GERMAN SUBMARINE U-1105
'BLACK PANTHER':
THE NAVAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF A U-BOAT
by Aaron Stephan Hamilton
Now in its final resting
place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the
U-1105 is unique among German World War II submarines.
Technologically innovative, it was the only U-Boat to
conduct a wartime patrol while equipped with the snorkel,
GHG Balkon passive sonar and a rubberized coating known as
Alberich designed to reduce its acoustic signature and hide
from Allied sonar. After the end of World War II, it was the
subject of instense testing and evaluation by the Allies,
before finally being sunk to the bottom of the Potomac. This
highly illustrated book uses many new and previously
unpublished colour images to tell the full story of this
remarkable U-Boat, evaluating the effectiveness of its late
war technologies and detail all the features still present
on the wreck site today.
New in illustrated boards - large
format, 136pp, c150 colour & b/w photos & illustrations
An account of the Cavendish Road operation. Early on the
morning of 19 March, 1944, tanks manned by New Zealanders,
Indians and Americans launched a daring attack along a
narrow mountain track on German positions north of Monte
Cassino. So began one of the most audacious Allied attempts
to break through the Gustav Line and advance on Rome, and it
almost succeeded. Yet this extraordinary story has seldom
been told, and it has never been told before in the vivid
detail in this new account. The planning for the attack and
the men involved are described in a gripping and
clear-sighted way, as is the attack itself; its initial
rapid success and its ultimate failure.
New in d/w -
194pp, numerous colour & b/w photos, maps
OSPREY NEW VANGUARD 247: SOVIET
LEND-LEASE TANKS OF WORLD WAR II
by Steven J. Zaloga. Illustrated by Henry Morshead
The Red Army suffered such
catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that
they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The
first batches arrived in late 1941, just in time to take
part in the defence of Moscow. The supplies of British tanks
encompassed a very wide range of types including the
Matilda, Churchill, and Valentine. American tanks included
the M3 (Stuart) light tank and M3 (Lee) medium tank and the
M4 Sherman tank, which became so common in 1944-45 that
entire Soviet tank corps were equipped with the type. With
these Western tanks, the Soviets were finally able to beat
back the German tide in the East. This study examines the
different types of tanks shipped to the Soviet Union during
the war, Soviet assessments of their merits and problems,
and combat accounts of their use in Soviet service using
full colour artwork, contemporary photographs and detailed
cut-away illustrations.
New in card cover
- A4 format 48pp, 8 colour plates, numerous b/w
illustrations
HEALING IN HELL: THE MEMOIRS OF A FAR EASTERN
POW MEDIC
by Ken Adams
Ken Adams was sent to the Far
East during the Second World War and saw action on the Malay
Peninsula before being captured at Singapore. As a trained
medic he was initially assigned to work at Changi Hospital,
where conditions were bad enough, but this was only the
start of the three-year ordeal and many moves and far worse
camps in Thailand followed. In this harrowing book Ken
describes the terrible conditions endured at the hands of
the Japanese and Korean guards and, worst of all, the
Kempetai secret police. An exceptional memoir that demands
reading.
While the Revolutionary and Civil
wars have been the object of much research and
documentation, the war that bridged them has been
comparatively neglected. This comprehensive research guide
summarizes the careers of President and Commander-in-Chief
James Madison, his three secretaries of war, nine major
generals, and 27 brigadier generals, and traces the
operations of various departments, five artillery regiments,
three cavalry regiments, the Corps of Engineers, 48 infantry
regiments, and four rifle regiments of the United States
during the War of 1812.
New in card cover - 311pp, 60 photos, appendix, index
