storage and the bravery, initiative, and adaptability of individual Marines. Here, Oscar Gilbert presents a detailed account of the little-known Marine tank engagements in Korea, supported by 48 photographs, eight original maps, and dozens of survivor interviews. It details every action, from the valiant defense at Pusan and the bitter battles of the Chos in Reservoir, to the grinding and bloody stalemate along the Jamestown Line.

9781612005317, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 320p.

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•KOREAN WAR • LATIN AMERICA• MIG Menace Over Korea Nicolai Sutiagin, Top Ace Soviet of the Korean War

Yuri Sutiagin and Igor Seidov Nikolai Vasil'evich Sutiagin, the top-scoring Soviet air ace of the Korean War, flew his MiG15 in lethal dogfights against American Sabres and Australian Meteors. He is credited with at 22 'kills'.Yet the full story of his extraordinary achievements has never been told. Only now, with the opening of Russian archives, can an authoritative account of his wartime exploits be written. The authors use official records, the reminiscences of Sutiagin's comrades and his wife's diary to reconstruct in vivid detail the career of one of the great fighter pilots.

9781848840386, $40.00, $26.50, hardback, 256p.

Armoured Warfare in the Korean War

Anthony Tucker-Jones During the Korean War both sides deployed large numbers of armored fighting vehicles, and this neglected aspect of the conflict is the subject of this photographic history. Korea, with its rugged mountains, narrow passes, steep valleys and waterlogged fields was not ideal tank country so the armor mainly supported the infantry and rarely engaged in battles of maneuver.Yet the wide variety of armor supporting UN and North Korean forces played a vital if unorthodox role in the swiftly moving campaigns. For this fascinating book over 180 contemporary photographs have been selected to show Soviet-built T-34/85s and Su-76s, American M4 Shermans, M26 Pershings and M46 Pattons, and British Cromwells and Centurions in action in one of the defining conflicts of the Cold War. 9781848845800, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 160p.

Fight, Dig and Live The Story of the Royal Engineers in the Korean War

General Sir George Cooper GCB, MC, DL During The Korean War over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of the Republic of Korea, were killed and three times that number wounded. United Kingdom casualties amounted to some 300 Officers and 4,000 Other Ranks. The Royal Engineers were involved at all levels, from patrols and minefields, to defense works and, providing support to all manner of operations such as transportation, bridging and the important provision of postal services, so vital for morale. General Sir George Cooper GCB MC DL was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and served as a Troop Commander in Korea.

9781848846845, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 224p.

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Combat Over Korea

Philip Chinnery Combat Over Korea offers a superb selection of thrilling accounts by Allied airmen of their experiences. These include air combat between fighters, a B29 Superfortress bomber ditching in the sea, C-54 cargo plane being attacked

by North Korean fighters. We read of the exploits of the 21 Troop Carrier Squadron (The Kyushu Gipsies) who flew into impossibly short strips to rescue thousands of wounded soldiers – they received the Presidential Citation for their feat. Others tell of their hairraising escapades after being shot down. Their treatment in captivity was often brutal. Very few escaped but 1st Lieutenant Melvin Shadduck did and he tells his story here, as do others who have remarkable experiences to describe.

9781848844773, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 208p.

LATIN AMERICA

The 100 Hour War The Conflict Between Honduras And El Salvador In July 1969

Mario Overall and Dan Hagedorn In 1969 two Central American States crossed sabers in what was coined ‘The Soccer War’.

This conflict had its origins when United Fruit and Standard Fruit operated in Honduras and imported workers from El Salvador. What followed was 300,000 Salvadorans who settled in Honduras – and the country’s government saw this with good eyes. until it was made evident that the country that benefited the most was El Salvador. Amidst violence against the immigrants, the two governments began negotiations. With this background, the eliminatory rounds for the World Soccer Cup began - and El Salvador and Honduras would face each other. Eleven days later, the war began.

9781911096504, $49.95, $32.50, paperback, 104p.

PBSuccess The CIA's covert operation to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz JuneJuly 1954

Mario Overall and Dan Hagedorn In January 1954, the U.S. Government set to overthrow the Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, who had been deemed a Communist and a dangerous influence in Central America. Thus, the CIA was ordered to launch a clandestine operation, code-named “Project PBSuccess”. Based primarily on CIA declassified documents and Guatemalan military sources, this book explores the volatile political and military scenario in which Project PBSuccess unfolded.

9781910777893, $49.95, $32.50, paperback, 128p.

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•MERCENARIES • MIDDLE EAST• MERCENARIES

Mercenaries and their Masters Warfare in Renaissance Italy

Michael Mallett This book concentrates on the fifteenth century, a confused period of turbulence and transition when standing armies were formed in Italy and more modern types of military organization took hold across Europe. But it also looks back to the middle ages and the fourteenth century, and forward to the Italian wars of the sixteenth century when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil. This pioneering study is essential reading for anyone who is keen to understand the history of warfare in the late medieval period and the Renaissance.

9781848840317, $39.99, $25.99, hardback, 304p.

Mercenaries Putting the World to Rights with Hired Guns

Al J.Venter In today’s world "soldiers for hire" are an attractive alternative when Western governments are reluctant to put their militaries at risk for obscure causes that would otherwise be difficult to explain to their electorates.

In this book noted author and foreign correspondent Al Venter provides a fascinating look at modern merc actions in the Middle East and Africa.

From brushfire wars in the Congo to outright genocides in Biafra, highly skilled mercenaries were called upon to fight for order, and also for a living. Whether facing fanatics in Somalia or revolutionaries in Rhodesia, the mercs put their lives on the line for a cause.

9781612002446, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 344p.

I Am Soldier of Fortune Dancing with Devils

Lt. Col. Robert Brown, USAR (Ret.) and Vann Spencer This book takes the readers into combat zones where Brown and his daring combat journalists, or fearless “dogs of war,” trotted across the globe.

His rogue warrior journalists embedded themselves with anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often training and fighting with rebels against oppressive regimes. In their revolutionary journalistic style, they created the action and then wrote about it. Generals and leaders of exotic armies welcomed the SOF visitors and led them or allowed them to tread into unchartered territory.

9781612001937, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 440p.

MIDDLE EAST

Syrian Conflagration The Syrian Civil War, 2011-2013

Tom Cooper The Syrian Civil War has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years.

It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements. 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. Drawing on extensive research, including firsthand accounts, this book provides a compelling overview of the first three years of the ongoing conflict in Syria.

9781910294109, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 80p.

Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1948 War Israeli Winter Offensive Operation Horev 22 December 1948-7 January 1949

Shlomo Aloni Operation HOREV practically ended Israel’s War for Independence, with an Israeli victory that forced Egypt to seek ceasefire and to negotiate a settlement. 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 depth and detail. Israel Air Force operations are detailed spanning the timeline of the conflict down to every unearthed sortie in depth.

This level of detail has been made possible by extensive use of contemporary documentation. The detailed text is supported by numerous photographs and color profiles.

9781910294116, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 72p.

Desert Warriors Iranian Army Aviation at War

Babak Taghvaee Based on the recently declassified official records of the Iranian Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ground Force and Army Aviation, this book provides details of the Iranian Army Aviation missions and roles during 97 major operations in the war with Iraq, including details on logged flying hours, performed sorties, launched missiles, carried cargos, wounded troops and soldiers beside the unheard history of the force since its foundation.

9781910777565, $59.95, $38.99, paperback, 192p.

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•MIDDLE EAST• The Afghan War Operation Enduring Freedom 2001-2014

Anthony Tucker-Jones Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom, and this photographic history is a graphic introduction to it. The deployment of thousands of coalition troops and a huge range of modern military equipment are the main focus. It covers the entire course of the conflict, from the initial air war, the battle for the White Mountains and Tora Bora, the defeat of the Taliban, the escape of bin Laden and the grim protracted security campaign that followed.

9781783030200, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 128p.

Operation Enduring Freedom America's Afghan War 2001 to 2002

Tim Ripley The first six months of the war in Afghanistan were incredibly confused. Few journalists or civilians had access to the main events and the result was the creation of many urban myths that persist to this day. This book reveals the truth behind Operation Enduring Freedom, its objectives, successes, failures, and consequences. Tim Ripley has discovered what actually happened in the first six months of this US-led intervention. He reveals the clandestine US and UK reconnaissance efforts before hostilities commenced on 7 October 2001, secret US UAV and drone operations, RAF Canberra and U-2 spy flights and details of initial combat between Taliban and Northern Alliance ground forces. This is a definitive account of the first six months of the military campaign in Afghanistan.

9781848845640, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 256p.

War on Truth Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Invasion of Iraq but Your Government Wouldn't Tell You

Neil Mackay The War on Truth investigates all aspects of the lead up to the war in Iraq, its execution, and its aftermath. Neil MacKay contends that the public was systematically fed untruths in a manner that questions what kind of democracy we really have. MacKay’s extensive contacts in the intelligence community make a telling contribution to this investigation and we see an intimate picture of how intelligence is gathered, how it is interpreted and why things go wrong.

9781932033625, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 480p.

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Intifada Palestine and Israel The Long Day of Rage

David Pratt For almost two decades the Intifada has been the byword for Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. But, for all its familiar usage in the media, many people remain unclear as to what the Intifada really is, or how it began. Just what fuels the anger? Who are the key players in this deadly clash and where, during these dangerous days in the Middle East, does the resistance go from here? Part reflection, part reportage, David Pratt, takes the reader on a journey across the frontlines of the Palestinian uprising.

9781932033632, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 288p.

Iran's Nuclear Option Tehran's Quest for the Atom Bomb

Al J.Venter In Iran's Nuclear Option, defense expert Al J.Venter details the extent to which Iran's weapons program has developed, and the clandestine manner in which its nuclear technology has been acquired.

He demonstrates how Tehran has violated the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty and details the involvement of several countries who have been shown by the IAEA to have trafficked in illegal nuclear materials. He proves, for the first time, a direct link between the now-defunct South African apartheid regime's nuclear program and Tehran's current nuclear ambitions. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in global security and the perilous volatility of the Middle East.

9781932033335, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 460p.

Magnum! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm The Elimination of Iraq's Air Defence

Braxton R Eisel and James A Schreiner This book is based on a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war were like during that time. The pawns in the game, the ones that had to actually do the fighting and dying, were the hundreds of thousands of men and women who left their homes and families to live for seemingly endless months in the vast, trackless desert while the world stage-play unfolded. To them, the war was deeply personal. At times, the war was scary; at other times, it was funny as hell.

9781473899001, $32.95, $21.50, paperback, 288p.

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•MIDDLE EAST• Awakening Victory How Iraqi Tribes and American Troops Reclaimed Al Anbar and Defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq

Michael E. Silverman Awakening Victory tells the story of this incredible campaign through the eyes of the commander of the 3rd Battalion, who was right in the thick of the fight. The book also provides a description of the Iraqi that offers the depth and texture which are currently lacking in most Americans' perceptions of the war. It describes the battalion’s actions, including incidents previously unknown to the public, but it is not merely another blood-and-guts war story.

9781612000626, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 352p.

Helmand Mission With 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup in Afghanistan 2008

Richard Doherty For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth. At the same time the Battlegroup was training the nascent Afghan National Army (ANA) and many of its engagements were alongside Afghan soldiers. This is the stirring story of a regimental family at war and of those who sustained them, and the rear party which supported the families, especially those whose fathers or sons suffered injury or death. Above all, it is the story of a highly professional unit demonstrating its skills to the world and helping make Afghanistan a better place for its people.

9781848841482, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 176p.

The Rise of Militant Islam An Insider’s View of the Failure to Curb Global Jihad

Anthony Tucker-Jones At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. In Rise of Militant Islam Anthony Tucker-Jones examines from an insider’s perspective how Western intelligence misinterpreted every landmark event on the road to 9/11 and ultimately failed to curb global jihad. He traces the rise of international terrorism and its networks throughout the Muslim world, in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Algeria, Chechnya, Somalia and across the Middle East, and he uncovers the connections between them.

9781844159451, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

Middle East Air Forces in the 21st Century

Tim Ripley This book looks at why airpower is of such strategic and tactical importance in the Middle East. It provides an overview of the state of the air forces in the first decade of the 21st Century. Each air force will be profiled, aerospace industries reviewed, major campaigns in the past decade are examined and the future airpower is discussed. The countries include Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE,Yemen and will also cover British and American operations. Each country is profiled with its air forces history, current status, order of battle, aircraft, ordnance and recent operations. Air campaigns of the 21st Century within the region are also described. The book includes many color and mono photographs, maps and diagrams.

9781848840997, $70.00, $45.99, hardback, 256p.

New Dawn The Battles for Fallujah

Richard S. Lowry Fallujah. Few names conjure up as many images of blood, sacrifice, and valor as does this ancient city in Al Anbar province forty miles west of Baghdad. This sprawling concrete jungle was the scene of two major U.S. combat operations in 2004. This is a comprehensive history of this fighting. In addition to archival research, New Dawn is based upon the personal recollections of nearly 200 soldiers and Marines who participated in the battles for Fallujah, from the commanding generals who planned the operations to the privates who kicked in the doors.

9781932714777, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 312p.

The Counter Terrorist Manual A Practical Guide to Elite International Units

Leroy Thompson Following 9/11, the mission of many anti-terrorist units has expanded. Some units now track terrorists to their lairs in other countries and strike them there. Despite the significant and growing role of these units, little is known about the way they operate. The selection, training, structure and principles of maintaining such units, together with basic theories of asymmetric warfare are covered. In a practical, step-by-step guide he analyses the necessary organization of such elite teams, the arming and equipping of units, and methods for a variety of missions from hostage rescue and high-level dignitary protection to securing foreign embassies and counterWMD strikes.

9781848325142, $39.99, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

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•MIDDLE EAST • MODELING• Battle for Afghanistan

Mohammad Yousaf and Mark Adkin This is the story of the defeat of Soviet Russia's forces in Afghanistan by a guerrilla force known as the Mujahideen, heavily backed by Pakistan and the USA. The Mujahideen paved the way for the Taliban regime, to exist having all but defeated the Russian Army in the late 80's. The author, Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf, was head of the Afghan Bureau of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence and as such was effectively the Mujahideen's commander-inchief. This compelling book was put together with great skill the by military historian, Mark Adkin in conjunction with Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf and is essential reading for anyone interested in the truth behind the Afghanistan War which led to the conditions that exist there today.

9781844156160, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 256p.

MODELING

Soviet Cold War Weaponry: Aircraft, Warships and Missiles

Anthony Tucker-Jones Here Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. The so-called ‘Cold War’ was far from cold, with numerous ‘hot’ proxy wars being fought in Africa and the Middle East. All these conflicts employed Soviet weaponry.

The MiG fighters, the Badger and Backfire bombers, the nuclear submarines have achieved almost iconic status, but, as Anthony Tucker-Jones’s book shows, there was much more to the Soviet armory than these famous weapons.

Much of it, despite its age, remains in service with armies, guerrilla forces and terrorist organizations around the world today.

9781473823617, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 160p.

Soviet Cold War Weaponry: Tanks and Armoured Vehicles

Anthony Tucker-Jones This book provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. Numerous ‘hot’ proxy wars were fought in Africa and the Middle East.

All these conflicts employed Soviet weaponry which has been captured in action in the photographs selected for this book.

9781783032969, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 160p.

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Air Combat From World War I to the Present Day

Thomas Newdick Air Combat is a comprehensive history of airborne warfare, from the first pre-WWI skirmishes in converted reconnaissance aircraft to present-day operations in the Middle East and Asia. The very first fighters and bombers were simple flying machines from which the pilot or navigator would aim a gun or ‘dumb’ bomb visually, leaning out into the slipstream. In contrast, modern warplanes are capable of destroying a target without ever seeing what they are firing at, using laser guidance and GPS to pinpoint the enemy. Illustrated with photographs and artworks, the chronologically ordered chapters outline the developments and landmarks in aerial combat through the decades. The book ends with an analysis of the use of U.S. and allied air power to fight insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

9781782743330, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 320p.

Land Combat From World War I to the Present Day

Martin J. Dougherty Since 1914 the art and increasingly science of warfare has become ever deadlier.

Tanks have become more mobile and more protected, artillery has come to dominate battlefields and even ordinary infantrymen are now equipped with body armor and lightweight fully automatic weapons, usually fitted with magnifying scopes. Containing full-color artworks and action photographs, Land Combat is a comprehensive guide to how wars have been fought since the outbreak of World War I. All of the most famous wars and campaigns are featured, from the Western Front to the Blitzkrieg, the Arab-Israeli wars and Vietnam, up to the Gulf and the present day. Land Combat is an authoritative guide to the development of the fighting techniques used on the battlefield from 1914 to today.

9781782743347, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 320p.

German Battleship SMS Posen

MARSDEN SAMUEL and GARY STAFF 9788365437532, $36.95, $24.50, paperback, 80p.

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•MODELING• Naval Archives.

Volume 6

9788365437525, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 80p.

Sd.Kfz. 171 Panzer V "Panther" Ausf. A/D/G DMITRY MIRONOV 9788365437549, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 20p.

Russian Aviation Colours 1909-1922.

Volume 1 Early Years

Marat Khairulin and Boris Stepanov 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 authors have managed to collect, and in some cases partially reconstruct, the majority of emblems and signs used in Russia during this period by military aviation units. 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.

9788363678487, $75.00, $48.99, hardback, 200p.

Desert Prelude 2 "Operation Compass"

Grumman F6F Hellcat F6F-3, F6F-5 Models OLEKSANDR BOIKO 9788365437563, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 28p.

Hakan Gustavsson, Ludovico Slongo and Teodor Liviu Morusanu This is the second of two volumes providing an in-depth look at the air war over the North African desert in the early days of World War II. The equipment, organization and operations of the Regia Aeronautica, RAF and French Air Force are described in detail. Possibly the last major combat in which both sides flew fighter bi-planes, it saw the Italian air arm take on the rather sparsely-equipped Allied forces in Egypt and Libya.

This volume completes the story, up to the point in 1941 when German forces arrived to bolster the retreating Italian forces.

9788361421184, $59.00, $38.50, paperback, 196p.

Douglas F3D Skyknight

José Fernandez The F3D was designed as a carrier-based all-weather fighter aircraft. It saw service with the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.

While it never achieved the fame of the F-86 Sabre or other contemporary aircraft, it downed several MiG-15s as a night fighter over Korea with only one air-to-air loss.

It also served as an electronic warfare platform in the Vietnam War. The design, development and operations of these aircraft are described in detail, illustrated with many previously unpublished photos. Color schemes and markings are described and illustrated with full color profiles. Scale plans in 1/72nd and 1/48th.

9788361421702, $27.00, $17.99, paperback, 112p.

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•MODELING• Bristol F.2B Fighter RAF SE5a, Sopwith 1F.1 Camel, Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin, Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard

Tomasz J. Kopański The next book in the popular Polish Wings series is on the famous British WWI fighters in Polish Air Forces. Covers duty of these aircraft during PolishBolsheviks war and early 1920s.

More than 150 photos, mostly unpublished, and many color profiles.

9788365281494, $29.00, $18.99, paperback, 80p.

Mil Mi-24 Hind

Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 scale of Mil Mi-24 Hind 12 A3 size pages in A4 pb. All subversions are shown.

9788365281579, $11.99, $7.99, paperback, 12p.

Mitsubishi J2M Raiden

Mariusz Kubryn Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale of famous Japanese fighter. 10 A3 size pages in A4 pb. All subversions are shown.

9788365281692, $11.99, $7.99, paperback, 40p.

The Bulgarian Air Force in World War II Germany's Forgotten Ally

EDUARDO M GIL MARTINEZ The intervention of the German Air Force, called Luftwaffe, during World War II is well known by those interested in this conflict, due to the large number of works dealing about it. Much less well-known are the air forces of Germany's allied countries, although in the last years excellent works appear about these ones. Among them, perhaps the least known and treated is Bulgarian Air Force (although its more exact name would be Royal Bulgarian Air Force) because of its lesser degree of participation in the war unlike other countries like Hungary, Romania or Finland. That is the reason why Bulgarian Air Force is Germany's forgotten ally…

9788365437556, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 120p.

Lockheed P-38 Lightning Early Versions

Robert Pęczkowski and Artur Juszczak The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in production throughout American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day. With its unusual twinboom design, this was one of the most distinctive fighters of WW2, and saw action in all theatres of the war, being especially effective in the Pacific area. This book describes the development of the early versions of this iconic warplane, with full technical details and many detail photos.

Profusely illustrated with photos, including a comprehensive walk-around section showing all aspects of the airframe, and diagrams from official manuals. Includes 1/72nd scale plans, and color profiles showing many of the colorful schemes applied to the P-38 by its users.

9788365281319, $39.00, $25.50, hardback, 140p.

Yakovlev Yak-3

Artur Juszczak 40 color profiles of famous Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter showing variety of the camouflage and markings of different users.

Includes aircraft used by French Normandie-Niemen Regiment.

Also plan views showing camouflage and markings.

9788365281487, $35.00, $22.99, hardback, 44p.

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•MODELING• Fighters of the 8th Air Force

Gérard Paloque This book is dedicated to all fighter groups of the 8th Air Force based in Britain from 1943 to 1945, and offers detailed profiles of their equipment: Spitfire, P-38, P-47 and P-51 with many color illustrations, highlighting the special detailing and badges with specific markings. A valuable tool for all aviation modelers.

9782352503286, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 128p.

MiG 15, MiG 17

Gérard Paloque At the beginning of the Korean War, the west discovered the MiG-15, the first massproduced 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”).

9782352503309, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 72p.

Avro Shackleton

Neil Robinson and Martin Derry Initially projected as a maritime reconnaissance version of the Lincoln bomber, itself a development of the famous wartime Lancaster which saw post-war service in a General/ Maritime Reconnaissance role, (see Flight Craft No 4), the Avro Shackleton, (named after the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton) was a completely new design, powered by four Rolls Royce Griffon 57 engines driving six blade contra-rotating propellers. Split into three main sections, this latest Flight Craft title offers a concise history of the Shackleton's development and operational career from the prototype and initial entry in to RAF service in 1951, and its use with the South African Air Force, the only other operator of the type.

9781473862630, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 96p.

B-17 Memphis Belle

Graham M. Simons Without doubt Boeing Flying Fortress B-17F 41-42285 Memphis Belle and her crew generate an image that is an all-American icon. Indeed, it has been claimed that the Memphis Belle is in the top five of the most famous American aircraft of all time. In September, 1942, a new Flying Fortress was delivered at Bangor, Maine, to a crew of ten eager American lads headed by Robert K. Morgan, a lanky 24-year-old USAAF pilot from Asheville, N. C. The boys climbed aboard, flew their ship to Memphis, Tenn. and christened her Memphis Belle in honor of Morgan's fiancée, Miss Margaret Polk of Memphis, and then headed across the Atlantic to join the US Eighth Air Force in England.

9781848846913, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 128p.

Panavia Tornado Strike, Anti-ship, Air Superiority, Air Defence, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare Fighter-bomber

Dave Windle The Tornado has been the backbone of the RAF within its many different theaters of operation. The aircraft started as a European venture between Germany, Italy and the UK, based on the original swing-wing technology invented

by Barnes-Wallis. It has also been successfully exported to several Middle-Eastern air forces. It is likely to remain in service for several years to come. This book contains the world famous color profiles created by Dave Windle of the type in different operational modes, configurations and color schemes. Martin Bowman has written detailed descriptions and photographs to create the perfect enthusiasts reference.

9781848842359, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 80p.

German Battlecruisers of the First World War

Steve Backer and Robert Brown The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types.

Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class. This volume is devoted to the famous ships of Admiral Hipper’s First Scouting Group.

Slower but more robust than their British equivalents, German battlecruisers enjoyed a reputation for absorbing punishment, and although Lutzow was sunk at Jutland, Seydlitz and the rest of the Scouting Group survived heavy damage. This book concentrates on the seven completed ships but coverage extends to the ‘proto-battlecruiser’ Blucher and the ships building or designed by the end of the war.

9781848321816, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 64p.

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•MODELING • NAPOLEONIC WARS• Messerschmitt Bf 109 The Design and Operational History

Jan Forsgren The Bf 109 was the mainstay of Luftwaffe fighter squadrons, and the favored choice of most of the Luftwaffe’s fighter aces. Luftwaffe Bf 109 pilots accounted for thousands of Allied aircraft, with individual scores for some pilots reached hundreds of downed aircraft. It saw service in Poland, the invasion of France and, of course, during the Battle of Britain in 1940. Although gradually becoming obsolete, the Bf 109 remained in large-scale production until the end of the war, and was supplied to more than ten countries, including Finland, Hungary, and Romania. After the war, development and production continued in Czechoslovakia and Spain as the Avia S-199 and Hispano Ha-1112 respectively, the latter powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Incredibly, the state of Israel operated Czech-built Avia S-199s during its War of Independence in 1948–49.

9781781555866, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 272p.

Paint Locker Magic

William Tate and Jim Meehan 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, have documented thousands of previously unknown individual aircraft with these markings.

This book covers markings on US Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard aircraft over the 100 year history of US naval aviation. This book includes illustrations of special markings and nose art on early canvas-covered airplanes through the World War 2 and on into the jet age, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and up to the present war on terror with aircraft marked to commemorate the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

9781625450418, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 256p.

Il-2 Shturmovik: Red Avenger

Jason Nicholas Moore The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik became the aerial representative of the Soviet response to the German invasion on the Eastern Front.

It was designed as a low-level close-support aircraft capable of defeating enemy armor and other ground targets. The Il-2 was exclusively engineered to take an enormous amount of punishment and still keep the pilot, rear gunner and critical mechanical components unharmed. In the end, the Il-2 would become the most important aircraft to the Soviet Union in the defense of the homeland against advancing hordes of panzers.

9781625450425, $70.00, $45.99, hardback, 320p.

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The World's Greatest Tanks An Illustrated History

Michael E. Haskew The World’s Greatest Tanks features 52 of the best armored fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. It is an expert examination of the most successful tanks of the past hundred years. Each entry is examined over two spreads and includes a brief description of the tank’s development and history, a color profile artwork, photographs, key features and specifications tables. Packed with more than 200 artworks and photographs.

9781782741084, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 224p.

Latin American Mirages Mirage III / 5 / F.1 / 2000 in Service with South American Air Arms

Santiago Rivas and Juan Carlos Cicalesi This book tells the story of all the members of the Mirage family in service with Latin American air arms, with individual histories of the air arms and their constituent units that have operated the Dassault-designed fighter, as well as its Israeli and South African derivatives. The volume provides a comprehensive collection of color photographs and profile artworks that cover all the variants, plus maps, and tables that illustrate the individual stories of all the aircraft, their units and their various weapons.

9780982553947, $64.95, $42.50, paperback, 256p.

NAPOLEONIC WARS

Wellington's Headquarters The Command and Administration of the British Army during the Peninsular War

S G P Ward This is an essential introduction to the administration of the British army in the early nineteenth century. It offers a fascinating insight into the structure and operation of the Duke of Wellington’s command during the Peninsular War. First published over sixty years ago, it describes the complicated tangle of departments that administered the army, departments which had grown up haphazard and survived virtually unchanged until the time of the Crimean War. Wellington adapted the existing system in order to turn it into an efficient instrument in the war against Napoleon.

9781473896826, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 240p.

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•NAPOLEONIC WARS • NAVAL HISTORY• Imperial Bayonets Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion and Brigade as Found in Contemporary Regulations (New Edition)

George Nafziger Imperial Bayonets examines the maneuvering systems of the French, Prussians, Russians, Austrians and British from 1792 to 1815. It studies infantry maneuvers and firepower, cavalry maneuvers and artillery – and it is the definitive work on Napoleonic tactics, as well as being a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the fundamentals of period tactics. It provides a discussion of every major maneuver of the five major powers, and does time and motion studies of how long it would take to execute those maneuvers and compares them to the other nations. It covers infantry and cavalry maneuvers on this level, as well as undertaking an analysis of both musketry effectiveness and artillery effectiveness – providing curves that demonstrate the effectiveness of both.

9781911512233, $59.95, $38.99, hardback, 296p.

French Hussars.

Volume 2 From the 1st to the 8th Regiment, 1804-1812

André Jouineau The Hussar's uniforms have always been, par excellence, the most brilliant of all. In this new book, the second in this series on the French hussar regiments all their uniforms and equipment are reviewed in detail with all the colorful characteristics of the French Empire period.

9782915239546, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 84p.

French Hussars.

Volume 3 From the 9th to the 14th Regiment, 1804-1818

André Jouineau and Jean-Marie Mongin The First Empire is responsible for giving us the most lasting picture we have of the Hussars.

This volume deals with the Hussars (from the 9th to the 14th Regiment) for the period 1804-1812. There is a chapter given over to the 1812 Regulations which fixed the broad outlines and the six regiments are analyzed, together with the uniforms worn between 1812 and 1818.

9782352500377, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 84p.

Austerlitz: The Empire at its Zenith

François-Guy Hourtoulle and André Jouineau The fourth book in an excellent series from Histoire & Collections, Austerlitz covers the famous battle, the results of which saw Napoleon at the height of his power. A detailed text is accompanied by contemporary paintings and a vast array of graphics illustrating the uniforms and equipment of the soldiers of the time.

9782913903715, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 120p.

Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy How War and Hubris Determined the Rise and Fall of the French Empire

William R. Nester This book is the first comprehensive exploration of Napoleon the diplomat and how his abilities in that arena shaped his military campaigns and the rise and fall of the French empire. Napoleon’s official diplomatic career lasted nearly two decades and involved relations with scores of kings, queens, ministers, diplomats, and secret agents across Europe and beyond. For Napoleon, war and diplomacy were inseparable and complementary for victory. Much of Napoleon’s military success was built upon a foundation of alliances and treaties. Nester’s masterfully researched and written Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy fills a gaping hole in Napoleonic literature by providing a vital and heretofore neglected dimension that allows readers to fully understand one of history’s most intriguing, complex, and powerful leaders.

9781611210927, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 432p.

NAVAL HISTORY

Tudor Sea Power The Foundation of Greatness

David Childs In the sixteenth century England turned into a nation respected and feared in Europe. She based her power and eventual supremacy on the creation of a standing professional navy which firstly would control her coasts and those of her rivals, and then threaten their trade around the world. This emergence of a sea-power brought with it revolutionary ship designs and new weapon-fits, all with the object of making English warships feared on the seas in which they sailed. Along with this came the absorption of new navigational skills and a breed of sailor who fought for his living. This is their story.

9781848320314, $80.00, $52.50, hardback, 224p.

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•NAVAL HISTORY• British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714 Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

Rif Winfield The seventeenth century saw the transformation of Britain from a minor state on the fringes of Europe into a global economic power, whose interests were protected and promoted by the largest navy in the world. In the process the ships themselves were transformed from the surviving galleons that had defeated the Spanish Armada, through huge prestige vessels like Prince Royal and Sovereign of the Seas and the lightly built frigates of the Commonwealth era into warships that were recognizably ships of the line.

These radical developments in the design and employment of warships can be followed in detail for the first time in this comprehensive new reference book, which outlines the history of every ship that saw naval service during this era.

9781848320406, $100.00, $65.50, hardback, 384p.

British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 – 1817 Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

Rif Winfield The new Hanoverian dynasty that came to power with the accession of George I in 1714 inherited the largest navy in the world. In the course of the century, this force would see a vast amount of action against nearly every major navy, reaching a pinnacle of success in the Seven Years War only to taste defeat in the American Revolutionary struggle, when it faced the combined navies of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and the rebellious colonies themselves.

Considering the contribution to history of these ships, there is surprisingly little readily available on their careers.

Now this gap is comprehensively filled by this superb reference book, outlining the service history of every ship, built, purchased or captured, that fought for the Royal Navy in the great wars of the eighteenth century.

9781844157174, $100.00, $65.50, hardback, 400p.

Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894-1895

Piotr Olender This new book covers the SinoJapan Naval War 1894-1895, a little-known part of late 19th century naval history. The First Sino–Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea.

After more than six months of continuous successes by the Japanese army and naval forces, as well as the loss of the Chinese port of Weihai, the Qing leadership sued for peace in February 1895. The background, operations and outcomes are described in detail. All the ships involved, both Japanese and Chinese, are described and illustrated with full technical specifications.

Profusely illustrated with scale drawings, maps, drawings and rare photo.

9788363678302, $45.00, $29.50, paperback, 180p.

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Broadsides Caricature and the Navy 1756 – 1815

James Davey and Richard Johns Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity – encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the War of 1812. The thematic narrative explores topics from politics to invasion, whilst encompassing detailed analysis of the context and content of individual prints. It explores pivotal figures within the Navy and the feelings and apprehensions of the people back home and their perception of the former.

9781848321465, $32.95, $21.50, paperback, 64p.

Ready For Anything The Royal Fleet Auxiliary 1905-1950

Geoff Puddefoot Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary was originally a logistic support organization, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor craft. This book charts its rise in fleet strength, capability and importance, through two world wars and a technical revolution, until the time when naval operations became simply impossible without it. This book combines a history of the service, including many little-known wartime operations, with data on the ships, and a portrait of life in the service gleaned from personal accounts and recollections.

9781848320741, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 256p.

US Carrier War Design, Development and Operations

Kev Darling This book covers all aspects of the operations made by US aircraft carriers from their introduction into service during World War One to the continuing conflicts in the Middle East. America's part in WW1 saw the deployment of US Navy aircraft operating from coastal bases- mainly Curtiss flying boats. When in World War Two, the wreckage settled in the mud of Pearl Harbor, US Navy fighters engaged the Japanese for the first time at Wake Is. Post WW2 actions included the War in Korea when the US Navy deployed for operations covering combat on both the east and west coasts. During the War over Vietnam USMC and US Navy aircraft were deployed from carriers against targets in North and South Vietnam.

Most recent carrier deployments include both Gulf Wars and continuing middle-eastern conflict.

9781848841857, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 312p.

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•NAVAL HISTORY • REFERENCE• The Battle of the River Plate The First Naval Battle of the Second World War

Gordon Landsborough On 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from the British cruiser – ‘I think it is a pocket battleship.’ It was The Admiral Graf Spee, marauder of the South Atlantic shipping, had sailed into a trap. Three smaller British cruisers closed in on a German warship which could out-sail any ship powerful enough to damage her, and out-gun any ship able to keep up with her. So began the Battle of the River Plate, story which has its duplicates in British naval history, but which nevertheless brought pride and inspiration into the hearts of a nation unwillingly at war once again.

9781473878952, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 208p.

The Battle of the Atlantic

Donald Macintyre 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. Captain Macintyre, who was a distinguished participant in the battle, tells the story with precision and clarity. The long drawn-out duel between escort and U-boat is made vivid by quotation from the logbooks of some of the ablest escort-commanders and from the combatreports of the German U-boat aces. Complementing these eyewitness accounts are nearly 50 unfamiliar photographs drawn from German as well as British sources.

9781473822870, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 192p.

The Last Big Gun At War & At Sea with HMS Belfast

Brian Lavery As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler’s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast. She would go on to play a critical role in the protection of the Arctic Convoys, would fire one of the opening shots at D-Day and continue supporting the Operation Overlord landings for five weeks. This tells the wider story of the naval war at sea and vividly portrays the realities for all of life aboard a Second World War battleship. The book will appeal to all those with an interest in military history and life in the wartime Royal Navy.

9781910860014, $36.95, $24.50, hardback, 440p.

The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse The End of the Battleship Era

Patrick Mahoney and Martin Middlebrook On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack.

They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse. The authors re-create for the reader not only what happened, but also what it was like for the men involved. They dispose of several myths to explain the events of those confused hours, and address the uncertainty, controversy and strong emotions that surrounded the militarily disastrous sinkings.

9781844150755, $29.99, $19.50, paperback, 366p.

Germany’s High Sea Fleet in the World War

Admiral Reinhard Scheer Anglo-German naval rivalry before 1914 had been expected to culminate in a cataclysmic fleet action in the North Sea once war was declared, a battle upon which the outcome of the war would depend: yet the two fleets met only once, at Jutland in 1916, and the battle was far from conclusive. 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.

9781848322097, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 396p.

REFERENCE

Fighter Aces Knights of the Sky

John Sadler and Rosie Serdiville Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more aircraft took to the skies, their pilots began to develop tactics to take down enemy aviators.

Though the infantry in their muddy trenches might see aerial combat as glorious and chivalric, the reality for these ‘Knights of the Sky’ was very different and undeniably deadly. In 1915 the term ‘ace’ was coined to denote a pilot adept at downing enemy aircraft.

This entertaining introduction explores the history and cult of the fighter ace from the first pilots through late 20th century conflicts, which leads to discussion of whether the era of the fighter ace is at an end.

9781612004822, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 160p.

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•REFERENCE • REVOLUTIONARY WAR• Sharpshooters Marksmen through the Ages

Gary Yee From the Middle Ages on the most precise shooters have been employed as marksmen or sharpshooters. The German states made the first use of sharpshooters on the battlefield during the Seven Years War. In World War I the press coined the term "sniper" at a time when accurate German rifle fire was terrorizing the British trenches, leading to the creation of dedicated snipers and developments in weapons technology, sniper training and counter-sniping that has continued ever since. In this accessible introduction packed with firsthand accounts, sniping expert Gary Yee explores the history of the marksman, his weapons and tactics from the flintlock era through to the present day.

9781612004860, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 160p.

Big Guns Artillery on the Battlefield

Angus Konstam Ever since the first appearance of large-caliber guns in the Middle Ages, gunpowder artillery has had an enormous impact on military strategy and warfare. Cannons were initially developed to tackle fortifications, but then technology enabled the development of lighter, more maneuverable field artillery. In this informative introduction, Angus Konstam concisely explains how the development and evolving deployment of artillery led to big guns becoming the key to victory in two world wars and a potent force on the modern battlefield.

9781612004884, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 160p.

Tanks A Century of Tank Warfare

Oscar E. Gilbert and Romain Cansiere Today tanks are synonymous with the modern army; imposing, essential pieces of high-technology equipment, seemingly impregnable. But how did the tank come into being, and how did it develop and influence conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries? Why do different countries use tanks so differently in combat and what was the biggest tank-on-tank battle? This book addresses all these questions and more in an informative and entertaining introduction to this iconic weapon of the last hundred years.

9781612004907, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 160p.

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Tank Combat of the Twentieth Century The Illustrated History of the Tank at War 1914–2000

Christer Jörgensen and Chris Mann Tank Combat discusses in detail the development of tank tactics and strategy over time by Western and Soviet military planners, and the importance of radical figures like Fuller and Guderian in planning the use of armor. The book demonstrates how their ideas and those of others were put into practice on the battlefield itself. The evolution of the tank itself is also covered in detail, with the authors examining the various improvements in tank design over the course of the century.

9781782745358, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 176p.

Infantry Combat of the Twentieth Century The Theory and Practice of Infantry Warfare 1914–2000

Andrew Wiest and M. K. Barbier Infantry Combat examines the changing roles that took place for infantry from 1900 to the year 2000. Illustrated with action photographs and battle maps, Infantry Combat uses examples from an immense range of twentieth century combat situations to provide a definitive guide to modern infantry warfare.

9781782745365, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 176p.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

1781 The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War

Robert L.Tonsetic 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, and sacrifice of its leaders and citizenry ensured its survival. After shattering the American army under Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina, the British army under Lord Cornwallis appeared unstoppable, and was poised to regain the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia for the Crown.

However, when General Nathaniel Greene arrived to take command of Patriot forces in the south, he was able to gradually turn the tables. In this book, Robert Tonsetic provides a detailed analysis of the key battles and campaigns of 1781, supported by numerous eyewitness accounts from privates to generals in the American, French, and British armies.

9781612001548, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 284p.

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•REVOLUTIONARY WAR • UNIFORMS & EQUIPMENT• Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes The Lives of the Extraordinary Patriots Who Followed Arnold to Canada at the Start of the American Revolution

Arthur S. Lefkowitz Hundreds of men followed Colonel Benedict Arnold northward on his famous expedition to join with General Richard Montgomery and capture Quebec in late December 1775. When Montgomery was killed by enemy fire, his men retreated. Arnold’s troops, however, continued fighting after Arnold fell wounded and only surrendered when hopelessly outnumbered and trapped inside the city. Who were these men and what became of them?

Arthur Lefkowitz answers these questions in his fresh and compelling Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes.

9781611211115, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 312p.

Benedict Arnold's Army The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War

Arthur S. Lefkowitz A brilliant American combat officer and this country’s most famous traitor, his contemporaries called Arnold “the American Hannibal” after he successfully led more than 1,000 men through the savage Maine wilderness in 1775.

The objective of Arnold and his heroic corps was the fortress city of Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada.

The epic campaign is the subject of Benedict Arnold’s Army, a fascinating campaign to bring Canada into the war as the 14th colony. Lefkowitz extensively researched Arnold’s expedition and made numerous trips along the same route that Arnold’s army took. There is a closing chapter with detailed information and maps for readers who wish to follow the expedition’s route from the coast of Maine to Quebec City.

9781932714036, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 384p.

The Invasion of Canada Battles of the War of 1812

Ronald Dale The War of 1812 played a major role in creating a Canadian identity. This popular history of the war focuses on the major events and battles: the capture of Detroit, the Battle of Queenston Heights, the taking of York and Niagara, the victory at Chateauguay, the Battle of Lundy's Lane, and the battles waged at sea. It is generously illustrated with archival images as well as with contemporary color photography taken at historical sites associated with the war.

9781552777848, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 96p.

Nelson's Yankee Captain The Life of Boston Loyalist Sir Benjamin Hallowell

Bryan Elson Sir Benjamin Hallowell served a lifetime in the navy of Great Britain through the American and French Revolutions between 1775 and 1815. His drama filled life was profoundly shaped by the currents of history, with strong connections with Canada and the United States through his Boston-bred, staunchly Loyalist family. This thoroughly researched biography illuminates Hallowell’s career and his personal life during these historyshaping events.

9780887807510, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 416p.

In the Shadows of Victory America's Forgotten Military Leaders, 17761876

Thomas D. Phillips During the course of America’s experience it has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in our collective consciousness as “great,” while ignoring others often equally as deserving. In the Shadows of Victory takes a look at an array of American battlefield commanders who were as responsible for triumph as their more famous peers, yet have often gone unsung. From the War of Independence, through the Mexican War and Civil War, and during the numerous Indian wars throughout, great combat leaders have emerged across America’s battlefields, yet have just as suddenly slipped through the cracks of history once the guns went silent. This book describes the heroics and command acumen of 25 superb military leaders whose sacrifice and skill have often been neglected.

9781612003603, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 288p.

UNIFORMS & EQUIPMENT

Swords and Swordsmen

Mikes Loades This magnificent book tells the story of the evolution of swords, how they were made, how they were used, and the people that used them. It doesn't claim to give comprehensive coverage but instead takes certain surviving examples as landmarks on a fascinating journey through the history of swords. Each is selected because it can be linked to a specific individual, thus telling their story too and giving a human interest. The fascinating text is supported by a lavish wealth of images, many previously unpublished and taken specifically for this book.

9781526706461, $39.95, $25.99, paperback, 512p.

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•UNIFORMS & EQUIPMENT • VIETNAM WAR• Western Allied Tanks 1939–45

David Porter The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Western Allied Tanks, 1939–45 offers an highly illustrated guide to the main armored fighting vehicles used by the Western Allies during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level, providing an organizational context for key campaigns throughout the war. Organized chronologically, the book offers a comprehensive survey of Western Allied armored fighting vehicles by campaign, including the fall of Poland, the defense of the Low Countries and France, desert warfare in North Africa, the push through Italy, the Normandy landings, the Battle of the Bulge, and the final defeat of Germany.

9781906626327, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 192p.

M4 Carbine

Eric Micheletti The M4 Carbine and its variants fire 5.56 x 45mm NATO ammunition and are gasoperated, air-cooled, magazinefed, selective fire firearms with a 4-position telescoping stock. The M4 can trace its lineage back to earlier carbine versions of the M16, all based on the original AR-15 made by ArmaLite. It is a shorter and lighter version of the M16A2 assault rifle, with selective fire options including semi-automatic and three-round burst.

Used predominantly by US forces, and by many special forces around the world, this book provides an illustrated history of its design, development and operational history, including its use in Afghanistan and Iraq.

9782352500988, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 82p.

The Minimi Machine Gun

Oliver Rosso The FNH Minimi light machine gun was initially developed to respond to the technological leap forward made by the Soviet PKM whose lightness was due to the way it was made, by stamping. Since 1974, because of its lightness and its firepower, FN Herstal’s light machine gun has illustrated how sound the concept of the direct infantry support weapon is and has been selected by more than 45 user countries and used in fifteen or so conflicts including two major ones: Iraq and Afghanistan. Like the German MG34/42 which founded the concept of the polyvalent machine gun and was given the nickname Hitler’s saw”, in 2010 the FNH Minimi is still the archetypal light machine gun and has earned a nickname: the “free world’s saw”.

9782352501725, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 64p.

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VIETNAM WAR

Phantoms of Bribie The jungles of Vietnam to corporate life and everything in between

Ian Mackay This is a highly readable blend of an engaging yarn and a fascinating portrayal of operational service in Vietnam as an infantry company commander, leading some 100 fine young national service and regular soldiers in close quarter jungle fighting. This book is a tribute to Ian Mackay’s qualities as a battlefield commander, an international sportsman, a successful businessman and an entertaining author.

9781925275575, $24.99, $16.50, paperback, 320p.

Da Nang Diary A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG

Thomas R.Yarborough Originally published in 1991, this classic work has now been revised and updated with additional photos, many of them in color. It is the story of how, in Vietnam, an elite group of Air Force pilots fought a secret air war in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes—flying as low as they could get.

For Tom Yarborough, who logged 1,500 hours of combat flying time, the risk was constant, intense and electrifying.

From the rescuing of downed pilots to taking out enemy positions, to the most harrowing extended missions directly overhead of the NVA, here is the dedication, courage and skill of the fliers who took the war into the enemy's backyard.

9781612004754, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 356p.

Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam

Oscar E. Gilbert In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing unwelcome attention to America’s first, almost covert, commitment of ground troops in South Vietnam. As the Marine Corps presence grew inexorably, the 1st and 3rd Tank Battalions, as well as elements of the reactivated 5th Tank Battalion, were committed to the conflict. For the United States Marine Corps, the protracted and bloody struggle was marked by controversy, but for Marine Corps tankers, it was marked by bitter frustration as they saw their own high levels of command turn their backs on some of the hardest-won lessons of tank-infantry cooperation learned in the Pacific War and in Korea.

9781612005324, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 304p.

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•VIETNAM WAR • WARGAMING • U.S. Forces in Vietnam: 1962-1967

Guillaume Rousseaux This publication covers the chronological evolution of uniforms, equipment and weaponry issued to the American soldier during the first years of the conflict, from 1962 to 1967. All of the uniforms and equipment shown are period, however some of the weapons are replicas.

In the aim of depicting characteristic servicemen at given periods, a great deal of research was undertaken in order to guarantee coherence between the units, dates and geographical situations. Differing from other publications, the author has deliberately chosen to illustrate all types of service personnel rather than solely combatants in order to give an exact presentation of the American military during this period. Indeed, it should be remembered that 85% of service personnel in Vietnam were support troops and advisors.

9782352502524, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 68p.

U.S. Forces in Vietnam: 1968-1975

Guillaume Rousseaux This book is the logical sequel to the first volume (19621967), chronologically presents the evolution of uniforms, equipment and weapons of the American soldier during the Vietnam war, during the period 1968 to 1975. This second volume deals with the 1968 Tet offensive, the maximum commitment of U.S. forces in 1969, incursions into Cambodia in 1970, then the gradual withdrawal of US troops (1970-72). And finally the tragic outcome of this conflict with the evacuation of the American Embassy, which marks the end of the war in Vietnam in 1975.

9782352502876, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 84p.

Forsaken Warriors The Story of an American Advisor who Fought with the South Vietnamese Rangers and Airborne

Robert L.Tonsetic The book is a personal memoir of the author’s service as a US Army advisor during the end-stages of America’s involvement in Vietnam. During the period 1970–71, the US was beginning to draw down its combat forces, and the new watchword was Vietnamization. It was the period when the will of the US to prosecute the war had slipped, and transferring responsibility to the South Vietnamese was the only remaining hope for victory. The author served as a US Army advisor to South Vietnamese Ranger and Airborne units during this critical period. The units that the author advised spearheaded several campaigns in South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, as the US combat units withdrew.

9781935149033, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 256p.

Four Flags: The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier.

Part 1 US Marine Corps Vietnam 1969-72, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77

Dave Barr 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 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'.

9781909982703, $39.95, $25.99, paperback, 300p.

WARGAMING

A Wargamer's Guide to The Anglo-Zulu War

Daniel Mersey Taking one of the most pivotal and famous episodes in British military history, this book gives a wargamer’s perspective of the dramatic events of the AngloZulu War of 1879 and offers advice on how to recreate these on the gaming table.

Daniel Mersey discusses factors to consider when choosing an appropriate set of commercially available rules, or devising your own, to best suit the scale and style of battle you want and to capture the flavor of the period. The relevant ranges of figures and terrain pieces and buildings are also reviewed.

Analysis of the forces involved, organization, tactics and strategies will help with building your armies and there are interesting scenarios included.

9781473848504, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 88p.

A Wargamer's Guide to The Desert War 1940–1943

Daniel Mersey Dan Mersey gives a wargamer’s perspective on the North African campaign of World War II. Dan gives an overview of events from the opening British successes against the Italians, to the famous duels between Monty and the Rommel (the Desert Fox), right up to the US-led invasion of Operation Torch and the eventual defeat of the Afrika Korps, and offers advice on how to recreate these on the gaming table. He discusses factors to consider when choosing an appropriate set of commercially available rules, or devising your own, to best suit the scale and style of battle you want and to capture the flavour of the period.

9781473851085, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 128p.

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•WARGAMING • WARS IN AFRICA• A Wargamer's Guide to the Early Roman Empire

Daniel Mersey Covering the period from 27BC to AD284, Daniel Mersey gives a wargamer’s perspective of the many conflicts and offers advice on how to recreate these on the gaming table. Advice is given on factors to consider when choosing an appropriate set of commercially available rules, or devising your own, to best suit the scale and style of battle you want and capture the flavor of the period. The relevant ranges of figures and terrain pieces and buildings are also reviewed. Analysis of the forces involved, organization, tactics and strategies will help with building your armies and there are interesting scenarios included.

9781473849556, $16.95, $11.50, paperback, 136p.

WARS IN AFRICA

Battle for Cassinga South Africa's Controversial CrossBorder Raid, Angola 1978

Mike McWilliams Battle for Cassinga is written as a first-hand account by an ordinary South African paratrooper who was at the 1978 assault on the Angolan headquarters of PLAN, the armed wing of SWAPO. The book relates why the South African government took the political risk in attacking the fortress in an external operation and examines the SWAPO claims that Cassinga was a refugee camp guarded by a few PLAN soldiers. Battle for Cassinga looks at all the players in a critical light.

9781907677397, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 80p.

The Flechas Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965–1974

John P. Cann In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to preserve its empire. The experiences of the Portuguese and their adjustments to fight a counterinsurgency led to development of specialized units. The most remarkable was the flechas, indigenous Bushmen who lived in eastern Angola with the capacity to live and fight in its difficult terrain. He was vastly superior to the enemy in the environment of eastern Angola, and at the height of the campaign there (1966–1974) this small force accounted for 60% of all enemy kills. This book is the story of how they came to be formed and organized, their initial teething difficulties, and their unqualified successes.

9781909384637, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 72p.

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Bandit Mentality Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War. A Memoir

Lindsay O’Brien Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay ‘Kiwi’ O’Brien’s Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as a trainer and advisor. O’Brien’s war was primarily within selected tribal lands – seeking out and destroying terrorist units in brisk close-range battles. O’Brien moved from the police to working with the initial UANC deployment in the Zambezi Valley.

9781911512028, $39.95, $25.99, paperback, 352p.

Barrel of a Gun A War Correspondent’s Misspent Moments in Combat

Al J.Venter While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J.Venter—from some strange compulsion unexplainable even by him—has felt the need to see them all in person, preferably at the center of the action. In his journeys,Venter associated with an array of similarly daring soldiers and journalists, from “Mad Mike” Hoare to Danny Pearl, as well as elite soldiers from around the world, many of whom, he sadly relates, never emerged from the war zones they entered. The creator of countless documentaries and books, from warfare to shark diving to nuclear proliferation, Al Venter has here offered the reader his own personal combat experiences, in all their multifaceted fascination.

9781935149255, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 480p.

North of the Red Line Recollections of the Border War by Members of the SADF and SWATF: 1966–1989

Hanlie Snyman Wroth and Gerry van Tonder Never before has the human spirit of this 23-year-old conflict been so graphically and unashamedly captured and chronicled as in this book. Over a period of three years, 21,000 of them spoke. Erstwhile antagonists also stepped up to the plate, placing their own personal first-hand experiences amongst those of their enemies of yesterday: Russians, Cubans, Angolans and SWAPO.Veterans wear their hearts on their sleeves, speaking of the psychological impact of tragedy and grief; of bravery and fear; of shenanigans and mischievous escapades to relieve the pressures of war; of miracles and fate; and of camaraderie.

9781928211976, $40.00, $26.50, paperback, 540p.

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•WARS IN AFRICA• Omar Al-Bashir and Africa’s Longest War

Paul Moorcraft President Omar al-Bashir is Africa’s and arguably Arabia’s most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court. No proper biography has been written on him before. Nor has there been a comprehensive military history of Sudan. The book briefly covers the military background until independence.

Then it dissects the long north-south civil war until Bashir’s Islamist military coup in 1989. Thereafter it narrates the wars in the east, south, west (in Darfur), International political and military intervention is also factored in. The author draws on in-depth one-on-one interviews with Bashir himself and his family and close political, military and intelligence colleagues.

9781473828230, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

Bringers of War The Portugese in Africa during the Age of Gunpowder & Sail from the 15th to 18th Century

John Laband Long before coal-fueled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slaves and searching for mineral riches. They fought their ancient Muslim foes wherever they encountered them, overthrew African kingdoms and resisted Dutch, Omani and Ottoman rivals. The enthralling tale of the Portuguese in Africa before the nineteenth century deserves to be every bit as familiar as the Spanish conquest of the Americas.Yet, surprisingly, English-speaking readers know few if any of their ferocious African wars. In this tells this remarkable saga in full for the first time.

9781848326583, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 272p.

Mugabe’s War Machine

Paul Moorcraft and Knox Chitiyo Mugabe’s dictatorship had survived due to the vicious military oppression of the population and the ruthless suppression of opposition. At the same time Mugabe has indulged in numerous military interventions outside his borders regardless of the cost in terms of regional stability, lives and money. The authors examine the background to Mugabe’s accession to power through the black nationalist insurgencies against white rule and the civil war between the black Zimbabweans (ZANLA, ZIPRA and militia groups).

9781848844100, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 224p.

Three Sips of Gin Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts

Timothy Bax There is nothing that terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia's bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts.

Too afraid to even whisper the name amongst themselves, they referred to soldiers of the unit simply as Skuzapu, or pickpockets. In this special 'deluxe' edition, we follow Tim on his missions into the silence of the shadows. As his story unfolds, we begin to understand how he managed to survive and it is here you will find the significance of 'three sips of gin' revealed.

9781909384293, $49.95, $32.50, paperback, 448p.

Out Of Action

Chris Cocks Originally published as Survival Course in 1999, now long out of print, Out of Action is a reworked and updated edition, the sequel to the best-selling Fireforce—one man’s war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry.

The book is divided into two distinct parts: part 1, ‘War’, chronicles Chris Cocks’s final 16 months of combat in the Rhodesian bush war, as a stick leader in PATU, the Police Ant-Terrorist Unit. Part 2, ‘Peace’, recounts the author’s painful adjustment to life as a civilian—a fifteen-year odyssey in the embryonic state of Zimbabwe. Ultimately, though, it is a story of hope, of a man’s triumph over his own demons.

9781920143206, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 312p.

Recce: A Collector's Guide to the History of the South African Special Forces

Paul Matthysen, Matthew Kalkwarf and Michael Huxtable The quintessential professional—prepared to die for his country, but not trained to … this is the elite ‘Recce’ soldier. This book has been 15 years in the making and is the definitive publication on the ‘Recces’. The South African Special Forces have invariably been portrayed as a sinister force, used in covert operations locally and abroad but this is pure political expediency and media propaganda. The unit’s operators are shy, humble soldiers, whose primary role is intelligencegathering, although they will take offensive action, ruthlessly, if necessary. Highly trained professionals in a class of their own, these elite troops have garnered for themselves an international reputation par excellence.

9781920143411, $110.00, $71.99, hardback, 320p.

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•WARS IN AFRICA • WORLD WAR I• 19 With a Bullet A South African Paratrooper in Angola

Granger Korff A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola.

Apart from the ‘standard’ counterinsurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroy SWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several massive South African Defence Force (SADF) conventional cross-border operations, such as Protea, Daisy and Carnation, into Angola to take on FAPLA (Angolan MPLA troops) and their Cuban and Soviet allies. Having grown up as an East Rand rebel street-fighter, Korff’s military ‘career’ is marred with controversy.

9781920143312, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 376p.

Kenya Cowboy A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency

Peter Hewitt Originally published in 1999, Kenya Cowboy has been updated and re-released with a new analytical postscript.

This is a first-hand account of Britain’s futile and often tragic struggle to retain its rich stake in East Africa in the face of the relentless Mau Mau uprising.

Here, Peter Hewitt, a former police officer at the time of the uprising, gives a balanced assessment of the implications of Mau Mau as well as vivid and shocking reconstruction of events that took place. He seeks both to give a human perspective and to shed light on the darker areas of the time. It is a book that is filled with revelations, many damning.

9781920143237, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 368p.

Guide to Sieges of South Africa Anglo-Boer Wars;AngloZulu War; Frontier Wars; Basuto Wars

Nicki von der Heyde This features the pivotal sieges that characterized the Cape Frontier, Anglo-Zulu, Basotho and Anglo-Boer wars.

Accounts of 17 sieges over the last two centuries explore in detail the historical context in which they occurred, the day-to-day military actions that sustained the investments and the conditions both soldiers and civilians faced while defending their territory against a hostile force. The book also provides practical information for visitors who wish to explore these historical sites. A fascinating read that will appeal to anyone interested in the volatile history of the country – armchair historians and travelers alike.

9781775842019, $23.00, $14.99, paperback, 216p.

WORLD WAR I

Padre, Prisoner & Penpusher The World War One Experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O’Rorke

Peter Howson Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World War as the Reverend Benjamin O’Rorke. A regular army chaplain who had seen service in the Boer War he was mobilized with 54 other chaplains at the start of hostilities.

The central part of the book is a transcription of the diary he kept during January to June 1918.

9781910294703, $49.95, $32.50, hardback, 176p.

They Didn’t Want to Die Virgins Sex and Morale in the British Army on the Western Front 19141918

Bruce Cherry This meticulously researched study examines the soldiers’ sex life in detail, exploring its impact on morale and placing it the context of both prewar civilian morality and the army’s historic policy on sex. Noting that it ‘takes two tango’, the book looks at the socio-demographics and motives of the women involved and the workings and economics of the ‘Red Lamp’ army-regulated brothels. Careful not to denigrate the memory of the men who served and died, and avoiding sensationalism, hyperbole, or tabloid-style copy, the author paints a vivid picture of the seedier aspects of line behind the front while arguing its positive impact on morale.

9781910777701, $59.95, $38.99, hardback, 256p.

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•WORLD WAR I• The Western Front 1917-1918

Andrew Wiest For most of World War I, Allied Forces, predominantly those of France and the British Empire, were stalled at trenches on the Western Front. After the first few months of World War I, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast of the North Sea southwards to the Swiss border. With the aid of numerous black and white and color photographs, many previously unpublished, the World War I series recreates the battles and campaigns that raged across the surface of the globe, on land, at sea and in the air. The text is complemented by full-color maps that guide the reader through specific actions and campaigns.

9781906626136, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 224p.

The Balkans, Italy and Africa 1914-1918

David Jordan This volume tells the history of WWI in the Balkans, Italy, and Africa, beginning with Italy’s declaration of war on AustriaHungary and later Germany, through the Serbian defeat in Kosovo. The Austro-Hungarian government began negotiations to secure Italian neutrality, offering the French colony of Tunisia in return. However, Italy then joined the Entente in April 1915 and declared war on Austria-Hungary in May. . Fifteen months later, it declared war on Germany. Faced with Russia, Austria-Hungary could spare only one third of its army to attack Serbia. It then discusses the breakthrough of Entente powers at the end of the conflict, and the attack from German South-West African forces on South Africa.

9781906626143, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 224p.

Gallipoli and the Middle East 1914-1918

Edward J. Erickson The Allied landing and subsequent campaign on the peninsula during World War I is usually known in Britain as the Dardanelles Campaign and in Turkey as the Battle of Çanakkale. In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland, the term Gallipoli alone is used to describe the 8 month campaign. This volume tells the history of WWI in Gallipoli and the Middle East. It spans the disastrous landing at Gallipoli, and the failed attempts to force passage through the Dardanelles. The next 8 months saw fighting with high casualties, and ended with an Allied retreat. The Gallipoli campaign had important implications for Turkey and its military commander.

9781906626150, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 224p.

The Somme: The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs

Richard Van Emden The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and it was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation, hopeful of victory, were agonizingly dashed. Because of its legendary status, the Somme has been the subject of many books. However, nothing has ever been published on the Battle in which the soldiers’ own photographs have been used to illustrate both the campaign’s extraordinary comradeship and its carnage. Approximately 150 neverbefore-published images taken by the men who fought in the campaign illustrate rarely-read accounts of the fighting written by the men who were there.

9781473855212, $49.95, $32.50, hardback, 400p.

The Road to Passchendaele The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs

Richard van Emden Passchendaele is the next volume series Richard van Emden. Once again, using formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard tells the story of 1917, of life both in and out of the line culminating in perhaps the most dreaded battle of them all, the Battle of Passchendaele. The author has an outstanding collection of over 5,000 privately taken and overwhelmingly unpublished photographs, revealing the war as it was seen by the men involved, an existence that was sometimes exhilarating, too often terrifying, and occasionally even fun.

9781473891906, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 392p.

Women in the Great War

Stephen Wynn and Tanya Wynn The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running. Before the war women in the workplace were employed in such jobs as domestic service, clerical work, shop assistants, teachers or as barmaids. These jobs were nearly all undertaken by single women, as once they were married their job swiftly became that a of a wife, mother and home maker. The outbreak of the war changed all of that. Suddenly, women were catapulted into a whole new sphere of work that had previously been the sole domain of men.

9781473834149, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 152p.

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•WORLD WAR I• Miners At War 19141919 South Wales Miners In The Tunnelling Companies On The Western Front

Ritchie Wood The author’s compilation of a unique register identifying those individual South Wales miners who served in the tunneling companies has allowed a remarkable story to be told.

For the first time, the lives of individual South Wales miners are highlighted from pre-war mining days: their very personal contribution within the tunneling companies, to the resting places of those who did not survive the war - and, for the survivors, their ultimate dispatch home.

The underlying theme is of an indefatigable band of men, together with like-minded miners from other British coalfields, asked to carry out multi-tasked duties associated with a form of military mining not foreseen prior to the outbreak of war.

9781911096498, $79.95, $51.99, hardback, 320p.

The Zeebrugge Raid 1918 A Story of Courage and Sacrifice Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There

Paul Kendall Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were by German boats and submarines based at Bruge-Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium. By 1918 it was feared that Britain would be starved into surrender unless the enemy raiders could be stopped. A daring plan was therefore devised to sail directly into the heavily defended port of Zeebrugge and then to sink three obsolete cruisers in the harbour in the hope they would block German vessels from reaching the English Channel. On 23 April the most ambitious amphibious raid of the First World War was carried out, told here through a huge collection of personal accounts and official reports on the bitter fighting.

9781473876712, $44.95, $29.50, hardback, 328p.

Eyewitness on the Somme 1916

Matthew Richardson This graphic account, offers us a direct impression of the reality of the battle from the perspective of the ordinary soldiers and junior officers on the front line. It draws heavily on previously unpublished personal accounts to build up a multifaceted picture of the Somme offensive from the first disastrous day of the attack, through the subsequent operations between July and November 1916.

9781781592991, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

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World War I Commemorative Cook Book A Culinary Journey Through Our Military History

David Hopgood and Cath Hopgood This is a culinary journey through the period when the Anzac legend was born.

A collection of delicious recipes influenced by the battle locations and era of WWI, combined with short narratives tracing the contributions and history of the Anzacs, this book brings the wartime conditions and flavorsome food from the period to life.

With an emphasis on fresh ingredients and traditional recipes prepared with a modern twist, this cookbook showcases the hearty style of cooking evocative of this time.

9781922132819, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 210p.

Bully Beef and Biscuits - Food in the Great War

John Hartley Napoleon Bonaparte is often credited with saying that ‘an army marches on its stomach’.

A hundred years after his time, the soldiers of the Great War would do little marching.

Instead, they would fight their battles from cold, muddy trenches, looking out across No Man’s Land towards another set of trenches that housed the enemy. It is one of the remarkable successes of the war that they rarely went hungry. During the war, the army grew from its peacetime numbers of 250,000 to well over 3 million. They needed three meals a day and, using the men’s own letters and diaries, John Hartley tells the story of the food they ate, how it got to them in those trenches and what they thought of it.

9781473827455, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 384p.

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

Henry Gilbert Nobbs Initially published in 1917, this is the first book written by the extraordinary Captain Gilbert Nobbs. The harrowing memories and experiences of Nobbs at the Battle of the Somme and after are captured here in a rare account of what proved to be one of the most ultimately futile battles and the agonizing aftermath.

Following his journey from the fields of the Somme into German custody, the book provides an unflinching report of the dramatic losses felt during the horrific Battle of the Somme.

9781783463121, $24.95, $16.50, hardback, 160p.

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•WORLD WAR I• Blueprint for Victory Britain's First World War Blitzkrieg Air Force

Greg Baughen 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 and describes in detail how during the war, air support evolved to a level of efficiency that would not be attained again by the RAF until the closing stages of the Second World War. 9781781553923, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 192p.

The Trench: Life and Death on The Western Front 1914-1918

Trevor Yorke The horrors of the First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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. Using his own diagrams, illustrations, and maps, author Trevor Yorke explains the architecture of them, with their command posts, sally points, tunnels, machine gun nests, duck boards, and sleeping billets. There are chapters to explain tactics, weaponry, and daily life. There are special features on the introduction of new weapons of war, such as tanks, early airplanes, and the first use of poison gas.

9781846743177, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 96p.

The Great War

Field Marshal von Hindenberg and Charles Messenger Revered as the epitome of German militarism and moral decency, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was one of the most popular and dominant figures of the Great War and of 20th - century Germany. Alongside Erich Ludendorff he secured a crucial victory over the Russians at Tannenberg before finding fame through a number of significant victories such as the Battle of the Masurian Lakes. His memoirs, written in the immediate aftermath of the German defeat in 1918, provide compelling insights into German strategy and are essential reading for anyone interested in the First World War. This edition has been abridged and includes a new introduction by the renowned historian, Charles Messenger.

9781848327245, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 240p.

War Under the Red Ensign 1914–1918

Bernard Edwards The Kaiser’s determination to starve Britain into surrender and the development of his Navy and the U-boats in particular meant that Britain’s merchant navy was in the front line throughout the Great War. This book charts the progress of the war at sea which began with the sinking of the oil tanker San Wilfrido off Cuxhaven only eight hours after the official declaration of war. The merchantman Glitra was the first victim of a German U-boat (U-17) on 20 October 1914 – she was to be joined by many, many more. As vividly described there were many incidents of atrocious behavior, amounting to war crimes, by the attackers against their hapless victims; sinking of lifeboats, machine-gunning of survivors, attacks without any warning designed to cause maximum casualties.

9781848842298, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 160p.

Lost Opportunity The Battle Of The Ardennes 22 August 1914

Simon J. House On 22 August 1914 two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes.

On that day, 27,000 young French soldiers died. There has never been an operational study of the Battle of the Ardennes in any language. This book fills a gap in the study of the opening phase of the First World War and provides fresh insight into both French and German plans for the prosecution of what was supposed to be a short war. At the center of this book lies a mystery: in a key encounter battle, one French Army corps outnumbered its opposition by nearly six to one and yet dismally failed to capitalize on that superiority. The question is how, and why.

9781911096429, $79.95, $51.99, hardback, 256p.

Passchendaele 103 Days in Hell

Alexandra Churchill, Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In ‘Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell,’ Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a unique method that draws extensively on both official military records and work with the descendants and families of their chosen subjects, the authors paint a vivid and engaging picture of a battle that has become synonymous with the wasteful suffering and horror of the Western Front and how it affected men who took part in it. The book is beautifully presented with portraits, original and modern photography of the battlefield and of Commonwealth War Graves sites.

9781911512301, $59.95, $38.99, hardback, 200p.

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•WORLD WAR I• Understanding the Ypres Salient An Illuminating Battlefield Guide

Thomas Scotland and Steven Heys This book transports the visitor around sites of importance for the First, Second and Third Battles of Ypres – and in so doing, brings the battlefield to life. Eighteen concise chapters focus on aspects of particular battles – explaining troop movements and strategy – and are accompanied by many maps based on those in the official history, which have been painstakingly designed to provide clarity, as well as color photographs taken by the authors during the course of many visits to the Ypres salient.

9781911512509, $39.95, $25.99, paperback, 296p.

Best Love to All The Letters and Diaries of Captain Eric RigbyJones, MC and BAR and His Experiences as a Young Officer with the Liverpool Pals on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918

John Rigby-Jones Best Love to All is an account of the experiences of the author's grandfather as a young officer on the Western Front with the Liverpool Pals. Based on his unpublished letters and diaries, it covers his participation in the battles of Arras and Ypres in 1917, with the Fifth and Second Armies during the great German Spring Offensive of 1918, and in Brussels after the armistice.

Eric Rigby-Jones is one of the many unsung heroes of the war and, were it not for his own account, his bravery would now be forgotten. He was awarded the Military Cross and Bar for his actions on the first and last days of the Spring Offensive.

9781911512059, $59.95, $38.99, hardback, 248p.

Flowers of the Forest Scotland and the First World War

Trevor Royle On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as ‘the workshop of the Empire’.

In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes – the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women’s role in society following on from wartime employment.

9781843410409, $12.99, $8.50, paperback, 400p.

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The Grand Scuttle The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919

Dan van der Vat At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet’s principal anchorage at Orkney by its own officers and men. The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. This is the remarkable story of the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. It contains previously unused German archive material, eyewitness accounts and the recollections of survivors, as well as many contemporary photos which capture the awesome spectacle of the finest ships of the time being deliberately sunk by their own crew.

9781843410690, $12.99, $8.50, paperback, 240p.

Faith in Conflict The Impact of the Great War on the faith of the people of Britain

Stuart Bell It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must have had a significant impact on the religious faith of the British people. There is much anecdotal evidence to support that perception, but how typical of the wider population of combatants and civilians were those stories? In Faith in Conflict, Stuart Bell examines a wide range of published and archival sources to explore how the war affected the beliefs of the churchgoers of wartime Britain, as well as the majority who rarely attended church, but who believed in God and in the afterlife.

9781911512677, $49.95, $32.50, hardback, 240p.

Churchill, Kitchener & Lloyd George First World Warlords

Steve Cliffe Would it have been possible for the First World War to be avoided? David Lloyd George, Britain's wartime prime minister, believed so. In a bloody act of annihilation that killed up to a million young British men, Lloyd George was one of three powerful personalities who indelibly stamped their authority and influence on the conduct and final outcome of 'the war to end all wars'. Of the other two, Winston Churchill became better known for his role in the Second World War, and Lord Kitchener was arguably the greatest instigator of Britain's war effort.

Kitchener exerted tremendous influence on both politicians and a lost generation of British youth. Those who start wars seldom finish them, and Kitchener, tragically, was no exception to this grim rule.

9781781552728, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 144p.

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•WORLD WAR I• Sagittarius Rising

Cecil Lewis Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described

by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly night time raids.

9781848325197, $29.99, $19.50, paperback, 344p.

French Army. Volume 2 1918, 1915 to Victory

André Jouineau In January 1914 the French Army had 47 divisions (777,000 French and 46,000 colonial troops) in 21 regional corps, with attached cavalry and field-artillery units. By 1918 about 40% of all French troops on the Western Front were artillerymen. Increasing use of machine-guns, armored cars and tanks also reduced the numbers in the infantry. This volume examines the French Army's last year of the Great War. 9782352501053, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 68p.

German Offensives of 1918 Campaign Chronicle Series - The Last Desperate Gamble

Ian Passingham Few pivotal years in history are less understood than that of 1918. It was a momentous period, which began with Germany's desperate gamble to win the Great War through a sequence of offensives on the Western Front. Ian Passingham's graphic new study draws on a wide range of original German, British and French sources, and it features previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and photographs. He boldly reassesses German military doctrine, the strategic thinking behind the offensives and the effectiveness of the storm troop tactics used. He also considers how the poor state of German military morale and the privations and unrest of the German people contributed to the army's defeat.

9781844156368, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 208p.

Under the Guns of the Red Baron The Complete Record of Von Richthofen's Victories and Victims Fully Illustrated

Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery In the autumn of 2007, ninety years after this legendary fighter fell to earth, there will be a full length feature film released in the UK and Germany simply entitled The Red Baron, with Joseph Fiennes in the lead role. Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen was the most feared and celebrated of all German pilots in World War I, and has become one of the iconic figures of history. This book, by three respected historians, has researched in detail the lives of all of his 123 victims (over 100 of whom are depicted), and provides a blow-by-blow account of their encounter with the great man – a unique compilation of material.

9781904943976, $26.95, $17.99, paperback, 224p.

No Parachute A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI

Arthur Gould Lee From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces – among them Ball, Bishop, McCudden, Collishaw and Mannock – whose legendary feats have echoed down half a century. But behind the elite there were, in the Royal Flying Corps, many hundreds of other airmen who flew their hazardous daily sorties in outdated planes without ever achieving fame. Here is the story of one of these unknown flyers – a story based on letters written on the day, hot on the event, which tells of a young pilot’s progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter 9781909166042, $26.95, $17.99, hardback, 256p.

From the Somme to Victory The British Army's Experience on the Western Front 19161918

Peter Simkins This collection of Peter Simkins’ most perceptive and challenging essays, which concentrates on British operations in France between 1916 and 1918, shows that his reputation is richly deserved. He focuses on key aspects of the army’s performance in battle, from the first day of the Somme to the Hundred Days, and gives a fascinating insight into the developing theory and practice of the army as it struggled to find a way to break through the German line.

His rigorous analysis undermines some of the common assumptions - and the myths - that still cling to the history of these British battles.

9781781593127, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

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

Michael Lucas Captain George Pirie, R.A.M.C., kept a detailed diary throughout his front line service with the British Army at Gallipoli and the Somme, up to his death in action at Ypres in July 1917. He was a brave and skillful medic, serving as a regimental medical officer with infantry battalions, who was twice mentioned in Dispatches. Unlike so many accounts, written decades after the war and distorted by fading memories and hindsight, Pirie’s diary is fresh: it tells how things were and, rightly or wrongly, how they were perceived at the time. Often, he did not know what tomorrow would bring for him and his companions. This book is profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, and contemporary caricatures, including of Pirie and his friends.

9781909982895, $59.95, $38.99, hardback, 224p.

With the British Army on the Somme Memoirs From the Trenches

Sir William Beach Thomas A rare and vivid account of life on the battlefields of the Great War, this book details the experiences of war journalist William Beach Thomas. One of five men chosen in 1915 to document the war from the Western Front, Thomas was in the terrifying, unique position of supplying the people of England with a glimpse of the Somme. His reporting featured in the Daily Mail in 1916; however, excerpts appearing here have been rewritten to fill in the gaps left by the war censors. First published in 1917, Thomas’ account provides a stark and unwavering account on what was one of humanities bloodiest battles. Moving and intriguing in equal parts, this book is sure to resonate with generations yet to come.

9781783463107, $24.95, $16.50, hardback, 208p.

Retreat and Rearguard - Somme 1918 The Fifth Army Retreat

Jerry Murland This book describes in graphic detail the battles fought by British, Irish, and South African regiments in the area from St Leger to La Fere. It unearths the extraordinary stories of unit and individual courage.

He also examines the work of the Royal Engineers who blew bridges and disrupted lines of communication. This original approach covers battles that in many cases have only been described briefly in official histories.

9781781592670, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

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The Royal Naval Air Services during WWI

Malcolm Smith This is a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War. It includes firsthand testimonies from pilots manning early seaplane stations; an enthralling account from F.J. Rutland (the 'Rutland of Jutland'), who became the first pilot to take off in a Sopwith Pup from a platform on the roof of one of HMS Yarmouth's gun turrets; the true tale behind Rudyard Kipling's short story 'A Flight of Fact'; and many other personalized and illuminating stories. Excerpts from diaries, transcripts of spoken firsthand accounts and other recorded narratives make up the bulk of the book.

This thoughtful consolidation of pilot reflections is sure to appeal broadly.

9781783463831, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 224p.

Verdun 1916 The Renaissance of the Fortress

J.E. Kaufmann and H.W. Kaufmann Wrapped in myth and distortion, the Battle of Verdun is one of the most enigmatic battles of the Great War. Verdun was actually a hollow shell since its forts were largely disarmed and the trench lines were incomplete. So why did the Germans fail to take Verdun? As well as seeking to answer this fundamental question, the authors of this perceptive new study reconsider other key aspects of the battle – the German deployment of stormtroopers, the use of artillery and aircraft, how the French developed the idea of methodical battle. They look too at how Verdun brought about a renaissance of fortress engineering that resulted in the creation of the Maginot Line and the other fortifications constructed in Europe before the Second World War. 9781473827028, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 272p.

Visiting the Fallen Arras North

John Peter Hughes A 'Who's Who' of those buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries located in and around Arras, Northern France. It will also cover the four memorials to the missing within that area. As such, it is a guide book rather than a chronological narrative of the war. The aim of the book is to take the reader/visitor to each cemetery or memorial in turn and to highlight many of the individuals buried or commemorated there. Around 170 cemeteries are covered, as well as the Arras Memorial, the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, the Canadian National Memorial at Vimy Ridge, and the Royal Flying Services Memorial at Arras.

9781473825567, $50.00, $32.99, hardback

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•WORLD WAR I • WORLD WAR II• World War One A Chronological Narrative

Philip Warner The Great War will never be forgotten but that does not mean that it is understood.

To understand the whole conflict with its diverse and complex elements the political background, allegiances and alliances of the combatants and the military thinking of the time must be grasped. Philip Warner provides in this fine book the overview necessary to follow the ambitions and reactions of those involved so enabling the reader to appreciate the strategies and tactics on the ground. He lists the main figures who shaped events and comments on their strengths and failings as well as their significance.

9781844157761, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

Chocolate Soldiers The Story of the Young Citizen Volunteers and 14th Royal irish Rifles during the Great War

Steven Moore Steven Moore has crafted an extensive, revealing and sympathetic account of the Young Citizen Volunteers.

Conceived as non-sectarian and non-political the YCV was, in stages: a youth movement with national aspirations; a paramilitary body prepared to take up arms to prove its loyalty; and the core of a military unit of the British Army that fought in virtually all the major battles of 1916 and 1917. Unkindly dubbed 'The Chocolate Soldiers' and often, in short, the 'odd men out', their story is revealed through photographs and the words of the men themselves.

9781780730592, $26.95, $17.99, paperback, 256p.

Churchill's Secret War With Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Damien Wright After three years of suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis.

In November 1917, Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power. As Russia fractured into loyalist and revolutionary factions, the British Government became drawn into the Civil War. After the withdrawal of British forces, they attempted to cover up involvement by classifying documents. The culmination of more than 15 years of painstaking and exhaustive research – with access to many previously classified official documents, unpublished diaries, manuscripts and personal accounts – author Damien Wright has written the first comprehensive campaign history of British and Commonwealth military intervention in the Russian Civil War 1918-1920.

9781911512103, $79.95, $51.99, hardback, 576p.

WORLD WAR II

Blitzkrieg Hitler's Lightning War in Photographs

Ian Baxter When Europe went to war in 1939 the expectation was that this war would see a repeat of the scenes of 1914–18.

However, the Wehrmacht was to change all that. Learning the lessons of World War I, the Germans unleashed fast, mobile armored columns at the Allies, who were unprepared for the swift nature of modern war. This book is an illustrated record of this awesome new tactic and the success it brought to Nazi Germany in the first few years of the war. Drawing on previously unpublished photographs it presents a unique and visually stunning account of one of history’s most infamous wars, telling the story of what happened from the perspective of ordinary soldiers.

9781782745426, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 224p.

Forgotten Archives 1 The Lost Signal Corps Photos

Darren Neely The US Army Signal Corps photographs were the official standard for photo documentation of the American army during World War II. These photos were captured by trained cameramen and in most cases were taken under enemy fire, in a ditch with riflemen or as enemy shells landed nearby. The photos in this book are those that have not yet been published or have only appeared in hard to find unit histories and cover events in the ETO, from the Normandy breakout until the end of the war. Beautifully illustrated with 266 rare large format photos over 240 pages, Forgotten Archives 1 is must see for the student of military history or armor enthusiast.

9781908032119, $56.95, $37.50, hardback, 240p.

Forgotten Archives 2 The Lost Signal Corps Photos

Darren Neely and Felipe Rodna This 240 page book features 252 clear, high quality photographs of US and German fighting vehicles and is complemented by 8 pages of specially commissioned color artworks by Felipe Rodna which bring the subjects to life. Once again, this book is a must have for the student of military history, armor enthusiast or model maker.

9781908032157, $59.99, $38.99, hardback, 240p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Zemke's Wolfpack A Photographic Odyssey of the 56th Fighter Group During the Second World War

Nigel Julian, Peter Randall and Hub Zemke, Jr. The only US 8th Army Air Force fighter group to retain the mighty P-47 Thunderbolt throughout its combat tour in the European Theater of Operations, the 56th Fighter Group justified its nickname of 'Zemke’s Wolfpack' by the aggressive attitude and tactics instilled by its original wartime commander Hub Zemke. The authors have delved deep into their own extensive collections, along with the 56th Fighter Group museum archives and the many private photograph albums in order to produce the most in-depth photographic record of the Wolfpack and its associated service units published to date.

9780992620783, $49.95, $32.50, hardback, 208p.

Luftwaffe in Colour: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945

Christophe Cony and Jean-Louis Roba Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. This volume with nearly 400 images contains even more fascinating material on the machines of the Luftwaffe and the men who flew them, as their fate took an increasingly grim path.

Among many remarkable images we see one of the last Junkers 87 B-2 operational on the front line on the Eastern Front during the winter of 1942-1943, the huge BV 222 V-5 of Lufttransportstaffel in the port of Heraklion in late 1942, pilots in Tunisia in 1943, the aces Hans Philipp, Wolfgang Spate and Heinz Schnaufer and a vivid demonstration of the reversal in fortunes in 1944 as Allied bombers destroy 106 places, engulfing them in fire at Schwabisch-Hall on German soil.

9781612004556, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 160p.

Luftwaffe in Colour: The Victory Years 1939–1942

Christophe Cony and Jean-Louis Roba In Hitler’s Germany, color photography was primarily co-opted for state purposes, But a number of men had cameras of their own, and in this painstakingly acquired collection, originally published in France, we can witness true life on Germany’s airfields during the period of the Luftwaffe’s ascendancy. Thus not only do we see famous planes such as the Me-109, Ju-87 or He-111, but the wide variety of more obscure types with which the Germans began the war. The array of Arados, Dorniers, Heinkels— not to mention elegant 4-engine Condors—that were initially employed in the war are here in plain sight and full color, providing not only an insight into WWII history but a model maker’s dream.

9781612004082, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 160p.

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Out in Front A Polish Fighter Pilot's Dramatic Air War

Witold 'Lanny' Lanowski 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. On completion of his tour he joins the United States Army Air Forces and the 56th Fighter Group, ‘Zemke’s Wolfpack’ 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.

9780992620745, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 320p.

Or Go Down in Flame A Navigator's Death Over Schweinfurt

W. Raymond Wood “Black Thursday,” the second Schweinfurt raid, was the most savagely fought air battle in U.S. history, and a milestone in the course of World War II. On October 14, 1943, the U.S. Eighth Air Force launched nearly 300 bombers deep into German territory to destroy the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, hoping this would bring enemy industry to a halt. W. Raymond Wood was a child when his brother was lost in the Schweinfurt raid. He not only reveals the experience of the American flyers in this famous battle, but that of the civilians on the ground and the enemy fighters who flew against the bomber stream, including the Me-110 pilot who in all probability destroyed his brother’s plane with a rocket.

9781612001777, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 240p.

Fighter Bases of WW2 US 8th Army Air Force Fighter Command USAAF 1943-45 P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang Squadrons in East Anglia, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Martin W. Bowman This book covers the bases used during the Second World War by the American fighter units that flew in support of the 8th Air Force’s heavy bomber forces. The airfields included are Bodney, Bottisham, Boxted, Debden, Duxford, East Wretham, Fowlmere, Halesworth, Honington, Horsham St. Faith, King’s Cliffe, Leiston, Martlesham Heath, Raydon, Steeple Morden, Wattisham and Wormingford.

9781844159055, $25.99, $16.99, paperback, 208p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Diver! Diver! Diver!

RAF and American Fighter Pilots Battle the V-1 Assault over SouthEast England, 1944-45

Brian Cull and Bruce Lander During the summer months of 1944, a daily onslaught

by V-1 jet-propelled flying bombs, heading for London and southern England, was countered in the skies of Kent and Sussex. In this significant work, respected historians detail every known success by the defending pilots of over 13 nationalities, and where detected, record all locations and casualties of V-1 impacts in London and the south east. In doing so, they rely not only on official documents and combat reports, but also on the vital accounts of the pilots and those on the ground, many of which are quoted verbatim.

9781904943396, $59.95, $38.99, hardback, 256p.

8th Air Force American Heavy Bomber Groups in England 1942-1945

Grégory Pons America’s strategy for complete victory over Nazi Germany called for the utter destruction of its major industrial areas.

These raids were carried out as early as 1942 by hundreds of heavy bombers from the US 8th Air Force, based in England. The descriptions of combat missions flown by B-17 crews over occupied Europe and the Reich are illustrated with official and private pictures taken from the personal albums of pilots, crew members, mechanics and Air Force photographers. The book contains hundreds of large format period pictures of actual missions, planes and crews; as well as personal mementoes and reproductions from servicemen’s scrapbooks.

9782915239829, $49.95, $32.50, hardback, 192p.

Operations in the Middle East 1939-1942

John Grehan and Martin Mace Dispatches in this volume include that on operations in the Middle East August 1939 to November 1940

by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; the dispatch on operations in the Middle East February 1941 to July 1941,

by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; operations in the Middle East July 1941 to October 1941, by General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; operations in the Middle East November 1941 to August 1942, by General Sir Claude J.E. Auchinleck; Operations in Middle East 16 February 1943 to 8 January 1944 by General Maitland Wilson. This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians and students.

9781783462179, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 224p.

Letters of Stone From Nazi Germany to South Africa

Steven Robins As a young boy, Steven Robins was haunted by an old photograph of three women whom he later discovered were his father’s mother and sisters who were killed in the Holocaust. Letters of Stone tracks Steven’s journey of discovery about the lives and fates of the Robinski family, in southern Africa, Berlin, Riga and Auschwitz. It also explores the worldwide rise of eugenics and racial science before the war, which justified the murder of Jews by the Nazis and caused South Africa and other countries to close their doors to Jewish refugees.

9781776090242, $20.95, $13.99, paperback, 288p.

Desert Rats at War North Africa. Italy.

Northwest Europe

George Forty 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’.

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.

9780957691520, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 224p.

General Boy The Life of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Browning

Richard Mead This is the first biography of Boy Browning, whose name is inextricably linked with the creation and employment of Britain’s airborne forces in the Second World War. Commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, Browning served on the Western Front, earning a DSO during the Battle of Cambrai. Browning commanded two brigades before being appointed to command 1 Airborne Division in 1941, later acting as Eisenhower’s advisor on airborne warfare in the Mediterranean. In 1944 he commanded 1st Airborne Corps, which he took to Holland for Operation MARKET GARDEN that September. Allegedly coining the phrase a bridge too far, he has received much of the blame for the operations failure. In late 1944, Browning became Chief of Staff to Mountbatten.

9781473898998, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 288p.

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•WORLD WAR II• The Charles Family's War A gripping story of twin brothers during World War II

Alan Fewster Here is the sweeping true story of a fractured but close-knit Australian family during World War II, focusing on the service of the twins and life on the home front as experienced primarily by their elder sister and mother. Readers are transported from the Charles family home in northern NSW to Canberra, Africa, England, Scotland, the United States, the Subcontinent and Ceylon between 1939 and the end of 1945 as the perspective shifts between the two protagonists. The author’s clever interweaving of primary documents with historical fact gives rare insights into the lives and relationships of the Charles family and creates an authentic snapshot of wartime Australia.

9781925275285, $24.99, $16.50, paperback, 296p.

At Hitler's Side The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant

Nicolaus von Below This is the personal account of a Luftwaffe aide always at Hitler’s side from 1937 until the last days in Berlin, now published for the first time in English. Nicolaus von Below was a 29-year-old pilot when Goering selected him for the position of Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant. He was with Hitler at every stage as the Second World War unfolded. This is a superb source describing life in Hitler’s inner circle. He provides fascinating insight into how Hitler planned the invasions of Poland and Russia, what he thought of Britain and America, why he placed his faith in the V-1 and V-2 projects, how others dealt with him, and much more.

9781848325852, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 256p.

They Have Their Exits The Best Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two

Airey Neave DSO OBE MC The author, who as a senior member of Mrs Thatcher's Government was assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records.

Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make a 'home-run' from Colditz Castle. Thereafter he rejoined the fighting serving in France and Holland before becoming a member of the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremburg War Crimes trials. There he was to meet the most notorious members of the Nazi hierarchy as they faced justice and, in many cases, death.

9780850528657, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 224p.

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Five of the Few Survivors of the Battle of Britain and Blitz Tell Their Story

Steve Darlow Ken ‘Hawkeye’ Lee, Terry Clark, Tony Pickering, John Ellacombe and Pete Olver–five special airmen who earned the right to wear the Battle of Britain clasp with pride. All fought through the Battle and Blitz, all served and survived to the end of the war, but not all came out unscathed. Here are their stories, all different but with a common purpose–a collective tale of youth maturing against the backdrop of war when the stakes were at their highest. ‘This story of courage and bravado, fear and heroism reminds us why so much was owed, and still is, by so many to so few.’ Best of British Magazine.

9781906502829, $18.95, $12.50, paperback, 256p.

The Price of Victory The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War

Boris Kavalerchik, Lev Lopukhovsky and Harold Orenstein The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended the statistics have been a source of bitter controversy, of claim and counterclaim, as each generation of historians has struggled to uncover the truth. This contentious issue is the subject of this absorbing book. Using recently declassified information from the Russian archives, the authors focus in forensic detail on the way the figures were recorded and compiled and seek to explain why, so many years after the war, the full truth about the subject is still far from our reach.

9781473899643, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 208p.

Dubno 1941 The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

Aleksei Isaev In June 1941 the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World War. About 3,000 tanks from the Red Army Kiev Special Military District clashed with about 800 German tanks of Heeresgruppe South. Why did the numerically superior Soviets fail? Based on recently available archival sources, A. Isaev describes the battle from a new point of view: that in fact it’s not the tanks, but armored units, which win or lose battles. Popular myths about impregnable KV and T-34 tanks are laid to rest.

9781910777749, $69.95, $45.50, hardback, 226p.

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•WORLD WAR II• The Battle of Kursk Controversial and Neglected Aspects

Valeriy Zamulin and Stuart Britton In this book, historian Valeriy Zamulin takes a look at several controversial topics regarding the battle and its run-up. The author starts with a detailed look at the Soviet and Russian historiography on the battle.

Zamulin then discusses of how the southern shoulder of the Kursk bulge was formed; preparations for the battle; and the size and composition of Model’s Ninth Army. He examines such controversial topics as whether or not the II SS Panzer Corps was aware of the pending Soviet counterattack at Prokhorovka, and the effectiveness of the Soviet pre-emptive barrage. Zamulin also discusses whether or not General Vatutin erred when arranging his defenses, as well as taking a look at how the myth of 1,500 tanks colliding on a narrow strip of farm fields was perpetuated.

9781911512370, $69.95, $45.50, hardback, 416p.

The Defense of Moscow 1941 The Northern Flank

Jack Radey, Charles Sharp and David M. Glantz There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army’s forces before Moscow had been smashed or encircled, and no reserves were available to defend the capital. All that stood in Hitler's way were a handful of Soviet rifle divisions, tank brigades and hastily assembled militia. According to German accounts, their spearheads were stopped by the mud, but a close examination of German records shows this was not so.

Instead it is clear that it was the resistance of the Red Army and bad, arrogant planning that halted the Wehrmacht.

9781781590706, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 320p.

Stalingrad to Kursk Triumph of the Red Army

Geoffrey Jukes The epic battles fought at Stalingrad and Kursk were pivotal events in the war on the Eastern Front. After the catastrophic failure of the German offensives of 1942 and 1943, the Wehrmacht was forced onto the defensive.

Never again would it regain the initiative against the seemingly inexhaustible forces of the Red Army. But how did this decisive shift in the balance of military power on the Eastern Front come about? In this original and thought-provoking new study Geoffrey Jukes reconstructs Soviet strategy and operations at Stalingrad and Kursk in vivid detail.

9781848840621, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 256p.

The Iasi-Kishinev Operation The Red Army's Summer Offensive Into the Balkans

Soviet General Staff and Richard W. Harrison This book details the Soviet preparation and conduct of the Red Army’s massive offensive into Romania in the summer of 1944. The seventh of the 10 strategic operations conducted by the Soviet armed forces that year, the operation successfully carried out the task of destroying German forces in Northern Romania and taking Germany’s Romanian satellite out of the war. The study, is based only in part on materials published by the Soviet General Staff’s historical section. Nonetheless, this and other material was written and published for the purpose of generalizing the experience of the war.

9781911512431, $79.95, $51.99, hardback, 320p.

Tunnel

Eric Williams This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes dreamt up, very few ever got started and of those only a tiny handful ever came to fruition – and of those a ‘home run’ was as rare as a lottery win. But none of this could suppress the determination, ingenuity and courage of those who were driven to try. This is a thrilling opportunity to read what is virtually ‘lost’ masterpiece of the Prisoner of War escaping genre.

9781844155385, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 224p.

Waffen-SS Hitler's Elite in Photographs

Christopher Ailsby From their humble beginnings as a small, select band responsible for protecting the leader of the Nazi Party, to its million members and 38 divisions by the end of World War II, the SS achieved some of the most stunning victories in the annals of warfare, while also committing a catalogue of war crimes. Including 500 photographs, many seldom seen outside the personal archives of former soldiers, Waffen-SS: Hitler’s Elite in Photographs contains all the battles and campaigns that the Waffen-SS fought, including Poland, France and on the Eastern Front. The book charts the growth of the Panzer divisions, their battlefield tactics, recruitment and organization of units, and an examination of the weapons and equipment.

9781782745433, $29.95, $19.50, paperback, 224p.

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•WORLD WAR II• SS-Major Horst Kopkow From the Gestapo to British Intelligence

Stephen Tyas On 27 May 1942, SS General Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by Britishtrained Czech agents who had parachuted into Czechoslovakia. He died of his wounds on 4 June 1942. Two days later, Gestapo Captain Horst Kopkow’s department at Reich National Security HQ was given fresh directions.

From 6 June 1942 until the end of the war, Kopkow was responsible for coordinating the fight against Soviet and British parachute agents dropped anywhere in Germany or German-occupied territories.

9781781555989, $35.00, $22.99, hardback, 272p.

Blitzkrieg From the Ground Up

Niklas Zetterling The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939–41 were as surprising as they were swift.

Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The false conclusions drawn became myths about the Blitzkrieg that have lingered for decades. This book focuses on the experience of the enlisted men and junior officers in the Blitzkrieg operations in Poland, Norway, Western Europe and Russia.

Using accounts previously unpublished in English, military historian Niklas Zetterling explores how they operated, for example how a company commander led his tanks, how a crew worked together inside a tank, and the role of the repair services.

9781612004600, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 288p.

Beheaded by Hitler Cruelty of the Nazis, Civilian Executions and Judicial Terror 19331945

Colin Pateman 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.

9781781553435, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 240p.

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The Nazis’ Nuremberg Rallies

James Wilson This book describes the background to and the development of the Nazi Party Rallies held at Nuremberg each September from 1933 to 1939.

These Reichsparteitage were vast and meticulously staged managed extravaganzas in which ritual and ceremony played an important part. The Rallies had two key objectives. The first was to focus public attention on the successes of the Nazi Party and connect with the public conscience and build a close bond between Party and people. Using the author’s superb collection of postcards and images, The Nazis’ Nuremberg Rallies takes the reader on a visual journey through each year’s Reichsparteitage. A truly fascinating way to understand this uniquely successful and threatening phenomena.

9781848847576, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 176p.

The Devil's Workshop A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation

Adolf Burger One of the most remarkable episodes of WWII was the Nazi attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the postwar reissue of sterling. In this extraordinary memoir, the sole surviving Czech counterfeiter Adolf Burger describes his wartime experiences, including his time as a prisoner in four concentration camps.

9781848325234, $39.99, $25.99, hardback, 288p.

SS Das Reich At War 1939–1945 A History of the Division on the Western and Eastern Fronts

Ian Baxter Between 1933 and 1939, the strength and influence of the SS grew considerably with thousands of men being recruited into the new ideological armed formation, many into units known as the SS-Verfgungstruppe (Special Disposal Troop). These troops saw action in Poland before switching to the Western Front in 1940. Out of this organization the SS Das Reich Division was created. This book, with its extensive text and over 250 rare and unpublished photographs with detailed captions describes the fighting tactics, the uniforms, the battles and the different elements that went into making the Das Reich Division a formidable fighting force. The Division gained its fearsome and notorious reputation for its fighting ability, often against vastly numerically superior forces, as well as its fanatical zeal.

9781473890893, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 144p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Adolf Hitler Images of War

Nigel Blundell and Maurice Crow One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history’s most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby child, a mummy’s boy, a failed artist, a face in the crowd… the early images of Adolf Hitler give no hint of the demonic spirit that consumed him. The images, many from the author’s own historic collection, demonstrate the mesmerizing power that Hitler wielded not only over the German public but also statesmen, industrialists and global media.

9781526701992, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 128p.

Totenkopf. Volume 2 The Structure, Development and Personalities of the 3.SSPanzer-Division

Mark C.Yerger and Ignacio Arrondo In "Totenkopf" volume II Mark C.Yerger begins with a detailed overview of the officer and combat arms schools related to the Waffen-SS. The topic is especially relevant to the earliest Waffen-SS divisions with "Totenkopf"personnel being trained by this system while many school instructors also served with the division. Starting with the prewar Junkerschulen and their expansion, the extensive primary arms schools that produced SS officers are detailed that also held a diversity of other training programs from mid1942 to nearly the end of hostilities. Topics detailed include SS-Truppenübungsplatz "Beneschau,"SS-Pionierschule "Hradsichko",SS-Panzergrenadierschule "Kienschlag,"and the SS-Artillerieschule II. Along with the final two SS officer academies created, other schools covered include the SSNachrichtenschule and the assault gun school in Bukowan that became the SS-anzerjäger(Sturmgeschütz)Schule "Janowitz."

9781910777992, $89.95, $58.50, hardback, 360p.

Totenkopf. Volume 1 The Structure, Development and Personalities of the 3.SSPanzer-Division

Mark C.Yerger and Ignacio Arrondo Throughout this book is new data on Waffen-SS schools, training units, and predecessors and successors as they pertain to the "Totenkopf" Division. A name index allows the reader to find all text entries and images for the more than 550 individuals in the initial volume that also details significant predecessors and successors. A glossary for the diverse terminology used in included. Primarily unpublished images enhance this volume with their extended data captions, the authors also tracking down period prints or negatives for some well-known images to allow them to be reproduced with previously unseen detail and clarity.

9781910777091, $89.95, $58.50, hardback, 536p.

A German General on the Eastern Front The Letters and Diaries of Gotthard Heinrici 1941-1942

Johannes Hurter The Eastern Front, 1941.

Operation Barbarossa.

Hitler’s armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici, a career soldier, a highly decorated First World War veteran, who observed and recorded in his diary and letters the unprecedented harshness of the German conduct of the campaign. With remarkable candor he described his experiences at the front and the everyday lives of the troops under his command. This selection from Heinrici’s diaries and letters gives a fascinating inside view of the fighting on the Eastern Front from a commander’s perspective. It also provides an unusual insight into the feelings, attitudes, and anxieties of one of the Wehrmacht’s most able generals in the midst of a brutal campaign.

9781781593967, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 176p.

US 9th Air Force Bases in Essex 1943 - 44

Martin W. Bowman This book covers the American air bases used by the Martin B-29 Marauders, P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs of the 9th USAAF Air Force during 1943-44 prior to their move south to France after the D-Day invasion on 6 June 1944. The airfields included are Andrews Field, Birch, Boreham, Boxted, Chipping Ongar, Earls Colne, Gosfield, Great Dunmow, Little Walden, Matching, Roydon, Rivenhall, Stansted, Wethersfield and Wormingford. This book looks at the history of each base, what remains today and explores the favorite local wartime haunts where aircrew and ground crew would have sought entertainment and relaxation.

9781848843325, $24.95, $16.50, paperback

The Maginot Line History and Guide

J E Kaufmann, H W Kaufmann and Aleksander Jankovic Potocnik The Maginot Line, is one of the most famous, extensive and controversial defensive schemes in all military history. It stretched from Belgium to Switzerland, and from Switzerland to the Mediterranean, and it represented the most advanced and ambitious system of static defenses of its time.Yet it failed to deter German aggression or to halt the invasion of France in May 1940.

Much of this historic line has survived and can be visited today. This invaluable handbook, which has been written and compiled by the foremost experts in the field, is a guide to the history of the line and all the major sites concerned.

9781526711519, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 320p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Cassel and Hazebrouck 1940 France and Flanders Campaign

Jerry Murland The book looks closely at the deployment of units in both towns and focuses on the individuals involved in the defense and the subsequent breakout, which ended in capture or death for so many.

There are two car tours that explore the surrounding area of Cassel and the deployment of platoons within Hazebrouck.

These are supplemented by two walking tours, one in Cassel itself and the second further to the west of the town. This is the first detailed account of the rearguard action that took place between 25 and 29 May 1940 at Cassel and Hazebrouck on the western perimeter of the Dunkirk Corridor. The book is illustrated with ten maps and over 100 modern and contemporary photographs.

9781473852655, $22.95, $14.99, paperback, 168p.

World War II Sites in the United States A Directory and Tour Guide

Richard E. Osborne This book identifies and locates the hundreds of military facilities that existed in the United States during World War II - Army camps, airfields, naval bases, prisoner of war camps, ordnance plants, ports of embarkation, military hospitals, buildings and homes related to the war effort or any famous individuals of the wartime era, and much more.

At many of these sites, memorials have been erected which are not listed in this book because they are so numerous.

These memorials can be located by utilizing the companion book - World War II Museums, Memorials, and Historic Displays in the United States.

9780981489810, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 303p.

Battle in the Atlantic (Region 1) War on the Supply Vessels

The Atlantic Ocean was one of the most important battlegrounds. The great Allied convoys transporting millions of tons of vital war material supplies across the Atlantic to England and the North Sea to the Russian ports.

The story of the Battle of the Atlantic was not only written by the German U-boats and their opponents, the convoys. Aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, corvettes, and numerous smaller patrol vessels - they all had a considerable share in the outcome of the battle. The aircraft was during the course of the war the dominant and decisive instrument of modern naval warfare.

This documentary shows inter alia previously unpublished private footage of former U-boat driver.

4260110584982, $24.95, $16.50, dvd ntsc, 90p.

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Heroes All Veteran Airmen of Different Nationalities Tell Their Stories of Service in the Second World War

Steve Bond For years Steve Bond has been interviewing and recording veterans from all sides of the conflict, including air and ground crew. This book is about the experiences and feelings of those in the front line charged with delivery of said strategy. It deals with the sharp end of key campaigns, but also the less ‘glamorous’ sides of service life–selection, training, aircraft ferrying, etc. This is all original material and the stories of the veterans selected are not edited but put in context by Bond. The result gives the reader an up close series of snapshots in time.

9781906502713, $49.95, $32.50, hardback, 416p.

Battle for the Channel The First Month of the Battle of Britain 10 July – 10 August 1940

Brian Cull 10 July—the official first day of the Battle of Britain—witnessed increased aerial activity over the Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British coastline. The main assaults by ever-increasing formations of Luftwaffe bombers, escorted by Bf109s and Bf110s, were initially aimed at British merchant shipping convoys. Within a month the Channel was effectively closed to British shipping. Only a change in the Luftwaffe’s tactics in mid-August, when the main attack changed to the attempted destruction of the RAF’s southern airfields, allowed small convoys to resume sneaking through without too greater hindrance.

9781781556252, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 248p.

Hell Ride of the Liberators (Region1 ) Air Raid Against the Oil Supply Lines of the Axis Powers

On the 1st August 1943, a massive American airborne operation was about to embark on a vital mission Code named Operation Tidal Wave, a total of 174 four engined B-24 Bombers took off in five groups for the mission. Their target was the Romanian oil fields at Ploiesti, a destination that lay deep within enemy lines. This DVD analyses this catastrophic raid and explains exactly what went wrong using original and rare archive film. Complete with a collection of additional footage and pictures, this DVD documents the raid in prolific detail and will appeal to all aviation enthusiasts.

4260110585064, $24.95, $16.50, dvd ntsc, 60p.

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•WORLD WAR II• The Reconstruction of Warriors Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club

E. R. Mayhew The history of the Guinea Pig Club, the band of airmen who were seriously burned in airplane fires, is a truly inspiring, spine-tingling tale.

Plastic surgery was in its infancy before the Second World War. The most rudimentary techniques were only known to a few surgeons worldwide. The Allies were tremendously fortunate in having the maverick surgeon Archibald McIndoe operating at a small hospital in East Grinstead in the south of England. McIndoe constructed a medical infrastructure from scratch. For the first time official records have been used to explain fully how and why this remarkable relationship developed between the Guinea Pig Club, the RAF and the Home Front.

9781848325845, $32.95, $21.50, paperback, 256p.

Objective Saint-Lo 7 June 1944 - 18 July 1944

Georges Bernage This book provides a day-byday account of the forty-two days of fighting from Omaha Beach to Saint-Lô. Follow Lt. Allsup from the beaches at Hill 108 (the "bloody hill") and Lt. Jones, who was among the first to enter Saint-Lô. On the opposing side, discover the fate of the fearsome “green devil” paratroopers of General Schimpf and follow in the footsteps of paratroopers Erwin Schmieger and Rudi Frühbeisser, as they defend their armed camp. Objective Saint-Lô takes the reader along the little or un-known routes from the horrors of Omaha Beach to Trévières, La Cambe, Isigny, through the Aure valley to Hill 108, (“Purple Heart Hill”) and Hills 192 and 122. As well as authentic eyewitness testimony, the book also acts as a field guide, including maps and both contemporary and modern photographs.

9781473857605, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 224p.

Disaster at D-Day The Germans Defeat The Allies, June 1944

Peter Tsouras It is June 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the signs of invasion, ready for the final battle. The outcome could easily have been very different, as Peter Tsouras shows in this masterful and devastating account in which plans, missions and landings go horribly wrong.

9781848327238, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 240p.

Pegasus Bridge

Battlefield History TV Ltd This DVD charts the slow development of British airborne forces and the directive given

by Churchill in June 1940 to form both the Parachute Regiment and the glider airlanding brigades. We follow the plan to capture the two bridges over the canal and river between Caen and the sea from the germ of an idea, through preparations to its delivery, in the opening hours of D-Day. The DVD is split into four parts and each concentrate on a particular phase of the D-Day fighting. The famous Café Gondree is also included on the DVD; the first house in occupied France to be liberated by the invading Allies, it was central to the story of Pegasus Bridge, its capture and holding.

5060247620824, $19.95, $12.99, dvd ntsc, 80p.

Gold Beach: Battle for the Beaches Battle for the Beaches

Battlefield History TV Ltd When Montgomery took over command of 21st Army Group, the COSSAC plan only had three beaches. He promptly upscaled the enterprise inserting two new beaches including GOLD and, what is more, he had just the boys to land there the veteran 50th Northumbrian Division who had fought with the Eighth Army and landed in Sicily. The film covers the buildup, expert commentary of the bombardment by land and sea – shot on the decks and turrets of HMS Belfast, the assault landing and clearing the beach. 69 Brigade had a difficult but successful landing, including the first action that ultimately brought Sergeant Major Stan Hollis the only D Day Victoria Cross, and were to the consternation of the Germans heading inland.

5060247620367, $24.95, $16.50, dvd ntsc, 85p.

Invasion Journal Pictorial Normandie Album Memorial

Our first “Album Mémorial” with over 1,000 photographs appeared in July 1983, and proved to be a tremendous success. In both French and English, during a period when similar works were scarce, it sold close to 50,000 copies during the following decade.

While the times may have changed, this album has taken on a mythical quality and is still fulfilling the need for a detailed description of the landing and Normandy battle. Twentyseven years later, here is a newly updated account of this dramatic period from history in all its splendor.

9782840482895, $129.00, $83.99, hardback, 480p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Eagles And Bulldogs In Normandy

Michael Reynolds This is the story of the two divisions: the American 29th and the British 3rd. After describing the agonies suffered by the Americans on Omaha, and the difficulties that face the British in overcoming strong points at Sword Beach on D-Day, the author traces both divisions as they try to break through the German defenses. It was to take the GI’s nearly six weeks to reach their objective, while the Tommies were forced into a concurrent holding operation. The main part of Caen, the central communication point and respective objective was eventually captured on the 9th July, but by this point, the two Allied divisions had suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and several thousands of French civilians had been killed.

9781848841253, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 272p.

Air Battle for Dunkirk 26 May - 3 June 1940

Norman Franks ‘Where is the RAF?’ was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air forces were there, as Norman Franks proves, detailing the outstanding achievements of the Allied pilots who fought, using outmoded tactics, against enemy pilots who had earlier had easy victories over the Polish, Dutch and Belgian air forces.

The RAF’s achievement reminds us just how close Britain came to disaster in June 1940.

9781910690475, $17.95, $11.99, paperback, 224p.

The Story of the Guards Armoured Division

The Earl of Rosse and E R Hill Deploying to Normandy in 1944 the Division acquitted itself with distinction in the costly Operation GOODWOOD. After the breakout, the Welsh Guards liberated Brussels on 3 September and the Division played a leading role in Operation MARKET GARDEN. In early 1945, the Division fought in Operation VERITABLE, breaking General Schlemm’s lateral line near Menzelen. The Rhine crossing followed, with the Guards Armoured leading XXX Corps towards Bremen and Hamburg. Guardsman Edward Charlton, Irish Guards, severely wounded, broke up a counterattack and earned the last VC of the European war. This is a classic account of the Division’s superb fighting record.

9781526700438, $50.00, $32.99, hardback, 328p.

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V-Weapons Bomber Command Failed to Return

Steve Bond, Steve Darlow, Sean Feast, Marc Hall, Robert Owen and Howard Sandall In the summer of 1944 Nazi Germany launched a terrifying V-weapon attack against the population of southeast England. The Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower was quite clear that the V-weapon counter measures were of paramount importance over everything except the urgent requirements of the D-Day and Normandy land battle. He would use all the resources at his disposal, including the Royal Air Force’s heavy bomber force. This book tells the story of some of those airmen who gave their lives countering the German V-Weapon offensive in direct defense of the civilian population.

9780992620790, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 128p.

WWII Plans That Never Happened 1939-45

Michael Kerrigan A Nazi scheme to capture the Pope, an IRA plan to invade Northern Ireland, a British plan to attack the Soviet Union after the defeat of Hitler or a Japanese seizure of the Panama Canal – it may sound unbelievable, but during World War II these operations and others as seemingly far-fetched were seriously considered by both the Allies and the Axis. World War II Plans That Never Happened tells the stories of some of the most secret and outrageous operations that were planned during the war, many of which could have taken place and might well have changed the course of history. Authoritatively written and with more than 250 color and black-and-white photographs, maps and illustrations, this book proves fascinating to any World War II enthusiast.

9781907446641, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 224p.

The Hitler Options Alternate Decisions of World War II

Kenneth Macksey What would have happened if Hitler invaded England in July 1940, or concentrated on the capture of Moscow in 1941 instead of first diverting to Kiev? Or if Rommel had implemented Plan Orient in 1942, striking across the Middle East to join Japanese forces moving to India? How would the course of World War II have been changed if Churchill had persuaded the Americans to concentrate on attacking the ‘soft underbelly’ of Europe instead of Northern France? In this compelling book, ten acclaimed military historians explore what might have happened if at ten crucial turning-points of the war Hitler had taken a different direction.

9781848327801, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 240p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Wojtek the Bear Polish War Hero

Aileen Orr and Neal Ascherson 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. After the war, Wojtek came to Berwickshire, where he became a significant member of the local community before moving to Edinburgh Zoo. 9781843410652, $12.95, $8.50, paperback, 224p.

Two Fronts, One War

Charles W. Sasser This book relates the individual stories of the Second World War – of Allied bomber pilots shot down over Germany, of American dog faces fighting to grip a toehold on Iwo Jima, of men struggling for survival during the Bataan Death March, of tankers in Europe and pilots who flew the first B-29s against Japan’s mainland, of incredible feats of heroism and self-sacrifice, even of great wartime romances. The author interviewed more than two dozen U.S. veterans for this book.

9781848327276, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 224p.

The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich The True Story Behind Operation Anthropoid

Callum MacDonald On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence, ruthlessness and ambition who had risen from obscurity to become head of the Nazi security police and Governor of Bohemia-Moravia. Regarded by many as Hitler’s most likely successor, he was feared and hated even by other high-ranking Nazi officials. Based on original archive material, interviews with surviving members of the Special Operations Executive, who trained the Czech assassins in the UK, and Czech military intelligence, Callum MacDonald’s book is a well-researched and gripping account of one of the most audacious assassinations of the Second World War. 9781843410362, $12.99, $8.50, paperback, 304p.

Crushing of Poland

Ian Baxter Hitler’s decision to invade Poland in August 1939 triggered the start of the Second World War. It was also the first demonstration of Blitzkrieg tactics. The brave Polish army, inadequately equipped and inferior in numbers, was overwhelmed by this awesome display of military power as well as being taken by surprise. Official German photographers accompanied the triumphant Nazi forces on their victorious advance which first seized the key part of Danzig and then Warsaw, all within one month. The Crushing of Poland captures the drama and raw aggression of the Campaign in photographs and full captions.

9781844158461, $25.99, $16.99, paperback, 160p.

Red Sky in the Morning The Battle of the Barants Sea 1942

Michael Pearson The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britain’s Russian allies. Convoy JW51B sailed in December 1942 with a small close escort of five destroyers, plus a reserve of two light cruisers, which shadowed the main convoy at a distance of seventy miles.

The convoy was attacked on 31 December by a powerful German force. The ensuing engagement proved the worth of the British destroyers and the bravery of the men who sailed in them. It was a naval engagement that had farreaching consequences and resulted in many capital ships of the Kriegsmarine being decommissioned for the rest of World War II. 9781844154524, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 256p.

Spearhead of the Fifth Army The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio

Frank Van Lunteren Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A ghost town at first sight, the residents soon expressed their joy at being liberated.

Four weeks later the 504th—upon the special request of General Mark Clark—spearheaded Fifth Army's drive through the notorious Volturno Valley—the Germans' next stand. Using war diaries, personal journals, letters and interviews with nearly 80 veterans, a close-in view of the 504th P.I.R. in the Fifth Army's Italy Campaign is here provided in unsurpassed detail.

9781612004273, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 320p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Among the Italian Partisans The Allied Contribution to the Resistance

Malcolm Tudor Here is the remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in Second World War Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans, Russians, Poles and Yugoslavs.

Most were escaped prisoners of war who fled their camps after the Italian armistice and surrender in September 1943.

From the summer of 1944 the British Special Operations Executive and American Office of Strategic Services built on information from their compatriots in enemy territory to send in agents to help arm and train the partisans and to coordinate airdrops. Against the backdrop of twenty months of warfare, this is the story of the Allied servicemen who took part in the Italian Resistance.

9781781553398, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 160p.

The Defence and Fall of Greece 1940-41

John Carr On 28 October 1940, the Greek premier, refused to accept a deliberately provocative ultimatum from Mussolini and Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania. This aggression was prompted by Mussolini's desire for a quick victory to rival Hitler's rapid conquest of France and the Low Countries. On paper, Greek forces were poorly equipped and ill prepared for the conflict but Mussolini had underestimated the skill of the defenders.

Within weeks the Italian force was driven back over the border. John Carr's masterful account of these desperate campaigns, draws heavily on Greek sources to emphasize the oft-neglected experience of the Greeks themselves and their contribution to the fight against fascism.

9781781591819, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 272p.

Rossano – A Valley in Flames An Adventure of the Italian Resistance

Major Gordon Lett, DSO, FRGS In July 1942, Major Gordon Lett was taken prisoner at the fall of Tobruk. After fourteen months in the notorious prison camps at Bari and Chieti, he escaped at the Armistice of September 1943 from the camp at Veano and took to the mountains above the Cisa Pass. Rather than return to England, he founded and led an entirely non-political band of highlysuccessful partisans, the Battaglione Internazionale. In the first few months of peace, Lett became a liaison officer of No 1 Special Force, SOE and twice crossed the lines.

Today there is still a strong bond between many of those mentioned in the book and the Lett family.

9781848326217, $39.95, $25.99, hardback, 256p.

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Monte Cassino January–May 1944 The Legend of the Green Devils

Angelos Mansolas In early 1944, two Allied armies were ready to launch a massive assault against German forces in central Italy so they could then march northwards to Rome. There were three routes available to get there. The fastest one passed through the Liri valley, but the entrance was blocked by the rugged Monte Cassino massif, with its hilltop medieval monastery and the town below. The second would be to outflank the Gustav Line to reach the valley, but they would then also have to capture the innumerable rough peaks and ridges along the massif, on a treacherous terrain that only favored the defenders. The third would be to breach the Gustav Line directly in front of the town.

9781781556023, $30.00, $19.99, hardback, 176p.

Twenty-Two on Peleliu Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine

George Peto and Peter Margaritis On September 15, 1944, U.S. Marines landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu, as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines.

Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George Peto. This is the wild and remarkable story of an “Old Breed” Marine, from his youth in the Great Depression, his training and combat in the Pacific during WWII, to his life after the war, told in his own words. Joining the Marine Corps in 1941, just a few months before Pearl Harbor, was initially assigned to a guard unit.

His first experience of combat was during the landings at Finschhaven and Cape Gloucester.

9781612005270, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 368p.

Decima Flottiglia MAS The Best Commandos of the Second World War

Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr A group of determined young human torpedoes and assault swimmers fought bravely for Italy in the Second World War. The actions of these few men severely reduced British naval power in the Mediterranean.

Even with small numbers, and using relatively limited resources, the frogmen were a very effective force in the war against the British. By the end of the war, these men would sink or severely disable over 73,000 tons of Allied warships, and over 128,000 tons of merchant shipping. The story of the Italian frogmen is one of determination and bravery. Against overwhelming odds, they were able to inflict considerable damage on Allied shipping.

9781625451132, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 208p.

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•WORLD WAR II• U-Boats off Bermuda Patrol Summaries and Merchant Ship Survivors Landed in Bermuda 1940-1944

Eric Wiberg For the first time, a book exposes an obscure theater of the First World War in great detail and comprehensively, not just in terms of geography but also from the perspectives of both Allied and Axis participants. U-Boats off Bermuda provides details of specific U-Boat patrols and their commanders, as well as a general overview of the situation in the theater of war around Bermuda. It is a detailed analysis of individual casualties, broken down by a) background of ship, b) background of U-boat, c) attack method (surface and/or submersed), d) details of survivors and their plight at sea and e) their rescue, recuperation and repatriation. Detailed maps and illustrations provide a human face to what were often tragic attacks with fatal consequences.

9781781556061, $35.95, $23.50, hardback, 256p.

Norway 1940 Chronicle of a Chaotic Campaign

Harry Plevy Fought for control of Swedish iron ore to Germany, the campaign made an important contribution to the conduct of the Second World War. It proved the supremacy of air power in modern warfare and the vulnerability of land and sea forces. It was the first conflict in which the Germans used all three arms of their forces in combined assault in which glider-borne troops were used to secure airfields and strategic targets. The Allies tried to conduct the Campaign on land with inadequate air support and the use of infantrymen. The book deals with the strategic and political imperatives, as well as operations, in a rapidly changing two month campaign.

9781781555811, $40.00, $26.50, hardback, 416p.

Gold Run The Rescue of Norway’s Gold Bullion from the Nazis, April 1940

Robert Pearson Gold Run is the true story of arguably one of the greatest gold snatches in history. It is a tale of immense bravery, endurance and great leadership of loyal Norwegians, plus a little good fortune and help from the British against intrigue and overwhelming odds. The German invasion of Norway almost took Norway completely unawares; had it not been for the defiance of one coastal battery, the Norwegian Royal Family, Government, and nearly 50 tons of Gold bullion would have had no chance to escape. This is the story.

9781612004624, $19.95, $12.99, paperback, 266p.

Swastikas in the Arctic U-boat Alley through the Frozen Hell

Jak P. Mallmann Showell During the Second World War, the Arctic saw an unusually high intensity of action, adventure, excitement and tragedy, and this book 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. Gloriously illustrated with many unpublished photographs, this is a thrilling account of a war fought in very difficult circumstances.

9781781552926, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 240p.

Britain's Victory, Denmark's Freedom Danish Volunteers in Allied Air Forces During the Second World War

Mikkel Plannthin On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark. Within hours and without a real fight the government capitulated; cooperating with the Nazis in order to secure as much self-determination as possible. Not everybody accepted the surrender. Abroad, Danes mobilized to fight back.

Men and women turned up at recruiting offices around the world, volunteering to fight for Denmark’s freedom.

More than 250 volunteered for the Allied air forces.

This book offers the most comprehensive account of the Danish contribution to the Allied air forces of the Second World War ever written. It covers Danish pilots in Britain, Germany, and Coastal Command; their involvement in the air wars of the Mediterranean and the Balkans; service in the Far East and Pacific; as well as Danes on the ground, often far from the frontline.

9781781556030, $30.00, $19.99, hardback, 272p.

Bombers Fly East WWII RAF Operations in the Middle and Far East

Martin W Bowman The author recounts the thrilling RAF Wellington and Liberator bombing and resupply operations from Italy, before following the action to the Far East and the combats between the RAF and the Japanese Imperial Air Force. The book is illustrated with never before seen images of RAF, SAAF, RAAF and USAAF aircraft and their crews.

9781473863149, $34.95, $22.99, hardback, 272p.

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•WORLD WAR II• Escape to Pagan The True Story of One Family’s Fight to Survive in World War II Occupied Asia

Brian Devereux A gripping true story of survival, as one family struggles against overwhelming odds in WW2. In Hong Kong, leading an attack on Golden Hill, Jack Devereux of the Royal Scots is shot through the head. He miraculously survives capture. In Burma, Kate Devereux, her infant son (the author), and mother Harriet desperately flee their home. The once prosperous family becomes destitute and starving. They are kept alive by the author’s grandmother, a resourceful woman with a proud bearing, able to speak fluent Japanese but also to pass herself off as native Burmese. Their destination is the deserted and mystic city of Pagan. The beautiful but deadly landscape of Burma is the setting for their adventure-filled story.

9781612003733, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 320p.

Marines à Iwo Jima

Charles Trang Iwo Jima remains in the collective memory of Americans as the most horrific battle of the war in the Pacific.

This ferocious battle of the elite American Army fighting against Japanese who would fight to the bitter end, was abundantly covered by reporters belonging to the Marine Corps. More images were taken here than in any other theater of operations. The photos captured strike at the heart of the fighting, without any complacency or stage setting. Charles Trang presents a variety of photographs ranging from tanks, amphibious vehicles, weapons, mortars, rocket launchers, and various types of aircraft. Included are more than 400 photographs and original pieces of documentation.

9782840483205, $87.00, $56.99, hardback, 200p.

Prisoner of the Rising Sun

Stanley Wort This is the story of a young man thrust into the Royal Navy in distant Hong Kong. He relates some of the humorous situations in which he found himself and provides a realistic account of what life was like for servicemen in pre-war Hong Kong. It describes the prelude to war from his point of view and his part in the Battle for Hong Kong. There follows the story of what happened to him when taken prisoner and life and death in prison camps in Hong Kong and Japan.

It tells what it was like to be shipped to Japan in the hold of Japanese merchant men with constant fear of being torpedoed.

9781848840034, $39.99, $25.99, hardback, 208p.

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Sunset in the East A War Memoir of Burma and Java 194346

John Hudson It is generally recognized that the war in Burma against the Japanese was as fierce as any. The Battle of Kohima was the turning point of this extraordinary campaign and personal accounts of the fighting there are greatly sought after. The author was in the thick of the action and his record is indeed a graphic and moving one. Thereafter he was sent down to Malaya, but when the War ended, he found himself in Indonesia under the most bizarre circumstances. A bitter war of national independence from the Dutch colonial power was underway and it became necessary to employ the defeated Japanese troops to keep a semblance of order. This little known turn of events makes for the most fascinating reading and adds a new dimension to what would in any case be a first class memoir.

9780850528466, $32.95, $21.50, hardback, 208p.

You’ll Die in Singapore

Charles McCormack Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, Charles McCormac, a World War Two prisoner-ofwar in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he'd die.

With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began the twothousand-mile escape from Singapore to Australia.

9781844155408, $24.95, $16.50, paperback, 192p.

Our Chances Were Zero The Daring Escape by two German POW's from India in 1942

Rolf Magener During World War II the British imprisoned many German and Italian prisoners of war and civilian internees in India. The less co-operative prisoners were kept under harsh conditions in camps in the Himalayan foothills. The author was a German civilian working in India at the outbreak of war and was promptly interned by the British. In 1942 Magener and another prisoner, Heins von Have, finally managed to escape. Getting out of the camp was only the prelude to the difficult task of making their way across the entire Indian sub-continent in an attempt to reach friendly territory. His grippingly told personal narrative of a German's escape from Allied custody is unique in the annals of prisoner-of-war escape and evasion.

9780850528442, $29.95, $19.50, hardback, 192p.

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The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the The U.S. Army Cooks’ The War for Africa fighting on the Eastern Manual Fred Bridgland Teenage Resistance Front, as ofit controlled the This manual prepares a cook for This book examines the height Fighter route to Minsk.

A salient in any eventuality whether in the Cuban-South African fighting in in the 3,000 German lines,Vitebsk garrison, atWith camp the in theMaquisards field, or on Angola in 1987–88, when the march,Occupied with instructions on African soldiers and about had beenSouth declared a Festerplatz—a fortress town— France everythingHubert from butchery 8,000itUNITA guerrilla fighters meaning that must be held at all costs, a task handed to Verneret to and Patrick preservingDepardon meat and how to fought in alliance Cubans was chief of 3rd Panzer Army in 1943.against Otto the Heidkämper organize the servinginofEnglish the food and the armed forces of the Marxist Available for the staff of Georg-Hans Reinhardt's 3rd Panzer Army, Army and clean utensils. With an introduction explaining MPLA government, a force of over 50,000 men. first time, this eloquent Group Center, which was stationed around Vitebsk and the historical background, this is a fascinating and fun Bridgland pieced together the course of the war, fought diary details the exploits of 1942 June 1944. exploration of early 20th-century American army in one of Smolensk the world’sfrom mostearly remote anduntil wild terrains,

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