New and Revised Edition 2011 by Geoffrey P. Oldham, An
illustrated price guide to cap and collar badges, insignia and
shoulder titles of the New Zealand Army, Police and Militia from
1847 to the present day. Soft cover, 122 pages and more than
1,200 illustrations.
New in card cover - Large format,
122pp, 1200 + b/w illustrations
Wellington’s Veterans and the Liberation of the New
World. In the aftermath of Waterloo, over 6,000 British
volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar
in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her oppressors in
Madrid. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the
start, one ship sank shortly after leaving Portsmouth with
the loss of almost 200 lives. Those who reached the New
World faced disease, wild animals, mutiny and desertion, and
conditions on campaign were appalling. Nevertheless, those
who endured made key contributions to Bolivar’s success.
The Epic
Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St.
John. In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman
ships descended on Malta, centrally located between North
Africa and Sicily, headquarters of the Knights of St. John
and their Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had
been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman
the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a
Muslim invasion of Sicily, southern Italy, and beyond. The
siege force of Turks, Arabs, and Barbary corsairs from
across the Muslim world outnumbered the defenders of Malta
many times over.
An account from the Soviet Perspective. In December 1941
the offensives of the German Army Groups North and Centre
were stalled in the mud and cold of the Russian winter. But
in the Crimea the German Eleventh Army encircled the vast
fortress of Sevastopol, launching massive combined air,
artillery and land attacks against the heavily defended
positions. The forts and bunkers defending the city had to
be taken one by one and casualties on both sides were
severe. This brutal struggle went on for over six months.
New in d/w - 248pp, numerous b/w photos,
maps, plans
The story of a 19 year old who joined the strangely
named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) then trained as
a radar mechanic during World War II. From 1943 she was
a radar maintenance officer on London gun-sites and
gives a detailed account of life in the Little Blitz of
Autumn, 1943 to May, 1944. There is a lively description
of the gun sites and the people who worked on them. She
writes of the difficulties of planning and execution,
and praises the men who worked in the Royal Electrical
and Mechanical Engineers (REME) workshops.
New in card cover - 102pp, 26 b/w photos &
illustrations
