A detailed history of British aircraft carriers, from the
earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class,
currently under construction, the largest ships ever built for
the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and
construction of each class, with full technical details, plus
extensive summaries of every ship's career. The book also
includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships,
maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and
modern LPHs. It is heavily illustrated with a magnificent
gallery of photos and plans, including original plans in full
colour, one on a magnificent gatefold.
New in d/w - Large format, 384pp,
c500 photos & plans
Sir David Willison recalls his life as a Royal Engineer officer
through the Second World War and for the subsequent forty years.
He also describes his involvement in military intelligence from
Colonel to Deputy Under Secretary and gives his own insight into
the politico-military situation as the time. He served in
postings to Egypt and Berlin at crucial points in the twentieth
century.
This
is a comprehensive directory
of the uniform buttons of
the Scottish, Welsh and
Channel Islands infantry
Militia by renowned expert,
Howard Ripley. It is
illustrated with more than
220 line drawings by Denis
Darmanin.
VICTORY IN THE EAST: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE IMPERIAL GERMAN ARMY
by Michael P. Kihntopf
At the outbreak of
WWI the German Army was prepared for a conflict on two fronts yet,
by 1916, it was no longer what it had been in 1914. Gone were the
notions of romantic war, ideals of heroism having been snuffed out
by new tactics and innovative weapons. On the Eastern Front these
developments led the Central Powers to numerous victories. By
1918, Austro-Hungarian, German, Bulgarian and Turkish soldiers
occupied Serbia, Montenegro, Rumania, The Baltic Coast, most of
European Russia and the Ukraine – an achievement which is usually
overshadowed by their defeat in the West
This book tells the story of a young man's National Service in
the 1950s, and how he came to terms with two years of compulsory
soldiering. After basic training with The Green Howards in Yorkshire
he took a senior NCO's course and became a Sergeant Instructor in
The Royal Army Educational Corps. The story then moves abroad to
Libya and Malta, concluding with his TA service in The Royal
Artillery - and an unexpected offer from the SAS.
