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Issue IIII Summer 2021•

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The Eastern Front

Welcome readers, to the third edition of The Warrior for 2021!

This June marks the 80th anniversary of the start Operation Barbarossa, and to help remember this pivotal moment of the Second World War, this edition of The Warrior features a focus section on the Eastern Front (pp 22-30). Learn how to resist the German invaders with The Red Army Guerilla Warfare Pocket Manual (p 22), see the fighting for yourself with a full spread of Images of War titles (pp 26 & 27), or read about the battles in a diary of a German soldier with Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front (p 29).

World War 2 not your thing? Worry not, with The Warrior you can learn the warfare, military traditions, fortifications, and tactics of the Viking age in Vikings at War (p 9), see the uniforms, organization, and history of the Armies of Early Colonial North America on page 11, discover the full arsenal of Soviet Cold War Weaponry on page 45, and much more. Or do you prefer to create your history than to read it? Check out our huge selection of modeling & reference titles on pages 48 to 58.With books from Kagero, Pen & Sword, MMP, and more.

As always, The Warrior has you covered no matter your military history interests.

Happy reading.

Will, Girard, & Courtney The Warrior Team

British Fighter Aircraft in WWI Design, Construction and Innovation Mark C Wilkins World War I witnessed unprecedented growth and innovation in aircraft design, construction, and as the war progressed—mass production. Each country generated its own innovations sometimes in surprising ways—Albatros Fokker, Pfalz, and Junkers in Germany and Nieuport, Spad, Sopwith and Bristol in France and Britain.

This book focuses on the British approach to fighter design, construction, and mass production.

Initially the French led the way in Allied fighter development with their Bleriot trainers then nimble Nieuport Scouts—culminating with the powerful, fast gun platforms as exemplified by the Spads. The Spads had a major drawback however, in that they were difficult and counter-intuitive to fix in the field. The British developed fighters in a very different way; Tommy Sopwith had a distinctive approach to fighter design that relied on lightly loaded wings and simple functional box-girder fuselages. His Camel was revolutionary as it combined all the weight well forward; enabling the Camel to turn very quickly—but also making it an unforgiving fighter for the inexperienced. The Royal Aircraft Factory’s SE5a represented another leap forward with its comfortable cockpit, modern instrumentation, and inline engine—clearly influenced by both Spads and German aircraft.

Each manufacturer and design team vied for the upper hand and deftly and quickly appropriated good ideas from other companies—be they friend or foe. Developments in tactics and deployment also influenced design—from the early reconnaissance planes, to turn fighters, finally planes that relied upon formation tactics, speed, and firepower. Advances were so great that the postwar industry seemed bland by comparison.

008813, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

German Mountain Troops 1942–45 Yves Beraud When World War II began, the Wehrmacht had fifteen mountain divisions and a multitude of small units, including some Austrian units that had been incorporated into the German army after the Anschluss. These mountain units would operate in hostile environments on all fronts during World War II. Due to their training, equipment and adaptability, the Gebirgstruppen would be deployed to fight in almost every theater. In the last years of the war they would see action in North Africa, Italy, the Balkans, Norway and Finland, and in the West as the Allies pushed German forces back toward Berlin.

This book, the culmination of four decades of research and the support of many veterans and collectors, describes the uniform, equipment, and operations of these specialist units during the later years of World War II. The text is complemented by period photographs taken at the front, including many color photographs, and modern photographs of uniform details.

009469, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages The front cover image is from Kursk 1943: Last German Offensive in the East

by Ian Baxter, Casemate Publishers, 2020 Typeset by Courtney Huntzinger

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• NEW FROM CASEMATE • Vagabonds Tourists in the Heart of Darkness Nick Brokhausen Jeff Miller 1978—a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries.

Along with a small coterie of fellow former Special Operations and intelligence community veterans, they undertake a variety of missions. In the process they lay the groundwork for an entire new industry of private military contractors.

Every episode in this book actually happened. Not always precisely as described, but close. Some changes have been made to make the narrative flow more smoothly, some to obfuscate events that might be flirting with classification issues… But the underlying story is, for the most part, the reality as they lived it.

009957, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

Counterinsurgency Theory and Reality Dr Daniel Whittingham Dr Stuart Mitchell Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzz-word in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself.

This concise history discusses the development of modern counterinsurgency over the last two hundred years, beginning with the origins of modern insurgency from the concept of ‘small wars’ and colonial warfare, through the ideas of early insurgents including Clausewitz and the theories of Lawrence of Arabia, to the methods of 20th-century insurgents, including Mao and Che Guevara.

It then examines a number of post-1945 insurgencies and how western armies have tried to counter them, in particular how the French tried to counter insurgencies in Indochina and Algeria, and then the US in Vietnam, and the reaction to the American experience there. The book concludes with a discussion on the future of COIN. 009483, $29.95 , $19.5 , Hardback, 192 pages

Splinter on the Tide Phillip Parotti New from the Casemate Fiction Series - Having survived the sinking of his first ship, Ensign Ash Miller USNR is promoted and assigned to command one of the sleek new additions to “the splinter fleet,” a 110-foot wooden submarine chaser armed with only understrength guns and depth charges. His task is to bring the ship swiftly into commission, weld his untried crew into an efficient fighting unit, and take his vessel to sea in order to protect the defenseless Allied merchant vessels which are being maliciously and increasingly sunk by German U-Boats, often within sight of the coast.

Ash rises to the deadly challenge he faces, and meets the threats with understated courage and determination, rescuing stricken seamen, destroying Nazi mines, fighting U-Boats, and developing both the tactical sense and command authority that will be the foundation upon which America’s citizen sailors eventually win the war. During rare breaks in operations, Ash cherishes a developing relationship with the spirited Claire Morris who embodies the peaceful ideal for which he has been fighting.

009582, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 240 pages

Commandos Set Europe Ablaze Dick Camp New from the Casemate Fiction Series - U.S. Marine Captain Jim Cain and his Gunnery Sergeant Leland Montgomery are surprised to receive orders to the British Commando training center in the Scottish Highlands. There they are put through the brutal specialized training that will hone their fighting skills; a strong sense of brotherhood develops between the British soldiers and the two Marines. Lucky to be quartered in the spacious home of the Commandos’ commanding officer, Cain has the pleasure of meeting his daughter, Loreena. Loreena is secretive about her work in London. Before Cain can learn more about her, the training course is interrupted and the commando squad is sent on a special mission to destroy a German radar station.

The action is fierce and bloody and there are heavy losses on both sides. The surviving raiders withdraw to Royal Navy motor torpedo boats, but a marauding squadron of Schnellboots (E-Boats) lies in wait.

240084, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 240 pages

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• NEW FROM CASEMATE • No Moon as Witness Missions of the SOE and OSS in World War II James Stejskal Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services underwent rigorous training before making their way, undetected, into Occupied Europe. Working alone or in small cells, often cooperating with local resistance groups, agents undertook missions behind enemy lines involving sabotage, subversion, organizing resistance groups and intelligence-gathering.

All of their missions were incredibly dangerous and many agents were captured, tortured, and ultimately killed – the life expectancy of an SOE wireless operator in occupied France was just six weeks. Historian James Stejskal examines the training regimen and ingenious tools developed to enable agents to undertake their missions, their operational successes, and their legacy.

009520, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 208 pages

Alan Brooke - Churchill’s Right-Hand Critic A Reappraisal of Lord Alanbrooke Andrew Sangster Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill’s right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies.

Despite this crucial role, he is very little known.

Churchill has long been credited with almost single-handedly leading his country to victory in World War II. However without Brooke, a skilled tactician, at his side the outcome might well have been disastrous. Brooke more often than not served as a brake on some of Churchill’s more impetuous ideas. However, while Brooke’s diaries reveal his fury with some of Churchill’s decisions, they also reveal his respect and admiration for the wartime prime minister. In return Churchill must surely have considered Brooke one of his most difficult subordinates but later wrote that he was “fearless, formidable, articulate, and in the end convincing.”

Sangster completes this new biography with a survey of the way various historians have assessed Brooke, explaining how he has lapsed into seeming obscurity in the years since his crucial part in the Allied victory in World War II. 009681, $37.95 , $24.99 , Hardback, 368 pages

Panzer Tactics Tank Operations in the East, 1941-42 Oskar Munzel Linden Lyons This book discusses a number of operations undertaken by the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in the direction of the Black Sea in 1941 and 42. It explores the tactics used and why they were successful, based upon the detailed combat reports prepared by the corps staff immediately after each battle.

Die Wehrmacht im Kampf Battles and Problems of the Second World War is a series published in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Written by ex-members of the German army in WWII, it provides important information not available elsewhere on the German army’s perspective of many crucial campaigns and battles. None of the volumes have previously been available in English. Each volume has a modern introduction by Professor Matthias Strohn, expert on the German army.

009896, $45 , $29.50 , Hardback, 208 pages

Day of the Panzer A Story of American Heroism and Sacrifice in Southern France Jeff Danby “[An] excellent popular history . . . a sprightly and evocative tribute to the troops of Operation Dragoon” - Publishers Weekly This is a rarely detailed, “you are there” account of World War II combat, describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research—drawing from interviews, primary documents, and visits to the battlefield—The Day of the Panzer transports the reader into the ranks of L Company, 15th Regiment, Third Infantry Division, and its supporting M4s of the 756th Tank Battalion as they grapple head-on with the Wehrmacht.

On August 15, 1944, L Company hit the beaches in southern France, joined by the tank crews of 2nd Lt. Andrew Orient’s 3rd Platoon, all veterans of Cassino. Despite logistical problems, the Third Division forged north through the Rhône River valley, L Company and its supporting tanks leading the regimental charge—until they faced a savage counterattack by the Germans and a rampaging Panther tank.

009971, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 384 pages

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• NEW FROM CASEMATE • Tank Combat in Spain Armored Warfare During the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 Anthony J Candil Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers decided to intervene. Spain turned out to be the perfect proving ground to carry out controlled, realistic experiments with live weapons and troops. This book covers the theories of the three main contributors that provided armor to the warring parties, how those contributions shaped combat, and how the lessons learned were then applied to tank combat in World War II. The use of tanks in the Spanish Civil War wedded traditional war to modern technology. The fighting in Spain did not offer any easy answers, however, to the question of infantry-armor cooperation, primarily because the tanks supplied were not very worthy and had been supplied in small numbers, even though the Republicans organized an ‘armored division.’

009704, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 264 pages

Military Reconnaissance The Eyes and Ears of the Army Alexander Stilwell Since the earliest recorded military history, scouting and reconnaissance have been key tools employed by military commanders to obtain a picture of the tactical situation and make informed decisions. Scouts known as sciritae were deployed by the Spartans and had a privileged position in their order of battle. As military tactics, weapons and equipment developed over the centuries, methods of scouting and reconnaissance evolved and adapted but always remained true to the spirit of the scout – light on their feet, taking only what they need and returning with the information that could turn potential defeat into victory.

Military Reconnaissance provides a revealing picture of the art of military reconnaissance from the highly toned Spartan warriors to the role of the scout in modern warfare. .

009506, $29.95 , $19.50, Hardback, 192 pages

Medieval Military Combat Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses Dr Tom Lewis OAM We don’t know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armor smashing each other with their maces and poleaxes for hours on end, as depicted on film and in programs such as Game of Thrones?

They could not have done so. It is impossible to fight in such a manner for more than several minutes as exhaustion becomes a preventative factor.

Indeed, we know more of how the Roman and Greek armies fought than we do of the 1300 to 1550 period.

So how did medieval soldiers in the War of the Roses, and in the infantry sections of battles such as Agincourt and Towton, carry out their grim work?

Medieval Military Combat shows, for the first time, the techniques of such battles. It also breaks new ground in establishing medieval battle numbers as highly exaggerated, and that we need to look again at the accounts of actions such as the famous Battle of Towton, which this work uses as a basic for its overall study.

008875, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

Old Testament Warriors The Clash of Cultures in the Ancient Near East Simon Elliott The period covered by the Old Testament – beginning in approximately 3000 BC – was one of great technological development and innovation in warfare, as competing cultures clashed in the ancient Middle East.

This authoritative history gives an overview of warfare and fighting in the age of the Old Testament, from the Akkadians, Early and Middle Kingdom Egypt and their enemies, Mycenean and Minoan Greece and Crete, Assyrians and New Kingdom Egyptians, the Hittites, the Sea Peoples who gave rise to the Philistines, the Hebrew kingdom, the Babylonian kingdom, the Medes and later Persian Empires, through to early Classical Greece.

Author Simon Elliott explores how archaeology can shed light on events in the Bible including the famous tumbling walls of Jericho, the career of David the boy warrior who faced the Philistines, and Gideon, who was able to defeat an army that vastly outnumbered his own.

009544, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 160 pages

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• ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL• A Chronology of Ancient Greece Timothy Venning This book offers a coherent narrative of the politico-military history of ancient Greece. It commences with the necessarily approximate course of events in Bronze and early Iron Age, as estimated by the most reliable scholarship plus the legendary accounts of this period. From the Persian Wars onwards, a year-by-year chronology is constructed from the ancient historical sources. Where possible a day-by-day narrative is given. The text is divided into events per geographical area for each date. Detailed accounts are provided for battles and political crises where the sources allow this, and where not much is known for certain the different opinions of historians are referenced en route.

834286, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 320 Pages

Themistocles The Powerbroker of Athens Jeffrey Smith This is an exciting new biography of Themistocles of Athens, architect of the Greek victory over the Persian invasions of 490 BC and 480 to 479 BC. While his role in the Persian wars is naturally a major theme, Themistocles’ career before and after those conflicts is also considered in detail. Themistocles was a leading exponent of a new kind of populist politics in the young democracy of Athens, manipulating the practice of ostracism to get rid of his political rivals. Jeffrey Smith explains Themistocles’ rise to a position of virtual hegemony which allowed him to institute his far-sighted policy of preparation against the growing Persian threat.

Henchmen of Ares Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece Josho Brouwers This book provides a detailed, diachronic treatment of a dynamic and formative period of Greek history: from the Mycenaean Bronze Age down to the Persian Wars. Secondly, it offers an up-to-date and detailed treatment of the archaeological evidence in addition to the ancient texts. Thirdly, it places the military developments into their proper cultural and historical contexts: warfare was not merely an activity that ancient peoples frequently engaged in, but served a much broader function as a constituent element of their cultural identities.

258078, $38 , $24.99 , Hardback, 204 pages

Two Deaths at Amphipolis Cleon vs Brasidas in the Peloponnesian War Mike Roberts This original book looks in detail at arguably the two most significant characters on either side in the middle years of the great Peloponnesian War and the showdown in and around Amphipolis. The Spartan commander Brasidas was already a veteran of many campaigns when he headed for the strategically important northern theater. Cleon was the key hawk in the Athenian assembly who led his fellow citizens in a major effort to counter the impact that Brasidas was having in the north.

The two finally clashed in battle outside the Athenian colony of Amphipolis which Brasidas had by then captured.

463787, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

790453, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 312 pages

Mithridates the Great Rome’s Indomitable Enemy

The Rise of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 336–250 BC

Philip Matyszak Mithridates VI ‘the Great’ of Pontus was Rome’s most persistent enemy. The Mithridiatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents, and have a fascinating cast of pirates, rebels, turncoats, and poisoners.

There are pitched battles, epic sieges, double-crosses and world-class political conniving, assassinations, and general treachery. Through it all, the story is built about the dominant character of Mithridates, connoisseur of poisons, arch-schemer and strategist, resilient in defeat, savage and vindictive in victory. Almost by definition, this book will break new ground, in that nothing has been written on Mithridates for the general public for almost half a century.

Philip Matyszak When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the mountains of Afghanistan. This empire did not survive Alexander’s death, and rapidly broke into several successor states. These states, substantial kingdoms in their own right, dominated Asia Minor, Greece, the Levant and Egypt for the next three hundred years.

828902, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 208 Pages

874763, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 176 pages

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While Philip Matyszak’s narrative covers their remarkable contribution of the Eastern Greeks in fields such as philosophy, science and culture, the main focus is on the rivalry, politics and wars, both civil and foreign, which the Hellenistic rulers constantly fought among themselves.

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BATTLE OF THE BULGE • ••ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL• The Army of the Roman Republic From the Regal Period to the Army of Julius Caesar

Macedonia and Greece

Michael Sage From the moment its last king was expelled, the Roman republic had to fight for its very survival. Centuries of almost continuous warfare saw Rome’s armies evolve in response to a wide variety of threats which were met with mixed fortunes though always with ultimate success.Michael Sage traces the development of the republic’s army from its foundation, down to the time of its most famous leader, Julius Caesar.

The transition from clan-based forces, through the Servian levy and the development of the manipular and cohortal legion is examined along with the associated weapons, tactics and operational capabilities.

Philip Matyszak In the late 3rd century BC, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit of his dream for a new Macedonian empire.

Once Carthage was defeated, however, the Roman army for the first time turned its full attention to the Greek world.

The stage was set for the clash of two of the most successful military systems of the ancient world, the Roman legions versus the Macedonian phalanx. Philip Matyszak gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain. Specially commissioned color plates bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously researched detail.

463794, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 352 pages

726780, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 208 pages

Gordian III and Philip the Arab The Roman Empire at a Crossroads Ilkka Syvänne This is a dual biography of the emperors Marcus Antonius Gordianus (‘Gordian III’, reigned 238-244) and Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus (‘Philip the Arab’, reigned 244-249), focusing mainly on the political and military events during this crucial stage of the ‘Third Century Crisis.’ The tumultuous ‘Year of the Six Emperors’ saw Gordian raised to the purple at just thirteen years of age, becoming the youngest emperor in the Empire’s history. Philip, succeeded Gordian, made peace with Shapur I. and returned to Italy. His reign encompassed the spectacular celebration of Rome’s millennium in 248.

786753, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

A Military Life of Constantine the Great Ian Hughes Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However his path to sole rule of the Roman Empire depended more upon the ruthless application of military might than upon his espousal of Christianity. He fought numerous campaigns, many of them against Roman rivals for Imperial power. In this new study, Ian Hughes assesses whether Constantine would have deserved the title ‘the Great’ for his military achievements alone, or whether the epithet depends upon the gratitude of Christian historians.

724236, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 288 pages

Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia Richard Evans The Roman army defeated the Seleucids at the epic battle of Magnesia in 190 BC. This, however, allowed other states to come to the fore, most notably Pontus. In the 1st century BC, Rome’s grip on its Asian provinces was shattered by the onslaught of Mithridates VI of Pontus, Rome’s most enduring foe. Mithridates was eventually overcome, after many Roman reverses, but these wars in turn led to conflict with Armenia. This book gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate.

159710, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

The Collapse of Rome Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War Gareth Sampson By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Roman armies had marched victoriously over enemies far and wide, but the Roman heartland was soon to feel the tramp of armies on campaign as the Republic was convulsed by civil war and rival warlords vied for supremacy, sounding the first death knell of the Republican system. At the center of the conflict was the rivalry between Marius, victor of the Jugurthine and Northern wars, and his former subordinate, Sulla. But, as Gareth Sampson points out in this new analysis, the situation was much more complex.

781918, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 304 pages

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BATTLE OF THE BULGE • ••ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL• The Art of War Sun Tzu Bob Carruthers The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise that is attributed to Sun Tzu, a high ranking military general and strategist. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare.

It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy, mastering conflict and winning battles. The text is frequently cited and referred to by generals and theorists since it was first published, translated, and distributed internationally.

This new illustrated edition contains the translated text, and wide ranging photography showcasing how the ideas and philosophies of The Art of War have remained relevant over the course of history.

The Lost Samurai Japanese Mercenaries in South East Asia, 1593–1688 Stephen Turnbull The Lost Samurai reveals the greatest untold story of Japan’s legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai were employed as mercenaries in the service of the kings of Siam, Cambodia, Burma, Spain and Portugal, as well as by the directors of the Dutch East India Company. The Japanese samurai were used in dramatic assault parties, as royal bodyguards, as staunch garrisons and as willing executioners. As a result, a stereotypical image of the fierce Japanese warrior developed that had a profound influence on the way they were regarded by their employers.

758989, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

592342, $14.95 , $9.99 , Paperback, 176 pages

The Fall of the Seleukid Empire 187-75 BC John D. Grainger The concluding part of John D Grainger’s history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire.

In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiouslyinspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt in the West and the Parthians in the East. By the 80s BC, the empire was disintegrating, internally fractured and squeezed by the converging expansionist powers of Rome and Parthia. This is a fittingly, dramatic and colorful conclusion to John Grainger’s masterful account of this once-mighty empire.

030309, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 240 Pages

The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III, 223–187 BC John D. Grainger Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable rulers of the age. Having emerged from civil war in 223 as the sole survivor of the Seleukid dynasty, he shouldered the burdens of a weakened and divided realm. Though defeated by Egypt in the Fourth Syrian War, he gradually restored full control over the empire. His great Eastern campaign took Macedonian arms back to India for the first time since Alexander’s day and, returning west, he went on to conquer Thrace and finally wrest Syria from Ptolemaic control.

774934, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Road to Manzikert Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527–1071 John Cairns Brian Todd Carey In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmaneuvered by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to give battle with only half his troops near Manzikert. By the end of that fateful day much of the Byzantine army was dead, the rest scattered in flight and the Emperor himself a captive.

This book sets the battle in the context of the military history of the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic World up to the pivotal engagement at Manzikert in 1071, with special emphasis on the origins, course and outcome of this battle.

Armies of Celtic Europe 700 BC to AD 106 History, Organization and Equipment Gabriele Esposito Although comprised of many distinct tribes and groupings, the Celts shared a distinctive culture that dominated much of Europe for centuries. They enjoyed a formidable reputation as fierce and brave warriors, skilled horsemen and fine metalworkers. Such was their warlike prowess that, when not fighting their own wars, they were sought after as mercenaries.

Gabriele Esposito studies this fascinating warrior culture, their armies, strategy, tactics and equipment.

730336, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 168 pages

796646, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 224 pages

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• ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL• 1066 A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns

Siege Warfare during the Crusades Michael S Fulton Sieges played a key role in the crusades, but they tend to be overshadowed by the famous battles fought between the Franks and the Muslims, and no detailed study of the subject has been published in recent times.

So Michael Fulton’s graphic, wide-ranging and thoughtprovoking book is a landmark in

Michael Livingston Kelly DeVries In this fresh look at The Battle of Hastings and its surrounding campaigns, leading medieval military historians Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries combine the imagery of the tapestry with the latest modern investigative research to reveal the story of Hastings as it has never been told and guide visitors around the battlefield today. This absorbing new account of the battle will be fascinating reading for anyone keen to find out what really happened in 1066: the journeys by which Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy came to the battlefield, and the latest reconstructions of the course of the fighting on that momentous day.

the field.

The conclusions may surprise some readers. Michael Fulton’s book is a fascinating all-round reassessment of an aspect of the crusades that had a decisive impact on the outcome of the struggle.

718655, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 368 pages

751973, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 224 pages

God’s Viking: Harald Hardrada The Life and Times of the Last Great Viking Nic Fields Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of ‘seven feet of English soil’ in that year of fateful change, 1066. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibly occupying the Norwegian throne, Harald had an interesting (and lucrative) career in the Varangian Guard, and he remains unquestionably the most notable of all the Varangians.

823426, $44.95 , $29.50 , Hardback, 336 pages

Vikings at War Kim Hjardar Vegard Vike Vikings at War presents a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war; their weapons technology, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of Europe and even to America. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake, but the encounter between cultures changed both European and Nordic societies.

Employing unorthodox and unpredictable strategies, which were hard for more organized forces to respond to, the most crucial element of the Viking’s success was their basic strategy of evading the enemy by arriving by sea.

007991, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 400 pages

The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order

The Art of Renaissance Warfare From The Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War

William Urban The Battle of Grunwald was one of the largest battles in Medieval Europe, and was the most important in the histories of Poland and Lithuania. It was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish-Lithuania-Teutonic War between the alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the German-Prussian Teutonic Knights and with the assistance of Sigismund, then King of Hungary and Croatia. The Teutonic Knights, a crusading military order, were defeated and most of their leaders were killed or taken prisoner. This defeat would mark the beginning of their decline and they would never again regain their former power.

Men such as Bertrand du Guesclin and Sir John Chandos loom large in the pages of this book – bold leaders and brave warriors, imbued with these traditions of chivalry and knighthood. How their heroic endeavors and the knightly code of conduct could be reconciled with the indiscriminate carnage of the ‘chevauchée’ and the depredations of the ‘free companies’ is one of the principal themes of this informative and entertaining book.

383572, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 384 pages

713759, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 272 pages

Stephen Turnbull The Art of Renaissance Warfare tells the story of the knight during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – from the great victories of Edward III and the Black Prince to the fall of Richard III on Bosworth Field.

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• 17TH & 18TH CENTURY • CHURCHILL’S 145TH • History of the British Army, 1714–1783 An Institutional History

The Last Ironsides The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662-1668

Stephen Conway Much has been written about the British army’s campaigns during the many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but for over 150 years no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an institution during this period. That is why Stephen Conway’s perceptive and detailed study is so timely and important. Taking into account the latest scholarship, he considers the army’s legal status, political control and administration, its system of recruitment, the relationships between officers and men, and the social and economic as well as constitutional interactions of the army with British and other societies.

Jonathon Riley When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry included the possession of Tangier, Bombay and valuable trade concessions. The Portuguese had been fighting for their independence from Spain for twenty years and needed alliances to tip the scales in their favor. In return for the concessions Charles agreed to send to Portugal a regiment of horse and two of foot, which provided an excuse to ship away the remnants of the Cromwellian armies that had not been disbanded at the Restoration.

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The Battle of Plassey 1757 The Victory That Won an Empire Stuart Reid Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own.Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw its best opportunities for expansion lay in the East.Yet, as Britain’s influence increased through its official trading arm, the East India Company, the ruler of Bengal, Nawab Siraj-uddaulah, sought to drive the British out of the subcontinent and turned to France for help.

The ensuing conflict saw intimate campaigns fought by captains and occasionally colonels and by small companies rather than big battalions.

Marlborough Soldier and Diplomat Augustus J. Veenendaal John Hattendorf John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, has long been regarded as one of Britain’s greatest generals. The subject of numerous books in English, Marlborough has typically been seen only in terms of British political and military history. In this book, twelve leading specialists of the period broaden the perspective by assessing Marlborough in the wider and more diverse contexts of the European situation, the common soldier in the British army, the complementary activities of navies, the differing perspectives of the Austrians, Dutch, French, and Germans as well as in the context of the British popular press and the visual arts.

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Battles of the Jacobite Rebellions Killiecrankie to Culloden Jonathan Oates Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions – the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746 – and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles have been described in graphic detail.

Yet no previous book has given a comprehensive military account of the campaigns in their entirety – and that is the purpose of Jonathan Oates’s new history.

The author uses vivid eyewitness testimony and contemporary sources, as well as the latest archaeological evidence, to trace the course of the conflict.

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Culloden: 1746 Battlefield Guide: Third Edition Stuart Reid Culloden Moor is one of the most famous battles in British history and, for the Scots, the battle is pre-eminent, surpassing even Bannockburn.

In this decisive and bloody encounter in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland’s government army defeated the Jacobite rebels led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart.Yet, despite the attention paid to this critical event – in particular to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite legend – few writers have concentrated on the battle itself and on the Highland battlefield on which it was fought.

Stuart Reid tells the story of the campaign and sets out in a graphic and easily understood way the movements and deployments of the opposing forces.

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• 17TH & 18TH CENTURY • CHURCHILL'S 145TH • CHURCHILL’S Between Scylla and Charybdis. Part I: Staff and Cavalry The Army of Elector Frederich August II of Saxony, 1733-1763.

Fashioning Regulation, Regulating Fashion.

Volume I The Uniforms and Dress of the British Army 18001815

During the 18th Century, the Electorate of Saxony was a rich state of the Holy Roman Empire. Part I of this work deals with the Saxon army of the years 1730-1763. The campaigns, the commanders, the guards mounted units, and the line cavalry units of this overshadowed army are treated. Lavishly illustrated

by Franco Saudelli, the volume shows the elegance of the Saxon army and particularly an army misjudged by Friedrich II of Prussia as “weak.”

Ben Townsend The first quarter of the nineteenth century witnessed a refinement of fashionable masculine dress that has not since been surpassed. Military tailoring inspired a parallel flowering of uniform splendor that continued into the 1830s and sparked an enduring fascination with military costume that still rages today. The army that operated in these cumbersome uniforms managed to achieve fame as one of the most effective British fighting forces ever recognized, and is still remembered and honored for its achievements.

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Marco Pagan Franco Saudelli

Home and Away: The British Experience of War 1618-1721 Proceedings of the 2017 Helion and Company ‘Century of the Soldier’ Conference Serena Jones The experience of war is never confined to those who participate militarily: the consequences of warfare ripple out across their immediate families and communities, and the lives of countless civilians the combatants will never meet. The wives and children of soldiers could become destitute in the absence of their menfolk, and in the seventeenth century many sought refuge far from their homes or followed the army on its travels. Feeding and clothing an army, and supplying it with ammunition and other materiel, was a critical business; many women, and also many civilian men, provided services to the army baggage train and effectively became a critical part of its supply chain.

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Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty 1756–1822 The Military Life of an American Loyalist and Imperial General

The Last Army The Battle of Stow-onthe-Wold and the end of the Civil War in the Welsh Marches 1646

John Barratt Although the Battle of Naseby (14 June 1645) is generally regarded as the decisive action of the First Civil War, dooming the Royalist cause to inevitable defeat, fierce fighting continued for over a year, including several pitched battles and numerous sieges. By the end of 1645, with his forces crumbling and his territory shrinking, King Charles’ hopes were increasingly dependent on the Royalist heartland of the Welsh Marches and the tiny field army which Jacob Lord Astley was struggling to muster there. This book describes the often dramatic preliminaries to this and sets in context Astley’s campaign which ended on 21 March 1646 with his defeat at Stow-on-the-Wold.

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Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607–1713 History, Organization and Uniforms

John D Grainger Samuel Auchmuty was born in New York in 1756. During the American Revolution his remained loyal to King George and he joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. After the war he remained in British service, campaigned in many parts of the world and rose through the ranks. Despite a varied and distinguished career he has not received the attention he warrants, neither as a Loyalist from New York, nor as a successful British soldier. John Grainger examines his part in events which shaped world history.

Gabriele Esposito Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. Every colonial unit formed by the Europeans in the New World, as well as the regular troops sent to America by Britain and France, is covered in detail. Great military events are analyzed and the evolution of tactics employed in this theater are discussed.

Dozens of illustrations, including color art works, show the first military uniforms ever worn in North America, as well as interesting details of weaponry and equipment used.

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• ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL • • 19TH CENTURY • The Maps of Gettysburg An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863

Too Useful to Sacrifice Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam

Bradley M. Gottfried This is a unique and thorough study of this multifaceted campaign. It breaks down the entire operation into thirty map sets or “action-sections” enriched with 144 detailed, full-page color maps comprising the entire campaign.

These cartographic originals bore down to the regimental and battery level and include the march to and from the battlefield and virtually every significant event in between.

Keyed to each piece of cartography is a full facing page of detailed text describing the units, personalities, movements, and combat (including quotes from eyewitnesses) depicted on the accompanying map, all of which makes the Gettysburg story come alive.

Steven R. Stotelmyer The importance of Robert E. Lee’s first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate. After his string of successes in Virginia, a decisive Confederate victory in Maryland or Pennsylvania may well have spun the war in an entirely different direction.

Why he and his Virginia army did not find success across the Potomac was due in large measure to the generalship of George B. McClellan, as Steven Stotelmyer ably demonstrates in Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam.

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The Maps of Chickamauga An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 September 23, 1863 David A. Powell This book explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of 120 full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil War. Track individual regiments through their engagements at fifteen to twenty-minute intervals or explore each army in motion as brigades and divisions maneuver and deploy to face the enemy. The text accompanying each map explains the action in succinct detail, supported by a host of primary sources.

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The Maps of Fredericksburg An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 January 22, 1863 Bradley M. Gottfried The Maps of Fredericksburg plows new ground by breaking down the entire campaign into twenty-two map sets or “action sections,” enriched with 122 detailed full-page color maps.This presentation allows readers to easily and quickly fine a map and text on virtually any portion of the campaign.

Serious students of the battle will appreciate the extensive and authoritative endnotes and complete order of battle.

Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station The Army of the Potomac’s First PostGettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863

Jeffrey Wm Hunt Hunt’s third installment in his award-winning Meade and Lee series is grounded upon official reports, regimental histories, letters, newspapers, and other archival sources. Together, they provide a day-by-day, and sometimes minute-by-minute, account of the Union army’s first post-Gettysburg offensive action and Lee’s efforts to repel it. In addition to politics, strategy, and tactics, Hunt’s pen ably examines the intricate command relationships, Lee’s questionable decision-making, and the courageous spirit of the fighting men. Complete with original maps and outstanding photographs, Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station is a significant contribution to Civil War literature.

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“The Devil’s to Pay” John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour Eric J. Wittenberg This comprehensive tactical study examines the role Buford and his horse soldiers played from June 29 through July 2, 1863, including the important actions that saved the shattered remnants of the First and Eleventh Corps. It also includes a detailed walking and driving tour of pertinent sites, complete with GPS coordinates. 17 maps, and more than 80 images, several published for the first time, round out this study.

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• 19TH CENTURY • Horses Worn to Mere Shadows’ The Victorio Campaign 1880 Robert N. Watt This study, following on from the author’s acclaimed book ‘I Will Not Surrender a Hair of a Horse’s Tail’, commences with Victorio’s return to New Mexico in January 1880. The US army’s January to February campaign illustrates the operational decoy strategy employed by Victorio to protect his own logistic support whilst simultaneously undermining that of his opponents.

The Hembrillo Canyon operation in April 1880 saw the largest battle of the Victorio Campaign. By the end of May 1880,Victorio’s warriors have rendered the Ninth Cavalry unfit for field service. This was achieved through the Apache strategy of directly and indirectly targeting the US army’s horses and mules.

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1812: The Great Retreat Paul Britten Austin 1812: The Great Retreat follows the army’s withdrawal through 800 miles of devastated countryside, crossing the horrific relics of the Borodino battlefield, fighting its way through the Russian General Kutusov’s successive attempts to cut it off, and winning, against overwhelming odds, the three-day battle of the Berezina crossing. First-hand narratives, many published in English for the first time, describe Marshal Ney’s astounding achievement in holding together the rear-guard until he himself, musket in hand, was the last man to re-cross the Niemen into Poland.

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Letters from Mafeking Eyewitness Accounts from the Longest Siege of the South African War Edward Spiers Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899.

The Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to public attention and involved some controversial practices.

While of little military significance, the relief of Mafeking produced unprecedented celebrations across Britain and much of its empire. Sustained over several days, such rejoicings led to the creation the verb to maffick, meaning to celebrate both extravagantly and publicly. Such rejoicing reflected not only the build up of emotions during the South African War, but also how Mafeking revived memories of imperial siege histories over the previous fifty years.

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Letters from Kimberley Eyewitness Accounts from the South African War Edward Spiers The defense of Kimberley – and the mission to relieve it – was one of the great dramatic sagas of the South African War. In this illuminating new history, Edward Spiers, presents a selection of firsthand accounts of this epic siege. The 260 letters were published originally in British metropolitan and provincial newspapers and they provide crucial insights into the perceptions of civilians caught up in the siege; the desperate and bloody attempts to relieve the town; and the experiences of junior officers and other ranks as they struggled to cope with the demands of modern warfare.

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The American Sharpe The Adventures of an American Officer of the 95th Rifles in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns Gareth Glover James Penman Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Carolina. After school, rather than joining his father’s merchant business he decided to become a soldier, receiving a commission in the famous 95th Rifles. He subsequently served, without a break, from the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 until the end of the war in 1814. He then fought in the Waterloo campaign and formed part of the Army of Occupation. Throughout his service he kept a journal, this journal, along with a number of letters that he wrote to his family, have been edited by historian Gareth Glover and are presented here to the public for the first time.

Letters from Ladysmith Eyewitness Accounts from the South African War Edward Spiers Edward Spiers, a leading authority on the Victorian British army, presents here a select edition of letters from the siege of Ladysmith (1899–1900) that have not been seen since their original publication in metropolitan and provincial newspapers. The 250 letters were published in different British newspapers and provide crucial insights into contemporary perceptions of the battles that preceded the siege, the onset of the siege itself, and the desperate and bloody attempts to relieve the town. These letters reflect vividly the feelings of junior officers and other ranks as they struggled to cope with the demands of modern warfare.

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• ANCIENT • 19TH CENTURY & MEDIEVAL • • Mapping the Great Game Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-century Asia

Britain at War with the Asante Nation 18231900 The White Man’s Grave’

Riaz Dean Under the leadership of George Everest, the Survey of India mapped the Great Arc, which was then lauded as ‘one of the greatest works in the whole history of science,’ though it cost more in money and lives than many Indian wars. The story of these pioneers who explored much of Asia during the 19th century to fill in large portions of its map, and spy out the region for military reasons is often forgotten. Riaz Dean’s vivid account of their exploits, and their tenacity in the face of adversity, all set within the context of the Great Game and the Survey of India, will finally bring them the attention they deserve.

Stephen Manning Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the nineteenth century.

Only the Sudanese and Zulu campaigns saw a greater loss of life, both for the British and the indigenous population. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars – they were respected for their martial skills and bravery. And yet these wars have rarely been written about and are little understood. That is why Stephen Manning’s vivid, detailed new history of this neglected colonial conflict is of such value.

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The Crimean War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives John Grehan Martin Mace

Eyewitness In the Crimea The Crimean War Letters of Lieutenant Colonel George Frederick Dallas

The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, but there were smaller campaigns in western Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Baltic Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the White Sea. This collection of 150-160 images 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.

Michael Hargreave Mawson George Frederick ‘Fred’ Dallas wrote 137 letters to his family and friends while on active service in the Crimea.

A company commander in the 46th Foot, his first letters reflects a soldier’s enthusiasm for the ‘brilliant affair’ that awaits the British Army overseas.

Within weeks of arriving, excitement turns to disbelief at the continual misjudgment of his leaders. Poor preparation and divided command exposed the troops to surprise attacks from ‘The Russe’, and to the appalling conditions of the Crimean winter. By contrast, Dallas’ reports on the casual bravery of his comrades recognize the true heroes of a mismanaged campaign.

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Triumph and Disaster Eyewitness Accounts of the Netherlands Campaigns 1813-1814

Death Before Glory The British Soldier in the West Indies in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815

Andrew Bamford This compelling new book brings together six of the shorter accounts to help shed new light on the triumphs and disasters of these forgotten operations. Mixing formal reports with lively personal narratives, and contemporary letters and diaries with later reflections, this selection covers all the major actions of the campaign and the authors range from one of Graham’s senior staff to an NCO in one of his infantry battalions. Detailed appendices resolve some of the controversies arising from these and other eyewitness accounts, helping to increase our understanding of these little-known but important operations.

Martin R. Howard This is a thoroughly researched study of the British army’s campaigns in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period and the experiences of the soldiers who served. Rich in sugar, cotton, coffee and slaves, the region was a key to British prosperity and it was perhaps even more important to her greatest enemy – France.Yet, until now, the history of this vital theater of the Napoleonic Wars has been seriously neglected. Martin Howard’s original work is the essential account of this fascinating but often overlooked aspect of the history of the British army and the Napoleonic Wars.

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• ANCIENT • 19TH CENTURY & MEDIEVAL • • Napoleon’s Stolen Army How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic John Marsden This is the story of a Spanish army, commanded by the Marqués de La Romana, which was sent to Denmark by Napoleon in 1807, while France and Spain were allies bound by the Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed in 1796. When relations between the two countries broke down in May 1808 they were soon at war with each other, Spain looked to forge an alliance with Britain against her erstwhile ally, they found the British government only too eager to help. The Royal Navy’s dominant presence in the Baltic provided a ready opportunity to seal the new alliance and, once the political groundwork had been laid, plans for a daring rescue of the entrapped Spaniards by Vice Admiral Keats’ squadron were drawn up.

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The Campaigns of 1812 in Russia A Prussian Officer’s Account From the Russian Imperial Headquarters Carl von Clausewitz On 23 June 1812 the French Grande Armée poured over the Russian border. In defense of Russia, an army of approximately the same number faced them.

Amongst those who participated in the campaign was von Clausewitz, a renowned Prussian military strategist and historian who defected from the French Army and joined the Russian Imperial headquarters. His expert analysis of the Battle of Borodino indicates that he was heavily involved in the engagement as a staff officer, whose duties would have entailed his constant traveling round the battlefield.

The French at Waterloo - Eyewitness Accounts 2nd and 6th Corps, Cavalry, Artillery, Foot Guard and Medical Services Andrew W Field This volume of French eyewitness accounts of Waterloo, published for the first time in full in English, completes Andrew Field’s pioneering work on the French experience in this decisive battle. These vivid recollections add a new dimension to our understanding of what happened on 18 June 1815. Readers will now be in a position to come to their own conclusions and they can compare the French accounts with those of soldiers from the allied armies. This second volume features graphic descriptions of the battle as it was remembered by men of the 2nd and 6th corps, cavalry, artillery and Imperial Guard and medical services of Napoleon’s army.

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On the Road With Wellington Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaign August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann This remarkable memoir captures the life and adventures of a junior officer as he endures the drama and agonies of the fierce struggle in Spain, Portugal, and southern France between 1808 and 1814. He was entrusted with gathering supplies and was caught up in a host of brawls and skirmishes. He laments the lot of commissaries exposing themselves to the enemy on their foraging raids, risking assassination by enraged natives, and being treated shabbily by the generals.

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Waterloo Letters

Waterloo Lectures A Study of the Campaign of 1815

H. T. Siborne This collection of letters from survivors of the Waterloo Campaign was gathered in the 1830s and 1840s when Captain William Siborne was trying to verify the chronological events of the day of the battle, to ensure the accuracy of his model diorama of Waterloo.

Hundreds of replies from the people who had fought in the battle were sent to his circular letter requesting information, covering all aspects of the campaign. A total of 180 letters give firsthand accounts of all of the principal phases of the Battle of Waterloo. The letters are from every branch of the British Army including the General Staff, cavalry, artillery and infantry officers.

Colonel Charles Chesney This is one of the most outstanding of the many works written on the great battles of 1815. Colonel Chesney brilliantly realized his aim of presenting and analyzing all the available facts in an impartial and accurate way. Colonel Chesney consulted English, German, Belgian and French sources on the battle, and brought a logical and objective mind to bear on them. Waterloo Lectures was quickly translated into German and French, and approved by such renowned soldiers as Moltke the Elder. This edition of Waterloo Lectures is the last, best and most complete.

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• ANCIENT • 19TH CENTURY & MEDIEVAL • • The Boyhood and Youth of Napoleon

The Surrender of Napoleon

Oscar Browning During the Hundred Days, there lay in Napoleon’s study a packet of papers, on the cover of which was written, “À remettre au Cardinal Fesch seul.” This packet was carried by Fesch to Rome, but he never had the curiosity to open it, and it remained sealed and tied up till his death, on 13 May 1839. Many years later it was eventually opened, and an astonished world discovered that Napoleon had collected papers relating to his boyhood and youth. Using this amazing material - and many other sources - Oscar Browning produced the first English language account of the formative years between Napoleon’s birth and when he first forced his way onto the world stage at the siege of Toulon in 1793.

Frederick Lewis Maitland The Surrender of Napoleon tells the true story of how the legendary French Emperor surrendered to the British on HMS Bellerophon shortly after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. The final decisions over Napoleon’s fate were made by the British Government on 7 August 1815, and Napoleon and his staff were conveyed to exile on Saint Helena where he eventually died six years later. The Surrender of Napoleon is Maitland’s detailed, tense and fascinating narrative of the French Emperor’s desperate attempts to escape France and of his time on HMS Bellerophon. Originally published in a shorter form in 1826, this is the rarely told final chapter in Napoleon’s career as a world leader.

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Charging Against Wellington The French Cavalry in the Peninsular War, 1807–1814

The Battle of Borodino Napoleon Against Kutuzov

Robert Burnham Charging Against Wellington is divided into three sections. The first contains biographies of 80 generals who led the French cavalry, focusing on the time they served in the Peninsula and its impact on their careers. The second section looks at the ever-changing organization of the cavalry, where the various regiments and brigades were located and who commanded them. The third section looks at the service record of the 70+ French cavalry regiments that fought in Spain and Portugal. There is a table for each regiment that tracks the regiment’s colonels, composition, organization, strength, and casualties while in the Peninsula, and when its various squadrons arrived and departed.

Alexander Mikaberidze On 7 September 1812 at Borodino the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed . The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in Napoleon’s eventual defeat and the utter destruction of the French army of 1812. Napoleonic historian Alexander Mikaberidze reconsiders the 1812 campaign and retells the terrible story of the Borodino battle as it was seen from the Russian point of view. His original and painstakingly researched investigation of this critical episode in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the battle and a broader understanding of the underlying reasons for the eventual Russian triumph.

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Wellington’s History of the Peninsular War Battling Napoleon in Iberia 1808–1814

Stuart Reid Though pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to his published dispatches, and he refused to add further to his official correspondence.Yet Wellington did, in effect, write a history of the Peninsular War in the form of four lengthy memoranda. These lengthy accounts demonstrate Wellington’s unmatched appreciation of the nature of the war in Spain and Portugal, and relate to the operations of the French and Spanish forces as well as the Anglo-Portuguese army under his command. These memoranda and dispatches have never been published before in a single connected narrative.

The End Napoleon at Saint Helena Lee Preston The fascination exerted by great historical figures led Mr. Preston to delve deep into the life and personality of Napoleon Bonaparte in his early childhood.

Mr. Preston’s intention, in his own words, “is not to judge or even explain Napoleon’s life or personality, but simply to accompany his gradual demise at Saint Helena as closely as possible and to ‘meet the man’.

Conclusions are entirely left to the reader’s discretion once he has “accompanied” the Emperor during his long years of seclusion at Saint Helena...

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• ANCIENT • WORLD & WAR MEDIEVAL I• • Ronny Bar Profiles British Two Seaters of the Great War Ronny Bar Artist Ronny Bar, a member of director Sir Peter Jackson’s New Zealand-based Wingnut Wings team, presents the first collection of his astonishingly detailed First World War aircraft profiles – British Two-Seaters of the Great War.This book features 260 meticulously researched profiles of the war’s most important and iconic British two-seaters: the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2a to B.E.2g, F.E.2b, F.E.2d and R.E.8; Avro 504, Vickers F.B.5, Sopwith 1½ Strutter, Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8, Bristol F.2B and Airco DH.4, DH.9 and DH.9A. 658436, $39.99 , $25.99 , Hardback, 136 pages

German Fighter Aircraft in World War I Design, Construction and Innovation Mark C. Wilkins German Fighter Aircraft in World War I explores how German fighter aircraft were developed during the war, the innovations and trials that made the Fokker D VII possible, and the different makes and types of aircraft. Using unpublished images including photographs of surviving aircraft, archive images, and models and replicas, it shows details of aircraft that were kept top secret during the war. Extensively illustrated with 140 photos and ten color profiles, this is will be essential reading for all WWI aviation enthusiasts and modelers.

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Camel Pilot Supreme Captain D V Armstrong DFC Annette Carson In aviation’s pioneering days the best and bravest airmen pushed the boundaries of flight in all dimensions and attitudes. When airplanes went to war this exploratory art, now known as aerobatics, was called ‘stunting’ in breezy RFC slang. Initially forbidden as foolhardy, its importance for survival soon became paramount in the life and death mêlées of dogfighting. But pilots still delighted in the joy and exuberance of aerobatting for its own sake, and they recognized a master of that very special skill in young D’Urban Victor Armstrong, whose displays were nothing short of electrifying.

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A Military Atlas of the First World War Arthur Banks A comprehensive atlas based on Arthur Banks’ atlas published in 1975. The maps in the original were all painstakingly hand-drawn in black and white, covering every aspect of the first truly global war. This book takes the information laid down

by Banks and reinterprets it in full color, computer modeled cartography. The book covers the main reasons why the major powers entered the conflict, the individual battles fought along the Western Front as well as in depth coverage of the war in the east of Europe. The War at sea is mapped in great detail, including the clashes at Dogger Bank and Jutland as well as the German submarine campaigns and the first major sea borne landing at Gallipoli.

527919, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 340 pages

Army Wings A History of Army Air Observation Flying, 1914–1960 Robert Jackson This is the fascinating story of army fixed-wing cooperation units who were made up of specially trained volunteer army personnel. These men were trained to fly, to reconnoiter across the front line in search of enemy forces and then guide artillery gunners onto the target. From its earliest days in World War I, small low-flying aircraft have flown unarmed into combat and relayed vital information to aid accurate fall of shot and to advise front-line ground troops of enemy strength and position. They were frequently attacked by fighter aircraft and had to avoid ground-fire, often flying below treetop height.

783394, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 176 pages

Teachers at the Front, 1914–1919 Barry Blades August 1914. Flags waved, people cheered and armies mobilized. Millions of citizens throughout Britain responded to the call-to-arms. War fever was contagious. In the far reaches of empire, young men also pledged their allegiance and prepared to serve the King and his empire. Amongst the patriots who joined the colors were thousands of schoolmasters and trainee teachers. Teachers at the Front 1914-1919 tells the story of these men. It follows these teacher-soldiers as they landed on the beaches of Gallipoli, attacked across no man’s land in Flanders, on the Somme and at Passchendaele, and finally broke through the Hindenburg Line and secured victory.

84885A, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 248 pages

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• WORLD WAR I• • 17TH / 18TH CENTURY • The Retreat from Mons 1914: North Casteau to Le Cateau Jon Cooksey Jerry Murland

Ypres: Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert Jon Cooksey Jerry Murland

Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked, biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred at each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain for the visitor to see.Their highly illustrated guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish to enhance their understanding of the fast-moving campaign that preceded the war in the trenches. It gives a fascinating insight into the experience of the troops, the terrain over which they fought and the character of the fighting itself.

Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Sword’s new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous Great War sites are featured here.

Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked, biked, or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why, and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see.

030385, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

847934, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

The Battle of the Lys 1918: South Objective Hazebrouck Chris Baker The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser’s men. Following close on the heels of the devastating ‘Operation Michael,’ this offensive, ‘Operation Georgette’, was aimed at strangling the vital railways and roads that supplied the British at Ypres and threatening the vital logistics links with the Channel Ports. What the British call ‘The ‘Battle of the Lys 1918’ is a fascinating yet curiously neglected period of military history. This volume concentrates on the southern half of the battlefield.

716965, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 224 pages

The Battle of the Lys 1918: North Objective Ypres Chris Baker The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser’s men. Following close on the heels of the devastating ‘Operation Michael,’ this offensive, ‘Operation Georgette’, was aimed at strangling the vital railways and roads that supplied the British at Ypres and threatening the vital logistics links with the Channel Ports. What the British call ‘The ‘Battle of the Lys 1918’ is a fascinating yet curiously neglected period of military history. This volume concentrates on the northern half of the battlefield; nearly all of the actions described in this volume took place in Belgium.

717009, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 192 pages

Lost Opportunity The Battle Of The Ardennes 22 August 1914

From Docks and Sand Southport and Bootle’s Battalion, The 7th King’s Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War

Simon J. House On 22 August 1914 two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day, 27,000 young French soldiers died. There has never been an operational study of the Battle of the Ardennes in any language. This book fills a gap in the study of the opening phase of the First World War and provides fresh insight into both French and German plans.

At the center of this book lies a mystery: in a key encounter battle, one French Army corps outnumbered its opposition by nearly six to one and yet dismally failed to capitalize on that superiority. The question is how, and why.

Adrian Gregson This book is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case the unit is primarily 7th King’s Regiment and more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division. The book is an analysis of the relevance of the local communities to the battalion and its division and its combat effectiveness, the role played by the army in the local communities’ involvement in the War, and the post-War ramifications of this relationship. A wide range of primary sources has been examined including local newspapers, official War Diaries, and private papers of the combatants.

096429, $79.95 , $51.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

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• WORLD WAR I • • 17TH / 18TH CENTURY • Sopwith Camels Over Italy, 1917-1918 Norman Franks During the First World War, Italy was on the side of their British Allies and their fight was against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, bordering on Austria.

In October 1917, the AustroHungarians managed to push the Italians back during the battle of Caporetto. With the danger signs obvious, both Britain and France sent reinforcements. Britain’s Royal Flying Corps sent three squadrons of Sopwith Camel fighters, plus one RE8 reconnaissance squadron. Despite the difference in landscape between France and Italy, the Camel pilots employed the same air-fighting tactics and assisted in ground support missions that proved just as destructive in Italy as they had in France.

The British on the Somme 1916 Bob Carruthers This new volume features the actions of the British Army on the Somme. Not only is the book comprised of rare photographs illustrating the actions of the British army fighting on the Somme, but it is accompanied by a powerful text written by Official War Correspondent Philip Gibbs, who was an eyewitness to the events. Photographs from the battlefield illustrate the terrible conditions, which the British forces on the battlefield endured in the notorious engagement, which has become synonymous with vainglorious sacrifice.

837812, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 128 pages

723086, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 112 pages

The French Army on the Somme 1916 Ian Sumner So much has been written about the 1916 Battle of the Somme that it might appear that every aspect of the four-month struggle has been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail.

Yet perhaps one aspect has not received the attention it deserves – the French sector in the south of the battlefield which is often overshadowed by events in the British sector further north. That is why Ian Sumner’s photographic history of the French army on the Somme is so interesting and valuable. Using a selection of over 200 wartime photographs, many of which have not been published before, he follows the entire course of the battle from the French point of view.

725486, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

The Great War Illustrated 1916 Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI Jack Holroyd William Langford With conscription introduced, Zeppelins carrying out bombing raids on key towns and cities across England, the Battle of Jutland seeing fourteen British ships sunk and the Battle of the Somme claiming 20,000 British dead on the first day alone, the resolve of the British and allied troops in 1916 was being sorely tested. The Great War Illustrated 1916 is the third picture volume in this series that deals exclusively with actions fought throughout the year on the Western Front.

881570, $44.95 , $29.50 , Hardback, 480 pages

The Germans in Flanders 1917 – 1918 David Bilton This book covers the battles in Flanders against the Belgians, French, and British over a 23-month period. Written using primary and secondary sources, it covers all the engagements.

The major part of the book covers the FlandernSchlacht of July to November 1917; a battle viewed by the Germans as harder fought and more costly than the Somme, Arras and Verdun. Each phase and aspect of the period is detailed from the German point of view. It is in four sections, with detailed text; around 250 photos (that are interspersed into the text with captions), a chronological order of events in Flanders, and a section on the German divisions that fought there.

846500, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 176 pages

The Great War Illustrated 1918 Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI Roni Wilkinson The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. The Great War Illustrated series, beginning with the year 1914, includes in its pages many rarely seen images with individual numbers allocated, and subsequently they will be lodged with the Taylor Library Archive for use by editors and authors.While some of the images in The Great War Illustrated 1918 will be familiar, many will be seen for the first time by a new generation interested in the months that changed the world for ever.

881655, $60 , $39.50 , Hardback, 520 pages

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• 17TH • WORLD / 18TH WAR CENTURY I• • German Artillery 1914-1918

Artillery in the Great War Sanders Marble Paul Strong

Wolfgang Fleischer The importance of artillery in warfare grew more and more throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

New developments such as solid cannon barrels improved hit accuracy and the range of projectiles. This Fact File volume focuses on German Artillery during the Great War, when it could be argued that artillery was for the first time the dominant weapon on the battlefield. Wolfgang Fleischer discusses the diversity of artillery developed and used during the First World War by the Germans.

Artillery was the decisive weapon of the Great War – it dominated the battlefields.Yet the history of artillery during the conflict has been neglected, and its impact on the fighting is inadequately understood. Paul Strong and Sanders Marble, in this important and highly readable study, seek to balance the account.

Their work shows that artillery was central to the tactics of the belligerent nations throughout the long course of the conflict, in attack and in defense. They describe, in vivid detail, how in theory and practice the use of artillery developed in different ways among the opposing armies.

823983, $17.95 , $11.99 , Paperback, 128 pages

030125, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 272 pages

Germany in the Great War Verdun & Somme Joshua Bilton For the Central Powers, 1916 was a year of trial and error, of successes and failures, of innovation and of drastic changes. Tactics developed, while war aims mutated to suit the inertia of trench warfare. Advances were effectively countered with the development of new weaponry, or indeed aided by their inclusion. Germany in the Great War:Verdun & Somme is the third publication in a five-part series. In addition to the author’s introduction and a chronology of events, five hundred contemporary photographs, many of which have never before been published in this country, are included.

876897, $39.95 , $25.99 , Paperback, 256 pages

Liaison 1914 A Narrative of the Great Retreat Edward Spears Winston Churchill

German Prisoners of the Great War Life in a Yorkshire Camp Anne Buckley In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. In their own words they record the conditions, the daily routines, the food, their relationship with the prison authorities, their activities and entertainment, and their thoughts of their homeland.

Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their experience of life in captivity in a camp at Skipton in Yorkshire. Their work, now translated into English for the first time, gives us a unique insight into their feelings about the war, their captors and their longing to go home.

765291, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 352 pages

In Haig’s Shadow Brigadier-General Hugo de Pree and the First World War Gary Sheffield Lady Janet Glover

Thanks to his fluent French, Edward Louis Spears was sent in mid August 1914 to liaise between Field Marshal Sir John French and the French High Command. In the weeks that followed, events moved at lightning speed and decisions were made without consulting or informing their counterparts. It fell to Spears to update the British of their ally’s moves. Without modern communication this often involved Spears traveling on clogged roads between head quarters.Churchill, who became a life long friend, wrote the Foreword to the original edition of this truly extraordinary account which anyone who wishes to understand the events of 1914 must read.

Hugo de Pree was the cousin of the better-known Field Marshall Douglas Haig.

However, de Pree had a distinguished military career in his own right. Educated at Eton and RMA Woolwich, de Pree grew up alongside Haig, primed for a career in the military.

He served in the Boer War before the First World War began. He was sent to the Western Front, as Chief of Staff of IV Corps, coming into contact with his cousin at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. De Pree saw out the War with the 115 Brigade, and, before his death in 1943, commanded the 13th Indian Infantry Brigade. He died whilst his son, John de Pree, was in a Prisoner of War camp.

796905, $39.95 , $25.99 , Paperback, 624 pages

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• 17TH / 18TH CENTURY • • WORLD WAR I • We Also Served The Forgotten Women of the First World War Vivien Newman In August 1914, a mere 640 women had a clearly defined wartime role. Ignoring early War Office advice to “go home and sit still”, by 1918 hundreds of thousands of women from all corners of the world had lent their individual wills and collective strength to the Allied cause. As well as becoming nurses, munitions workers, and members of the Land Army, women were also ambulance drivers and surgeons; they served with the Armed Forces; funded and managed their own hospitals within sight and sound of the guns. At least one British woman bore arms, and over a thousand women lost their lives as a direct result of their involvement with the war.

796639, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 192 pages

Holding the Home Front The Women’s Land Army in The First World War

Caroline Scott British agricultural policy during the First World War was held up as a success story; domestic food production was higher at the end of the war than at the start, the 1918 harvest was held up as one of the great achievements of the War. In 1917, at the darkest hour, when Britain’s food security looked most precarious, it was said that, If it were not for the women agriculture would be absolutely at a standstill on many farms. Using previously unpublished accounts and photographs, this book is an attempt to understand how the return of women to the fields and farmyards impacted agriculture. This is the story of the First World War’s forgotten land army.

781499, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 224 pages

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front The Great War Letters of Lady Dorothie Feilding MM Dorothie Feilding Andrew Hallam Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding spent almost three years on the Western Front in Belgium driving ambulances for the Munro Motor Ambulance Corps, an all-volunteer unit.

During her time in Flanders her bravery was such that she received the Belgian Order of Leopold, the French Croix de Guerre and was the first woman to be awarded the British Military Medal. Though Dorothie was the daughter of an Earl and from a privileged upbringing she had an easy attitude that transcended social boundaries and that endeared her to all that she came in to contact with whether royalty or the ordinary fighting man.

796844, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Major & Mrs Holt’s Battle Map of The Somme Tonie Holt Valmai Holt An accompaniment to the bestselling guide to the area, now sold separately.

764973, $10.95 , $7.50 , Map, pages

The Royal Marines on the Western Front Daniel J McLean From the mud of the Somme to the raid on Zeebrugge, the Royal Marines fought in almost every element of the Great War on the Western Front. Today they are known worldwide as an elite commando fighting force, but that has only been their role since 1940, a fraction of their period in existence. Until 1923 they existed as two corps – the Royal Marine Light Infantry and the Royal Marine Artillery – and both served with distinction along the western front in the great war. This book examines and explains the engagements in which they were involved, the equipment used and the organization and training undertaken in hitherto unseen detail.

763860, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 144 pages

Among The Kings The Unknown Warrior, An Untold Story Mark Scott It was the war to end all wars and became one of the bloodiest and cruellest conflicts in history. Into the hands of author Mark Scott came a poignant survivor of those nightmare years – a notebook carried through the trenches by his great grandfather, Jimmy Scott, nestled in the pocket of his uniform. In it was a list of names, written with the tiny pencil still attached to the fragile cover. With this family heirloom in his hand, the author vowed to discover the stories of these men who gave their all in the Great War. Reading at times like a detective story, this is the moving, often heart-breaking, account of the men whose names Jimmy Scott carefully pencilled into his little notebook.

732671, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 216 pages

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• WWII EASTERN FRONT • 19TH CENTURY • • Kursk 1943 Last German Offensive in the East Ian Baxter In the summer of 1943, the German-launched Operation Zitadelle (Citadel), aimed at cutting off a large number of Soviet forces in the Kursk salient. This offensive resulted in the battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle of World War II. With comprehensive captions and text, Kursk 1943 tells the story of this dramatic battle using rare and unpublished photographs, maps, and highly detailed artist profiles. The book reveals the events leading up to the battle in the first half of 1943, and the build up of forces by both sides before their climatic showdown at Kursk.

007076, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Cataclysm The War on the Eastern Front, 1941–45 Keith Cumins Disproportionately few publications deal exclusively with the true cauldron of the Second World War – the brutal and uncompromising war between Germany and the Soviet Union; and fewer still attempt to provide, in a single volume, a comprehensive overview of that war from the commencement of Operation Barbarossa to the last battle in the rubble-strewn streets of Berlin. Drawing on information from Soviet archives that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cataclysm: The War on the Eastern Front 1941–1945, is unquestionably the most successful attempt so far to achieve that goal.

00752A, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 472 pages

Eastern Inferno The Journals of a German Panzerjäger on the Eastern Front, 1941–43 Christine Alexander Mason Kunze This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before. In these journals, attacks and counterattacks are described in “you are there” detail. Roth wrote privately, as if to keep himself sane, knowing that his honest accounts of the horrors in the East could never pass through Wehrmacht censors. Although Roth’s ultimate fate remains unknown, what he did leave behind, now finally revealed, is an incredible firsthand account of the horrific war the Germans waged in Russia.

002187, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

The Red Army Guerrilla Warfare Pocket Manual Lester Grau Michael Gress The Partisan’s Companion was produced by the Red Army to train partisans to fight the Nazi invader. The partisans moved and lived clandestinely, harassed the enemy, and supported the Red Army through reconnaissance and attacks on German supply lines. They clearly frustrated German logistics and forced the Germans to periodically sideline divisions for rear-area security. The partisans and their handbook were clearly part of the eventual Soviet victory over Germany. This pocket manual puts The Partisan’s Companion in context, explaining its importance.

00795A, $14.95 , $9.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

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To the Bitter End The Final Battles of Army Groups North Ukraine, A, and CenterEastern Front, 1944-45 Rolf Hinze This is a penetrating and detailed account of the climactic battles of the German forces in Slovakia, the Carpathians, parts of Poland, Silesia and Saxony, from autumn 1944 until the end of the war. The author provides excellent detail on the movements and actions of numerous German units, and the text covers all major actions including the battle for the Vistula bridgeheads, the epic siege of Breslau, and the final desperate actions around Bautzen and Dresden. Appendices include comprehensive orders-of-battle. A large number of detailed battle maps are also included.

149316, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 208 pages

Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 19431945 Red Steamroller Robert Forczyk By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. This incisive study offers fresh insight into how the two most powerful mechanized armies of the Second World War developed their tank tactics and weaponry during this period of growing Soviet dominance. He uses German, Russian and English sources to provide the first comprehensive overview and analysis of armored warfare from the German and Soviet perspectives. This major study of the greatest tank war in history is compelling reading.

462780, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 288 Pages

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• WWII EASTERN FRONT • 19TH CENTURY • • Hitler’s Wave-Breaker Concept An Analysis of the German End Game in the Baltic

Finland’s War of Choice The Troubled GermanFinnish Coalition in World War II

Henrik O. Lunde Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany’s strategy in the north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war turned, and gigantic Russian armies began to close in on Berlin. In this long-awaited work, Henrik Lunde—former U.S. Special Forces officer and author of renowned previous works on the campaigns in Norway and Finland—turns his sights to the withdrawal of Army Group North. In this book, both combats and strategy are described in the final stages of the fighting in the Northern Theater, with Lunde’s even-handed analysis of the campaign a reward to every student of World War II.

Henrik O. Lunde This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, and their joint military operations.

This book posits that it was mind-boggling how the highly professional German General Staff allowed itself to accept the militarily unsound and shaky coalition that resulted. After describing the operations during and after Barbarossa, this book describes how the Finnish theater became a blind ally for the Germans. In this book, Henrik Lunde, the renowned author of Hitler’s Preemptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940, once again fills a profound gap in our understanding of World War II.

001616, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

002194, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 412 pages

Soviet Bombers of the Second World War Jason Nicholas Moore This book concentrates on the smaller tactical bombers, as this is where the Red Air Force’s emphasis lay. Such types as the Il-4, the Su-2, the Tu-2, and the most important bomber of all, the Il-2 Shturmovik attack bomber, will be described in great detail, including not only details on the aircraft themselves, but how they were deployed in combat. The one truly strategic bomber, the Pe8, will not be forgotten, and neither will the comparatively tiny U-2 biplane, which was so effective in its use as a nighttime “nuisance” raider that the Germans copied the tactic wholesale. Accurate color profiles in some number will accompany the text in this comprehensive work on Soviet bombers.

557167, $65 , $42.50 , Hardback, 384 pages

Feldpost The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann

B-24 Bridge Busters RAF Liberators over Burma Colin Pateman This book will provide the reader with an understanding of why the RAF flew the American B-24 Liberator against the Japanese in Burma.

British and Commonwealth air crews displayed great gallantry in many instances on low level precise bombing sorties destroying specific targets including the plethora of bridges constructed by the Japanese in their conquest to reach India. A number of detailed accounts will be based upon personal flying logbooks and other unique material originating from the pilots and aircrew themselves. This book will examine the true events that took place including techniques developed and deployed by the RAF against the Japanese forces.

555194, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 208 Pages

Hans Sturm A Soldier’s Odyssey on the Eastern Front

Feldpost documents the life and experiences of a German soldier from 1941-1945. He wrote his final two letters home from Poland before he disappeared during the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive. Niemann describes his survival of the destruction of his division during the Soviet summer offensive. After the war, the Niemann family preserved Reiner’s letters and photographs, and shipped them to New Orleans when Reiner’s sister had emigrated. Neglected in an attic for over fifty years, the documents surfaced only after Hurricane Katrina flooded the family house.

Gordon Williamson Few can match Hans Sturm in his astonishing rise from a mere private in an infantry regiment to a highly decorated war hero.

A young man who had displayed fearless heroism in combat, earning him some of Germany’s highest military awards, Sturm hated bullies and injustice, and reacted in his normal pugnacious and outspoken manner when confronted with wrongdoing. From striking a member of the feared Sicherheitsdienst for his treatment of a Jewish woman, to refusing to wear a decoration he felt was tainted because of the treatment of enemy partisans, Sturm repeatedly stuck to his moral values no matter what the risk.

450159, $40 , $26.50 , Hardback, 288 Pages

55393A, $40 , $26.50 , Hardback, 320 pages

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• 19TH CENTURY • • • WWII EASTERN FRONT The Sword Behind The Shield A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 – Operation ‘Konrad’ I, II, III Norbert Számvéber The first day of Operation Konrad marked the beginning of a series of fierce clashes that lasted for nearly six weeks, a very special period in the history of the Battle for Budapest.

This work is based mainly on German, Soviet and Hungarian archival records (e.g. war diaries, daily and after-action reports, etc.). In addition, a number of rare unit histories, contemporary private diaries and reliable personal memoirs, from generals to enlisted men, have also been used by the author. The combat actions are extremely detailed, and provide a day-by-day account.

05924A, $65 , $42.50 , Paperback, 518 pages

The Forgotten Battle of the Kursk Salient 7th Guards Army’s Stand Against Army Detachment Kempf’

Red Wind over the Balkans The Soviet offensive south of the Danube, September-October 1944 Kaloyan Matev This book describes two Soviet offensive operations carried out during September and October 1944. The first was the operation for the occupation of Bulgaria; the second was the Belgrade offensive operation, which was carried out immediately after the Bulgarian operation. Although separate, the two operations were closely linked.

The book describes the operations of both ground and air forces. Special attention is paid to the Soviet tank and mechanized units which participated in both operations, and the book benefits from a detailed set of statistics and analysis which has not been attempted before.

777800, $89.95 , $58.50 , Hardback, 694 pages

The End of the Gallop The Battle for Kharkov February-March 1943

Using the Russian Ministry of Defense’s archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II SS Panzer Corps’ offensive and the culminating clash at Prokhorovka. He lays out the German and Soviet plans for the battle; the forces arrayed for it and the extensive Soviet defenses; and then goes through a meticulous examination of the course of the fighting, as III Panzer Corps suffered initial setbacks in its attempt to link up with the right flank of II SS Panzer Corps, while the Soviet side fought valiantly to prevent this.

Alexei Isaev Based heavily on inaccessible Soviet records, this book presents a lively account of a pivotal battle on the Eastern Front, illustrated with photographs and maps.In the history of war there are not that many battles that changed one side’s strategy over a considerable period of time, becoming not only a material, but also a psychological factor in decision making. A classic example of this is the Battle of Smolensk in 1941, which forced the German leadership to change their strategy for ‘Barbarossa’ and to deploy their troops towards the northern, and eastern flanks of the Soviet-German front.

512578, $59.95 , $38.99 , Hardback, 648 pages

512974, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 160 pages

Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton

III. Germanic SS Panzer-Korps. The History of Himmler’s Favourite SS PanzerKorps, 1943-1945 Volume 1: Creation September 1944 Lennart Westberg Petter Kjellander This photographic volume depicts Himmler’s favorite unit in the Waffen-SS: the III ‘Germanic’ SS Panzerkorps, for it fulfilled Himmler’s longtime political plans of recruiting ‘Germanic’ volunteers for the creation of a greater Germanic Reich in the future. As such, it consisted in part of SS volunteers from western and northern European countries. Although largely forgotten today, this elite SS unit fought on a variety of battlefields ranging from Croatia and Ingermanland’s snow-covered forests near Leningrad to the historic Estonian city of Narva.

982949, $79.95 , $51.99 , Hardback, 280 pages

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Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 The Air War on 22 June 1941 - The Battle for Stalin’s Baltic Region Mikhail Timin Kevin Bridge This unique work is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the condition of the air forces of the Red Army prior to the Nazi invasion of 22 June 1941. Unfortunately, the lack of historiography has enabled some opportunistic authors to publish several works of pseudo-research, in which disreputable attempts have been made to misrepresent the achievements of the air forces of the Red Army, thus the publication of objective research is long overdue; however, it is only in the last few years - with the large-scale declassification of the archives that conducting work of this scale has proved possible.

512561, $79.95 , $51.99 , Hardback, 448 pages

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• WWII EASTERN FRONT • The Battle of Kursk Controversial and Neglected Aspects Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton

Rollback The Red Army’s Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43 Richard W. Harrison Richard W. Harrison

In this book, historian Valeriy Zamulin takes a look at several controversial topics regarding the battle and its run-up. The author starts with a detailed look at the Soviet and Russian historiography on the battle.

Zamulin then discusses of how the southern shoulder of the Kursk bulge was formed; preparations for the battle; and the size and composition of Model’s Ninth Army. He examines such controversial topics as whether or not the II SS Panzer Corps was aware of the pending Soviet counterattack at Prokhorovka, and the effectiveness of the Soviet pre-emptive barrage.

This book covers the period from mid-December 1942 to mid-February 1943, one of the most critical periods of the war on the Eastern Front. It was here that following the encirclement of an entire German army at Stalingrad, the Soviets sought to take advantage of the ruptured Axis front in southern Russia to finish off the Germans’ Italian and Hungarian allies and liberate the economically vital areas of eastern Ukraine. This study is drawn from a number of wartime and postwar articles, published by the General Staff’s directorate for the study of wartime experience.

512370, $69.95 , $45.50 , Hardback, 416 pages

777176, $79.95 , $51.99 , Hardback, 412 pages

The Battle of Kursk The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943 Richard W. Harrison The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events. While the Germans defeats at Moscow and Stalingrad showed that Hitler could not win the war in the East, the outcome of Kursk demonstrated beyond a doubt that he would lose it.

This study was compiled by the Red Army General Staff’s military-historical directorate, and issued as an internal document in 1946-47. The study was published in Russia in 2006, although heavily supplemented by commentary not contained in the original. The present work omits these additions, while supplying its own.

390502, $59.95 , $38.99 , Paperback, 320 pages

Demolishing the Myth The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative

Odessa 1941-44 Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation Nikolai Ovcharenko Stuart Britton After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens’ ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city’s defenders and residents in the summer of 1941, when defending against Romanian attacks. Exploiting the numerous estuaries on the Black Sea coastline, which served as natural defensive lines, under the weight of numerically superior Romanian forces, Odessa’s defenders successively, fell back into the city of Odessa itself. Once the situation became critical, a valiant counterattack in part with naval infantry gained valuable space and time for Odessa.

390144, $37.95 , $24.99 , Hardback, 196 pages

Konev’s Golgotha Operation Typhoon Strikes the Soviet Western Front, October 1941

Examining the battle from primarily the Soviet side, Zamulin reveals the real costs of the Red Army at Kursk.

He examines the decisions that hampered the efforts to contain the Fourth Panzer Army, and the valiant fighting of the Red Army’s soldiers as they sought to slow the German advance, and then crush the II SS Panzer Corps with a heavy counterattack at Prokhorovka. Illustrated with numerous maps and photographs, Zamulin’s book is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the battle of Kursk.

Michael Filippenkov This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket, based on documents found in the Russian, German, and US National Archives. Mikhail Filippenkov describes the events that took place through the simultaneous, comparative analysis of Soviet and German combat reports according to time, and in the manner of reporting from the places of those events as they happened. The author writes about these events with chronological accuracy, not on the level of army headquarters and higher, but exclusively on the level of the combat units down to the division-level.

174355, $59.95 , $38.99 , Paperback, 646 pages

777374, $59.95 , $38.99 , Hardback, 176 pages

Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton

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• WWII EASTERN FRONT • Hitler Versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1941 1942 Barbarossa to Moscow Nik Cornish This third volume of the photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front records the sequence of Red Army offensives that pushed the Wehrmacht back across Russia after the failure of Operation Citadel. Previously unpublished images show the epic scale of the build-up to the Kursk battle and the enormous cost in terms of lives and material of the battle itself. They also show that the military initiative was now firmly in Soviet hands, as the Germans were on the defensive and in retreat. The photographs track the sequence of events on the ground, and they show the equipment and the weapons used by both sides.

The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943 Anthony Tucker-Jones The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. This volume in the Images of War series offers a visual record of the dramatic and bloody conflict that took place there, showing every grim aspect of the fighting. Kharkov became one of the most bitterly contested cities during the war on the Eastern Front, and this book presents a graphic overview of the atrocious conditions the soldiers on both sides had to endure.

827479, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 144 pages

463985, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1942 1943 Stalingrad to Kharkov

Nik Cornish The second year of the Second World War on the Eastern Front was dominated by Stalingrad. But the struggle at Stalingrad was far from the only focus of the fighting during 1942 and 1943. This phase of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union saw dramatic changes of fortune, offensives and counteroffensives on a massive scale, and these events are also illustrated in these rare photographs. These vivid images show the front-line fighting, the troops and the conditions on both sides, but they also document the consequences of war for the civilians under German occupation and the devastation of the Russian towns and cities.

463992, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 144 pages

Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1943 1944 Kursk to Bagration

Nik Cornish The third volume in Nik Cornish’s photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front records in vivid visual detail the sequence of Red Army offensives that pushed the Wehrmacht back across Russia after the failure of Operation Citadel, the German attack at Kursk. Previously unpublished images show the epic scale of the build-up to the Kursk battle and the enormous cost in terms of lives and material of the battle itself. The photographs track the sequence of events on the ground and also show the equipment and weapons used by both sides, the living conditions experienced by the troops, the fight against the Finns in the north, and the devastation the war left in its wake.

The Battle for the Caucasus 1942–1943 Anthony Tucker-Jones Using over 150 wartime photographs Anthony TuckerJones gives the reader a graphic, concise introduction to this remarkable but neglected campaign on the Eastern Front.

Operation Edelweiss was designed to seize the oil fields of Maikop, Baku and Grozny.

As this memorable selection of photographs shows, the Werhmacht came close to success. Their forces advanced almost as far as Grozny, famously raising the Nazi flag over Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in the region, before they were compelled into a hurried withdrawal by the rapid deterioration of the German position elsewhere on the Eastern Front.

894921, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 136 pages

The Battle for Budapest 1944 - 1945 Anthony Tucker-Jones The desperate struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for Budapest in 1944 and 1945 was as lethal and destructive as any of the urban battles fought during the Second World War. The losses of men and equipment sustained by the Germans were so great that they hastened the collapse of Hitler’s regime.Yet what happened in Budapest is less well remembered today than other flash points in the conflict on the Eastern Front.

Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history is a fascinating and graphic introduction to this neglected episode in the closing months of the war.

877320, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

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• WORLD WAR 1• • WWII EASTERN FRONT • German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance Ian Baxter German Army on the Eastern Front – The Advance is a highly illustrated record of the extraordinary feat of arms that saw the Nazi armies drive deep into the vast terrain of the Soviet Union, to the gates of Stalingrad and Moscow.

It traces the campaign from these hopeful beginnings until, on the brink of victory, the defenders and the winter contrived to slow and then halt the advance. It vividly conveys the appalling conditions endured by the invaders. By early 1943 the German advance finally petered out, leaving some 1.5 million dead from the battle of Stalingrad alone. The long and costly retreat was about to begin.

German Army on the Eastern Front - The Retreat 1943 – 1945 Ian Baxter After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army’s front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly.

Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943.

822672, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 144 Pages

822665, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

Fallschirmjager: Elite German Paratroops In World War II Jon Sutherland The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete, then saw bloody conflict as Hitler’s “Fire-fighters” on the Russian Front and later put up fierce resistance in places such as Monte Casino. The revealing images that Jon Sutherland has compiled for us depict these struggles in dramatic detail, ranging from photographs taken en route to Crete of the paratroopers in a JU52 to 20 May 1941, when Plieschen was dropped over Crete.

Tiger I and Tiger II Anthony Tucker-Jones The German Tiger I and Tiger II were the most famous and formidable heavy tanks of the Second World War. In their day, their awesome reputation inspired such apprehension among Allied soldiers that the weaknesses of these brilliant but flawed designs tended to be overlooked. Anthony TuckerJones tells the story of their conception and development and reconsiders their operational history. The Tigers were over-engineered, required raw materials that were in short supply, were time-consuming to manufacture and difficult to recover from the battlefield. Only around 1,300 of the Tiger I and fewer than 500 of the Tiger II were produced.

590300, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 176 pages

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Fighting in Ukraine A Photographer at War David Mitchelhill-Green Although many pictorial books have been published on Germany’s hapless invasion of the Soviet Union, they are typically a collection of soldiers’ snapshots or ‘official’ photographs taken by Propagandakompanien (PK) reporters. This book is different.

It contains an extraordinary personal record of the war captured by a professional photographer, Walter Grimm. The 300 evocative black and white images provide an absorbing insight into the daily life and privations of the ordinary German soldier amid the maelstrom of history’s largest conflict.

848665, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 176 pages

Battle of Kursk 1943 Hans Seidler The greatest tank battle in world history opened during the early hours of 5 July 1943, and its outcome was to decide the eventual outcome of the war on the Eastern Front.

Battle of Kursk 1943, is an illustrated account of this battle of the war on the Eastern Front, when the Germans threw 900,000 men and 2,500 tanks against 1,300,000 soldiers and 3,000 tanks of the Red Army in a battle of attrition. Unlike many pictorial accounts of the war on the Eastern Front, this book draws upon both German and Russian archive material. The images convey the true scale, intensity and horror of the fighting at Kursk.

843936, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

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• WWII EASTERN • • WORLD WAR FRONT 1• Resistance Heroines in Nazi & Russian Occupied Austria Anschluss and After Tim Heath Virginia Wells Here is the remarkable story of Herti Bryan who, as a young child, witnessed the totalitarian nightmare of Hitler’s dream for world domination. Standing up for what she believed to be right, Herti acted courageously to frustrate the occupying Nazis. In addition to Herti’s story, we learn of the experiences of Milly Keller and Hilde Schubert who shared contempt for the Nazi occupiers. In this volume the lives of Herti, Milly and Hilde come together to reveal an astonishing picture of life in occupied Austria. Drawing on unimaginable fortitude, these girls defied domination and fought fearlessly, risking their own lives, to carry out their moral obligation to humanity.

787873, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

Hitler’s Lost State The Fall of Prussia and the Wilhelm Gustloff Tragedy Tim Heath Michela Cocolin Seen as an agricultural utopia within Hitler’s Germany, it is often the view that both East and West Prussia had remained relatively untouched during the Second World War.Yet the violence, prejudice and murder associated with the Nazi regime that brought most of Europe to ruin were widespread throughout Prussia. This book tells the story of Prussia’s rise and fall as a military power, and the attempts by brave civilians as well as military personnel determined to overturn the evil regime they had made an oath to serve.

756107, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

Screams of the Drowning From the Eastern Front to the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

Stalag XXA Torun Enforced March from Poland Stephen Wynn Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for noncommissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland. The camp consisted of fifteen forts, which in September 1939, under the name of Stalag 357, was used to house Polish POWs who were captured after German forces had taken the Polish fort at Westerplatte. British POWs didn’t arrive at the camp until June 1940, and were those captured during the Allied campaign in Norway, the evacuations of the British at Dunkirk, and the men of the 51st (Highland) Division at St. Valery. At its peak, the camp housed more than 10,000 men and was liberated by Russian forces on 1 February 1945.

754462, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 168 pages

Radio Operator on the Eastern Front An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949 Erhard Steiniger Anthony Tucker-Jones Erhard Steiniger joined the Wehrmacht as a radio operator, a role which required his constant presence with troops at the Front, On 22 June 1941, he accompanied his division on the catastrophic first day of Operation Barbarossa. He later witnessed intense clashes during the conquest of the Baltic islands and the battles leading up to Leningrad. He describes the retreat from battles in Estonia, Kurland and East Prussia and his eventual surrender and captivity in Siberia. From the first page to the last, this is a captivating eyewitness account of the horrors of war.

386184, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 320 pages

Stalin’s Armour, 1941–1945 Soviet Tanks at War

Hans Fackler, like many boys his age, was conscripted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front. Hans suffered a grievous injury from a grenade explosion. No longer able to fight, he found himself drugged on morphine and on board the controversial Wilhelm Gustloff, an armed military transport ship, which operated under the guise of transporting civilians. The Gustloff was attacked and sunk by Russian torpedoes. Rescued by a German freighter, Hans recuperated in a military hospital near Erfurt in the Harz, which subsequently fell into the Russian zone. He escaped and undertook the arduous task of walking almost 200 miles back home to Bavaria.

Anthony Tucker-Jones Stalin’s purge of army officers in the late 1930s and disputes about tank tactics meant that Soviet armored forces were in disarray when Hitler invaded in 1941. As a result, during Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht’s 3,200 panzers ran circles round the Red Army’s tank force of almost 20,000 – thousands of Soviet tanks were disabled or destroyed.Yet within two years of this disaster the Red Army’s tank arm had regained its confidence and numbers and was in a position to help turn the tide and liberate the Soviet Union. This is the remarkable story Anthony Tucker-Jones relates in this concise, highly illustrated history of the part played by Soviet armor in the war on the Eastern Front.

385989, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

777935, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

Klaus Willmann Roger Moorhouse

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• WWII EASTERN FRONT • The Wehrmacht in Russia Bob Carruthers History is always written by the victors, but this is the other side of the coin. Here is the German experience of the war in Russia, a powerful study of that titanic conflict as seen through the eyes of and told in the words of the men who fought and died for Hitler. Included in this volume are extensive extracts from post-war debriefings of captured German officers concerning the experience of combat on the ground. Also featured are detailed accounts of the attempts to extricate surrounded German forces from the pockets of Klin,Velikiye Luki, Cherkassy and Kamenets-Podolskiy. Richly illustrated with dozens of photographs and maps.

592366, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 256 pages

Leningrad Under Siege First-hand Accounts of the Ordeal Ales Adamovich Daniil Alexandrovich Granin Leningrad was under siege for almost three years, and the first winter of that siege was one of the coldest on record.

The Russians had been taken by surprise by the Germans’ sudden onslaught in June 1941.

This book tells the story of that long, bitter siege in the words of those who were there. It vividly describes how ordinary Leningraders struggled to stay alive and to defend their beloved city in the most appalling conditions. They were bombed, shelled, starved and frozen. They dug tanktraps and trenches, built shelters and fortifications, fought fires, cleared rubble, tended the wounded and, for as long as they had strength to do so, buried their dead.

760814, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

The Wehrmacht Experience in Russia Bob Carruthers This titanic and thoroughly comprehensive study of the German experience in Russia is the definitive single volume study of Hitler’s war in the east. It incorporates the entire text of The Wehrmacht in Russia written by Emmy Award winning author Bob Carruthers in conjunction with the late Professor John Erickson, author of The Road to Stalingrad and The Road to Berlin. Also featured are dozens of new interviews with the remaining survivors of the war in Russia, encompassing the last testimony of the veterans of the Wehrmacht-Heer and the Luftwaffe. These unique primary sources are complemented by dozens of rare photographs and long forgotten material.

592281, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 592 pages

Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt. Volume 1 From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle Hans Heinz Rehfeldt Marc Rikmenspoel Hans Rehfeldt volunteered for the Panzer Arm but was trained on the heavy mortar.

He was captured by US Forces and held as POW for one month in a camp at Waschow before internment in Holstein from where he was released. In December 1945 he began studying veterinary medicine: his future career. This astonishing account of a man who kept bouncing back from near death is a testament to the author’s determination and sheer strength of spirit.

383619, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 352 pages

Winter Warfare on the Russian Front

Red Road From Stalingrad Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman

Bob Carruthers This fascinating collection of primary source accounts focuses on the combat actions of the Wehrmacht in the bitter cold of the Russian and Arctic winters.

The material is drawn from a variety of wartime sources and encompasses fascinating writings concerning the tactical, operational and strategic aspects of winter warfare. Compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this absorbing assembly of primary source intelligence reports encompasses rare material originally drawn from German original sources to provide the reader with a unique insight into surviving and fighting in the freezing conditions of winter.

Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk and on the banks of the Dnieper. His vivid inside view of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives a rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Red Army’s soldiers. In his own words he describes what combat was like on the ground, face to face with a skilled, deadly and increasingly desperate enemy. All the terrifying aspects of a Soviet soldier’s experience during the Great Patriotic War are brought dramatically to life in Mansur Abdulin’s memoirs.

59233P, $14.95 , $9.99 , Paperback, 208 pages

760708, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 208 pages

Mansur Abdulin Artem Drabkin

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• WWII EASTERN FRONT • The German Army on the Eastern Front An Inner View of the Ostheer’s Experiences of War Jeff Rutherford Adrian Wettstein The documents have previously been unpublished or have never been translated into English, and they offer a fascinating inside view of the army’s actions and attitudes. Combat is covered, and complicity in Hitlers war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. There are sections on the conduct of the war in the rear areas logistics, medical, judicial and the armys tactics, motivation and leadership. The entire text is informed by the latest research into the reality of the conflict as it was perceived and understood by those who took part.

861749, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 288 pages

The Price of Victory The Red Army’s Casualties in the Great Patriotic War Boris Kavalerchik Harold Orenstein The Red Army’s casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended the statistics have been a source of bitter controversy, of claim and counterclaim, as each generation of historians has struggled to uncover the truth.

This contentious issue is the subject of this absorbing book.

Using recently declassified information from the Russian archives, the authors focus in forensic detail on the way the figures were recorded and compiled and seek to explain why, so many years after the war, the full truth about the subject is still far from our reach.

899643, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 208 pages

Obedient Unto Death A Panzer-Grenadier of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler Reports Werner Kindler Obedient Unto Death is one of the most dramatic firsthand accounts to come out of the Second World War. It provides is an unparalleled insight into the reality of close combat on the Eastern Front, where infantrymen attacked tanks with hand grenades and limpet mines, as well as the creation and evolution of armored forces during the Second World War. 765550, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 208 pages

Panzers on the Vistula Retreat and Rout in East Prussia 1945 Hans Schäufler Tony Le Tissier Hans Schäufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945. Then, as an infantryman, he took part in the doomed defense of Danzig and made a daring escape across the Baltic in a small boat. This is his story, and it is the story of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the chaos and tragedy of the German retreat. His eyewitness account is one of the most revealing records we have of the experience of the collapse of the Third Reich in the east.

734310, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 160 pages

With Paulus at Stalingrad Wilhelm Adam Tony Le Tissier Colonel Wilhelm Adam, senior ADC to General Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, wrote a compelling and controversial memoir describing the German defeat, his time as a prisoner of war with Paulus, and his conversion to communism. Now, for the first time, his German text has been translated into English. His account gives an intimate insight into events at the 6th Army headquarters during the advance to Stalingrad and the protracted and devastating battle for possession of the city.

He recalls the sharp personality clashes among the senior commanders and records the ordeal of the German troops trapped in the encirclement.

898981, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 304 pages

Hitler’s Arctic War The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945 Chris Mann Christer Jörgensen The German Army’s first campaign in the far north was a great success: between April and June 1940 German forces totaling less than 20,000 men seized Norway, a state of three million people, for minimal losses. Hitler’s Arctic War is a study of the campaign waged by the Germans on the northern periphery of Europe between 1940 and 1945. As Hitler’s Arctic War makes clear, the emphasis was on small-unit actions, with soldiers carrying everything they needed – food, ammunition and medical supplies – on their backs. The terrain placed limitations on the use of tanks and heavy artillery, while lack of airfields restricted the employment of aircraft.

884564, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 224 pages

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• WORLD WAR II • The Waffen-SS in Normandy. June 1944 The Caen Sector Yves Buffetaut For many, the Waffen-SS soldier represents the archetype of the combatant, if not the warrior: well-armed, well-trained, possessing intelligence in combat, imbued with political and ideological fanaticism.

This volume in the Casemate Illustrated series examines the Waffen-SS in Normandy during the fierce fighting of June 1944, when they struggled to hold back the Allied advance on Caen, though the picture was by no means one-sided. Extensively illustrated with photographs, tank profiles, maps, and accompanied by biographies of key personnel and explanatory text boxes, this volume gives a clear and accessible account of events, challenging some popular perceptions along the way.

006055, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

The Waffen-SS in Normandy. July 1944 Operations Goodwood and Cobra Yves Buffetaut One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then deploy in a cramped bridgehead until the American breakthrough of late July 1944. The Waffen-SS were no better off than the Heer units and German high command never quite got on top of operations, as the divisions were thrown into the melee one by one.

This Casemate Illustrated looks at the divisions one by one throughout Operations Goodwood and Cobra which saw large tank battles and the collapse of the German front in Normandy.

006413, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Operation Totalize Tim Saunders By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of the German armor having been stripped away for the Mortain Counter-Attack, hopes ran high that the Corps, reinforced with British tanks, the 51st Highland and the Polish Armoured Divisions, would repeat the success of their predecessors in the Battle of Amiens.

The Dunkirk Perimeter and Evacuation 1940 France and Flanders Campaign

Operation Totalize is renowned for the death of SS panzer Ace Michael Wittmann at the hands of Trooper Joe Ekins.

Jerry Murland With over 200 black and white photographs and fourteen maps, this book looks in some detail at the units deployed around Dunkirk and Nieuport and their often desperate actions to prevent the inevitable advance of German forces opposing them. The evacuation of the BEF from the beaches east of Dunkirk is covered in detail from the perspective of the Royal Navy and from the standpoint of the soldier on the beaches. Unusual for a Battleground Europe publication is the inclusion of a walk and drive around Ramsgate and Dover, covering the English end of the evacuation.

741264, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 224 pages

852235, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Hill 112 The Battle of the Odon Tim Saunders Over a month after the D-Day landings the Allies were still confined to the Normandy peninsula. The German line was anchored by the medieval town of Caen, which the British were supposed to have occupied on D-Day. The key to capturing Caen was Hill 112.

Under pressure from Churchill, Montgomery launched a major offensive. The British found themselves facing no less than four SS divisions, the 1st, 2nd, 9th and 10th and the Tigers of the 502nd SS Heavy Panzer Regiment. An all-out Allied effort, including heavy bombers and naval bombardment, was required to secure the final victory.

527377, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

Das Reich Attack by Three British Armoured Divisions July 1944 Ian Daglish The regiments of the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” were, along with the “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler,” the senior units of the Waffen-SS. While not as closely linked to atrocities as some other branches of the SS, they were a hard lot, and spent much of the war on the Eastern Front, where the fighting was especially merciless. Ordered to proceed to Normandy to contain the Allied landings, the division’s journey turned into a nightmare of ambushes and reprisals. The complete story of the SS juggernaut across France is covered here in all the detail associated with the Battleground Europe series.

970471, $16.95 , $11.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

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• WORLD WAR II • 12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy Tim Saunders Richard Hone

Beating the Nazi Invader Hitler’s Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940

Raised in 1943 with seventeenyear-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and ‘Tunisgrad’, the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as the most effective German division fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of offices and NCOs provided by Hitler’s bodyguard division, the elite Leibstandarte, with the aim of producing a division of ‘equal value’ to fight alongside them in I SS Panzer Corps.

Written with the advantage of new materials from archives in the former Eastern Bloc, this book is no whitewash of a Waffen SS division and it does not shy away from confronting unpalatable facts or controversies.

Neil R Storey Beating the Nazi Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and ‘Fifth Columnist’ saboteurs in Britain, and the extensive top secret countermeasures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940. The author’s research describes the Nazi Party organization in Britain and reveals the existence of the Gestapo headquarters in central London. The reader gains vivid insights into Nazi agents and terrorist cells, the Special Branch and MI5 teams who hunted them and investigated murders believed to have been committed by Third Reich agents on British soil.

757364, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 320 pages

772947, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 310 pages

Graham A Thomas During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has been treated as a sideshow. Graham Thomas’s timely and graphic account underlines the importance of this aspect of the Allied campaign and offers a fascinating insight into a complex combined-arms operation late in the Second World War.

Anton Rippon In January 1940, life in wartime Britain was simply an inconvenient version of life in peacetime. Even the hitherto strictly enforced blackout regulations were relaxed when it became obvious that, because of them, people were being killed in road accidents. In September the Germans had launched what was to be an eight-month bombing campaign that targeted every one of Britain’s major cities. By the end of 1940, German air raids had killed 15,000 British civilians. The so-called Phoney War had ended in May, when Hitler attacked the Low Countries.

After Dunkirk, with the Luftwaffe poised just across the English Channel, the Second World War was now anything but phoney.

Attack on the Scheldt The Struggle for Antwerp 1944

781482, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 224 pages

From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume I IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944 Douglas E. Nash Sr. The histories of the first three SS corps are well known.

Overlooked in this pantheon is another SS corps that never fought in the west or in Berlin but one that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war – the IV SS-Panzerkorps, consisting of both the 3. and 5. SS-Panzer Divisions (Totenkopf and Wiking, respectively) was born in battle and spent the last ten months of the war in combat, figuring prominently in the battles of Warsaw, the attempted Relief of Budapest, Operation Spring Awakening, the defense of Vienna, and the withdrawal into Austria where it finally surrendered to U.S. forces in May 1945.

Britain 1940 The Decisive Year on the Home Front

767707, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

Battle for the Escaut 1940 The France and Flanders Campaign

Jerry Murland On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their expected stay was considerably shorter than planned as the German Army Group A pushed its way through the Ardennes and crossed the Meuse at Sedan, scattering the French before them. Little did the men of the BEF realize that the orders to retire would result in their evacuation from Dunkirk and other channel ports.

852617, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 176 pages

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• WORLD WAR II • The Desert Air War 1940–1943

Rommel in North Africa Quest for the Nile

Anthony Tucker-Jones The war in air over North Africa and the Mediterranean during the Second World War has long been overshadowed by the battle on the ground.

Between 1940 and 1943 Italy’s Regia Aeronautica and then Germany’s Luftwaffe waged a concerted aerial campaign against the British, yet apart from the bitter fight for Malta, this aspect of the conflict is rarely given the attention it deserves. Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a fascinating introduction to it. The wide range of Italian, British, German and American aircraft involved, the air and ground crews from all sides, and the conditions in which they operated and fought are all shown in this varied selection of photographs.

David Mitchelhill-Green Erwin Rommel is the arguably the most well-known German general of the Second World War. Revered by his troops and applauded by his enemies, the so-called Desert Fox achieved legendary status for his daring exploits and bold maneuvers during the North African campaign. In this book, richly illustrated with over 400 images, the author examines the privations and challenges Rommel faced in leading his coalition force. We note Rommel’s readiness to take advantage of his enemy’s weakness and study his extraordinary instinct for waging mobile warfare. We consider his disregard for the decisive factor of supply and view his army’s reliance on captured equipment.

711083, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

892200, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 232 pages

The Italian Army in North Africa A Poor Fighting Force or Doomed by Circumstance

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945. Volume 3 Tunisia and the End in Africa, November 19421943

Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr. When most people think of the Italian Army in North Africa during the Second World War, they tend to believe that the average Italian soldier offered little resistance to the Allies before surrendering. The reality is not so simple. While the Italian soldier’s commitment to the war was not as great as that of the German soldier, many Italians fought bravely. The Italian Littorio and Ariete Divisions earned Allied admiration at Tobruk, Gazala, and EI Alamein. The Italian Army played a significant role as part of the German Afrika Korps and made up a large portion of the Axis combat power in North Africa during 1941 and 1942.

The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria for several days.

It then considers the efforts made to reach northern Tunisia before the Germans and Italians could get there to forestall the possibility of an attack from the west on the rear of the Afrika Korps forces. Also described are the arrivals over the front of American pilots and crew, the much-feared Focke-Wulf FW 190

556740, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 200 pages

690000, $79.95 , $51.99 , Hardback, 736 pages

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945.

Volume 2 North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943 Giovanni Massimello Christopher Shores Volume I of this series dealt with the 19 months of the air war over the Western Desert of North Africa. This volume picks up as the 8th Army was forced back midway between the border of Libya and the frontier with Egypt. It covers the lull prior to the defeat of the 8th Army in June 1942 and the loss of the important port and fortress of Tobruk.

The costly efforts of the Allied air forces to protect the retreating British and Commonwealth troops and prevent this turning into a rout is examined in depth.

166127, $95 , $61.99 , Hardback, 738 pages

Giovanni Massimello Christopher Shores

Secret Flotillas Vol II Clandestine Sea Operations in the Western Mediterranean, North African & the Adriatic 1940-1944

Brook Richards This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during World War II. The account has been made possible through Sir Brooks’ access to closed government archives, combined with his own wartime experiences and the recollections of many of those involved. In addition to operations off French North Africa, this second volume also includes descriptions of operations in the Adriatic around Italy. More than half of the 390 operations in Italian and adjacent waters were carried out

by Italian vessels with Italian crews.

593035, $29.99 , $19.50 , Paperback, 484 pages

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• WORLD WAR II • Corregidor Siege and Liberation, 1941–1945 John Grehan Alexander Nicoll Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand and Burma had been invaded. But one tiny island fortress garrisoned by a few thousand hungry and exhausted men, refused to be beaten. That island fortress was Corregidor. The Japanese 14th Army threw everything it had at Corregidor, the US troops endured the terrible onslaught. At their head was General Douglas MacArthur until ordered to evacuate to Australia to avoid such a senior officer being captured by the enemy. Bur with his departure, the rest of the garrison knew that they would have to fight on until the bitter end, whatever form that might take.

799753, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 216 pages

American Armor in the Pacific Mike Guardia This latest in the Casemate Illustrated series explores American armor during the Pacific Campaign of WWII, from 1942-45. During this period there were over twenty major tank battles and operations where tanks provided heavy support to infantry units. These operations include the battle of Tarawa and the Bougainville Campaign. Relying heavily on first-person accounts, the strategies and tactics of the opposing forces are discussed.

This book also looks at the Pacific theater, and how American armor was employed with great success in that theater of war.

008189, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Wingate’s Men The Chindit Operations: Special Forces in Burma Colin Higgs In this wonderful collection of photographs, drawn in large part from one man’s photograph albums, we see the harsh conditions in which the Chindits had to operate, and the terrible physical state of many of the men who survived the jungles, the dry plains, and the ferocious Japanese enemy.

746672, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 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. It is the story of how the two surviving tanks and their crews expanded a perilously thin beachhead, and cleared the way for critical reinforcements to come ashore. But most of all it is a story of how a few unsung Marines helped turn near disaster into epic victory.

003030, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 264 pages

Sino-Japanese Air War 1937-1945 The Longest Struggle Hakan Gustavsson The Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945 was the longest struggle of the Second World War. It started with the Japanese aggression in July 1937 and soon accelerated into a full-scale war with the Chinese Kuomintang government. Not getting much help from the outside world, the Kuomintang government, led by Chiang Kai-shek, soon closed a un-holy treaty with the Soviet Union to receive armament. This difficult relation with the Soviet Union lasted until 1941, when the USA became the main supplier of armament to China. Everything was to change with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, but the struggle was to continue until the end of the war in August 1945.

555361, $40 , $26.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

The Forgotten Army A Burma Soldier’s Story in Letters, Photographs and Sketches James Fenton In 1943-45, while the European War against Hitler dominated public interest in Britain, in the Far East a struggle of monumental importance, pushing men to the very limits of endurance, raged on in the sweltering jungles of Burma.

This was the struggle of the so-called ‘Forgotten Army’, who valiantly repelled the invading Japanese forces at the gates of India. James Fenton served as a gunner and then bombardier with the Royal Artillery in Burma from 1944-45. This is a personal account of war in one of the most physically demanding habitats in the world. It is a testament to the resourcefulness, engendered by humor, camaraderie and contact with home.

550472, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

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• WORLD WAR II • How to Kill a Panther Tank Unpublished Scientific Reports from the Second World War

How the RAF and USAAF Beat the Luftwaffe Ken Delve This groundbreaking study looks at the main campaigns in which the RAF – and later the Allies – faced the Luftwaffe. Ken Delve argues that by the latter part of 1942 the Luftwaffe was no longer a decisive strategic or even tactical weapon.

Craig Moore Using only original official period documents from the Second World War this book tries to provide the reader with the same information on the Panzer V Panther tank that was available to British and Commonwealth senior officers and tank crews during the war. As soon as intelligence reports confirmed the existence of the Panther tank the hunt was on to find reliable information on how to knock out this new German tank. Most people believe that the only way to stop a Panther was to penetrate its armor with an armor piercing A.P. round. Luckily the British 17 pdr anti-tank gun could do that but the British were also looking how to knock them out by using other weapons.

The Luftwaffe was remarkably resilient, but it was on a continual slide to ultimate destruction. Its demise is deconstructed according to defective strategic planning from the inception of the Luftwaffe; its failure to provide decisive results over Britain in 1940 and over the Mediterranean and Desert in 1941–1942; and its failure to defend the Reich and the occupied countries against the RAF and, later, combined Allied bomber offensive.

557969, $35 , $22.99 , Paperback, 144 pages

383824, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

US Airborne Tanks, 1939–1945 Charles C Roberts, Jr It was, inevitably, the start of the Second World War which accelerated efforts to produce an airborne tank and the means of delivery. The use of conventional powered aircraft to carry the tanks, limited their use to existing airfields which negated their employment with airborne troops landing in the open countryside. Another method of delivery had to be found, and this took the form of the glider, which could be landed in a field behind enemy lines. The combination of light tank and glider made the aim of airborne forces being supported by armor a realistic proposition – and as a result, the 28th Airborne Tank Battalion was born.

785022, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 208 pages

A History of the Small Arms made by the Sterling Armament Company Excellence in Adversity James Edmiston Peter Laidler

Dresden and the Heavy Bombers An RAF Navigator’s Perspective Frank Musgrove This is the first hand account of a young man’s entry into World War II in 1941, culminating in his role in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by RAF Bomber Command. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command, instead Musgrove takes the form of a basic narrative in his memoir, paying particular attention to fear, morale and, as the author explains, the myth of leadership felt by those involved first hand. Several raids are described in detail and illustrate the variety of experiences, problems and dangers involved in such hazardous warfare.

791009, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

U-Boats in New England Submarine Patrols, Survivors and Saboteurs 1942-45

An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until Sterling was purchase by British Aerospace in 1989 and closed. All prototypes, military Marks, commercial and licensed production models of the Sterling are described, including the Canadian C1 SMG and the Indian 1A Carbine. Contains notes on manufacturing methods and procedures as used at Sterling, ROF Fazakerley, Canadian Arsenals Limited and the Indian Small Arms Factory, Kanpur (Cawnpore), plus extensive notes on inter-model interchangeability, serial number ranges, quantities produced, client-country purchases of the various Sterling Marks, and accessories.

Eric Wiberg Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable. Fifteen percent of these boats were sunk by Allied counter-attacks, five surrendered in the region, and three were sunk off New England—Block Island, Massachusetts Bay, and off Nantucket. These have proven appealing to divers, with a result that at least three German naval officers or ratings are buried in New England, one having killed himself in the Boston jail cell.

773302, $60 , $39.50 , Hardback, 336 pages

557204, $55 , $35.99 , Hardback, 416 pages

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• WORLD WAR II • Britain’s Airborne Forces of WWII Uniforms and Equipment Mark Magreehan The Second World War saw huge advancements in military tactics and technology occurring at an unprecedented pace. One such development was the employment of forces able to deploy at short notice by parachute across the globe, utilizing the opportunities created by the advancements in aeronautical technology.

These forces were created to deliver an in-depth shock effect, and few have attracted more attention than Britain’s famed Parachute Regiment. This book provides a comprehensive pictorial display of Britain’s airborne forces which will prove to be a ‘must have’ tool for military history enthusiasts, airborne collectors, re-enactors and modelers.

Hitler and His Women Phil Carradice Without the support of women, their help and guidance, Hitler might never have risen to power. In the wild postwar days the Society women of Munich gave him shelter and encouragement. They gave him space and time to climb the slippery political ladder to the top. This book, Hitler and His Women, looks at all of the women in Hitler’s life, his lovers and his passing flings. From his mother and sisters to a teenage infatuation with a girl he never actually met, from actresses like Zara Leander to English aristocrat Unity Mitford, it examines the relationships and how they affected the course of history.

The findings may well astound you.

779540, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

779465, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 168 pages

Stalag 383 Bavaria A History of the Camp, the Escapes and the Liberation Stephen Wynn Stalag 383 was somewhat unique as a Second World War prisoner of war camp. It began life in 1938 as a training ground for the German Army.

At the outbreak of war it was commandeered by the German authorities for use as a prisoner of war camp for Allied non-commissioned officers, and given the name Oflag lllC. It was renamed Stalag 383 in November 1942. Stalag 383 had somewhat of a holiday camp feel to it for many who found themselves prisoners there. There were numerous clubs formed by different regiments, or men from the same town or county. These clubs catered for interests such as education, sports, theatrical productions and debates, to name but a few.

Behind Enemy Lines with the SOE Major Ernest Barker BEM Michael Kelly With his special forces training completed, Sergeant Roland Barker was allocated to Operation Arundel as its radio operator. Led by Major Bill Smallwood, he was parachuted into the Dolomites in 1944.

The team’s brief was to cause havoc in the area around the Italian border and to infiltrate into Austria. Despite their best efforts, both Smallwood and Barker were subsequently captured by pursuing German troops. Barker provides a vivid account of being ‘interrogated’ by the SS and Gestapo and despite the threats and the terrible conditions, the true nature of their mission was never revealed to the enemy.

779748, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

757241, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

Pioneers of Irregular Warfare Secrets of the Military Intelligence Research Department of the Second World War Malcolm Atkin Covert operations and ingenious weapons for irregular warfare were developed rapidly by the British during the Second World War, and the story of the most famous organizations involved like SOE and the SAS is now well known, but Military Intelligence (Research), the smallest but one of the most influential of these units is relatively unknown. Malcolm Atkin’s account describes their role at the heart of the War Office in trying to develop a ‘respectable’ arm of irregular warfare and their innovations ranging from the early Commandos, sticky bombs, limpet mines, booby traps, and even helicopters.

Infantry Warfare, 1939–1945 Simon Forty Jonathan Forty The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield.You may be able to crush an opponent with armor or artillery, but there’s only one way to take and hold ground and that’s with riflemen – the ‘poor bloody infantry’. And it is the infantrymen of the Second World War – from all sides, Allied and Axis – who are the subject of this highly illustrated history. It uses over 400 wartime photographs plus contemporary documents and other illustrations to show the developments in equipment, training and tactical techniques and to give an insight into the experience of the infantry soldier during the conflict.

776822, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

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• FRENCH LANGUAGE WWII • Histoire des Escadres de l’armée de l’air Georges Paloque FRENCH TEXT Born at the same time as the ‘Armée de L’air’ itself, in the early 1930s, the squadrons represent the evolution and development of French aerial forces over the decades. Using detailed descriptions and images, each squadron, whether in still in existence or not, is described in detail, not only its history but its insignias, equipment, planes, etc.

484837, $56 , $36.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

Histoire des Escadres De L’Armee De L’Air. Volume 2 Escadres et Unités de Bombardement et de Transport de 1945 à nos Jours (inclus GLAM, B-26 et C-119 en Indochine) Gérard Palloque FRENCH TEXT Although less famous than the fighter units, the bomber and transport units, together with the training units, make up just as important a section of the Armée de l’Air. The various units (squadrons, groups and flights) are reviewed in this volume in chronological order, showing a variety of bomber types, transport, liaison and training aircraft used by French military aviation from 1945 to the present day, from the unavoidable Mirage IVs of the Strategic Air Forces and their Boeing C-135 tankers to the official Airbus transports.

485247, $35 , $22.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

France 1940: Les Panzers Jean-Yves Mary

Le Panzers face au Débarquement 6-8 Juin 1944 Georges Bernage

FRENCH TEXT After the success of Jean-Yves Mary’s previous works, in particular Les Corridor des Panzers and Zur Küste, it was quite clear that there was still a huge demand for similar highquality, detailed books on tanks and their important role in World War II. This first volume contains many fantastic color photographs of the German tanks, their units and their leaders, along with a detailed history of their engagement. Any avid modeler, keen tank enthusiast or general historian will find this an invaluable resource.

FRENCH TEXT In this important new work on Normandy, Georges Bernage offers a close examination of the decisive moments between 5 and 8 June, 1944, when the Panzers arrived on the front line. He details their units and their very first engagements on the battlefield, using remarkable original photographs. This highly detailed album adds up to an invaluable resource for the avid modeler, keen tank enthusiast and general historian alike.

483199, $42 , $27.50 , Hardback, 80 pages

483175, $66 , $42.99 , Hardback, 160 pages

Paras US au combat Easy Company, 2/506th PIR Matthieu Longue FRENCH TEXT Matthew Longue offers us a complete story and detailed analysis of the course to battle the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne, and the main feats of arms to the world famous Easy Company “Band of Brothers,” with the support of veterans and other specialists. In the company of paratroopers, the reader will follow closely, their training before ending up in the heart of the fighting in Normandy, Holland, the Ardennes and Alsace.

Tiger-Abteilung 503 La schwere Panzerabteilung 503 du front de l’Est à la Normandie Richard Freiherr von Rosen Dr. Franz-Wilhelm Lochmann FRENCH TEXT Dr. Franz-Wilhelm offers a well-researched history of this famous unit that was established on 4 May 1942, made famous not only by its efforts in the East but also in Normandy. More than 940 photographs and original documents, along with color profiles are included in this highly detailed work.

483243, $131 , $85.50 , Hardback, 432 pages

484295, $62 , $40.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

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• FRENCH LANGUAGE WWII • Objectif Cherbourg 22-30 juin 1944

Objectif Falaise 14-16 août 1944

Georges Bernage

Georges Bernage

FRENCH TEXT

FRENCH TEXT

After the failure of Cotentin on June 18, three American divisions returned northward towards Festung Cherbourg, where the Germans, isolated in the peninsula, were in retreat.

But this fortress is mainly oriented towards the sea. The final battle would take place from June 22 – 30, step by step, leading to the surrender of general Von Schlieben on the 26th. However, the fighting will be completed four days later, in the Hague.

Georges Bernage focuses on the Canadian effort from August 14-16, 1944 and their attempt to break the lines of the Hitlerjugend Division to the south of Caen through Operation Tractable. Despite the Canadian’s determination, the German’s put forth a bitter resistance, even with Wittmann’s death, the Tiger ace.

483120, $42 , $27.50 , Hardback, 80 pages

483458, $43 , $27.99 , Hardback, 80 pages

Objectif La Haye-duPuits 3-9 Juillet 1944

Objectif Saint-Lô 7 juin-18 juillet 1944 Georges Bernage

Georges Bernage FRENCH TEXT FRENCH TEXT The extreme difficulty of the battles in the Cotentin marshes has already been discussed in Operation Cobra, during which Mont Castre represented a primary obstacle. Here Heimdal presents La Haye-du-Puits, the final hurdle to achieve in order to prepare the departure base necessary for the ultimate breach. Highly illustrated with numerous color photos, this work offers a rich description of the terrain and equipment used on the battlefield.

Objectif Saint-Lô details “Hedgerow Hell”—the area from Omaha Beach to SaintLô—through the eyes of Lieutenant Allsup of the 29th and Edwin Schmieger, a German paratrooper. Through these first-hand accounts we are taken through this blood-filled battle all the way to Saint-Lô.

482963, $78 , $50.99 , Hardback, 160 pages

483212, $43 , $27.99 , Hardback, 80 pages

Opération Dynamo Dunkerque 1940 - 350 000 soldats britanniques et français sont évacués vers l’Angleterre

Opération Cobra La percée Américaine en Normandie (2-22 juillet 1944)

Jean-Charles Stasi

FRENCH TEXT

FRENCH TEXT Four years before the Allied landing in Normandy, the French coast was the scene of another major episode of the Second World War. This is Operation Dynamo, much less well known than D-Day. Between 27 May and June 4, nearly 350,000 British and French soldiers were evacuated from the Dunkirk pocket by a heterogeneous fleet of 850 boats.

Nearly 80 years later, Jean-Charles Stasi publishes this major history of one of the most pivotal actions of WWII.

Georges Bernage

Well known author George Bernage presents the difficult and challenging battles lead by the US Army south of the Cotentin Peninsula, from July 2 to July 15, 1944. Forced to fight in the marshes, and suffering initial losses during their confrontation of the determined Germans, Bernage describes the resulting preparation of Operation Cobra which resulted in the carpet bombing of July 25 and 26, 1944.

482864, $66 , $42.99 , Hardback, 160 pages

484738, $33 , $21.50 , Hardback, 96 pages

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• FRENCH LANGUAGE WWII • 2E Db Dans La Liberation De Paris.

Tome 1 Alain Eymard Laurent Fournier FRENCH TEXT

2E Db Dans La Liberation De Paris.

Tome 2 Alain Eymard Laurent Fournier FRENCH TEXT

The second volume describes all the engagements on the 25th (the Tuileries, the Luxembourg Gardens and Palace, the Chamber of Deputies, etc.), the surrender, the fighting in Neuilly, the 26 August parade, down the Champs-Elysées and the service in Notre-Dame, but also the fighting in the northern suburbs (Dugny, Le Bourget in particular, etc.), the troops resting before leaving for Eastern France, etc.

This two-volume work is the fruit of twenty years’ research, looking for photographic landmarks in Paris and its environs, sifting through archives, reading period regimental logs and the memoirs of Resistance members. The first volume deals with that heroic week in Paris, the bloody clashes in the southern suburbs, the “Leclercs’” entering the capital on the evening of the 24th and their first fights the following day.

239270, $65 , $42.50 , Hardback, 192 pages

50139C, $65 , $42.50 , Hardback, 192 pages

The 45th U.S. Infantry Division Stéphane Lavit

La 29e Division Americaine en Normandie Joseph Balkoski

FRENCH TEXT Through hundreds of vintage photographs, the journey of this American Division, which landed in Provence in August 1944 after a long campaign in Italy, leads us to the heart of Germany where the unit was the first to enter the Dachau Concentration Camp. They were previously released part of the South France, then traveled up the Rhone Valley to Vosges. The 45th Division was covered with honors in very heavy fighting.

504573, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 100 pages

FRENCH TEXT The 29th U.S. Infantry Division is one of three large units selected for the first wave of the Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944. Drawn from research compiled from veterans’ testimonies, notebooks, and daily journals, the author recounts this epic history from the terrible storming of Omaha beach, to the Battles of St Lô and Vire, delivered against a determined adversary, while taking advantage of the defensive character of the Normandy farmland.

502920, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 340 pages

1940 Les Troupes Coloniales Dans la Campagne de France Paul Gaujac FRENCH TEXT This book takes up the accounts already given in a book entitled Memorial de l’Empire - a la Gloire des Troupes Coloniales (Memorial of the Empire - to the Glory of the Colonial troops).

Remaining in relative obscurity, at this time the work did not draw attention to the Colonial Troops’ and Senegalese Tirailleurs’ exploits during the Phoney War and the French Campaigns, covering from September 1939 to June 1940; this book finally provides the information to fill in this important history.

501565, $42.50 , $27.99 , Hardback, 128 pages

Les Curtiss H-75 Au Combat Le Groupe de Chasse 1/5 dans la Campagne de France Olivier Lapray FRENCH TEXT This book tells the story of the two squadrons 1/5 and 2/5, which made up the Groupe de Chasse 1/5 during the Campaign for France. A large part has been devoted to the accounts of the pilots and mechanics, and what they lived through together.

The Groupe was credited with one hundred and eleven probable and confirmed kills by the Armee de l’Air which used a different tally system from both the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe, one which often better represented what really happened.

501572, $49.95 , $32.50 , Hardback, 144 pages

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• VIETNAM & KOREA • Korean War: Allied Surge Pyongyang Falls, UN Sweep to the Yalu, October 1950 Gerry van Tonder Cold War crescendo: in the author’s first three volumes in a series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean forces cross the 38th Parallel, rolling back US and South Korean forces into a small corner of the Korean peninsula.

Months later, commander of the United Nations Command (UNC) in Korea, General Douglas MacArthur, launches a daring counteroffensive invasion at Inchon, enveloping North Korea. Despite a warning from Beijing that it will intervene if US forces cross the 38th, MacArthur uses the UN’s conditional authorization to land elements of the US X Corps at Wonsan and Riwon in North Korea.

756923, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 136 pages

A Conscript In Korea Neville Williams This remarkable story begins with as a young National Serviceman in 1951, the author walked through the gates at the Welch Brigade Training Centre, Brecon, and ends when he walked back into Civvy Street in 1953. Between these dates he went through many life-changing experiences, in particular the twelve months he spent with the 1st Battle Welch Regiment in Korea.

As a lance corporal infantry signaler, the author was involved at all levels of operational and company activity and he gives the reader a real insight into the events and circumstances of war and the thoughts of a young man caught up in a desperate and dangerous conflict.

766625, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 208 pages

Armoured Warfare in the Korean War Anthony Tucker-Jones During the Korean War of 1950-53 both sides deployed large numbers of armored fighting vehicles. Korea, with its rugged mountains, narrow passes, steep valleys and waterlogged fields was not ideal tank country so the armor mainly supported the infantry and rarely engaged in battles of maneuver.Yet the wide variety of armor supporting UN and North Korean forces played a vital if unorthodox role. For this fascinating book over 180 contemporary photographs have been selected to show Soviet-built T-34/85s and Su-76s, American M4 Shermans, M26 Pershings and M46 Pattons, and British Cromwells and Centurions in action in one of the defining conflicts of the Cold War. 845800, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

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Vietnam War Portraits The Faces and Voices Thomas Sanders John Rowan The surreal imagery of Thomas Sanders’ vivid portraits encourages the viewer to take a closer look at those who experienced the war, giving them a chance to read the haunting, inspirational, and sometimes comical stories of the individuals of the Vietnam War. Some of the portraits hold objects that relate to their role or experience during their time in the service. The objects tell a deeper story of a dark and confusing war: the common cigarette pack smoked by the vets while in the jungle; a homemade grenade made by the northern Vietnamese; and a “order to report” document – a piece of paper that changed many a life.

00703A, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

Grunt Slang in Vietnam Words of the War Gordon L. Rottman The slang, the unique vocabulary of the soldiers and Marines serving in Vietnam was a mishmash of words and phrases reaching back to the Korean War, World War II, and even earlier. At the same time it used words and phrases reflecting the country’s changing protest culture at home, ideological and poetical doctrine, ethical and cultural conflicts, and racialism and the drug culture. The slanguage in Vietnam was made even more complex by the Pidgin Vietnamese-English used by Americans and Vietnamese alike.

American culture and society were changing rapidly and drastically at home and this bled into Vietnam.

008042, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

Bait The Battle of Kham Duc James McLeroy Gregory Sanders The strategic potential of the three-day attack of two NVA regiments on Kham Duc, a remote and isolated Army Special Forces camp, on the eve of the first Paris peace talks in May 1968, was so significant that former President Lyndon Johnson included it in his memoirs. This gripping, original, eyewitness narrative and thoroughly researched analysis of a widely misinterpreted battle at the height of the Vietnam War radically contradicts all the other published accounts of it. In addition to the tactical details of the combat narrative, the authors consider the grand strategies and political contexts of the U.S. and North Vietnamese leaders.

008127, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 272 pages

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• VIETNAM & KOREA • A Shau Valor American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963–1971 Col. Thomas R Yarborough 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. Beginning in 1963 Special Forces A-teams established camps along the valley floor, followed by a number of top-secret Project Delta reconnaissance missions through 1967. Then, U.S. Army and Marine Corps maneuver battalions engaged in a series of sometimes controversial thrusts into the A Shau designed to disrupt NVA infiltrations and to kill enemy soldiers. By 1971 the fighting had once again shifted to the realm of small Special Forces reconnaissance teams.

Hook Up! US Paratroopers from the Vietnam War to the Cold War Antonio Arques Alejandro Rodriguez The history, gear, uniforms, training and tactics used by the US Paratroopers at the time of the Vietnam War in detail through a comprehensive text and over 700 outstanding photographs most of them never published before.

658554, $50 , $32.50 , Hardback, 160 pages

003542, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 336 pages

Days of Valor An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War

Robert L Tonsetic The 199th Light Infantry Brigade was created from three U.S. infantry battalions of long lineage as a fast reaction force to place in Vietnam. Days of Valor covers the height of the Vietnam War, from the nervous period just before Tet, through the defeat of that offensive, to the highly underwritten yet equally bloody NVA counteroffensive launched in May 1968. It ends with a brief note about the 199th LIB being deactivated in spring 1970, furling its colors after suffering 753 dead and some 5,000 wounded. The brigade had only been a temporary creation, intended for one purpose, and though its heroism is now a matter of history, it should remain a source of pride for all Americans.

149385, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 320 pages

We Few U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam Nick Brokhausen This riveting memoir details the actions and experiences of a small group of Americans and their allies who were the backbone of ground reconnaissance in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Brokhausen’s group racked up one of the most impressive records of awards for valor of any unit in the history of the United States Army. Those missions today seem suicidal. In 1970 equally so, yet these men went out day after day with their indigenous allies and faced the challenges with courage and resolve.

005805, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 272 pages

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

LBJ’s Hired Gun A Marine Corps Helicopter Gunner and the War in Vietnam

Col. Thomas R Yarborough This classic work has now been revised and updated with 50,000 words of additional narrative and previously unpublished photos. It is the story of how, in Vietnam, an elite group of Air Force pilots fought a secret air war in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes—flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and destruction down on enemy positions, the Forward Air Controller made an art form out of an air strike. In this work, the reader flies in the cockpit alongside Yarborough in his adrenaline-pumping chronicle of heroism, danger and wartime brotherhood.

John J. Gebhart LBJ’s Hired Gun launches with Gebhart’s grim recollection of the intense old-school brutality that was Marine Corps training on Parris Island before transitioning to his difficult journey for Southeast Asia aboard a troop transport with 2,000 other nameless grunts.

His candid account of life and death in Vietnam is written with a lively, infectious flair. But be forewarned: no attempt has been made to sanitize this memoir with politicallycorrect language. Gebhart tells his story exactly as he and his comrades spoke in the 1960s. The result is a gripping, no-holds-barred memoir of his “misadventures in-country.”

033656, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 384 pages

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• VIETNAM & KOREA • Valor in Vietnam Chronicles of Honor, Courage and Sacrifice: 1963 - 1977

Taking Fire Saving Captain Aikman: A Story of the Vietnam Air War

Allen B. Clark Lt. Gen. Dave R. Palmer US Army (Ret)

Kevin O’Rourke Joe Peters

Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance.Valor in Vietnam focuses on nineteen stories of Vietnam, stories of celebrated characters in the veteran community, compelling war narratives, vignettes of battles, and the emotional impact on the combatants. This is an anecdotal history of America’s war in Vietnam composed of firsthand narratives

by Vietnam War veterans presented in chronological order.

They are intense, emotional, and highly personal stories.

A U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper (PJ) lives, and sometimes dies, by the motto that others may live. Taking Fire is an exciting, dramatic story of life and death over Vietnam. Much more than a chronicle the events of 27 June 1972, the book gives the reader an up-close look at the little known world of the U.S. Air Force’s elite aerial rescue force.

001265, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 216 pages

000954, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

Assault from the Sky U.S Marine Corps Helicopter Operations in Vietnam Dick Camp This work describes U.S. Marine Corps helicopter operations, including their actions and evolution, throughout the Vietnam War. The book is divided into parts spanning the three stages of the Corps’ combat deployment: “Buildup (1962–1966),” “Heavy Combat (1967–1969),” and “The Bitter End (1975).” Each part includes chapters devoted to “telling the story” of Marine helicopters from the individual to the strategic level. The author, a Vietnam veteran, uses his experiences as a company commander to bring the story to life by weaving personal accounts, after-action reports and official documents into a remarkably readable narrative.

Tango 1-1 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta Jim Thayer LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from 18 to 30. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being able to tell whether a man or an animal is moving through the brush without seeing the cause of movement.

They could sit in an ambush for hours without moving a muscle except to ease the safety off the automatic weapon in their hand at the first sign of trouble. These men were good because they had to be to survive.

758583, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 168 pages

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This is What Hell Looks Like Life as a Bomb Disposal Specialist During the Vietnam War Stuart Allan Steinberg From 1967–1971, Stuart Steinberg served in the U.S. Army as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist. In January 1968, he was sent to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.

Steinberg was involved in helping to clean up the worst nerve gas disaster in American history on March 13, 1968.

As a result, he volunteered to serve in Vietnam from September 4, 1968 to March 24, 1970. This book explores the difficult and traumatic situations faced by Steinberg and his teammates across their time in Vietnam.

45065A, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 240 pages

Vietnam War Army Helicopter Nose Art, Vol 2 John Brennan Here in Volume 2 one will find equally astonishing photos on par with Volume 1, together with some self-help and researched info for sure to tease and delight the aficionado or veteran to unknown degrees.

Besides the 165 images, there are search aids for locating one’s former in-country Army helicopter. A listing is available of American sites where Huey & Cobra rides are available.

The Army museum in Alabama offers a listing they have compiled of two-dozen recommended Huey photo-books.

A tabulation of 300 AH-1 Cobra war survivors, their former units, and present locations are included. Also offered is a database of 500 newly found in-country Army helicopter names.

557808, $32 , $20.99 , Paperback, 128 pages

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MODERN • • • •COLD WARWARFARE & BEYOND Apache over Libya Will Laidlaw In May 2011 after a Mediterranean exercise to prove the Apaches’ ability to work ship-borne, HMS Ocean and her embarked Apache attack helicopters from 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps were about to head home. But the civil war in Libya and the NATO air campaign intervened. Apache Over Libya describes the experiences of eight Army and two Royal Navy pilots who played a significant role in the NATO-led campaign. Despite fighting the best armed enemy British aircrew have faced in generations, they defied the odds and survived. Thrilling firsthand action accounts vividly convey what it means to fly the Apache in combat at sea and over enemy-held terrain.

796820, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 200 pages

Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action During the 1982 Conflict

Special Forces Interpreter An Afghan on Operations with the Coalition Eddie Idrees Henry Wilson Eddie Idrees, a pseudonym for security reasons, has a fascinating and inspiring story to tell. Born in Afghanistan, he spent time as a refugee in Pakistan during the civil war dreaming of serving with the military. As this unique memoir reveals, his wishes came true in spades. For eight years from 2004, Eddie worked as an interpreter with, first, American Special Forces before moving across to the Special Air Service. A veteran of over 500 operations, his aim in writing his story is to explain the interpreter’s role and contribution and the challenges and threats they faced, not just from the Taliban. For all the media attention, these have never been fully understood.

758507, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 160 pages

The Equus Men Rhodesia’s Mounted Infantry: the Grey’s Scouts 1896-1980

Rodney Boswell Sunset, 8 June 1982, East Falkland. Eight specially trained Royal Marines infiltrate Goat Ridge, a long rocky hilltop between Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which are occupied by a battalion of 600 Argentine infantry. The next day, from their hiding place just metres away from the enemy, they note and sketch the Argentine positions, then withdraw as stealthily as they had come. Their daring patrol provides essential intelligence that guided the British assault which overwhelmed the Argentine defences two days later. This was just one example of the missions undertaken by the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre during the Falklands War.

Alexandre Binda Trained and utilized as mounted infantry as opposed to cavalry, the Grey’s Scouts saw exceptional success in the field.

Lightly equipped, they were able to cover great distances at speed, live off the veldt with minimal support and through ‘shock action’, quickly engage and destroy insurgent forces. Originally a regular formation, the Grey’s Scouts were augmented by Territorial and National Service soldiers as the conflict progressed and by 1980, when hostilities ceased, the Regiment numbered some 600 soldiers, both men and women, black and white.

The Equus Men is a stunning tribute to the equestrian and fighting prowess of the Grey’s Scouts.

791627, $42.95 , $27.99 , Hardback, 240 pages

05920A, $44.95 , $29.50 , Paperback, 290 pages

Spain in Arms A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 19361939

American Artillery From 1775 to the Present Day

E. R. Hooton Spain in Arms is a military history of the Spanish Civil War. It examines how the Spanish Civil War developed on the battlefield through the prism of eight campaigns between 1937-1939 and shows how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon half-truths and propaganda. The book is based upon nearly 60 years of extensive research into the Spanish Civil War, augmented by information from specialized German, Italian and Russian works. Spain in Arms reveals the Nationalist battlefield superiority in terms of training and overall command, and the Republic’s corresponding weaknesses in the same fields.

Michael Green The first regiment of artillery in the American Continental Army was formed in 1775. During the American Civil War (18611865) artillery evolved from the employment of individual batteries to massed fire of grouped batteries. In 1907, the US Army Artillery Corps was reorganized into the Field Artillery and the Coast Artillery Corps. During the First World War (1914-1918), a lack of American-made weapons saw the adoption of foreign artillery pieces. The Second World War demanded the introduction of many new field artillery pieces by the US Army. This superbly illustrated and authoritative work covers the full range of artillery weaponry which has been in service with US armed forces.

006376, $32.95 , $21.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

776662, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 272 pages

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• MODERN WARFARE • COLD WAR & BEYOND • Balkan Struggles A Century of Civil War, Invasion, Communism and Genocide Andrew Rawson The Balkans witnessed several bloody conflicts during the twentieth century. New nations emerged in 1913, after 500 years of Ottoman rule. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 sparked the series of events that led to the Great War. Italian designs on the Balkans resulted in the occupation of Albania in March 1939. The area was rife with guerrilla activity, as monarchists, nationalists and communists fought each other as often as the occupying troops. This, in turn, led to communism sweeping across most of the region in the post-war years, while Greece was taken over by a fascist regime.

761446, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 256 pages

Red Assault Soviet Airborne Forces, 1930-1941 Vladimir Kotelnikov In this book the armament, equipment, and military hardware developed for airborne troops is described, both in terms of the actual technology, and the clearly fantastical, which only reflected the unrestrained imagination of the designers. The exercises that saw airborne troop drops are described, as well as the role airborne troops played in actual operations in the period up to 1941. This book has been written on the basis of a number of documents that the author has discovered in the archives, and in museum collections. This work draws upon the memoirs of the pioneer military paratroopers in the USSR, some of which have never been published before.

The Dark Age of Tanks Britain’s Lost Armour, 1945–1970 David Lister In the thirty years after the Second World War, the British army entered a period of intense technological development. Due to the lack of surviving documentation, this period is almost a second Dark Age. What survives shows the British Army’s struggle to use cutting edge technology to create weapons that could crush the Soviet Union’s armed forces, all the while fighting against the demands of Her Majesty’s Treasury. On this journey, the Army entertained ideas such as micro-tanks of about 20 tons in weight with two-man crews, massive 183mm anti-tank guns, devastating rocket artillery, colossal anti-tank guided missiles and ended up on the cusp of building hover tanks.

755148, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 224 pages

Opening the Black Box The Turkish Military Before and After July 2016 Metin Gurcan With this book, the author’s hope is to document the military change both within the Turkish military and the Turkish Civil-Military Relations (CMR) before and after failed military uprising on July 15, 2016. To better understand TAF’s change before and after July 15, this book, which has benefited a lot from the author’s PhD research, seeks to follow a pragmatic multi-method approach at different levels of analysis (i.e. data and method triangulation) and eclectic theoretical design which borrows theoretical elements from both institutionalist literature and literature on military sociology.

390151, $39.95 , $25.99 , Paperback, 312 pages

390793, $49.95 , $32.50 , Paperback, 344 pages

American Cold War Stories

The Hall of Mirrors War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century

Mick Oakey The cold war arms race presented the United States of America with immense political, military and technological challenges. Air superiority in particular was essential for the defense of the Free World against communist expansion and the constant threat of nuclear war. American combat aircraft fought in the skies over Korea and Vietnam, while the CIA’s clandestine operations saw civilian machines pressed into service over Cambodia, Laos and elsewhere. Within this volume you will find a collection of real-life stories concerning incidents, accidents, events, decisions, mistakes, oddities, arguments and above all incredible American aircraft from the cold war period.

Jim Storr The 20th Century was hugely violent. It was possibly the most violent century in history.

It is a clearly defined period in the past. A huge amount has been written about war, and warfare, in that period.

So, what can we learn from war, and warfare, in the 20th century? The Hall of Mirrors is not a narrative history. It takes a deep look at war, and warfare, in the 20th Century.

It looks at the strategy, the operational art, and the tactics.

It looks at how technology developed, was developed, and affected military events. It looks at the human beings, the human organizations, and how they affected events. It makes judgments and comes to conclusions.

639015, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 132 pages

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• MODERN WARFARE • COLD WAR & BEYOND •• Soviet Cold War Weaponry: Aircraft, Warships and Missiles Anthony Tucker-Jones In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles, Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. The so-called ‘Cold War’ was far from cold, with numerous ‘hot’ proxy wars being fought in Africa and the Middle East. All these conflicts employed Soviet weaponry.

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

823617, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 Pages

Once a Marine An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery Nick Popaditch Mike Steere May 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California.

April 18, 2004: “Gunny Pop” comes home to face the toughest fight of his life-a battle to remain the man and Marine he was. This is the central drama of Nick’s inspiring memoir. Readers in and out of the military will stand up and cheer for this valiant Marine’s Marine, a man who embodies everything noble and proud in the Corps’ long tradition. Never has modern mechanized combat seemed so immediate and real, or the fight in Iraq seemed so human and worth believing in. Once you read this remarkable and uplifting book, The Marine’s Hymn will never sound the same.

211443, $18.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 312 pages

Soviet Cold War Weaponry: Tanks and Armoured Vehicles Anthony Tucker-Jones In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles, this book provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. Numerous ‘hot’ proxy wars were fought in Africa and the Middle East. All these conflicts employed Soviet weaponry which has been captured in action in the photographs selected for this book. The MiG fighters, the Badger and Backfire bombers, the nuclear submarines have achieved almost iconic status, but, as this book shows, there was much more to the Soviet armory than these famous weapons.

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

Philip Parker This book presents a meticulously compiled selection of recently unclassified documents, field-manuals, briefing directives and intelligence primers that uncover the training and techniques required to function as a spy in the darkest periods of modern history.

860021, $14.95 , $9.99 , Hardback, 128 pages

032969, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

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

714777, $29.95 , $19.50 , Hardback, 312 pages

Modern Chinese Warplanes Chinese Naval Aviation - Combat Aircraft and Units Andreas Rupprecht China’s economic development has been matched by rising political ambitions and the aim of returning the country to a central role in regional and global affairs. Within the past decade, China’s military has undergone some of the most profound reforms and improvements since its establishment.This uniquely compact yet comprehensive directory provides an extensively illustrated, in-depth analysis of modern Chinese naval air power.

30925A, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

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• COLD WAR &WARFARE BEYOND •• • MODERN Operation Meghdoot India’s War in Siachen – 1984 to Present Sanjay Badri-Maharaj In 1984, the Indian Army carried out a stunning operation that captured the Siachen Glacier in the northernmost regions of what is now the Union Territory of Ladakh. Since that time, a full brigade of Indian troops has faced off against a similar number of Pakistani soldiers in the highest battlefield on earth.

Sustained by a combination of tenuous road supply lines and air support, where helicopter manuals have had to be rewritten, the two countries have had numerous skirmishes that have escalated into the use of artillery fire. Operation Meghdoot tells the story of this conflict.

05930A, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 68 pages

Paradise Afire Volume 2 The Sri Lankan War, 1987-1990 Adrien Fontanellaz Upon achieving independence from Great Britain in 1948, the stunningly beautiful island of Ceylon, re-named Sri Lanka in 1972, was expected to become a sort of ‘South Asian Singapore’. However, stable political order and bright economic prospects proved insufficient to maintain peace. A host of unsolved ethnic conflicts and social inequalities conspired to erupt into an armed conflict in 1971. Calling upon extensive studies of the Sri Lankan War, with the help of first hand sources, official documentation and publications from all of the involved parties, this volume provides an in-depth and particularly detailed account of military operations between 1987 and 1990.

Air Wars Between Ecuador and Peru Volume 3 Aerial Operations over the Condor Mountain Range, 1995 Amaru Tincopa The series of sharp clashes between Ecuador and Peru of 1981 left the dispute between the two countries unresolved as there was still no definitive delimitation of the border.

During the following years, both parties had to deal with a series of internal and external issues. Drawing upon extensive research in the official archives from both the Fuerza Aérea del Ecuador and Fuerza Aérea del Perú (FAP), with documentation from multiple private sources in both countries, Air Wars Between Ecuador and Peru,Volume 3 completes the history of the aerial operations launched by the forces of both nations.

05910A, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

Air Wars Between Ecuador and Peru, Volume 1 The July 1941 War

Amaru Tincopa Based on extensive research in the official archives of the Fuerza Aérea del Perú (FAP), as well as documentation from multiple private sources, ‘The Air Wars Between Ecuador and Peru,Volume 1’ is the story of a little-known and brief, yet intensive and bitter aerial war.

Taking place at the time that World War II savaged most of Europe, this conflict has attracted little attention outside Ecuador and Peru – although it is unique as significant for the studies of causes and resolutions of international conflicts. ‘The Air Wars between Ecuador and Peru,Volume 1’ provides intricate details on the military capabilities and intentions of armed forces on both sides.

628675, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 72 pages

866304, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Tsar Bomba Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs, 19491962

Aerial Operations in the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay The First Dogfights in South America

Krzysztof Dabrowski On 30 October 1961, the USSR conducted a live test of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Codenamed ‘Ivan’, and known in the West as the ‘Tsar Bomba.’ Tsar Bomba unleashed about 58 megatons of TNT, creating a 5-mile-wide fireball and then a mushroom that peaked at an altitude of 59 miles. The shockwave created by the RDS-202 eradicated a village 34 miles from ground zero, caused widespread damage to nature, and created a heat wave felt as far as 170 miles away. And still, this was just one of 45 tests of nuclear weapons conducted in the USSR in October 1961 alone.

Antonio Luis Sapienza In the first half of the 20th Century, there were several revolutions in Paraguay, starting in 1904, then 1908, 1911-12, 1922-23, 1936 and finally 1947.

The Revolution of 1947 lasted just a few months but it was as bloody as the previous one, if not more so. The government, supported by the Colorado Party, fought against the revolutionaries, composed of almost 70% of the Army, Navy and Air Arm, supported by the Liberal, Febrerista and Communist parties. This is the first in-depth account with data, pictures, maps and profiles, some of them never published before.

336318, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

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• COLD WAR WARFARE & BEYOND• • • MODERN Cold War Jet Combat Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950 - 1972 Martin W. Bowman Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jet-powered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect.

Operation ‘Musketeer’ (1956), mounted when RAF and French Air Force bombers and fighter-bombers attacked airfields and other targets in Egypt, is also covered in this gripping narrative. The Falklands Campaign is also covered, as is the Vietnam War. All in all, this is a compelling, wellresearched and highly informative study of a particularly dynamic era in aviation history.

SIAI-Marchetti SF-260 Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck A close-up of the SF-260 Marchetti, a widely used trainer in use with over 30 air forces.

083062, $30 , $19.50 , Paperback, 92 pages

837737, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 240 Pages

MiGs in the Middle East Volume 1: The First 10 Years, 1955-1967 Davis Nicolle Tom Cooper While the first generation of MiG jet fighter – the MiG15 – saw only a relatively brief service in Egypt, its more efficient and upgraded successor, the MiG-17F, entered service in bigger numbers, and then formed the backbone of additional air forces around the Middle East. Based on original documentation and extensive interviews with veterans, and richly illustrated, MiGs in the Middle East,Volume 1 is a unique source of reference on the operational history of MiG-15, MiG-17, and MiG-19 fighter jets in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, and Syria from 1955 until 1956. This is the first volume in a mini-series.

Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck A close-up of the Su-25, the Russian A-10, a widely used close-air support jet usually flying at low altitudes and in use with many air forces. Includes basic version as well as all updated versions.

083079, $31 , $20.50 , Paperback, 116 pages

336363, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 72 pages

Sunbeam Aero Engines Alec Brew The first great British aircraft engine manufacturer, the Sunbeam Motor Car Company turned to the sunrise industry of aviation in 1912, and was among the first to buy an aircraft to test their engines.

Through the First World War Sunbeam was a vital supplier of both engines and aircraft. Sunbeams were the most powerful British engines available. After the War Sunbeam reverted to car manufacture, their aero engines were fitted to a succession of land speed record-breaking cars, including the first to exceed 150 mph and the first to exceed 200 mph, ironically, faster than any Sunbeam-powered aircraft.

Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet Aircraft in Detail Robert Pied Nicolas Deboeck A close-up of the Alpha Jet, a widely used trainer and closesupport aircraft in use with many countries. This is the first time an extensive and complete close-up of the jet has been made.

083086, $31 , $20.50 , Paperback, 116 pages

557945, $36 , $23.50 , Hardback, 159 pages

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• MODELING • MODELING & REFERENCE • • Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks.

German Army and Waffen-SS, The Last Battles in the West, 1945

Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks German Army and Waffen-SS The Last Battles in the East, 1945 Dennis Oliver Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Tiger tanks and units of the German Army and WaffenSS heavy Panzer battalions that struggled to resist the onslaught of Soviet armor during the last days of the conflict which culminated in the battle for Berlin.

Dennis Oliver Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Tiger tanks and units of the German Army and Waffen-SS heavy panzer battalions that struggled to resist the onslaught of Allied armor and air attacks during the last days of the conflict.

791221, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

741820, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

Panther Tanks German Army and Waffen-SS, Defence of the West, 1945

Panther Medium Tank IV. SS-Panzerkorps Eastern Front, 1944 Dennis Oliver In Dennis Oliver’s latest volume in the TankCraft series, he uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Panther battalions of those famous units that fought to hold back the Soviet advance during the last months of 1944.

791269, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Dennis Oliver Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Panther tanks and units of the German army and Waffen-SS panzer battalions that struggled to resist the Allied onslaught.

755902, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

Sherman Tanks of the British Army and Royal Marines Normandy Campaign 1944

Cromwell and Centaur Tanks British Army and Royal Marines, North-west Europe 1944–1945

Dennis Oliver This book will give the modeler all the information and knowledge required to recreate an authentic miniature representation of the tanks that fought from the beaches of Normandy, through the battles for Caen and on to killing fields of Falaise.

Dennis Oliver Designed with the hard lessons of the North African campaign in mind, including the adoption of a dual-purpose gun capable of firing high-explosive and anti-tank rounds, the Cromwell was one of the most successful of the British cruiser tanks produced during the Second World War.

885301, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

725417, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

M1 Abrams The US’s Main Battle Tank in American and Foreign Service, 1981–2019

Tank Destroyer, Achilles and M10 British Army Anti-Tank Units, Western Europe, 1944–1945

David Grummitt Since its introduction in 1981, at the height of the Cold War, the Abrams main battle tank has been one of the most visible and iconic symbols of American military power. Designed to meet the massed tank forces of the Warsaw Pact, its combat debut in fact came in a different scenario in 1991 during the First Gulf War.

Dennis Oliver Dennis Oliver focuses on the Achilles – the British variant of the American M10 – which was one of the most important Allied tank destroyers of the Second World War. The book covers the design and operational history of the Achilles using rare archive photographs and meticulously researched color illustrations.

749758, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

741905, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

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• MODELING • • MODELING & REFERENCE • Douglas DC-3 The Airliner that Revolutionised Air Transport

Humvee American Multi-Purpose Support Truck Ben Skipper With its characteristic wide track, and low silhouette the Humvee sets itself apart from the range of light utility trucks it replaced.

With some 17 variants now in service, this Humvee LandCraft title provides the modeler with a rich vein of inspirations and subject.

789815, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Robert Jackson No airliner in the history of commercial aviation has had a more profound effect than the Douglas DC-3. The full story of the DC-3, and its ancestor, the DC-2, is told in these pages, providing a wealth of information for the modeler and the enthusiast alike.

759986, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

M113 American Armoured Personnel Carrier Ben Skipper The M113 was designed and developed by the Food Machinery Corporation (FMC) to replace the heavier and less reliable steel-bodied M59 and M75. This LandCraft title looks at the M113s development where the FMC sought to utilize its chassis into as many roles as possible, from smoke generators to flamethrowers.

789778, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Land Rover Military Versions of the British 4x4 Ben Skipper This latest LandCraft title looks at the design and development of the Land Rover as well as the military specific variants.

The title will also look at those key conversions that took place on standard Land Rovers throughout the duration of its life span.

Vickers VC10 & Super VC10 Lance Cole Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain’s answer to the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8.

760067, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 96 pages

Sukhoi Su-15 The ‘Boeing Killer’ Yefim Gordon This book describes the developmental and service history of the Sukhoi-Su-15, containing a comprehensive survey of all model-making kits currently available on the market.

823907, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 96 pages

789730, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999–2020 David Grummitt This volume in the LandCraft series of modeling guides examines the Stryker and LAV III in US, Canadian and New Zealand service. Detailed color profiles provide both reference and inspiration for modelers and military enthusiasts alike.

Mi-1, Mi-6 and Mi-26 Heavy Lift Helicopters Yefim Gordon The book describes the history, variants and service career of the Mil’ ‘big lifters’ and contains a detailed overview of the scale model kits covering these types which are currently available on the market.

823891, $29.95 , $19.50 , Paperback, 96 pages

774187, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • MODELING • Japanese Battleships Fuso & Ise Classes Robert Brown This volume covers the two related classes of Japanese 14ingunned battleships, originally built during the First World War but subsequently totally reconstructed to emerge as a unique hybrid of battleship and aircraft carrier in a desperate attempt to compensate for fleet carriers sunk earlier in the war.

883376, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Japanese Heavy Cruisers Myoko and Takao Classes Steve Backer This volume is devoted to the largest cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Built in defiance of treaty restrictions, they were the fastest and most powerful heavy cruisers of their day, and were heavily engaged in every campaign from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Pacific War. 321076, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

German Battlecruisers of the First World War Steve Backer Robert Brown

Jaguar E-Type Lance Cole The third book in the new CarCraft series, Jaguar E-Type, frames the legend of what many call the world’s most beautiful car design. Sir William Lyons and Malcolm Sayer carved automotive history with this car across its 1960s-1970s incarnations from roadster to coupé amid the fitting of Straight-Six, to V12 engines.

756848, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

Porsche 911 Lance Cole Experienced automotive writer, industrial designer and Porsche enthusiast Lance Cole pays tribute to the car in a detailed yet engaging commentary.

New photography, the design story, and full coverage of the modeling options in synthetic materials and die cast metals, create a narrative of vital interest.

756800, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix Car and its Variants

This volume is devoted to the famous ships of Admiral Hipper’s First Scouting Group.

Slower but more robust than their British equivalents, German battlecruisers enjoyed a reputation for absorbing punishment, and although Lutzow was sunk at Jutland, Seydlitz and the rest of the Scouting Group survived heavy damage.

Lance Cole Ettore Bugatti changed engineering history with his genius and innovations. With its clever engine design, new suspension thinking, and distinct body style, Bugatti’s T35 and its variants defined a new era of design and driving and surely rank as true ‘supercars’. A motor sport legend was also cast down by these Bugattis.

321816, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

756763, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

German Pocket Battleships

Citroën DS French Design Classic

Roger Chesneau This innovative and infamous class of surface raiders has long been a popular subject for ship modelers. This book will show ship modelers how to turn their kits into something really special, but its unparalleled level of visual information will also appeal to the more general warship enthusiast.

Lance Cole Launched in 1955 yet looking like a sci-fi design proposal for a future then undreamed of, Flaminio Bertoni’s ellipsoid sculpture with wheels that was the Citroën DS, or ‘Goddess’ as it was tagged, stunned the world. Some argue that DS and its effect has never been surpassed.

321885, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

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• MODELING • • MODELING & REFERENCE • Aircraft Carrier USS Lexington 1935

The Japanese Destroyer Fubuki

Carlo Cestra The history of the USS Lexington was troubled: it was designed in 1916 to be an atypical battle cruiser, as little armored, but with heavy cannons. Because of the Washington Treaty of 1922 about the reduction of naval armaments, she was reclassified and converted into an aircraft

Carlo Cestra The Japanese Fubuki class boasted twenty-four units and was the world’s first modern and powerful destroyer class.

Her lead ship was the Fubuki, previously named destroyer no.

35, who was a veteran of many battles in World War II in the Pacific theater.

carrier.

157516, $36.95 , $24.50 , Paperback, 92 pages

437945, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 92 pages

The Russian Battleship Marat

Schnellboot Type S-38 and S-100

Oleg Pomoshnikov Jan Radziemski

Carlo Cestra S38b and S100 E-boats class were German fast attack craft (Schnellboot in German) built for the Kriegsmarine during World War Two.

In the interwar period the battleship “Marat” was considered a symbol of the naval power of the Soviet Union.

In her 40-year service, rich in events, she survived four wars, but only in one of them - the civil war - she used her main guns in an engagement with enemy warships.

437716, $36.95 , $24.50 , Paperback, 90 pages

437822, $36.95 , $24.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

The Japanese Carrier Shinano

The Japanese Cruiser Chikuma

Waldemar Góralski On 4 May 1940 the third Yamato-class battleship was laid down at the Navy Shipyard in Yokosuka. After the Japanese defeat at Midway (four aircraft carriers were lost) it was decided to continue the construction of the ship as an aircraft carrier, in order to partially make up for losses.

Waldemar Góralski The Japanese cruiser Chikuma was armed with cannons with a maximum caliber of 155mm in quantities up to 15 pieces.The ship was built in the shipyard of Mitsubishi Nagasaki.

596629, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 80 pages

437174, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 84 pages

Japanese Battleship Kongo Waldemar Góralski Grzegorz Nowak Kongo, meaning indestructible, was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s first super-dreadnought type battlecruiser, and the name-ship of her class. This modeling guide provides a lavishly illustrated history of this impressive warship with numerous close-up and panoramic shots based on actual technical drawings.

The Japanese Destroyer Akizuki Mariusz Motyka Lukasz Stach The book is primarily focused on the development history, technical data and design features, the battle record of the Akizuki class destroyers including their combat trail and the fate awaited them.

878697, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

220152, $26.95 , $17.99 , Paperback, 56 pages

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• BARGAIN BOOKS • • MODELING & REFERENCE • The Aircraft Carrier HMS Invincible Witold Koszela HMS Invincible was the lead ship of a class of British light aircraft carriers built between 1973 and 1985, originally designed as “through-deck cruisers.” A characteristic feature of the Invincible class was a “ski-jump” ramp at the end of the flight deck designed for VSTOL Sea Harriers.

673267, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 28 pages

Messerschmitt Me 210/ Me 410 Anirudh Rao Work on the Messerschmitt Me 210 began in late 1930s; f ull-scale production of the Me 210 was launched in 1941.

The aircraft was powered by a pair of Daimler-Benz DB 601F engines, each producing 959 kW of power. The Messerschmitt Me 410 was meant to be an improvement of the unsuccessful Me 210 design.

673281, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 20 pages

The Battleship USS California Witold Koszela The American battleship USS “California” has almost thirty years of extraordinary history.

Commissioned in 1921, it was one of the most powerful battleships of the US Navy in the interwar period. It was characterized by an interesting and harmonious silhouette, which changed significantly several times.

673090, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 24 pages

The Sukhoi Su-27/Su33 Stanislaw Krzysztof Mokwa In the late 1960s Soviet Union started working on fighters that would be a counterbalance for the American F-15 Eagle.

In 1969, a competition for a new fighter was announced, but when the parameters to be met were given, Pavel Sukhoi withdrew from it. He considered that the required performance could not be reached.

148543, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 20 pages

The Battleship USS Alabama Witold Koszela A recipient of nine Battle Stars for her wartime service, Alabama was a South Dakota class warship, widely considered to be the best US Navy treaty battleship design, featuring heavy armor, good underwater protection, tight superstructure arrangement and formidable armament.

596377, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 32 pages

The Battleship USS Missouri Witold Koszela Includes 29 drawings sheets A4 color profiles 5 double B2 sheet with drawings sheets and color scheme, scales 1100, 1200, 1250 format sizes 210x297 mm booklet binding 596124, $19.95 , $12.99 , Paperback, 32 pages

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F Mariusz Lukasik Messerschmitt Bf 109 F is one of the most important versions of this famous fighter. It was powered by the same engine as the preceding Bf 109 E, but the airframe design differed.

The plane gained a more aerodynamic profile due to the new engine cowling, a new, rounder propeller hub and rounded wing tips.

148413, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 28 pages

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt XP-47B, B, C, D, G Maciej Noszczak Before the P-47 Thunderbolt gained a “bubble top” fairing, these fighters had slightly different figure. In the first versions, the plane had a typical canopy built into the fuselage, which resulted in a slightly hunched line.

148147, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 28 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • Lublin R-XIII Army Cooperation Plane

The German Armoured Infantry Support Gun Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär

Andrzej Glass The Lublin R-XIII was the Polish army cooperation plane, designed in the early-1930s in the Plage i La?kiewicz factory in Lublin.

Krzysztof Mucha Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär was a German self-propelled assault gun. The gun was based on the PzKpfw IV Ausf. E and F and, later, Ausf. G. Initially, the vehicle carried 15 cm StuH 43 howitzer, which was later replaced by a bespoke 15 cm StuH 23/1 L/12 weapon. Brummbär went into production in 1943.

148314, $27.95 , $18.50 , Paperback, 132 pages

673274, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 24 pages

Grumman F-14 Tomcat in US Navy Service

M16 Half-Track Mariusz Motyka The M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (M16 MGMC) also known as M16 half-track, was a US self-propelled antiaircraft gun built during World War Two. The chassis of the half-rack armored personnel carrier was used to build various variants of selfpropelled guns.

Salvador Mafe Huertas The F-14 Tomcat marked an era in the same way that aircraft like the F-4 Phantom II, the different models of the mythical Mirage, the F-86 Sabre, the P-51 Mustang, and the Spitfire did.

The uniqueness of its mission was not an obstacle for this exceptional fighter to gain a reputation that few fighter

148758, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 24 pages planes have had.

673304, $28.95 , $18.99 , Paperback, 108 pages

Jagdpanzer IV L/48 and L/70

Focke-Wulf Ta 154 “Moskito”

Krzysztof Mucha Panzerjäger were put into service in the turn of 1942 and 1943. Despite the fact of being armed with a valuable 75 mm or 76,2 mm main armament, their crews were not protected effectively – the armor plates’ thickness was merely up to 10 mm.

Marek J. Murawski Marek Ry?

148680, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 20 pages

This monograph is dedicated to the German Ta 154 night fighter which was supposed to be an answer to the British Mosquito.

The book covers both Ta 154 development history and the combat record of the only few of those fighters ever deployed.

Includes numerous rare archive photographs and many 3D renders.

878727, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 104 pages

Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Slawomir Zajaczkowksi The main motivator for designing the Pz.Kpfw.VI was to install a Flak 36 antiaircraft gun 36 caliber 88 in the turret, a weapon that could destroy Soviet tanks on long distances.

In addition, it was necessary to build a tank able to withstand fire from the T-34/76 guns, which effectively eliminated the German medium tanks.

148406, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 20 pages

Messerschmitt Bf 109 Early Versions Asen Atanasov Marek J. Murawski The monograph devoted to the early versions of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 discusses its origins and development with coverage of changes made in its first prototypes.

The combat use of the aircraft in the Spanish Civil War, Polish campaign and Phony War is thoroughly described with many first-hand accounts.

596384, $39.95 , $25.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • Messerschmitt Bf 108B2

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter

Dariusz Karnas This book compiles the 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the Messerschmitt Bf 108B-2. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals.

Also included are photos of the details in B&W and color.

Dariusz Karnas This book compiles the 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter. Scale plans in 1/72 scale plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also included are photos of the details in B&W and color.

549289, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

549203, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

J 8A Gloster Gladiator

Avia S-199

Dariusz Karnas This book compiles the 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the J 8A Gloster Gladiator. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also included are photos of the details in B&W and color.

Dariusz Karnas This book compiles the 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the Avia S-199. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also included are photos of the details in B&W and color.

549210, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

549227, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

PZL P.11c

Hawker Hurricane I

Dariusz Karnas Artur Juszczak

Dariusz Karnas Artur Juszczak

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the PZL P.11c. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W and color.

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Hawker Hurricane I. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals.

Also photos of the details in B&W and color.

958594, $11.99 , $7.99 ,

958600, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

Paperback, 24 pages

NAA P-51D-10-NA Mustang

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17F / Lim-5

Dariusz Karnas Artur Juszczak

Dariusz Karnas Karolina Holda

and color.

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17F / Lim-5. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W and color.

958617, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

958624, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the NAA P-51D10-NA. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • RWD-14 Czapla

Mil Mi-24D/V

Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/32, 1/48, and 1/72 of the Polish RWD-14 aircraft.

Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/48 scale of the Mil Mi-24D/V.

8 A3 size scale plans of RWD-14 aircraft.

A3 size pages in A4 pb.

549395, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

Republic F-105 Thunderchief 1/48 Scale Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/48 scale of the Republic F-105 Thunderchief versions.

24.6 x 11.7 in size pages in an A4 paperback.

549197, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 18 pages

Mitsubishi J2M Raiden Mariusz Kubryn Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale of famous Japanese fighter. 10 A3 size pages in A4 pb. All subversions are shown.

281692, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 40 pages

12 A3 size scale plans.

549180, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 24 pages

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21MF Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 of the MiG-21MF versions.

A3 size pages in A4 pb.

12 A3 size scale plans.

54907A, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 12 pages

De Havilland Mosquito: Early Fighter Versions Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scale of de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito in the following variants.

DH. Mosquito F./N.F. Mk II DH. Mosquito F.B. Mk VI DH. Mosquito T. MK. III 281272, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 12 pages

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-1/MiG-3 Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of Mikoyan Gurevich MiG1/MiG-3 variants.

678999, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 12 pages

MESSERSCHMITT BF 109F Dariusz Karnas Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of MESSERSCHMITT BF 109F variants.

678982, $11.99 , $7.99 , Paperback, 12 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • Bulgarian Fighter Colours 1919-1948 vol. 2

Boeing B-17 Fortress in RAF Coastal Command Service

Dénes Bernád Bulgaria is arguably the historically most underrated Axis ally that actually fought the Allies during World War 2.

Despite remaining outside the main battleground of the war, the Eastern Front, this Balkan country did take its fair share of warfare, particularly due to the combat activity of its fighter air force.

Robert M. Stitt Rejected as a bomber by the RAF, the B-17 was used extensively as a long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft by Coastal Command.

This book tells the fascinating story of these operations, a vital but often overlooked part of the fight against the U-Boats

958198, $65 , $42.50 , Hardback, 264 pages

281548, $53 , $34.50 , Paperback, 260 pages

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in Foreign Service Jan Forsgren Artur Juszczak These aircraft have not received much coverage, most likely due to the fact that they only form a very small part of the rich history of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. This book, however, will concern itself with the history of these B-17s.

Finnish Jet Colours Kyösti Partonen Book covers Finnish Jets used Finnish Air Force. Camouflage and markings of the fighters are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish author Kyösti Partonen.

Many unpublished photos, and exclusive color profiles.

281357, $62 , $40.50 , Hardback, 240 pages

958211, $45 , $29.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

PZL P.11c Bart?omiej Belcarz Tomasz Kopa?ski This is the story of Poland’s most famous fighter aircraft.

It contains: Scale plans in 1/48, photos and drawings from technical manuals, superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, walk-around color photographs of the only one preserved aircraft, and rare b&w archive photographs.

549067, $35 , $22.99 , Paperback, 152 pages

North American Aviation P-51B/C & F-6C Mustang Robert P?czkowski Artur Juszczak This monograph covers the design and development of the P-51B/C Mustang family, the main wartime production variant of this classic fighter. This book contains comprehensive technical details, numerous specially selected original NAA technical photographs, production and service photos, and a wide range of color profiles.

958396, $39 , $25.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

Chieftain Britain’s Flawed Masterpiece Richard Kent This book provides the reader with the full story of the origins, development, and combat history of the Chieftain Main Battle Tank. The text is interspersed with numerous photographs, many published for the first time, alongside color profiles and scale plans, including those of rare and unusual variants.

Warpaint. Volume 2 Colours and Markings of British Army Vehicles 1903-2003 Dick Taylor This book,Volume 2 in a series of four, describes and illustrates the colors and markings used by the British army on its vehicles during the 20th century. An invaluable reference source for military historians and enthusiasts, and scale modelers.

450920, $41 , $26.99 , Paperback, 176 pages

958297, $45 , $29.50 , Paperback, 240 pages

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• MODELING & REFERENCE • • BARGAIN BOOKS • Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet

Vought F4U Corsair Karoly Bear Marcin Giepierski

Adrian Wolnicki Sebastian Piechowiak

The Corsair was powered by an eighteen-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp. That was the largest and the most powerful radial engine ever installed in a single-seat front fighter.

The Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet are twinengine, carrier-capable variants based on the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The F/A-18E single-seat variants are larger and more advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and

673243, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages D Hornet.

673137, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 56 pages

Panzerjager Elefant Modelling Porsche’s Panzerjager Inside and Out Liejon Schoot Master Modeller Liejon Schoot presents a visual guide to constructing the complex interior of the famous Elefant Tank destroyer from scratch.

He then goes on to modify the exterior to the same incredibly high standards as the 488 images clearly document along with unique reference images of the real vehicle.

Jagdtiger Building Trumpeter’s 1:16th Scale Kit Sam Dwyer This step by step guide shows how to build, correct, detail and finish the impressive 1:16 Trumpeter Jagdtiger kit. This book also provides unique interior reference photos of one of the three remaining preserved vehicles.

564628, $50 , $32.50 , Paperback, 164 pages

564659, $24 , $15.99 , Paperback, 102 pages

P-51/F-6 Mustangs with USAAF - in the MTO Tomasz Szlagor The North American P-51 Mustang, famed for its service in the US Army Air Force as a long-rage escort fighter over western Europe, was no less successful in the other three major combat areas of World War Two: the Mediterranean, the China-Burma-India, and the Pacific Theaters of Operations.

437112, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

P-51/F-6 Mustangs with the USAAF - European Theater of Operations Tomasz Szlagor The North American P-51 Mustang powered by the British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin/Packard engine was, quite simply, the best long-range escort fighter of the World War Two era. Entering service in November 1943, it curtailed prohibitive losses suffered by the heavy bombers of the US Eight Army Air Force.

596681, $22.95 , $14.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

G.222

AMX Ghibli

Federico Anselmino Giancarlo Gastaldi

Federico Anselmino Giancarlo Gastaldi

Introduction. The origins and development. In service with the Air Force. Against the flames. The civil G.222.

G.222 abroad. Modeling notes.

Technical Data and Military Serial Number.

This unique book tells the story of AMX, from early drawings to war use, with an eye for the engagement in Afghanistan, with countless exclusive photos.

523144, $24.95 , $16.50 ,

523120, $24.95 , $16.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

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• BARGAIN BOOKS • • MODELING & REFERENCE • Challenger 2

The 38M Toldi Light Tank Peter Mujzer The 38M Toldi light tank entered into service in 1940. Before that time the Army had its WWI style armored trains, armored cars and the tiny Italian FIAT Ansaldo tankettes. The 38M Toldi light tank and its Swedish origin the L-60 were the same class as the German Pz. II, the Polish 7TP, the Soviet T-40 and T-60 light tanks.

Dick Taylor The Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (MBT) has now been in service for twenty years and can be expected to form part of the British army’s inventory – albeit in low numbers – until around 2035, which would make it the longest-serving frontline battle tank ever used by the UK. 437853, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 88 pages

673045, $34.95 , $22.99 , Paperback, 120 pages

Armor Camouflage and Markings of the French 2nd Armored Division in World War Two

U.S. Armored Car Staghound

Claude Gillono An authoritative guide to the French 2e Division Blindée’s armor camouflage and markings during training and combat operations in N.W. Europe, 194345. Includes Armored Jeeps, M8 Armored Car, M20 Utility Car, Half-tracks, M3 & M5 Light Tanks, M8 HMC, M4 Medium Tank, M7 HMC, M10 GMC, and M31/M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle.

Roger Lucy Comprehensive history of the design, development and operational use of the U.S.built Staghound armored car.

Contains: 131 archive photos, 6pp all-new 1/35th scale drawings, 9 tone drawings reprinted from various technical manuals, 19 full-color plates showing British, Canadian, New Zealand, Polish and Italian vehicles.

672167, $39.95 , $25.99 , Paperback, 64 pages

672112, $32.95 , $21.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

Kaiserliche EisenbahnBau Kompanie in Western Galicia 19141915 Volume 1

Kfz. 1, 2, 3 & 4. Light Off-road Passenger Cars Alan Ranger The leichter geländegängiger Personenkraftwagen, or l. gl. Einheits-Pkw were manufactured by Stoewer, Hanomag and BMW. Early versions had both 4-wheel drive and steering which later was dropped to just 4 wheel drive

Marek Dubi?ski This profusely illustrated photo album includes over 120 previously unseen pictures of the Kaiserliche Eisenbahn-Bau Kompanie unit, which operated during early stages of WW1 in the Western Galicia, now southern Poland.

and front wheel steering.

958334, $25 , $16.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

281876, $25 , $16.50 , Paperback, 80 pages

Sturmgeschütz III on the Battlefield 5 Mátyás Pánczél The twentieth volume of PeKo Publishing’s photo-monograph series, Sturmgeschütz III on the Battlefield 5, has more than a hundred mainly unpublished photographs, published in the highest possible quality. Both the introduction and the captions are bilingual (English / Hungarian).

War Photographer 1.1 Vyacheslav Kozitsyn This new photo book series presents various selections of rare wartime photographs.

This book illustrates photos from an unidentified German Sturmartillerist of the Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 191.

583209, $27.95 , $18.50 , Paperback, 64 pages

583179, $41.95 , $27.50 , Hardback, 112 pages

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• BARGAINS • Luftwaffe in Africa, 1941-1943 Jean-Louis Roba Adolf Hitler considered the Mediterranean unimportant, leaving it to the troops of Benito Mussolini who wanted to dominate the “Mare Nostro.”

Nevertheless, when the Italian army was defeated on the Libyan-Egyptian border, the Führer was forced to help his ally by sending an air detachment first to Sicily, then Africa.

007458, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

The Falaise Pocket Normandy, August 1944 Yves Buffetaut The battle of the Falaise Pocket was the turning point in the Normandy campaign. In late July, American troops broke through the lines and pushed south and east, while British and Canadian troops pushed south.

Although unable to counter these offensives, Hitler refused to permit the commander Army Group B to withdraw.

00727A, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Operation Typhoon The German Assault on Moscow, 1941 Philippe Naud After the successes of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler turned his focus to Moscow with the belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war.

But the Germans had suffered significant losses since the invasion, and had logistics and air support issues. And the Soviets were prepared to defend to the death.

Allied Armor in Normandy Yves Buffetaut This volume of the Casemate Illustrated series explores the Normandy invasion from the perspective of the Allied Armored divisions, looking at how armored vehicles played a central role in the many battles that took place. It includes over 40 profiles of tanks and armored vehicles.

006079, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

006710, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

From Moscow to Stalingrad The Eastern Front, 19411942 Yves Buffetaut The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for the Red Army and the Wehrmacht.

This volume outlines how it was that, less than a year after their defeat at Moscow, the German army had found a way to make the Soviet troops waver, eventually leading to the Battle of Stalingrad.

The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich Yves Buffetaut The 2nd SS Division, “Das Reich,” was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany— from the invasion of Poland to the final surrender. This lavishly illustrated book lays out the full history of Das Reich in World War II, with rare photos, informative text, and true insights into a unique combat division in modern warfare.

005256, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

006093, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

The 101st Airborne in Normandy Jun-44 Yves Buffetaut On D-Day—June 6, 1944— 101st and 82nd Airborne dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the landings, tasked with capturing bridges and positions, taking out German strongpoints, and securing the exits from Utah and Omaha Beaches.This fully illustrated book details the planning of the airborne element of D-Day. 005232, $24.95 , $12.50 , Paperback, 128 pages

Tommies The British Army in the Trenches John Sadler Rosie Serdiville British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with World War I. This introduction explores the experience of Tommies on the Western Front, explaining how their war evolved and changed from the mobile battles of August 1914 to the final days of the war.

004846, $12.95 , $6.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

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• BARGAINS • Greek Warriors Hoplites and Heroes

Knights Chivalry and Violence

Carolyn Willekes While Bronze Age Greeks fought as individuals, the soldiers of the Classical city states fought as hoplites in an organized formation called the phalanx. This book discusses the equipment and training of both the citizen soldiers of most Greek cities, and the professional soldiers of Sparta.

This short history will cover the rise and decline of the medieval knights, including the extensive training, specific arms and armor, tournaments and the important concept of chivalry.

John Sadler Rosie Serdiville

005171, $12.95 , $6.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

005157, $12.95 , $6.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

Vikings Raiders from the Sea Kim Hjardar From the 9th to the 11th century,Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world.Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks’ advance in Europe.

Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake.

005195, $12.95 , $6.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

Gladiators Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome M. C. Bishop This book gives an entertaining overview of the history of the gladiator, one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome, debunking some myths along the way. We learn about the different forms of combat, and the pairings which were designed to carefully balance the strengths and weaknesses of one against the other.

005133, $12.95 , $6.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

The United States Marine Corps The Expeditionary Force at War Paul Westermeyer While the USMC served in the conflicts of the 19th century, they are famed for their part in the wars of the 20th century.

On the Western Front in World War I they were bloodied at Belleau Wood. Between the wars the Corps developed amphibious tactics which were employed during in Pacific theater of World War II. 006932, $14.95 , $7.50 , Hardback, 160 pages

Alexander the Great Conqueror, Commander, King John Sadler Rosie Serdiville Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In just over a generation, his northern Greek state of Macedon rose to control the whole of the vast Persian Empire. No-one in history has equaled his achievement. Julius Caesar is said to have wept because by contrast he had accomplished so little.

Guerrilla Warfare Kings of Revolution Peter Polack The concept of guerrilla warfare is not decades, but many centuries old, with earliest writing on the subject

by Sun Tzu dating back to the 6th Century BC. This is a compendium of prominent worldwide guerrilla leaders beginning with William Wallace in the thirteenth century to modern day Sri Lanka.

006758, $12.95 , $6.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

Battleships The War at Sea Ingo Bauernfeind This accessible short history gives an expert overview of the history of the battleship, looking at its origins, the role played by battleships in both World Wars, famous ships and their stories, as well as the weaponry and technology they employed.

006178, $12.95 , $6.50 , Paperback, 160 pages

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• BARGAINS • The D-Day Training Pocket Manual 1944

The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939–45

Chris McNab The success of the D-Day landings depended on thousands of troops carrying out their mission and the seamless coordination of the amphibious landings. The troops not only had to be trained up ready for their own roles, but to work alongside other troops, often communicating while in unfamiliar terrain and under

Chris McNab Casemate’s The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939–1945 provides an unusually detailed insight into what it took to make a military paratrooper, and how he was then utilized in actions where expected survival might be measured in a matter of days.

00791A, $14.95 , $7.50 , Hardback, 160 pages

From the Riviera to the Rhine US Sixth Army Group August 1944–February 1945 Simon Forty Two months after D-Day, just as the battle of Normandy was reaching its climax, with all eyes on the Falaise Pocket, the Allies unleashed the second invasion of France. They drove 400 miles into France, and liberated 10,000 square miles of French territory while inflicting 143,250 German casualties.

006239, $29.95 , $14.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

The Battle of KorsunCherkassy The Encirclement and Breakout of Army Group South, 1944 Nikolaus von Vormann Generalleutnant von Vormann’s account starts with the retreat to the Dnepr in 1943. His mainly factual account also contains a description of the psychological effects on the men of this most brutal and physically exhausting battle. It is one of the few primary source materials that exists.

006031, $24.95 , $12.50 , Hardback, 120 pages

First to Fight The U.S. Marines in World War I Oscar E. Gilbert Romain Cansiere Marine units were accepted into the American Expeditionary Force in 1917 only grudgingly, and as labor troops. Eventually, untested Marine divisions were launched into battle against German divisions on the pleading of the French. Their dogged determination to hold Belleau Wood ensured them a place in the history books.

fire.

00733C, $14.95 , $7.50 , Hardback, 160 pages

Race to the Rhine Liberating France and the Low Countries 1944-45 Leo Marriott Simon Forty

Race to the Rhine links modern aerial photography with contemporary illustrations to provide a modern interpretation of the battles, replete with maps, diagrams and photos. For those interested in visiting the sites, it supplies a guide to the places that best represent the battles today.

002941, $29.95 , $14.99 , Hardback, 192 pages

Vitebsk The Fight and Destruction of Third Panzer Army Otto Heidkämper Linden Lyons The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front. Otto Heidkämper was chief of staff of 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center, which was stationed around Vitebsk. His detailed account of the defense of Vitebsk up to the Soviet summer offensive, is a valuable firsthand account.

005485, $32.95 , $16.50 , Hardback, 256 pages

Action at Badama Post The Third Afghan War, 1919 Paul Macro The 3rd Afghan War in 1919 was the only time that the Afghans invaded British India during Britain’s long history of conflict in Afghanistan and along the North-West Frontier. It was a campaign that cost the lives of well over 1,000 British and Indian troops.

00759A, $32.95 , $16.50 , Hardback, 272 pages

005089, $32.95 , $16.50 , Hardback, 360 pages

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• BARGAINS • Into the Dark Water The Story of Three Officers and PT-109

The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74

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. This book provides the complete record of PT-109 in the Pacific, as well as a valuable glimpse of how the American Navy’s daring and initiative found its full playing field in World War II.

Col. Joseph Celeski The Secret War in Laos was one of the first “Long Wars” for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years.

It was one of the largest CIAparamilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now.

007120, $19.95 , $9.99 , Paperback, 288 pages

006659, $32.95 , $16.50 , Hardback, 400 pages

Undefeated From Basketball to Battle: West Point’s Perfect Season 1944

Fighting Fox Company The Battling Flank of the Band of Brothers Terry Poyser Bill Brown

Jim Noles In 1944, the West Point basketball team boasted a 13-0 record. Of course, there were far bigger contests than intercollegiate basketball afoot.

The cadets would not be able to play in the NIT or NCAA national tournaments, the U.S. Army needed its finest on the front line more than on the court.

Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history. However, little has been heard of Fox Company —the men who fought alongside Easy Company through every step of the war in Europe, and who had their own stories to tell.

00511B, $29.95 , $14.99 , Hardback, 272 pages

007113, $19.95 , $9.99 , Paperback, 344 pages

History of the Third Seminole War 1849-1858 Joe Knetsch John Missall History of the Third Seminole War is a detailed narrative of the war and its causes, containing numerous firsthand accounts from participants in the war, derived from virtually all the available primary sources, collected over many years.

005768, $32.95 , $16.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

Crusader General Donn Starry and the Army of His Times Mike Guardia Gen Martin Dempsey (USA, Ret.)

Instruments of Battle The Fighting Drummers and Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to the Present Day James Tanner Instruments of Battle examines the development of the British Army’s fighting drummers and buglers from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal weapon of war was the drum and bugle, these men and boys were not musicians but fighting soldiers who took their place in the front line.

003696, $32.95 , $16.50 , Hardback, 288 pages

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

Donn Starry became one of the most influential commanders of the Vietnam War, and after Vietnam was one of the intellectual giants who reshaped the US Army. In this biography, Mike Guardia examines the life of this pioneering officer using interviews with veterans and family.

Robert L Tonsetic The personal memoir of a US Army advisor during the endstages of the war in Vietnam. It was the period when the will of the US to prosecute the war had slipped, and transferring responsibility to the South Vietnamese was the only remaining hope for victory.

005447, $32.95 , $16.50 , Hardback, 224 pages

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W. R. Baker In the weeks before the Easter Offensive of 1972, vital agent reports and verbal warnings by the 571st MI Detachment had been ignored by all the major commands; they were only heeded, and then only very reluctantly, once the Offensive began. This refusal to listen to the intelligence explains why no Army or USMC organizations were on-call to recover prisoners discovered or U.S. personnel downed behind enemy lines, as in the BAT-21 incident, as the last two Combat Recon Platoons in Vietnam had been disbanded six weeks before the offensive began.

009919, $34.95 , $22.99 , Hardback, 264 pages