Never before in history did the
German Army possess such variety and magnitude of Artillery
as in World War II. From North Cape to Tobruk, Biscay to
Lapland, Den Helder to the Caucasus, there were more than
1000 light and about 340 heavy artillery units, as well as
field howitzer units, assault gun units, brigades and
batteries, observation units, rail batteries, mountain
artillery, light gun units and launcher regiments. German
Artillery units consisted of 655,000 men in 1943, or 22
percent of all the soldiers who went into action. This is a
look at the operations, action and everyday life of German
artillerymen.
The goal of the Blackbird program was to develop a Mach
3, high altitude reconnaissance vehicle which could elude
conventional interceptors and speedily bring back both
strategic and tactical battlefield intelligence. It
succeeded beyond all expectations in these objectives,
having overflown most of the world's hotspots in its long
career, setting numerous world speed and altitude records on
the way. This fascinating volume tells the whole story along
with a selection of rare photographs
New in card cover
- 80pp, 140+ b/w & colour illustrations
At the start of the war, German
U-boat technology vastly outperformed that possessed by the
Allies, and under the pressure of the war continual
development helped keep pace with wartime needs and
improvements in anti-submarine weaponry. But it was not just
the technology that had to change. German U-boat tactics
evolved over time. Used in a variety of roles, from coastal
patrolling through to the combined actions of convey-hunting
‘wolf packs', the tactics used by U-Boats were diverse. This
book analyses how they dominated the seas thanks to their
innovative and daring tactical deployment, and how the
cracking of the Enigma code effectively hamstrung them.
New in card cover - 64pp, numerous
colour & b/w illustrations & plates
The US 101st Airborne Division in
Operation Iraqi Freedom, February, 2003 to March, 2004.
The story of 16,000 soldiers in combat, from the
training grounds of Fort Campbell, through the toughest
battles in the blitz of Baghdad to the Nineveh province,
where the 101st Airborne Division anchored for eight
months after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Without
precedent or a plan, the division sketched the blueprint
to win the peace - rebuilding schools and health
clinics, re-establishing the local infrastructure and
building trust with the local people.
HORSEMAN, PASS BY: THE
AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE IN WORLD WAR I
by Lindsay Baly
Australia's mounted troops in WWI were a dashing
mobile force. This book describes their spectacular
triumphs in their Middle East campaigns, along with
tragedies and super-human endurance. The book is a
chronological account of the static campaign at
Gallipoli and the later mobile campaign in Egypt, Sinai,
Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. It is told primarily from
the perspective of the Light Horse formations and units
employed. The title of the book comes from the
inscription on the grave of Poet, William Butler Yeats.
