The Rhodesian All-Arms Fireforce concept dates from 1974 when the
Air Force acquired the MG151 20mm cannon. Coupled with this, the
traditional counter-insurgency tactics (against Mugabe’s ZANLA and
Nkomo’s ZIPRA) of follow-ups, tracking and ambushing simply
weren’t producing satisfactory results. Visionary air force and
Infantry officers expanded on the idea of a ‘vertical envelopment’
of the enemy by Alouette III helicopters, directing air deployed
ground forces supported by ground-attack aircraft armed with
napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of
Rhodesian-designed ordnance.
New with DVD in slipcase - 256pp, c100 colour & b/w photos, illustrations &
Maps
Previously published in 1989 under the title 'British River
Gunboats', this is a photographic survey mainly covering the
famous Insect class which was built for service on the Danube in
1915. They served for a further thirty years in various theatres,
including in the Middle East on the Tigris, and during World War
II in the Mediterranean and Egypt. Also portrays the tiny Fly
class, the Peterel class, the various types which served in the
Yangtse River in China, and the Dragonflies, the last of the Royal
Navy's river gunboats.
New in card cover - Small format, 66pp,
62 b/w photos
Operation Overlord was a watershed in the history of World War II.
Neglected by historians, American glider pilots played a pivotal
role in Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Overlord. From being
called up in the US, to combat landings and fighting in the Normandy
countryside, the author uses documents and eyewitness accounts to
tell the story of these brave men who flew the gliders which
transported troops onto the field of battle.
English/French text.
New in illustrated
boards - Large format, 144pp, c200 colour & b/w phots & illustrations
A LIFE IN THE DAY OF A C.R.A.: THE
STORY OF A COLD WAR SOLDIER
by Brigadier Richard
Mountford
C.R.A. is the well known military abbreviation for a Commander,
Royal Artillery, a position the author filled twice during the
Cold War with responsibilities from northern Norway to eastern
Turkey, but predominated on the northern plains of West Germany
where the cauldron of war would have been centred should World War
3 have started. That it did not, owes much to the dedication of
hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers whose presence deterred a
Warsaw Pact attack. These soldiers were ready for war 24 hours a
day for 365 days a year, for over 40 years.
New in card cover - 200pp, 19 b/w & 20 colour photos
A compulsively readable and vivid account of life as a young
soldier in Russia's Chechen wars, it takes the raw and mundane
reality of days amid guns and grenades and twists it into
compelling, chilling, and eerily elegant prose. Babchenko traces
his journey from innocence to experience, beginning with his
teenage arrival in the transit camp just north of Chechnya and
harsh treatment by his seniors as a naive and scared new recruit,
through to his period of active duty at the front, by which time
he has become a brutalized and hardened soldier.
