HORST WESSEL: THE
COMBAT HISTORY OF
THE 18.SS-PANZER-GRENADIER-DIVISION
by Wilhelm Tieke
The combat histories of two units;
1.SS-Infanterie Brigade (mot) and
18.SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Horst Wessel.
1.SS-Infanterie Brigade (mot) was employed at the central
and southern parts of the Eastern Front from the beginning
of the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941 until early
1944, when it was transfered to Stablach, East Prussia for
refitting. The brigade’s remnants became the nucleus of the
new 18.SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Horst Wessel and they
were transferred to Croatia in the spring of 1944. Filling
its ranks proved difficult and it never reached its
authorized strength. The intent to form it from Hungarian
Volksdeutsche failed because not enough volunteers stepped
forward. It surrendered in Southeast Germany in May 1945.
New in illustrated boards - 472pp,
112 photographs, 29 maps
'Flak' Houses were the rest
homes set up in England during the Second World War by the
American Red Cross to provide centres of rest and
recuperation for combatweary airmen. These were usually
situated in large country houses where flyers were permitted
to wear civilian clothes and partake in a variety of
sporting and recreational activities. Some 87,000 men passed
through the R&R system before it was disbanded in 1945.
Keith Thomas covers the history of more than 20 Flak Houses
in Britain. All are illustrated with 'then and now'
comparison photos.
New in card cover
- Square format, 80pp, 200 + illustrations
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.
On 7th
September, 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the
armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of
the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. The survival
of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in
Napoleon's eventual defeat and the utter destruction of the
French army of 1812. This new study retells the terrible
story of Borodino seen from the Russian point of view,
providing a fresh perspective on the battle and a broader
understanding of the reasons for the eventual Russian
triumph.
New in card cover
- 276pp, 18 maps & diagrams, 62 b/w photos & illustrations
