Amid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life,
Sergeant Dillard "C. J." Johnson and his crew are recognized by
Pentagon reports to have accounted for astonishing enemy KIA totals
while battling inside and out of "Carnivore," the Bradley Infantry
Fighting Vehicle Johnson commanded during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
After miraculously beating stage-three cancer (caused by radiation
exposure from firing armor-piercing depleted-uranium rounds during
combat), he returned to his platoon in Baghdad for a second tour,
often serving as a sniper protecting his fellow troops.
July 22nd, 1812, Salamanca, Spain. Frustrated at their first
advance, British forces under Wellington's command spent the
previous four days manoeuvering and retreating from the French
army. Patient and cautious, Wellington was determined not to make
a fatal mistake. He glimpsed a moment of opportunity and grasped
it, committing all of his troops to a sudden devastating attack.
At the end of the day, the French army was broken, panic-stricken
and reeling. Wellington had achieved the finest victory of his
brilliant military career.
The German invasion of Russia in 1941 was Hitler's biggest gamble
in his quest for "Lebensraum" (living space) - and it was at
Stalingrad that his gamble failed. This is a history of the
greatest battle of World War II, the defining moment in the
struggle in the East. The authoritative text is illustrated
throughout, including previously unseen photographs from Russian
archives, and detailed maps that explain the battle's progress.
With detailed appendices on orders of battle, losses and
equipment.
This military
profile looks at the development of the tankette for export by the
Czech concern of CKD. The book includes details of their
development and combat usage and is packed with black and white
photographs plus six pages of colour photography, including the
crew compartments. Also contains six pages of 1/35th and 1/20th
scale drawings, detail component drawings, and five pages of
colour artwork depicting vehicles supplied to Iran, Romania and
Sweden.
English/Czech text
New in card cover - A4 format, 80pp, numerous b/w & colour illustrations
This, the history of 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division of the SS (Ukrainische
NR. 1), examines the recruitment of these Ukrainians, which seems
to have contradicted Hitler's policies on the role of eastern
populations. It includes details of its equipment and training,
where it fought, and the motivation and morale of this ethnic
division. The book is sourced from contemporary German and Soviet
archives, as well as accounts of Germans and Ukrainians who served
with the division. Numerous photos and documents complement the
text of this interesting work.
New in illustrated boards - 128pp, 100 b/w ills, photos, facsimile documents &
maps
