BATTLES WITH PANZERS:
MONTY'S TANK BATTALIONS 1RTR & 2RTR AT WAR
by Patrick Delaforce
Britain's Royal Tank Regiment has seen the stalemate of
trench warfare, the restoration of battlefield mobility and
the establishment of armoured and mechanized forces as a
dominant factor in battle. During WWI, 1 RTR won two
Victoria Crosses and were victors in the first ever tank
versus tank engagement, and 2 RTR fought in all the key
Western Front battles from Messines to Cambrai. In WWII 1
RTR saw action in the North African desert, in Italy and in
Northwest Europe, whilst 2 RTR fought in France, North
Africa and Burma, and later in the 1944-45 Italian campaign,
ending the war in Austria.
This copy is signed by
the author.
Fine in d/w -
248pp, 80 b/w illustrations, 27 maps, appendices, index
OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE
ACES 73:
EARLY GERMAN ACES OF WORLD WAR I
by Greg Van Wyngarden
The Fokker Eindecker monoplane
started the true age of fighter aviation. With the
development of its revolutionary synchronised machine gun
system, the Eindecker caused consternation in the ranks of
Allied airmen as its pilots began to reap a grim harvest of
victims in 1915. The exploits of aces like Max Immelmann and
Oswald Boelke became legendary and they received the
adulation of the German public, along with such honours as
the first awards of the Orden Pour le Merite (the 'Blue
Max') to airmen. They created the tactics and principles of
German fighter aviation.
New in card cover - A4 format, 96pp, 10 colour plates, 2
plans, 100 + b/w photos
OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES
86: P-36 HAWK ACES OF WORLD WAR 2
by Lionel
Persyn
The Curtiss P-36 was considered a
revolution in performance design in comparison to other US
fighters, yet by the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor it was increasingly being supplanted by the P-40. The
P-36 was then exported to France under the guise of the Hawk
75. Flown by the French, captured by the Germans, sold to
the Finns, transferred to India and Africa, and used by the
RAF, the Hawk 75 saw service in every theatre of operations.
Co-authored by Kari Stenman and Andrew Thomas and
illustrated by Chris Davey, this book depicts the P-36 with
colour artwork, photographs and first-hand accounts.
New in card
cover - A4 format, 96pp, 8 colour plates, 1:72 scale
plans/diagrams, 96 b/w photos
Battlefield Air-Attack 1911-1945,
the development of close air support and its impact on
military operations worldwide. Considers the context in
which air-ground actions came about and how they influenced
the outcome of specific battles and campaigns such as the
decisive role played by air interdiction in the collapse of
the Turkish forces in Palestine in 1917, the major inter-war
conflicts in Abyssinia, Spain, China and in World War II.
This is the story of a journalist’s wartime service at
sea. Starting in the engine room as a stoker, John Gritten
recounts his early experience of the dramatic events of the
Norwegian campaign, followed by service in many different
locations. Commissioned, his D-Day role was in a tank
landing craft bound for King Red beach. His notes give a
sense of immediacy to a combined operation on a hitherto
unprecedented scale. Just as graphic are some of the images
of his final months of service in the Far East.
