Organized
during 1943, 10th SS Panzer Division saw its first action in
the spring of 1944 during the attempt to relieve an
encircled German army on the Eastern Front. Several months
later they were ordered west to Normandy, where by mid-June
1944 German defenses against the Allied offensive were
crumbling. Here the division engaged in a series of armored
ounterattacks against British and American forces. The 10th
SS gradually had to fall back to Falaise, where the division
escaped the Allied encirclement with no tanks and only a
fraction of its men. They next defended against the Allied
airborne assault during Operation Market Garden in September
1944, fought in Alsace before returning to the Eastern
Front. There, east of Berlin, the division participated in
the final, futile battles against the Red Army before
escaping to Czechoslovakia to surrender to the U.S. Army.
uring the attempt to relieve an encircled German army
on the Eastern Front. Several
New in d/w -Large format, 383pp,
numerous b/w photographs, illustrations 3-view
drawings
THE EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS AT HIROSHIMA
AND NAGASAKI: REPORT OF THE BRITISH MISSION TO JAPAN
The official report of a British
delegation to Japan, whose mission was to observe the
devastating effects of the 1945 Atom bombing. The purpose of
the survey was "to point to general conclusions on the
effects to be expected from similar atomic bombs, should
they fall in Great Britain." Included are twenty-four images
of the damage done to various properties, including the
infamous "shadows" of both humans and objects seared onto
the sides of buildings by the scorching light and heat of
the detonations which occurred at a height of nearly 2000
feet above the cities.
Very scarce.
Very good in card
cover, stapled paper covers detached but complete - A5
format, 22pp, A5 format, 24 b/w photos, 1 diagram
An account of the long, hot Summer
of 1940. Kent was at the centre of the storm as Goering's
mighty Luftwaffe was met by the steely tenacity of the RAF's
Hurricanes and Spitfires. The courage of the brave young
fighter pilots is well known. But supporting them on the
ground were countless ordinary men and women. They
maintained the airfields, they fought the fires, they
restored essential services, tended the wounded and cared
for the homeless. This book recalls the days of anxiously
watching the vapour trails of dogfights in blue skies above
Kent's towns and villages.
From official reports and records,
contemporary accounts of eyewitnessed events. This book,
published in 1990 to commemorate the 50th annivesary of the
Battle of Britain, looks at the early realisation of the
invasion threat. The late summer and early autumn air
battles of 1940 are described with full details of the
fighter aircraft involved. Appendices provide aicraft serial
numbers, pilots and aircrew of Fighter Command killed in
action during the Battle of Britain, plus statistics on bomb
tonnages.
Very good in d/w - 240pp, approx 150
photos, maps, diagrams & charts, appendices, index
"Spitfire Pilot" was
written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood
alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a
tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most
idealised air conflicts, the Battle of Britain, seen through
the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot
down over 100 planes in that epic contest. Often hopelessly
outnumbered, Crook and his colleagues committed acts of
unimaginable bravery against the Luftwaffe. Many did not
make it and the author describes the absence they left in
the squadron, with great poignancy.
