The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 served on all fronts during the Second
World War, and one theatre in which it played a particularly
important role was the Mediterranean. This new book covers the
service of the Fw 190 equipped fighter-bomber units based in
Sicily, Sardinia and southern Italy in the summer of 1943,
including their operations against a variety of well-defended
British and American targets. The book features ten appendices, a
comprehensive index, eleven colour aircraft profiles by renowned
artist Claes Sundin, sixteen colour maps, twelve illustrations,
and 140 photographs.
New in illustrated boards - Large format, 224pp, numerous colour
maps, profiles and photographs
Air War Publications, Denmark, 2012
ISBN 9788799335206
The Panzerwrecks series feature destroyed, surrendered and
abandoned German armour of 1944-45. Each landscape volume
contains over 100 large format rare and previously unpublished
black and white photographs. This volume includes: A 39 page
feature on German wrecks in Paris, Final production Tiger IIs
with and without transport tracks, Unique photos of the Patton
Museum 'last steel wheel' Panther, A Rare command variant of the
Jadgtiger, Hybrid 7.5cm Pak 40/3 from a Marder III mounted in a
15cm sIG33/2 (Sf) auf GW 38(t) Grille superstructure, Sd.Kfz.234
fitted with a 2cm 'Schwebelafette', Pz.Jgr.II für 7.5cm Pak 40
with unusual late war camouflage, Sturmgeschütz III Ausf.G with
'swinging' Schürzen, 18 page coverage of the enormous Karlgerät.
New in card cover - Landscape format with gatefold covers,
96pp, 132 b/w photos
Opening with the 'predators' - Mussolini, Hitler, Prince
Hirohito of Japan - and moving onto appeasement, the rape of
Poland, Barbarossa, the role of Churchill, and the Holocaust, the
author analyses the moral dimension of the Second World War's most
important moments. He also examines the moral reasoning of
individuals who had to make choices under circumstances difficult
to imagine. Stressing the maxim that the past is used to make
sense of the present world we live in, he takes us right up to
today's war on terror - a war of competing ideas.
New in d/w - 650pp, 5 maps,
36 colour &
b/w illustrations
THE SINKING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES
AND THE REPULSE
by Martin Middlebrook & Patrick Mahoney
On 10th December, 1941, the Royal Navy
Battleship HMS Prince of Wales, and the Battlecruiser HMS
Repulse, were sunk by land-based bombers and torpedo bombers of
the Imperial Japanese Navy. The objective of Force Z, which
consisted of one battleship, one battlecruiser and four
destroyers, was to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet north
of Malaya, However, the fleet was without any air support, which
had been declined by the commander of the Force, Admiral Sir Tom
Phillips. 840 men died in the sinking of the two ships. The
authors dispose of several myths and address the controversy
surrounding the disastrous sinkings.
The Assault and Capture of Fallujah, Iraq. The Second Battle
for Fallujah took place, from November 7 to December 23, 2004.
The Marine Corps’ biggest battle in Iraq to date, it was so
prolonged and fierce that it has entered the pantheon of USMC
battles alongside Iwo Jima, Inchon, and Hue. This book offers an
in-depth, intimate look into the single most significant battle
undertaken during the occupation of Iraq. Illustrated with a
hundred action photographs, it is a rare firsthand account of
the brutal reality of the war in Iraq.
New in d/w - 312pp, numerous
colour photos and maps
