The most comprehensive and detailed book yet written about the
German Iron Cross First Class (EK 1) decoration of 1939. On
hundreds of pages you will find information about the history of
the award, its manufacturing process, award procedures, and, most
importantly, precise data, photographs, and scans which will
enable the collector or student of this famous and prestigious
emblem of honor to positively identify genuine pre-1945 examples.
The wartime products of over twenty manufacturers of crosses and
Wiederholungsspangen are described in meticulous and thorough
detail. The book also contains chapters on miniature versions of
the award, presentation cases, and award documents.
RUSSIAN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1812
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Russia played a
decisive role in the Napoleonic wars and its success in the
struggle against France allowed it to shape the course of European
history. Over the last 200 years the Napoleonic era has been
discussed and analyzed in numerous studies, but many fail to fully
portray the Russian side of the events. Only a handful of Russian
memoirs have been translated into English and this book seeks to
fill this gap by providing previously unavailable memoirs of
Russian participants. Each chapter deals with an important episode
of the 1812 campaign, and features dozens of memoirs, letters and
diaries.
New in d/w - 261pp, 32 b/w &
16 colour illustrations, map
The Carpathian winter campaign of 1915, described by some as the
“Stalingrad of the First World War”, drove the million-man armies
of Austria-Hungary and Russia to the brink of annihilation.
Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian troops
trapped by the Russians in Fortress Przemysl, but the campaign
produced six times as many casualties as the number besieged. It
remains one of the least understood and most devastating chapters
of the war. Tunstall shows that the roots of the Habsburg collapse
in Russia in 1916 lay squarely in the winter campaign of 1915.
New - 320pp, 20 b/w photos
University Press of Kansas, 2010
ISBN 9780700617203
The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three RAF V Bombers
and the most long lasting, serving until 1993, and still doing
invaluable service in the first Iraq war. In 1982 it was only the
Victor tanker fleet based on Ascension Island that made possible
the Vulcan Black Buck bombing missions to Port Stanley, and
long-range reconnaissance by RAF Nimrods during the Falklands War. This book tells the
story of the Victor's achievements, recounted first hand by air
and ground crew. Starting with accounts by test pilot Johnny Allam,
who undertook the major development of the aircraft, through its
role as a nuclear bomber during the cold war, testing Blue Steel
in Australia, to its superb work in the conflict in the South
Atlantic.
The civilians who lived through the battle of Gettysburg
recount this pivotal event in the American Civil War. Their
eyewitness accounts span the period from June 15, 1863, through to
Lincoln's address to the throngs gathered to open the national
cemetery on the battlefield in November of that year. Many of the
photographs and the chronologically ordered civilian narratives,
gleened from diaries, letters, newspaper articles, interviews, and
books, are previously unpublished.
