Adelbert Holl was a 23-year-old infantry
Leutnant when he rejoined his unit in Stalingrad after recovering
from a severe wound. Upon returning to Infanterie-Regiment 276, 94
Infanterie-Division, he discovered that many of the officers and
men who had been with the unit barely 5 months earlier were now
dead or wounded, and the unit was embroiled in tough city-fighting
in central Stalingrad. This new, specialist volume features
chapters on The Battle Around the Mouth of the Tsaritsa,
Operations at the Barrikady, 6 Armee is Surrounded, the Split into
Northern and Southern Pockets, The retreat to the City Perimeter,
and The Final Days, plus 44 photographs (including 19 aerial
photos, 24 maps, and 40 supporting documents.
Card cover edition newly back in stock.
New in card cover - 250pp, illustrations, photos, maps, index
When dawn arrived on September 26th, 1944, Lieutenant Russ Kennedy
of the 23rd Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, found himself
on the wrong side of the Rhine in a boat with an engine that
wouldn’t start. With him were thirty-six battle weary members of the
British 1st Airborne Division, crammed into a boat meant to carry
only sixteen men. They had just witnessed the fate of the previous
boat. Without an engine, twenty-five men had tried to paddle across
without success. Only four of them lived to make it to safety. All
night, the engineering units had ferried over 2,300 troops across
the river. What was left of the besieged British 1st Airborne
Division had been rescued. This is the story of how the Royal
Canadian Engineers not only supported the Royal Engineers, but
ferried the lion’s share of the Airborne troops across the flooded
river.
New in card cover -
128pp, numerous
b/w photos, maps
HISTORY OF NO. 30 SQUADRON:
EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA 1914 TO 1919
by Major J. Everidge
A Reprint of the Original Air Ministry Historical Branch
manuscript of 30 Squadron RAF's operations against the Turks in
Mesopotamia (Iraq) in the Great War. The book spans the period
from the siege and fall of Kut to the occupation of Baghdad and
beyond. Equipped at first with seaplanes converted for use on
land, the squadron later used unreliable Farmans. It gained air
superiority over the Turks, who flew German Fokker and Albatros
aircraft, when re-equipped with BE2Cs, Voisins, and later with 120
Martinsydes.
In 1914 the British expedition to Mesopotamia set out to protect
oil concession in Southern Persia but, after numerous misfortunes,
ended up capturing Baghdad and Northern Towns in Iraq. Initially
the mission was successful in seizing Basra but the British found
themselves drawn North, becoming besieged by the Turks at Kut.
After various failed relief attempts the British surrendered and
the prisoners suffered appalling indignities and hardship,
culminating in a death march to Turkey. Hopes that the Russians
would come into the war were dashed by the Revolution and fighting
against the Turks continued right up to the Armistice.
WARFARE, STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE BYZANTINE WORLD
565-1204
by John Haldon
In this first comprehensive study of warfare and the Byzantine
world, the author examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the
effects of war on society and culture, and the relations between
the soldiers, their leaders and society. The communications,
logistics, resources and manpower capabilities of the Byzantine
Empire are explored to set warfare in its geographical as well as
historical context. In addition to the strategic and tactical
evolution of the army, the book analyses the army in campaign and
in battle, and its attitudes to violence in the context of the
Byzantine Orthodox Church.
