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Volume XI, Issue III, Fall 2020

Pacific Theater

Welcome all, to the third edition of The Warrior for 2020!

From the beaches of Peleliu to the jungles of Burma, all the way to the port of Singapore and the shores of Japan itself, this edition’s feature on The Pacific Theater (pp 8 – 16) is a one-stop-shop for whatever you might want to know about the warmer half of World War II. Learn the brutal experience of those captured by the Japanese in Railway of Hell (p 12), of those who refused to surrender in American Guerrilla (p 15), or of the oft forgotten achievements of the Mexican Airforce in support of MacArthur in The Aztec Eagles (p 8).

Prefer the European side of the war instead? No worries,The Warrior has got you covered, just as it does no matter your favorite period of military history.Take to the ocean skies of World War II with Airwar Over the Atlantic (p 41) or perhaps somewhere more recent like The Hot Skies of the Cold War (p 47).

Head back to ancient times to learn of beginnings of cavalry warfare with Dawn of the Horse Warriors (p 17) or just to the 19th century to watch the Zulu overwhelm the British with Isandlwana (p 29).

Swords and spears to spitfires and snipers, if you’re interested in military history, we’ve got something for you.

Are you an aspiring or established military history author? We have a special note for you from our Publisher below.

Happy reading, Will, Girard, & Courtney The Warrior Team

Hello!

As the publisher for Casemate it’s my job to find exciting new books to add to our list, work with authors as they write and shape their manuscripts, then oversee the process of turning those manuscripts into finished books.This year has given the Casemate team plenty of challenges, but there have been undeniable silver linings to the dark clouds of 2020. In particular I have been hugely impressed by the dedication of my colleagues working away at home, but also by the productivity of our authors—many of them seem to have used their unplanned extra time at home to write and several have submitted their books early (perhaps an upcoming deadline was the perfect excuse to hide away from family for a few hours a day?). Others have used the time to focus on new projects and have sent us brilliant new proposals to consider for the list.

We are sure that there are other potential Casemate authors who have found a new productivity in these strange times, but as the usual fairs and conferences have been canceled, we won’t get to meet them and find out about the projects they are working on. So, if you, or someone you know, has been busy penning their memoirs, or a book on a military history theme, please get in touch! Outline details can be submitted here, and if it sounds like a project for us we’ll set up a virtual meeting to discuss it further. https://www.casematepublishers.com/author-submissions Best Wishes, Ruth Publisher The front cover image is from The Most Dangerous Moment of War: Japan’s Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 by John Clancy, Casemate Publishers, 2015 Typeset by Courtney Huntzinger

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• NEW FROM CASEMATE • Atomic Salvation How the A-Bomb Saved the Lives of 32 Million People Dr.Tom Lewis, OAM It has always been a difficult concept to stomach—that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought about peace. Since the initial grateful acknowledgment of the success of the A-bomb attacks in ending World War II, there has been a steady reversal of opinion and sentiment: from a first hearty appreciation to widespread condemnation of the United States for its actions. Atomic Salvation investigates the full situation of the times to a previously unplumbed depth. It examines documents from both Japanese and Allied sources, but it uses in-depth analysis to extend beyond the mere recounting of statistics. It charts the full extent of the possible casualties on both sides had a conventional assault akin to D-Day gone ahead against Japan. The work is not concerned solely with the military necessity to use the bombs, it also investigates why that necessity has been increasingly challenged over the successive decades.

009445, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 364 pages

Baker Bandits Korea’s Band of Brothers Cynthia Shelton The Baker Bandits brings together firsthand accounts from the men of B-1-5 about their time in Korea: their battles, their fallen commanders, death in the foxhole, lost platoons, injuries, and what happened to them after the war.

008981, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 384 pages

Widowmaker Living and Dying with the Corsair Tim Hillier-Graves The Vought-Sikorsky Corsair was one of the most potent fighters of the Second World War. It was also one of the most flawed. The US Navy condemned it as being too dangerous for carrier operations and refused to certify it safe for use at sea.

This book describes the Corsair’s development and tells the sad but inspiring story of the young men who struggled and suffered to make the Corsair a going concern in the most vicious unforgiving war one can imagine.

009124, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 214 pages

Major General James A. Ulio How the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army Enabled Allied Victory Alan E Mesches Major General James A. Ulio helped win World War II, though his war was fought from the desk.

As adjutant-general throughout the war years, many American families would have recognized his name from one of nearly 900,000 telegrams he signed—all of which began with the words: “…regret to inform you...” However, his role was far wider than overseeing these sad communications.

008264, $37.95 , $24.99 , Hardback, 216 pages

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• NEW FROM CASEMATE • From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2 The IV. SS-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Efforts, December 1944– February 1945 Douglas E. Nash Sr. On Christmas Day 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps would begin boarding express trains to the front lines in Hungary, hundreds of kilometers away. Their mission: Relieve Budapest! Thus would begin the final round in the saga of the IV SS-Panzerkorps. Threatened as much by their high command as by the forces of the Soviet Union, Gille and his troops overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their attempts to rescue the city’s garrison, only to have their final attack called off at the last minute. At that moment, they were only a few kilometers away from the objective towards which they had striven for nearly a month. After the relief attempt’s failure sealed the fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians and Germans, the only course of action remaining was to dig in and protect the Hungarian oilfields as long as possible.

008738, $37.95 , $24.99 , Hardback, 552 pages

Custer From the Civil War’s Boy General to the Battle of the Little Bighorn Ted Behncke Gary Bloomfield This is the first Custer biography to focus on these lesser-known parts of his life in great detail.

The approach uses all of Custer’s known writings: letters; magazine articles; his book, My Life on the Plains; and his unfinished memoirs of the Civil War; along with materials and books by his wife, Elizabeth Custer; and reflections of others who knew him well.

008899, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 264 pages

Between Five Eyes 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing Anthony R Wells Admiral The Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC PC UK/US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing: Relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells charts fifty years of change, turmoil, intense challenges, successes and failures, and never-ending abiding Five Eyes relationships. He traces the development of institutions that he firmly believes have sustained, and indeed may have saved, Western democracies and their allies from those ill disposed to the value system and culture of our nations.

009001, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

America’s Good Terrorist John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid Charles P Poland jr John Brown is a common name, but the John Brown who masterminded the failed raid at Harpers Ferry was anything but common. His failed efforts have left an imprint upon our history, and his story still swirls in controversy. Was he a madman who felt his violent solution to slavery was ordained by Providence or a heroic freedom fighter who tried to liberate the downtrodden slave? These bipolar characterizations of the violent abolitionist have captivated Americans. The prevailing view from the time of the raid to well into the twentieth century—that his actions were the product of an unbalanced mind—has shifted to the idea that he committed courageous acts to undo a terrible injustice.

009254, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 336 pages

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• NEW FROM CASEMATE • Armor Attacks The Tank Platoon: an Interactive Exercise in Small-unit Tactics and Leadership Col. John F Antal (Ret).

In this unique, interactive story, you are the leader of a U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank platoon.

Throughout the text, you will have an opportunity to make life-or-death decisions, and the events that unfold will be dictated by the choices you make. As you progress through the book, you will learn important tactical and operational lessons. Whether or not you are—or want to be—a tank platoon leader you will find this book highly entertaining and instructive. There are two operations to survive—an assault and a counter-reconnaissance mission. In each you must bring your knowledge and judgment to bear on the scenario in order to achieve the objective. If you choose wrong, defeat and even death may be your fate. If you succeed, you can savor the taste of victory and live to fight another day.

009148, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 552 pages

A Shau Valor American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963–1971 Col.Thomas R Yarborough Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and U.S. armies repeatedly fought head-to-head. A Shau Valor is a thoroughly documented study of nine years of American combat operations encompassing the crucial frontier valley and a 15-mile radius around it—the most deadly killing ground of the entire Vietnam War. 008912, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 312 pages

Sharks of the Air Willy Messerschmitt and the Development of History’s First Operational Jet Fighter James Neal Harvey Sharks of the Air tells the story of Willy Messerschmitt’s life, and shows how this aeronautical genius built many revolutionary airplanes—not excluding the Luftwaffe’s mainstay, the Me109—and culminating in the Me-262. It describes how his various warplanes fought in Spain, Poland, France, Britain, the U.S.S.R., and over Germany, and it provides thrilling accounts of air battles drawn from combat reports and interviews with veterans. This book also shows how Messerschmitt—like other geniuses such as Porsche, von Braun, and Speer— was affected by cutthroat Nazi politics, and describes his intense rivalries with other aircraft designers.

008929, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 408 pages

Special Operations in the American Revolution

Robert L Tonsetic “What is unique about this book is the perspective. To a modern-day reader, special ops conjure images of highly trained and exotically equipped soldiers leaping out of helicopters and Zodiac boats to wipe out terrorists... In an era when warfare was supposed to be gentlemanly and follow certain rules, did Washington and his contemporaries embrace special operations? The answer would seem to be, ‘Yes.’ Even if they didn’t use the term ‘special ops,’ they were willing to employ elite reconnaissance units, spies and partisan bands. Washington didn’t have SEAL Team 6.

But he made good use of what he had.” —The National Interest 008936, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 288 pages

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• NEW FROM CASEMATE • The 3rd SS Panzer Regiment 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf Pierre Tiquet The 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf” was one of 38 divisions of the Waffen-SS in World War II. Notorious for its brutailty, most notably a mass execution of British prisoners in the battle of France, it had a fearsome reputation. Involvement in the battle of France including the Le Paradis massacre was followed by the division joining Army Group North in the invasion of Russia in 1941, where heavy losses were suffered. SS-Panzer Regiment Totenkopf takes up the story from early 1943, when the division had been reformed and refitted to return to the Eastern Front. Told by the veterans and survivors themselves through a collection of unseen photographs, original documents and recollections, this is a unique collection of material.

00731A, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1939–42

Neil Page This first volume of Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe traces the story of the Luftwaffe’s day fighter arm (der Tagjagd) from its inception to 1942. Organized campaign by campaign, this chronological account interweaves brief biographical details, newly translated personal accounts and key moments in the careers of a host of notable and lesser known Luftwaffe aces. Around 500 Luftwaffe fighter pilots were awarded the Knight’s Cross, accumulating huge numbers of missions flown.

008486, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45

Neil Page This volume of Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe traces the story of the Luftwaffe’s day fighter arm from 1942 through to the end of the war in Europe, covering missions over Russia in 1943, over the West and the Reich, the Eastern Front and the Mediterranean. Organized campaign by campaign, this chronological account interweaves brief biographical details, newly translated personal accounts and key moments in the careers of a host of notable and lesser known Luftwaffe aces.

008790, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

U.S. Army Ambulances and Medical Vehicles in World War II

Didier Andres Of all the armies involved in World War II, the U.S. Army developed the most sophisticated system for the transport and treatment of injured and sick soldiers, pushing the boundaries of available technology to give their men the best chance of not only survival but a full recovery.

This fully illustrated, comprehensive book covers all types of medical vehicles used both intheater and in the United States, including ambulances and technical support vehicles.

008653, $37.95 , $24.99 , Hardback, 144 pages

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• BATTLE THE BULGE • COMING SOON :OF NEW SPY THRILLER

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THE CIA’S MOST VALUABLE ASSET IN EAST BERLIN HAS BEEN COMPROMISED – CAN A CRACK TEAM OF SPECIAL FORCES OPERATIVES RESCUE HIM BEFORE HE’S CAPTURED?

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"Fiction that reads like fact. Boots on the ground, real-life drama, rich with details only an insider could write … an outstanding book."

—John Stryker Meyer, MACV Special Operations Group veteran, author of Across The Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam

“Fans of realistic espionage fiction will look forward to the sequel."

—Publishers Weekly

James Stejskalis a former US Army Special Forces soldier who served on special operations teams in many “interesting places” worldwide. He was then recruited by the CIA to serve again as a senior Case Officer. Along the way he realized that many of the stories he wanted to tell would never be approved for publication by the US Government. So, James decided to tell them as fiction. Using the real-world experience he gained, Stejskal tells the “stories” of some of the remarkable men and women he worked with and the high stakes they lived with during the Cold War. The stories are fiction but are based in reality with plenty of supporting real-world details.

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BATTLE OF THE BULGE• • • •THE PACIFIC THEATER Pacific Adversaries.

Volume 2 Imperial Japanese Navy vs. The Allies, New Guinea & the Solomons

South Pacific Air War Volume 1 The Fall of Rabaul December 1941 -

1942-1944

Michael John Claringbould Peter Ingman

Michael Claringbould This Volume Two of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting.

Further, for each of the chosen stories photographic or other evidence enables an accurate depiction of the aircraft involved. This second volume focuses exclusively on confrontations with the Japanese Navy Air Force (JNAF) in New Guinea and the Solomons, known to the Japanese as the “South Seas”.

March 1942

This volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific from December 1941 until March 1942. As Imperial Japanese Navy flying boats and land-based bombers penetrated over vast distances, a few under-strength squadrons of the Royal Australian Air Force put up a spirited fight. However it was the supreme power of aircraft carriers that had the biggest impact.

588944, $44.95 , $29.50 , Paperback, 252 pages

665908, $36.95 , $24.50 , Paperback, 108 pages

Carrier Attack Darwin 1942 The Complete Guide to Australia’s own Pearl Harbor Dr Tom Lewis OAM Peter Ingman When the Pacific war began it was a case of “when not if” Darwin would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the extraordinary scale and ferocity of the 19 February 1942 raid. A massive strike force, blooded at Pearl Harbor just weeks before, hit Darwin in the biggest Japanese air attack ever in the South Pacific. Since then, generations of Australians have been drawn to the stories and folklore of the Darwin action. But facts have blurred and mythology has thrived.

Darwin’s Submarine I-124 The Story of a Covert Japanese Squadron Waging a Secret Underwater War Against Northern Australia Dr Tom Lewis OAM The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Together, these 80-man boats laid mines, and then waited in their killing zones for targets to torpedo. On 20 January 1942, it all went horribly wrong. Sunk with all hands, the submarine I-124 remains outside Darwin today, testimony to bravery but also to folly.

735194, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 182 pages

151933, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 368 pages

The Aztec Eagles The Forgotten Allies of the Second World War Walter Zapotoczny Mexico’s aid to the United States and the Allies has been largely ignored by historians and is mostly absent from American history books.

When the Mexican aviators had the opportunity to show their courage in battle, they did so with valor. Allied theater commander General Douglas MacArthur commended the pilots and support personnel. The Mexican Expeditionary Force 201st Fighter Squadron flew missions supporting ground troops in the Philippines and long-range sorties over Formosa, helped the Allies defeat Japan, helped end the isolationism of Mexico, and paved the way for important agreements between the United States and Mexico.

557471, $35.00 , $22.99 , Hardback, pages

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Beaufighters Over Sea, Sand, and Steaming Jungles Jack Colman Richard Colman

In October 1943, Jack changed from Liberators to Beaufighters having been selected for Torbeau training in Scotland.

He joined a Strike Wing at North Coates attacking North Sea convoys off the coast of Holland. Later Jack and his Beaufighter were sent to the Far East where he was deployed to fly out of Assam over Burma supporting the ‘Forgotten’ Army. Midway through the ‘tour’ they converted to Mosquitoes; a change he was not particularly happy about. After a short ‘rest’ converting pilots to Mosquitoes he felt lucky to be put in charge of a small Unit flying Service Personnel to various venues in Southern India.

557464, $40.00 , $26.50 , Hardback, pages

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BATTLE OF THE BULGE• • ••THE PACIFIC THEATER Guadalcanal Had It All! Raiders, Destroyers and Banzai Charges

They Called Themselves the Battling Bastards of Bataan Jay Wertz Ed Jiménez

Jay Wertz Like the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli, Guadalcanal will forever be a part of United States Marine Corps history and lore. On this rustic South Pacific island, Marines made the first invasion of lands seized by the Japanese in their initial sweep through the region. At stake was air superiority in a wide area of the South Pacific and beyond. The bloody six-month campaign ended with U. S. and Allied victory, but in the process thousands of lives and dozens of ships and planes on both sides were sacrificed. Comic book includes graphic history and continuation of the serialized graphic novel Separated

By War.

This fully illustrated account details all the major battles, decisions, and outcomes as the Japanese military sought to collapse the United States’ principal military enclave in East Asia and seize a country rich in natural and human resources for their Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere. The planned 50-day campaign took 133 days because they underestimated the grit of their foes.

Despite horrendous conditions, lack of air support, food, and medicine, sheer grit compelled the Americans and Filipinos not to give up, even if the rest of the world had given up on them.

889337, $4.95 , $3.50 , Paperback, 24 pages

889382, $4.95 , $3.50 , Paperback, 24 pages

Hell in the Central Pacific 1944 The Palau Islands Jon Diamond In September 1944, the Americans attacked Peleliu and Angaur in the Palau group of the Western Caroline Islands.

While Angaur fell in four days, on Peleliu the Japanese resisted tenaciously. It was only after over two months’ bitter fighting that the Americans finally controlled the island. Despite the heavy cost, the benefits of this hard fought and costly victory were doubtful. But, as the graphic images and well researched text bear witness, there is no denying the courage and determination shown by the attacking US forces.

762160, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 192 pages

The Battle of Okinawa 1945 The Real Story Behind Hacksaw Ridge Jon Diamond The American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation ICEBERG was fought from 1 April to 22 June 1945.

350 miles from Japan, Okinawa was intended to be the staging area for the Allied invasion of the Japanese mainland. The Japanese Thirty Second Army defenders were on land and the Imperial Navy at sea fought tenaciously. They faced the US Tenth Army, comprising the US Army XXIV Corps and the US Marines’ III Amphibious Corps. As the author of this superb Images of War book describes in words and pictures this was one of the most bitterly fought and costly campaigns of the Second World War. 726001, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 240 pages

The Fall of Malaya and Singapore Images of War Jon Diamond From 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese.

British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and tactical superiority. Thought to be an impregnable fortress, its defenses against land attacks were shockingly deficient.

General Percival’s leadership was at best uninspired and at worst incompetent.

84558A, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 208 pages

Victory in the Pacific

Andrew Rawson

By Spring 1945, while the war in Europe was coming to a close, in the Pacific there was no end to hostilities in sight. The Japanese, albeit retreating, defended every outpost and island with fanatical determination and all the indications were that Japan would have to be invaded at a terrible cost. The two atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed this and the world forever.

Victory in the Pacific tells the story of the last six months of the war against Japan in the Pacific, the Philippines, Burma and China in words and pictures, culminating in the Atom Bomb raids and the occupation of Japan.

152896, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 120 pages

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• THE PACIFIC THEATER • CHURCHILL’S 145TH •• Kamikaze Japan’s Last Bid for Victory Adrian Stewart In this fascinating book, the author examines the Japanese concept of Kamikaze, the deliberate self-sacrifice of life in the cause of victory. This attitude, while incomprehensible to their American and European enemies, has its roots in the samurai tradition of fighting for their master or nation regardless of personal safety. By late 1944, the Japanese had already proved themselves fanatical but the actions of the Kamikaze Corps of pilots from the Leyte Gulf battle onwards took matters to a new level.

Allied forces were shocked to find themselves the subject of widespread deliberate suicide attacks by pilots.

748034, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

From Shanghai to the Burma Railway The Memoirs and Letters of Richard Laird, A Japanese Prisoner of War Rory Laird Richard Laird’s previously unpublished record of his experience as a Japanese prisoner of war ranks among the most graphic. Captured after fighting in the Malayan Campaign he was incarcerated in Changi before being drafted as slave labor with ‘F’ Force on the notorious Burma Railway. He was one of only 400 out of 1600 to survive Songkurai No 2 Camp, despite disease and terrible hardship. His moving memoir begins with a rare description of ex-patriate life in 1930’s Shanghai with the Sino-Japanese war raging around the European cantonments.

771117, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

To Freedom Through China Escaping From Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong

Surviving the Death Railway A POW’s Memoir and Letters from Home Hilary Custance Green Barry Custance Baker

Tony Hewitt This is the thrilling story of how the author with two colleagues broke out of their POW camp in Hong Kong and made their way through Japanese lines into the vast expanse of China. Capture meant almost certain torture and lingering slow death. Their adventures make for spellbinding suspense. Once through Japanese lines their troubles were by no means over as a state of lawlessness prevailed in China and brigands and cutthroats stood between the three men and freedom. Yet they also met with their share of hospitality and generosity by those prepared to risk everything to help them on their epic journey.

The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labor by their Japanese masters on the ‘Burma Railway’ have been well documented yet never cease to shock. While Barry Custance Baker was enduring his 1000 days of captivity, his young wife Phyllis was attempting to correspond with him and the families of Barry’s unit. Fortunately these letters have been preserved and appear in this book along with Barry’s memoir written after the War. Surviving the Death Railway’s combination of first-hand account, correspondence and comment provide a unique insight into the long nightmare experienced by those in the Far East and at home.

152292, $39.99 , $25.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

870000, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 280 pages

We Fought at Kohima A Veteran’s Account Raymond Street Robert Street The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious. Raymond was a member of the 4th Battalion The Queen’s West Kent and as a company runner he was uniquely placed to witness the dreadful and dramatic events as they unfolded. Not only did he miraculously survive but he made a superb record of the battle as fortunes ebbed and flowed.

His memories have been transcribed into this firsthand account of one of the most decisive and hardest fought battles of the Second World War. 84367A, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 208 pages

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Faith, Hope and Rice Private Fred Cox’s Account of Captivity and the Death Railway Ellie Taylor Fred Cox was taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in February 1942.

The next three and a half years were spent in a series of POW camps, notably in Thailand working on the aptly named Death Railway. Fortunately he was not one of the 12,000 Allied prisoners who perished as a result of extreme maltreatment, starvation or disease, but Fred’s health was seriously affected. After liberation, while in hospital, Fred was nursed by Joan whom he married. He and Joan spent the winter of 1946–1947 getting his story down on paper.

857889, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 176 Pages

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• THE PACIFIC THEATER • CHURCHILL'S 145th CHURCHILL’S 145TH ••

By Hellship to Hiroshima

Burma Railway Man Secret Letters from a Japanese POW

Terence Kelly Taken prisoner in Java, Terence Kelly’s captivity was full of incident. He was witness to barbaric cruelty and suffering particularly on the journey packed into a filthy cargo ship under atrocious and inhumane conditions.His book reveals more about the psyche of his captors than other similar works. His Hiroshima camp was unique and was possibly the best camp in which the Japanese held POWs. The interaction between POWs and captors was fascinating and his book offers a rare insight into the Japanese character, as unthinkable defeat and humiliation became a reality.Kelly’s account of the A-Bomb attack and the chaos that followed it is fascinating and rare.

Charles Steel Shortly before the Dunkirk evacuation, Charles Steel married Louise. Within days of being captured by the Japanese, he began writing a weekly letter to his new bride as means of keeping in touch with her in his mind, for the Japanese forbade all writing of letters and diaries. By the time he was, he had written and hidden some 180 letters, plus a further 20 post-liberation letters. Part love-letter, part diary these unique letters intended for Louise’s eyes only describe the horror of working as a slave on the Burma. It is also an uplifting account of how man can rise above adversity and even secretly get back at his captors!

154036, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 288 pages

400676, $14.95 , $9.99 , Paperback, 192 pages

Attack on Pearl Harbor Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions Alan D. Zimm “Nothing previously published has offered such a close examination of Japanese strategy . . . an in-depth study of the Japanese planning, preparation and execution of the attack with particular focus on factors not thoroughly considered by other historians, if at all . . . detailed analyses that lead to a much better understanding of what the Japanese did, why they did it, and especially how the attack was very nearly an abject failure instead of a stunning success.”—Naval Institute Proceedings 001975, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 464 pages

Jungle Survival Manual 1939-1945 Instructions on Warfare, Terrain, Endurance and the Dangers of the Tropics Alan Jeffreys 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; and which animals and insects could kill them.

004365, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 144 pages

“The Most Dangerous Moment of the War” Japan’s Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 John Clancy In early April 1942, a littleknown episode of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be “the most dangerous moment of the war,” when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean.

John Clancy, whose father survived the sinking of HMS Cornwall during the battle, tells the story of this dramatic but little known campaign in which a major Allied catastrophe was only narrowly averted.

005331, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 208 pages

Unit 731 - Laboratory of the Devil Auschwitz of the East (Japanese Biological Warfare in China 193345) Yang Yan-jun The book focuses on five aspects: the inhuman medical crimes of Unit 731; the war damage and the postwar effects of biological war by Unit 731; the survey and cover-up at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials; the protection status of the site with development status of the exhibition and international exchanges of the Unit 731 Museum; and finally, there is a chapter discussing Japan’s use of checmical warfare.

556788, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 144 pages

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• •THE ANCIENT PACIFIC & MEDIEVAL THEATER •• Landing in Hell The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944

Two Flags over Iwo Jima Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Proudest Moment

Peter Margaritis This book analyzes in detail the many things that went wrong to make these casualties so excessive, and in doing so, corrects several earlier accounts of the campaign.

It includes a comprehensive account of the presidential summit that determined the operation, details of how new weapons were deployed, a new enemy strategy, and command failure in what became the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII.

Eric Hammel Joe Rosenthal’s “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” photo is one of the best-known images of US war history. The focus of this book lies on the 28th Marine Regiment’s self-contained battle in February 1945 for Mount Suribachi, the 556-foot-high volcano on Iwo Jima. It was here that this one regiment defeated more than 1500 heavily armed Japanese combatants who were determined to hold the highest vantage point on the island.

006451, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 208 pages

006291, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 222 pages

Tanks in Hell A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa Romain Cansiere Oscar E. Gilbert In this unique study Oscar Gilbert and Romain Cansiere use official documents, memoirs, interviews with veterans, as well as personal and aerial photographs to follow Charlie Company from its formation, and trace the movement, action—and loss—of individual tanks in this horrific four-day struggle. It is a story of escapes from drowning tanks, and even more harrowing escapes from tanks knocked out behind Japanese lines. But most of all it is a story of how a few unsung Marines helped turn near disaster into epic victory.

006512, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 264 pages

The Pacific War Uncensored A War Correspondent’s Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan Harold Guard John Tring In 942 Harold Guard was acclaimed by the Australian press as being one of the top four newspapermen covering the war in the Pacific. He always endeavored to give an honest account of what was happening in the war, and this often brought him into conflict with the military censors.

Harold Guard passed away in 1986; however thanks to years of work by his grandson John Tring in assembling his dispatches, private correspondence, telegrams, and audio accounts, the full story of Guard’s experiences and observations during the Pacific War have been assembled.

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Railway of Hell War Captivity and Forced Labour at the Hands of the Japanese Reginald Burton Reggie Burton was wounded in the closing stages of the disastrous defense of Malaya and Singapore. He vividly describes the horror of captivity at the hands of the Japanese.

After initial confusion, the true nature of their captors emerged as, increasingly debilitated, the POWs were forced into backbreaking work.

This was only a taste of what was to come. After a horrific journey in overcrowded cattle trucks, Burton and his dwindling band of colleagues were put to work building the notorious Burma Railway. Somehow he survived to tell this moving and shocking story.

Twenty-Two on Peleliu Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine George Peto Peter Margaritis On September 15, 1944, U.S. Marines landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu. Among the first wave of Marines was 22-year old George Peto. This is the story of an “Old Breed” Marine, from his youth in the Great Depression, to his life after the war, told in his own words. Joining the Marine Corps in 1941, he was initially assigned to a guard unit.

His first experience of combat was during the landings at Finschhaven and Cape Gloucester.

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• •THE ANCIENT PACIFIC & MEDIEVAL THEATER •• The Doolittle Raid The First Air Attack Against Japan, April 1942 John Grehan Less than four months after the world had been stunned by the attack upon Pearl Harbor, sixteen US aircraft took to the skies to exact retribution. Their objective was not merely to attack Japan, but to bomb its capital. The people of Tokyo, who had been told that their city was ‘invulnerable’ from the air, would be bombed and strafed – and the shock waves from the raid would extend far beyond the explosions of the bombs. The raid had first been suggested in January 1942 as the US was still reeling from Japan’s preemptive strike against the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The Americans were determined to fight back and fight back as quickly as possible.

758224, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 144 pages

No Mercy from the Japanese A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships 1942-1945 John Wyatt Cecil Lowry During the conflict in Malaya and Singapore John Lowry’s regiment lost two thirds of its men, more than three hundred patients and staff in the Alexandra Military hospital were slaughtered – he was the only known survivor, 26% of British soldiers on the Burma Railway died, any more did not manage to survive the harsh Japanese winter of 1944/45, the coldest on record. John’s experiences make for the most compelling and graphic reading. The courage, endurance and resilience of men like him never ceases to amaze.

158539, $39.99 , $25.99 , Hardback, 160 pages

Japan’s Last Bid for Victory The Invasion of India, 1944 Robert Lyman In this book Robert Lyman’ uses original documents, published works and personal accounts to weave together an enthralling account of some of the bitterest fighting of WWII. Not only does he use British sources for his research but he has also included material from the Naga tribes of north-east India, on whose land these battles were fought, and from Japanese accounts, including interviews with Japanese veterans of the fighting. Thus he has been able to produce what is arguably the most balanced history of the battles that were pivotal in ending the Japanese empire.

845428, $50.00 , $32.50 , Hardback, 304 pages

Battle for Burma

Roy Conyers Nesbit The struggle of British, Commonwealth and AmericanChinese troops against the Japanese in Burma was one of the decisive campaigns of the Second World War. British India was threatened by the Japanese advance, the fate of the British Empire in the East hung in the balance. The tropical climate – dense malarial jungle infested with vermin and swept by monsoon rains – made the fighting, for both sides, a remarkable feat of arms.Yet the war in Burma rarely receives the attention it deserves. Roy C. Nesbit, in this highly illustrated account, traces the entire course of the campaign. In vivid detail he describes the British retreat and humiliation at the hands of the Japanese invaders in 1942.

159550, $50.00 , $32.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

Fujita Plan Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia during the Second World War Mark Felton After the success of the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese plotted to maintain the initiative and spread fear and panic among the civil population of the United States and Australia.

With his usual skilled research the author has uncovered numerous plans. Some like the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour and the daring Seaplane air raids on Oregon were put into effect. Others never reached that stage due to either impracticality, bad luck or counterespionage.

The Fujita Plan throws fascinating new light on a little known aspect of the Second World War. 154807, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

The Final Betrayal MacArthur and the Tragedy of Japanese POWs Mark Felton Examines the period between the surrender of Japan in August 1945, and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in September.

The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes investigators arrived. After 14 August groups of Allied POWs were brutally murdered, vast amounts of documentation concerning crimes were burned, and POW facilities and medical experimentation installations were either abandoned or destroyed. Perhaps the greatest crimes were continuing deaths of Allied POWs from starvation, disease and ill-treatment after the Japanese surrender.

840942, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

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• THE • ANCIENT PACIFIC & MEDIEVAL THEATER •• Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 Volume 1: Tactical Organization of Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces Leland Ness This is the first handbook to utilize raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This first volume covers the tactical organization of Army and Navy ground forces during the 1937-45 war. Using the wartime Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) mobilization plans, and the Unit Organization Tables, Unit Strength Tables and Unit History Tables compiled by the War Ministry.

982000, $59.95 , $38.99 , Paperback, 340 pages

Disaster in the Far East 1940-1942 John Grehan Martin Mace

Dispatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert BrookePopham; the dispatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; and the important dispatch by Percival detailing the fall of Malaya and Fortress Singapore. This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history.

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Untold Valor The Second World War in the Pacific Rob Morris Rob Morris spent three years tracking down and interviewing veterans of the war in the Pacific, focusing on men who had undergone extreme combat, imprisonment or sinking. Each standalone chapter tells the reader what it is was like to live through some of the greatest challenges of the Pacific War. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, from Bataan to the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in shark-infested waters, each chapter of untold valor and against-the-odds survival tells an intensely personal tale of young Americans fighting for survival.

551950, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

No Surrender in Burma Operations Behind Japanese Lines, Captivity and Torture Fred C. Goode True story of a British Commando in Burma who, cut off behind enemy lines, walked 2,000 miles towards India and freedom in 1942, but was betrayed to the invading Japanese only 20 miles short of his destination, tortured by the infamous Kempeitai and finally incarcerated as a POW in Rangoon’s notorious Central Jail for the rest of the war. Lance Corporal Fred Goode was one of 50 men of Special Service Detachment II, whose role in 1941 was to support Chiang Kai-shek’s forces fighting in Japanese-occupied China and to train Chinese guerrilla units in demolition and resistance.

823785, $50.00 , $32.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

Tank Tracks to Rangoon The Story of British Armour in Burma Bryan Perrett Fighting in a somewhat forgotten corner of Empire during the Second World War, the British and Indian armored regiments called upon to harness the power of tank warfare to extreme new levels did so in an effort to outwit an army until that point considered invincible - the Imperial Japanese Army. Their collective efforts were heroic and massively effective, giving the Japanese a taste of mechanized warfare from which they never recovered. Bryan Perrett describes the full course of the armored units’ efforts, illustrating the importance of the mighty 7th Armored Brigade; a ‘magnificent formation’ in General Slim’s estimation

Into the Dark Water The Story of Three Officers and PT-109 John J. Domagalski Made famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. Behind the familiar account of the future president and the boat’s violent demise is the little-known record under two previous officers during the swirling battles around Guadalcanal. In these mainly nocturnal fights, when the Japanese navy was at its apex, America’s small, fast-boat flotillas would sally out to probe enemy strength. It was constant hit-and-run and dodging between searchlights across Iron Bottom Sound.

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• THE • ANCIENT PACIFIC & MEDIEVAL THEATER •• Within the Barbed Wire Fence A Japanese Man’s Account of his Internment in Canada Takeo Ujo Nakano Leatrice M.Willson Chan

American Guerrilla The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became the True “Father” of Army Special Forces

Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland.

Takeo’s passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as tanka. Then came the Second World War. Takeo Nakano was one of thousands of Japanese men forcibly separated from his family in 1942 and interned in labor camps in the British Columbia interior.

This book, first published in 1982, is a rare first-person account of the experience of internment.

Mike Guardia This book establishes Volckmann as the progenitor of modern counterinsurgency doctrine and the true “Father” of Army Special Forces. At a time when U.S. military doctrine was conventional in outlook, he marketed the ideas of guerrilla warfare as a critical force multiplier for any future conflict.

402607, $19.95 , $12.99 , Hardback, 144 pages

000893, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Scattered Under the Rising Sun The Gordon Highlanders in the Far East 1941-1945

Cushing’s Coup The True Story of How Lt. Col. James Cushing and His Filipino Guerrillas Captured Japan’s Plan Z

Stewart Mitchell 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders was posted to Singapore in 1937 with their families. When the Japanese invaded Malaya in December 1941, the Battalion fought bravely until the surrender of Singapore on 14 February 1942. Those who were not killed became POWs. Of the 1000 men involved initially, over 400 had died by their liberation in summer 1945. Despite the diverse background of the members of the Battalion, all were bound by close regimental spirit. As POWs, all suffered hard labor, starvation, brutality and tropical diseases. Rank was no protection from death.

Dirk Jan Barreveld Lt. Col. James M. Cushing was an American mining engineer who happened to be in Cebu when war broke out in the Pacific.

This work reveals one of the most important intelligence triumphs of World War II. It was no less than the capture of the Empire’s fully detailed strategy for prosecuting the last stages of the Pacific War. It’s a story of happenstance, mayhem, and intrigue, and resulted directly in the spectacular U.S. victory in the Philippine Sea. In this book, we finally learn of the huge intelligence coup by Lt. Col. Cushing that helped to shorten the entire war.

590256, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

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Special Forces Operations in SouthEast Asia 1941 - 1945 Minerva, Baldhead and Longshanks/Creek David Miller Many books have been written about WWII special forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such operations in South-East Asia – those launched against the Japanese in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, and the Germans in Goa. These operations, and the exceptional men who took part in them, have been almost forgotten. This gripping account, sets the record straight. It is based on extensive original research, including long-hidden family documents, and the narrative is fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the war against the Axis powers in South-East Asia.

Singapore’s Dunkirk The Aftermath of the Fall Geoffrey Brooke When Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942 many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. It was truly ‘every man for himself’. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity and every probability of barbarity at the hands of the Japanese. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who chose this option.

This is a shocking and inspiring book that embraces great courage, extraordinary endurance, appalling atrocities and even cannibalism.

822917, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 272 pages

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• ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL • THE PACIFIC THEATER •• Kangzhan Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937–45 Leland Ness Bin Shih

The Burma Air Campaign 1941-1945

This is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45. The work integrates Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to examine the details of the structure and weapons of the period. This is the first book to deal with the bottomlevel underpinnings of this massive army, crucial to an understanding of its tactical and operational utility. An introductory chapter discusses the military operations in China, often given short shrift in World War II histories.

Michael Pearson The scene is set with an overview of the respective states of the RAF and Japanese Air Force, and an explanation of how the American Volunteer Group came to be in China.

There is a concise description of air ops covering the Japanese invasion of Indo China, Malaya and Singapore, together with a close study of the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse, which altered the air/sea power equation. The main emphasis is on the use of air power both offensive, defensive and air transport during the protracted Burma Campaign.

294420, $69.95 , $45.50 , Paperback, 576 pages

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Leyte, 1944 The Soldiers’ Battle

Building for War The Epic Saga of the Civilian Contractors and Marines of Wake Island in World War II

Nathan N. Prefer When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, “I shall return!”

More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself. Leyte was a three-dimensional battle, fought with the best both sides had to offer, and did indeed decide the fate of the Philippines in World War II.

Bonita L. Gilbert This intimately researched work tells the story of the thousandplus civilian contractors who came to Wake Island in 1941 to build an air station for the U.S. Navy. Gilbert charts the contractors’ hard-won progress as they scramble to build the naval base while war clouds gather over the Pacific. Five hours after their attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese struck Wake Island, which was now isolated from assistance. The undermanned Marine Corps garrison, augmented by civiliancontractor volunteers, fought back, finally succumbing to an overwhelming amphibious attack, the surviving Americans, military and civilian, were taken prisoner.

001555, $44.95 , $29.50 , Hardback, 424 pages

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Chindit Affair A Memoir of the War in Burma Brian Mooney In March 1944, some 2,200 battle trained men of 111 Brigade flew from India into northern Burma to land on improvised airstrips cleared from the jungle, They were part of General Orde Wingate’s Chindit force sent to fight the Japanese deep behind their lines. Five months later, 111 Brigade was down to 118 fit men – eight British officers, a score of British soldiers and 90 Gurkhas. One of those eight officers was Frank Baines, and in Chindit Affair he tells, in vivid language and with shrewd insight, what happened.

Frank commanded two platoons of young Gurkhas and was attached to 111 Brigade Headquarters, serving under John Masters, where he had a close-up view for most of the time.

Children of the Camps Japan’s Last Forgotten Victims Mark Felton Children of the Camps: Japan’s Last Forgotten Victims tells the truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children who ended up imprisoned inside Japanese internment camps throughout Asia. It is written from the perspective of the survivors, who are all elderly today, and the effects that it had on their lives and families. Survivors’ testimonies run right through the book, as we follow their traumatic change of circumstance and experiences from prewar privilege into the horrors of the internment camps and finally the uncertainties of the immediate postwar period when liberation often meant discovery of the loss of parents.

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• ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL• The Mongol Art of War

Timothy May The Mongol armies that established the largest land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into Eastern Europe, are imperfectly understood. Often they are viewed as screaming throngs of horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force of numbers rather than as disciplined regiments that carried out planned and practiced maneuvers. This pioneering book demonstrates that the Mongol military developed from a tribal levy into a complex military organization, describing the make-up of the Mongol army from its inception to the demise of the Mongol empire, and shows how it was the strength, quality and versatility of Mongol military organization that made them the preeminent warriors of their time.

892682, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Cataphracts Knights of the Ancient Eastern Empires Erich B Anderson Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central Asian steppe tribes and adopted by several major empires, Cataphracts were the most heavily armored form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armor. Erich B Anderson assesses the development, equipment, tactics and combat record of cataphracts, showing also how enemies sought to counter them. This is a valuable study of one of the most interesting weapon systems of the ancient world.

837980, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 208 pages

Dawn of the Horse Warriors Chariot and Cavalry Warfare, 3000-600BC Duncan Noble The domestication of the horse revolutionized warfare, allowing armies to strike with terrifying speed. The horse was first used as the motive force for chariots and then, in a second revolution, as mounts for the first true cavalry. The period covered encompasses the development of the first clumsy ass-drawn chariots in Sumer; takes in the golden age of chariot warfare resulting from the arrival of the domesticated horse and the spoked wheel; then continues through the development of the first regular cavalry force by the Assyrians and on to their overthrow by an alliance of Medes and the Scythians, wild semi-nomadic horsemen from the Eurasian steppe.

Warfare and Weaponry in Dynastic Egypt

Rebecca Angharad Dean The development of warfare in any society provides an evocative glance into the lives of our predecessors. This is never more the case than with that most enticing of ancient civilizations, Ancient Egypt. Follow Rebecca Dean through the fascinating world of mysterious figures such as Tutankhamun and Nefertiti, examining not only the history and development of ancient Egyptian warfare, but the weapons used and the way they were handled.

823556, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

Warfare in New Kingdom Egypt

Paul Elliott The New Kingdom of Egypt marks the apogee of military organization and preparedness.

Beginning the era under foreign occupation, the Egyptians built up an army to challenge the invaders and liberate their land.

Using the newest battlefield technologies (bows, chariots, and hand weapons), the new pharaohs pushed the frontiers of the New Kingdom into Syria and Ethiopia. This book narrates this incredible rise to power, describing in detail the way in which the Egyptian war machine was structured, how it was supplied, and how it fought.

555804, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 176 pages

A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt

Ann Rosalie David Based on years of prestigious academic work, Professor Rosalie David cleverly presents every aspect of life in ancient Egypt through the lives of various characters. Characters hail from all walks of life allowing us an insight into absolutely every aspect of everyday, ritual and religious life in ancient Egypt. The book provides an overview of the many dynasties and kingdoms of ancient Egypt before beginning to tell the story of the lives of one family. All three seasons of inundation, planting and growing, and harvesting are covered as well as all ritual and religious events.

822399, $50.00 , $32.50 , Hardback, 240 pages

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• ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL• • 17TH / 18TH CENTURY • A Strategist in Exile Xenophon and the Death of Thucydides Rainer Nickel Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta’s victory over Athens in 404 BC. This book covers Xenophon’s search for Thucydides, in order to protect his friend from the Thirty Tyrant’s regime of terror, as well as save some important historical documents which he had placed in Thucydides’ safe keeping. The narrative is based on the linking of historical reports of the operations, plausible constructions and imagined recollections in order to create a coherent narrative.

846999, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 144 Pages

Antiochus The Great

Michael Taylor A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of conquest and reunification.

Although sometimes presented as a failure against the unstoppable might of Rome, Antiochus III must rank as one of the most energetic and effective rulers of the Ancient world.In addition to discussing the career of Antiochus III, Michael Taylor examines Seleucid military organization and royal administration.

844636, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

The Tactics of Aelian

Christopher Matthew Aelian’s work on tactics is a hugely significant piece of ancient military literature, yet the last new edition in English was published in 1814.

His Tactica thus examines all facets of warfare in the period of Alexander the Great’s successors, including the arms and armor of cavalry and infantry, formations, commands and signals. Aelian also provides a discussion of the Roman army of the period.

Christopher Matthew’s new edition is based on the 1616 edition but written in modern English with new renditions of all its accompanying figures.

849006, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

Great Battles of the Hellenistic World

Joseph Pietrykowski For almost two centuries the Macedonian phalanx, created

by Philip II and refined by his son, Alexander the Great, dominated the battlefields of the ancient world from the sweltering riverbanks of India to the wooded hills of Italy.

As the preferred weapon of some of antiquity’s greatest commanders, this powerful military system took center stage in many of the largest and most decisive conflicts of ancient times. In Great Battles of the Hellenistic World, Joseph Pietrykowski explores the struggles that shook the ancient world and shaped history. From the structure and composition of the opposing armies, to the strategy of their campaigns, Great Battles of the Hellenistic World examines seventeen landmark conflicts.

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Alcibiades

Professor P J Rhodes Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens.

Flamboyant, charismatic (and wealthy), this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt to stand up to the Spartans on land as part of an alliance he was instrumental in bringing together. Although this led to defeat at the Battle of Mantinea in 418 BC, his prestige remained high. He was also a prime mover in Athens’ next big strategic gambit, the Sicilian Expedition of 415 BC, for which he was elected as one of the leaders.

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Great Battles of the Classical Greek World

Owen Rees This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry at the hands of the Macedonians. This of course is the golden age of the hoplite phalanx but Owen Rees is keen to cover all aspects of battle, including mercenary armies and the rise of light infantry, emphasizing the variety and tactical developments across the period. Each battle is set in context with a brief background and then the battlefield and opposing forces are discussed before the narrative and analysis of the fighting is given and rounded off with consideration of the aftermath and strategic implications.

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& MEDIEVAL• • ANCIENT 17TH / 18TH CENTURY • Aetius Attila’s Nemesis Ian Hughes In AD 453 Attila was rampaging westward across Gaul. Laying siege to Orleans, he was only a few days march from extending his empire from the Eurasian steppe to the Atlantic. He was brought to battle on the Cataluanian Plain and defeated by a coalition hastily assembled and led by Aetius. Who was this man that saved Western Europe from the Hunnic yoke?

Aetius is one of the major figures in the history of the Late Roman Empire and his actions helped maintain the integrity of the West.

778840, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 304 pages

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

Philip Matyszak When, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome (82 BC), among the many who refused to accept his rule was a young army officer called Quintus Sertorius.

Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made common cause with the native people who had been savagely oppressed by a succession of corrupt Roman governors. Discovering a genius for guerilla warfare, Sertorius came close to driving the Romans out of Spain altogether. Rome responded by sending reinforcements under the control of the up-andcoming young general Gnaeus Pompey (later Pompey the Great). The epic struggle that followed between these two great commanders is a master class of ancient strategy and tactical maneuver.

Anna Komnene and the Alexiad The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade Loulia Kolovou A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, Anna Komnene was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the first historians in medieval Europe. She has been largely viewed as an angry, bitter old woman; accusations of conspiracy and attempted murder were hurled at her and as punishment she was to live the last days of her life in exile.

It was during her time in a convent that she composed the Alexiad, the history of the First Crusade and the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118), her father.

733016, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 272 pages

Stilicho The Vandal Who Saved Rome Ian Hughes The period of history in which Stilicho lived was one of the most turbulent in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal revolts and rebellions. Ian Hughes explains how a Vandal (actually Stilicho had a Vandal father and Roman mother) came to be given almost total control of the Western Empire and describes his attempts to save both the Western Empire and even Rome itself from the attacks of Alaric the Goth and other barbarian invaders.

829008, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 304 Pages

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Caligula An Unexpected General Lee Fratantuono Gaius Caligula reigned for four short years from 37 to 41 CE before his infamous tenure came to a violent end.This is a military history of Rome during Caligula’s reign. His years as emperor came in the wake of the great consolidation of Tiberius’ gains in Germany and Pannonia. His expeditions in Gaul were part of a program of imitation of his storied predecessor, and crowning completion of what had been left undone in the relatively conservative military policy years of Augustus and Tiberius.

This book offers a new appraisal of Caligula as a surprisingly competent military strategist, arguing that his achievements helped to secure Roman military power in Europe for a generation.

Marcus Agrippa Right-hand man of Caesar Augustus Lindsay Powell Marcus Agrippa personified the term ‘right-hand man’. As Emperor Augustus’s deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years - but he served always in the knowledge he would never rule. Why he did so, and never grasped power exclusively for himself, has perplexed historians for centuries. Illustrated with color plates, figures and high quality maps, Lindsay Powell presents a penetrating new assessment of the life and achievements of the multifaceted man who put service to friend and country before himself.

846173, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 384 pages

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•• ANCIENT 17TH / 18TH & MEDIEVAL• CENTURY • Military History of Late Rome 425–457

Rome’s Sicilian Slave Wars The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

Ilkka Syvänne The Military History of Late Rome 425-457 analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in a situation in which the Germanic tribes had gained a permanent foothold in the territories of West Rome.

This analysis reassesses the strategy and tactics of the period. The book shows how cooperation between the West Roman Master of Soldiers, Aetius, and East Roman Emperor Marcian saved Western civilization from the barbarian nightmare posed by the Huns of Attila. A fresh appraisal of the great clash at the Catalaunian Fields in 451 offers new insights into the mechanics of the fighting and shows that it was a true battle of nations which decided nothing less than the fate of human civilization.

Natale Barca In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed.

Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking the Syrian royal name Antiochus), and tens of thousands of runaway slaves as well as poor native Sicilians soon flocked to join his fledgling kingdom. Antiochus’ ambition was to drive the Romans from the whole of Sicily. The Romans responded with characteristic intransigence and relentlessness, leading to years of brutal warfare and suppression.

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Rome’s Third Samnite War, 298–290 BC The Last Stand of the Linen Legion

Aurelian and Probus The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome

Mike Roberts The Third Samnite War (298290 BC) was a crucial episode in the early history of Rome.

Upon its outcome rested mastery of central Italy, and the independent survival of both Rome and the Samnites.

Determined to resist aggressive Roman expansion, the Samnites forged a powerful alliance with the Senones, Etruscans and Umbrians. The result was eight years of hard campaigning, brutal sieges and bitter battles that stretched Rome to the limit.

Ilkka Syvänne This is a narrative military history of the emperors Lucius Domitius Aurelianus and Marcus Aurelius Probus which also includes the other reigns between the years 268 and 285. It shows how these two remarkable emperors were chiefly responsible for the Empire surviving and emerging largely intact from a period of intense crisis. It was Aurelian who first united the breakaway regions, including Zenobia’s Palmyra, and it was Probus who then secured his achievements.

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Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judaea

John D. Grainger Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting.

However, Cleopatra’s famous love affair with Marc Antony ensured she was on the wrong side of the Roman civil war between him and Octavian (later to become Caesar Augustus). After the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the naval battle of Actium, Octavian swiftly brought it under direct Roman control, though it took several campaigns to fully subjugate the whole country. These campaigns have previously been largely neglected.

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The Roman Imperial Succession

John D Grainger John D Grainger analyses the Roman imperial succession, demonstrating that the empire organized by Augustus was fundamentally flawed in the method it used to find emperors. Augustus’ system was a mixture of heredity, senatorial and military influences, and these were generally antagonistic. Consequently the Empire went through a series of crises, in which the succession to a previous, usually dead, emperor was the main issue. The infamous ‘Year of the Four Emperors’, AD 69, is only the most famous of these crises, which often involved bouts of bloody and destructive civil war, assassinations and purges.

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•• 17TH / 18TH • ANCIENT & CENTURY MEDIEVAL• Rome and Parthia: Empires at War Ventidius, Antony and the Second RomanoParthian War, 40-20 BC Gareth C Sampson In the mid-first century BC, despite its military victories elsewhere, the Roman Empire faced a rival power in the east; the Parthian Empire. The first war between two superpowers of the ancient world had resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the death of Marcus Crassus. When Rome collapsed into Civil War in the 40s BC, the Parthians took the opportunity to invade and conquer the Middle East and drive Rome back into Europe.

What followed was two decades of war which saw victories and defeats on both sides.

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Leading the Roman Army Soldiers and Emperors, 31 BC – 235 AD Jonathan Mark Eaton The Roman imperial army represented one of the main factors in the exercise of political control by the emperors. The effective political management of the army was essential for maintaining the safety and well-being of the empire as a whole. This book analyzes the means by which emperors controlled their soldiers and sustained their allegiance from the battle of Actium in 31 BC, to the demise of the Severan dynasty in AD 235. This study provides an up to date synthesis of a range of evidence from archaeological, epigraphic, literary and numismatic sources.

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The Roman Barbarian Wars The Era of Roman Conquest

Byzantium Triumphant The Military History of the Byzantines 959-1025 Julian Romane This book describes the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The operations, battles and drama of their various bitter struggles unfold, depicting the new energy and improved methods of warfare developed in the late tenth century. These emperors were at war on all fronts, fighting for survival and dominance against enemies including the Arab caliphates, Bulgars (Basil II was dubbed by later authors ‘the Bulgar Slayer’) and the Holy Roman Empire, not to mention dealing with civil wars and rebellions.

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God’s City Byzantine Constantinople Nic Fields In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the seat of the Byzantine emperor, steeped in Greek cultural and artistic influences, yet founded and maintained by a Roman legal system. Despite the amalgam of Greek and Roman influences, however, its language and culture was definitely Greek. Constantinople truly was the capital of the Roman empire in the East, and from its founding the inhabitants always called themselves Romaioi, Over its millennium long history the empire and its capital experienced many vicissitudes that included several periods of waxing and waning and more than one ‘golden age’.

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The Rise of the Seleukid Empire (323–223 BC) Seleukos I to Seleukos III

Ludwig Dyck The history of the ‘barbarian’ peoples of Europe is filled with dramatic wars and migrations along with charismatic and often farsighted leaders. Inevitably, their greatest challenge was their struggle with the renowned military might of Rome. Even when outnumbered and faced by better equipped and trained Roman legions, the barbarians could inflict devastating defeats upon Rome.

This book begins with the foundation of the city of Rome and follows her growth into a martial empire, complete with its pageantry and glory, its genius, its brutality, and its arrogance. All this is told in a fast-paced, accessible narrative style.

John D Grainger The Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander’s death and the rise of Rome. It was ruled for all that time by a succession of able kings but broke down twice before eventually succumbing to dynastic rivalries, simultaneous external invasions and internal grasps for independence. The first king, Seleukos I, established a pattern of rule which was unusually friendly towards his subjects, and his policies promoted the steady growth of wealth and population in many areas which had been depopulated when he took them over. In particular the dynasty was active in founding cities from Asia Minor to Central Asia.

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• ANCIENT MEDIEVAL• • 19TH & CENTURY • Viking Art of War

Paddy Griffith This groundbreaking study of the Vikings establishes the facts behind their rise to prominence, and cuts away the myths about their military and seafaring skills, reputation, and exploits. The author applies modern military thinking to the Viking art of war and examines their tactics, seamanship, mobility, strategy, and how they exploited victories and dealt with defeats. In this book we learn how the ferocious northern warriors established colonies in hostile territory and defeated a diverse array of enemies, including the Anglo-Saxons, the Franks, the Volga Bulgars, and the wild tribes of Ireland, during three centuries of military adventure.

Badon and the Early Wars for Wessex, circa 500 to 710

David K.C. Cooper MD, FRCS David Cooper’s book reappraises the evidence regarding the early battles for Wessex territory. It charts the sequence of battles from the Siege of Badon Hill to Langport.

Discussion of the postRoman British and Germanic factions provides context and background to Badon Hill, which is then covered in detail and disentangled from Arthurian legend. In considering how the opposing commanders are likely to have planned their campaigns, enduring principles of military doctrine and tactics are discussed.

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Viking Nations The Development of Medieval North Atlantic Identities Dayanna Knight An interdisciplinary consideration of medieval North Atlantic settlement that focuses on not only siterelated identity but also the active choices made to adopt elements of identity. It utilizes comparative analysis of evidence to highlight terrestrial and marine drivers to identity development in relation to the site context. This work is written for an educated audience desiring to know more about the medieval North Atlantic beyond Viking stereotypes. Enough detail is included that medieval specialists will also enjoy the book.

The Anglo-Saxon Age

Timothy Venning Taking a similar approach to his successful If Rome Hadn’t Fallen, Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken. Dr. Timothy Venning starts within an outline of the process by which much of Britain came to be settled by Germanic tribes after the end of Roman rule, as far as it can be determined from the sparse and fragmentary sources. He then moves on to discuss a series of scenarios, which might have altered the course of subsequent history dramatically.

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Medieval Maritime Warfare

Charles D. Stanton Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought.Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied – it is little known and even less understood. Charles Stanton uses an innovative and involving approach to describe this fascinating but neglected facet of European medieval history.

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The Anglo-Saxons at War

Paul Hill In the time of the great AngloSaxon kings, what was warfare really like – how were the armies organized, how and why did they fight, how were the warriors armed and trained, and what was the Anglo-Saxon experience of war? As Paul Hill demonstrates in this compelling new study, documentary records and the growing body of archaeological evidence allows these questions to be answered with more authority than ever before. His broad, detailed and graphic account of the conduct of war in the Anglo-Saxon world in the unstable, violent centuries before the Norman Conquest will be illuminating reading for anyone who wants to learn about this key stage of medieval history..

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• ANCIENT MEDIEVAL• • 19TH & CENTURY • The History Behind Game of Thrones The North Remembers

Tewkesbury 1471 Eclipse of the House of Lancaster - 1471

David C Weinczok A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless sea-born warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glories.

A young nobleman and his kin are slaughtered under a banner of truce within a mighty castle.

A warrior king becomes a legend when he smites his foe with one swing of his axe during a nation-forging battle.Yet this isn’t Westeros – it’s Scotland. The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers turns the tables, using George R. R. Martin’s extraordinary fictional universe as a way to understand the driving forces and defining moments from Scotland’s story.

Steven Goodchild On 4 May 1471 the forces of Lancaster under the Duke of Somerset and those of York under Edward IV clashed at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire in one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses.

Edward’s overwhelming victory secured for him the throne of England and led to the near ruin of the Lancastrian cause.

Steve Goodchild’s gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, is the first to take fully into account the landscape of the West Country over which the opposing armies marched and the terrain on which they fought.

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The Knights Templar at War 1120–1312

Paul Hill There are many books about the Knights Templar, the medieval military order which played a key role in the crusades against the Muslims in the Holy Land, the Iberian peninsula and elsewhere in Europe.The order was founded as a response to attacks on pilgrims in the Holy Land, and it was involved in countless battles and sieges, always at the forefront of crusading warfare. This absorbing study examines why they were such an important aspect of medieval warfare on the frontiers of Christendom for nearly two hundred years.

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Barnet - 1471 Death of the Kingmaker David Clark On 14 April 1471 the forces of Lancaster under the Earl of Warwick and those of York under Edward IV clashed at Barnet in Hertfordshire in one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses. In a bloody encounter the two armies fought to resolve a bitter dynastic dispute that had already fuelled twenty years of war. Warwick’s death and Edward’s victory changed the course of English history.

In this new guide to the battle, David Clark, one of the leading battlefield historians, gives a gripping account of the fighting and of the intrigue that led to it, and he provides a full tour of the battlefield itself.

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The Knights Hospitaller A Military History of the Knights of St John John Carr The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order into a Military one. Their fervor and discipline made them an elite component of most Crusader armies, and Hospitaller Knights took part in most of the major engagements.

The Hospitallers became one of the major naval powers in the Mediterranean, defending Christian shipping from the Barbary Pirates and increasingly turning to piracy themselves. The Order remained a significant power in the Mediterranean until their defeat by Napoleon in 1798.

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Medieval Armoured Combat The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven Dierk Hagedorn Bartłomiej Walczak The “Gladiatoria” group of German fencing manuscripts are several editions of a treatise on armoured foot combat, specifically aimed at duel fighting. Gloriously-illustrated, and replete with substantial commentary, these works are some of the greatest achievements in the corpus of late medieval fight books. In this remarkable full color volume, authors Dierk Hagedorn and Bartłomiej Walczak elegantly present their work on the copy of this treatise now in the Yale Center for British Art,.

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• 19TH CENTURY • • 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • More Like Lions than Men Sir William Brereton and the Cheshire Army of Parliament, 1642-46 Andrew Abram Based on primary archival research, supported by field trips to battlefields and castles, More Like Lions than Men represents the first focused and sustained study of the recruitment, organisation, payment, equipping, leadership and war service of the forces raised and maintained in the service of parliament in Cheshire between 1642 and 1646. and explores the context, nature and composition of the Cheshire forces in detail, in order to give credence to the notion that this was an effective, seasoned and important fighting force, albeit mainly on a regional stage.

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The Battle Of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War In The Welsh Borderlands Jonathan Worton Fought on 18 September 1644 in mid-Wales, Montgomery was the largest engagement in the Principality during the First English Civil War of 1642 to 1646. In terms of numbers engaged, in its outcome and impact, it was also a particularly significant regional battle of the war. Notwithstanding its importance, historians have largely overlooked Montgomery. Consequently, it is rarely mentioned in studies of the mid-17th century British Civil Wars.

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To Settle The Crown Volume 1: Waging Civil War in Shropshire, 16421648 Jonathan Worton While the First, or ‘Great’, English Civil War of 1642-6 was largely contested at regional and county level in long-lasting local campaigns, historians often still dwell on the well-known major battles, such as Edgehill and Naseby, and the prominent national leaders. To help redress this imbalance, To Settle The Crown: Waging Civil War in Shropshire, 1642-1648 provides the most detailed bipartisan study published to date of how the war was actually organized and conducted at county level.

777985, $69.95 , $45.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

A New Way of Fighting: Professionalism in the English Civil War Proceedings of the 2016 Helion and Company ‘Century of the Soldier’ Conference Serena Jones The speakers at Helion & Company’s second annual English Civil War Conference examined a broad range of subjects relating to the increasing professionalization of military bodies and their personnel throughout the 17th century. Using the Royalist colonel Sir George Lisle as a case study, Serena Jones addresses the concept of a ‘professional officer’ - exploring whether such a figure existed in the mid-17th century and whether the term itself can be legitimately applied to Lisle and his contemporaries.

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St. Ruth’s Fatal Gamble The Battle of Aughrim 1691 and the Fall of Jacobite Ireland Michael McNally In 1685, James, Duke of York, ascended to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland.

As the first catholic monarch in 150 years many believed that his reign would be short and that he would be succeeded by his eldest daughter Mary, a Protestant, who was married to her cousin William, Prince of Orange. James’ close ties to King Louis XIV of France served to fuel the fires of discontent, and when a male heir was born in June 1688 a number of nobles and clergymen, fearing a backlash of Catholic absolutism, invited William of Orange to take the throne.

William duly invaded, and after a desultory campaign, James fled the country for refuge in France.

The King’s Irish The Royalist Anglo-Irish Foot of the English Civil War John Barratt The English troops serving in Ireland were a vital source of experienced and possibly war-winning manpower sought after by both King and Parliament in the Civil War. The “cessation” or truce which King Charles reached with the Irish Confederates in September 1643 enabled him to begin shipping over troops from Ireland to reinforce the Royalist armies. During the following year the “Irish”, as they were frequently known were an important factor in the war.

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• 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • 7 Leadership Lessons of the American Revolution The Founding Fathers, Liberty, and the Struggle for Independence Col. John F Antal (Ret).

This book is about leadership.

It tells the dramatic story of seven defining leadership moments from the American Revolution. In this book, you learn about real people facing historic challenges and overcoming what reasonable observers believed were insurmountable odds. These leadership stories tell the story of the birth of the United States as well as providing case studies that can improve your leadership. A good step on the road to improving your leadership is to read this book and inculcate the lessons learned from the Founding Fathers.

With Musket and Tomahawk. Volume II The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777 Michael O. Logusz This is the second volume of Michael Logusz’s epic work on the Wilderness War of 1777, in which the British Army, with its German, Loyalist, and Indian auxiliaries, attempted to descend from Canada to sever the nascent American colonies, only to be met by Patriot formations contesting the invasion of their newly declared nation.

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John Paul Jones Maverick Hero

Frank Walker An associate of Benjamin Franklin and hero of the American War of Independence, John Paul Jones was the first captain to sail an American warship under an American flag and was instrumental in the creation of a coordinated naval force for the new republic.

Frank Walker charts the career of this rugged individualist, from his beginnings as a young apprentice in the English port of Whitehaven and early voyages aboard slave ships, to his commission as an American naval officer who led and attack on that very port and continued to harass British shipping as part of the effort to bring the Revolutionary War to a close.

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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 Col Benedict Arnold northward on his famous expedition to join with Gen Richard Montgomery and capture Quebec in late December 1775. When Montgomery was killed, his men retreated. Arnold’s troops, however, continued fighting after Arnold fell wounded and only surrendered when hopelessly outnumbered and trapped. 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.

George Washington’s War In Caricature and Print Kenneth Baker This was the five-year war that made America a nation.

Indeed President Barack Obama referred to it in his Inaugural Address; and every American child is steeped in its history, but all too often the fog of myth shrouds the reality from all sides of the conflict. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British caricatures of politicians and generals, for the most part favorable to the Colonists.

Kenneth Baker has used contemporary material, not the romantic patriotic pictures of the 19th Century. He has drawn upon his own experiences of high politics, and his personal collection of caricatures, as well as the libraries and historical societies of the East Coast.

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Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution J. David Dameron Theodore P. Savas

This book is the first comprehensive account of every engagement of the Revolution, a war that began with a brief skirmish at Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, and concluded on the battlefield at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781.

This book presents each engagement in a unique way. Each battle entry offers a wide and rich template of information to make it easy for readers to find exactly what they are seeking.Fresh, scholarly, informative, and entertaining, Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution will be welcomed by historians and general enthusiasts everywhere.

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• 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • Erin Go Bragh Human Interest Stories of the Irish in the American Civil War Scott L. Mingus Sr. Gerard E. Mayers In the mid-19th century, the slogan “Erin Go Bragh” was particularly popular among many Irish immigrants who had moved to the United States for political or personal reasons, yet maintained their strong familial, social, and often nationalistic ties to the old Emerald Isle. Here, in this unique collection, readers will find interesting or unusual tales of courage, boldness, and/or humor. This anthology also includes brief biographies of several leading Irish soldiers and personalities, including Patrick Cleburne, Father William Corby, James Shields, Michael Corcoran, and Thomas Francis Meagher.

The Complete Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign

Scott L. Mingus Sr. Award-winning author Scott L. Mingus, Sr., combines the best stories of Volumes One and Two with new anecdotes and photos presenting a complete edition.

The Complete Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign will resonate with all those intrigued by fascinating stories—both humorous and tragic—as seen through the eyes of Gettysburg soldiers and civilians. Using primary sources including diaries, pension records, historical collections, official records, journals, newspapers, and books, features are presented in chronological order.

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Gettysburg: The Nature of a Battlefield A Guide to Birds and Flowers in the Gettysburg National Military Park Patricia Rich Lana Taylor

Elizabeth Thorn of Gettysburg The Wartime Caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery Kathryn Porch Sue Boardman

Thanks to years of dedicated preservation efforts, the Gettysburg National Military Park has evolved into a thriving, diverse ecosystem. It is home to many native, and introduced, species of plants and birds.

This full-color, photographic field guide identifies the natural treasures of the Military Park’s trails and fields. Over 160 stunning color photos are accompanied by common and scientific names with brief, informative text. Ideal for Gettysburg visitors, armchair naturalists, and nature photographers.

Elizabeth Thorn of Gettysburg was no different than all of the other civilians doing their part to restore their town from the devastation of war. However, upon further investigation, she was very different. No other woman in town was a six-month pregnant mother, who was asked to dig nearly a hundred soldiers’ graves.

Elizabeth performed all of these strenuous tasks in the heat and the stench of a battlefield of bodies left to rot in the hot summer sun. This is her story and the story of the Evergreen Cemetery, a small-town burial ground that acquired national fame.

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Commanders and Casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg The Comprehensive Order of Battle Steven A. Floyd This Comprehensive Order of Battle includes • The structure of the armies • Changes in command due to casualties • Commanders from regimental level and above • Casualties listed by number including killed, wounded, and captured/missing • Percentage of casualties of total engaged for all units • Short biographical sketches of commanders and key participants in the battle

Widow’s Weeds and Weeping Veils Mourning Rituals in 19th Century America Bernadette Loeffel-Atkins The Victorian era both in Europe and America saw the rituals of mourning rise above the practical use of providing closure for those left behind.

Widow’s Weeds and Weeping Veils explores how Victorians viewed death and dying, describing the cultural and social changes that occurred as a result of the historical events of their time. This concise, informative work is ideal for students of the nineteenthcentury, American Civil War enthusiasts and anyone interested in Victorian culture.

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• WORLD WAR 1• • 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • Major General George H. Sharpe and The Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War

Peter G.Tsouras The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the eastern theater of operations during the U.S. Civil War is told through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Peter Tsouras contends that this creation was the combat multiplier that ultimately allowed the Union to be victorious. Sharpe’s career did not end in 1865, he crossed paths with almost everyone prominent in America after the Civil War, became one of the most powerful Republican politicians in New York State, had close friendships with Presidents Grant and Arthur, and was a champion of African-American Civil rights.

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Strangling the Confederacy Coastal Operations in the American Civil War Kevin J. Dougherty While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign—dubbed “Anaconda”—that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce, thus rendering the exploits of its field armies moot. Strangling the Confederacy examines the various naval actions and land incursions the Union waged from Virginia down the Atlantic Coast and through the Gulf of Mexico to methodically close down every Confederate port that could bring in weapons or supplies.

000923, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Year of Glory The Life and Battles of Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, June 1862– June 1863 Monte Akers No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the “cavalier mystique” as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at their apex, when it appeared as though the Army of Northern Virginia could not be restrained from establishing Southern nationhood.Year of Glory focuses on the twelve months in which Stuart’s reputation was made, following his career on an almost day-to-day basis from June 1862, to June 1863 when Stuart turned north to regain a glory slightly tarnished at Brandy Station, but found Gettysburg instead.

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Holding the Line on the River of Death Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 Eric J.Wittenberg This volume focuses on the two important delaying actions conducted by mounted Union soldiers at Reed’s and Alexander’s bridges on the first day of Chickamauga. A cavalry brigade under Col. Robert H. G. Minty and the legendary “Lightning Brigade” of mounted infantry made stout stands at Chickamauga Creek. Minty’s brigade held off nearly ten times its number by designing and implementing a textbook example of a delaying action.

Their dramatic and outstanding efforts threw Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s entire battle plan off its timetable by delaying his army’s advance for an entire day.

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Billy Yank The Uniform of the Union Army, 1861-1865 John P. Langellier Michael J. McAfee Billy Yank was the name given to the Union soldiers during the American Civil War and became a famous and enduring symbol of the period. Typically Billy Yank is dressed in regulation blue uniform topped with a forage hat, the standard headdress used by the military of the period. This handy guide delves a little deeper and sets out to discover exactly what the typical ‘Billy Yank’ looked like and how they lived. Compiled by two experts on the subject of military uniforms of the period, and crammed with fascinating facts and images, this is an excellent glimpse into the life and times of the union soldier and a valuable addition to the popular G.I. series.

Redlegs The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish American War, 1861–1898 John P. Langellier This volume illustrates a muchneglected aspect of American military history—the U.S. Army artillerymen, named redlegs after the red stripes on their trousers. The photographs range from the Civil War and the campaigns against the American Indians through to the Spanish-American War. This handy guide includes superb images and descriptive captions detailing the appearance of the men, their uniforms and equipment, and the ordnance used over the years.

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• 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • • WORLD WAR 1• The Last Road North A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 Robert Orrison Dan Welch A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee’s greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, Lee decided to once more take the fight to the Yankees and launched this army on another invasion of the North. An appointment with destiny awaited in the little Pennsylvania college town of Gettysburg. This book follows in the footsteps of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac as the two foes cat-and-mouse their way northward, ultimately clashing in the costliest battle in North American history. This book offers the ultimate Civil War road trip.

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A Want of Vigilance The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9–19, 1863

Out Flew the Sabres The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863 Daniel T. Davis Eric J.Wittenberg Twelve thousand Union cavalrymen against 9,000 of their Confederate counterparts—with three thousand Union infantry thrown in for good measure. Amidst the thunder of hooves and the clashing of sabers, they slugged it out Culpepper County, Virginia. It escalated into the largest cavalry battle ever fought on the North American continent. Fleetwood Hill at Brandy Station was the site of four major cavalry battles during the course of the Civil War, but none was more important than the one fought on June 9, 1863. That clash turned out to be the opening engagement of the Gettysburg Campaign, and the one-day delay it caused may have impacted the outcome of the entire campaign.

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The Aftermath of Battle The Burial of the Civil War Dead

The months after Gettysburg had hardly been quiet— filled with skirmishes, cavalry clashes, and plenty of marching. Nonetheless, Union commander Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade had yet to come to serious blows with his Confederate counterpart, Gen. Robert E. Lee. In midOctober, 1863, both men shifted their armies into motion.

Each surprised the other. Quickly, Meade found himself racing northward for safety along the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, with Lee charging up the rail line behind him. Last stop: Bristoe Station.

Meg Groeling Unlike battle narratives, this book picks up the story as the battle ends. The burial of the dead was an overwhelming experience for the armies or communities forced to clean up.

In the short-term action, bodies were hastily buried to avoid the stench and the horrific health concerns of massive death; in the long-term, families struggled to reclaim loved ones and properly reinter them in established cemeteries. In this easy-to-read overview, author Meg Groeling provides a look at the aftermath of battle and the process of burying the Civil War dead. The masterful storytelling is richly enhanced with hundreds of photos and illustrations.

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Bill Backus Robert Orrison

Bloody Autumn The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 Daniel T. Davis Phillip S. Greenwalt

The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy’s Greatest Icon Chris Mackowski PhD Kristopher D.White

In the spring of 1862, a string of Confederate victories foiled Union plans and kept Confederate armies fed and supplied. In 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia used the Valley as its avenue of invasion, culminating in the battle of Gettysburg. By1864, the stakes jumped dramatically. To lose the Valley would mean to lose the state. For the North, the momentum its war effort had gained by capturing Atlanta would quickly evaporate. For the South, more than its breadbasket was at stake—its nascent nationhood lay on the line.

May 1863. Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame.

He had arisen from obscurity to become “Old Stonewall,” adored across the South and feared and respected throughout the North. On the night of May 2, however, just hours after Jackson executed the most audacious maneuver of his career and delivered a crushing blow against an unsuspecting Union army at Chancellorsville, disaster struck.The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson recounts the events of that fateful night.

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• 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • The African Wars Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns Chris Peers A graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and subtropical Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This pioneering and authoritative study describes in vivid detail the organization and training of African warriors, their weapons, their fighting methods and traditions, and their tactics.

841215, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

The Anatomy of the Zulu Army From Shaka to Cetshwayo, 1818–1879 Ian Knight Forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January 1879. The Zulu Army was not, however, a professional force, unlike its British counterpart, but was the mobilized manpower of the Zulu state. Ian Knight details how the Zulu army functioned and ties its role firmly to the broader context of Zulu society and culture.

329102, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 282 Pages

Pirate Killers The Royal Navy and the African Pirates Graham A.Thomas One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing ‘The King of the Pirates’, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court.

On the Barbary Coast of North Africa pirates preyed on shipping in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as they had done for centuries and they terrorized the populations of the coastal towns. To them, piracy was a way of life, and the great sea-powers of the day couldn’t stop them. Then, in one of the most remarkable – and neglected – anti-piracy operations in maritime history, the Royal Navy confronted them, defeated them and made the seas safe for trade.

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Isandlwana How the Zulus Humbled the British Empire Adrian Greaves The story of the mighty imperial British army’s defeat at Isandlwana in 1879 has been much written about, but never with such detail and insight. In reconstructing the dramatic and fateful events, the Author draws on recently discovered letters, diaries and papers of survivors and other contemporaries.

These, coupled with his own detailed knowledge of the ground, enable the author to paint the most accurate picture yet of this cataclysmic battle that so shamed the British establishment.

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Great Boer War

Byron Farwell The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by a master story teller and historian. Byron Farwell served as an officer in the North African and Italian campaigns in World War II and also in the Korean War. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964, and is the author of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars.

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The Great Trek Uncut Escape from British Rule: The Boer Exodus from the Cape Colony 1836 Robin Binckes In the early planning stages of Freedom Park, Robin Binckes participated as a member of the history subcommittee. The amount of debate and argument astounded him. Practically every event discussed was interpreted from diametrically differing viewpoints. One of the most controversial topics was the Great Trek, the 1836 Boer exodus from the Cape Colony. It has always been seen as ‘an Afrikaner event’. It was anything but.

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• 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • Brave as a Lion The Life and Times of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

The Life of a Lancer in the Wars of the Punjaub, or, Seven Years in India, 1843-50 James Gilling, Ninth Lancers John H. Rumsby

Christopher Brice Hugh 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.

James Gilling served in the Ninth Lancers of the British army, and he gives a wellwritten, frank, and lively account of his time in India from 1843 to 1850, during which time he took part in both Anglo-Sikh Wars.

It is the only published memoir written from the ranks of a lancer regiment at this period, and includes many outspoken opinions about army life, the conduct of war in India, and his fellow soldiers of all ranks. Original copies of this book are extremely rare; none have been traced in the major British and US libraries. The text has been transcribed from a photocopy in the National Army Museum London, UK.

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Swords trembling in their Scabbards The changing status of Indian officers in the

Mutiny and Insurgency in India 1857-58 The British Army in a Bloody Civil War

Indian Army 1757-1947

T.A. Heathcote The events of 1857 to 1859 were tragic and momentous.

The challenge to British colonial rule was on an unprecedented scale. This book places these grim events into their historical, political and economic contexts.

The author’s use of sources including personal accounts brings events of a century and a half ago vividly to life.

Michael Creese In the eighteenth century the Indian Army was unique in that it had two groups of officers – British and Indian.

The intention was that the Indian officers, coming from similar backgrounds as their men, would form the crucial link between the British officers and the sepoys. A thread running through the book is provided by the diary of Amar Singh, a Rajput from Jaipur. He was one of the first members of the elite Imperial Cadet Corps and served in China, France, Mesopotamia, and on the Northwest Frontier. He ended his military career as Commandant of the Jaipur State forces.

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Cawnpore and Lucknow A Tale of Two Indian Mutiny Sieges Don Richards Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children battled to survive a siege by 3,000 mutineers led by Nana Sahib. Unimaginable horrors of artillery and sniper fire coupled with the crippling heat of the Indian summer took their toll. An offer of safe passage was treacherously reneged on and the massacres which followed drew a terrible retribution when relief finally arrived, in the shape of Generals Havelock and Neil.

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Britain’s Gurkha War The Invasion of Nepal, 1814–16 John Pemble The British love affair with the Gurkhas began during the early nineteenth century clash of the expanding English East India Company and Nepalese hillmen.

The remarkable fighting abilities of the Nepalese contrasted against the most incredible British ineptitude. But on both sides, the war was harder fought than either the Afghan War or even the struggle with the Sikhs. And on both sides, the most colorful characters were involved – such as the drinker, dicer, duellist Rollo Gillespie or the legendary Gurkha hero Bhakti Thapa. In the end, the British wrested key hill tracts from the Gurkhas.

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• 17TH/18TH/19TH CENTURY • On the Fields of Glory The Battlefields of the 1815 Campaign Michael Corum Andrew Uffindell This spirited history of the 1815 campaign provides a stimulating account of the epic confrontation at Waterloo and acts as a reliable guide to the battlefield and all related sites.

The authors have divided the battlefield of Waterloo into three distinct sectors: one for each of the three armies involved. This allows the reader to follow the fighting from three different perspectives and gain an objective understanding of the dramatic course of the battle. The authors also make use of vivid eyewitness testimony, drawn from participants in all three armies.

328204, $44.95 , $29.50 , Hardback, 344 pages

With Guns to the Peninsula The Peninsular War Journal of Captain William Webber, Royal Artillery William Lloyd Webber In his journal Captain Webber records the events as they unfold on the actual day they happened, without being colored by hindsight. His journal describes his experiences during the advance along the Tagus to Aranjuez, the reversal of fortunes during the autumn of 1812, the retreat into winter quarters in Portugal and his brigade’s part in the campaign of 1813 which saw the French pushed back across the Ebro. The late Lieutenant Colonel Laws has set the journal within the context of the Peninsular War, and outlined Webber’s military career, which culminated at Waterloo where he was wounded.

882577, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

Decline and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire How the Emperor SelfDestructed Digby Smith This wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime tracks Napoleon’s rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804–15, and his exile. It highlights his military mistakes, such as his unwillingness to appoint an effective overall supremo in the Iberian Peninsula, and the decision to invade Russia while the Spanish situation was spiraling out of control. Smith also scrutinizes naval mistakes. Smith also tracks diplomatic and political errors, highlighting his inability to conclude lasting peace and to compromise. Smith finally addresses domestic and economic blunders, such as the establishing and maintenance of the Continental System across Europe.

With Eagles to Glory Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1809 Campaign John H. Gill When Napoleon’s Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Habsburg empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troops. From his earliest imperial campaigns, these troops provided played a key role as Napoleon swept from victory to victory and in 1809 their fighting abilities were crucial to the campaign.

With Napoleon’s French troops depleted and debilitated after the long struggle in the Spanish War, the German troops for the first time played a major combat role in the center of the battle line.

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In Napoleon’s Shadow The Memoirs of LouisJoseph Marchand, Valet and Friend of the Emperor 1811–1821 Louis-Joseph Marchand Jean Tulard Louis-Joseph Marchand’s intimate memoir of his time as Napoleon’s valet is the last of the significant Napoleonic manuscripts to be translated into English and a unique and precious insight into the last days of Napoleon’s Imperial project.Serving alongside the Emperor from the apex of his reign and through his eventual demise, Marchand depicts, in remarkable detail, the Russian campaign, the campaigns of Germany and France, Napoleon’s exile to Elba and subsequent escape, and his defeat at Waterloo.

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Wellington’s Highland Warriors From the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo Stuart Reid Wellington’s Highland Warriors covers the early history of the British Army’s Highland regiments, from the raising of the Black Watch in 1739 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Stuart Reid provides an entertaining and thoroughly original study of the circumstances in which the regiments were authorized and recruited, not just in the Highlands but all across Scotland, so that “Highlanders and Scotchmen” became synonymous.

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• WORLD WAR 1 • Masters of Mayhem Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz James Stejskal T. E. Lawrence was one of the earliest practitioners of modern unconventional warfare. His tactics and strategies were used by men like Mao and Giap in their wars of liberation. This book looks at the creation of the HEDGEHOG force, the formation of armored car sections and other units, and focuses on the Hejaz Operations Staff, the Allied officers and men who took Lawrence’s idea and prosecuted it against the Ottoman Turkish army assisting Field Marshal Allenby to achieve victory in 1918.Stejskal concludes with an examination of how HEDGEHOG has influenced special operations.

005744, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 304 pages

Sixty Squadron RAF A History of the Squadron from Its Formation Group Captain A.J.L. Scott, G.B., M.G.,A.F.G. Sixty Squadron R.A.F. 1916-1919 is one of the classic squadron histories of the Great War. Group Captain A.J.L. Scott has written in this book a valuable record of an active squadron.

His account begins with the early stages of scouting and closes with the final concepts of offensive are aerial combat during World War I.Many of those mentioned in these pages, first published in 1920, remained in aviation in the years after the war and during World War II, with considerable success.

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From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot The World War I History, Memories, and Photographs of Leonhard Rempe, 19141921 Paul L. Rempe Twenty-one-year-old Leonhard Rempe volunteered to serve Germany in 1914. This is his remarkable story. Using primary and secondary sources Dr. Paul Rempe provides insight into the grim realities of Leonhard’s war while his father’s own memoir recalls his special comradeship with his fellow soldiers and airmen.

This book adds substantially to the growing literature of the First World War, and paints a unique and compelling portrait of a young German caught up in the deadly jaws of mass industrialized war.

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Immelmann The Eagle of Lille Frantz Immelmann Claud W. Sykes Max Immelmann was initially stationed in northern France as a reconnaissance aviator. He was decorated with the Iron Cross, Second Class for preserving his aircraft. Later in 1915, he became one of the first German fighter pilots, quickly building an impressive score of victories as he became known as The Eagle of Lille.Founder of the aerial combat maneuver that still bears his name, Immelmann was credited with 15 victories, his final one coming on 30 March 1916.Originally published in 1930 by John Hamilton in London, the book has been reprinted and each time has been reproduced from the original 1930’s version of the book.

033984, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

Reich Rails Royal Prussia, Imperial Germany and the First World War, 1825-1918 Blaine Taylor The Great War (1914-18) Centennial begins in 2014, here’s a comprehensive study of Prussian/German railways in peace and strife, 1825-1918--men, rails, lines, engines, cars, and stations. They all played a crucial part in Germany’s Wars of Unification during 1864-71, the interwar years, and the final catastrophe that toppled many crowns, thrones, and states, all told from a railroad perspective, a unique way of exploring the history of the 19th-20th Centuries. Here the reader will also find the sagas of the other railways aligned both for and against the Second Reich: Berlin-Baghdad, Trans-Siberian, Hejaz, African, Italian, American, and more.

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Himmler’s Diary 1945 A Calender of Events Leading to Suicide Stephen Tyas Peter Witte January 1945 saw Himmler at his peak in Nazi Germany, controlling the entire German police force, and all SS organizations. He was also Minister of the Interior. His powers extended into the German Army and he was Commander of the Replacement Army and two Army Groups. Between January and May 1945 Himmler vacillated, showing a lack of vision, action, decision and leadership. Even so, he was able to gain control of V-2 rocket production and their launch against Britain. He ordered all concentration camp inmates be shot, before rescinding the order.

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• WORLD WAR 1 • Oswald Boelcke Germany’s First Fighter Ace and Father of Air Combat RG Head Oswald Boelcke was Germany’s first ace in World War One with a total of forty victories.

His character, inspirational leadership, organizational genius, development of air-to-air tactics and impact on aerial doctrine are all reasons why Boelcke remains an important figure in the history of air warfare. In this definitive biography RG Head explores why Oswald Boelcke deserves consideration as the most important fighter pilot of the 20th century and beyond; but also for setting the standard in military aviation flying. This book will appeal to enthusiasts of the German air force, military aviation in general and World War One in particular.

621423, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

The Advance from Mons 1914 The Experiences of a German Infantry Officer Walter Bloem This is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experiences during the initial days and weeks of the war in the West, July-September 1914.

Walter Bloem was a Captain in the German 12th Grenadier Regiment (Royal Prussian Grenadier Regiment Prinz Carl von Preußen, 2nd Brandenburg, Nr 12 - to give his unit its full title). His narrative gives a superb insight into the outbreak of war and his regiment’s mobilization, followed by the advance through Belgium and France, including the author’s participation at the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Marne and the Aisne.

Black September 1918 WWI’s Darkest Month in the Air Norman Franks Russell Guest The follow-up to Bloody April 1917. Much had happened over this period. More battles had been fought, won and lost on both sides, but now the American strength was feeding in to France with both men and materiel. They were opposed by no less a formidable German fighter force than had the squadrons in April 1917 although the numbers were not in their favor. Nevertheless, the German fighter pilots were able to inflict an even larger toll on British, French and American aircraft.

621119, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 192 pages

My Seventy-Five The Journal of a French Gunner AugustSeptember 1914 Paul Lintier Paul Lintier covered the tumultuous events of August and September 1914. A talented young writer (he had already had three small books published before the outbreak of war), Lintier served in the French 44th Artillery Regiment from 1913 until his death at the front in 1916. His account covers the outbreak of war, mobilization, his unit’s first clash with the Germans at Virton on 22 August, and the subsequent British and French withdrawal.

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For What We Have Done The First Attack on Bellewaarde, 16 June 1915 Michael R.B. McLaren On16 June 1915, two infantry brigades of British 3rd Division leapt out of their shallow trenches and charged out into No Man’s Land. Their objective was a spur of German-occupied high ground on the low-lying hills commanding the eastern approaches to the medieval town of Ypres. Ongoing enemy occupation of this tactically vital sector afforded the Germans almost unbroken observation of movement within the salient and seriously imperiled the nascent British positions therein. What followed, on that hot summer’s day, was a somewhat typical British disaster of the early fighting on the Western Front; almost 4,000 casualties were suffered for a very limited territorial gain.

Gott Strafe England.

Volume 1 The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914–1918 Nigel J. Parker “Gott Strafe England” is the definitive account detailing the German air attacks against Great Britain during the First World War. This method of attack was a totally new concept, taking the war away from the battlefield and into the previously safe territory of the enemy’s homeland. As a result the concept of strategic bombing was born. This two-volume series will explore all the German air operations against the British Isles from 1914 to 1918, and assess the effectiveness of this new form of warfare.

982710, $59.95 , $38.99 , Hardback, 424 pages

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• WORLD WAR 1 • Twelve Days on the Somme A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 Sidney Rogerson Malcolm Brown A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany’s military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12 km. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost. There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualties during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of the last spell of frontline duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

385941, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 208 pages

Fall of Eagles The Evolution of Air Warfare in World War One Alex Revell The Great War of 1914-1918 saw the rapid development of the airplane as a weapon of war. Initially its role was seen as that of reconnaissance, an extension of the cavalry, but as the war stagnated into static trench warfare, with each side facing each other across No Man’s Land, the use of artillery, both in shelling enemy positions and counter-shelling his artillery, also became of prime importance. With the early development of radio communication between ground and air, airplanes also undertook the task of ‘spotting’ for the artillery, and it soon became apparent that these airplanes – both the reconnaissance machines and those working for the artillery – could not be allowed to work unmolested.

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Tunnelmaster and Arsonist of the Great War The Norton-Griffiths Story Greg Espinoza Sir John Norton-Griffiths was one of a breed of adventurer, pioneer, entrepreneur and soldier whose like is very seldom seen. Having learnt his trade and made his fortune mining the rich seams of south Africa, he turned his expertise to more deadly use in the Great war. He led the gallant miners who burrowed deep under enemy lines with devastating effect. He went on to wreak havoc on the Danube. Always a controversial figure, he died (or was he murdered?) in mysterious circumstances.

This is the story of a true maverick who was a formidable force and legend wherever he went.

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Aero-Neurosis Pilots of the First World War and the Psychological Legacies of Combat Mark C Wilkins The young men who flew and fought during the First World War had no idea what was awaiting them. The “technology shock” that coalesced at the Western Front was not envisaged by any of the leadership. These men did the best they could and gave their full measure but it wasn’t enough. Each suffered from their experiences, some better than others. Each knew it was a defining moment in their lives never to be repeated. And many felt that the dynamic context of aerial combat was something that, after the war, they still longed for, despite the attendant horrors.

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The March on Paris The Memoirs of Alexander von Kluck, 1914-1918 Alexander von Kluck Mark Pottle Von Kluck saw active military service at an early age during the Seven Weeks’ War of 1866 and, in 1870-71, the FrancoPrussian War. Rising through the army, he became inspector general of the Seventh Army District in 1913. During the First World War von Kluck commanded the German First Army, notably in the Schlieffen Plan offensive against Paris at the start of the war in August 1914. An aggressive commander, von Kluck’s impatience, allied with a lack of direction from the German High Command and effective French and British counter-attacks, led to the failure of the Schlieffen offensive.

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Twelve Days on the Somme A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 Sidney Rogerson Malcolm Brown This is a memoir of the last spell of front-line duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. It gives an extraordinarily frank and often moving account of what it was really like to fight through one of the most notorious battles of the First World War. Its special message, however, is that, contrary to received assumptions and the popular works of writers like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, men could face up to the terrible ordeal such a battle presented with resilience, good humor, and without loss of morale. This is a classic work whose reprinting is long overdue.

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• WORLD WAR 1 • Guillemont

Combles

Somme

Somme

Michael Stedman The battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916. Like so many of the battles into which the ‘Big Push’ degenerated, the struggle centred around a wood, Trones, and a heavily fortified village. It was in this battle that Noel Chavasse won the first of his two Vcs. 525915, $19.99 , $12.99 , Paperback, 160 pages

Paul Reed Combles was the largest village on the Somme in 1916 and fighting for its possession began in September 1916. Flanked by two large woods to the west - Bouleaux (‘Bully’) and Leuze (‘Lousy’) - these became the front line where men of the 56th (London) Division fought and died. The bastion of Combles finally fell to a combined English and French attack.

Tanks were used here in their first action on the Western Front.

526745, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 144 pages

Monchy le Preux

Messines Ridge Messines - Wystchaete - St Eloi

Arras Colin Fox In April 1917 the high ground of Monchy le Preux anchored the German defensive positions on Vimy Ridge. A British offensive planned for Easter Monday 1917 was hindered by an unexpected Spring snowstorm. Monchy was defended by the 3rd Bavarian Division and cleverly concealed artillery. While the main British offensive failed, and a supporting French offensive further south was a complete disaster, Monchy was captured after a fierce battle. The final German defenders were driven out, rather unusually for the time, by a British cavalry charge.

Monchy was eventually recaptured and the war went on.

Today Monchy is much as it was in 1917 and its British, Canadian and Australian memorials receive many visitors.

Peter Oldham The battle for the possession of the villages of Messines Ridge, Messines, Wytchaete, St. Eloi, took place in 1914-17, and the final battle for Messines in 1918.

The 1917 Battle of Messines was preceded by 19 giant mine explosions and was the biggest military mining effort in history.

This book gives comprehensive details of what happened where and when, together with what can be seen today, including maps of all the remnants and sites.

526240, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 142 pages

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Bullecourt

Epehy

Arras

Hindenburg Line

Graham Keech

Bill Mitchinson The village of Epehy gave its name to one of the most important battles of 1918.

Evacuated by the Germans during their retreat to the Hindenburg Line, the ruins were occupied by British Forces until the German offensive. They were recaptured in some of the bloodiest engagements of

The village of Bullecourt, France was incorporated into the formidable Hindenburg Line when the Germans carried out their strategic withdrawal in February 1917. Attacked unsuccessfully as part of the Battle of Arras on 11th April 1917, it was finally captured in May after a second major assault. The book details the actions of the Australians but also includes the contributions made by the 7th, 58th and 62nd British Divisions.

September 1918.

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• WORLD WAR 1 • Irish Servicewomen in the Great War From Western Front to the Roaring Twenties Barbara Walsh When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from Scotland, England and Wales. Drawn from every class, creed, family background and ability, the girls who came forward to join the WAAC from Ireland had often suffered equal heartbreak over the loss of husbands, brothers and friends killed or wounded in France.Yet, their willingness to help bring about an end to the slaughter was a narrative that became ignored in popularized versions of that politically volatile era.

767943, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 232 pages

Berwick-upon-Tweed in the Great War Craig Armstrong

During the catastrophic years of 1914-18 many Berwick families found themselves greatly affected by the war.

Large numbers of Berwick men volunteered to serve in the forces and many were killed.

During the first months of war the local barracks were overwhelmed by the number of men volunteering for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, while a great many Berwick lads served with the Northumberland Fusiliers. Others were less keen to serve and this book considers some of these cases, ranging from hairdressers to farm workers, who were brought before the military tribunal at Berwick.

823082, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 176 pages

Children at War 1914–1918 “It’s my war too!”

Vivien Newman For most British readers, the phrase ‘children during the war’ conjures up images of the evacuees of the Second World War. Somehow, surprisingly, the children of the Great War have been largely and unjustifiably overlooked. However, this book takes readers to the heart of the Children’s War 1914-1918. The age range covered, from birth to 17 years, as well as the richness of children’s own writings and the breadth of English, French and German primary and secondary sources, allows readers to experience wartime childhood and adolescence from multiple, multi-national standpoints.

821071, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 224 pages

Nursing Through Shot and Shell A Great War Nurse’s Story Vivien Newman Christine Smyth This recently discovered memoir gives an intimate glimpse into the Great War service of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Forces Nursing Service Sister, who remained steadfast and true to her profession as she nursed through shot and shell. Dr Vivien Newman’s meticulously researched Introduction brings Beatrice’s world out of the shadows, juxtaposing her war service against the background of the Army Nursing Service, where dedicated, professional nurses worked closer to the Front Line than women could have ever previously imagined doing.

827592, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 176 pages

A Marine at Gallipoli and on The Western Front First In, Last Out - The Diary of Harry Askin Jean Baker Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted in September 1914. He set sail with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in late February 1915. On 25 April he was towed ashore to Gallipoli.

So began a nine month ordeal of constant fighting and shelling on that bare and desperate Peninsula. In this diary he captures the atmosphere of danger and death, blazing heat in summer and rain and cold at other times. Harry was wounded twice in one day but the surgeon removed the bullet and he returned to the firing line. This is a stirring memoir which paints a vivid picture of the horrors of war.

827844, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

Till the Boys Come Home The First World War Through its Picture Postcards Tonie Holt Valmai Holt This is new edition includes, in its over 700 postcards, many new, powerful propaganda images from nations on both sides of this epic conflict.

Here are cards from the Queen’s Collection, cards from America, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Rumania, Salonika, Serbia... All are faithfully reproduced from the original and they are all at least 100 years old. But this is not just a picture book. Here is a rich treasure trove to be dipped into for dilettante pleasure or to be read seriously as a thematic and contemporary history of the war.

823525, $44.95 , $29.50 , Hardback, 336 pages

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• WORLD WAR 1 • St. Julian

Gavrelle

Ypres

Arras

Graham Keech The village of St. Julian figured in several battles of the First World War, but this new volume in the Battleground Europe series concentrates on the site’s darkest moment: the first use of poison gas as a weapon of war.

The St. Julian region saw many acts of courage in the face of unknown and deadly weapons.

Maps, photos and sketches cover all the major units and actions at the site, including all eight Victoria Crosses won, and provide a guide to the area as it is today.

Kyle Tallett Trevor Tasker During the Battle of Arras 1917, the village of Gavrelle was captured by the Royal Naval Division; the Royal Marines suffered the highest casualties in their history. This guide explains the battles and the area today.

526882, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 144 pages

528398, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

Welsh on the Somme Mametz Wood Michael Renshaw The Battle for Mametz Wood is normally associated with the endeavors of the 38th Welsh Division and was the first of those great battles to secure possession of the woodlands of the Somme. The author looks at events after the 1st July, but also relates the story of the 17th Northern Division who attacked the quadrangle, a defensive system guarding the western approaches to the wood. Also related is the demise of both generals commanding these divisions who were sent home.

832695, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 176 pages

The Germans at Beaumont Hamel

Jack Sheldon Beaumont Hamel is a name which conjures up appalling visions of the catastrophic reverse suffered by men of VIII Corps, British Fourth Army on 1st July 1916, when thousands of men were killed and wounded for no gains whatsoever. This book, which covers the Old Front Line from Redan Ridge to the Ancre, describes how the defense of the area became so strong, the reasons for German early success during the battle and explains how the British defeat of July was transformed into victory, when the fall of Beaumont Hamel marked the final flicker of success, before the battle was mired to a standstill in the mud.

154432, $24.99 , $16.50 , Paperback, 192 pages

Verdun The Left Bank Christina Holstein This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun.

It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. Using only original French and German sources the author describes the fighting on the Left Bank and follows the German offensive as it slowly pushed forward. The book contains over 150 photographs, most of which have never been published before and which show the startling traces that remain of the longest battle of the First World War. 827035, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 192 Pages

Ypres 1914: Messines Nigel Cave Jack Sheldon

These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high. At the end of October 1914 an increasingly desperate Falkenhayn decided to make one final effort to break through the Allied lines south of Ypres.

Pulling together a large strike force, the so-called Army Group Fabeck, he launched a violent offensive designed to capture the Messines Ridge and to use this dominating terrain as a springboard for a further advance.

592014, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 176 pages

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• WORLD WAR 2 • Blood and Steel The Wehrmacht Archive, Normandy 1944 Donald E. Graves Ordered by Hitler ‘to hold, or to die’ and to fight ‘to the last grenade and round’, the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign. This book depicts the experience of that army in Normandy through its own records and documentation. The Wehrmacht Archive is an informative and colorful collection of translated original orders, diaries, letters, after action reports, and even jokes, as well as Allied technical evaluations of weapons, vehicles and equipment and transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations.

326835, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

The Tigers of Bastogne Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge Michael Collins Martin King General Anthony McAuliffe of the 101st Airborne, said, “It seems regrettable to me that Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division didn’t get the credit it deserved at the battle of Bastogne. All the newspaper and radio talk was about the paratroopers. Actually the 10th Armored Division was in there a day before we were and had some very hard fighting before we ever got into it.”Fortunately, in this book, the historical record is finally corrected. King and Collins, through firsthand interviews with veterans, bring us straight into the combats of the 10th Armored, equaling the balance between the brave paratroopers and gallant tankers.

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, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the 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.

860014, $36.95 , $24.50 , Hardback, 440 pages

Hell’s Highway Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September - November 1944 George Koskimaki Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the Screaming Eagles’ part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands.

George Koskimaki is an expert in weaving together individual recollections to make a compelling and uniquely first hand account of the bravery and deprivations suffered by the troops, their hopes, fears, triumphs and tragedies as well as those of Dutch civilians caught up in the action.

000732, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 504 pages

001814, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 296 pages

Fall of Hitler’s Fortress City The Battle for Königsberg 1945 Isabel Denny In 1945, in the face of the advancing Red Army, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany’s most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital, Königsberg.

Through firsthand accounts as well as archival material, The Fall of Hitler’s Fortress City tells the dramatic story of a place and its people that bore the brunt of Russia’s vengeance against the Nazi regime.

149200, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 256 pages

Bismarck The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest Battleship Michael Tamelander Niklas Zetterling A gripping tale of heroism —and doom—on the high seas . . .The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck—a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns—was one of the most dramatic events of World War II.Tamelander and Zetterling’s work rests on stories from survivors and the latest historical discoveries. The book starts with a thorough account of maritime developments from 1871 up to the era of the giant battleship, and ends with a vivid account, hour by hour, of the dramatic and fateful hunt for the mighty Bismarck, Nazi-Germany’s last hope to pose a powerful surface threat to Allied convoys.

000756, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 328 pages

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• WORLD WAR 2 • Hitler’s Insanity A Conspiracy of Silence Andrew Norman The object of this book is not to prove that Adolf Hitler was insane. So much is obvious, both intuitively and from a clinical perspective. Nevertheless the reasons for arriving at such a conclusion will be reiterated and enlarged upon. Instead, the aim of the author is to discover what light Hitler’s associates were able to shed on the personality and modus operandi of the Fuehrer, and to determine the extent to which they (and indeed, Hitler himself) realized that their leader was insane.

556627, $36.95 , $24.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

Through Ice and Fire A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942 Leona J.Thomas On the Russian Arctic convoys in 1942, Leonard H. Thomas kept a secret notebook from which he later wrote his memoirs. These contained many details of life onboard the HMS Ulster Queen. He detailed observations of being under fire from the skies above and the sea below, and only able to guess at what was happening from the cacophony of sounds they could hear. Thomas tells of how the crew suffered from an appalling lack of food, the intense cold, and the stark conditions endured for weeks on end berthed in Archangel in the cold of the approaching Russian winter.

554401, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 249 pages

Silent Invaders Combat Gliders of the Second World War Gary Best Combat gliders were called by some as ‘Death Crates’, ‘Purple Heart Boxes’, ‘Flying Coffins’ and ‘Tow Targets’. They were not pretty and had no graceful lines.Viewed from the front, they had a pug nose and a sloping Neanderthal forehead.

Their wings looked like the heavily starched ears of a jackrabbit placed at right angles on a canvas-covered frame.

Twice the length of the body, these wings were eighty-four feet in length, 70 per cent as long as the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. They could not become airborne, let alone fly, unless assisted by an engine-powered tow plane. And for those riding in the back, it was like flying ‘through the gates of hell’.

450005, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

Voices from Britain Broadcasts from the BBC 1939-45 Henning Krabbe From period-defining oratory - ‘We shall fight them on the beaches’ - to obscure and illuminating interviews, the radio broadcasts of the BBC are an invaluable archive of material on the Second World War. Voices from Britain tells the history of Britain’s involvement in the conflict through the transcripts of the BBC, featuring leaders and commentators such as Churchill, Atlee, Bevin, Chamberlain, de Gaulle, Thomas Mann, FDR, E. M. Forster, and Ed Murrow. Written and researched by critically acclaimed historian Henning Crabbe, it is an important and fascinating contribution to Second World War history 551745, $25.95 , $16.99 , Paperback, 288 pages

Enemy at the Gates Panic Fighters of the Second World War Justo Miranda When the Nazis started to threaten the world with their efficient machine of propaganda, the main concern of European governments was the overwhelming reaction of panic that the expected bombing of the Luftwaffe might cause within the civil population. During the Munich Agreement in 1938, the democracies were defended by old biplanes and a bunch of modern fighters: 50 Hurricanes, 20 Morane-405 and 5 Fokker D.XXI. France and Great Britain took up the production of USA airplanes and cancelled exports to small countries, which were forced to design and build their own PANIC FIGHTERS with the intelligence and skill that desperation provides.

557662, $45.00 , $29.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

Hitler’s Naval Bases Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War Jak P. Mallmann Showell Throughout the Second World War, Hitler’s U-boats and surface battleships - particularly the dreaded Bismarck and Tirpitz - were a constant threat to Allied shipping. They exacted a massive toll, despite being outnumbered by the Royal Navy. But the vital contribution of Hitler’s naval bases, which constructed, supplied, maintained and protected the German fleet all over the world, is often neglected. Jak P. Mallmann Showell has spent over forty years researching the role played by these bases; he has interviewed hundreds of veterans, visited dozens of locations and has amassed a vast collection of photographs to form the most comprehensive and illuminating work on the subject to date.

551981, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

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• WORLD WAR 2 • German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945

Anthony Tucker-Jones The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of this wideranging photographic history.

As the conflict progressed, the German army had to find a use for its obsolete panzers, and this gave rise to the turretless Sturmgeschütz or assault guns designed for infantry support. From 1944 onwards they played a vital role in Nazi Germany’s increasingly defensive war.

845992, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Hitler’s Artillery 1939 – 1945

Hans Seidler This is a highly illustrated record of the firepower of the German war machine between 1939–1945. Many of the photographs, all from the author’s collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the war. The images and text cover the guns in service with the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS and provide a unique visual record of artillery pieces. Using over 250 rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, this book provides a unique insight into German weaponry from early Blitzkrieg campaigns to the final demise of the Nazi empire.

463770, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 Pages

SS Polizei at War 1940–1945 A History of the Division Ian Baxter The book describes how the SS-Polizei Division fought across the Low Countries, the Eastern Front, before deploying to the Balkans and Greece where it committed numerous atrocities.

During the last days of the War it was assigned to Army Detachment Steiner defending Berlin where many soldiers fought to the death.

This book is a unique glimpse into one of the most infamous fighting machines in World War Two and a great addition to any reader interested Waffen-SS history.

890978, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 144 pages

United States Army Armored Divisions of the Second World War

Michael Green The routing of the British and French Armies in May and June 1940 by the Wehrmacht’s armored divisions caused a major rethink by the US Army’s senior leadership. The result was the formation of two armored divisions; the first named ‘Old Ironside’ and second designated ‘Hell on Wheels.’ In 1941, a further three armored divisions were created. The following year seven more were created. The final two armored divisions formed in 1943. All but one of these powerful formations went on to see service in the European Theatre of Operation.

717252, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 224 pages

Panzer III at War 1939 – 1945

Paul Thomas With comprehensive captions and text, this book is the second installment of the Author’s pictorial history of the German Panzers in the Second World War. The Panzer III saw almost continuous action from the annexation of Czechoslakia, the invasion of Poland and then France and the Low countries, in North Africa, Italy, the Eastern Front and, finally, the retreat back into Germany. Between 1936 and 1945, many thousands of Panzer III’s were built. It quickly demonstrated its superiority on the battlefield and, for most of the war, remained a match for its opponents’ heavy tanks.

The collection of images shows how these formidable tanks were adapted and up-gunned to face the ever-increasing enemy threat.

590409, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

SS Totenkopf at War A History of the Division Ian Baxter The SS Totenkopf (Death Head) Division even 70 years on retains its formidable and ruthless reputation as a superbly efficient yet murderous formation. It earned this for its actions throughout the Second World War, first in 1940 during the blitzkrieg in Northern France and then on the Eastern Front. The battles at Kharkov and Kurst saw some of the fiercest fighting of that long and terrible campaign. During the long retreat back to the Fatherland the Division fought with customary dogged determination, nay fanaticism.

This superbly illustrated work, drawing on images taken by participants, portrays the SS Totenkopfs history from formation through training to the battles in northern France and in Russia.

890930, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 144 pages

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• WORLD WAR 2 • Tirpitz The First Voyage Diane Canwell Jon Sutherland It is a little known fact that before the start of WWII the Tirpitz went on a shakedown voyage into the Atlantic, traveling north into Arctic waters and south into the Caribbean. There are superb photos of the officers and crew both above and below decks, including some unique shots of the crew during their stint on a magnificent sail training vessel. Other stunning shots show the vessel’s mighty weapons during gunnery practice. This unique collection gives a close up view of one of the most powerful ships of World War Two. 846685, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 144 pages

Early Jet Bombers, 1944–1954

Airwar Over the Atlantic

Manfred Griehl Late in 1938, the German Navy Supreme Command commissioned a report into the combat effectiveness of its airborne divisions. In this volume of the outstanding Luftwaffe at War series, Manfred Griehl showcases a photohistory of the development of the Kriegsmarine airborne capability from the early Condor missions to the introduction of Me 262 A-1a jet fighters in 1944. More than a hundred rarely seen pictures illustrate the gradual turning of the tide against Germany in the war for the skies over the Atlantic.

327917, $19.99 , $12.99 , Paperback, 72 Pages

Stuka Spearhead The Lightning War from Poland to Dunkirk, 19391940

Leo Marriott In a companion volume to his Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Leo Marriott describes, using over 200 archive photographs, the first decade in the development of the jet bomber. This was a time of intense technical innovation which transformed the design and capabilities of the bomber and gave birth to a range of classic military aircraft in the USA, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The photographs take the story from the earliest jet bombers constructed in Germany towards the end of the Second World War to the successful designs both sides depended on through the first phase of the Cold War.

Peter C. Smith This superb volume makes use of over a hundred rare and valuable photographs, many of them taken by Luftwaffe personnel. The Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber dominated the opening campaigns of WWII. It was a primary weapon of German Blitzkrieg tactics and the concept of lightning warfare. Stuka Spearhead profiles the various models and infamous tactics of these deadly divebombers from the conquest of Poland and the Norwegian campaign, through the invasion of the Low Countries, to the fall of France and the evacuation at Dunkirk.

753892, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 160 pages

327993, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 72 pages

Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1945

Simon Forty The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony.

After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the Italian campaign becoming a sideshow as the ‘D-Day Dodgers’ fought their way through Italy to the Alps against a grinding defense and extreme weather. In a sequence of 200 wartime photographs Simon Forty sums up the major events of the conflict – from the landings on Sicily to the crossing of the Po. Commanded first by Sir Harold Alexander and then Mark Clark, the Allied armies (US Fifth and British Eighth) drew men not only from Britain, the United States, France and Poland but from all over the Commonwealth.

Stukas Over the Steppe The Blitzkrieg in the East, 1941–1945 Peter C. Smith This enthralling pictorial guide reveals the formidable power of one of the most feared warplanes of all time. The Ju 87 Stuka dominated the opening campaigns of World War II. It was a primary weapon of German Blitzkrieg tactics and the concept of lightning warfare. Together with the panzer, it transformed air and land warfare, with countries falling in days and weeks, rather than after campaigns lasting years. With more than 100 photographs and detailed commentary, Stukas over the Steppe captures the many roles adopted by these famous dive-bombers as they blasted a path across Eastern Europe.

328013, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 64 Pages

766205, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 144 pages

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• WORLD WAR 2 • Red Army Sniper A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II Yevgeni Nikolaev Albrecht Wacker

Eastern Front Sniper The Life of Matthäus Hetzenauer Roland Kaltenegger

Nikolaev is credited with a remarkable 324 kills. On several occasions, he discusses his Nazi counterparts as bandits and scum, and implores the reader to “take a look, fellows, at the beast of a bastard I’ve laid low”. In addition to describing details of his kills, Nikolaev explains how his life was saved when an explosive rifle bullet struck a watch that he kept in his jacket pocket. His life was saved by a surgeon who extracted all the watch parts.

A long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of WWII’s most accomplished snipers. Mathäus Hetzenauer was drafted at the age of 18 but discharged five months later. He received a new draft notice in January 1943 where he met some of the best German snipers and learned his art. Hetzenauer went on to fight in Romania, Eastern Hungary and in Slovakia. As recognition for his more than 300 confirmed kills he was awarded on the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

382360, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

382162, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 192 pages

Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich A War Diary, 1942–45 Donald Caldwell This book is a detailed, comprehensive daily reference to the air operations flown by the Luftwaffe against the daylight strategic missions by the United States Army Air Force against the German Reich and the western zone occupied by Germany. It is a unique look at the German air defenses as they struggled to cope with the threat posed by the American 8th and 15th Air Forces, which were charged with destroying Germany’s critical war industries and wresting control of the air over the Reich from the Luftwaffe.

325258, $70.00 , $45.50 , Hardback, 480 pages

Fighting Brigadier The Life of Brigadier James Hill DSO** MC Peter Harclerode In the 1930s James Hill was forced to leave the Army because he was under 26 when he married. Recalled to the colors, he won his MC with the BEF in 1940. He was one of the first to volunteer for airborne forces and became second-incommand of 1 PARA. He was in the thick of the expansion of Airborne forces in 1941-42 and took command of 1 PARA in North Africa, winning his first DSO. He converted 10th Bn The Essex Regiment to 9 PARA and later in 1943 took command of 3 Parachute Brigade, playing a major role in the D-Day Landings. Wounded twice, his Brigade captured the key Merville Battery.

842144, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

Bomber Battle for Berlin

Target Leipzig The RAF’s Disastrous Raid of 19/20 February 1944

Martin Middlebrook The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. Bomber Command’s Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, hoped to ‘wreck Berlin from end to end’ and ‘produce a state of devastation in which German surrender is inevitable’.

He dispatched nineteen major raids between August 1943 and March 1944 – more than 10,000 aircraft sorties dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs on Berlin. It was the RAF’s supreme effort to end the war by aerial bombing. But Berlin was not destroyed and the RAF lost more than 600 aircraft and their crews. The controversy over whether the Battle of Berlin was a success or failure has continued ever since.

Alan W. Cooper Seventy-nine heavy bombers failed to return from the catastrophic raid on the industrial city of Leipzig on the night of 19/20 February 1944.

Some 420 aircrew were killed and a further 131 became prisoners of war. It was at that time by far the RAF’s most costly raid of World War II. The town was attacked in an attempt to destroy the Messerschmitt factory which was building the famous and deadly Bf 109 fighter. The bomber stream flew into what appeared to be a trap. It seemed that the Luftwaffe and antiaircraft guns were aware of the intended target and waiting to pounce as soon as the bombers crossed the coast.

842243, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

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• MODERN • WORLDWARFARE WAR 2 • • Evolution of Airborne Operations 1939 - 1945

Luftwaffe Bomber Aces Men, Machines, Methods

Colonel Roy M. Stanley II, USAF (RET.) The Germans were first off-the-mark with assaults in Norway and at Eben Emael in 1940. The Allies on the other hand developed the concept dramatically with the large scale Operation Husky in Sicily. The culmination of WWII airborne operations was the multidivision Rhine Crossing Varsity. Expert author and collector Roy Stanley traces the history of airborne landings in words and pictures.

Mike Spick This book outlines the Luftwaffe’s revolutionary tactics, first tested during the Spanish Civil War, and highlights individual techniques and methods used against specific types of target. First-hand accounts add gripping drama to the narrative, and give an unsurpassed appreciation of just what it was like to dive-bomb, come under attack by fighters or brave a barrage of anti-aircraft guns.

84380A, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 272 Pages

328624, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 256 Pages

Spitfire Glory The Wartime Flying Life of Leif Lundsten Tor Idar Larsen As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron, Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War, all the Spitfires he flew are covered in this book along with descriptions of his sorties.

Behind every Spitfire there is a story to be told. Stories of brave heroism, tragic deaths or determined resilience. The author pays tribute to a forgotten Spitfire hero, a gallant and brave man that did his country proud. Time and time again Leif Lundsten took a Spitfire to the air, whether it was an air-test or to meet the Luftwaffe in a dogfight over the channel.

555019, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 224 Pages

Hitler’s Revenge Weapons The Final Blitz of London Nigel Walpole Thee final blitz on London was delivered by the V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets which were aimed at the capital. Overall, the V weapons killed or seriously injured 31,000 in London and destroyed or seriously damaged 1.6 million houses throughout Britain.Group Captain Nigel Walpole grew up in London during the Blitz and he has traced the full history of the V1 ‘doodlebugs’ and V2 rockets that terrorized so many at this time. He reports his vivid memories of the three Blitz campaigns and the countermeasures taken in response to them. Having been granted direct access to the history of the V weapons, he describes the evolution, development, production deployment and launch of the flying bombs and rockets.

722881, $44.95 , $29.50 , Hardback, 232 pages

Fuel, Fire and Fear RAF Flight Engineers at War Colin Pateman This book provides the reader with an explanation of the origin of Flight Engineers, the training of these men and the complexity of keeping large bombers in the air is an enthralling story. Many gallantry medals were won by Flight Engineers, including the Victoria Cross. Accounts of dangerous operational flying is revealed by Flight Engineers in numerous aircraft including those of Coastal Command.

This book examines true accounts that took place; many based upon personal flying logbooks and other unique material originating from the pilots and aircrew themselves.

556757, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

Bailout Over Normandy A Flyboy’s Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France Ted Fahrenwald Ted Fahrenwald was a 22-yearold daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Group when he bailed out of his burning P-51 Mustang two days after D-Day on his 100th mission. Parachuting into the farmlands of Normandy, he was immediately picked up by the local Maquis, the guerrilla branch of the French Resistance. A suspenseful page-turner and an outrageously witty tale of daring and friendship, this book brings to life the daily intrigues of the multiple sides of World War II. 001579, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

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• MODERN • • WORLD WARFARE WAR 2 • The Devil’s General The Life of Hyazinth Graf von Strachwitz, “The Panzer Graf”

You Can’t Get Much Closer Than This Combat with the 80th “Blue Ridge” Division in World War II Europe

Raymond Bagdonas This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the “Panzer Graf” (Armored Count).

Raymond Bagdonas, though impaired by the disappearance of 16th Panzer Division’s official records at Stalingrad, and the fact that many of the Panzer Graf’s later battlegroups never kept them, has nevertheless written an intensely detailed account of this combat leader’s life, as well as ferocious armored warfare in World War II.

In the course of fighting graphically portrayed in this soldier’s memoir, Andy Adkins acted with remarkable skill and courage, placing himself at the forefront of the action whenever he could. His extremely aggressive delivery of critical supplies to a cut-off unit in an embattled French town earned him a Bronze Star Medal, the first such award in his battalion.You Can’t Get Much Closer Than This is at heart a young soldier’s story of war. .

004327, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 376 pages

003108, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 288 pages

Patton’s Third Army at War

George Forty This is the story of General Patton’s Third Army as it advanced across Nazi-occupied Europe in the last year of World War II. As America’s own answer to Blitzkrieg, Third Army’s actions from the Normandy coast across France and Germany to Austria gave a new dimension to the term “fluid warfare.” In these pages renowned military historian George Forty gives a vivid impression in words and pictures of what it was like to live and fight with Patton’s men. Full of eyewitness accounts and a host of photographs and maps, it relates the full story of how America’s most dynamic fighting formation led the Allied effort against the Nazis’ seemingly invincible European empire.

002958, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

Poles in Defence of Britain A day-by-day chronology of Polish day and night fighter pilot operations: July 1940 - July 1941 Robert Gretzyngier To the Polish volunteers who were to fly and fight so brilliantly and tenaciously throughout the Battle of Britain, the United Kingdom was known as ‘Last Hope Island’. Many lost their lives, and many achieved glory and became aces. The RAF came to depend on these men, with over 100 Polish pilots supporting almost thirty fighter squadrons. The result of years of research, this book includes detailed combat descriptions, personal accounts, memoirs, and diaries from the Polish, British, and German perspective. It is a tremendous account of their contribution in the days before the RAF began to take the offensive across the Channel.

690154, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 294 pages

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A.Z. Adkins, Jr. Andrew Z. Adkins, III

Panzer Operations Germany’s Panzer Group 3 During the Invasion of Russia, 1941 Hermann Hoth 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. Hoth critically analyzes 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.

002699, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

Winged Chariot A Complete Account of the RAF’s Support Role During the Victorious Command Raid on St Nazaire, March 1942 Peter Lush Operation Chariot saw heavy destruction of the enemyoccupied port of St Nazaire

by British forces. Winged Chariot examines the role that the RAF played during this epic raid on 28th March 1942. With focus on the planning and actions of the operation, Peter Lush explores the three functions carried out by the RAF; the sweeping of the Bay of Biscay, the diversionary raid and protecting the withdrawing survivors. He also outlines the importance of the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit to the raid and the development of the Bomber and Coastal Commands particularly through the sorties flown by Coastal Command two days before the attack started.

690246, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

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• MODERN • • WORLD WARFARE WAR 2 • The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War A Re-examination

The Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Boris Sokolov This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative answers. The primary question explored regards the effectiveness of the Red Army and the Soviet military economy. Dr. Sokolov argues that the chief defect of the Soviet military economy was the emphasis on the production of tanks and aircraft at the expense of transportation means This leads the author to look at the role of Lend-Lease during the war.

Michael Alfred Peszke The monograph discusses the valuable contribution of the Polish Military to its two Western allies, France and the United Kingdom leading up to the war, and the respite they received due to Poland’s spirited defense that degraded German offensive capability by at least half a year. Recreated in France, the Polish Military conceptualized a liberation policy. Polish relations, with Hungary in particular, and Romania, while British relations with Greece and Turkey, made this a promising policy option.

982642, $79.95 , $51.99 , Hardback, 148 pages

916549, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 238 pages

The Oder Front 1945.

Volume 1 Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici, Heeresgruppe Weichsel and Germany’s Final Defense in the East, 20 March-4 May 1945 A. Stephan Hamilton In a companion volume to Bloody Streets, author A. Stephan Hamilton describes the planning and execution of the defense of the Oder Front. Operations of the 3.Panzer Armee, 9.Armee, 12.Armee, and 21.Armee are covered in detail, with their unit movements depicted on over 60 wartime operational maps. The narrative is supported by an extensive selection of appendices, including translations of postwar narratives relating to Heeresgruppe Weichsel penned by senior German officers.

174218, $79.95 , $51.99 , Paperback, 394 pages

The Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945 Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis Alexander of Tunis After his first meeting with General Alexander in August 1942, Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks wrote that, ‘by repute he was Winston Churchill’s fire brigade chief par excellence – the man who was always dispatched to retrieve the most desperate situations’.

Churchill was indeed in need of a fire brigade chief. Allied forces had been chased back across the desert by Rommel.

Alexander bought a new hope to the famed Desert Rats: he instilled them with his own confidence and thought of victory. Under his command, Montgomery was ready to fight and win the battle of El Alamein.

784292, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 240 pages

The Oder Front 1945.

Volume 2 Documents, Reports and Personal Accounts A. Stephan Hamilton Heeresgruppe Weichsel (Vistula) was created on the order of Adolf Hitler to “organize the national defense on German soil.” Despite the importance of this new command, its operations in the final months of the war have received little historical attention in the west. Relying on primary documents that are reprinted in their entirety along with summary translations, this new volume examines why the command came into existence, and how that translated into men and material support for its combat divisions.

174201, $79.95 , $51.99 , Paperback, 584 pages

Freely I Served The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, 1941–1944 Stanislaw Sosabowski After seeing service with the Austrian Army in WWI, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918.

By September 1939 he was commanding 21st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Warsaw against overwhelming German forces. Taken prisoner, he escaped to join the Polish Army in France. In 1941 he formed the First Polish Independent Parachute Brigade and trained and commanded it for the next three years. While created for the liberation of Poland, the Brigade and the author parachuted into Arnhem in September 1944 and fought with great courage.

Freely I Served is both a personal memoir and a tribute to the many brave Polish soldiers.

781703, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 208 pages

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• COLD WAR &WARFARE BEYOND •• • MODERN The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Cold War Angolan Finale, 1987-1988 Leopold Scholz Thee Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was waged between the apartheid South African Defence Force (SADF) and the armed forces of the communist MPLA government in Angola and the People’s Republic of Cuba. Led

by Soviet generals, the MPLA embarked on a grand offensive in order to knock out the pro-Western rebel movement UNITA in southeastern Angola. As UNITA’s survival was crucial to South Africa’s military strategy in fighting its own counter-insurgency war against the South West African rebel movement SWAPO, the SADF stepped in with a single mechanised brigade and broke the back of the overwhelming MPLA offensive.

336073, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 72 pages

Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974 John P. Cann During the 13-year insurgency (1961–74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces.

Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos. The commando training made them the most effective ground force in the Portuguese Army. The commandos were expert practitioners in the art of counterinsurgency, and their practice of destroying the enemy in great numbers quickly and quietly served as inspiration not only to South Africa and Rhodesia, but to the enemy himself. This is the story of the Portuguese commandos: their beginnings, their unique operations and their legacy and influence in subsequent sister units such as the Buffalo Battalion of South Africa.

096320, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

The Rwandan Patriotic Front 1990-1994 Tom Cooper Adrien Fontanellaz

Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 2: Military Flying Services in the Arab Countries, 1916-1918 David Nicolle At a time when multiple wars are raging across much of the Middle East, it is almost forgotten that it was Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn Firnas ibn Wirdas at-Takurni – an Andalusian inventor, physician and engineer – who was the first person to undertake experiments in flying with any degree of success. That was back in the 9th Century A.D. Nigh on a thousand years later the Arab World’s critical strategic location made it almost inevitable that these regions would be drawn into the imperial rivalries of the leading European powers.

118761, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 72 pages

Moscow’s Game of Poker Russian Military Intervention in Syria, 2015-2017 Tom Cooper In August 2015, the government of the Russian Federation embarked its military forces on an intervention in Syria.

Ever since, there is no end of discussions about Russian military capabilities and intentions – in Syria and beyond.

To many, the performance of the Russian military – and especially the Russian Air-Space Force (VKS) – in this war was a clear demonstration of advanced technology, improved training, fearsome firepower, and great mobility.

To others, the military operation only experienced limited success and exposed a number of weaknesses. Foremost between the latter are aircraft ill-suited to the necessities of expeditionary warfare, and a gross lack of advanced weaponry and equipment.

390373, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

MiG-23 Flogger in the Middle East Mikoyan i Gurevich MiG-23 in Service in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya and Syria, 1973-

On 1 October 1990, hundreds of Banyarawanda militants formed the Rwandan Patriotic Front and invaded Rwanda.

Thus began the Rwandan Civil War, which was to culminate in the famous genocide of nearly one million of Tutsi and moderate Hutus, in 1994. Starting with in-depth descriptions of the history of Rwandan political, military and security development, this volume traces the history of the RPA from its emergence as a small-scale insurgent group formed from the ranks of Rwandan refugee diaspora in Uganda; its military operations and related experiences during nearly four years of war against the Rwandan government; and its establishment of control over Kigali, in July 1994.

Tom Cooper Following a protracted research and development phase, Mikoyan Gurevich’s MiG-23 finally entered service with the Soviet Air Force in the early 1970s. Almost immediately, large numbers of MiG-23 interceptors and fighter-bombers were exported to five major Arab air forces. This is a detailed history of the operational service of this Sovietmanufactured interceptor and its fighter-bomber variants in service with Algerian, Egyptian, Iraqi, Libyan, and Syrian air forces, since 1974.

294567, $35.00 , $22.99 , Paperback, 72 pages

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• COLD WAR WARFARE & BEYOND• • • MODERN Wings over the Hindu Kush Air Forces, Aircraft and Air Warfare of Afghanistan, 1989-2001 Lukas Müller Since 1978, Afghanistan has been savaged by an uninterrupted war fought by a host of diverse parties. The military history of an entire series of coups of the late 1970s, and the resulting military intervention of the USSR was widely published on over time. On the contrary, the period from 1989 until 2001 is by far the poorest-recorded.

This period encompassed the downfall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the sudden emergence of the Taliban and their alliance with al-Qaeda that launched the murderous terror attacks against the United States.

118662, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 72 pages

At The Forward Edge of Battle, Volume 2 A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps Major General Syed Ali Hamid The Pakistan Armoured Corps is based on a unique blend of values and traditions inherited from its predecessors, and those of the post-Independence national army. The origins of this force can be traced back to the time when the cavalry units of the British India Army were mechanized, in the late 1930s. They were worked up and then deployed extensively during the Second World War, and further moulded during the post-independence period and two wars with India between 1948-1971. By the 1990s, the Pakistan Armoured Corps had evolved into a modern fighting force in thought, organization, and equipment.

866335, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 136 pages

Tito’s Underground Air Base Bihac (Zeljava) Underground Yugoslav Air Force Base, 19641992 Bojan Dimitrijevic Milan Micevski

Hot Skies of the Cold War The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s Alexander Mladenov Evgeni Andonov

The air force of Tito’s Yugoslavia has had many different peculiarities - from a unique Cold War position of having operated a mix of US, Soviet, and indigenous aircraft, to the changeable strategies in case of war. One such feature was an entire underground air base. ‘The Object’ was the core, the heart, of this air base: it housed four MiG-21 squadrons for nearly 25 years, until the civil war tore Yugoslavia apart.

‘The Object’ was built as the outcome of Yugoslav military efforts to build up its independent defence capabilities, especially the air force which was regarded as the strategic tool in keeping Tito’s Yugoslavia’s independence from both Cold War blocks.

After the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agreement on the ‘spheres of influence’ division of Europe. The Bulgarian Air Force was radically reformed in the Soviet style and rapidly re-equipped with huge numbers of front-line aircraft. The strengthening of the Bulgarian air arm became a high priority as the Cold War in the Balkans gathered speed, and small incidents near the southern and western borders of the country began to occur with increasing frequency. The extensive ‘Sovietisation’ of the Bulgarian air arm led to the eventual change of its official title in late 1949, becoming identical to its Soviet counterpart, the Voennovazdushni Sily (VVS).

118679, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 72 pages

866915, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 96 pages

Paulista War The Last Civil War in Brazil, 1932 Javier Garcia de Gabiola 1932 was not only the year in which the famous carnival of Rio de Janeiro was organized for the first time, or the giant statue of the Christ the Redeemer was placed on top of the Corcovado mountain ridge: it was also the year of the last civil war fought in Brazil. On 9 July 1932, about 35,000 men from two Brazilian federal states rose in arms against the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas, demanding the return to constitutionality and democracy. This movement became known as the ‘Constitutionalist’, while its members became known as the ‘Paulistas’. The Brazilian government reacted with brute force: it deployed over 100,000 troops supported by heavy artillery and combat aircraft.

866380, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

Mexicans at War Mexican Military Aviation in the Second World War 1941-1945 Santiago A. Flores This book introduces the reader to an unknown Ally of the Second World War. Few people remember that Mexico, like Brazil, took an active part in that conflict. This volume covers Mexican participation in the Second World War for the first time using photos, documents and testimony from official and personal archives. Mexican nationals or those of Mexican descent were already volunteering for the Allied air forces of the British Commonwealth and the Free French naval and air forces, While the Mexican Republic first had to defend both its coasts and its shipping from enemy submarines, using its obsolete general purpose biplanes.

390069, $49.95 , $32.50 , Paperback, 232 pages

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• COLD • MODELING WAR & BEYOND • • Suez Crisis 1956 End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East David Charlwood In 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, ending nearly a century of British and French control over the crucial waterway. Ignoring U.S. diplomatic efforts, British PM Anthony Eden misled Parliament to take Britain to war alongside France and Israel. The invasion of Egypt was supposed to restore British and French control of the canal and reaffirm Britain’s flagging prestige. Instead, the operation spectacularly backfired, setting Britain and the United States on a collision course that would change the balance of power in the Middle East.

757081, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 136 pages

Biafra Genocide Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967–1970

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 an equally exhaustive and detailed account of the little-known Marine tank engagements in Korea, supported by 48 photographs, eight original maps, and dozens of survivor interviews. Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea details every action, from the valiant defense at Pusan and the bitter battles of the Chosin Reservoir, to the grinding and bloody stalemate along the Jamestown Line. It is a story of bravery and fortitude you will never forget.

005317, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 320 pages

Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam

One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people – mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children – died in one of Africa’s first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism. It certainly was not because the Biafran War is still the most expansive tribal conflagration that the continent has experienced – barring perhaps the ongoing Great Lakes conflict – involving the forces of East and West, only this time, with the British siding with the Soviets.

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.

The battle-hardened Viet Cong were masters of the art of striking hard, then slipping away. The highly motivated troops of the North Vietnamese Army, equipped with longrange artillery and able to flee across nearby borders into sanctuaries where the Marines were forbidden to follow, engaged the Marines in brutal conventional combat. Both foes were equipped with modern anti-tank weapons, and sought out the tanks as valuable symbolic targets.

729132, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 128 pages

033663, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 304 pages

Al J Venter Stephen Dinsdale

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. Truman had already used the atomic bomb: Britain and America would not be cowed.

708267, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 128 pages

Combat Over Korea

Philip Chinnery Combat Over Korea offers a superb selection of thrilling accounts by Allied airmen of their experiences. These include 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 hair-raising escapades after being shot down. While a number miraculously avoided capture (often due to the skill of fellow pilots), many were less lucky. 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.

844773, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 208 pages

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• MODELING • • COLD WAR & BEYOND • Logistics in the Vietnam Wars, 1945– 1975

N S Nash CBE The combatants in the three Vietnam wars from 1945 to 1975 employed widely contrasting supply methods.

This fascinating book reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems. During the French war, France’s initial use of wheeled transport and air supply proved vulnerable.

The colonial power gave up the unequal struggle after the catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu. To stem the advance of Communism throughout the region, the Americans stepped in to support the pro-Western South Vietnam regime and threw vast quantities of manpower and money at the problem. The cost became increasingly unpopular at home.

Marines in Vietnam

Christopher Anderson This illustrated series presents the uniforms and equipment of the United States Army from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book is a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms and the history of the United States Army. The illustrated guide brings together more than 100 rare and unusual photographs to demonstrate the uniforms, insignia and equipment of the U.S.M.C., including the M14 rifle (later replaced by the M16); grenades, mines and flamethrowers; body armor flak jackets, helmets, camouflage and jungle boots; and transports such as the LVTP-5, Sea Knight and Chinook.

328105, $19.99 , $12.99 , Paperback, 72 pages

757449, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM’s Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 20072014 Opiyo Oloya Black Hawks Rising acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. The chapters of the book take the reader behind the scenes to highlight the inconsistent US policy in the Horn of Africa generally, and in Somalia. The spotlight focuses on the Uganda People’s Defence Forces, whose Herculean efforts were pivotal to the success of the mission.

777695, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 286 pages

Apache Over Libya

Will Laidlaw In May 2011, HMS Ocean and her embarked Apache attack helicopters from 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps were about to head home. A few days later the author and his fellow Apache pilots were in action at night over hostile territory.

Within the range of Gaddafi’s capable air defense systems and land forces once in sight of the coast, they had to fight their way into Libya and complete their mission, evading lethal ground fire, before the hazardous return. Here are the experiences of eight Army and two Royal Navy pilots who played a significant role in the campaign. An unforgettable and unique account which gives a rare insight into attack helicopter operations in war.

867628, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 200 pages

Fighting the War on Terror Global Counter-Terrorist Units and their Actions Judith Grohmann SWAT teams, GSG9, EKO Cobra, SCO 19 – these elite police units are used to dealing with dangerous situations, particularly in the fight against global terrorism. European political-economic journalist and author, Judith Grohmann, is the first outsider to be given access into the world of specialist counter-terrorism units in 16 countries, including the USA, Russia, Israel, and the UK. Whether performing hostage rescues, subduing barricaded suspects, engaging with heavily-armed criminals or taking part in counter-terrorism operations, her interviews with the men and women concerned explain what their work really involves.

727459, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 200 pages

Guardian Angel Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World’s Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force William F. Sine, Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Ret.) U.S. Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue missions imaginable. PJs (short for para-jumpers), are members of an elite unit whose commando skills are so wide-reaching they often seem like something out of science fiction. This book presents true stories of uncommon courage told from the perspective of the actual men in the arena. They do these things for their country, to protect their brothers in arms, and to honor their motto: “That Others May Live.”

00251C, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

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• COLD WAR & BEYOND • • MODELING • Saab 37 Viggen

Panavia Tornado

Aircraft in Detail

Aircraft in Detail

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

A close up of the Saab 37 Viggen, including all versions; from the AJ-37 fighter to the two-seat Skoll Viggen, the Recce version, the JA-37 Jagt Viggen and the Stor Viggen for electronic warfare. Includes every detail of the airframe, engine, cockpit (one and two-seat), landing gear, wheel bays, maintenance, and a lot of action, including air-to-air photography done especially for this publication.

A close-up of the Panavia Tornado. Like the other books in the series, it is packed with over 330 color photos of every aspect of the jet. It shows the Tornado GR4 , GR4a, IDS, ECR. A separate chapter shows the Tornado F3. Includes cockpit, maintenance, weapons, landing gear, avionics, and more.

248845, $31.00 , $20.50 , Paperback, 116 pages

248869, $29.00 , $18.99 , Paperback, 84 pages

MiG-29 Fulcrum

Dassault Mirage 2000

Aircraft in Detail

Aircraft in Detail

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

A close up of the famous Russian MiG-29. This book includes Fulcrums of Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Bulgaria and even North Korea. Filled with every imaginable detail: fuselage, landing gear, cockpit (many photos of the K-36 ejection seat in super detail) and 14 pages of the aircraft in maintenance. fantastic action photos, with airto-air made especially for this book.

A close up at the Dassault Mirage 2000, in service with the Armée de L’Air and many other air forces. Includes details of all versions, from 2000 B/C to 2000-5 and 2000-9.

248821, $31.00 , $20.50 , Paperback, 108 pages

248838, $31.00 , $20.50 , Paperback, 116 pages

Sepecat Jaguar

Lockheed-Martin F-16

Aircraft in Detail

Aircraft in Detail

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck

A close up at the Jaguar, in service with the RAF, Armée de l’Air, and Indian Air Force with over 250 photographs in 84 pages. Size: 240 mm x 240 mm, high quality paper. Every detail of the airframe, cockpit, maintenance and action photography, covering all the types, including the maritime version of the IAF Jaguar!

A close up of all the LockheedMartin F-16 variants in service today, from the MLU to the Lockheed-Martin F-16 E/F block 60, in service with 23 different countries! This book contains with over 330 photographs in 108 pages.

248814, $31.00 , $20.50 , Paperback, 108 pages

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• MODELING • • MODELING & REFERENCE • Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield

Peter Barnaky This title from Peko Publishing is the third in the World War Two Photobook series. The book takes a general look at Pz.Kpfw.I - IV plus 35 & 38(t). The contents of captions focused on the various modifications of these panzers.

Covers the entire war period; from 1939 to 1945 and all theaters. Large format photos, one to a page, mostly unpublished.

962324, $41.95 , $27.50 , Hardback, 112 pages

War Photographer 1.2

Tom Cockle This volume is divided into two separate subjects. The first part presents a number of new photographs from the personal photo album of Oberleutnant d.R Peter Prien who began his army career with Pz.Nachr.Abt.37 with 1.PanzerDivision in January 1941 and finished the war as Führer of the Stabskompanie of Pz.Rgt.3 of 2.Panzer-Division. His album contains mostly photos of his time with 2.PanzerDivision around the time of the Kursk battles. The second part presents a series of photographs of the 8.8cm Flak 18 mounted on the chassis of the Sd.Kfz.8 half-track officially known as the 8.8cm Flak 18 Sfl. auf schwere Zugkraftwagen 12 t (Sd.Kfz.8) als Fahrgestell. Most are new and previously unpublished.

583247, $27.95 , $18.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Panther on the Battlefield, Volume 1

Peter Barnaky This publication from PeKo Publishing gives an overview of three subversions of the Panther medium tank with the help of 103 original, large and high quality photographs, many of which were unpublished so far.

962355, $41.95 , $27.50 , Hardback, 112 pages

Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 2 World War Two Photobook Series Jon Feenstra In Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 2, Jon Feenstra looks at various German armored fighting vehicles. The captions focus on the modifications of these panzers, self-propelled guns, etc. This book covers the entire war period - from 1939 to 1945 and all theaters. This hardcover, landscape formatted book’s brief introduction is followed by more than one hundred mainly unpublished photographs, published in the highest possible quality. Both the introduction and the captions are bilingual (English/ Hungarian).

583230, $41.95 , $27.50 , Hardback, 112 pages

Tiger I on the Battlefield

Chris Brown In the seventh part of PeKo Publishing’s photo-monograph series, we deal with the popular German heavy tank, the Tiger I. This publication shows the tank’s major and minor changes through the 105 black-and-white photographs in the book.

962362, $41.95 , $27.50 , Hardback, 112 pages

Illustrated History of the SturmgeschützAbteilung 202

Norbert Számvéber The Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 202 was one of the most successful German assault gun units in the Second World War. It had been deployed exclusively on the Eastern Front against the Red Army between 1941 and 1945. The StuGs of this unit were very effective AFVs on the battlefield in the role of heavy weapons for infantry fire support and also as mobile antitank firepower. Dr. Norbert Számvéber, author of Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy and Days of Battle, presents a detailed combat history of this unit, primarily based on archival sources. The book includes a significant number of rare photographs and several maps.

007269, $59.95 , $38.99 , Hardback, 396 pages

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• BARGAIN BOOKS • • MODELING & REFERENCE • Saumur - Musée des Blindés Part 1: German Equipment Wojciech Gawrych Includes 232 overall and closeup full-color photos including the following vehicles: PzKpfw II Ausf C, Wespe, PzKpfw III Ausf F, StuG III (StuG 40) Ausf G, StuH 42, PzKpfw IV Ausf J, Jagdpanzer IV F (L/48), Möbelwagen, Hummel & Brummbar, Jagdpanzer IV/70(A), Bergepanther Ausf G, Panther Ausf A and Jagdpanther, Tiger I Ausf E, Tiger II Ausf B, Marder I, Marder III & Marder IIIM, 10.5cm LeFH 18 auf GW 39H(f), Hetzer, Carro Armato M15/42, Semovente M42 75/18,Sdkfz 10, 11, 250/9, 251/7, Panzerwerfer 42 auf Maultier, Nebelwerfer 41/42, 2cm Flak 30 and Flakvierling 38, Pak 35/36, 38 & 40, 10.5cm leFH 18, and Goliath.

Camouflage and Markings of Canadian Military Vehicles in World War Two

Steve Guthrie An authoritative guide to the camouflage and markings of Canadian Army military vehicles in use overseas in World War Two. Coverage includes England, Italy and North-West Europe. This book details the paint finishes and unit marking for vehicles including staff cars, jeeps and trucks of all sizes, artillery tractors, tank transporters and road construction equipment. Contains: 64 pages, 106 b/w photos and 23 full-color plates of artwork.

672211, $41.50 , $26.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

648346, $35.95 , $23.50 , Paperback, 68 pages

SdKfz 171 Panther Ausf.

A

Wojciech Gawrych Technical/historical background illustrated with b/w period photos and a selection of detailed walk around photographs highlighting technical details of the PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. A—the second production variant of one of the best-known German tanks in existence. Includes 235 full color photos of the Panther Ausf. A preserved at the Panzer museum Munster, Germany; 52 b/w period photos showing several camouflage options; 5pp 1/35th & 1/48th scale drawings of PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. A & command variants.

672051, $39.95 , $25.99 , Paperback, 80 pages

South African Air Force Fighter Colors. Volume 1 East African Campaign 1940-1942 Piet van Schalkwyk William Marshall In the early stages of WWII, the Italian Forces in East Africa constituted a grave threat to Kenya and the Sudan. To meet this threat three South African Air Force fighter squadrons were deployed to East Africa to counter the Italian Air Force. The three squadrons operated mostly old and antiquated bi-planes in the form of Hawker Furies, Gloster Gauntlets and Gloster Gladiators. These aircraft were also passed along between the various units, depending on the area that had the highest requirement.

672303, $48.95 , $31.99 , Paperback, 80 pages

German 7,5 cm Antitank Gun PaK 40

Jan Wijnstok Technical/historical background. illustrated with b/w period photos and a selection of detailed walk around photographs highlight technical details of the Pak 40–the most numerous and widely used anti-tank gun in the Wehrmacht.

Includes 182 full color photos of the two museum pieces preserved at the Panzermuseum Munster, Germany and the Dutch Army Museum, Maaldrift, the Netherlands, and the two city monuments at Valkenburg and Zandoerle in the Netherlands; 31 b/w period photos showing several camouflage and crew uniforms options; 10 pp. super-detailed 1/24th, 1/35th & 1/48th scale drawings of PaK 40 & variants, 2 pp 1/7.5th scale drawings of the ammunition, 3 pp scale drawings of the PaK 40 self-propelled mountings.

Albatros B.II

Piotr Mrozowski Technical/historical background illustrated with b/w photos and a selection of detailed walk around full color photographs highlighting technical details of Germany’s most popular World War I trainer and observation airplane. Contains: 176 full color inside and out color photos of the only two existing examples of the Albatros B.II: one from Museum in Cracow, Poland and another from Flygvapen museum in Linkoping, Sweden.

025436, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 56 pages

672044, $37.95 , $24.99 , Paperback, 72 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • Crickets against Rats Regia Aeronautica in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1937 vol. I Marek Sobski The books focuses on the Italian Regia Aeronautica activity during the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 Mutinous Spanish generals asked Benito Mussolini for help, eventually 12 bombers SM.81 departured to the Moroccan Nador airport. They were the first of 764 Italian planes sent to help the nationalists. The book follows day to day air struggles and the rapid development of the Italian Air Force in Spain. The First volume describes fights since July 1937, including such actions as air raids on Madrid the Battle of the Jarama River, Malaga and Guadalajara. The Book also presents Regia Aeronautica involvement in operations carried out from this island

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (Tomahawk/Kittyhawk) Tomasz Szlagor Curtiss P-40, known to Americans as Warhawk, fought on nearly all fronts of WWII, serving with the American, British, Australian, New Zealand, South African, Canadian, Free French, Chinese, Dutch and Soviet air forces. During the first years of the war the P-40 helped the Allies stem the offensive of the Axis powers and fight them back at the last-ditch defensive positions. Never a high-performance fighter, it nonetheless proved a potent weapon in capable hands. Often turned into a fighter-bomber in later years, it soldiered on until phased out in favor of more advanced designs.

596315, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

596162, $20.95 , $13.99 , Paperback, 80 pages

Luftwaffe versus USAAF 8th Air Force Volume 1 Marek J. Murawski Another remarkable book in Air Battles series gives its readers exceptional chance to follow the history of relentless combat fought between Luftwaffe and USAF in the skies over Europe.

The story begins with the first Flying Fortresses air raid against targets in France on August 17, 1942 and continues till the last day of April 1943. Precise air clashes descriptions complemented by pilots’ personal stories are one of the unique features of this book which also includes 109 archival photos and 8 color profiles of described aircrafts.

878604, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

Grumman F6F Hellcat Volume 1 Tomasz Szlagor Leszek A.Wieliczko Grumman F6F Hellcat was one of the best fighter aircraft of the WWII era and the most effective fighter of the US Navy.

Volume One presents this legendary fighter in its first year of operational service.

Throughout the war the only foreign user of Hellcats was Great Britain. Until late 1944 the Royal Navy Hellcats operated mainly in northern European waters and in the Mediterranean, participating in several air strikes on German battleship Tirpitz moored in Norwegian fiords, supporting Allied landings in Normandy and southern France, and joining operations in the Aegean Sea. 596056, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 96 pages

Japanese Fighters in Defense of the Homeland, 1941-1944 Volume 1 Leszek A.Wieliczko When Japan started the war against Western powers in 1941, it had only a small number of air force units deployed on the Japanese home islands in order to defend them. The Doolittle Raid on 18 April 1942 came as such a shock for the Japanese High Command that it caused structural changes within the Japanese air defense system and speeded up the introduction of new types of fighters. Much bigger threat for Japan emerged in the mid June 1944 when the first air raid reached the Japanese home islands. Since that moment protecting Japanese cities from the devastating blows carried out by the U.S. bombers became the General Defense Command (Boei Soshirebu) main task.

B-17 Flying Fortress in Combat Over Europe

Tomasz Szlagor The B-17 Flying Fortress epitomized the American airpower for most of the Second World War. It was by far the most effective weapon to carry out the strategic, daylight bombing campaign in Europe. The battles fought by B-17 crews during raids on such tough targets as Schweinfurt, Berlin or Ploesti were nothing short of epic. The combined effort of the two US Army Air Forces, 8th and 15th, stationed in England and Italy respectively, eventually denied the enemy the means to wage war and sealed the fate of the European Axis powers and their allies.

878918, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 92 pages

596063, $20.95 , $13.99 , Paperback, 80 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • Beutepanzer Marek Jaszczolt Arkadiusz Wróbel

- Pz.Kpfw. 38H (f) (Hotchkiss H35 mod.39) “Paderborn” – France, Summer 1940.

- Bren 731 (e) (Scout Carrier) – 5. Flughafen-BetriebsKompanie, Luftwaffe II./KG55 airfield, Chartres, France 1940/41.

The Battleship USS Arizona Waldemar Góralski Leszek A.Wieliczko

878536, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

- Pz.Kpfw. T.K.S. (p) (TK-S), Poland, May 1941 - And Many others included.

148550, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 16 pages

Messershcmitt Bf 109s Over the Mediterranean Part 1 Maciej Góralczyk Arkadiusz Wróbel A big decal sheet with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:32 individual markings for 8 Bf 109s which served in the MTO. The decal sheet was printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn 4-view color profiles and described in the 20-page guidebook with English and Polish text.

878581, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 20 pages

The Battleship USS Massachusetts

Stefan Draminski The text part of this book describes history of the ship’s construction and service. This is accompanied by more than 100 color illustrations showing USS Massachusetts’ appearance towards the end of her service in the Pacific, 1945. Elements that are shown in detail include superstructures, armament, fire control instruments, aircraft, boats, equipment, rig, etc.

Blueprints in 1:350, 1:200, 1:100 and 1:50 scales (general views and details) are included on a separate sheet. The publication is a great reference for building a detailed model of USS Massachusetts.

878987, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 80 pages

Captured Panzers German Vehicles in Allied Service Marek Jaszczolt Arkadiusz Wróbel A big decal sheet with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:35 markings for no less than 16 German armored fighting vehicles captured by Allied troops and used against their former owners. The decal sheet was printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn color profile and described in the 18 page guidebook with English and Polish text.

878895, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 16 pages

The Battleship HMS Warspite 1914-1919

Troels W. Hansen A renowned expert on British tanks, Robert Griffin, gives a fine account of all the gun tank variants (Mk.1 to Mk.11). The author has described the history as only one who has lived it can do.

The book includes ORBATS (with callsigns) for a Chieftain regiment in the early 1970s and again in 1989, plans for a Mk.3/3 and a Mk11, and a fine selection of over a dozen color plates of Chieftains in British, Iranian and Kuwaiti service for the modeler.

The Shrivenham Mk.11 gets the full walkaround detail treatment with lots of detail shots and there are plentiful developmental and in-service photographs of all the gun tank versions.

596735, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 92 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • The Battleship Roma 1942–1943

Carlo Cestra Battleship Roma was one of the three Italian Littorio class battleships operating during the Second World War. She was one of the most modern and powerful battleships of her times. The construction of Roma and her sister Impero, the fourth battleship never finished, was planned to strengthen the Italian Navy which, until then, had only two modern battleships and some old WWI battleships.

She was launched on 9 June 1940, the day before Italy entered the war, and was commissioned into “Regia Marina” (the Italian Navy) on 14 June 1942. Based on experience of the first two ships, some small improvements were made to her, including additional freeboard to the bow.

The Japanese Battleship Nagato 1944

Waldemar Góralski The battleship “Nagato” was the first dreadnought equipped with a main artillery with a caliber exceeding 400 mm.

It was armed with eight 406 mm (16 in) guns. The keel of “Nagato” was laid in 1917 in the naval shipyard in Kure. The ship was launched in 1919 and incorporated into service on November 15, 1920. The sister unit was “Mutsu”. Before the war, “Nagato” underwent many modifications and repairs increasing combat value of the ship. With the outbreak of World War II, “Nagato” became the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. The attack on Pearl Harbor was ordered from this battleship’s deck.

148789, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 28 pages

596742, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 100 pages

SMS Viribus Unitis Austro-Hungarian Battleship Friedrich Prasky Andrew Wilkie In 1907 the navy of the dualist, multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire placed an order for a new class of warships, whose design was based on the “all big gun” concept pioneered by HMS Dreadnought. Eventually four Tegetthoff class vessels were laid down, including the flagship Viribus Unitis. The Emperor insisted that the battleship be given a rather unusual, Latin name Viribus Unitis (Strength in Unity – Emperor’s personal motto).

596643, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 73 pages

Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien

Stanislaw Krzysztof Mokwa The Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (flying swallow) was designed to use the licensed copy of the German Daimler-Benz 601 engine, manufactured in Japan as Ha-40 by Kawasaki’s Akashi motor plant. It was planned to create two airframes – a heavily armed Ki-60 intended for offensive operations at low and medium ceilings, as well as a more agile and lightly armed Ki-61. Although the construction of the Ki-60 was considered a priority and work on it started a few months earlier, the Ki-61 contained the conclusions from the unsuccessful Ki-60 tests. Ultimately, the younger fighter entered the service.

148499, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 20 pages

Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao 19371946 Waldemar Góralski Janusz Skulski

The design of four-member Japanese Takao-class heavy cruisers built between 1927–1928 was based on earlier My?k?-class heavy cruisers.

The Takao-class was better armored and equipped including the main artillery being modified to engage air targets. The Takao-class had a distinctive look thanks to the massive superstructure and the first chimney being inclined towards the second one which was set vertically. Only the lead ship of her class, i.e. Takao survived the war and was scrapped in 1946. This volume harvests many years of Janusz Skulski’s work who is considered the world’s best Imperial Japanese Navy expert.

Medium Tank M3 Lee I

Slawomir Zajaczkowski The M3 General Lee was an American medium tank from the World War II era, also used by the British army. In the US, known as Lee, in the United Kingdom as Grant. The M3 tank was created as a result of the need to replace the obsolete M2 tank, which did not match the WWII battlefield. The serial production began in August 1941. The M3 tank had many components from the M2 light tank, including chassis, Wright R975 EC2 star engine and the shape of the combat compartment.

148482, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 20 pages

878901, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 92 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • The Irish Artillery Corps Since 1922

Ralph A. Riccio The story of the artillery used by the armed forces of the Republic of Ireland (Eire), from independence to the present day. Following on from the author’s acclaimed book on AFVs in Irish service, this new book covers the operations and equipment of all the artillery units in the Irish armed forces.

From the early days of Independence and civil war to modern-day peace keeping, from coastal artillery to light mortars, all the units and their equipment are described and illustrated. Profusely illustrated with photos, maps, and scale plans. Essential reading for all military historians and artillery enthusiasts!

U.S. Military Aircraft in the Royal Swedish Air Force

Mikael Forslund This book covers U.S. military aircraft used by Royal Swedish Air Force. Aircraft service are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Swedish author Mikael Forslund.

Includes many unpublished photos.

281043, $53.00 , $34.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

421528, $46.00 , $29.99 , Paperback, 180 pages

Men Inside the Metal The British AFV Crewman in WW2 Dick Taylor This is a detailed study of the uniform and equipment used

by British AFV crews in WW2.

The evolution of uniforms, and the variations in actual use on all fronts, are described and illustrated, as is the personal equipment of AFV crews. The advantages and drawbacks of all the designs are discussed, in the context of actual front-line operational experience.

Illustrated with many photos and drawings, covering all uniform variations and equipment.

450661, $35.00 , $22.99 , Paperback, 160 pages

Wings on Windermere The History of the Lake District’s Forgotten Flying Boat Factory Allan King Visitors to the Lake District today, seeing the quiet and peaceful Lake Windermere, never guess that this was once the site of a factory building military flying boats. But in the early ‘40s a factory was built from scratch to produce Short Sunderlands, along with a complete village to house the workers. The fascinating story of this forgotten factory is told in this book, alongside the history of the big ‘planes built there, which served with the RAF and other air arms until the 1950s.

450821, $53.00 , $34.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

T-34-85 After WW2 Camouflage & Markings 1946-2016 Przemyslaw Skulski Piotr Kowalski This book continues the story of the T-34-85, in postwar service this time. Information is included about postwar production in the USSR, and licensed versions made in Czechoslovakia,Yugoslavia and Poland. A brief summary of the T-34’s involvement in conflicts and active service up to 2016 is given. The most important part of the book describes the camouflage and markings of T-34-85s in service around the world. There are more than 40 especially commissioned color profiles, and 150+ B&W and color photos, many not previously published.

Finnish Bomber Colours 1939-1945 Kari Stenman Karolina Holda

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

281036, $62.00 , $40.50 , Hardback, 250 pages

281654, $29.00 , $18.99 , Paperback, 112 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • Caudron Renault CR.714 Cyclone

French Flying Boats 1918-1939

Scale plans in 1/32, 1/48, 1/72 scale of the famous French Caudron Renault CR.714 Cyclone fighter.

The next book in the popular Polish Wings series is on the French flying boats in Polish Navy Air Forces. Covers duty of these aircraft from 1918 to 1939.

Franciszek Strzelczyk Tomasz Bobkowski

Marcin Warzynkowski Janusz ?wiatlo?

958242, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 42 pages

More than 120 photos, mostly unpublished, and many color profiles.

958501, $29.00 , $18.99 , Paperback, 96 pages

Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, Two-Seat Versions

Victor Povinsky Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scale of the famous Russian Ilyushin Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, two-seat versions.

958679, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

Breguet 19, Farman F68 Goliath, Aminot 123

Bart?omiej Belcarz This new book in the Polish Wings series tells the story of two between-the-wars French aircraft – the Breguet 19 and the F 68 Farman Goliath. The Polish Breguet 19 was made famous by the epic Boles?aw Orli?ski flight from Warsaw to Tokyo and back. The Farman F 68 Goliath was a giant bomber for its time. Many previously unpublished photos, and many color profiles.

678142, $27.00 , $17.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

Mil Mi-8/17/171 Hip

Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72 scale of the famous Mil Mi-8 variants.

10 A3 size scale plans of Mi-8 Hip versions.

958563, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-19P & PM, MiG21F-13 Lechos?aw Musia?kowski Janusz ?wiatlo?

The first supersonic fighter in the Polish Air Force, MiG-19 and the first version of the MiG-21F-13 are described in the unparalleled details. Many unpublished photos from the private collections.Color schemes and markings are described and illustrated in a series of specially commissioned color profiles.

958068, $23.00 , $14.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

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• BARGAIN BOOKS • • MODELING & REFERENCE • German Horse Power of the Wehrmacht in WW2

Alan Ranger Despite the several hundred thousand motor vehicles used

by German forces in WWII. Germany was still extremely reliant upon the horse as it was lacking in its own natural oil resources. Both the German infantry and artillery relied heavily upon horse drawn elements, especially in their supply chain and logistics. Each German unit employed thousands of horses and thousands of men taking care of them.

During the war, many custom-built horse drawn wagons as well as captured units were included in the general transportation of the Wehrmacht.

281739, $25.00 , $16.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

Dunkirk 1940 Through a German Lens

Alan Ranger This new photo album, one of first in the MMPBooks/Stratus “Camera On” series, contains 200+ photos of the Battle for Dunkirk - from the German perspective. The photos, mostly unpublished before now, are from German sources, including private photos taken

by German soldiers. They cover the retreat to Dunkirk, the battles for the town and beaches, and the aftermath of the evacuation. Vehicles, equipment, ships and aircraft are all covered. A compelling new perspective on this classic battle, this book is an invaluable reference for military historians and modellers alike.

281722, $25.00 , $16.50 , Paperback, 88 pages

The “Einheits-diesel” WW2 German Trucks

M48 Patton American Cold War Battle Tank Robert Griffin The M48 Patton main battle tank was one of the most successful and longest-serving designs produced in the United States, and it is a popular subject with tank modelers and enthusiasts. When it came into service in 1949 it represented a significant advance on the Sherman and M47 which it replaced, and it formed the backbone of American armored forces during the early years of the Cold War. It also saw combat in Vietnam, during the Indo-Pakistan wars and in the Middle East, in particular during the Iran-Iraq War. So it is an fascinating subject for this volume in the TankCraft series.

757739, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

Panther Tanks Germany Army and Waffen SS, Normandy Campaign 1944 Dennis Oliver Central to the German strategy of dealing with an Allied landing in France was the availability of a strong, mobile armored reserve. In June 1944, the Army in the West was able to deploy over 300 Panther tanks, perhaps the best armored fighting vehicle produced by Germany.

British and American tank crews found to their horror that the Panthers could often survive numerous hits while a single round from one of their 75mm guns was enough to destroy any enemy tank. In this book, Dennis Oliver uses archive photographs to examine the part these powerful tanks played in the Normandy battles.

710932, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

Churchill Tanks British Army, North-west Europe 1944-45

Alan Ranger The leichter geländegängiger Lastkraftwagen “Einheitsdiesel” (Standard-Diesel Lorry) The development of the standardlorry started in 1934. Series production started in 1937 and ended in 1940 with more than 14,300 vehicles being built by nine different main vehicle producers. The “Einheits-Diesel” lorries were made identical by all nine manufacturers: Büssing-NAG, Daimler-Benz, FAUN,VOMAG, Henschel, Krupp, Magirus, MAN and Borgward.This profusely illustrated photo album includes many previously unseen pictures, many from private sources in Germany. Whatever the rules might have said, German soldiers took many photos.

Dennis Oliver Designed as a heavily armored tank that could accompany infantry formations, the Churchill’s ability to cross rough ground and climb hills became legendary. The tank first saw action in 1942 and the basic design was constantly reworked and upgunned, culminating in the Mark VII version which was capable of taking on the heaviest German tanks. Dennis Oliver uses archive photographs and thoroughly researched color profiles to tell the story of these iconic British tanks.

As readers have come to expect from the TankCraft series, the large full colour section of this book features available model kits and accessories as well as aftermarket products.

281838, $25.00 , $16.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

710888, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • The Junkers Ju87 Stuka Martin Derry Neil Robinson

Riverine Craft of the Vietnam Wars

The Junkers Ju 87 ‘Stuka’ was arguably the Luftwaffe’s most recognizable airplane, with its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage. This latest addition to the growing Flight Craft range, follows the previous well established format, in that it is split in to three main sections. The first section, offers concise design and development history with coverage of the various subtypes. This is followed by a 16-page full color illustration section featuring detailed profiles and 2-views of the color schemes and markings carried by the type in Luftwaffe and Axis service. The final section lists as many of the injectionmoulded plastic model kits of the Junkers Ju 87 that the authors could find details of.

Roger Branfill-Cook 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, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers.

This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for superdetailing of the subjects, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models.

702623, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 96 pages

749062, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

V-Bombers Vulcan, Valiant and Victor Martin W. Bowman Dave Windle The Vickers Valiant,Vulcan and Victor saw prolific and varied service during the course of their careers. This book contains fabulous color profiles of all three types in different operational modes, configurations and color schemes. Martin Bowman has written detailed descriptions and photographs to create the perfect enthusiast’s reference. This enhanced and revised edition comes complete with model-making content as well as a host of brand new design features, making for a lively new addition to our esteemed Flight Craft series.

834248, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Hawker Hurricane and Sea Hurricane Martin Derry Neil Robinson

When Sidney Camm’s masterpiece, the Hawker Hurricane, entered RAF service in late 1937 it quickly became one of the most important aircraft in Britain’s military arsenal, especially in the first three years of the Second World War. This title covers the history of this iconic design, from the prototype and the initial production variants’ entry in to RAF service, through its development and use, first as a day fighter, and then night fighter, intruder, fighter-bomber, catapult-launched and then carrier-based fighter, and eventually dedicated ground attack machine.

Titanic and Her Sisters Olympic and Britannic

Peter Davies-Garner This is the first volume in the ShipCraft series not devoted to a naval vessel, but the most famous liner of all time is a suitable subject as one of the most popular of all ship modeling subjects. Apart from Titanic herself, this volume also covers her sister ships Olympic and Britannic which enjoyed longer and more varied careers, including wartime service as troopship and hospital ship. 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, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers.

32110S, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Yamato Class Battleships

Steve Wiper The Yamato class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the largest warships of the Second World War and the largest battleships ever constructed, displacing 78,800 tons. They also carried the largest naval artillery ever fitted to a warship - 18in guns. Neither Yamato nor her sistership Musashi made much impact on the War. Musashi was sunk during the battle of Leyte Gulf while Yamato, deployed in a deliberate suicide attack on Allied forces at the battle of Okinawa, was finally sunk by US carrier-based aircraft; Not 300 of her 3,330 crew survived.

320451, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

827257, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 96 pages

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• BARGAINS • The Small Scale Raiding Force

Brian Lett The Small Scale Raiding Force was formed in1942l.The author describes the disastrous fourth operation (ACQUATINT) when all 10 SSRF men were killed or captured.The Author describes the many colorful characters that made up this special force.

593943, $39.95 , $19.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

Rome, Parthia and India The Violent Emergence of a New World Order 150-140 BC John D. Grainger By 140 Rome had spread to the borders of Asia Minor and the new great power in the Middle East was Parthia. These two divided the western world until the Arab conquests in the seventh century AD. 848252, $39.95 , $19.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

Roman Military Disasters Dark Days and Lost Legions Paul Chrystal There is a tendency when dealing with world superpowers to focus on their successes. However, reverses and disasters suffered on the way to preeminence are equally significant. This book is the first to examine the paradoxical role lost battles and defeat played in the success of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

823570, $39.95 , $19.99 , Hardback, 336 Pages

Defeat of Rome Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East Gareth Sampson In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. The event intensified the bitter, destructive struggle for power in the Roman republic, curtailed the empire’s eastward expansion, and had a lasting impact on the history of the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

War in Ancient Greece

Bob Carruthers The Athenian Thucydides (c490–395BC) wrote this history of the Peloponnesian War between the Spartans and the Athenians, believing that it would be a greater war than any that had preceded it, and his version of events would serve as “a possession for all time”.

The Peloponnesian War saw further development of the nature of warfare, strategy, and tactics.

592175, $19.95 , $9.99 , Paperback, 576 pages

AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy

Nic Fields With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9 June, AD 68.

The following year, commonly known as the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’, was probably one of Rome’s worst.

591888, $34.95 , $17.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

828049, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Edward I’s Conquest of Wales

Sean Davies Edward I’s conquest of Wales was a key formative event in the history of Britain, but it has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over 100 years.

The author takes a balanced approach, giving both the Welsh and English perspectives on the war and on the brutal, mistrustful and ruthless personal motives that drove events.

861664, $44.95 , $22.50 , Hardback, 232 pages

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Organisation of War Under Edward III H.J. Hewitt Andrew Ayton

This study looks beyond the succession of campaigns, that punctuated the reign of Edward III, and focuses instead on the organization of war—how Edward’s armies were trained, how they were transported and supplied, how they fought, and how their fighting affected the lives of the civilians of the time.

152315, $21.99 , $10.99 , Paperback, 208 pages

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• BARGAINS • An Alternative History of Britain: The English Civil War

Agincourt 1415

Michael K. Jones On St Crispin’s Day, 25 October 1415, Henry V’s English army crushed the French in the most famous battle of the Hundred Years’ War. His outnumbered force of men-at-arms and archers repelled the repeated charges of the French mounted men and killed or captured the leading members of the French nobility.

152513, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 192 pages

The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815-1945: The Neutral States H.W. Kaufmann J.E. Kaufmann

The volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building. In The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland - the need for extensive fixed defenses was particularly urgent, and this is the subject of this highly illustrated new study.

Timothy Venning With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so easily have played out differently.

827820, $39.95 , $19.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

In Love and War The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith David Rooney Michael Scott During the mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz by Wellington, a 14 year old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married shortly after. From then on their lives and careers were inextricably linked.

158409, $39.99 , $19.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

463923, $50.00 , $24.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

Letters from the Light Brigade The British Cavalry in the Crimean War Anthony Dawson The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most famous, controversial and emotive small-scale actions in military history. Over the 160 years since the event, and since it was immortalized in Tennyson’s poem, it has generated a stream of writing and debate.Yet, as this new book by Anthony Dawson shows, the subject is far from exhausted.

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Dervish The Rise and Fall of an African Empire Philip Warner Dervish’ is the vivid and colorful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the ‘high Empire’ period of British history. The Mahdi’s rising in the Sudan in the 1880s starting as a localized Holy War against the ‘decadent’ Turkish/Egyptian overlords, engulfed a million square miles of arid territory and forced the British Liberal Government to get involved after the early disasters of the Hicks expedition and Gordon’s death at Khartoum.

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Rorke’s Drift Zulu War Ian Castle Ian Knight The heroic defence of the mission station at Rorke’s Drift became the epic action of the Anglo-Zulu war. A small garrison defended this vulnerable border-post for ten hours and in the process won the northern sector at Ntcombe Drift, Hlobane and Khambula.

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The Hell They Called High Wood The Somme 1916 Terry Norman The Somme was surely one of the bloodiest rendezvous for battle of all time. High Wood, dominating the Bazentin Ridge, was the fiercely contested focal point of the battle.

The Germans showed great determination and sacrifice defending the feature and it was not until September that it finally fell to the attackers.

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Convoy Will Scatter The Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84

A Short History Paddy Griffith The war on Western Front from 1914 to 1918 remains one of the notoriously great tragedies of the twentieth century. Paddy Griffith’s short history provides an accessible primer to an enormous and fascinating subject.

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Bernard Edwards Convoy HX 84, escorted by the HMS Jervis Bay was attacked by the battleship Admiral Scheer.

The Canadian liner Beaverford, began a desperate game of hide and seek with the Scheer, which continued until Beaverford was sunk with no survivors.

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Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe

Jean-Louis Roba No air force in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, Jean-Louis Roba has undergone a considerable amount of work in tracking down hundreds of aircraft used by the Luftwaffe and illustrating their uses, careers and eventual fates.

The book examines the full history of foreign planes in the Luftwaffe, from its inception in the prewar years to the end of the Second World War.

Fleet Air Arm Carrier War

Kev Darling This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War I to the present day. It includes the types of aircraft and the men who flew them, the carriers and the evolution of their designs, the theaters of war in which they served and their notable achievements and tragedies.

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The Fallen Few of the Battle of Britain Norman Franks Nigel McCrery

This emotional yet factual book describes the three and a half months (10 July – 31 October 1940) battle day-by-day and covers the essential details of every one of the 540 young pilots who died in this critical campaign that saved Britain from invasion by the Nazis.

Thanks to the authors painstaking research we are given a short biography of each pilots and learn of their actions and the manner of their deaths.

German Elite Pathfinders KG 100 in Action Manfred Griehl Flying as an elite element of the Luftwaffe’s bomber forces, KG 100 saw action throughout Europe and flew mission after mission against targets as diverse as the Suez Canal and Moscow. Equipped with x-ray navigational systems, KG 100 flew as pathfinders, leading bomber streams against targets on mainland Britain.

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Eyes of the Night Air Defence of Northwestern England 1940 - 41 Joe Bamford Ron Collier In the early years of WW2, Liverpool and Manchester were woefully unprotected from enemy bombing raids. After Dunkirk, the Luftwaffe was able to bring these strategic targets within their range. The effect was catastrophic.

Free to Fight Again RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-1945 Alan W. Cooper To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crashlanding in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. This book contains the amazing stories of over seventy such escapes.

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