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27th April, 2019


 

BRITISH CRUISERS: TWO WORLD WARS AND AFTER

by Norman Friedman 






For most of the twentieth century Britain possessed the world's largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. Therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the cruiser − a multi-purpose warship needed to defend trade routes and police the empire. For most of the inter-war years Britain sought to square this circle through international treaties restricting size and numbers. In the process she virtually invented the heavy cruiser and inspired the large 6in-armed cruiser. For the first time this book seeks to comprehend the full policy background, from which an entirely original picture emerges of British cruiser development. After the war the cruiser's role was reconsidered and the final chapters of the book cover modernisation, the plans for missile-armed ships and the convoluted process that turned the 'through-deck cruiser' into the Invincible class light carriers. The book feeatures detailed appendices of ship data, and is illustrated in depth with photos and specially commissioned plans.

New in d/w - Large format, 432pp, numerous b/w photos, plans

Seaforth Publications, 2014
   ISBN 9781848320789

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Web No
37891-01

£45.00

 


 

MICHAEL WITTMANN AND THE WAFFEN SS TIGER COMMANDERS
                                           OF THE LEIBSTANDARTE IN WWII, VOLUME II

by Patrick Agte
 

Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank ace on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns. Volume Two follows Michael Wittmann and his unit into Normandy to defend against the Allied invasion. A week after D-Day, Wittmann achieved his greatest success. On June 13, 1944, near Villers Bocage, the panzer ace and his crew attacked a British armoured unit, single-handedly destroying more than a dozen tanks and preventing an enemy breakthrough. He was killed two months later while attempting to repulse an Allied assault.

Like new in card cover - 382pp, 50 + b/w photos & maps

Stackpole, 2006
ISBN 9780811733359

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Web No
33613-01

£10.00

 


 

GERMAN ARMOURED FORMATIONS IN THE OZAK 1943-45

by Stefano Di Giusto 

 

In World War II, aside from the battlefields in the West, the Eastern Front and in North Africa, there was another small area where the Panzers ruled: the OZAK (Operations Area Adriatic Coastland), a large area which included the north-eastern border regions of Italy and parts of present-day Slovenia and Croatia. What makes this area so unique are the German armoured formations deployed there with an exceptional range of strange vehicles, which could be found nowhere else on any other frontline of World War Two. This publication looks at this exciting area of Wehrmacht Panzer history. Anglo German text and captions.
 

New in card cover - A4 format, 64pp,
1137 b/w & 1 colour photos

Tankograd, 2013
No ISBN 

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Web No.
37730-01

£13.99

 


 

THE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN III & IV SERIES AND THEIR DERIVATIVES

by Peter Chamberlain & Hilary Louis Doyle

An illustrated study of the tanks that formed the backbone of the German Panzer force of WWII, with hundreds of photographs, diagrams and detail views. The book also covers Command, Flakpanzer, Assaultgun, Panzerjager, and artillery variants of the basic design.

Offered at special sale price - we have a limited number of copies still in stock

Like new. pictorial boards - 128pp,
200 photos & drawings, large format

Galago, 1989
ISBN 
0946784124

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Web No. 
10515-06

£4.00

 


 

UNDAUNTED: THE COURAGE OF SIDNEY CARLIN

by Don Chester 


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.

New in card cover - 103pp,
14 b/w photos, 2 maps

Private Publication, 2014
No ISBN

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Web No.
36524-01

£8.95

 



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THE END OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY: VOLUME II

by Alan K. Wildman


Web No.
18344-01

£60.00


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