OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES:
STRATEGIC ILLUSIONS 1936-1941
by Arthur
J. Marder
The Royal Navy and the Imperial
Japanese Navy. An outstanding study by one of the foremost
exponents of British Naval history. It examines the Royal
Navy's confrontation with the growing power of the Imperial
Japanese Navy, and the Royal Navy's miscalculations on how
to combat it. The author highlights the disunity between the
British and American naval staffs, and the factors which led
to the fateful decision to send just two capital ships to
the Far East.
Very good in slightly creased d/w -
xxxii + 553pp, photos, fold-out map
From the popular Service Publications series, this
compact book provides details of the M113-A1 Armoured
Personnel Carrier which entered service between 1964 and
1968 in various roles including Armoured Vehicle Recovery,
TOW Missile Launch, Cargo Carrier and Radar Vehicle, as well
as the standard APC. The book's centre spread features
3-view and scrap drawings of three variants of the vehicle.
New in card cover - A4 format, 24pp, 20 b/w photos,
double page drawing
The breaking of the Japanese Purple ciphers. Taken from
thousands of declassified Ultra/Magic signals, these are
transcripts of signals between Berlin and Tokyo that, with a
chronological overlay by the author, demonstrate how the
decoding allowed the High Command to understand the strategy
and plans of Germany and Japan and influenced the strategic
prosecution of the war. Also looks at the duplicity of
Laval, the Latin American countries willing to support the
Axis and the ceding of Berlin to the Soviets.
LESSONS IN DISASTER:
MCGEORGE BUNDY
AND THE PATH TO WAR IN VIETNAM
by Gordon M. Goldstein
In the last years of his life the former US National
Security Adviser, McGeorge Bundy, revisited the role he
played in leading the nation into the Vietnam War as a
counsellor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.
Johnson. In this original and provocative work the author
draws on his prodigious research as well as interviews he
conducted with Bundy before his death in 1996 to distill the
essential lessons of America's involvement in Vietnam.
August 8, 1940: The First Day of the Battle of Britain.
During the morning of 7th August, 1940 over twenty merchant
ships set sail in Convoy CW9 “Peewit”, and edged past Dover
as daylight faded. But the large convoy had been seen by the
Germans from Cap Gris Nez and E-Boats left Boulogne to watch
and wait for the convoy. With horrendous suddenness the
E-Boats were amongst the convoy as it passed Newhaven. Like
a pack of wolves into a flock of sheep, the Germans
scattered the convoy and mayhem ensued until the attack was
called off in the gathering light. The rest would be left to
the Luftwaffe.
