The final battles for the possession of
Java fought by Allied Air, Naval and Land forces from 18th
February to 7th March, 1942. The generally accepted idea is that
the Allies were ineffective in their fight against the Japanese
invaders. In fact the Japanese suffered serious losses. Japanese
commanders consciously took steps that exposed their forces to
great risk, however the tactic succeeded in putting the Allies
under great pressure. In the end the Royal Netherlands East Indies
Army (KNIL) and the allied forces capitulated on 8th March.
New in card cover - 610pp, maps, tables, illustrations
Singapore University Press, 2011
ISBN 9789971695132
GERMAN CROSS IN GOLD HOLDERS OF THE SS
AND POLICE: VOLUME 3, "NORDLAND"
by Mark C. Yerger
Volume 3 examines the SS and Police holders of the German Cross in
Gold awarded for combat whilst assigned to the SS-Division
“Nordland” Full biographies and combat narratives include
promotions, decorations, appointments, and postings. Several holders
of the decoration contributed photos and documents for this lavishly
illustrated volume .
New in illustrated
boards - 252pp,
136 photos & illustrations
by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky & Deborah Kaple (Editor & Translator)
The searing
accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam
Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet
Gulag. In this memoir of life inside the camps, written from the
perspective of an employee of the Secret police, Fyodor Mochulsky
describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labour camp
of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. He
discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a
world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply
executed.
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over 100 large format rare and previously unpublished black and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 features German field guns on
Lorraine Schlepper, 15cm Panzerwerfer 42 and Pz.Lehr wrecks during
‘Operation Cobra’. It also includes extracts from the written
reports on some of the wrecked vehicles by a Canadian technical
officer responsible for reporting on what was found on the
battlefield.
New in card cover - Landscape format, 96pp, 123 b/w photos
The Dornier Do 335 was one of the most unusual single-seat
fighters of the Third Reich. Powered by two of the most powerful
12-cylinder engines available at that time, it was probably the
fastest propeller-driven warplane of the Second World War. With
one engine in the nose and the nose and the other buried within
its sleek rear fuselage it had the characteristics of single
engined fighter, with the power of two engines. Its pilot sat in a
spacious, low-drag cockpit affording excellent visibility. The
Arrow was a large airplane and, with two 20 mm and three 30 mm
cannon it was certainly not deficient in firepower. This
impressive book is co-authored by Eddie J. Creek and Thomas H.
Hitchcock.
As new in d/w - Large format,184pp,
250 b/w & 53 colour photos
Monogram Aviation Publications, 1997
ISBN 0914144529
