The Twenty eight day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the
most protracted large scale urban battles of Word War II. Much has
been written on the heroic struggle by the young men and women of
the Jewish resistance but now this book tells the story from the
German perspective. A study of how the SS razed the Ghetto including
the units involved, the weapons they used, their tactics and a
day-by day analysis of the fighting.
This is a pre-owned copy - new copies also available. Please
enquire
Fine in protected d/w - Large
format, 224pp,
110 b/w photos
The Jugurthine and
Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius. In the later 2nd century BC,
after a period of rapid expansion, the Roman Republic found itself
in crisis. In North Africa her armies were bogged down in a long
difficult guerrilla war in a harsh environment when invasion by a
coalition of Germanic tribes, the Cimbri, Teutones and Ambrones,
threatened Italy and Rome itself. Gaius Marius was the man of the
hour. The first war he brought to an end through tactical
brilliance, bringing the Numidian King Jugurtha back in chains,
and even before his ship returned to Italy, the senate elected
Marius to lead the war against the northern invaders.
New in d/w - 259pp, numerous b/w illustrations, maps & tactical battle diagrams
Operation 'Mercury', the 1941 invasion of Crete by German Airborne
Forces has become the model for all subsequent twentieth century air
assaults. Crete was major strategic objective occupying a pivotal
position in the Mediterranean theatre. The Allies expected an Axis
seaborne invasion to capture it, but a lightning strike by crack
airborne troops took the island in hours and the Luftwaffe's
dominance of skies ensured no Allied naval retaliation. This volume
looks at the operation’s planning and organisation with eyewitness
accounts from participants in the invasion.
New in pictorial
boards - Large format, 160pp, c400 b/w & colour illustrations
The original, published in 1921, is now very scarce. The
narrative tells of the author's experiences in France and Flanders
in WWI. He moved from HQ to the Front Line and witnessed much of
the fighting in 1917 and 1918. The book contains his finely
reproduced portraits of soldiers, officers, and scenes of the
battlefield. Many of these have been rephotographed from Orpen's
original works drawn from the Imperial War Museum in London and
the National Gallery in Dublin. The book which is from a limited
edition of 550, each numbered, has a hand-printed dust wrapper and
is presented in a matching slip case.
HORSEMAN, PASS BY: THE
AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE IN WORLD WAR I
by Lindsay Baly
Australia's mounted troops in WWI were a dashing mobile force.
This book describes their spectacular triumphs in their Middle
East campaigns, along with tragedies and super-human endurance.
The book is a chronological account of the static campaign at
Gallipoli and the later mobile campaign in Egypt, Sinai,
Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. It is told primarily from the
perspective of the Light Horse formations and units employed. The
title of the book comes from the inscription on the grave of Poet,
William Butler Yeats.
