One of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of
World War II was ordered personally by Churchill. The Tiger tank
was by far the most powerful tank ever built, the 60-ton monster
being able to destroy Allied tanks from more than a mile away.
Churchill chose a brilliant young army engineer, Major Doug
Lidderdale, to "Go and catch me a tiger". By February 1943, after
several unsuccessful and hair-raising efforts to bag a Tiger,
Lidderdale and his team put their lives on the line in a
terrifying, shoot out with the crew of a Tiger on the battlefield
of Tunisia, and captured the tank intact.
OPERATION ANACONDA:
AMERICA'S FIRST MAJOR BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN
by Lester W. Grau & Dodge Billingsley
The conflict in Afghanistan was launched by President George W.
Bush in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks on the United States. A few
months later, Operation Anaconda sent American-led coalition forces
into their most intense confrontation with Al Qaeda and their
Taliban hosts in the Shar-i Kot Valley near the Pakistan border.
This is the most complete and accurate account of this thirteen-day
battle waged in mountainous terrain nearly two miles above sea
level. It describes how allied troops fought a fierce and
well-entrenched enemy to a standstill, and then drove them
completely out of Afghanistan. Included with the book is a DVD
featuring interviews with soldiers who fought in Anaconda and
providing additional information concerning major phases of the
battle.
New in d/w - 464pp,
32 photos, 47 maps
University Press of Kansas, 2011
ISBN 9780700618019
A soldier's war in
Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq. Jake
Harper-Ronald was the official photographer for Britain’s elite
1-Parachute Battalion when they deployed in Londonderry to combat
an IRA-inspired ‘peace’ march. Shots were fired at the Paras who
returned fire and killed 13 marchers. The day lives on as ‘Bloody
Sunday’. He joined the Rhodesian SAS, moving to the Selous Scouts
and taking part in cross-border raids into hostile territory.
After the Bush War he joined the Counter-Intelligence Division of
Zimbabwe’s CIO and, after leaving the organisation, he ran anti-Renamo
Militias in Mozambique on behalf of Britain's MI6. Having served
two tours with a private security company in Iraq. He died in
2007, aged 59.
New in card cover - 376pp, 42 colour
& 100 b/w photos, map
The Panzerwrecks series features destroyed, surrendered and
abandoned German armour of 1944-45. Each landscape volume contains
over 100 large format rare and previously unpublished black and
white photographs. This volume features Jagdpanther of
s.H.Pz.Jg.Abt.559, Pz.Aufkl.Abt.20 surrenders at Pilsen, 4.7cm Pak(t) auf R35 walkaround,
Stabskp./Korps Pz.A.A. FHH surrenders, A trip to the Tiger factory
plus many individual vehicles.
New in card cover - Landscape format, 96pp, 116 b/w photos
Robert 'Hitch' Hichens was the most highly decorated RNVR officer
of the war with two DSOs, three DSCs and three Mentions in
Despatches. We read of his early days in vulnerable minesweepers and
the Dunkirk 'Dynamo' operation. In late 1940 he joined Coastal
Forces serving in the very fast MGBs, soon earning his own command,
and shortly thereafter, command of his Flotilla. The book contains
detailed and graphic accounts of running battles against heavily
armed E-boats. Tragically he was killed in action in April, 1943,
later being recommended for a posthumous VC.
