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A Register of TERRITORIAL ACTION STATIONS REVISITED FORCE CADET UNITS 1910-1922 Central England and London R. A. Westlake Volume 2 Softback 86 pages Michael J.F. Bowyer 26870 £9.99 Hardback 416 pages with over 150 A “Westlake” classic back in print, this photographs plus maps and plans register represents a complete account of Published Price £24.99 the cadet units recognised and recorded in 27938 £9.99 Army Orders during the period 1910-1922 Complete history of Britain's airfields, by the Associations of both military and civilian within the area. Great Britain. This title, along with most Covers Brize Norton, Cardington, of Ray’s works, is aimed at the military Eastchurch, Biggin Hill, Gatwick and historian who wants to know the nuts and Heathrow among others. The Action bolts of the , and its Stations Revisited books are widely formations and structure. acknowledged as the most comprehensive reference works on the airfields of the UK, AMATEUR GUNNERS giving these airfields and aeronautical sites The Adventures and Letters of a ACES OF THE LUFTWAFFE their rightful place in the historical record. Soldier in France, Salonika and The Jagdfliegern ad their Tactics of Palestine World War II Peter Jacobs 303-INCH MACHINE GUNS Ian Ronayne THE Camouflage Helmets of the AND SMALL ARMS 1917 Hardback, 224 pages Hardback, 256 pages Vol I ACTION STATIONS REVISITED Nomenclature of Parts, Stripping, Published Price £19.99 Published Price £25 Paul Martin South East England Volume 3 Assembling, Actions, Jams, 25450 £3.99 28007 £3.99 David Lee Missfires, Failures and Inspection Large Format • Hard Cover • 312 Amateur Gunners is a rare and very full In Luftwaffe Fighter Aces, Peter Jacobs pages • 715 photos, most in colour Hardback 344 pages with over 150 1917 memoir of Great War artilleryman examines the many campaigns fought by 23855 £95.00 photographs plus maps and plans Softback 120 pages Alexander Thorburn who served at the Luftwaffe from its fledgling days Published Price £24.99 Published Price £6.99 Ridge, Salonika, Palestine and in the final during the Spanish Civil War to its last This is the first time that an author has tackled the difficult subject of camouflage 27939 £9.99 26155 £6.99 advance to the Armistice in France. This days defending the Reich, and includes the new edition of Thorburn’s book, first exploits of Erich Hartmann, the highest helmets and Paul Martin has done it in the Complete history of Britain's airfields, This technical manual, is illustrated with published in 1933, contains additional scoring fighter pilot of all time, Hans- only way possible: by showing many both military and civilian within the area. good clear plates for maintenance and letters he wrote from active service to his Joachim Marseille, the Star of Africa, genuine examples. T Military airfields in Kent, through Sussex, repair; they number in detail the family. Werner Molders, the first recipient of the Hampshire up to Swindon in Wiltshire are components in each gun described. Diamonds, and Adolf Galland, perhaps the all in the third volume of the new Action Published in May 1917 for the Ordnance most famous of all. Stations Revisited series. College.

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The AGINCOURT WAR AISNE 1918 ACTION STATIONS REVISITED A Military History of the Hundred Battleground North West France AMIENS 1918 ANDERS’ ARMY South West England: Volume 4 Years War from 1369 to 1453 David Blanchard From Disaster to Victory General Wladyslaw Anders and the Polish Second Corps 1914-46 David Berryman Alfred H. Burne Softback, 192 pages Gregory Blaxland EvanMcGilvray Hardback 368 pages with over 150 Paperback, 360 pp Published Price £14.99 Hardback, 288 pages photographs plus maps and plans Published Price £14.99 Published Price £25 Hardback, 280 pages 27877 £4.99 Published Price £25 Published Price £24.99 25191 £3.99 A unique guidebook to the largely ignored 28271 £6.99 27940 £9.99 A classic account of the Hundred Years’ British actions on the Chemin des Dames This work is attempting a huge subject 28052 £6.99 Military airfields of the south-west are the War from renowned military historian Col. near Reims in May 1918 when British area – the 1918 This is a capable history, especially for subject of this volume of the new Action Alfred H. Burne. The author analyses divisions sent their for a rest after actions that knocked the Allies onto the ropes, and those who are not aware of the Anders Stations Revisited series. Volume 4 deals Henry V’s famous victory, and less well on the Somme and Lys in March-April then the summer/autumn Allied counter Army and a much-forgotten account of with all of those airfields that are, or have known clashes in the war, and provides 1918 found themselves under attack for a offensive that brought the war to a close. It what the Polish 2nd Corps did during the been, military at some stage in their time. penetrating pen portraits of other major third time. The author has been succeeds as a solid overview of the picture war. The area covered includes most of the players including Talbot, Salisbury, researching this for many years and this on the Western Front during this turbulent counties of Gloucestershire, Hampshire Bedford, Chandos, Bertrand de Gueschlin shows in the depth of knowledge. period. and Wiltshire, along with those of Dorset, and of course Joan of Arc. Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands. ACTION STATIONS REVISITED Wales and the Midlands Volume 5 Tim McLelland Hardback 384 pages with over 150 photographs plus maps and plans Published Price £24.99 27941 £9.99 Details the often over looked aviation heritage of Wales and the Midlands, including former RAF, Navy and American airbases and the history of sites such as Castle Donington, better known today as East Midlands Airport, the famous seaplane base at Pembroke Dock and the current military airfields at RAF Valley on Anglesey and RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. THE ANTI-PARTISAN BADGE Antonio Scapini Hardback 270 pages with nearly ALLENBY GUNNERS 1000 photos, mainly in colour. Artillery in the Sinai and Palestine AN ECLIPSE WITHOUT A 24760 £95.00 AIRBORNE FORCES OF THE Campaigns 1916-1918 FUTURE The Anti-Partisan Badge by Antonio Scapini is the first comprehensive and SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 Alan Smith The Battles for North Germany 1945 detailed account of this war badge. The -1945 Hardback, 384 pages author explains in stunning detail the Official History Of The Second Published Price £30 fingerprints of all genuine examples and World War Army 28070 £7.99 Ulrich Saft lists all models and types in a logical and Lieutenant- T.B.H. Otway DSO HB 604 pp 462 b/w photos, 106 comprehensible format. A slightly inaccurate title as Allenby SB xii+468pp, with 21 maps (some commanded the Eastern Expeditionary maps and 5 orders of battle. ARMAGEDDON ROAD in colour) and 36 illustrations 2018 Force for only half of the period covered A VC’s Diary 1914-1916 N&MP Reprint of 1951 Original in the book. Smith covers the campaign 23620 £75.00 Billy Congreve, edited by Terry Norman Edition with the injection of the Gunners' An Eclipse without a Future 1945 Hardback, 223 pages Published Price £29.99 contribution alongside that of the infantry describes in great detail the fighting during Published Price £19.99 26147 £18.99 and mounted units. 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HB 508 pp With approx. 1,400 the approaching Soviet behemoth, the Congreve’s writing as a staff officer who ALL-IN FIGHTING photographs and illustration. German Heer, Waffen-SS and Marine served in the trenches, edited by esteemed 23097 £88.00 soldiers fought desperately to salvage historian Terry Norman, offers a unique Captain W. E. Fairbairn perspective on the war. This 500-page book filled with colour some semblance of an honourable peace. 2017 N & M Press reprint of 1942 They were supported by foreign volunteer, original Edition. SB. 132pp. illustrations presents, for the first time, a detailed and systematic view of the Hitlerjugend and Volkssturm formations Illustrated. uniforms and equipment of the Austro- of little military value. Most of the 25694 £5.99 Hungarian army during the First World German troops honoured their oath and The distilled knowledge of W. E. 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AUSTRIAN ORDERS AND DECORATIONS THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN Part I: The Imperial-Royal Orders ARMY IN THE FIRST WORLD up to 1918 WAR Uniforms and Equipment – from THE AWARDS OF THE THE ARTOIS BATTLEFIELDS 1914 to 1918 LUFTWAFFE A Guide to the Cemeteries and Dr. M. Christian Ortner, Dr. Georg ATTACK ON THE SOMME Ludwigstorff Dr. M. Christian Ortner, Prof. DI Hermann Antonio Scapini Memorials of the Battlefields of 1ST ANZAC CORPS AND THE Hinterstoisser Hardback two volumes in a slipcase, Hardback 304 pages colour Artois 1914–18 BATTLE OF POZIERES RIDGE, HB Two volumes in a slipcase, 864 throughout Michael Scott with 852 pages, more than 2,500 1916 pages, more than 2500 colour 27285 £99.99 SB 2018 A Naval & Military Press colour and black-and-white Hardback 232 pages with 37 maps & photographs photographs, contemporary B&W A new. title from B&D Publishing,for Publication 25 Photographs photographs and illustrations, bound those who have not had one of there titles Published Price £28 Published Price £25 25634 £179.99 in linen with a protective cover. they are, according there publicity, “The This two-volume work, apart from dealing 27473 £19.99 25297 £4.99 23075 £125.00 most comprehensive and detailed In 1914 the war passed through Artois with the cultural and historical reference books ever offered not only for The Australian memorial at the Windmill background, focuses in detail on the The assassination of the Austrian Heir towards the North Sea. The British Army, carries the words of Charles Bean, who Apparent, Franz Ferdinand, on 28 June collectors of the German awards of World with its Indian contingent, fought a series decorations themselves. They are shown War Two, but also for collectors of said ‘Australian troops... fell more thickly here, in previously unpublished 1914 provoked what is described by many of battles in Artois during 1914 and 1915 on this ridge than on any other battlefield historians as the Fundamental catastrophe militaria-related items in general. and are in which it learned the reality of this war. abundance, in a monograph of 832 pages unmatched in their innovative scientific of the war’. This study of the battle reveals with more than 2,500 photographs and of the 20th century’. One of the armies Towns like Bethune, St. Pol and that more often than not, this was an that subsequently marched out in the approach to identifying genuine examples Hazebrouck became important centres for illustrations. This constitutes Part I of the of Third Reich-era military decorations unnecessary waste of lives and resources planned series and deals with the Order of hopes of a short war, was the Austro- the army while Douai and fell to the for the most negligible of gains, if any Hungarian Army. In the war years that and equipment”. Looking at there titles Germans. In 1915 new names became the Golden Fleece, the Military Order of this reviewer would find it hard to argue gains were made at all. Maria Theresa, the Order of St. Stephen, followed, the soldiers of the k.u.k. Army known to the British - Neuve Chapelle, would travel to almost all the First World this statement Festubert, , Armentieres and Loos. the Order of Leopold, the Order of the Iron Crown, the Order of the Starry Cross, the War’s theatres of war. They fought in The battles at in 1916, Lens and Galicia and Bukovina, in the Carpathian Arras in 1917 and the in Order of Elisabeth and the Order of the Slaves of Virtue. Mountains and the Balkans, from 1915 in 1918 kept this, almost forgotten, area fully the Southern Alps, on the Isonzo, in involved in the war before the final Albania and in the Sinai Desert and later breakout in late 1918 passed Lille and on the German Western Front and in Asia. Douai towards Mons. While this area may The war changed the k.u.k. Army, not only be less well known to most battlefield from a technical and a moral point of travellers than Ypres or the Somme, the view, but also with regard to its battles and the stories of the men who appearance. The soldiers who marched out fought in them, and did not go home, are in 1914 presented a very different picture still of great interest. This book will help to that of the final years of the war. the battlefield visitor make sense of why the cemeteries and memorials have been chosen to be where they are as well as learn of some of the fascinating stories of those buried within the cemeteries and honoured on the memorials.

THE AUSTRIAN MOUNTAIN TROOPS History, Uniforms and Equipment of Austrian Mountain Troops from AUSTRIAN ORDERS AND 1906 to 1918 DECORATIONS PART II Dr. M. Christian Ortner, Prof. DI Hermann BADON AND THE EARLY Hinterstoisser, Erwin A. Schmidl, The Imperial-Royal Official WARS OF WESSEX Winfried Beimrohr, Meinrad Pizzinini Decorations up to 1918 circa 500 to 710 Dr. M. Christian Ortner, Dr. Georg David Cooper HB 320 pp 1000 photographs and Ludwigstorff Hardback, 240 pages illustrations Part II: two volumes in a slipcase: Published Price £19.99 23101 £75.00 Card slipcase; 784 pages total, 3,000 28268 £5.99 This illustrated book of 320 pages shows colour and black-and-white As a serious study of the battles of the the uniforms and equipment of Austrian photographs cloth-bound hardcover period it stands out from others of its type, mountain troops in the First World War. with dust jacket; Format: 29.5 x 26 with a sensible and balanced assessment. THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN cm The Awards of the Heer - Vol. II Including an in-depth analysis of why, ARTILLERY FROM 1867-1918 28194 £179.99 Dietrich Maerz where and how the Battle of Badon Hill ENGLISH TEXT This two-volume work, Hardback 496 pages was fought and a credible assessment that Dr. M. Christian Ortner explains how the Britons were able to ‘Austria’s Orders and Decorations – The 24224 £95.00 Imperial-Royal Official Decorations up to inflict a significant defeat on the Saxon HB 640 pp 1,200 photographs and This is the long awaited Volume II of the invaders. The author’s military insight 1918’, forms the second part of a most complete and comprehensive illustrations . comprehensive series on imperial and instinct for how the campaigns were overview of the decorations a German conducted provides a real bonus. 23103 £95.00 Austria’s decorations. soldier of the Heer could be awarded. ’S FEW AND THE Over the period from 1867 to 1918 the BATTLE OF BRITAIN Austro-Hungarian artillery experienced Kristen Alexander major changes both in technical and Hardback, 409 pages organizational terms. Proceeding from the Published Price £25 muzzle-loader of the ‘Battery of the Dead’ at the Battle of Sadowa in 1866, the 25371 £3.99 artillery was continuously modernized and The story of eight Australian pilots in the evolved from the M 1875, M 1880 and M Battle of Britain. It is a tragic tale, for of 1899 systems to barrel recoil artillery and the eight only one came home. finally the massed guns of the First World War.

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THE BELGIAN ARMY IN THE GREAT WAR Part one With contributions by Ilse Bogaerts, Emilie Gaillard, Dominique THE BATTLE FOR KHARKOV Henrard, Pierre Lierneux, Kris Michiels, THE BATTLE OF NEUVE Sandrine Smets, Rob Troubleyn, Piet Winter 1942-1943 CHAPELLE BAY OF PIGS Veldeman and Philippe Jacquij THE BIG BLOCKADE Jean Restayn Geoff Bridger CIA’s Cuban Disaster, April 1961 Hardback 600 pages, approx. 1650 E. Keble Chatterton Hard cover, 9” x 12”, 454 pages, Softback, 144 pages Phil Carradice colour colour photographs & more than 680 photographs and Published Price £10.99 Softback, 136 pages contemporary BW-photographs and Softback 287 pages illustrations. Published Price £17.99 maps. 25020 £2.99 Published Price £14.99 26148 £11.99 8510125 £85.00 The in March 28071 £4.99 24530 £99.99 Germany was supremely vulnerable to the A superb photo coverage of the German 1915 was the first British offensive of the Perhaps not in casualties but as far as This work, unprecedented in its recapture of Kharkov in early 1943. Most Great War. As so often, initial success as comprehensiveness, can therefore be Royal Navy choking off its lifelines. After prestige and standing in the world were the in 1916 had confined of the exceptional photos have never been the German trench lines were penetrated concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of considered an excellent reference tome. It published before or are rare. They was followed by frustrating failure. This is based on the extensive collections on Germany’s High Seas Fleet to port, the 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the tightening blockade became ever more showcase the German armor, uniforms or account tells the story of the battle, and USA since the War of 1812 when British display in the Belgian Royal Museum of other equipment, many are full page. guides visitors around the battlefield as it the Armed Forces and of Military History. effective, progressively causing the forces burned the White House. With a regulation of food prices, rationing, and is today. cast of players including Fidel Castro, Supplementary private collections have been the source of many other objects in finally the dreadful ‘Turnip Winter’ of Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy, 1917 in which its hungry population was the Cuban Missile Crisis was an almost order to provide as much illustrative material as possible for this publication. reduced to eating the eponymous inevitable consequence. vegetable, and brewing ersatz coffee from BEARSKINS, BAYONETS AND acorns. 750,000 Germans starved to death, BODY ARMOUR and the collapse in civilian morale led to Welsh Guards, 1915-2015 social revolution, mutinies in the Fleet and Trevor Royle Army, and finally to Germany suing for armistice terms. Hardback, 352 pages Published Price £30 BETWEEN THE ODER AND 27002 £4.99 THE ELBE The creation of a Welsh Regiment of Foot Wilhelm Tike Guards was authorised by Royal Warrant HB 531 pages, 35 B&W photos, 14 on 26th February 1915, though the order maps, plus a separate map to raise the regiment had been given by the supplement with a full-colour map on King to Earl Kitchener, Secretary of State each side. for War, on 6th February. In the first 22522 £75.00 instance officers and men came from the other Guards regiments and from the The reader has the opportunity here to recruits at Caterham. The new regiment relive the last days of the Third Reich, as mounted guard at Buckingham Palace on seen through the eyes of the German St David’s Day, three days after the soldiers and the foreign volunteers who publication of the Royal Warrant. fought before and in Berlin. In one of the ironic incidents of the war, as German BELGIAN ARMY IN THE soldiers were trying to bypass Berlin to the THE THE BATTLES OF FRENCH north, a force of French Waffen-SS troops Philip Warner GREAT WAR Part 2 was trying to enter the city to defend it! FLANDERS Portable Service Weapons Hardback, 240 pages Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Pierre Lierneux ed. 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Much more than a simple of Buenos Aires and Montevideo from Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos catalogue of weapons used by the Belgian Spain in the midst of the and Fromelles are well worth visiting and Army, it is the story of the transformation is a fascinating one, and this book shows Hardback 545 pages, more than 320 of a small army caught in the struggles of photographs and maps. the authors describe what happened, where how Britain’s eventual defeat proved to be and why. the Great War, its adaptation to the birth pangs of the new nations of 10124 £55.00 technological and tactical progress. Argentina and Uruguay. The author, Franz Kurowski, interviewed many of the German veterans of the Italian campaign, from the common soldier to high commanders, and numerous, dramatic personal accounts are featured. BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS Most of these accounts are published here The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945 for the first time. 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THE CAMPAIGN IN ALSACE THE BRANDENBURGERS BRITISH WARSHIPS IN THE THE CAMBRAI CAMPAIGN August, 1870 GLOBAL MISSION AGE OF SAIL 1817-1863 1917: BRITISH by Franz Kurowski Design, Construction and Fates EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Hardback 305 pages with 100 Rif Winfield Andrew Rawson Brig.-Gen. J.P Du Cane photos + maps. Hardback, 352 pages Hardback, 200 pages SB xi+174pp.with 8 Maps in colour 1602 £55.00 Published Price £50 Published Price £25 2019 N&MP Reprint of 1912 Very few books have been written about 28003 £16.99 27826 £5.99 Published Price £17.99 this elite and somewhat mysterious An essential volume for anyone interested From the well thought out “BRITISH 26143 £9.99 clandestine operations unit. Noted author in the history of the Royal Navy during the EXPEDITIONARY FORCE” series, this Useful tactical treatise that was designed Franz Kurowski has produced a very first part of the period of British naval title covers the British attack that was for use of Staff College students sitting informative account of the Brandenburgers supremacy. If you own any of the previous followed by the biggest German exams in 1907, and as such gives a clear and their diverse missions which took volumes of this series then you'll know counterattack against the British analytical account of two important battles them from Western Europe to Rumania, what to expect from this one, it covers Expeditionary Force since 1914. The during the opening rounds of the Franco- Russia, Egypt, Afghanistan and many everything from the mighty first rates initial British success showed that even the Prussian war in 1870. The observation of other countries in a series of daring down to the smallest gun boats. strongest trench defences could be foreign armies and their technology, actions. overcome by a surprise attack, using a particularly that of the German Army, combination of new methods and provided many tactical lessons at the equipment, reflecting a general increase in beginning of the 20th century. the British capacity to combine infantry, CALIGULA artillery, tanks and aircraft in attacks. An Unexpected General Lee Fratantuono Hardback, 262 pages Published Price £25 28265 £7.99 This is a military history of Rome during Caligula’s reign, it offers a new appraisal of Caligula as a surprisingly competent military strategist. Caligula expanded the Roman Empire into Mauretania and made a significant attempt at expanding into Britannia, Fratantuono argues that his achievements helped to secure Roman military power in Europe for a generation.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE THE BULGARIAN AIR FORCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR KITCHENERS THE CAMOUFLAGE HELMETS A History of 11th (Service) Alexander Mladenov, Evgeni Andonov, Krassimir Grozev OF THE WEHRMACHT THE CAMPAIGN OF Battalion (Cambs) Suffolk VOLUME II Regiment Softback 144 pages, 220 B&W WATERLOO Paul C Martin Military History Joanna Costin images & 8 colour profiles Hardback, 286 pages Hardback, 320 pages John Codman Ropes Published Price £29.95 27694 £110.00 2016 N & M Press reprint (original Published Price £25 27903 £7.99 The Camouflage Helmets of the 27881 £7.99 pub 1893). SB. xlii + 402 pp This book is a ground breaking work that Wehrmacht, Vol. II by Paul C. Martin Published Price £16 Following the outbreak of war in the takes a first look, as far as the English finalizes the comprehensive view of summer of 1914 and the subsequent call speaking aviation literature world is German camouflage helmets of World for volunteers, the men of Cambridgeshire concerned, ot one of the more obscure air War II. The chapters include netted 5569 £9.99 were not slow in stepping forward in the arms of World War Two. Complete with camouflage helmets, combinations of A very detailed account with some useful service of their country. However, in a personal reports of fight missions, camouflage, a selective gallery, helmets reference sources. departure from standard practice, these excellent photo material and for the model with provenance, and an extensive enthusiastic new volunteers did not join builders, great colour prints of all discussion of German helmet liners. Never their county regiment. For organisational partaking planes. before has the interested collector be reasons they were enlisted into a presented with a more detailed look at this separately designated Cambridgeshire THE DAMBUSTER RAID: A interesting aspect of the hobby. As a battalion of the Suffolk Regiment – the GERMAN VIEW stand-alone or together with Volume I this 11th (Service) Battalion. The book takes Helmuth Euler compilation will most likely never be the form of a chronological narrative over Hardback, 272 pages surpassed. Large format 8.5 x 11", 286 seventeen chapters starting from the early Published Price £25 pages in full colour. days in Cambridge through to the closing stages of the war. In particular, the reader 27851 £7.99 learns about the battalion’s heroic Helmuth Euler experienced Dambuster involvement on the first day of the Battle historian and film maker, has produced of the Somme in 1916, the difficult a informative and worthwhile addition assaults undertaken during the Battle of to the cannon of works covering Arras in 1917 and the critical defensive Operation Chastise, with this book actions on the River Lys in the spring of covering the German experience. 1918.

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CHARGING KNIGHTS ON THE COMBAT HISTORY OF THE CASTLE AT WAR IN EASTERN FRONT SCHWERE PANZE-ABTEILUNG THE COMBAT HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND THE COMBAT HISTORY OF 508 SCHWERE PANZER- CAMPAIGNING FOR WALES SCHWERE PANZER- Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 508 Veteran’s ABTEILUNG 507 NAPOLEON Dan Spencer ABTEILUNG 505 Association A collaborative effort by members of the The Diary of a Napoleonic Cavalry Hardback 320 pages colour former battalion and edited by Helmut Hardback 400 pages with 528 Hardback 200pp with 150 Schneider Officer 1806-1813 throughout photographs, 8 pages of colour photographs , 21 detailed colour Hardback 223pp, with 11pp of colour Maurice de Tascher Published Price £20 maps, 8 pages of colour profiles, 9 artwork, Hardback, 224 pages 28348 £4.99 ilustrations, one pae of colour detailed organigrams, a partial 4909 £55.00 photoraphs and more than 150 Published Price £19.99 This book traces the story of castles at war roster of 814 members, and 51 This is a great companion volume to the 28219 £4.99 in England and Wales from their additional illustrations and period biographies. recently published Combat History of photographs A rare first hand and vivid account of life introduction by the Normans in the 28361 £110.00 Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503. 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Many never before In addition, numerous appendices through the dreadful retreat of the Grand conflicts, civil wars and rebellions of the fought at Kursk and after Kursk it was published photographs. amplifying much of the material have been Armee from Moscow in 1812, but never period. attached to Heeresgruppe Mitte and fought Overseas clients please note: Due to provided. These include an extensve recovered from the ordeal. at Smolensk. It was refitted with Tiger II excessively high wrapped weight chronology of the battalion and additonal THE CAUCASUS AND THE (Königstiger) tanks in September 1944 and shipping is weighted on this title. background material on the “parent” OIL. The German-Soviet War In fought with 24. Panzer-Division and 5. formation of Schwere Panzer-Abteilung The Caucasus 1942/43 Panzer-Division in East Prussia until the 507 - Panzer-Regiment 4 - including the end of the war. by Wilhelm Tieke late-war history of elements of the Hardback 424 pages, 86 photos and regiment in both Hungary and Italy 29 maps. 9073 £55.00 BRIDGEHEAD KURLAND: The Six Epic Battles of Heeresgruppe Kurland Franz Kurowski Hardback 331pp, b/w 80 pp photographs, 15pp maps, 6451 £48.00 Account of the little-known struggles of Heeresgrupe Kuland in the waning months of World War II.Despite six separate attempts by the Red Army, the German forces in the Kurland Bridgehead in the Baltic held out against massively superior forces.Despite revisionist claims by the Soviets after the war, the fighting in Kurland resulted in the pinning of large numbers of forces and ultimately, an COMBAT HISTORY OF unsuccessful campaign. SCHWERE PANZER- ABTEILUNG 503: In action in the CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY BATTLE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAIN 1620 AND THE THE CLOUDS REMEMBER East and West with the Tiger I and FORCE 1914-1919 II THE COMBAT HISTORY OF BOHEMIAN REVOLT 1618-1622 Leonard Bridgman with Commentary by SCHWERE PANZERJAGER The Official History Of The “Century of the Soldier” Series Oliver Strewart MC, AFC Hans Rubel Canadian Army In The First ABTEILUNG 654: In Action in the World War Lurence Spring Softback Hardback 400+pp, 290 photo pp, East and West With the Ferdinand Colonel GWL Nicholson, CD., Army Softback, 164 pages 27684 £15.99 numerous diagrams and charts, and the Jagdpanther Historical Section Published Price £25 Leonard Bridgman’s atmospheric wash 4834 £75.00 Karlheinz Munch paintings with Oliver Stewart's lively xii+621 pp with maps some in 27515 £11.99 This history of the Tiger battalions Hardback 663pp,750 period The Battle of the White Mountain and the commentary on these Great War machines features lots of first-hand acounts of this, colour 2018 N&MP Reprint of make this an aviation classic. the senior Tiger battalion of the German photographs, including 3 in colour, Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622 looks not 32pp full colour vehicle profiles, Original Edition only at the battle of the White Mountain, Army. 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THE DEFENCE OF Combat History of the 17. SS- DAMBUSTERS THE DAY ROMMEL WAS SEVASTOPOL 1941-1942 COMBAT HISTORY OF STOPPED STURMGESCHUTZ-BRIGADE Panzer-Grenadier-Division The Forging of a Legend The Soviet Perspective GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN Christopher Ward, Andy Lee Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July Clayton Donnell 276: Assault Gun Fighting on the 1942 Eastern Front 1943-1945 Volume 2 Softback, 320 pages Hardback 256 pages Hans Stöber Major F. R. Jephson MC TD, Chris Fleischer Heinz Published Price £16.99 Jephson Published Price £25 Hardback 300+ pages,145 period Hardback 470 pages with 63 28277 £4.99 28019 £6.99 photographs & 23 maps Hardback, 304 pages photographs, 10 maps and diagrams, Critically acclaimed as the best account of Published Price £20 An analytical and detailed account that 28360 £75.00 the most famous RAF Squadron in World gives the straight facts on The Siege of 554833 £55.00 War II, with a good depth of detail on the 28284 £5.99 Sevastopol. This is the dramatic story of the of the From J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing - this the second volume in a proposed three volume Squadron and it’s raids. This is a real nuts What it was like to be there and of the men assault gun soldiers, on the Eastern Front and bolts account. who “stuck to their guns”, this is a first of World War 2, of the Sturmartillerie set covers the combat history of te 17. SS- Panzer-Grenadier-Division during the hand account of the most dangerous day Sturmgeschutz-Abteilung. 276 was one of in the desert, and that day that artillery many assault guns battalions formed to period September 1944 to February 1945, deataling the retreat to the Maginot Line, appears to have stopped the initial fight the onslaught of the numerically eastward rush of the Panzerarmee. vastly superior Soviet Forces. the fighting around Metz, and the retreat and fighting in around Saarbrucken.

DEFENSIVE MEASURES DAS REICH TIGERS AGAINST GAS ATTACKS 1917 Wolfgang Schneider War Office 1917 THE COMBAT HISTORY OF HB 396 pp Illustrated THE 10. PANZER DIVISION SB 52pp Illustrated with line 21135 £85.00 drawings 2020 N&MP Reprint of J. Restayn and N. Moller This book chronicles the Tigers associated Hardback 350pp, 34 pp of colour and DEATH OF A DIVISION 1917 Edition. with "Das Reich" from the beginning to Eight Days in March 1918 and the hundreds of terrific b/w photographs, THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGNS the bitter end: 8./SS-Panzer-Regiment 2; 28160 £6.50 hb. 1941 – 1944 schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 102; and Untold Story of the 66th (2/1 East Gas was a very effective way of attacking Lancashire) Division 7009 £85.00 Wilhelm Tieke schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 502. the enemy without direct contact, and HB 446 pp with 81 B&W wartime Among other aspects of its history, the attacks were the thing soldiers in the This photo album presents the history of David Martin trenches feared over anything. This the division through a brief text, hundreds photos fighting around Kharkov, during Operation "Zitadelle", at Normandy, on Hardback, 236 pages manual originally published by the War of photographs, several maps and Office in February 1917, covers topics numerous custom colour illustrations.This the Oder and at the Halbe Pocket in the Published Price £19.99 final days of the war, are chronicled for including the nature of gas: attacks, types, book offers the first account in English of 23056 £65.00 28049 £5.99 projectiles, personal anti-gas equipment & this battle-proven division, which was the reader. This is an exceptional unit Describes the battles for the Crimea during history. Well produced, well researched and general precautions & observations. formed shortly before the outreak of the World War Two on two levels: tactical readable, taken from the Official War war.It fought in Poland, France and in the and strategic. The many excellent accounts FAMOUS BATTLES AND HOW Diaries, and surviving accounts, this opening stages of the campaign in Russia. of small actions are nicely woven into the THEY SHAPED THE MODERN histories intention is to tell the story as it In mid-1942, it was pulled out of the line, overall description of the intense fighting WORLD happened with the loss of command the reconstituted and reorganized in France for the Black Sea peninsula. All important From Troy to Courtrai, 1200 BC - central theme. and then sent to North Africa as part of phases of that unique battle front are Hitler’s desperate attempt to save the 1302 AD covered, including the penetration through Beatrice Heuser, Aretha S. Leoussi situation there. the Isthmus of Perekop in 1941, the combat on the Tschatyrlyk, and the pursuit Hardback, 272 pages to Sevastopol, where the Germans were Published Price £25 halted by the city’s powerful defenses. 28270 £6.99 I usually don't care for books with “FAMOUS BATTLES “ in the tile as they tend to be of a rather general nature. However this is worth a second look at, arguing it is the political afterlife of battles that gives them fame. This volume covers the siege of Troy and the encounters of Marathon and Thermopylai, to the wars of the Israelites and from the triumphs and defeats of the Roman Empire, to Hastings, the massacre of Bziers and the battle of Courtrai.

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His account of his history of his former field army but a which led to the fall of France, to the experiences, in diaries discovered years sweeping account of the little-known crossing of the Beresina which opened later in the Imperial War Museum’s fighting on the southern portion of the Operation Barbarossa, down to the archives, gives an invaluable account of Eastern Front in the final months of the division’s dissolution after the hard-fought medical conditions in the trenches. war. battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in Maier provides a truly objective overview May 1943. of those operations by making use of primary sources — documents, war diaries and surviving senior commanders — to show the reader how decisions were made at senior levels of command and how certain post-war memoirs have only DIAGRAMS OF GREAT WAR distorted the picture of what really GERMAN NAVAL GUNS - happened in the final few months of the SHELLS & EXPLOSIVES - war. 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This DONITZ, U-BOATS, CONVOYS facsimile edition has been reproduced The British Version of His Memoirs and were awarded the highest of all DESPATCHES FROM THE gallantry medals, the Victoria Cross. from the copy formally held by the from the Admiralty’s Secret Anti- FRONT: CAPITAL SHIPS AT Superintendent of Research Rl Arsenal Submarine Reports WAR 1939-1945 Woolwich. Jak P. Mallmann Showell John Grehan, Martin Mace HB, 288 pp Hardback, 191 pages Published Price £19.99 Published Price £19.99 24645 £4.99 25199 £3.99 Drawing on the memoirs of Grand In this volume in the Despatches From the Admiral Karl Donitz, overlord of the U- Front series, the war of the Capital ships boats, and the secret British Monthly Anti- are covered. 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Prof. DI Hermann Hinterstoisser, Erwin A. Schmidl, Christoph Neumayer, Helmut THE EAGLE IN SPLENDOUR Wohnout EVERYMAN AT WAR The FACE OF COURAGE: The 98 Philip Mansel Sixty Personal Narratives Of men who received both the Knights Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Hardback 256 pages HB 352 pp 600 photographs, Fighting By All Ranks On Land Cross and the Close Combat clasp Waffen-SS Published Price £17.95 illustrations and tables. Sea And Air During The Great in gold Wilhelm Tieke 28349 £4.99 23087 £75.00 War Florian Berger A handsome, eloquent and original study Bosnia-Herzegovina was occupied by Edited by C B Purdom 600 pages, 580 photos and HB 264 pp Illustrations and Maps of the Bonaparte family, delightfully acute Austria-Hungary in 1878, annexed in 1908 SB xi+425pp 2019 N&MP Reprint illustrations, hard cover. 22363 £48.00 in its depiction of the vanities, rivalries and was part of the Austro-Hungarian of 1930 Original Edition The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the and pretensions of Napoleon. Empire until 1918. This book, illustrated 10513 £65.00 Waffen-SS was a formation with a very Published Price £24.99 The story of the 98 soldiers of the German in colour, with 352 pages and nearly 600 27683 £14.99 unique history. Its members volunteered, photographs, presents a picture of the Armed Forces — Army, Air Force and and were spirited out of Finland to Bosnian soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Excellent collection of sixty firsthand Waffen-SS — who were awarded both the Germany under the watchful Russian eyes. army and their military history under British accounts of service in the Great Knight’s Cross and the Close Combat Never completely supported by the various Austro-Hungarian administration. Starting War, with an emphasis on the Western Clasp in Gold during World War II. Finnish political factions, the battalion’s with the political and military reasons for Front but covering all theatres on land, sea return to Finland was continually sought. the occupation, through the annexation to and in the air, throwing light on almost Unlike other legions from various the end of the First World War, it takes the every phase of the war, by writers of all countries, the battalion did not fight until reader to a world that at the time was seen ranks, from private to lieutenant-colonel. the end of the war. In fact, upon its return as highly exotic. home, its soldiers were immediately drafted into the Finnish army and fought against the Soviets. When Finland sued for peace, former Finnish SS-men fought against German troops as they retreated from Finland.

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THE GREAT WAR DAWNING Germany and its Army at the Start HAKING A Dutiful Soldier of World War I XI Corps Commander 1915-18: A Dr. Frank Buchholz, Col. (Ret.) Janet Study in Corps Command Robinson, Col. (Ret.) Joe Robinson Michael Senior HB 560 pp + 80 colour picture pages A very good quality Hardback and 4 large scale maps . Edition of 308 pages with maps & 23074 £55.00 A GUIDE TO THE BRITISH Plates The imperial German army in 1914 was ARMY’S NUMBERED Published Price £25 not the juggernaut that many presumed; GURKHAS AT WAR REGIMENTS J. P. Cross 24957 £2.99 rather, it was a force mired in tradition that General Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, had developed many structural of 1751-1881 Softback 320 pages INSIDE WELLINGTON’S Ray Westlake GBE, KCB, KCMG commanded XI Corps weaknesses. Most English-language PENINSULAR ARMY 1808-1814 Published Price £16.99 in the First World War, and was damned histories of the Great War’s battles are Softback 136 pages Illustrations, 28351 £2.00 as a boneheaded bungler for his bloody based on British sources; the authors of Robert Burnham, Ron McGuigan, Rory Muir, Howie Muir most of them in colour A Naval & Gurkhas at War, the result of in-depth and botched attack at Fromelles in 1916. this book based their analyses on many Military Press Publication interviews conducted by editors J. P. Cross Arguments over the late release of original German sources. With an Softback, 328 pp Published Price £28 and Buddhiman Gurung,provides these Haking's Corps on the first day of the extensive bibliography that includes Published Price £14.99 remarkable soldiers with the opportunity Battle of Loos were instrumental in German language sources (many 27328 £18.00 25434 £3.99 A New “Westlake” classic! This book, the to put their own experiences and stories in forcing the resignation of Sir John unpublished), the reader is presented with Four scholars of the Peninsular War put print. These first-person narratives centre French as Commander-in-Chief of the a different view of the conflict. first in a series of British Army ‘Guides’, their research together in this book to ask deals with the numbered regiments that on the sixty-year period from the outbreak BEF. Haking is remembered chiefly for and answer the question : just what made existed between 1751, when the British of the Second World War to the the high casualties suffered by his forces Wellington’s army in that campaign so infantry was ordered to discard their confrontation in East Timor, including the (including many Australian troops) at the successful? Their studies reveal the secrets colonels’ names as titles and be known in lengthy battles against the Japanese in the second Battle of Fromelles, launched of success behind such triumphs as the future by number only (1st Regiment of Burmese jungle, campaigns against the while the was great battles of Salamanca and Vitoria Foot, 2nd Regiment of Foot etc), and 1881 Communists in Malaya and Hong Kong, underway 80 km to the south, although. which finally rid Iberia of the Napoleonic when numerical designations were as wells as more recent deployments in the Although blocked from further promotion scourge. With prolific notes annotations, a replaced by the now familiar territorial Falklands Campaign and Gulf War. he continued to command XI Corps - comprehensive index, good bibliography names such as the Hampshire Regiment or including in Italy in the winter of 1917-18 and clear chapter headings help make this Middlesex Regiment. and in Flanders in April 1918 - until the a very useful reference work. end of the war.

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HULL COMMERCIALS Budapest’s Cataclysmic Twelve FRONT A History of the 10th (Service) Days 1956 Discovering Sergeant York’s WWI Battalion of the East Yorkshire Louis Archard Battlefield Regiment Softback, 129 pages Michael Kelly David Bilton Published Price £14.99 Hardback, 343 pages Hardback, 236 pages 28060 £4.99 Published Price £19.99 Published Price £25 The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was the 28274 £7.99 28068 £5.99 first tear in the Iron Curtain. Hungarians Sergeant York received the Medal of Hull Commercials served in 31st Division from all walks of life rose up against Honour for leading an attack on a German at Serre on the first day of the Battle of the insurmountable odds to fight the brutal machine gun nest, taking at least one Somme in 1916, though they escaped the Soviet-installed Hungarian communist machine gun, killing at least 25 enemy worst of the disaster. However, they government. soldiers and capturing 132. York's Medal suffered heavy casualties in the same area of Honour action occurred during the later in the year, and again at Oppy Wood United States-led portion of the Meuse- in early 1917. They continued to serve on Argonne Offensive in France, which was the Western Front for the rest of the war, intended to breach the including hard fighting against the German HELL IN THE TRENCHES and force the Germans to surrender. This Spring Offensive and in the final Hundred Austro-Hungarian title is the story of the battlefield itself, Days Offensive. particularly the much-needed argument for Stormtroopers and Italian Arditi the ignored, "alternative" location of the in the Great War legendary shootout. Paolo Morisi HILL 112: CORNERSTONE OF Softback 344 pages with 124 B&W THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN photos, 2 B&W illustrations, 7 B&W Major J. J. How maps & 3 tables Published Price £29.95 210pp, 70 photographs, 15 maps, hb. 28114 £12.99 7536 £50.00 This book covers the major battles HORST WESSEL This book offers a historically dense between British/Canadian and German The Combat History of the 18. SS- narration of the organisational forces (primarily SS Panzer units) for Panzer-Grenadier-Division development of the shock and assault Caen in June/July 1944 of which Hill 112 Wilhelm Tieke troops, of their military operations and it was a crucial piece of terrain. also covers their combat methods. Whilst Hardback 472 pages with 112 it might appear a rather specialist book, photos, 29 maps Miorisi demonstrates well the need for 24226 £69.99 adaptation in warfare, often driven by the A very readable book that combines the successful endeavours of a handful of operations of the division with the junior commanders rather than a major personal accounts of its soldiers. doctrinal change stemming from the top. IF GERMANY ATTACKS IN THE WAKE OF THE TANK THE HUNGARIAN HONVED The Battle In Depth In The West The First Fifteen Years of (1915-1917) Mechanisation in the British Army ARMY History, Uniforms and Equipment Captain G C Wynne Lt.-Gen. Sir Gifford Le Q., Martel KCB, SB 343 pp.+ 22 maps 2017 N&MP KBE, DSO, MC of the Hungarian Territorial Army from 1868 to 1918 Reprint of 1940 Original Edition SB xii+257pp + index & appendix Dr. György Sagvari Published Price £14.50 with 27 plates. 2018 N&MP Reprint 25705 £7.99 of 1931 Original Edition HB 672 pp C.2000 photographs, Skilled evaluation of of German tactics linen-bound with a protective cover. during 1915-1917, including Neuve 26157 £18.00 23084 £95.00 Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Fesburt, Loos, This very good and early tank book, Somme, Arras, Vimy, Messines and As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Passchendale. written by a pioneering British military settlement, after 1868 the Austro- engineer and tank strategist who knew his Hungarian Empire’s armed forces were The Iron Cross 1. Class subject firsthand. This is an excellent made up of three separate parts: alongside study written with an engineer's eye for the k. u. k. Army, two separate territorial mechanical detail. 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Reich Published Price £28 armoured warfare. Ken Niewiarowicz with Anders Lehrman 3496 £16.99 HB 330 pages Compiled in 1920 from Allied sources by 24950 £110.00 US Intelligence. Provides composition, The Anti-Partisan Badge by Antonio movements and actions of each division Scapini is the first comprehensive and during the four years of the Great War - detailed account of this war badge. The and evaluates the fluctuating fighting author explains in stunning detail the capacity of each unit. fingerprints of all genuine examples and lists all models and types in a logical and comprehensible format.

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IMAGES OF WAR: SS SPECIALIST UNITS IN ILLUSTRATED WAR COMBAT REPORTS: Bob Carruthers IN GOOD FAITH, THE Contemporary Combat Images HISTORY OF THE 4.SS- INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING Softback, 160 pages RECOMMENDATIONS FOR from the Great War Published Price £14.99 POLIZEI-PANZER GRENADIER Bob Carruthers DIVISION, VOL I: 1939-1943 HONOURS AND AWARDS (1918) 28272 £3.99 Military Secretarys Branch - General HQ Softback 128 pages illustrated Friedrich Husemann This is a great source of images regarding SB 38pp throughout SS elite units in WWII. Hardback 436pp, with 40 pp of b/w Published Price £12.99 photographs, 34 mostly full-page Published Price £5.50 28237 £2.99 maps and 78pp of appendices, 1572 £2.99 Following the time frame of the Great 7008 £60.00 A must for all medal collectors and family historians, the exact official details of how War, drawings and illustrations show a The Polizei-Division (Police Division), as range of combatants from throughout the a British gallantry decoration could be it wa originaly called, was one of the awarded during the Great War and to commonwealth fighting Germans, Italians lesser-known combat formations of the and Turks. Many were used to illustrate whom, and the circumstances necessary to Waffen-SS. It was formed in October win an award. All branches of military ether a remarkable act of heroism or those 1939 and was composed primarily of who received medals for their bravery. service are included including awards to police officers, who volunteered to join the women. division, and it served almost exclusively INFANTERIE ACES on the Eastern Front until the end of the by Franz Kurowski war, where it eventually was equipped as a Hardback viii + 525pp with130 b/w Panzergrenadier-Division (mechanized photos and 16 maps division). 559036 £55.00 THE INFANTRY ASSAULT BADGES Sascha Weber HB 250 pp 1000+ pictures 12781 £75.00 This book is the first work specifically devoted to an in depth study of the Infantry Assault Badge, one of the best recognised awards of the German military during World War Two. Already highly IMAGES OF WAR: THE acclaimed in its German version, the FRENCH ARMY AT VERDUN English edition is an important and Ian Sumner indispensable addition to every collector’s Softback, 160 pages library. Published Price £14.99 INFANTRY TRAINING: RIFLE 27161 £3.99 AND BAYONET 1954 IMAGES OF WAR: CHIANG Excellent images that show a good picture Produced for The West African KAI-SHEK VERSUS TSE-TUNG of what the French Army was going Command The Battle for 1946-1949 through during . The War Office Philip Jowett IMAGES OF WAR: THE RED SB 63+6 pp. line drawings throught THE INSTRUMENTS OF Softback, 160 pages BARON 2018 N&MP Reprint of 1954 BATTLE Published Price £14.99 Barry Pickthall Original Edition The Fighting Drummers and 28055 £3.99 Softback 104 pages Published Price £6.99 Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to Present This volume in the Images of War series is Published Price £12.99 IN NAPOLEON’S SHADOW 25714 £4.99 the first photographic history of the Day 28236 £3.99 The Memoirs of Louis-Joseph A highly illustrated War Office training James Tanner , fought between A collection of images offers a perspective manual for the raw native recruit, Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalists and the Marchand, Valet and Friend of the Hardback, 288 pages on the Baron himself, as well as a number Emperor 1811-1821 produced in 1954 for the West African Communists of Mao Tse-tung, which Command (the WAC disbanded in 1956). Published Price £25 of his adversaries from the Allied side of Proctor Patterson Jones decided the future of modern China. the line. Postwar plans to raise an infantry division 28286 £6.99 Softback, 792 pages in West Africa as part of a British strategic Both informative and entertaining this is Published Price £25 reserve were not realised due to lack of the hitherto somewhat neglected story, and 28269 £7.99 government funding, An interesting role of the British Army's fighting Along with General Bertrand's memoirs, artefact from the last days of colonial drummers and buglers. Louis-Joseph Marchand's memoirs are the Africa, reproduced from the original WO best account of the Emperor Napoleon's Library copy. exile in St. Helena. Serving as valet to Napoleon, Marchand traces the path of the Emperor from his high point to his first exile in Elba and later exile on St. Helena. Marchand's intimate acquaintance with the Emperor dates from his service on Elba. The tragic details of the Hundred Days and the flight from France after Waterloo are recounted by a literate and knowledgeable man who fully realised he was writing about an era and a leader of great import.

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INTER-SERVICE AMMUNITION & AMMUNITION PACKAGE MARKINGS 1960-61 War Office-Admiralty-Air Miinistry JOCHEN PEIPER. SB 626 pp. Colour technical line Commander of Panzer-Regiment JOMINI’s LIFE OF NAPOLEON JOMINI’s LIFE OF NAPOLEON drawings throughout 2018 N&MP IRON TIMES WITH THE “Leibstandarte”. Volume 1 Volume 4 Reprint of 1960-61 Original Edition GUARDS by Patrick Agte Baron Jomini. Translated from the French Baron Jomini. Translated from the French Published Price £65 By an “O. E.” (Pseudonym of Lt. G. P. A. Hardback 500+ pages, with 800+ by H W Halleck. by H W Halleck. 25707 £38.00 Fildes, Coldstream Guards) photos 2019 N&M Press reprint (original 2019 N&M Press reprint (original A colour reproduction of the official 2016 N&M Press reprint (original 2785 £95.00 pub 1864). SB. 414pp. pub 1864). SB. 435pp. annotated handbook issued by the Joint pub 1918). SB.xv+ 358 pp The accomplished author of Michael 27965 £22.00 27968 £22.00 Ammunition Markings Sub-Committee, a Published Price £14.50 Wittmann has exceeded even his previous JOMINI’s LIFE OF NAPOLEON treasure trove of useful information 20585 £7.99 high standards of scholarship and research Volume 2 covering this subject, from small arms, with this superb biography of one of grenades, mines, through to guided An anonymous (at the time of first Baron Jomini. Translated from the French publication) personal account by an Old Germany’s foremost Panzer commanders. by H W Halleck. missiles and the atom bomb. A rare This book is packed with information and survival from the Cold War that was Etonian officer in the 1st Coldstream 2019 N&M Press reprint (original Guards who served on the western front first-hand accounts. The full details of preserved at the MOD Pattern Room Peiper’s outstanding military career and pub 1864). SB. 450pp. Library. A must for all collectors of from 1915-17; and saw action - realistically described, - at Festubert, controversial death. This will be the 27966 £22.00 military equipment, and an important core definitive work on Peiper. reference source. Ypres and the Somme. JOMINI’s LIFE OF NAPOLEON Volume 3 Baron Jomini. Translated from the French by H W Halleck. 2019 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1864). SB. 414pp. 27967 £22.00 The name of the author, Baron Jomini, is familiar to every military reader. As a writer on strategy and the tactics of battles, or the application of military science to the practical operations of the campaign and battlefield, he had few equals. His works have long been studied and read as textbooks by military students of every country. 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His ‘Life of combines two books published in the ISANDLWANA Napoleon’, though less of a technical 1920's about the naval Battle of Jutland in How The Zulus Humbled the A Personal Narrative of the THE IRON MARSHALL Somme, Ypres and Arras character than most of his other works, is 1916.The first is "THE TRUTH ABOUT A Biography of Louis N Davout - British Empire regarded as his masterpiece. JUTLAND." by Rear Admiral John Adrian Greaves John F. Tucker Harper who was asked to write an official The Napoleonic Library 19.99Hardback, 207 pages MAXIM GUN AND SMALL record of the battle by the then First Sea John G. 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THE KRIEGSMARINE AWARDS Sascha Weber & Gerhard Skora HB over 1000 pages with over 3000 pictures in full colour 21140 £145.00 This two-volume set of reference books is the most complete work regarding the awards of the Kriegsmarine in English LAST THROW OF THE DICE LESSONS FROM THE MUD THE KAISER’S FIRST POWs KNIGHTS OF THE BATTLE OF Bourbaki and Werder in Eastern 55th (West Lancashire) Division at Philip Chinnery language. On over 1000 pages with over BRITAIN 3000 pictures in full colour you will find France 1870-71 the Third Battle of Ypres Softback, 191 pages Luftwaffe Aircrew Awarded the the histories and detailed descriptions of Quintin Barry Published Price £19.99 Knights Cross in 1940 not only all of the war badges of the Hardback, 310 pages 28078 £5.99 Chris Goss Kriegsmarine (and their makers and Published Price £29.95 Paul Knight This books describes the life and times of Hardback, 212 pages variations), but also the Diamonds Softback 424 pages versions of the badges, the Navy Honour 27784 £12.99 prisoners and the manner in which the Published Price £19.99 This book recounts the last attempt by the Published Price £35 Germans dealt with the problems involved Roll Clasp, the Narvik Shield in Gold, 28275 £4.99 cloth badge versions, and much, much Government of National Defence to 28122 £14.99 in accommodating them. Covers not just A good addition to any Battle of Britain reverse the outcome of the Franco- Carefully edited and well presented, this is British POW’s and not just 1914. more! Rare photographs and documents library, with comprehensive biographical complement the information contained in Prussian War, as Leon Gambetta launched a useful addition to any Great War library, details on Knights Cross holders that are these remarkable books. the Army of the East under General this revisionist history attempts to destroy illustrated with contemporary photos. Charles Bourbaki, the former commander the popular impression of generals Details of lesser well known recipients of of the Imperial Guard, in a desperate unaware of conditions in the trenches and this medal, such has bomber pilots, assault attack on the German lines of incapable of developing tactics to break pilots are welcome along many of the communication in south-eastern France. the slaughter of trench warfare. more familiar names. The plan was that after sweeping aside the forces opposing it, the Army of the East would turn north to cooperate in the relief LIKE A CLIFF IN THE OCEAN of Paris. Karl Ullrich Hardback 327pp mono illustrations & colour maps 6534 £75.00 This is the one-volume text history of the division that was written by Karl Ullrich, a Knight’s Cross recipient and commander in the division. The text is about 50% standard unit history and 50% first-person accounts.

KANGZHAN Guide to Chinese Ground Forces THE KRIM SHIELD 1937-45 Sascha Weber Leland Ness, Bin Shih HB 140 pp 300+ pictures in colour Softback, 576 pages 12776 £75.00 Published Price £29.99 The respected expert Sascha Weber THE KONIGSBERG describes the Krim Shield and all its 26861 £7.99 ADVENTURE manufacturers, as well as the miniatures, LEEDS PALS This is the first ready reference to the E. Keble Chatterton the documents and entries in the Wehrpass organisation and armament of Chinese Softback 306 pages and Soldbuch. A History of the (Service) Battalion ground forces during the Sino-Japanese Published Price £16.99 (1st Leeds) The Prince of Wales’ War of 1937–45. The work integrates The Napoleonic Library FROM Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to 26139 £11.99 CORUNNA TO WATERLOO 1914-1918 examine the details of the structure and In the upper reaches of the Rufiji River The Letters and Journals of Two delta, in what is now Tanzania, lie the Laurie Milner weapons of the period. Recent scholarship Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816 Hardback, 320 pages LITTLE WARS has contributed greatly to our rusting remains of the Imperial German Gareth Glover A game for boys from twelve understanding of China's role in the war, cruiser Konigsberg and her attendant Published Price £30 but this is the first book to deal with the fuelling collier Somali, both destroyed by Hardback, 256 pages 27880 £9.99 years of age to one hundred bottom-level underpinnings of this gunfire from Royal Navy warships during Published Price £25 An excellent piece of work. The strength and fifty and for that more massive army, crucial to an understanding the early months of the First World War. 25357 £3.99 of the book originates from the availability intelligent sort of girl who likes of its tactical and operational utility. The outbreak of the First World War saw The remarkable experiences of two of first hand accounts from surviving boys’ games and books Konigsberg assume its new role of surface THE KNIGHT’S CROSS OF THE British cavalry officers of the 15th members of the "Leeds Pals". It is a tale of H G Wells raider. This lasted only a few weeks due to (King’s) Hussars, Major Edwin Griffith great tragedy, for though the Leeds Pals IRON CROSS a combination of coal shortages and SB 111 pp + 11 full-page and his nephew Captain Frederick Philips, took part in the final advance to victory, Illustrations & Marginal drawings by Dietrich Maerz mechanical defects, which forced her to who fought together through the their three years in France had cost them HB 500 pp with over 500 pictures in seek shelter for repair in the muddy Peninsular War and the Waterloo 733 men killed, 1,861 wounded and 776 J R Sinclair 2019 N&MP Reprint of colour + diagrams & tables backwaters of the Rufiji Delta. In her most campaign. Recounted in their letters home missing or captured. 1913 Original Edition 12777 £110.00 major foray, she engaged and destroyed to Wales, the exciting and informative Published Price £12.99 the British cruiser H.M.S. Pegasus at story does not have a happy ending, as one Critically acclaimed volume about the 27930 £8.99 Zanzibar on 20 September 1914, and her of the authors died in the final climactic For his work on novels like War of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross by captain struck the colours to avoid further battle against Napoleon’s hegemony. Dietrich Maerz. Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau, bloodshed. This volume is based entirely British author H.G. Wells is rightly lauded on original documents and first hand as a visionary. What often gets lost material from actual participants. amongst the applause for his ideas on science fiction though is another area in which he was a pioneer: the field of tabletop wargaming. Which, at least as far as we know it today, was basically invented by Wells while he and a friend were playing with toy soldiers.

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THE MEMEL MEDAL THE LUFTWAFFE GROUND MANUAL OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE MEMOIRS OF MARSHAL LONG WEEK IN MARCH COMBAT BADGE MACHINE GUN COMPANIES Antonio Scapini FOCH The 36th (Ulster) Division in the Sascha Weber 1918 HB 159 pp with over 500 pictures Translated by Colonel T. Bentley Mott German Spring Offensive, March HB 136 pp with 500+ Colour Ordnance Dept, Automatic Arms Division and photographs, most in colour. SB lviii+594pp 2019 N&MP Reprint 1918 photographs A.E.F. 1918 of 1931 Original Edition Michael James Nugent 12779 £65.00 SB 69pp. With 17 technical line 23058 £55.00 Published Price £28 Softback, 272 pages Often overlooked in favour of the more drawings 2018 N&MP Reprint of On over 150 pages the author Antonio 27331 £28.00 Published Price £19.95 "glamorous" battle awards of the 1918 Original Edition Scapini presents not only all known The memoirs of Marshal Foch are Luftwaffe, the Ground Combat Badge original variations of this now scarce important to the overall study of the Great 27915 £6.99 nonetheless deserves a respected place Published Price £6.99 This book proves that although under 25716 £4.99 medal, but also shows all the known fakes. War. Written during the last years of his both in the field of military awards The history of the medal as well as the life, they are personal memoirs that detail severe pressure, the Ulster Division with generally and in collections of militaria This technical manual, is illustrated with typical obstinacy, bent, but never broke packages and the documents are also part his actions, his movements, his orders and specifically. good clear plates for maintenance and of this useful book. and emerged at the beginning of April repair; they number in detail the his thoughts, and his interpretation of 1918 in a position to play a full part in the components in each gun described. events, some that modern historians might final drive to the Armistice. Published in May 1918 for the guidance of not altogether agree with. Machine Gun Company commanders and MEXICANS AT WAR Ordnance officers in equipping and Mexican Military Aviation in the ordering parts for MGC. Second World War 1941-1945 Covers the Hotchkiss machine gun model Santiago A. Flores 1914. Saint-Etienne tripod model 1915. Softback, 232 pages Hotchkiss tripod model 1916. Published Price £29.95 Gun cart model 1907. 27916 £6.99 Ammunition cart model 1907. This book introduces the reader to an unknown Ally of the Second World War. Few people remember that Mexico, like Brazil, took an active part in that conflict.

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Kearsey 70 pp with six sketch maps 2018 N&MP Reprint of c1932 Original Edition Published Price £7.99 26020 £4.99 This is one of a series of studies on campaigns and battles by Lt Col Kearsey, designed to help the student of military history, particularly those studying for SCOUTING BY NIGHT Staff College, and for promotional examinations on Military History. This Fredk. G. Cook account was intended for officers studying Rifle & Carabine 98 SB 59pp, with diagrams Jackson's audacious Valley Campaign M98 Firearms of the German photographic plates. 2018 N&MP during the American Civil War, and SHOOTING TO LIVE considers the battles of Bull Run, Army from 1898 to 1918 Reprint of 1916 Original Edition With The One-Hand Gun Dr. Dieter Storz Kernstown, McDowell, Winchester, Cross Keys and Port Republic. 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SB viii+347pp. with 26 Maps (In Part of the acclaimed “Special Campaign” 27679 £14.50 28135 £14.50 Published Price £9.95 colour) 2020 N&MP Reprint of 1912 series of works intended for serious Part of the acclaimed “Special Campaign” Part of the acclaimed “Special Campaign” 5439 £6.99 Edition professional students of military history series of works intended for serious series of works intended for serious A very gutsy description of two months 27675 £18.50 each volume is interspersed with professional students of military history, professional students of military history, intensive fighting from May to - Part of the acclaimed “Special Campaign” strategical and tactical comments and each volume is interspersed with each volume is interspersed with Loos, Bazentin and Pozieres - by a series of works intended for serious illustrated by numerous sketches. strategical and tactical comments and strategical and tactical comments and rifleman of 2nd KRRC, 2nd Brigade, 1st professional students of military history The engagement between France and illustrated by numerous sketches. illustrated by numerous sketches. Division. He was taken prisoner. each volume is interspersed with Austria, during the second war of Italian The Russo-Japanese War was fought strategical and tactical comments and independence, on the 4th of June 1859 at during 1904 and 1905 between the Tactical account of the lightning six-week illustrated by numerous sketches. Magenta, and the decisive engagement in Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan war between Austria and Prussia that led This was the first major military victory in that war the Battle of Solferino on the 24 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria to the decisive Prussian victory at the modern era of an Asian power over a June 1859 were crucial steps in Italian and Korea. Königgrätz and the end of Austria’s European one. Military scholars continue unification. The major theatres of operations were the domination of Germany by a Prussian to debate the historical significance of the Solferino interestingly was the last major Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in hegemony. This was the first war between war. Good coverage is given to the Battle battle in world history where all the armies Southern Manchuria and the seas around two major continental powers in seven of Liaoyang.Post-war reports conclusively were under the personal command of their Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea. The years; it used many of the same illustrated the battlefield destructiveness of monarchs, approximately 300,000 soldiers Battles of Yalu, Nanshan, Telissu, technologies as the Second Italian War of this conflict. This was the first time the fought in the important battle, the largest Tashichiao, Hsimucheng, and the Battle on Independence, including railways to tactics of entrenched positions for infantry since the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. There the East Front, 31st of July all receive concentrate troops during mobilisation and defended with machine guns and artillery were about 130,000 Austrian troops and a good coverage. telegraphs to enhance long-distance became vitally important. Both would combined total of 140,000 French and Russia suffered multiple defeats by Japan, communication. The Prussian Army used become dominant factors in World War I. allied Piedmontese troops. After the battle, but Tsar Nicholas II was convinced that von Dreyse's breech-loading needle gun, Even though entrenched positions had the Austrian Emperor refrained from Russia would win and chose to remain which could be rapidly loaded while the already been a significant part of both the further direct command of the army. engaged in the war. The complete victory soldier was seeking cover on the ground, Franco-Prussian War and the American The war's geopolitical context was the of the Japanese military surprised world whereas the Austrian muzzle-loading rifles Civil War, it is now apparent that the high nationalist struggle to unify Italy, which observers. The consequences transformed could only be loaded slowly, and generally had long been divided among France, the balance of power in East Asia. It was from a standing position. casualty counts, and the tactical lessons Austria, Spain and numerous independent readily available to observer nations, were the first major military victory in the GALLANT COUNTY completely disregarded in preparations for Italian states. modern era of an Asian power over a European one. Military scholars continue The Regiments of Gloucestershire war in Europe, and during much of the in the Great War course of World War I. to debate the historical significance of the war. 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A combined Spanish, What is most remarkable is that Lieutenant north, it was the efforts of the Belgian Force’s defensive battle on the Somme in British and Portuguese force of more than Woodberry found time to record events at Gloucestershire Hussars, a Yeomanry army, reinforced by French troops, Regiment that was heavily engaged at March and April of 1918. It starts with the 30,000 men, under the command of Lord length in his journal almost every single coupled with controlled flooding of the huge German offensive along a 60 mile Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march day. This enables the reader to trace Gallipoli, and was one of only two English polders but, further south, the truly heroic Yeomanry Regiments to fight all the way front on 21 March. Third and Fifth Armies of the French field marshal Soult, who was accurately the movements of the 18th defence of Langemarck, for three days by then had to make a series of fighting trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, 12 Hussars and Wellington s army in general from Egypt, through Palestine to Aleppo the BEF and then by the French army, was in Syria. withdrawals in which some battalions had miles north. Beresford, who defended with precision. It also provides an insight of decisive importance. The village stood to fight their way out while others were himself with his bare hands against a into life on campaign in Spain, France and as a bulwark against any further advance overrun. This follows the now established Polish lancer, was victorious, but at the Belgium with the British Army of the to the river or the town of Ypres. 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TIGER: THE HISTORY OF A “THEY WERE GOOD LEGENDARY WEAPON The World's First SWAT Team SOLDIERS’S” W. E. Fairbairn and the Shanghai African-Americans Serving in E. Kleine & V. Kuhn TRAGEDY OF THE FAITHFUL: Municipal Police Reserve Unit the Continental Army, 1775 Hardback 273pp, 390 b&w A History of the III. (germanisches) THE EMPIRE AND THE ARMY photographs, 19 maps and The Hon. J. W. Fortescue Leroy Thompson -1783 SS-Panzer-Korps appendices Wilhelm Tieke SB xxxiv + 338pp line drawings 2017 Hardback 208 pages “From Reason to Revolution’ Published Price £25 Series” 7535 £75.00 Hardback 482pp, 150 b/w N&MP Reprint of 1929 Original This is a revision of a classic on the Tiger Edition 25306 £3.99 John U. Rees photographs, maps, illustrations I and Tiger II formations of the German 5382 £55.00 Published Price £16.50 Paints a vivid picture of life in Shanghai at Softback 104 pages 8 colour plates, Army and Waffen-SS.Even though the 25636 £7.99 a time when civil unrest, crime and the 14 B&W illustrations, 5 tables &1 English Language edition of “Tiger: The This book is a typical Tieke publication: influence of Japan posed a growing map History of a Legendary Weapon” is over Terse, to-the-point, factual and exciting THE EYES OF THE DIVISION: challenge. The author, an American, is an Published Price £19.99 10 years old, it is still one of the best reading! It presents all the original material from Tragodie um die Treue as THE RECONNAISANCE- authority on modern police and Special 28129 £6.99 books written on the most feared tank of BATTALION OF THE 17. SS- Forces techniques and goes into great well as selected excerpts from Korps A full picture African Americans in the the Second World War.It is full of first PANZER-GRENADIER- detail on equipment and tactics. He also hand accounts that cannot be found Steiner and original material added just for highlights the historical importance of service of the Continental Army during the the English edition. It covers the history of DIVISION 'GOTZ VON American War of Independence. Rees has anywhere else. In addition, the text has experience gained from contact with been completely re-edited for this revision the III. (Germanisches) SS-Panzer-Korps BERLICHINGEN’ Fairbairn by the United States Marine presented a masterful effort at finding from its formation in 1943 until its virtual Helmut Gunther Corps units who served in Shanghai. details of this topic hidden in pension destrcution in the fighting for Berlin in HB 258pp, 68 photos, 11 maps, 8 plans, newspaper articles , letters and other 1945. It represents a thorough account in documents contemporaneous documents of the English of some of the formations in the 22089 £48.00 Revolutionary War period. corps: For example, the 11.SS- The war memoirs of an unrepentent Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Waffen SS man from the failure to take “Nordland” and the afformentioned 4. SS- Moscow in December 1941 to the Panzergrenadier-Brigade “Nederland” Normandy landings and the final battle for Germany in 1944-45. Despite the author’s Nazi sympathy this is a vivid picture of Germany’s toughest fighting men as they go down to defeat.

TOTENKOPF TIGERS TRUMPET AND BUGLE Wolfgang Schneider, SOUNDS FOR THE ARMY HB 320 pp, 448 photographs, 55 With Words and also Bugle maps, 16 pages of colour profiles, 20 Marches THERE'S a DEVIL in THE THREE BATTLES OF VITEBSK- Compiled and arranged by a Bandmaster VOLUME I documents and several orders of DRUM battle. 70 pp with musical notes, and by John F Lucy. Jean Restayn Hardback, 192 pages adapted words 2018 N&MP 2001 reprint (first pub. 1938). SB. 20918 £78.00 25704 £58.00 Reprint of 1927 Original Edition 393pp with new introduction by Col Written by Wolfgang Schneider, one of Terry Cave. This volume covers the fighting from the foremost experts on WW II armour September to December 1943, as 3.Panzer 4540 £9.95 warfare, TOTENKOPF TIGERS is the 26017 £6.99 Armee desperately tries to defend and fall history of the Tiger Company of the 3.SS- THE PILL-BOXES OF A classic. Lucy enlisted, with his brother back to the Panther Line. Initially, A 1920s Gale & Polden training manual in the RIR 1912, 2nd Bn. in France & Panzer-Division Totenkopf. In the fall of with both musical notes and adapted FLANDERS although designated as Panzer, the army 1942, a heavy Tiger company was formed Col. EGL Thurlow, DSO gives a very fine account of the 1914-1915 only had a few assault guns within the new words to explain the calls, intended for the campaign.His brother was killed at the for each of the Leibstandarte , use of both Trumpeters, Buglers and SB 47 pp with 6 Illustrations & Fallschirmjager-Korps. It was slowly Das Reich and Totenkopf SS-Panzer- Aisne & Lucy was eventually sent home given some strong assets in the form of the Instructors as well as an aid to Soldiers in Sketches 2019 N&MP Reprint of for a rest: “My leave... was a nightmare. Grenadier Divisions. While each of the learning calls, especially Field Calls that 20.Panzer-Division, a Tiger battalion, and Tiger companies of the other two divisions 1933 Original Edition My sleep was broken & full of voices & some other antitank units. were confusing due to their similarity, 27929 £6.99 the noises of war.The voices were those of was used to form an independent Tiger such as Stand Fast; Charge; Gallop; and battalion, the Totenkopf company A record of some of the 180 pill-boxes officers & men who were dead... One Rally. This is a must for historical military morning was discovered standing up in remained as a company with its division re-enactment. preserved on the Ypres Salient after the until the end of the war. It used the Tiger I war, with their history. Compiled with the bed facing a wall ready to repel an imaginary dawn attack.” Lucy was exclusively, never being issued the Tiger object of providing an account of the more II. important events connected with these commissioned, returned to his bn. and concrete structures that were strongholds fought at 3rd Ypres & Cambrai until for one moment, death traps the next. wounded.

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The War Merit Cross 1. Class and TYNESIDE IRISH VOICES FROM JUTLAND Higher Grades 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th (Service) THE VICTORIA CROSSES OF VICTORIA’S GENERALS A Centenary Commemoration Dietrich Maerz George Stimson Battalions of Northumberland THE CRIMEA WAR Ian F. W. Beckett & Steven J. Corvi Jim Crossley Hardback 463 pages Fusiliers The Men behind the Medals Hardback 240 pages Hardback, 224 pages 25996 £110.00 John Sheen James W. Bancroft Published Price £19.99 Published Price £19.99 Never before has the War Merit Cross 1. Hardback, 368 pages Hardback, 234 pages 28358 £4.99 27128 £3.99 Class and the Knights Cross of the War Published Price £19.99 The group of Generals who commanded Merit Cross been described in such detail. Published Price £25 A well written even handed detailed but Years in the making and extensively using 27891 £9.99 28045 £7.99 the British Army - usually with great never heavy account of the Battle of success - in the high Victorian era between the existing archives the two authors The Tyneside Irish, as part of the The Crimean War saw the introduction of Jutland. Due to the expeditions to the Dietrich Maerz and George Stimson have the Indian Mutiny and the end of the wrecks by Marine Archaeologists such as Northumberland Fusiliers, formed the four the Victoria Cross. Whilst the history of century were heroes of their own time, but delivered another solid and well battalions of 103rd Brigade, 34th Division. this War has been related many times, Innes McCartney the disputes related to researched book are easily overlooked today. This group the battle can be put to bed and at long last After suffering heavy casualties at the never before have the stories of those 111 portrait of talented and charismatic if Somme during 1916, two of their individuals who were awarded the VC the accusations aimed at Admiral Jellicoe sometimes eccentric commanders includes have been shown to be baseless. battalions were amalgamated in 1917 and been told in one one book. In this, the Sir Garnett Wolseley, Bobs Roberts, by the end of the war, there was only one result of four decades of accumulated Chinese Gordon of Khartoum, and the A WALK ROUND PLUGSTREET battalion remaining in service. research, VC historian James Bancroft great Kitchener. Together they embodied South Ypres Sector 1914-1918 describes who the men were, how they the strengths and weaknesses of the British gained the Victoria Cross, and what Army in an era when its main duty lay in Ted Smith & Tony Spagnoly happened to them afterwards. policing the far-flung outposts of the British Empire. This book is a balanced Softback 138 pages with B&W examination of the men who held the rods of Empire at its height. illustrations & Maps Published Price £12.99 28359 £3.99 An essential companion when visiting this area of the front, well written by two men who really did know their stuff.

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A CENTURY OF AIR WARFARE ARMIES OF EARLY BATTLEGROUND EARLY WITH NINE (IX) SQUADRON COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA BATTLES: RETREAT OF I RAF 1607-1713 CORPS 1914 Still Going Strong History, Organization and Gordon Thorburn Uniforms Jerry Murland Hardback, 286 pages Gabriele Esposito Softback, 139 pages Published Price £25 Hardback, 180 pages Published Price £12.99 28174 £3.99 Published Price £19.99 25437 £3.99 Number 9 Squadron is the oldest dedicated 28074 £5.99 A re-examination of one of the most Bomber Squadron of the Royal Air Force. Esposito presents a detailed overview of controversial episodes in the BEF’s retreat Formed in December 1914, saw service the military history of Colonial North from Mons to the Marne and in the career throughout the First World War, including America during its earliest period, from of Sir Douglas Haig. The book looks at at the Somme and Passchendaele. During the first colonial settlement in Jamestown Haig’s decision to speed his I Corps’ the Second World War it was one of two to the end of the first continental war retirement while Sir Horace Smith- The Ypres Salient. A Guide to the Avro Lancaster units specialising in heavy fought in the Americas. Ample Dorrien’s II Corps fought the Battle of Le Cemeteries and Memorials of the precision bombing, aircraft from this illustrations, including colour art works, Cateau. Ypres Salient 1914-18 squadron sank the battleship Tirpitz on 12 show the first military uniforms ever worn November 1944. 'ALLIES ARE A TIRESOME BATTLEGROUND GALLIPOLI: Michael Scott in North America, as well as interesting ANZAC - THE LANDING LOT'. THE BRITISH ARMY IN details of weaponry and equipment used. 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During the Battle of Loos the 46th Division was decimated in an attack on the on 13 October 1915.It was later involved in the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, where in the RED ARMY SNIPER THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR A Memoir on the Eastern Front in opening phase as part of VII Corps, the southern-most corps of the Third Army, SERVICE DURING THE GREAT World War II the Division took part in the diversionary WAR ODESSA 1941-44 Yevgeni Nikolaev, Martin Pegler attack at Gommecourt on the first day on Malcolm Smith Defense, Occupation, Resistance Hardback, 224 pages the Somme, 1 July 1916, which was a Hardback, 220 pages and Liberation Published Price £19.99 catastrophic failure resulting in heavy Published Price £25 losses to its numbers, and the event of Nikolai Ovcharenko, Stuart Britton 27850 £4.99 28175 £4.99 Yevgeni Nikolaev was one of Russia’s which dogged the Division afterwards Hardback, 196 pages with a poor reputation until 29 September Following in the same style as his previous leading snipers of World War II and his book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Published Price £25 memoir provides an unparalleled account 1918, when it re-established its name at 27460 £3.99 the St. Quentin Canal where, utilising life- Malcolm Smith has collected a of front-line action. 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Not An Infantryman on the Western posts covering that point. just in the air, where it pioneered the OFT IN DANGER Front 1916-18 concept of strategic bombing, and ran highly effective fighter squadrons, such as The Life and the Campaigns of Joseph Steward, Andrew Robertshaw, General Sir Anthony Farrar- 5(N), 8(N) and 10(N). It also ran armoured Steve Roberts car units as far afield as Imperial Russia. Hockley Hardback, 224 pages RECONSTRUCTING THE NEW Jonathon Riley Published Price £19.99 MODEL ARMY VOL 1 Quantity hardback of 504 pages 25944 £3.99 Regimental Lists April 1645 to May Published Price £29.95 Joseph Johns Steward fought in the Great 1649 24720 £2.99 War, from the Battle of the Somme to the Malcolm Wanklyn Tony Farrar-Hockley was arguably final offensives of 1918, he was an acute, SB, 176 pp Britain’s best-known soldier in the post- unflinching observer of the conflict he Published Price £19.99 war era. 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The Raid to Destroy Rommel’s WAR William Langford PROTECTING THE BRITISH Base Amarpal Singh Hardback, 160 pages ROYAL FAMILY DURING THE Gordon Landsborough Softback, 560 pages Published Price £19.99 SECOND WORLD WAR Hardback, 224 pages Published Price £20 25220 £2.99 Published Price £19.99 28216 £4.99 This is the original compilation of SB 136 pp with 25 B&W photographs 25966 £3.99 A fascinating, comprehensive account, of intelligence reports flowing into 4th Army Published Price £12.95 Tobruk Commando is a classic true a hard-fought and much misunderstood HQ at Querrieu Chateau on the eve of the adventure story of the Second World War. war in Northern India during 1848-9, and 25135 £2.00 Somme offensive. Gleaned from a wide The King’s Private Army offers the first The fast-moving action centres on the the bitter battles that extinguished the Sikh array of sources including PoW small commando of men which set out Empire. 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War have largely been overlooked, or heroic bluff and a venture to test the The Aftermath of the Fall STORMING ST NAZAIRE barely mentioned, so Andrew Stewart’s courage and nerves of the toughest men. Geoffrey Brooke The Dock Busting Raid 1942 illustrated book is most welcome. Softback, 256 pages James Dorrian Published Price £14.99 Softback, 304 pages 25468 £3.99 Published Price £14.95 The options facing the thousands of men, 25028 £3.99 women and children stranded when The destruction of occupied France’s St SCOUT-SNIPING Singapore fell to the Japanese in February Nazaire docks by ramming them with an 1942 were stark. Stay and be interned by a “Periscope” pseudonym of Lieut.Col. Pete aged former US warship, HMS cruel enemy, or take to the treacherous Campbeltown, was one of the most Anderson, Alberta Regiment seas and sail in inadequate boats. 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