A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO THIRD REICH
MILITARIA:
DETECTING THE FAKES
by Robin Lumsden
A comprehensive guide to Third Reich uniforms, decorations,
daggers, insignia and headgear. This is a revised edition containing
much useful data to enable the serious collector to identify
counterfeit memorabilia.
As new in card
cover - 144pp,
220 illustrations.
Ian Allan, 2001
ISBN 071102670X
SOLD
Web No.
05054-05
£26.00
UXB VOLUME II
edited
by Jim Jenkinson
UXB Volume II follows on from the success of RAF/UXB. It contains
contributions from a variety of Royal Air Force BD experts, who tell
of their scariest and funniest moments in the pursuit of their
trade. This time they are joined by contributions from two American
BD men who served during WW2 alongside the RAF, the unusual tale of
a Merchant Navy Crew who had to form their own impromptu bomb
disposal squad on ‘the Murmansk run’, plus descriptions of post-war
bomb disposal activities in Cyprus and the Gulf. There is also a
roll of honour, listing all known RAF Bomb Disposal personnel killed
or wounded in the line of duty.
New in card cover -
328pp, numerous b/w illustrations
REINHARD HEYDRICH: THE BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME II 'ENIGMA'
by Max Williams & Ulric of England
Volume II of this comprehensive biography of one of the most
notorious figures of the Third Reich, details the life of Heydrich
from the beginning of the Second World War, his involvement in the
Jewish question and his role as acting 'Reichsprotector' for
Bohemia-Moravia. The story continues with Heydrich's assassination
in 1942, his 'State Funeral', and continues with the precarious life
of his wife Lina and their family until her death in 1985.
As new in
decorative boards - Large format, 272pp, 500 photos & illustrations
The Rise and Fall
of Major General Charles Townshend. He achieved fame when he
commanded the besieged garrison at Chitral (now in Pakistan) in
1895. As a result, he became known as ‘Chitral Charlie’. Decorated
by Queen Victoria, in 1916 he was given command on 6th Indian
Division and sent to Mesopotamia. He made a devastating advance up
the River Tigris to Kut but then, against all the tenets of
military common sense, he advanced to take Baghdad. Confronted by
a determined Turkish foe, his Division was depleted and exhausted.
Townshend withdrew to Kut, where he was besieged and forced into a
humiliating surrender.
The Washington Treaty of 1922, designed to head off a potentially
dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to
legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of warship types.
It introduced new constraints into naval architecture and
sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships
built within those restrictions, effectively banning the
construction of new battleships and throwing greater emphasis on
large cruisers. This book combines coverage of the political and
strategic background of the treaty with analysis of exactly how
the navies of Britain, the USA, Japan, France and Italy responded.
New in d/w - 338pp, numerous b/w
photos, plans, tables
