Which unit painted a
large flamingo on their halftrack? Who covered a Pz.Kpfw.III
in concrete? How do you drive an 8-wheeled armoured car?
What does an armour-piercing rocket do to a Panzer? Where
did the British collect captured German tanks? The answers
to these and other questions are to be found here in
Panzerwrecks 22, with 156 rare and unpublished large-format
photographs sourced from around the world and six specially
commissioned colour plates by Felipe Rodna.
New in card cover - large landscape
format, 96pp, 156 b/w photos, 6 colour plates
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the
20th Century and accidentally created the current nightmare
of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many
books on the conflict but this is the first detailed
military history using materials from both sides, as well as
materials obtained from US Intelligence circles and British
Governmental archives. It provides a unique insight into a
war which began through miscalculation and rapidly escalated
into the longest conventional conflict in the post-Second
World War era. This third volume covers the last two years
of the war on the Southern front, where Iranians made their
last supreme effort to break through Iraqi lines during the
winter of 1986-1987. Iraqi defences just about held. For a
year, there was an ominous silence, but then Iraq launched a
series of devastating blows that recovered the Faw
Peninsula, pulverised weakly-occupied Iranian positions, and
drove the frontlines back to the international border. Iran
was left with no option but to sue for peace.
Middle
east@War 9
New in card
cover - A4 format, 80pp, numerous b/w photos, maps & colour
photos &profiles
Part 4 in this mini-series covers
the warfare between Iran and Iraq on the Central and
Northern Fronts. Difficult terrain made it problematic for
either side to assemble overwhelming superiority. Following
initial Iraqi attacks that seized some territory, the
Iranians began gradually nibbling back until achieving some
success in the centre, in 1982. Subsequently, the Central
Front saw only minor conventional battles until Iraq
launched several major blows in 1988. In the north, fighting
primarily revolved around several Kurdish insurgencies in
northern Iraq, and culminated in the horror of the Halabcheh
gas attack. The final campaign of the war saw Iraq-supported
Iranian emigres launching a spectacular, but also a
swiftly-crushed, invasion of their homeland.
Middle east@War 10
New in card cover
- A4 format, 80pp, numerous b/w photos, maps & colour photos
&profiles
ETHIOPIAN-ERITREAN WARS, VOLUME 2: ERITREAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1988-1991 & BADME
WAR, 1998-2001
by Adrien
Fontanellaz & Tom Cooper
Ethiopia is a military powerhouse
of the African continent. Currently involved in the war in
neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a
dozen of other armed conflicts during the last 60 years. One
of the most significant was the Eritrean War of
Independence. Fought 1961-1991, this was one of Africa's
biggest armed conflicts , and it included a wide spectrum of
operations, from classic counter-insurgency
(COIN) to conventional warfare. This second volume covers
the military operations that led to the fall of the Derg
government in Ethiopia of 1991, the period of Eritrean
military build-up, and concludes with the first detailed
account of the so-called Badme War, fought between Ethiopia
and Eritrea in 1998-2001. The book contains over 100
contemporary photographs, maps and colour profiles.
New in card cover
- A4 format, 72pp, numerous b/w photos, maps & 24 colour
profiles
MOSCOW'S GAME OF POKER:
RUSSIAN MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA, 2015-2017
by Tom
Cooper
Russian
Military Intervention in Syria, 2015-2017. In August 2015,
the government of the Russian Federation embarked its
military forces on an intervention in Syria. Their
performance in this war was a clear demonstration of
advanced technology, improved training and fearsome
firepower, but the operation only experienced limited
success and exposed a number of weaknesses. Illustrated by
over 130 photographs, maps and 21 colour profiles, ‘Moscow's
Game of Poker’ provides a clear outline of the participants
in this complex conflict, and the areas it impacts. The
story is told in combination with an insight into the
similar campaign run by what is left of the Syrian Arab Air
Force.
Middle east@War 15
New in card
cover - A4 format, 80pp, 105 b/w photos, 23 colour profiles
& illustrations, 3 maps
