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In this new edition of the Casemate catalog we are pleased to announce an ever-broadening selection of forthcoming titles, which we hope will earn your keen interest as much as ours. The selections that follow are our upcoming works for Spring 2013, and I am personally happy to say that not only has Casemates own publishing continued to increase its output of quality books, but that our distributed lines have likewise mined a font of historical knowledge and expertise to grant us perhaps the best list of new and upcoming titles in our bookselling experience. It is worth noting, too, that with the advent of digital media, Casemate has made a point to stay cutting-edge, offering our works, and those of many of our distributees, in e-reader format as well as in traditional print. With most of our current titles, the reader will have their choice. Also featured in this catalog, for the first time since our acquisition of the company in 2011, are titles from Oxbow Booksone of the worlds leading sources of archaeological, architectural, and scholarly historical works, from ancient times to the present. We hope you will get in touch with us for more details on these upcoming titles and for information on our extensive backlist. Going forward into 2013 we are primarily grateful for the ever-expanding vibrancy of the history publishing community, as well as the passion from readers themselvesa valuable partnership that we constantly endeavor to keep. Best regards, David Farnsworth Casemate
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I Am Soldier of Fortune
Dancing with Devils
Lt. Col. Robert Brown, USAR (Ret.) and Vann Carpenter Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces not once but twice finally found his true calling as a publisher. Thirty-eight years ago he launched an upstart magazine from his basement called Soldier of Fortune, which pushed the bounds of journalism to its limits with his untamed brand of reportinga camera in one hand, a gun in the other, and soon thereafter he discovered that hed established a worldwide community. His wildly popular, notorious magazine became an icon for action-seekers in the U.S. and around the world. In this long-awaited book, Brown tells his own story, taking the readers into combat zones where he and his daring combat journalists trotted across the globe. His rogue warrior journalists embedded themselves with anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often training and fighting with rebels against oppressive regimes. In their revolutionary journalistic style, they created the action and then wrote about it. Generals and leaders of exotic armies welcomed the SOF visitors and led them or allowed them to tread into unchartered territory. In short, the Soldiers of Fortune went where even the U.S. government feared to tread, and they did it with gallant style, not fearing risk but welcoming the challenge, as long as they felt the cause was right and needed to be reported. In this book the exploits of Brown and his veteran teams are revealed for the first time in all their gonzo glory, even as the U.S. military, public, and polite diplomatic society sometimes shunned their endeavors. $29.95 6 x 9 432 pages 48pp photos May 2013 hardback 9781612001937 eISBN - 9781612001944
Shanghai 1937
Stalingrad on the Yangtze
Peter Harmsen This deeply researched book describes one of the forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. In its sheer scale, the struggle for Chinas largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence, in theaters around the world. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War IIor perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the warthe first major battle in the global conflict. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful months when the battle raged. The rich cast included Chinas ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed the continent toward its deadliest conflict ever. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders.
$32.95 6 x 9 320 pages 16pp. photos April 2013 hardback 9781612001678 eISBN - 9781612001685
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The Tigers of Bastogne
Voices of the 10th Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge
Michael Collins and Martin King The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unitthe 10th Armored Divisioncontinued to play a major role in its defense throughout the German onslaught. In The Tigers of Bastogne, authors King and Collins finally detail the travails of this young armored division, which had only arrived in Europe that fall, yet found itself subject to the full brunt of Manteuffels Fifth Panzer Army in the Ardennes. At first overwhelmed, and then falling back to protect the vital crossroads, the 10th Armored was reinforced (not saved) by the Screaming Eagles, and its men and tanks went on to contribute largely to Americas victory in its largest battle of the war. General Anthony McAuliffe, of the 101st Airborne, said, It seems regrettable to me that Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division didnt get the credit it deserved at the battle of Bastogne. All the newspaper and radio talk was about the paratroopers. Actually the 10th Armored Division was in there a day before we were and had some very hard fighting before we ever got into it. Fortunately, in this book, the historical record is finally corrected. With their trademark style, King and Collins, through their firsthand interviews with veterans, bring us straight into the combats of the 10th Armored, equaling the balance between the brave paratroopers and gallant tankers who, together, held off Germanys last major offensive in the West.
$32.95 6 x 9 336 pages photos throughout May 2013 hardback 9781612001814 eISBN - 9781612001821
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Barksdales Charge
The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Phillip Thomas Tucker On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a cornerfrom persistent Confederate hopes to impending Rebel despair. But Picketts Charge was crushed by the Union defenders that day, having never had a chance in the first place. The Confederacys real high tide at Gettysburg had come the afternoon before, during the conflagration when Longstreets corps entered the battle, when the Federals barely held on. The foremost Rebel spearhead on that second day was Barksdales Mississippi brigade. Barksdales brigade was already renowned in the Army of Northern Virginia for its stand-alone fights at Fredericksburg. On the second day of Gettysburg it was just champing at the bit to go in. Longstreet began to launch McLaws division, and finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead. The Mississippians utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to Cemetery Ridge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals desperately struggled to find units to stem the Rebel tide. Barksdale was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion, finally ended the days fight as the Federal units on their heights took stock. They had barely held on against the Rebels, on a day that decided the fate of the nation. Barksdales Charge describes the exact moment when the Confederacy reached its zenith, and the soldiers of the Northern states just barely succeeded in retaining their perfect Union. $32.95 6 x 9 384 pages 16pp photos May 2013 hardback 9781612001791 eISBN - 9781612001807
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Hitlers Wave-Breaking Concept
An Analysis of the German End-Game in the Baltic, 194445
Henrik Lunde Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germanys 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 turns his sights to the withdrawal of Army Group North. Providing analysis to the problem, Lunde acknowledges that Hitler had valid reasons to maintain control of the Baltic coast. Without it, his supply of iron ore from Sweden would have been cut off, German naval bases would have been compromised, and an entire simpatico area of Europe would have been forsaken. On the other hand, Germanys maintaining control of the Baltic would have meant convenient supply for forces on the coast, and perhaps most important, remaining German defensive pockets behind the Soviets main drive to Europe would tie down offensive forces. However, the German high command had to make quick decisions and gamble, with the fate of hundreds of thousands of troops and the entire nation at stake on quickly decided throws of their dice. $32.95 6 x 9 304 pages 16 pp. photos May 2013 hardback 9781612001616 eISBN - 9781612001623 As Henrik Lunde details in this work, Hitler guessed wrong. By leaving four battle-hardened armies in isolation along the Baltic, the Soviets pulling up to the Oder River encountered weaker opposition than they had expected. Having economic resources of their own, they cared little for Hitlers own supply line and instead lunged at his center of power: Berlin. Once that was taken the remaining German pockets could be wiped out. The Germans deprived themselves of many of their strongest forces when they most needed them, and the climactic battle for their capital took place.
Taking Fire
Saving Captain AikmanThe Heroic Rescue of a Phantom Pilot from North Vietnam by the Air Force's Guardian Angels
Kevin ORourke and Joe Peters American military special operations forces have become a well-recognized and respected part of our popular culture. But whom do these elite warriors look to in their times of greatest need: when wounded on the battlefield, cut off deep behind enemy lines, or adrift in the expanse of the worlds oceans? They look skyward, hoping to catch a glimpse of their own personal guardian angel: a U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper. Taking Fire provides a look into the heroism of this little known segment of the Air Force Special Tactics community by focusing on one of the most dramatic rescues of the Vietnam War. It was June 1972 and Capt. Lynn Aikman is returning from a mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom is jumped by an enemy MiG and shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton eject from their crippled aircraft, but Hanton lands near a village and is captured. Injured during the ejection, Aikman lands some distance from the village, and there is a chance that he can be resuced. $32.95 6 x 9 288 pages 16 pp. photos May 2013 hardback 9781612001265 eISBN - 9781612001388 On the ground, Captain Aikman looks up and suddenly sees his guardian angel in the form of USAF Pararescue Jumper Chuck McGrath. As Sergeant McGrath is preparing to hook the downed pilot to a hoist line, he sees it fall to the ground. Hostile fire on the rescue helicopter has damaged the hoist mechanism causing the operator to cut the line. While circling A-1 Skyraiders strafe the militia to keep them away from Aikman and McGrath, the helicopter crew races to come up with a plan. Its getting dark, and theyll only have one chance.
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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 (19621966), Heavy Combat (19671969), and The Bitter End (1975). Each part includes chapters devoted to telling the story of Marine helicopters from the individual to the strategic level. Vietnam has often been called our first helicopter war, and indeed the U.S. Marine Corps, as well as Army, had to feel its way forward during the initial combats. But by 1967 the combat was raging across South Vietnam, with confrontational battles against the NVA, on a scale comparable to the great campaigns of WWII. In 1968, when the Communists launched their mammoth counteroffensive, the Marines were forced to fight on all sides, with the helicopter giving them the additional dimension that proved decisive in repelling the enemy. 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 of service and sacrifice by Marine pilots and crewmen. The entire story of the war is here depicted through the prism of Marine helicopter operations, from the first deployments to support the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) against the Viet Cong through the rapid United States buildup to stop the North Vietnamese Army, until the final withdrawal from our Embassy.
$32.95 6 x 9 320 pages photos throughout April 2013 hardback 9781612001289 eISBN - 9781612001401
Four-War Boer
The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler
Colin Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis The amazing life of Pieter Krueler provides a window into a full century of conflict such as one man rarely experiences. Four-War Boer traces Kruelers life from the Second Boer War through his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa, to the Spanish Civil War to World War II, and on into the latter part of the 20th century, when he served as a mercenary during the 1960s Congo Crisis. This biography of a remarkable man and warrior is based on six years of historical research through secondary and primary sources as well as extensive interviews with Krueler himself. Interviews with German officers and others who knew Krueler add first-person testimony and give the work the immediacy of a memoir. Following the Boer defeat, Krueler sided with the Germans during the East African Campaign. He also operated in the Belgian Congo where he led native soldiers on missions. After WWI, Kruelers distrust of the rising Fascist and Communist movements led him to volunteer as a mercenary during the Spanish Civil War. In World War II, he worked as a reserve officer instructor, and later as a coast watcher to guard the coast of South Africa from German incursion. Krueler later served as a mercenary during the 1960s Congo Crisis. A chapter of this book is devoted to the formation of Rhodesias Selous Scouts. This material includes fascinating new information, and breaks the secrecy surrounding Rhodesian and South African special operations, as unveiled through the experience of a man who was a founding father of counterinsurgency in Africa. $32.95 6 x 9 288 pages 16pp. photos May 2013 hardback 9781612001753 eISBN - 9781612001760
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Or Go Down in Flame
A Navigators Death Over Schweinfurt
W. Raymond Wood Though Anglo-American air power may be unrivaled in todays world, this was certainly not the case during Europes last great war. Black Thursday, the second Schweinfurt raid, was the most savagely fought air battle in U.S. history, and a milestone in the course of World War II. On October 14, 1943, the U.S. Eighth Air Force launched nearly 300 bombers deep into German territory to destroy the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, hoping this would bring enemy industry to a halt. On that day, hundreds of German fighters raced among the unescorted B-17s, knocking down plane after plane, each with ten men aboard. Other German aircraft flew just outside machine-gun range of the formations, lobbing rockets that exploded into thousands of pieces of shrapnel. U.S. bombers that split off from a formation became prey for the agile packs of German fighters who would set upon them like wolves thirsty for a kill. By the end of the day, the flight path of the Flying Fortresses was marked across the breadth of Germany by towering pillars of smoke from crashed machines, fiery tributes to 600 lost airmen. W. Raymond Wood was a child when his brother was lost in the Schweinfurt raid, and the minute details of this book is the result of his effort to illuminate Black Thursday as no writer has before. He not only reveals the experience of the American flyers in this famous battle, but that of the civilians on the ground and the enemy fighters who flew against the bomber stream, including the Me-110 pilot who in all probability destroyed his brothers plane with a rocket.
$32.95 6 x 9 248 pages 48 illustrations February 2013 hardback 9781612001777 eISBN - 9781612001784
$32.95 6 x 9 288 pages 16pp photos April 2013 hardback 9781612001852 eISBN - 9781612001869
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Crossing the Wire
One Woman's Unlikely Journey to the Afghan War, and Her Suprising Revelations about the Dangers We Face
AnnaMaria Cardinalli, Ph.D. When an explosive U.S. military report on the topic of sexuality in southern Afghanistan was leaked into mainstream American media, it generated a firestorm of attention and reaction. While some of the findings regarding Afghan sexual practices were simply of cultural interest, other findings were of grave humanitarian concern, such as the cyclical abuse of young boys, perpetuated over countless generations. Because the topic became sensationalized, the author of the report, Dr. AnnaMaria Cardinalli, was discouraged to see her findings somewhat distorted in a public light. In this book, she takes the opportunity to provide the context of her research, which is as unique and revealing as the report itself. Instead of a further academic account, this book is the authors journalin fact journeya personal invitation into the life and rare experience of a woman working on the farthest front of the War on Terror. As a member of one of the Pentagons Human Terrain Teams, in the Pashtun south of Afghanistan, this read is not only interesting for its findings on Afghan sexuality but for its intimate window into the fascinating and almost surreal difficulty of our militarys job in that country and beyond, and the surprisingly indispensable place of a womans hand in the world of war. Through the authors eyes, we ultimately experience the ways in which the issue of Afghan sexuality has profound impact on concerns from womens rights to Afghanistans economic development and security to the recruitment and development of the terrorist threat to the Western worlda threat, she argues, we will not be free of without attention to this cycle of violence.
$29.95 6 x 9 288 pages 16pp photos April 2013 hardback 9781612001913 eISBN 9781612002019
$32.95 6 x 9 304 pages 16pp. photos June 2013 hardback 9781612001951 eISBN - 9781612001968
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Vintage Aviation Series Wings of War
An Airmans Diary of the Last Year of the War
Rudolf Stark $29.95 5 x 7.5 228 pages June 2013 hardback 9781612001876 eISBN - 9781612001883 This is a rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of the war. Originally published in 1933, it provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans step-by-step retreat in the face of increasingly overwhelming Allied forces in the air. Brutally honest and vividly written, Starks account of the end-game of the Imperial German Army Air Service provides an intimate, front-row glimpse of the death-throes of a once feared corps. This book also contains reproductions of some of the authors paintings depicting life on the Western Front.
Jagdstaffel 356
The Story of a German Fighter Squadron
M.E. Khnert $29.95 5 x 7.5 126 pages April 2013 hardback 9781612001449 eISBN - 9781612001456 Although the author has given this Jagdstaffel a fictitious number and changed the names of the pilots composing it, the incidents related in this book have the genuine ring of truth and will be recognized as facts by anyone who has had experience of flying on the Western Front or who has studied it since. Many experts believe this work draws on the experience of the Bavarian Jasta 35, which flew against the British; however, whatever its real number may have been, Jagdstaffel 356 undoubtedly fought in the air over Flanders in 1918. This book is an exciting account, obviously written from firsthand experience, of the air war from the German side.
An Airfighters Scrapbook
Ira Jones $29.95 5 x 7.5 338 pages March 2013 hardback 9781612001500 eISBN - 9781612001517 Ira Taffy Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. An Air Fighters Scrap Book recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record beating flights, all evoking the sheer delight in flying that characterized those early years.
Fighter Pilot
McScotch $29.95 5 x 7.5 276 pages April 2013 hardback 9781612001463 eISBN 9781612001470 McScotch himself describes his book and pays tribute to a colleague in this note: This book consists of the reminiscences of an ordinary fighter pilot of the R.F.C. who had the privilege of serving in one of the leading Fighter Squadrons and who had the honor of being the friend of the supreme fighter of all the Air Forces, that indomitable and lovable patriot. Available records and publications show McScotch himself as a fighter pilot holding the rank of lieutenant and then captain. He is credited with 12 kills of German opponents.
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Now Available in Paperback Tirpitz
The Life and Death of Germanys Last Super Battleship
Niklas Zetterling and Michael Tamelander $18.95 6 x 9 256 pages May 2013 paperback 9781612001982 eISBN 9781612000497 After the Royal Navys bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truththe German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable of destroying any other battleship afloat, as well as wreak havoc on Allied troop and supply convoys. For the next three and a half years, the Allies launched a variety of attacks to remove Germanys last serious surface threat. The authors have woven Tirpitzs story quite well, and in doing so explain the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding the super battleship. Their book is an excellent study of an aspect of naval strategy the Germans used with such aplomb . . . a welcome addition to my library.Naval Historical Foundation
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Finding Your Fathers War
A Practical Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War II US Army
Jonathan Gawne $24.95 7 x 10 352 pages May 2013 paperback 9781612001999 eISBN - 9781612002002 Originally published in 2006 and selling through three printings, this invaluable guide has been revised and updated for a new edition. In this work, leading military historian and researcher, Jonathan Gawne, explains and shares the techniques he uses to research archives, libraries, veteran associations, and myriad other sources of information to track down wartime careers. The book provides an overview of the Army in World War II. It goes on to explain how to find information from such sources as discharges, uniforms, paperwork, the National Personnel Records Center, National Archives, other facilities, and what you can expect from veterans organizations. The book also helps you to assemble the data you have collected and piece together the story of your relatives wartime service.
Deutsche Luftwaffe
Uniforms and Equipment of the German Pilot
Santiago Guillen Gustavo Cano $65.00 8 x 12 310 pages June 2013 Andrea Press hardback 9788496658394 When World War II began, Germanys Luftwaffe was the most powerful air force yet seen, achieving victory after victory in tandem with the German Army. But as other great powers rose to combat Hitler, the supremacy of the Me-109, Stuka, and Focke-Wulf soon began to pale before vast fleets of Allied warplanes which German industry could hardly match. Nevertheless, while flying till they died, Luftwaffe pilots continued to write a record of heroism and innovation, until at the very end of the war they nearly gained the edge again with their aces flying the worlds first jet fighter, the Me-262. In this large, lavishly illustrated, full-color work we gain an intimacy with the daily life of Luftwaffe pilots as never seen before. From their uniforms to equipment to everyday sundries, drawn from incredible collections of memorabilia, we can share their experiences on airfields or in the very skies of Europe, above the dark cause which unfortunately they served.
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Airfile Publications
Operation Torch
The Invasion of French North Africa - November to December 1942
Compiled by Neil Robinson $35.00 8.25 x 11.5 76 pages Now Available paperback 9780956980250 Operation Torch was the code name of the first Angle American amphibious operation of World War Two, launched against Vichy French controlled Morocco and Algeria, on 8 November 1942. Featuring a wide and eclectic range of aircraft types operated by both sides, who carried an equally wide range of color schemes and markings, the well-researched and detailed illustrations in Operation Torch provide fascinating coverage of this important first amphibious operation of World War Two.
RAF Middle East Air Force & Near East Air Force
1945 1979
$35.00 8.25 x 11.5 76 pages 100 Illustrations and 30 photographs March 2013 paperback 9780956980281 The aircraft and color schemes of the many and varied aircraft used by the RAF in the Middle East and Near East Air Forces following World War Two, which traces the gradual withdrawal of British interests in these often volatile areas during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
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Stalingrad
The Infernal Cauldron
Stephen Walsh $29.95 7.75 x 9.25 192 pages 200 photographs May 2013 hardback 9781909160583 The German invasion of the Soviet Union was Hitlers biggest gamble in his quest for Lebensraum in the East and it was at Stalingrad that his gamble failed. Stalingrad is a history of the greatest battle of World War II, a defining moment in the struggle on the Eastern Front. From conditions on the Eastern Front before the battle to the consequences of the battle for both combatants, Stalingrad is a comprehensive account of the build-up, engagement, turning points and aftermath of what became the Verdun of World War II. With authoritative text and rarely seen photographs, Stalingrad shows how the rubble-strewn city gave rise to a bitter hand-to-hand struggle between both sides, and how landmarks such as the Mamaev Kurgan Hill could change hands 17 times in a single day. With battle maps, 170 photographs and appendices, Stalingrad is a fascinating and vivid account of the battle that bled the German army dry, and turned the war in the East decisively against Germany.
Kursk
The Greatest Tank Battle
M. K. Barbier $29.95 7.75 x 9.25 192 pages 200 photographs May 2013 hardback 9781782740223 In July 1943, the German Army launched what proved to be its last great offensive on the Eastern Front. Kursk is a comprehensive history of the last time that Germany held the strategic initiative in the war against the Soviet Union. Once that initiative was lost, a vengeful Red Army set the course for the eventual destruction of the Nazi state. Kursk shows how a bitter struggle developed between the German and Soviet forces, which sucked in huge numbers of tanks, and men into a small area, becoming the greatest armored battle of the war. The Red Army of 1943 was very different from the force that reeled before the German onslaught in 1941, and its newfound professionalism and greater numbers wore down the attackers until all their momentum (and the battle) was lost. The final chapter discusses the full implications of the battle for the Germans and Russians. The books authoritative text is complemented with detailed maps that explain the troop movements that took place during the battle. It also includes appendices with information on orders of battle, losses and equipment. Kursk is an expert account of the moment when the Nazi state lost the initiative against the USSR and how then the course was set for the eventual destruction of Nazi Germany.
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I Survived the Somme
Charles Meeres $27.95 6 x 9.25 176 pages 60 illustrations January 2013 hardback 9781445606187 Charles Meeres served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. He kept a secret diary and painted many watercolors of life at the front. He described how he fought alongside the men of Kitcheners army at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and daily life in the trenches in the winter of that year. He was present at the first day of the battle of the Somme. Subsequent battles include the Battle of Arras in 1917, and a description from his comrades of the Third Battle of Ypres. These sections come directly from the diaries as written up each night by Meeres, and bring to life the daily details of army life in the dramatic times of the First World War.
Radar
Britains Shield and the Defeat of the Luftwaffe
David Zimmerman $22.95 4.75 x 7.75 352 pages 30 illustrations March 2013 paperback 9781445608594 The individual bravery and skill of the Battle of Britain pilots and the fighting qualities of their aircraft would have been in vain if they had not been part of a highly complex and sophisticated air defense system based on radar. The development of the system in just five years is one of the most remarkable scientific and technological accomplishments of the twentieth century. The creation of the radar defenses has been somewhat overlooked over the years. Many of the studies of radar have focused on the development of the technology, with little attention given to the creation of the much larger system for integrating radar into the nations air defenses. This work relates the development of radar with the diplomatic and air policy concerns of the period.
Evacuees
Growing Up in Wartime Britain
Geoffrey Lee Williams $19.95 4.75 x 7.75 160 pages 11 illustrations April 2013 paperback 9781445613345 In 1939, at the age of nine Geoffrey Lee Williams and his twin brother Alan felt ready for the war but were not ready for its consequences. The government had long planned the mass evacuation of children, under the code name Pied Piper, but the details were kept secret from local authorities and the population at large. The first wave left British cities on 1 September 1939 and by 3 September, a few hours before war was officially declared, it is estimated that millions of women and children had already been allocated to the planned reception areas or had been privately evacuated. Geoffrey and Alan were among them. This book begins with Geoffrey and Alans first evacuation to Hartley in Kent and then goes on to record their impressions of their three subsequent evacuations and their adventures, or misadventures until the end of the War in 1945.
Norfolk at War
Frank Meeres $24.95 6.5 x 9.25 160 pages January 2013 paperback 9781445604664 During the Second World War, Norfolk was truly on the front line. Being so close to the Continent, air raids were frequent and invasion was a very real and persistent threat for the people of the county. The men and women of Norfolk took up positions in all branches of the forces to fight for their country. The American presence in the county was strong, and has left a rich archive of personal papers and photographs, which are now held at the Norfolk Record Office. This book draws on this material and on the reminiscences of those in the county during the war. The book is beautifully illustrated with contemporary photographs, and these enhance the enthralling story being told: of what life was like during the Second World War.
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Winston Churchills Toyshop
Stuart Macrae $19.95 5 x 8 192 pages 40 illustrations January 2013 paperback 9781445608426 The inside story of one of the most famous back rooms of the Second World War. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays of the service ministries, Department M.D.1. earned from its detractors the soubriquet Winston Churchills Toyshop, yet from a tiny underground workshop in the cellars of the offices of Radio Normandie, and subsequently from a millionaires mansion, came an array of secret weapons ranging from the sticky bomb to giant bridge-carrying assault tanks.
Agent Rose
Bernard OConnor $34.95 6 x 9 264 pages 26 color illustrations January 2013 hardback 9781445608389 In September 2010, the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay. With no known friends or relatives, a council burial was arranged. A police search of her belongings found wartime French currency, and wartime medals. Further investigation revealed that she was one of 40 women sent into France by the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, Churchills topsecret wartime spook organization. Her story and her poignant death as a recluse became an international media sensation.
Desert Rats
The Desert War 1940-3 in the Words of Those Who Fought There
John Sadler $34.95 7 x 10 320 pages January 2013 hardback 9781848683372 From 1940-3, Britain was engaged in a life and death struggle with the Axis powers in North Africa, a titanic, swaying conflict that surged across the barren wastes of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The British servicemen who were to form the Desert Rats were not professional soldiers; they were drawn from all walks of life and had never set foot in the Western Desert. The burden of the War would rest on them for nearly three years and their final victory cleared the whole of North Africa.
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The American Bomber Boys
Martin Bowman $19.95 5 x 8 320 pages 100 illustrations January 2013 paperback 9781445608587 Asked why he was in Britain, a US serviceman with the US 8th Air Force quipped, Were here to win the war for you. The men of the US 8th AF dropped more bombs on Germany and Italy than any other air force. Martin Bowma
Spitfire
A Fighter Plane at War
Dilip Sarkar $34.95 8.25 x 11.75 192 pages 300 photos February 2013 paperback 9781445605852 The elliptical shape and mighty roar of the Supermarine Spitfire continues to inspire people all over the world. During the Second World War, the Spitfire became the icon of Britains defiance of Nazi Germany. Today it remains a symbol of national pride and the fascination in R. J. Mitchells little fighter shows no sign of diminishing.
Armageddon
The Illustrated Guide to Britains Cold War
Bob Clarke $34.95 7 x 10 128 pages 150 illustrations January 2013 paperback 9781445609157 From the late 1940s to the fall of Communist Russia, Britain was at war. To the general public much of it was imaginary but the Cold War was real nonetheless. Flaring up in 1962, with the Cuban missile crisis and in the 1980s with the standoffs between Reagan and Thatcher on one side, with the Soviet leaders on the other.
Piper Cherokee
A Family History
Ron Smith $24.95 6.5 x 9.25 96 pages 180 illustrations January 2013 paperback 9781445608501 The Cherokee has been in continuous production since 1960, and varieties of models are made with engines of differing specifications, to give range and fuel economy variations within the class of aircraft. This book describes the heritage and development of the entire Piper Cherokee family; its safety and ownership characteristics; internal and external details; and a range of special variants from STOL modifications and new engines to tail wheel conversions.
Transatlantic Betrayal
Andrew Porter $34.95 6.75 x 9.75 160 pages 100 color photos February 2013 paperback 9781445606491 The RB211 gas turbine engine was to be the biggest engineering project in Britain, and the worlds first three-spool turbofan. It had been developed for the Lockheed L1011 Tristar and finally entered service in 1972. Despite its huge development costs, it turned RollsRoyce into a global company, supplying engines for many thousands of airliners and military aircraft.
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Pathfinder Cranswick
50th Anniversary Edition
Michael Cumming $34.95 6.25 x 9.25 256 pages 16 page photo section Now Available hardback 9780956269676 Alec Cranswick volunteered for the Royal Air Force in 1939 and went on to earn the distinction of having flown, as a bomber pilot, the largest number of operations during the Second World War. Tragically, piloting a Lancaster bomber on his 107th bombing operation, Squadron Leader Alec Cranswick failed to return on the night of 4/5 July 1944. Bomber Command had lost an airman described by Pathfinder Force Commander Air Vice-Marshal Donald Bennett, as `so simply courageous and so selfless in sacrifice.
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On Wings of Fortune
A Bomber Pilots War
Wing Commander Richard Pinkham DFC Steve Darlow $29.95 6.25 x 9.25 192 pages 16 page photo section Now Available hardback 9780956269621 Royal Air Force veteran Wing Commander Richard Pinkham DFC presents the extraordinary and graphic account of his experiences flying 62 World War Two bombing operations. He tells his story with candor and without pulling punches, although the occasional humorous anecdote lightens proceedings. Richard served with the Royal Air Force through the entire war, embarking on his operational career amidst the desperate fight for survival that was the Battle of Britain. He went on to take part in some of the largest bombing raids ever carried out against Germany. With odds of 5 to 1 against him, Richard, unlike so many of his fellow airmen, lived to tell his story. He was then posted to North Africa to blast the Axis forces from Tunisia, and finally spent the last year of the war in the Far East, taking up fascinating accident investigation duties.
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Frontline Books
Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes
The Secrets of Bletchley Park
Gwen Watkins $24.95 4.75 x 7.5 240 pages 8 pages of plates February 2013 paperback 9781848326828 Bletchley Park, or Station X, was home to the most famous code breakers of the Second World War. After the war, many intercepts, traffic-slips and paperwork were burned. The truth about Bletchley was not revealed until F. Winterbothams The Ultra Secret was published in 1974. However, nothing until now has been written on the German Air Section. In Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes, former WAAF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) Gwen Watkins brings to life the reality of this crucial division.
Disaster at Stalingrad
An Alternate History
Peter Tsouras $29.95 6 x 9.5 March 2013 hardback 9781848326637 It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city to secure the valuable oil fields in the Caucasus. What happens next is well known to any student of modern history: a brutal war of attrition that lasted for nearly two years, and the victory by a resolute Soviet Red Army. This was the first defeat of Hitlers territorial ambitions in Europe and a critical turning point of WWII.
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Bringers of War
The Portuguese in Africa During the Age of Gunpowder & Sail from the 15th to 18th Century
John Laband $39.95 6 x 9 272 pages 24 pages of plates April 2013 hardback 9781848326583 Long before coal-fuelled ships and machinetooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slaves and searching for mineral riches. They fought their ancient Muslim foes wherever they encountered them, overthrew African kingdoms and resisted Dutch, Omani and Ottoman rivals. Campaigning over difficult terrain and in notoriously inhospitable climates, these were far from one-sided contests. Often victory was theirs, but so too were crushing, ignominious defeats in the field, debilitating sieges and humiliating capitulations. These were clashes between very contrasting societies with their own methods of warfare, choice of weaponry and concepts of what it took to be a heroic warrior. The enthralling tale of the Portuguese in Africa before the nineteenth century deserves to be every bit as familiar as the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Yet, surprisingly, English-speaking readers know few if any of their ferocious African wars. In this impeccably researched and spellbinding new book, John Leband seeks to redress this imbalance expertly recalling this remarkable saga in full for the first time.
Gurkha Tales
From Peace and War, 19452011
John Cross $34.95 6 x 9 288 pages 16pp of plates January 2013 hardback 9781848326903 J. P. Cross has spent 67 years among the Gurkhas, first as a serving officer and then as a resident of Nepal, being the only foreigner in the history of the country to be allowed to be both a house- and land-owner. His language ability is such that, even after 90 minutes of being interviewed on the radio, only those who recognized his voice knew he was not a Nepali. With this unparalleled knowledge and experience, the author has produced a unique series of articles, written over the past fifty years. These cover events in his own career, including the time he found himself in command of a Japanese battalion fighting nationalist guerrillas in Indo-China in 1945, and jungle warfare in Malaya during the Emergency, as well as descriptions of the nature of the Gurkha soldier and his relationship with the British, first as part of the army of the Raj, and later in the modern British Army.
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Frontline Books
The Exploits of Ensign Bakewell MS
With the Inniskillings in the Peninsula, & in Paris, 181111: 1815
Ian Robertson $39.95 6 x 9 240 pages 16 pages of plates 1/19/2013 hardback 9781848326989 A first-hand account of several engagements in the Peninsula after the advance from the Lines of Torres Vedras and pursuit of Massna, and including the first siege of Badajoz, edited from the original manuscript and with an explanatory commentary and notes by an experienced author well acquainted with both the period and the scenes of action. Fills a gap in the history of the Innis killings, the years 1812 to 1814 only being covered in Charles Crowes war Journals, recently published by Frontline Books as An Eloquent Soldier. Describes the French flight from Waterloo and rarely revealed before the life of a young officer in a promiscuous Paris during the earlier weeks of the Occupation.
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Victor Boys
True Stories from Forty Memorable Years of the Last V Bomber
Tony Blackman $39.95 6 x 9 192 pages color and black and white photos February 2013 hardback 9781908117458 The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Victor Boys tells the story of all the great things that were achieved, recounted first hand by the operators themselves, aircrew and ground crew. Starting with accounts by test pilot Johnny Allam, who undertook the major development of the aircraft, through its work as a nuclear bomber during the cold war, testing Blue Steel in Australia, to its superb work during the Falklands war and later as a first class air-to-air refuelling tanker and vital support tool for fighters and other aircraft. Published to coincide with the Victors 60th anniversary, the gripping text is superbly illustrated with photographs from the operators themselves, never released before.
Stuka Attack
The Dive Bombing Assault on England During the Battle of Britain
Andy Saunders $39.95 6.75 x 9.5 192 pages Illustrated throughout February 2013 hardback 9781908117359 The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognized worldwide. Its roles in Poland and the Battles of France and the Low Countries are almost legendary, but in the UK its import during the Battle of Britain is one that has never been covered in any specific detail. Here, Andy Saunders takes a critical look at every operation by Ju87s against British targets in 1940 including those on land and at sea. Each raid is charted, covering all aspects of the attacks including participants, defending RAF fighters and those on the receiving end. Myth and reality and truth and legend are all examined and analyzed in this highly illustrated new book, which adds to our knowledge of one of the most significant periods in the whole of British history.
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Heimdal
Breakout at Normandy
The 2nd Armored Division in the Land of the Dead
Mark Bando $39.50 8.5 x 12 160 pages 140 photographs January 2013 French/English Text hardback 9782840483434 The 2nd Armored Division during the landing in 1944 in Normandy.
Raid de Dieppe
Berneval, Pourville,Puys, Varengeville, (19 aot 1942)
Nicolas Bucourt Herv Fihue $59.00 8.5 x 12 396 pages more than 400 photographs with 80 unpublished January 2013 French Text hardback 9782840483168 The first attempt at landing in Normandy ended in a bloody failure. The authors go back over this operation with 80 unpublished German photos taken after the raid, adding to the important iconographic documentation with pictures and photos of equipment found there.
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Heimdal
La Bataille dEl-Alamein
Cdric Mas $36.00 8.5 x 12 120 pages January 2013 French Text hardback 9782840483410
La Bataille du Cotentin
Georges Bernage $19.50 8.5 x 12 80 pages January 2013 French Text hardback 9782840483441
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Belfast Diaries
A Gunner In Northern Ireland 1971-74
Steve Corbett $49.95 6 x 9 208 pages 8pp color photos and illustrations, c. 70 b/w photos May 2013 paperback 9781909384071 In the four-month period during 1971 that Gunner Stephen Corbett was stationed in Andersontown, Northern Ireland, 33 servicemen were killed by terrorist action in the province. His unit, 9 (Plassey) Bty, Royal Artillery, was attacked by a bomb, bullet or rioters on more than 400 occasions. The young Gunners notebooks detailing his two tours of duty were put in a drawer where they were to lay, untouched, for more than 30 years. Here, for the first time, this account of his service is vividly brought to life and validated through newspaper articles, intelligence reports, and surviving examples of IRA propaganda.
Witchcraft Strike!
Fighting the Helmand War with the Arnhem Lions
James Eastwood $39.95 6 x 9 328 pages c. 90 color photos May 2013 paperback 9781909384279 This incredible work tells of a Royal Artillery Forward Observer, James Eastwood, who deployed to Afghanistan in support of Arnhem Company of the British Armys Duke of Lancasters Regiment - the famous Arnhem Lions. The book features dozens of James own photos taken on active service, providing a rare insight into the role of a forward observer in Afghanistan, including incredible action images. Set against the harsh Afghan landscape and the ever-present threat of IEDs, this is a graphically honest account of the harsh reality of 21st Century warfare and the daily pressures and demands placed upon Britains young soldiers of today. Read it and be inspired.
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Koevoet
Experiencing South Africas Deadly Bush War
Jim Hooper $35.00 6 x 9 312 pages 48 pages color photos February 2013 paperback 9780957058705 Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since its release over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the original in capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africas deadly bush war. Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access to Koevoet, the elite South West African Police counterinsurgency unit - also known as Operation K and officially as the South West Africa Police Counter Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN). Author Jim Hooper spent a total of five months embedded with the semi-secret and predominantly black Ops K, which climaxed with one of the most vicious and determined infiltrations ever mounted by the communist-backed South West Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO).
Dingo Firestorm
The Greatest Battle of the Rhodesian Bush War
Ian Pringle $49.95 6 x 9 304 pages c. 60 color and b/w photos, 4 b/w maps April 2013 hardback 9781909384125 On 23 November 1977, an armada of helicopters and airplanes took off from Rhodesian airbases and crossed the border into Mozambique. Their objective: to attack the headquarters of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army. Codenamed Operation Dingo, the raid was planned to coincide with a meeting of Robert Mugabe and his war council at the targeted HQ . In this fascinating account, Ian Pringle describes the political and military backdrop leading up to the operation, and he tells the story of the battle through the eyes of key personalities who planned, led and participated in it.
Enduring Valour
South Africas Cross of Honour
Ian Uys $69.95 6 x 9 288 pages 290 b/w and 7 color photos, 3 maps July 2013 hardback 9781909384286 The Honoris Crux (Cross of Honor) was South Africas premier gallantry decoration awarded to members of the SA Defense Force between 1952 and 2003. The stories behind over 300 of these awards and other medals for bravery are told. For these soldiers, sailors and airmen the common denominator was courage. The author has interviewed many of the medal recipients and invariably found them to be modest about their heroic exploits. The awards were made irrespective of race, color or creed. Men from diverse backgrounds learnt to live and fight together, especially among the Special Forces, where their lives often depended on each other. Through these pages, one learns of the incredible valor displayed during the turbulent years of the Border War.
A New Battlefield
The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea, 1950-51
David R. Orr David Truesdale $69.95 6 x 9 272 pages 175 photographs, 4 maps July 2013 paperback 9781908916921 A New Battlefield follows the Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles as it prepares for the first major conflict fought by Britain since the defeat of the Japanese in 1945. During the summer of 1950, the Battalion was stationed at Sobraon Barracks in Colchester and its numbers were just under four hundred men. For service in Korea, these numbers had to be drastically increased and drafts of volunteers and reservists were brought in from various sources. Despite their varied backgrounds, all ranks soon coalesced into a professional unit that took the campaign in its stride.
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Muddling Through
The Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World War One
Peter Howson $59.95 6 x 9 188 pages c. 10 b/w photos April 2013 paperback 9781909384200 As with many other aspects of the British army, the outbreak of World War One started a process of change that resulted in a radically different provision of chaplaincy care once the war was over. Nothing was ever simple with chaplaincy as a number of churches became involved with the army. The structure was already under pressure before the war with the Catholic Church insisting on new rules for chaplaincy in the twentieth century. The creation of the Territorial Force added a new dimension after 1907, bringing new players into the mix including the Jewish community. These chaplains challenged the traditional Garrison Church based ministry of the regulars. The book examines the muddled state of chaplaincy in August 1914 and looks at how chaplains were mobilized.
Top Secret
British Boffins in World War One
David Rogers $59.95 6 x 9 224 pages c. 40 b/w ills, 8 diagrams May 2013 paperback 9781909384217 The Fellowship of the Royal Society was restricted and required individuals to be at the peak of their chosen scientific professions. All Fellows were experts in their chosen fields, which not only included traditional sciences, but also engineering and medicine. It is no wonder that their expertise and opinions were sought during the Great War. The exploits of the Fellows during the war are relatively unknown. Drawing from previously unpublished documents from the Royal Society archives deemed Secret at the time, and wartime documents from the National Archives during the Great War, this book brings a unique perspective on wartime inventions, research and developments from one of the darkest periods of 20th Century warfare.
The Gaysh
A History of the Aden Protectorate Levies 1927-61 and the Federal Regular Army of South Arabia 196167
Frank Edwards $69.95 6 x 9 192 pages 45 b/w photos, 2 maps July 2013 paperback 9781908916877 The Gaysh tells the story of the emergence of an army following early attempts to protect the trade routes in and through Aden. It was not until the Turks threatened to invade in the First World War that a regular army unit was formed. The 1st Yemen Infantry did not see action, and there was a move to disband it in 1928. Because a need remained, the decision was taken to replace its policing role by airpower, supported by a small force of levies to defend the bases, including a camel corps. The book takes that story on through the Aden Protectorate Levies growing strength and its relationship with the British Government and its policies.
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Hitlers Swedes
A History of the Swedish Volunteers in the Waffen-SS
Lars Larsson $69.95 6 x 9 384 pages c. 160 b/w photos, 8 color maps July 2013 hardback 9781909384118 Sweden was neutral during the Second World War, but despite this, thousands of Swedes wanted to participate in the war - the largest group in Finland, where over 10,000 Swedes applied to fight against the Red Army. Another much smaller group, which saw action against the same enemy, was the Swedish SS volunteers. While the Danish and Norwegian SS volunteers are well known today, their Swedish counterparts remain unknown. Still, they saw action on both the Eastern Front and participated in some of the bloodiest clashes. Compared to many other groups of volunteers, there was never an official recruitment drive in Sweden, which is why only some 180-200 men enlisted. This book is as much a history about the units, which the Swedes served in, as it is a story about the individuals themselves.
Generalissimo Stalin
The Myth of Stalin as a Great Military Strategist
Boris Gorbachevsky $45.00 6 x 9 316 pages c. 30 b/w photos, maps July 2013 paperback 9781909384255 This new book reveals a bitter truth about the war that has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage fighting of the Second World War refutes one of the primary Soviet myths: that it was Stalins brilliant strategic mind and his invaluable contributions that brought about the eventual victory. The author argues that the Red Army emerged victorious from the war in spite of the tyrant, who never spared his soldiers lives and who recognized only one strategy: to break the Wehrmachts resistance by overloading it with the corpses of Red Army soldiers.
ZhitomirBerdichev
German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943-31 January 1944 Volume 2
Stephen Barratt $99.95 6 x 9 616 pages c. 12 b/w photos, 253 color maps in separately-bound mapbook July 2013 hardback 9781909384101 This is the second volume of a two-volume set, which together comprise a detailed history of the neglected operation that was to be the beginning of the liberation of western Ukraine. Following from where Volume 1 left off, this second volume describes events from January 10 -31, 1944 and details the counterattacks undertaken by the Germans. By the time the last of these counterattacks was closing, the conditions had already been established for the next Soviet offensive in the region: the Korsun pocket. In tracing these counterattacks, the book describes how the German operational situation developed during the period immediately leading up to the Soviet Korsun offensive.
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50 Avions Celebres
Arnaud Beinat $34.95 7.5 x 10 50 pages Now Available French Text paperback 9782352502500 The fifty planes which make up this book all marked the Second World War in one way or another. They have been photographed at the air shows where they still fly, maintained in flying condition by associations or by wealthy amateurs at great expense and at the price of constant effort. The pilots who take to the air in these planes today are experienced people and it mustnt be forgotten that the pilots were only on average 22 or 23 years old at the time. The author has therefore become attached as much to the men as to the machines. Among the famous planes in the book there are the Supermarine Spitfire, Junkers Ju 52, Polikarpov I-16, Hawker Hurricane, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Bell P-39 Airacobra, Grumann F6F Hellcat, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Focke Wulf FW 190, Yakovlev Yak 3, Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk, North American P-51 Mustang and Mistubishi A6M Zero, etc.
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Chasseurs A Cheval
Volume 2: 1779-1815
Ludovic Letrun Jean-Marie Mongin $24.95 8 x 10 80 pages Now Available paperback 9782352502395 Our troopers are now in the Emperor Napoleons service. This second volume follows them as they brigade with the Hussars in all the great theaters of operation at the beginning of the Empire. Here we deal with the missions given over to the light cavalry before, during, and after the battle. As for the uniform part, the book shows how their uniform evolved from being a mere copy of the Hussats to becoming with time totally specific to the Chasseur a Cheval Arm.
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Kagero
Super Model International vol. II
Przemyslaw Szymczyk Lukasz Kapelski $15.95 8.25 x 11.5 80 pages 160 photos December 2012 paperback 9788362878406
BMW R 75
And Other BMW Motorcycles in the German Army in 19301945
Lukasz Gladysiak $19.95 8 x 11 56 pages 44 3D graphics, 30 archive photos December 2012 paperback 9788362878390
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Lancer
Indelible Reminiscence
Memoirs of Major General Gurbakhsh Singh, Padma Shri, DSO, OBE
Maj Gen Gurbakhsh Singh $27.95 6 x 9 304 pages January 2013 hardback 9781935501381 The decade of the Forties was turbulent for British Raj - World War II was raging and the Indian subcontinent was swept by a popular freedom movement. As the War ended, Indian subcontinent was divided in 1947. Indelible Reminiscences by Major Singh, is a testimony of those turbulent times. As a Lieutenant Colonel he was commanding his Battalion in Singapore when the British Forces in Malaya surrendered to the Japanese.
Under Fire
Dealing with Threats to India
Bharat Verma $18.95 9 x 6 156 pages January 2013 paperback 9781935501398 From aggressive, devious neighbors to well-armed internal insurgents, the list of those taking aim at our nation is long. In this riveting series of columns, Verma takes a 360 degree look at the strategic and military challenges facing India today, and suggests ways and means to overcome them.
Rise of China
Indian Perspectives
S Gopal (Ed) Nabeel A Mancheri (Ed) $27.95 5.5 x 8.5 270 pages January 2013 hardback 9781935501374 The remarkable rise of China in the last three decades has had a mixed global reaction. While many countries have welcomed this rise, some of Chinas neighbors have viewed it with concern. What does the rise of China signify for India, given the none too smooth relationship? Or is China Threat an exaggeration as some would hold?
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LRT Editions
Cavalry Outpost Duties
Gnral Antoine Fortun De Brack $65.40 8.5 x 10.75 336 pages 115 illustrations color and b/w January 2013 paperback 9782917747032 Written with an intelligence vast and active, with a glowing heart, in an observing and delicate spirit, with a rare love for the soldier, this book, almost improvised, is a charming little masterpiece. At once witty and profound, the author, laying aside all prejudice, shows himself so original that certain parts, without ceasing to be true, have a perfume of poetry which charms the military reader. De Brack never loses sight of the morale of the soldier ; he speaks of honor, of courage, of devotion, and his language makes one thrill. The style moves on at a cavalry pace, which is well adapted to the subject.
Le Soldat Lagide
Stphane Thion $22.75 8 x 10.25 64 pages 37 color plates February 2013 French Text paperback 9782917747100 Hellenistic Egypt, with its many papyrus preserved by the dry climate, is the natural starting point for studies of Alexander the Greats successors institutions. No other Hellenistic kingdom has as many sources, even in the military field. This book details the Ptolemaic organization and equipment over the period covering the 3rd to the 1st century BC. In an effort to bring the Ptolemaic soldier back to life, 37 plates illustrate the text, most of which were made from steles and mosaics found in Egypt.
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MMP
311 Squadron RAF
Pavel Vancata $27.00 7 x 10 128 pages 100+ b/w photos, 16 color profiles January 2013 paperback 9788361421436 A history of the successful Czechoslovak bomber squadron in the RAF during WW2. No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Bomber Squadron was established as the second Czechoslovak combat squadron within the Royal Air Force during the summer of 1940, and became the only wholly Czechoslovak bomber squadron in the RAF. The book contains: Superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare black and white archive photographs.
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Hungarian Fighter Colours
Dnes Bernd Gyrgy Punka $69.00 8.25 x 11.75 192 pages 200+ b/w photos, 72 color profiles December 2012 hardback 9788361421719 This book describes and illustrates all the fighter aircraft used by the Hungarian armed forces during WW2. Covering both the indigenous designs employed early on through to the German and Italian fighters flown for much of the period, the camouflage and markings of these aircraft are described and illustrated in great detail. Fully illustrated with many rare wartime photos. Full color profiles of many representative aircraft.
Messerschmit Bf 109 F
Robert Michulec $29.00 7 x 10 160 pages 200+ b/w photos, 48 color profiles February 2013 paperback 9788361421757 This book covers the development of the F variants of the most famous German WW2 fighter, the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Contains: scale plans, photos and drawings from Technical Manuals, superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare b+w archive photographs, color photos of the preserved aircraft. Essential reading for aviation enthusiasts & scale aeromodelers.
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Kugisho E14Y GLEN
The Aircraft that Bombed America
Ryusuke Ishiguro Tadeusz Januszewski $59.00 8.25 x 11.75 160 pages 200+ b/w, 60+ color profiles December 2012 paperback 9788389450616 Only one enemy aircraft has ever dropped bombs on mainland USA and that aircraft was a submarinelaunched Glen floatplane. This book tells the story of the design, development and operational use of the E14Y1 Glen. Included are details of earlier Japanese submarine-launched aircraft, and of the submarines designed and used as seaplane carriers. Profusely illustrated with photos, plans and color profiles - plus a description and photos of the only remnants of the E14Y1 still in existence, submerged aboard the hulk of the Akibasan Maru off Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific.
Henschel Hs 123
Robert Panek $38.00 7 x 10 160 pages 200 b/w photos, 40 color profiles January 2013 paperback 9788361421481 The Henschel Hs123 was a single-seat biplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early years of World War II. This book describes the development and operation history of the Hs123. It contains: superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare b&w archive photographs, and scale plans.
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Oxbow Books
Confederate Seas
John Hess $29.95 140 pages colored maps Now Available Heritage Publications paperback 9781905933013 When the American Civil War began in 1861 it became of prime importance for the United Sates to seal off the Southern ports. The Southern Confederacy had few resources to prevent this happening, but tried very hard to make up the difference. The result was a bitter four year war on the sea in which the intrigues of foreign powers took a leading part. This is its story, a record of changing fortune and desperate effort.
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Oxbow Books
Roman Imperial Armour
The Production of Early Imperial Military Armour
David Sim J. Kaminski $50.00 180 pages 148 b/w and color illustrations Now Available paperback 9781842174357 The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armor available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armor. Roman Imperial Armour presents an examination of the metals the armor was made from, of how the ores containing those metals were extracted from the earth and transformed into workable metal and of how that raw product was made into the armor of the Roman army.
Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome
J.C. Coulston M.C. Bishop $40.00 224 pages b/w illustrations Now Available paperback 9781842171592 Romes rise to empire is often said to have owed much to the efficiency and military skill of her armies and their technological superiority over barbarian enemies. But just how advanced was Roman military equipment? What were its origins and how did it evolve? The authors of this book have gathered a wealth of evidence from all over the Roman Empire to present a picture of what range of equipment would be available at any given time, what it would look like and how it would function. They examine how certain pieces were adopted from Romes enemies and adapted to particular conditions of warfare prevailing in different parts of the Empire.
Vasa
A Swedish Warship
Frederick M. Hocker $48.00 212 pages full color throughout Now Available Medstroms Bokforlag hardback 9789173291019 Vasa was the most modern warship imaginable in 1628. Her ability for fast and aggressive sailing, the multiple gun deck and the heavy, custom-made guns were innovations. She was meant to be a key asset for Sweden in a bid for power in Northern Europe. But as with most brilliant innovations there are also failures, and the ship sank on her maiden voyage, a spectacular, costly and embarrassing fiasco. This book contains new information about the ship and the people who built and sailed it. And then theres the story of the discovery of the wreck and its challenging and exciting recovery.
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Panzer Killers
Anti-tank Warfare on the Eastern Front
Artem Drabkin $32.95 6 x 9 224 pages 48 illustrations April 2013 hardback 9781781590508 What was it like to confront the German panzer armies as an antitank gunner on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? And how did the Red Armys tactics and skills develop over the course of the war in order to counter the threat posed by the elite troops of the Wehrmacht? The vivid personal narratives of Red Army anti-tank men selected for this book give a fascinating insight into these questions. Their testimony reveals how lethal, rapid, small-scale actions were fought, and it shows how such isolated actions determined the outcome of the massive offensives and counter-offensives that characterized the struggle on the Eastern Front.
Warsaw 1944
An Insurgents Journal of the Uprising
Magda Czajkowski $29.95 6 x 9 176 pages Illustrated January 2013 hardback 9781781590584 This remarkable Journal, written shortly after the event, describes not only the authors own experiences of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising but the wider picture. With the Soviet Armys arrival imminent, the Polish Underground fighters decided to wage open warfare against the hated Nazi occupiers. This courageous decision was taken despite the Poles chronic shortage of arms, ammunition and medical support. They fully expected the Soviets to relieve them gratefully for hastening the defeat of the Germans. With cruel and calculated cynicism, the Soviets halted their offensive and let the uneven match be settled without their involvement. The outcome was inevitable Warsaw was largely destroyed, the Polish men, women and children fighters crushed and the Nazis weakened. The Soviets then moved in.
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Traditional Enemies
Britains War With Vichy France 194042
John D Grainger $39.95 6 x 9 224 pages 9 maps February 2013 hardback 9781781591543 After the surrender of the French government in May 1940, the British were concerned that the resources of the Empire would be put at the disposal of the Germans. The British sought to neutralize the threat of the French fleet and saw an opportunity to gobble up certain French colonies for themselves. Thus, she continued the rivalry with her nearest neighbor and recent allies.
Bruneval
Paul Oldfield $22.95 5.25 x 8.5 198 pages Illustrated throughout February 2013 paperback 9781781590676 This book covers the development of radar, the search for German radar in the Second World War, the discovery of Wrzburg radar at Bruneval, the planning and preparations for the audacious raid, its highly successful execution and the aftermath.
Cockleshell Raid
Paul Oldfield $24.95 5.25 x 8.5 240 pages 8 pp. color January 2013 paperback 9781781592557 Operation Frankton is a story of how determined and resourceful men, using flimsy canoes, achieved what thousands could not by conventional means. This book covers the Frankton story including the development of the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment, the planning and preparation for the raid, its aftermath and an account of the war crimes inflicted on the captured.
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By Air to Battle
The Official History of the British Paratroops in World War II (World War II from Original Sources)
Bob Carruthers $19.95 6 x 9 240 pages January 2013 paperback 9781781591130
Servants of Evil
Voices from Hitlers Army
Bob Carruthers $19.95 6 x 9 240 pages January 2013 paperback 9781781591390
The Spitfire
Bob Carruthers $14.95 6 x 9 144 pages January 2013 paperback 9781781591147
Der Adler
The Official Nazi Luftwaffe Magazine
Bob Carruthers $19.95 8.25 x 11.75 176 pages March 2013 paperback 9781781591406.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939 through to Germanys defeat in 1945.
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Tiger I in Combat
Bob Carruthers $14.95 6 x 9 128 pages February 2013 paperback 9781781591291
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Gtterdmmerung
The Last Battles in the East
Bob Carruthers Willhelm Willemar $14.95 6 x 9 144 pages February 2013 paperback 9781781591369 This fascinating collection of primary source accounts focuses on the combat actions of the Wehrmacht in the final battles of the war. The material is drawn from a variety of wartime sources and encompasses fascinating writings concerning the tactical, operational and strategic aspects of the battle for Berlin.
Air War D-Day: The Air War Market Build Up Garden: The Build Martin Bowman Up to the $39.95 6 x 9 256 pages Beginning
Martin Bowman $39.95 6 x 9 256 pages 60 images January 2013 hardback 9781781591154 This is the first volume of a four part work presenting a complete account of the air operations throughout Market-Garden when British, US and Polish troops attempted to seize bridges across the Lower Rhine as a springboard for crossing into Germany.
This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and comprehensive five-part work that includes a multitude of personal military and civilian accounts of the aerial operations which were carried out on D-Day.
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Military History From Original Sources Waterloo Soldier of 1815: the Empire The Note-Books Captain of Captain Mercers Coignet Bob Carruthers Journal
Cavalie Mercer Bob Carruthers $14.95 6 x 9 128 pages January 2013 paperback 9781781591468 Originally published in 1900, this book features excerpts from Alexander Cavali Mercers account of the battle of Waterloo. $19.95 6 x 9 280 pages Fully Illustrated January 2013 paperback 9781781591505 Jean-Roch Coignet was a French soldier who served in the military campaigns of the Consulate and First French Empire. He later wrote his memoirs detailing his military service in 1848.
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Salute of Guns
Donald Boyd Clare Ajenusi $39.95 6 x 9 256 pages 8 pages b/w January 2013 hardback 9781848848504 Artillery was the decisive weapon of the Great War but its story is almost forgotten. The developments in artillery tactics, equipment and shells played a major role in the final Allied victory. This book gives the reader a dramatic insight into the story of artillery in the First World War. Donald Boyd joined his local Territorial Force artillery unit in September 1914. Commissioned in 1915, he learnt his trade in France from unsympathetic pre-war Indian Army regulars who did not understand how war was changing. From 1916 to 1918, he took part in the Western Fronts major battles, including the Somme, Third Ypres, Cambrai and the 1918 offensives. The stress of an artillery subalterns existence, observing in the front line, keeping the guns in action at a battery position or leading ammunition columns up tracks exposed to shellfire brought him to nervous collapse twice.
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Johnny:
The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton
John Philip Jones $50.00 6 x 9 288 pages 16 b/w photos January 2013 hardback 9781848847880 The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April 1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of the war but the force that was deployed was too small to achieve its aim. General Hamilton was at fault in the way he conducted his campaign. This book examines why Hamilton failed at Gallipoli and shows how he became a wellrespected military prophet who many several perceptive predictions about the future of warfare.
Of Those We Loved
A Narrative 1914-1919 Remembered and Illustrated
I L (Dick) Read $50.00 6 x 9 528 pages April 2013 hardback 9781781591017 Dick Read was among the first to respond to Kitcheners call for volunteers in 1914. He joined 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment at the outbreak of war and, within weeks, was heading for the battlefields of Northern France with the British Expeditionary Force. This narrative is a personal record of one mans war and a profoundly moving epitaph for a lost generation.
Into Battle
A SeventeenYear-Old Joins Kitcheners Army
E.W. Parker $24.95 6 x 9 112 pages April 2013 paperback 9781781591550 Written well over 90 years ago while the experiences were still fresh in the authors mind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitcheners Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital - an officer with the Military Cross - recovering from his last wound, on the day of the Armistice.
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Winged Crusaders
The Exploits of 14 Squadron RFC & RAF 1915-45
Michael Napier $50.00 6 x 9 384 pages 210 photographs, 19 maps, and 8pp color plates (aircraft profiles) January 2013 hardback 9781781590591 Formed in 1915 and still operational today, 14 Squadron is one of the RAFs longest serving and most senior Squadrons. Spending the first thirty years of its operational life in the Middle East, the history of this Squadron is a rich one, but one that, until now, has gone largely unrecorded.
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Howard
Ian Colvin $39.95 6 x 9 288 pages 12 pages of b/w plates February 2013 hardback 9781781590164 On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down by German aircraft. Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard and his tax adviser, Alfred Chenhalls, who looked remarkably like Winston Churchill. Did the Germans believe that Churchill was on board? Other aircraft flying that route went unmolested in spite of the German air presence.
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Sailor Malan
Battle Of Britain Legend: Adolph G. Malan
Philip Kaplan $32.95 6 x 9 256 pages 16 pages of mono plates January 2013 hardback 9781781590454 Malan was thirty years old during the Battle of Britain, old for a fighter pilot, but his maturity gave his leadership authority. Here is the story of this talented man that manages to strike a balance between objectivity and reverence in order to commit Malans story to paper.
Mosquito Missions
Martin Bowman $39.95 6 x 9 224 pages One 16 page b/w plate section, One 16 page color plate section January 2013 hardback 9781781591673 The Wooden Wonder was the most versatile combat aircraft that operated on all fronts in World War Two. Martin Bowmans respected formula of incorporating background information with personal narratives is employed here once again.
Adventurous Empires
The Story of the Short Empire Flying-Boats
Phillip E Sims $50.00 8.25 x 11.75 256 pages 146 mono halftones and line January 2013 hardback 9781781591079 This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire.
Borneo Boys
RAF Helicopter Pilots in Action - Indonesia Confrontation 1962-66
Roger Annett $60.00 6 x 9 272 pages 100 color illustrations plus maps February 2013 hardback 9781781590102 The book describes the oppositions, victories, and defeats experienced on the island of Borneo. With its difficult terrain, jungles, and lack of adequate road networks, it proved to be one of the biggest challenges from a military perspective.
Fire by Order
Recollections of Service with 656 Air Observation Post Squadron in Burma
E.W. Maslen-Jones $29.95 6 x 9 208 pages 16 pp b/w plates January 2013 paperback 9781781592601 The debt owed by 14th Army to 656 Air OP Squadron in the reconquest of Burma was immeasurable. From 1943 until the end of the war, these three flights of five tiny Auster aircraft provided air observation for the whole of the Army fighting the Japanese below.
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Salamanca 1812
Wellingtons Year of Victories
Peter Edwards $50.00 6 x 9 384 pages 16 b/w March 2013 hardback 9781781590799 1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwardss compelling new history. The year began with Wellington launching a series of raids in Estramadura to distract French attention from preparations for an assault on Ciudad Rodrigo. There followed the capture of Badajoz and the advance on Salamanca. The Battle of Salamanca, on 22 July, saw some 50,000 French troops arrayed against a similar number of allies. Using ground astutely, Wellington gained a crushing victory, inflicting over 14,000 French casualties. Although there was a rebuff at Burgos later in the year, Wellingtons forces were firmly on the march to victory in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Soldier At Heart
From Private to General
Mike Reynolds $50.00 6 x 9 320 pages 48 b/w photos February 2013 hardback 9781781590263 Growing up during the Second World War, Mike Reynolds became so interested in soldiering that he decided to make the Army his life. Joining as a National Serviceman, to see if he would really like being a soldier, he made the decision to become a professional and was commissioned into The Queens Royal Regiment.
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Threads of Treason
Mary Bale $14.95 5 x 7.75 272 pages March 2013 paperback 9781781591000 When two of the nuns creating the Bayeux Tapestry fall from the tower of the Priory of St Thomas the Apostle, Abbess Eleanor and her protg, Therese, are sent to investigate. As the adventures unfold, the intrigue created between the Norman Princes and Bishops, as well as the tensions between the conquerors and the native Britons, deepen to great and dramatic effect. Mary Bale has captured the spirit and feel of the times, which she evokes in this, her first novel. This extensively researched novel is sure to appeal to those looking for an evocative tale of adventure and intrigue, made vivid by fascinating period details.
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Coming Home
Roy E. Stolworthy $14.95 5 x 7.75 368 pages January 2013 paperback 9781781590713 A brutally honest portrayal of the realities of war, this novel relays the story of fifteen-year-old Thomas Elkin as he engages in the First World War. A tale of conflict, both global and personal, and of redemption, this novel has the potential to rank alongside the best of retrospective First World War literature. Accepting the blame for the accidental death of his recently conscripted brother, Elkin switches identity with his dead sibling and enters into the fray of the conflict. His burning ambition is to die a glorious death in his brothers name. Believing that in fully submitting to the reality of war he is atoning for his sins, he faces all the attendant horrors with a steel will and a poignant resignation.
Exit Plan
Mike Sixsmith $39.95 6 x 9 272 pages January 2013 hardback 9781781590973 Bill Sloan, a former British Army intelligence officer and Shahid Al Sheehi, the son of a Pakistani British immigrant are caught up in a breathtakingly ambitious plan for a small Middle Eastern Emirate to seize regional power by acquiring weapons of mass destruction. The destinies of Sloan and Al Sheehi are irrevocably entwined. This novel draws the reader into a realm of political intrigue, characterized by thwarted terrorist plots, international duplicity, and a host of anxious preoccupations including the threat of WMDs. Incredibly timely, as these issues still continue to feature in contemporary headlines, this work acts to set our current perceptions of such issues is context.
Blockade Runner
David Kent-Lemon $14.95 5 x 7.75 304 pages January 2013 paperback 9781781590645 It is 1861. Tom Wells is in pursuit of a girl from North Carolina. He accepts an offer from his employer to leave the quiet obscurity of his job as an office boy in a London shipping firm to cross the Atlantic to Nassau in the Bahamas. Now he must face the hazards of the Union blockade in the American Civil War. Toms bravado may help him with running the blockade, but how will he cope with the conflicting issues of love and morality as he becomes entangled with a lady of easy virtue in Nassau? Toms adventures take him between Nassau, Charleston and Wilmington NC, where he must smuggle arms and munitions through a gauntlet of Union warships to the Southern ports, bringing cotton and tobacco back to Nassau.
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Winged Scalpel
Richard Villar $39.95 6 x 9 224 pages 16pp b/w plates January 2013 hardback 9781781591680 In this fast-paced narrative, ex-SAS surgeon Richard Villar provides a very personal insight into the difficulties, dangers and occasional virtual impossibility of providing medical aid to disaster areas and war zones. He shares his remarkable experiences in the aftermath of three major earthquakes Kashmir, Java and Haiti as well as in the Libyan civil war.
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Market Garden Collection Market Garden Collection Market Garden Collection Arnhem Part 1 Arnhem Hells Highway
The Battle for the Bridges
BHTV $24.95 5.25 x 7.5 Now Available DVD NTSC 5060247620855
Germany at War Air Sea Germany at War The Warfare Top Fighter Planes
$19.95 5.5 x 7.5 50 mins January 2013 DVD NTSC 4260110585170 $19.95 5.5 x 7.5 50 mins January 2013 DVD NTSC 4260110585187
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Waffen SS In France 1940 The Battles For Normandy $14.95 5.25 x 7.5 February 2013
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U-Boats at War
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D-Day to Paris
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Guderians Tanks
$34.95 5.5 x 7.5 104 mins Special 2 Disc Edition January 2013 DVD NTSC 4260110584944
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U-Boats 1939-1942
$14.95 5.25 x 7.5 Now Available DVD NTSC 5060247620565
U-Boats 1942-1945
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Blitzkrieg
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Barbarossa
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The Peninsular Collection The Peninsular Collection The Keys of Spain 95th Rifles 1800 to Siege Warfare 1812 Corunna Tim Saunders
Tim Saunders $24.95 5.25 x 7.5 Now Available DVD NTSC 5060247620206 This DVD explains the siege warfare tactics of the British and the French during the epic battles fought in Spain before the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812. $24.95 5.25 x 7.5 January 2013 DVD NTSC 5060247620190 95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna explores the history of the 95th Rifles, who were masters of the battlefield and particularly skilled in skirmishing.
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Savas Beatie
Calamity at Chancellorsville
The Wounding and Death of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
Mathew W. Lively $27.50 6 x 9 192 pages 35 illustrations, 5 maps May 2013 hardback 9781611211382 eISBN: 9781611211399 On May 2, 1863, Confederate General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson led his Second Corps around the unsuspecting Army of the Potomac on one of the most daring flank marches in history. His surprise flank attacklaunched with the five simple words You can go forward, thencollapsed a Union corps in one of the most stunning accomplishments of the war. Flushed with victory, Jackson decided to continue attacking into the night. He and members of his staff rode beyond the lines to scout the ground while his units reorganized. However, Southern soldiers mistook the riders for Union cavalry and opened fire, mortally wounding Jackson. One of the rounds broke Jacksons left arm, which required amputation. A week later Old Jack was dead. This book is the first examination of Jacksons final days. Contrary to popular belief, eyewitnesses often disagreed regarding key facts relating to the events surrounding Jacksons reconnaissance, wounding, medical care, and death. These accounts, for example, conflict regarding where Jackson was fatally wounded and even the road he was on when struck. If he wasnt wounded where history has recorded, then who delivered the fatal volley? What medical treatment did he receive? Did Jackson really utter his famous last words, Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees?
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Simply Murder
The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862
Chris Mackowski Kristopher D. White They melted like snow on the ground, one officer saidwave after wave of Federal soldiers charging uphill across an open, muddy plain. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken road, poured a solid hail of lead into them as they charged . . . and faltered . . . and died. As a result of the carnage, the battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union defeat of the war. Burnsides folly, its been callednamed after the Union commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of Potomac to ruin along the banks of the Rappahannock River. But the battle of Fredericksburg remains one of the most misunderstood and misremembered engagements of the war. Burnside started with a well-conceived plan and had every reason to expect victory. How did it go so terribly wrong? Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have worked for years along Fredericksburgs Sunken Road and Stone Wall, and theyve taken thousands of visitors across the battlefield. In Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, they not only recount Fredericksburgs tragic story of slaughter, they also share information about the battlefield itself and the insights theyve learned from years of walking the ground.
A Season of Slaughter
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864
Chris Mackowski Kristopher D. White Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he had opened his Overland Campaign in the Spring of 1864. His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare. Promoted to command of all the Federal armies, the new lieutenant general chose to ride shotgun with the Army of the Potomac as it once again threw itself against the wily, audacious Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. But Grant did something no one else had done before: he threw his army at Lee, over and over again. At Spotsylvania Court House, the second phase of the campaign, the two armies shifted from stalemate in the Wilderness to slugfest in the mud. Most commonly known for the horrific twentytwo-hour hand-to-hand combat in the pouring rain at the Bloody Angle, the battle of Spotsylvania Court House actually stretched from May 8-21, 1864, fourteen long days of battle and maneuver. Grant, hammering with his overwhelming numbers and unprecedented power, versus Lee, hunkered down behind the most formidable defensive works yet seen on the continent Spotsylvania Court House represents a chess match of immeasurable stakes between two master opponents. As former battlefield guides at Spotsylvania Court House, authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White know the ground as intimately as anyone today. With the knowledge and insight that comes from that familiarity, coupled with their command of the fact, Mackowski and White weave together a gripping narrative of one of the wars most consequential engagements.
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Once a Marine
An Iraq War Tank Commanders Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
Nick Popaditch Mike Steere $18.95 6 x 9 312 pages 38 b/w photo insert February 2013 paperback 9781611211443 eISBN: 9781611210378 Readers in and out of the military will stand up and cheer for this valiant Marines 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. The real triumph in Once a Marine is its previously untold, behind-the-scenes tale of the day-to-day life of a career Marine noncommissioned staff officer. Nicks portrayal is a man complete: a husband and father, as well as a warrior and a molder of young warriors. He reveals himself completely, something no memoirist in his position has ever done before. This includes our very personal introduction to his wife April, whose heroics in the story equal Nicks, together with dozens of others who, as Sgt. Popaditch writes, gave so much, so selflessly and freely, to him. All Americans, of all political persuasions, have a duty to meet this courageous and admirable fighting man, an exemplar of all our military men and women who give so much out of love for their nation. Meeting Gunny Sergeant Popaditch through the pages of his inspirational memoir offers up new reasons to be proud and shoulder our own responsibilities as Americans.
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Seaforth Publishing
From Dreadnought to Daring
100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in the Naval Review
Peter Hore (ed.) Founded in 1912 by some of the Royal Navys brightest officers, the quarterly Naval Review has never been subject to official censorship, and its naval members do not need official permission to write for it, so it has always provided an independent, lively and at times outspoken forum for service debate. In broad terms, it has covered contemporary operations, principles of naval warfare, history, and anecdotes that record the lighter side of naval life, but sometimes with a bite to them. A correspondence section provides an important barometer of service opinion, while extensive book reviews, written by those with real knowledge of the subject, carry considerable weight. For these reasons, the Naval Review is widely regarded as a journal of record.
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Tattered Flag
Over Empires and Oceans
Pioneers, Aviators and Adventurers Forging the International Air Routes 1918-1939
Robert Bluffield This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators. It is also a story of dedication and determination, for despite fixed-wing aircraft proving their value over the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, convincing governments and public alike that they had a role in peacetime proved far more challenging. The Americans, as inventors of heavier-than-air powered flight, had briefly courted with a passenger airline across Tampa Bay in 1914, yet it took a further nine years for mail to be flown coast-to-coast. In 1919, a British company made the first international scheduled flight between London and Paris, but the continuation of regular services was thwarted by a less-than-enthusiastic government that allowed its generously subsidized French competition, for a short time at least, to fly cross-Channel passenger schedules unimpeded. The British eventually realized that fast links with their Empire were vital, followed the example of the French and Dutch who had forged air links with their cousins in North Africa and the Far East. Meanwhile, in South America, the Germans, forbidden under the Versailles Treaty from any major aircraft-building, were establishing cunning supremacy by forming airlines throughout South America and in China. While America awaited a transcontinental passenger service, Juan Trippes Pan American Airways was crossing swords with Ralph ONeill of New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) for air supremacy between the US, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America that led to the formation of arguably the worlds greatest airline.
$19.95 6 x 9.5 ca 272 pages b/w photos May 2013 paperback 9780954311568
Lawrence
Warrior and Scholar
Bruce Leigh More than one hundred books have been written about T.E. Lawrence which explore the man and his deeds. Just about every aspect of his life, his campaigns, the geo-politics of the Arab world, and the influence of the West in it have been examined. However, nobody has gone in search of the mind of the man himself of his formation and his deep beliefs. Nobody has asked the question, What, really, is the source of the extraordinary power of this little man? Archaeologist, writer, guerilla warfare theorist, diplomat, and airman, Lawrence also possessed an unusual ability to cross boundaries of class, race, culture, and religion. On top of this, he demonstrated the ability to walk away from power and wealth and the accumulation of things to change his name more than once; to begin again at the bottom of the heap in the RAF, and stay there, with only a few friends and books and a motorcycle. This book examines how a slight Oxford academic combined two of the most challenging paths a man can choose. What drove and motivated this man? How was it that he could apparently outshoot, out-ride, and out-starve the Bedouin? How is it that the US military, and others, are still studying his famous account of the Arab Revolt and his 27 Articles? Drawing upon what Lawrence and those who knew him wrote, and did, and said, Bruce Leigh delves into Lawrences personal philosophy and practices, examining and analyzing his library, emphasizing that Lawrences views were not abstractions only, but intimately tied to his actions and deeds.
$16.95 6 x 9.5 ca 120 page 8 pages photo May 2013 paperback 9780954311575
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Paras en Indochine
Gnral Pierre Hovette 6 x 9.5 288 pages 23 illustrations French Text Editions Charles Hrissey paperback 9782914417341 This story follows the daily life lived by men of the 1st Commando 3rd BCCP in Indochina from 1946 to 1954. These soldiers lived an exceptional life of courage, humility, selflessness, and solidarity while they fought away from their mother country. This book is a new version of Paras au Vietnam, which was published many years ago and had great success.
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