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SS Panzer Divisions on the Eastern Front
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Rare photographs from SS sources illustrating the armoured formations which took part in this titanic struggle. Includes rare images of the Panther in action.
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The German armoured forces lost some 10,000 armoured fighting vehicles. Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. We are fortunate therefore that these unique photographs detail the fate of the Panzers destroyed in action in the west.
by John Frayn Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Highly experienced author John Frayn Turner has succeeded in capturing the indomitable spirit of the WAAF during WW2. His book vividly describes the many roles played by members of this highly respected organization, whether on the ground at air stations, under the ground in control bunkers, reading...
Courcelette
Somme
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
Courcelette is one of the many Somme villages that became a German stronghold in their tenacious fight to keep the British armies at bay. Well behind the lines on 1 July, it came into prominence on 15 September when it fell to an attack by the Canadians.
The Red Baron
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Beginning his wartime career on the Western Front in August 1916, Manfred von Richthofen, or the Red Baron as he became known, had shot down an impressive total of fifteen aircraft by January 1917, as well as being appointed commander of his own unit. By the time of his death in 1918, he had destroyed...
by Mark Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Mark Lloyd treats this much neglected aspect of warfare thematically rather than chronologically, examining in turn the various methods by which deception has been practised through the ages. He draws on a wide range of examples to show the elaborate techniques which have been employed in the struggle...
by Donald Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
This is the first book to fully document the story behind the Frigates that played such a vital role during World War Two.
Hell on Wheels
The Men of the US Armored Forces, 1918 to the end of the 20th century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
The pictorial history of America's armored forces from the use of prototype tanks sputtering their way forward in 1918, to the complex technology of Operation Desert Storm. This book demonstrates just why these lethal troops were known as Hell On Wheels.
by Kevin McCormack
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This is a colour album of London Buses concentrating mainly on the 1970s which was the first decade since London Transport's inception in 1933 to feature a large number of buses on London streets which were not painted in the mainly all-red (or in a few c
The Charging Buffalo
A History of the Kenya Regiment 1937 – 1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1986
This title gives a complete history of the Kenya Regiment from 1937-1963.
An Invincible Beast
Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the hands of th
The First Day of the Somme
Gommecourt to Maricourt, 1 July 1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on t
The Fighting Pioneers
The Story of the 7th Battalion DLI
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in April 1915 with the rest of the Northumbrian Division seeing action almost immediately at the Second battle of Ypres. In November...
by Neil G M Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
‘The war invisibly regulated our lives’, commented a Salisbury resident when recalling the calamity, now known as the Great War.
Much of life in the city – with its ancient cathedral, the finest spire in England, medieval New Town built on ‘chequers’ an