TYAGATSHI: SOVIET FULL-TRACKED
ARTILLERY TRACTORS OF WORLD WAR 2
by Jochen Vollert
This book covers Soviet tractors and tracked prime-movers in
Red Army and Wehrmacht service, from the 1920s to the end of
World War Two. Technical text and captions describe the
employment of the vehicles and provide extensive mechanical
details. It is packed with nearly 500 black and white
photographs and there is a 15 page colour section featuring
colour photographs, computer graphics and four-view scale
drawings. This is an impressive volume which will be
particularly valuable to modelers and students of Soviet tracked
vehicles.
As new in d/w - Large format, 360pp, 15 pages of colour plates, c500 b/w photos
& illustrations
This impressive volume offers the first glimpse into the full body
of Viktor Koretsky's poster artwork, with extensive
reproductions from a private collection being made available
here for the first time. Koretsky's propaganda posters were
among the most innovative and celebrated works of propaganda
artwork produced during the Soviet era. Strikingly dynamic and
modern, they expressed a global, multicultural sensibility that
will appeal to students, historians and general readers.
New in d/w - Large format,428pp,
220 colour posters
By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the
rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. The policy of
deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious
practices by Antiochus IV sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was
initially led by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers and
their descendants. Relying on guerrilla tactics, the growing
insurrection repeatedly took on the sophisticated might of the
Seleucid army, eventually establishing the Maccabees as the
Hasmonean Dynasty of rulers of Israel. Internal disputes
weakened the revived state, however, and it eventually fell
victim to the Romans who replaced the Seleucids as the local
superpower.
Under the emblem of the Edelweis, the soldiers of the German
mountain corps fought on every front in the Second World War –
in the tundra of Lapland, in the gorges of the Balkans, on
Crete, in the High Caucasus, at Monte Cassino and finally in
Upper Italy and the Western Alps, at the Semmering, in Bavaria
and Tyrol. Mountain troops even formed part of Rommel’s famed
Afrikakorps. Through impressive photographs and brief,
insightful text, this chronicle offers the reader and
extraordinary view into the world of these elite troops.
New in d/w - 158pp, numerous
b/w photos & documents
Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years,
returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for
the Battlegroup’s dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. He had unrivalled
access to the fighting and moved from area to area, writing up his
experiences and those of the men he was with. His story tells in
superb action photographs and no-nonsense prose of the hardships
suffered by front line soldiers in the theatre. He captures the
colour of life and death in Afghanistan for both combatants and
the civilian population caught up in this vicious spiral of war.
