DIE
OLYMPISCHEN SPIELE 1939 IN BERLIN
UND GARMISCH PARTENKIRCHEN: 2 VOLUMES
A two volume set published by the Cigarette Picture Company
with over 120 pasted-in photographs in each volume. Band 1
covers the Winter Olympics detailing the sports and venues
with over 80 photographs. There is a brief narrative on 40
years of Olympics with venues and photographs to 1936.
Participating countries are described with details of the
number in their team and sports. The rest of the book
relates to the Summer Olympics with photographs and fold out
map of Berlin.
Band 2 is splitting slightly at the hinge in several places
but is intact. This volume details all sports and results
including some photos of Jesse Owens. All photographs are
present in both volumes. Very collectable.
The first in a new series of
books from Panzerwrecks, this volume covering the Jagdpanzer
38 tank hunter. The book combines twenty years original
research to take a look at the vehicle using 117 rare large
format photographs These are supplemented by specially
commissioned, high quality artwork by Felipe Rodna. The
author and artist have worked closely together and
incorporated the latest findings to offer the reader the
most authentic illustrations of the Jagdpanzer 38 yet
published.
New in card cover -
landscape format, 112pp, 117 b/w photos, 7 colour plates
An interesting illustrated study of
the development of the German Autobahn system during the
Third Reich era. The highways were developed for Hitler by
the Todt Organisation, to provide employment and for the
purpose of swift movement of military traffic.
German
text,
Very good in card cover - previous owner's bookplate at
front endpaper - 201pp, numerous b/w
photos & drawings
A compulsively readable and
vivid account of life as a young soldier in Russia's Chechen
wars, it takes the raw and mundane reality of days amid guns
and grenades and twists it into compelling, chilling, and
eerily elegant prose. Babchenko traces his journey from
innocence to experience, beginning with his teenage arrival
in the transit camp just north of Chechnya and harsh
treatment by his seniors as a naive and scared new recruit,
through to his period of active duty at the front, by which
time he has become a brutalized and hardened soldier.
A beautifully illustrated history of Northrop's amazing
Stealth Bomber, the batlike B-2 Spirit. Developed using many
of Jack Northrop's Flying Wing theories (and looking
remarkably similar to the revolutionary XB-35 and YB-49
bombers of the 'forties) the Spirit has truly revolutionised
the USAF's ability to project strategic power on a global
scale. Four stealthy B-2s can deliver the same bombing power
as thirty two standard attack aircraft backed up by twenty
eight escort and defence suppression aircraft and fifteen
tankers!
New in card cover
- 76pp, 117 colour & 29 b/w illustrations, tables,
diagrams
