During the period 1890-1910 the Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II was a
blaze of colour, particularly the Garde and Cavalry regiments.
This superb volume illustrates the true glory of this brief,
colourful time. Carl Becker skillfully illustrates the military
pomp and ceremony, as well as the work-a-day activities of the
Kaiser’s army. 104 plates by Becker have never been published
before, and these have been supplemented by additional
illustrations from books and postcards.
New in d/w - Large format, 147pp, over 130 colour plates
First published in
1949, this is 'A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940'. Having
returned home from military service following the fall of
France, Bloch wrote this manuscript to analyse the military
faiures he had witnessed. He concluded that the immediate cause
of the disaster was the utter incompetence of the French High
command. Having worked with the Resistance since 1942, he was
arrested by the Vichy police in March, 1944. They handed him
over to the Gestapo who tortured and shot him.
On 22 June, 1941, soon after 3am, the
first German shells smashed into the Soviet fortress of Brest –
Hitler's Operation Barbarossa had begun. Across a front
stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Wehrmacht
advanced, taking the Red Army by surprise, brushing aside the
first stunned resistance, breaking through and taking thousands
of prisoners, but the isolated stronghold of Brest held out. The
heroic defence of Brest has become one of the legends of the
Second World War on the Eastern Front, an example of selfless
Soviet heroism in the face of Nazi aggression.
The Soviet T-28 multi-turreted medium tank was a symbol of the
Workers and Peasants Red Army in pre-war years. Well known as it
is, little substantial information has been published about its
development, particularly in the West. This book attempts to
remedy this and contains much new information, more than 160
photographs - many showing close-in detail - plus a wealth of 1/35
scale plans and profiles, seven in full colour
New in card cover - A4 format, 128pp, 165 b/w photos, 7 colour ills, numerous
1:35 scale profiles
Sydney Carlin, a native of Hull, enlisted in the Cavalry in 1914.
In 1915 he was awarded a DCM during the Second Battle of Ypres
and was Commissioned. In 1916 as a Royal
Engineers Lieutenant, he received an MC at the Battle of Delville Wood, where he suffered a leg amputation. Despite his
discharge as disabled he was determined to return to the Front
Line and applied to the Royal Flying Corps for pilot training.
He was rejected, but he designed his own wooden leg and payed
for private flying lessons. He persuaded the authorities to send
him to a Front Line Scout squadron in France and, in the summer
of 1918 he won a DFC, subsequently crash landing and spending
the last weeks of the War as a POW. He volunteered again in 1939
and became an air gunner in the Battle of
Britain at the age of 50. He died in 1941 in an air raid.
