A unique and extensive record of more than 1,700 Imperial
Japanese Army Generals involved in the Manchurian, Chinese and
Pacific Wars. The book includes those involved with both the
military and bureaucratic aspects of running the army, details of
commands, locations, campaigns and war crimes plus details of
their swords. There is a table of the Military Command structure
at the time of the Japanese surrender in August and September 1945
plus lists of the Commanders of General Armies, Area Armies,
Armies, Divisions and Independent Mixed Brigades at that time.
New in d/w - Large format, 464pp,
230 + b/w photos
An account of the activities of The Russian National Liberation
Army (later the SS-Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.), the political and
military movement of Bronislav Kaminski, in Russia, 1941-1944. The
Army reached 10,000 men and fought with great success against
Communist partisans on the Eastern front. The Germans planned to
create the 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA, however
during the Warsaw Uprising, where a regiment of the brigade was
engaged, German commanders decided they were too undisciplined and
unreliable.
The Mayaguez and
the Battle of Koh Tang. On May 12, 1975, less than two weeks after
the fall of Saigon, Khmer Rouge naval forces seized the S.S.
Mayaguez, an American container ship, off the Cambodian coast in
the Gulf of Siam. The swift military response ordered by President
Gerald Ford was designed to recapture the Mayaguez, held at anchor
off the island of Koh Tang, to liberate her crew, and to
demonstrate US strength and resolve in the immediate aftermath of
America's most humiliating defeat. With a Foreword by John Keegan.
New in card cover - 268pp, illustrations
Texas A&M University Press,
2010
ISBN 9781603441964
The Memoirs of Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Günther Scholz. An
eyewitness account of an important chapter in the history of
German military aviation. When WWII started, Scholz was an
Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitän in JG 54. Together with his
Staffel, he flew in the Polish and Western Campaigns, the Battle
of Britain, and the war against Russia. Heis one of last surviving
members of the “Legion Condor” and also one of the last major
personalities of the Luftwaffe still able to tell of his
experiences.
In 1824, sixty five year old Thomas Dring retired in his native
state of Rhode Island. In 1782, forty-two years before, during the
American Revolutionary War, he had been captured by the British
and sentenced to the infamous prison ship Jersey, a demasted hulk
anchored in the East River off New York City. It is estimated that
more than 11,000 men perished on the British prison ships over the
course of the war, and their bones regularly washed up on the
shore long after hostilities ceased. Dring survived to tell the
tale. Editor David Swain has provided an introductory essay and
extensive notes containing background information and historical
documentation to illuminate the original manuscript
