Road gantry cranes were indispensable for maintaining Tiger
and Panther heavy tanks and Elefant tank hunter near the
front line. An exceptional use for the gantry crane was from
1944 onward with the Division z.V. for loading and unloading
of delivered A4 (V2) rockets onto ‘Vidalwagen’ and
‘Meillerwagen’ launch trailers. This book documents the
crane’s development history and includes patent
applications, descriptions of its use in action with the
Panzer-Werkstattkompanien, engineering units and Division
z.V. With drawings and close-up pictures, including photos
showing the removal and replacement of a Panzer turret, plus
a comparison of 15t and 16t Strabokran. Also included for
modellers a detailed set of drawings of all variants in 1/35
scale.
English/German text
New in illustrated boards - Large
landscape format, 256pp, 240+ images, tables, patents, &
scale drawings
Volker Ruff via
PanzerWrecks , 2016 ISBN 9783000340024
With a foreword by B. Bugaev,
Minister of Civil Aviation, this volume commemorates the
50th anniversary of Aeroflot, the state (and at the time,
only) civil air carrier of the USSR. Aeroflot was launched
in 1923 with a route from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod (later
the city of Gorky). Today the airline flies internally more
than 778,000km linking some 3,500 cities in the Soviet
Union, together with an extensive international network. The
book is packed with narrative plus several hundred colour
and black and white photographs showing all aspects of
Aeroflot during a typical day. This scarce volume is in fair
to good condition despite some dicolouring (sunning) of
thefront boardd and slight detaching from the spine at the
title page.
Fair/good in
white boards - Large format, 48pp, numerous colour, b/w
photos
The events of a few days in August
1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of
Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them
instantly. The author interviewed elderly survivors and
descendants of the victims, and gathered their recollections
together with contemporary diaries and letters, plus details
from official documents. The result is a unique
reconstruction which follows ordinary Japanese in the hours
before and after the blast to provide a gripping account of
the decision-making, the devastation and the loss.
An account of NATO and other
Allied air operations in the lengthy campaign to secure
democracy, destroy the Taliban and other Islamic extremist
terror forces in Afghanistan. It contains a mix of
explanatory text, diagrams and stunning action colour
photography. Tim Ripley has had access to all NATO air bases
in the combat area and brings an unprecedented degree of
detail and accuracy to this study.
New in d/w - 272pp, numerous colour
& b/w illustrations
HITLER'S PRE-EMPTIVE WAR: THE BATTLE FOR NORWAY, 1940
by Henrik O. Lunde
After Hitler conquered Poland the British began to exert
control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that
threatened to cut off Germany’s iron-ore conduit to Sweden.
The Germans quickly responded with a dizzying series of
assaults. Airlifted infantry, mountain troops and
paratroopers seized Norwegian strong points, forestalling
larger Allied units. The German navy also set sail ensuring
that key harbours could be held. The air, airborne, naval,
amphibious, infantry, armoured and commando aspects of this
brief but violent campaign are covered in meticulous detail.
New in card cover
- 590pp, 29 b/w photos, 15 maps, tables
