Military History  /  World War II
Alan Brooke: Churchill's Right-Hand Critic Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781612009681
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2021
Illustrations: 30 photographs
Description:
Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill's right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Despite this crucial role, he is very little known compared to military commanders such as Montgomery, Alexander, Slim, Mountbatten, Patton, or Eisenhower. This new biography of Lord Alanbrooke uses archival material and his diaries to trace his life, including his experiences in World War I and the development of his military career in the interwar years, with a focus on his post as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II.
RRP: £25.00
Eagles over Darwin Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9780648665984
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
In 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States.That year was very nearly the end of Australia as a country. To those men the present nation owes a debt.
RRP: £24.95
From Texas to Rome Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9781611214826
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2021
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Description:
Major General Fred Walker assumed command of the Texas National Guard’s 36th Infantry Division in September 1941. He led it for the next 34 months through training, overseas deployment, and World War II’s horrific Italian campaign. Throughout, Walker kept a daily journal in which he recorded his experiences on and off the battlefield.
RRP: £27.99
Pacific Profiles - Volume Three Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9780648926207
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre. Volume Three illustrates, by squadron, USAAF Fifth Air Force A-20 series medium bombers operating in New Guinea from July 1942 to the end of 1944. In this distant theatre, a dozen USAAF A-20 squadrons from the 3rd, 312th and 417th Bombardment Groups, joined by No.
RRP: £24.95
Arctic Front Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781612009728
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2021
Illustrations: 20 maps
Description:
In 1941, military operations were conducted by large formations along the northern coast of Scandinavia – for the first time in history of warfare. A modern army suddenly swept into that isolated and inhospitable region that was yet to possess the level of importance it would later assume in Cold War polar strategy. The Arctic Front was the northernmost theatre in the war waged by Germany against Russia.
RRP: £35.00
A Footsoldier for Patton Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612009308
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2021
Description:
A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A Foot Soldier for Patton takes the reader from the beaches of Normandy through the giddy drive across France, to the brutal battles on the Westwall, in the Ardennes, and finally to the conquest of Germany itself.
RRP: £13.99
Narvik Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612009179
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2021
Description:
Published for the first time in English, this is a German account of the German invasionof Norway in the spring of 1940. It focuses on the efforts of Group “1” led by Eduard Dietl. This group of gebirgstruppen was landed at Narvik in early April by tendestroyers.
RRP: £35.00
Sturmartillerie De La Waffen-SS T2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9782840485735
Pub Date: 03 Feb 2021
Imprint: Heimdal
Description:
Dans ce deuxième volume sur les Sturmgeschütze des Waffen-SS, le lecteur retrouvera l'historique des canons d'assaut de la «Totenkopf», d'abord articulée en simple batterie, et plus tard en une puissante Abteilung de trois batteries. Plongés dans les affres de la poche de Demiansk, à l'hiver 1941/42, les Sturmartilleristen connaissent presque continuellement de rudes combats jusqu'en Autriche, au printemps 1945, dont ceux de l'opération «Zitadelle» en juillet 1943 et de Pologne l'été suivant. Cette partie est particulièrement illustrée par une iconographie riche grâce à l'héritage de l'Untersturmführer Jänisch ou de l'Unterscharführer Mödlinger.
RRP: £56.00
Pearl Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9781612009384
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2021
Illustrations: 40 photographs
Description:
What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened? The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed.
RRP: £25.00
Pacific Profiles - Volume Two Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9780648665991
Pub Date: 28 Jan 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre. Volume Two illustrates, by unit, Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) bomber and other supporting aircraft types operating in New Guinea and the Solomons from December 1942 to April 1944. In this distant theatre many different aircraft types and their variants were assigned to a variety of bomber, reconnaissance, command and transport units which together formed the 4th Air Army.
RRP: £24.95
South Pacific Air War Volume 4 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780648665977
Pub Date: 28 Jan 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
Volume Four chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific in the critical period between 19 June and 8 September 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the first three volumes that spanned the first six months of the Pacific War, culminating in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Unlike the previous three volumes, no aircraft carriers appeared in New Guinea waters.
RRP: £19.95
Normandie Niemen Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9782840485759
Pub Date: 14 Jan 2021
Imprint: Heimdal
Description:
Ils venaient des six coins de l'Hexagone, de tous les horizons, il y en a même qui venaient de notre Empire colonial éclaté. ils n'avaient pas tous la même culture, ni les mêmes convictions. Caporaux, sous-officiers et officiers, ils étaient de tous grades mais tous, sans exception, se portèrent volontaires.
RRP: £34.00
Staff Cars in Germany WW2 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9788365958808
Pub Date: 13 Jan 2021
Imprint: MMP Books
Series: Camera ON
Illustrations: 150 B&W photographs
Description:
In the second volume of this publication, the remainder of the Opel motor company major production types are covered that were not covered in volume 1, such as the Opel P-4 that was also used as the basis of many of the pre-war mock-up training tanks used by the German army due to the lack of real tanks to train with. The “Opel Kadett” (cadet), the Opel Supper 6, the “Opel Kapitan” (Captain) and the top of the range, the luxurious Opel Admiral. In this volume the author provides a detailed impression of these vehicles through original photographs, taken both during and before the war by the normal German soldiers who both used and served with these now classic automobiles.
RRP: £15.00
L'Odyssee de la Brigade Ramcke a El Alamein Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9782840485698
Pub Date: 07 Dec 2020
Imprint: Heimdal
Description:
El Alamein. C'est là que l'offensive de Rommel, qui semblait irrésistible, est stoppée sur la route d'Alexandrie, à l'été 1942. S'ensuivent de longues semaines de guerre de position dans les sables et roches du désert égyptien, sous un soleil de plomb.
RRP: £37.00
The Road to Singapore Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781921509957
Pub Date: 28 Nov 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Generations of Australians have been reared on the belief the fall of Singapore in February 1942 was a British betrayal that exposed Australia to Japanese invasion. In The Road to Singapore a young American historian, using archival records from across the globe, exposes the notion of a British betrayal as nothing more than a myth. British authorities never gave Australia an iron-clad guarantee against enemy attack and invasion and always stressed the need for Australians to take responsibility for home defence.
RRP: £25.00
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 552
ISBN: 9781612008738
Pub Date: 20 Nov 2020
Description:
On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including the finest Christmas dinner their field kitchens could still prepare in this fifth year of the war. They had earned it too; after five months of unrelenting combat and the loss of many of their friends, troops from the corps headquarters, headquarters troops, and its two divisions - the 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf” and the 5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking” - were eagerly anticipating what the holiday would bring, including presents from home and perhaps sharing a bottle of schnapps or wine with their comrades.
RRP: £30.00