THE HISTORY OF THE PANZERWAFFE:
VOLUME 1 1939-1942
by Thomas Anderson
The Germans transformed armoured warfare
from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I, into
something that could decide the outcome of conflicts. This is
the definitive guide to the legendary Panzerwaffe, from its very
infancy to the days when it overran Europe at the height of Nazi
German power. With rare combat reports, along with photographs
sourced from previously unseen archival collections, it uncovers
the technical and operational stories of the formidable armour
that formed the backbone of the German war machine.
New in d/w - 304pp, c250 b/w photos
& illustrations
PANZERS AND ALLIED ARMOUR IN
YUGOSLAVIA IN WORLD WAR TWO
by Bojan Dimitrijevic & Dragan Savic
This new book provides the first comprehensive account of
armoured vehicles and units deployed in the Yugoslav theatre during
the Second World War. Combat in Yugoslavia involved the German the Italian, Soviet and British
Armies as well as various local ethnic groups and partisans. These
various forces were equipped with a variety of armoured vehicles,
ranging from early German Panzers, German Beutepanzers captured in
previous campaigns in France and Russia, outdated Italian tanks and
tankettes, and modern Soviet and American equipment vehicles.
Additionally numerous improvised armoured vehicles and armoured
trains were deployed.
The story of Hitler's Special Forces in WWII. First in the
field with this form of warfare, they played an extensive role
in the Third Reich's military operations. Includes the
Brandenburg Commandos in Poland, France, Egypt and Africa,
behind the lines in Russia, plus the SS Kommando Units of Otto
Skorzeny.
Sydney Carlin, a native of Hull, enlisted in the Cavalry in 1914.
In 1915 he was awarded a DCM during the Second Battle of Ypres
and was Commissioned. In 1916 as a Royal
Engineers Lieutenant, he received an MC at the Battle of Delville Wood, where he suffered a leg amputation. Despite his
discharge as disabled he was determined to return to the Front
Line and applied to the Royal Flying Corps for pilot training.
He was rejected, but he designed his own wooden leg and payed
for private flying lessons. He persuaded the authorities to send
him to a Front Line Scout squadron in France and, in the summer
of 1918 he won a DFC, subsequently crash landing and spending
the last weeks of the War as a POW. He volunteered again in 1939
and became an air gunner in the Battle of
Britain at the age of 50. He died in 1941 in an air raid.
An account of the
long, hot Summer of 1940. Kent was at the centre of the storm as
Goering's mighty Luftwaffe was met by the steely tenacity of the
RAF's Hurricanes and Spitfires. The courage of the brave young
fighter pilots is well known. But supporting them on the ground
were countless ordinary men and women. They maintained the
airfields, they fought the fires, they restored essential
services, tended the wounded and cared for the homeless. This
book recalls the days of anxiously watching the vapour trails of
dogfights in blue skies above Kent's towns and villages.
