A History
of Canadian Army Trades Badges and Parachute Badges. A book
that contains a job description for every trade in the
Canadian Army since before the First World War. The vast
majority of trades described are long obsolete, examples of
these being Carriage and Wagon Repairer, Checker Number
Taker, Chemical Technician, Paperhanger, Panel Beater,
Watchmaker, Despatch Rider, Photogrammetrist and hundreds of
others. For each job, a photo of their trade badge is shown
if one existed, but not all trades had badges. This labour
of love is now extremely rare.
New in card cover - 262pp, c500 colour & b/w illustrations
Following the successful Allied landings in Normandy in
June 1944 German forces battled for two months to contain
the bridgehead, but their last-ditch attempt to recover the
initiative with Operation Lüttich, the counter-attack from
Mortain on August 7, failed. From that starting point the
author follows the footsteps of the German retreat across
France. Although nearly 300,000 men were either killed,
wounded, missing, or taken prisoner, by the beginning of
September German forces were once more standing firm along
the 650 kilometres between Switzerland and the North Sea.
This, is that story told through hundreds of ‘then and
now’ comparison photographs.
New in d/w -
Large format, 376pp, 1000 + photos & ills
The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy, 1914-1918.
For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was
the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the
Imperial German Navy that, very shortly, a decisive fleet
action would be fought. In fact, the unalterable geographic
situation meant that for the Grand Fleet in its Scottish
bases, the correct course to follow was not to seek a major
fleet encounter. Essentially, it was by staying where it was
that it could neutralise the High Seas Fleet and enforce an
economic blockade of Germany. The principal naval battle of
Jutland occurred when the two most powerful fleets that the
world had ever known clashed, almost by accident, in the
North Sea on 31 May 1916. The outcome of the battle has
prompted a minute examination of the tactics employed by the
commanders, and a continuous debate as to who won. It was a
series of chances that had determined the outcome of
Jutland.
NACH HAUSE GESCHRIEBEN. AUS DEM FELDZUG
1941 GEGEN SOWJETRUSSLAND
by Major Fritz Gercke
"Letters home for the campaign in 1941 against
Soviet Russia". Written by Major Fritz Gercke.
Published in Berlin in 1941, this is an interesting and
scarce contemporary account by a participant in Operation
Barbarossa. Together with 127 pages of detailed text, the
book includes a map of western Soviet Union and 64 black and
white photos of German troops in action and at rest. Bound
in stiff paper covers the book is in good condition for its
age, though it does suffer from some water staining at the
foot of pages from 111 to 128 plus an ink stain at the top
from page 153 to the back cover.
How did Germany keep its
infamous Panzers running throughout six years of war? How
did the German army prepare for motorized warfare? What
special vehicles and recovery equipment were used by the
maintenance units? How were they organized? How did supplies
reach the front and how were they distributed amongst the
battered divisions? The answers to these questions are to be
found here. Based solely on original reports, diaries and
manuals, you will learn how Panzers were recovered and what
really put them out of action. Packed with large format
photos, most unpublished and reproduced full-page size, plus
drawings, diagrams, and tables, this is a must for serious
mechanised armour historians.
New
in hard cover - Landscape format, 256pp, 291 b/w photos, 17
drawings, 5 diagrams,19 tables
