How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters.
The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary
bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in
suppressing a popular dream. A small nation, its people
armed with a few rifles and petrol bombs, had the will and
courage to rise up against one of the world's superpowers.
The determination of the Hungarians to resist the Russians
astonished the West. For 12 days it looked, miraculously, as
though the Soviets might be humbled. Then the Hungarians
were brutally crushed. Their capital was devastated,
thousands of people were killed and their country was
occupied for a further three decades.
Between 20th May and 1st June 1941
World War Two came to the Greek island of Crete.
Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand
and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had
not recovered from defeat. Matched against them were crack
German paratroopers and mountain soldiers who had only
tasted victory. Over eleven days the two sides fought a
desperate action that generated tales of stubborn
determination and reckless bravery on both sides. This is
the revised and expanded second edition.
New in card cover
- 178pp, numerous colour & b/w photos, illustrations, maps,
OOBs
Australian Army History,
Army Campaigns Series, 2007 ISBN 97809803204111
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 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.
