GERMAN U-BOAT LOSSES DURING WORLD WAR II:
DETAILS OF DESTRUCTION
by Axel Niestle
No other publication
on this subject comes even close to including the amount of
detail provided in this book. An introduction summarizes
previous works on the subject and describes the difficulties
of obtaining and verifying information from either the
Germans or the Allies on U-boat losses. The main part of the
book lists by hull number each U-boat's date of
commissioning, its commanding officer, and the date and port
of departure for its last patrol. It also gives the date,
position, and cause of loss, with complete details on Allied
units involved in the sinking, the names and ranks of their
commanding officers and pilots, and the number of crew
killed or rescued. An appendix neatly summarises data on the
disposition of surviving U-boats at the end of the war and
provides valuable statistical data on German U-boat losses.
The Uniforms of the Royal Italian
Army 1933-40. Includes the uniforms, insignia, medal ribbons
and accoutrements. Numerous colour illustrations of rank
badges, medal ribbons and insignia. Original Documentation
with many old photos and some plates in colour showing
details of uniforms, and headwear. A scarce publication.
The
authentic account of the work of GCHQ at Bletchley Park in
WWII. By 1942 some 4,000 German, Italian and Japanese
signals were being broken and translated by the remarkable
team. The book includes accounts by the men and women who
worked there, telling of their recruitment, training,
successes and failures.
New in card cover - xxi + 321pp, 10 illustrations, 23
figures
A study of the Battle of Britain
including the run up and the battle itself. Includes
original colour illustrations of the aircraft, personnel and
actions. The book was specially commissioned for the 50th
Anniversary of the battle.
Fine in rubbed d/w - 126pp, 100
colour illustrations.
A compulsively readable and vivid
account of life as a young soldier in Russia's Chechen wars,
it takes the raw and mundane reality of days amid guns and
grenades and twists it into compelling, chilling, and eerily
elegant prose. Babchenko traces his journey from innocence
to experience, beginning with his teenage arrival in the
transit camp just north of Chechnya and harsh treatment by
his seniors as a naive and scared new recruit, through to
his period of active duty at the front, by which time he has
become a brutalized and hardened soldier.
