BILLY PITT HAD THEM BUILT:
NAPOLEONIC TOWERS IN IRELAND
by
Bill Clements
An illustrated study of the numerous
defensive towers - so called 'Martello Towers' - and
fortifications built in Ireland during the Napoleonic era.
The Billy Pitt of the title is a reference to William Pitt
the Younger, the Tory (or 'Whig') Prime Minister of Great
Britain from 1783 to 1801. He led the nation in the great
wars against France and Napoleon. The book is packed with
photographs, drawings and maps illustrating the
fortifications throughout the island of Ireland.
New in card cover - Square format,
127pp, numerous b/w photos, maps, illustrations
SCRAPYARD ARMOUR:
MODELLING SCENES FROM A RUSSIAN ARMOUR SCRAPYARD
by David Parker
A compendium of
modelling Scenes from a Russian Armour Scrapyard by David
Parker, Mark Neville and Andy Taylor. Featuring three
different model builds and 40 pages of walkaround images
from the scrapyard, this book is a real must for any model
maker interested in modern era Russian armour. Modellers
will be inspired by the techniques used to produce such
stunning replicas.
New in card cover - A4 format,
116pp, c300 colour illustrations
AFV Modeller Publications, 2016
ISBN 9780993564604
Sydney
Carlin, a native of Hull, enlisted in the Cavalry in 1914.
In 1915 he was awarded a DCM during the Second Battle of
Ypres and was Commissioned. In 1916 as a Royal Engineers
Lieutenant, he received an MC at the Battle of Delville
Wood, where he suffered a leg amputation. Despite his
discharge as disabled he was determined to return to the
Front Line and applied to the Royal Flying Corps for pilot
training. He was rejected, but he designed his own wooden
leg and payed for private flying lessons. He persuaded the
authorities to send him to a Front Line Scout squadron in
France and, in the summer of 1918 he won a DFC, subsequently
crash landing and spending the last weeks of the War as a
POW. He volunteered again in 1939 and became an air gunner
in the Battle of Britain at the age of 50. He died in 1941
in an air raid.
Folkestone was one of the most important British towns
during the First World War. Between 1914 and 1919 an
estimated 10 million troops and nurses departed Through its
harbour for the battlefields of the Western Front. Because
of its geographical location on the south coast, the town
was heavily involved in the course of the war. Shorncliffe
camp saw the arrival of Canadian soldiers who came to
practice in its purpose-built trenches, and cavalry units
who put their horses through their paces. With the town
being a hive of military activity, the people of Folkestone
went about their business as best they could, butt wasn't
just on the Western Front that death reared its ugly head.
It happened in Folkestone in the Tontine Street Air Raid on
25 May 1917. Seventy-one people were killed and ninety-four
were injured when German Gotha bombers attacked the town.
This book is a poignant testimony to those people as well as
the men who didn't make it back
New in card cover - 144pp, numerous b/w illustrations
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese
offensive in the Far East seemed unstoppable. Allied forces
engaged in a futile attempt to halt their rapid advance,
culminating in the massed fleet of American, British, Dutch,
and Australian forces clashing with the Japanese at the
Battle of the Java Sea. The Allied response was
catastrophic, losing their largest warships and their
tenuous toe-hold in the south Pacific within the first 72
hours of the battle. However, the Allied goal was never an
outright victory, simply a delaying action.
