U-552 was
one of the legendary U-boats of the Second World War. Under
its commander Erich Topp, it carried out a total of ten
operational patrols, sinking 30 ships and damaging three in
a period of 20 months. In the days of the big convoy
battles, when the Allies‘ detection technology had not yet
been perfected and convoys were at best weakly escorted,
Topp was among the U-boat arm’s most successful commanders.
Within 16 months he was decorated with the Knight’s Cross,
the Oak Leaves and the Swords. U-552, it's Red Devil emblem,
was probably photographed more than any other U-boat.
Includes photos from all of the boat’s patrols, a war cruise
chronology with detailed descriptions, together with color
graphics and maps.
German/English text.
New in d/w -
Large landscape format, 352pp, 318 b/w
photos, 24 colour maps & graphics
The experiences of German soldiers
in the Russian campaign, 1941-1945. The author looks at
infantry, panzer forces, and artillery, and examines the
battles at the front and behind the lines against partisans.
The war in the east was amongst the bitterest fighting of
WWII. Lucas uses the soldiers' own words to present a vivid
picture.
Very
good in card cover - 214pp, 27 b/w photos, illustrations
SOUTH AFRICAN COLOURS AND
MARKINGS: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 5
by Piet van Schalkwyk & William
Marshall
A series which comprehensively
examines and illustrates the camouflage and colour schemes
exhibited on South African aircraft, armoured vehicles and
uniforms from World War II until the 1990s. This volume
contains features on the Junkers Ju-52/3m and Ju-86, the
Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk 6 (a Canadian built, modified
version of the North American F-86L Sabre), the 6th South
African Armoured Division in North Africa, and 'Tartan on
the Veldt' - an examination of the tartan uniforms of four
SA regiments. All of these are extensively illustrated by
means of several hundred colour profiles and photographs
Like new in
card cover - A4 format, 48pp, numerous colour illustration &
profiles
A study of the sixty UK airfields of the US Ninth Air
Force in WWII. The Ninth was a powerful tactical air force
that played a major role in the Normandy invasion. Its
airfields in the UK, which were spread widely throughout
southern England from Essex to the New Forest, supported a
variety of aircraft from fighters and ground attack aircraft
to medium and light bombers, liason aircraft and troop
carriers
New in d/w
- Large format, 256pp, 510 illustrations
In the battles to hold the Eastern
Front, the Panther tank was perhaps the most important
weapon in the Wehrmacht’s arsenal. Desperately switched from
one crisis-point to the next, the Panther battalions of the
Heer, Waffen-SS and the Luftwaffe were able to blunt the Red
Army’s spearheads time and again and in 1944 the Panther’s
body was used to create the best known tank destroyer of the
war, The Jagdpanther. Volume 2 completes the stories of the
Panzer regiments and look at the Jagdpanther battalions with
some lesser known users of this potent tank-killer and
includes 13 pages of full colour artwork, detailed tables of
organisation, black and white archive photographs and
campaign maps.
New in card cover
- A4 format, 33pp, 13 colour plates, numerous b/w
illustrations
