Following on from 'Hot Motors, Cold Feet', Helmut Günther’s
personal account of his service in WW II continues in this volume.
Following evacuation from the Eastern Front and promotion to
Untersturmführer he was assigned to the reconnaissance battalion
(SS-Panzerafklärungs-Abteilung 17) of the
17.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division “Götz von Berlichingen”, which was
being established in Normandy. This account begins in early June
1944, telling of reconnaissance missions before and during the
early stages of the Allied invasion, the confused fighting in the
Carentan-Coutances-St.Lô area, the escape from the Roncey Pocket,
the retreat toward and through Paris, and the fighting around Metz
where he was wounded.
New in illustrated boards - 258pp,
68 photos, 11 maps, 8 documents
Since the war of
1982, the 3,000 people who live in the remote Falkland Islands
have replaced traditional colonial rule with their own autonomous
government, and become wealthy from the sale of fishing licences.
Now oil has been discovered, and it promises almost unimaginable
wealth. Money has already transformed this tiny society – not
always for the better. But home-grown challenges are as nothing
compared to the threat from their neighbour, Argentina. Buenos
Aires is making the ‘Malvinas’ a regional issue involving other
South American countries, and has established an economic blockade
of the Islands.
Rarely has an air force gone into combat as poorly prepared and
outgunned as the Royal Hellenic Air Force had to when Mussolini’s
Italy dragged Greece into war on 28 October 1940. Without warning,
as Italian forces poured over the frontier from Albania, the
RHAF’s paltry effective lineup of 128 battleworthy aircraft, most
of them obsolete, were pitted against the 463 fielded by the Regia
Aeronautica, whose pilots had honed their skills in the Spanish
Civil War. Though the RAF pitched in with whatever help it could
provide in machines and manpower, the aerial war was unequal from
the first. Meticulous research interwoven with first-hand accounts
makes this a fitting tribute to the skill and heroism of the Greek
airmen and a valuable account of a neglected aspect of WWII air
warfare.
TAURUS PURSUANT: A
HISTORY OF THE 11TH ARMOURED DIVISION
The history of 11th Armoured Division from Normandy to the end of
the war. This history was written by a member of the division just
after the war, and covers operations by 11th armoured from D-Day
through to the end of the war. A good history, accompanied by a
complete Roll of honour. A facsimile reprint of the original 1945
Divisional publication
New in card cover - 222pp, 29 photos,
22 maps, index.
The invasion of Russia in June 1941, Operation Barbarossa,
involved around 3 million German soldiers divided into 105
infantry and 32 panzer divisions. Initially, the German assault
knifed through Russian resistance, and huge numbers of Red Army
soldiers were surrounded. This latest volume from Concord
Publications examines part of that attack, specifically the
battles of Heeresgruppe Mitte. This central army, the largest of
three participating in the attack, was commanded by
Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock. This volume by Hans Seidler
is packed with black and white photographs plus four full colour
plates.
New in card cover - A4 format, 52pp,
130 b/w photos, 4 colour plates
