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
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
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
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
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.
