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$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages 

16 pages illustrations 

978-1-61200-064-0 

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The Pacific War Uncensored 

A War Correspondent’s Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan 

Harold Guard 

With John Tring 

In March 1942 Harold Guard arrived in Australia, having narrowly escaped 

from Japanese forces invading Singapore and Java. At the time, he was 

acclaimed by the Australian press as being one of the top four newspapermen 

covering the war in the Pacific. 

Over the next three years Guard was to have many more adventures 

reporting on the Pacific War, including firsthand experience of flying with the 

U.S. air force on 22 bombing missions, camping with Allied forces in the deadly 

jungles of New Guinea, and taking part in attacks from amphibious landing 

craft on enemy occupied territory. He also traveled into the undeveloped 

areas of Australia’s northern territories to report on the construction of the 

air bases that were being built in preparation for defending the country 

against the advancing Japanese. 

What made Harold Guard’s achievements even more remarkable was that 

he was disabled, and had to walk with a stiff right leg due to his navy injury. 

Despite this he often reported from perilous situations at the front line, which 

gained him considerable notoriety within the newspaper world. Harold 

Guard always endeavored to give an honest account of what was happening 

in the war, and this often brought him into conflict with the military censors. 

Harold Guard passed away in 1986; however thanks to years of work by his 

grandson John Tring in assembling his dispatches, private correspondence, 

telegrams, and audio accounts, the full story of Guard’s experiences and 

observations during the Pacific War have been assembled. The starkly honest 

perceptions of how the Allies nearly failed and at last finally won the war can 

now be told. 

Free France’s Lion 

The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle’s Greatest General 

William Mortimer Moore 

From the fall of France until 1943, Leclerc dovetailed his operations with the 

British effort in North Africa, establishing himself as a dynamic combat leader 

in the battles against Rommel. 

His career not only includes the liberation of Paris, but the retaking of Strasbourg 

and the reduction of the Colmar Pocket. Helping to spearhead the 

advance into Germany itself, Leclerc’s armor comprised a rock upon which 

American units could rely, and its waving the tricolor during the Allied 

counter-invasion went far toward retrieving French prestige in the war. 

After VE-Day Leclerc was dispatched to reassert French authority in Indo- 

China, an uphill task given the atrophy suffered by the French colonial 

government due to being isolated from its homeland and local Japanese 

superiority. While being partly successful in the south and Cambodia, Leclerc 

soon discovered that the Viet Minh were harder to dislodge in the North, 

and that Ho Chi Minh more than a match for frequently changing postwar 

French governments. Recognizing that France had neither the means nor the 

will to recover control, Leclerc advised his government to “negotiate at all 

costs.” This didn't happen, leading to Dien Bien Phu eight years later and 

thence to US involvement. 

Surprisingly, Leclerc has never yet been the subject of a thorough biography 

in English. Nevertheless many Americans and Englishmen will inevitably have 

noticed the plethora of monuments to Leclerc in any moderately sized 

French town. Aside from a fast-paced narrative covering combat at all levels 

of command, Leclerc’s story will make fascinating reading for any serious 

student of the full scope of World War II.

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Awakening Victory 

How Iraqi Tribes and American Troops Reclaimed Al Anbar 

and Defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq 

Michael E. Silverman 

Awakening Victory tells the story of this incredible campaign through the eyes 

of the commander of the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored, who was right in the 

thick of the fight. The book also provides a description of the Iraqi 

insurgency—particularly al Qaeda in Iraq—that offers the depth and texture 

which are currently lacking in most American’s perceptions of the war. It 

describes the battalion’s actions, including incidents not heretofore known to 

the public, but it is not merely another blood-and-guts war story. The author 

uses the actions of his battalion to describe a paradigm shift that occurred, 

while in a totally foreign culture, yet allowed for a move from a war of bombs 

and bullets to one of partnership and ideas. 

The author, Lt. Col. Michael E. Silverman (ret) is a political scientist and historian 

by education and has extensive experience in both warfare and Middle 

Eastern affairs, including a tour as an advisor to a Saudi Arabian infantry 

battalion in Riyadh. Silverman served a two-year detail to the Central Intelligence 

Agency at their Langley headquarters between his last two tours in 

Iraq. Well-versed in international affairs and world religions, he writes with 

the authority of someone who has both been blown-up by an IED and 

helped to shape U.S. strategic policy for the Global War on Terror. In this 

book he describes, the exact turning point where the United States turned 

a supposedly failed war into a possibly enduring success. 

1781 

The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War 

Robert L. Tonsetic 

1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of 

the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, and sacrifice 

of its leaders and citizenry ensured its survival. 

After shattering the American army under Horatio Gates at Camden, South 

Carolina, the British army under Lord Cornwallis appeared unstoppable, and 

was poised to regain the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia for the Crown. However, 

when General Nathaniel Greene arrived to take command of Patriot 

forces in the south, he was able to gradually turn the tables. 

1781 was a year of battles, as the Patriot Morgan defeated the notorious Tarleton 

and his Loyal legion at Cowpens. Then Greene suffered defeat at Guilford 

Courthouse. While luring Cornwallis north, Greene was able to gather 

new strength and launch a counterattack, until it was Cornwallis who felt 

compelled to seek succor in Virginia. He marched his main army to Yorktown 

on the peninsula, upon which the French fleet, the British fleet, Greene, 

Washington, and the French army under Rochambeau all converged. On 

October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered his weary and bloodied army. 

In this book, Robert Tonsetic provides a detailed analysis of the key battles 

and campaigns of 1781, supported by numerous eyewitness accounts from 

privates to generals in the American, French, and British armies. He also 

describes the diplomatic efforts underway in Europe during 1781, as well 

as the Continental Congress’s actions to resolve the immense financial, 

supply, and personnel problems involved in maintaining an effective fighting 

army in the field. 

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Shadow Commander 

The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn 

—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero 

Mike Guardia 

The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the 

white flags of surrender against the nighttime sky. Battered remnants of the 

American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Yet 

amongst the chaos and devastation of the American defeat, Army Captain 

Donald D. Blackburn refused to lay down his arms. 

With future SF legend Russell Volckmann, Blackburn escaped from Bataan 

and fled to the mountainous jungles of North Luzon, where they raised a 

private army of over 22,000 men against the Japanese. Once there, Blackburn 

organized a guerrilla regiment from among the native tribes in the Cagayan 

Valley. “Blackburn’s Headhunters,” as they came to be known, devastated the 

Japanese 14th Army within the western provinces of North Luzon and 

destroyed the Japanese naval base at Aparri. 

In the wake of the CIA’s disastrous Leaping Lena program, in 1964 Blackburn 

revitalized the Special Operations campaign in South Vietnam. Sending 

cross-border reconnaissance teams into Cambodia and North Vietnam, he 

discovered the clandestine networks and supply nodes of the infamous Ho 

Chi Minh Trail. Taking this information directly to General Westmoreland, 

Blackburn received authorization to conduct full-scale operations against 

the NVA and Viet Cong operating in Laos and Cambodia. 

During a period when United States troops in Southeast Asia faced guerrilla 

armies on every side, it has been little recognized today that America had a 

superb covert commander of its own, his guerrilla skills honed in resistance 

against Japan. This book follows Donald D. Blackburn through both his youthful 

days of desperate combat against an Empire, and through his days as 

a commander. 

With Musket and Tomahawk, Volume II 

The Mohawk Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777 

Michael O. Logusz 

This is the second volume of Michael Logusz’s epic work on the Wilderness 

War of 1777, in which the British Army, with its German, Loyalist, and Indian 

auxiliaries, attempted to descend from Canada to sever the nascent American 

colonies, only to be met by Patriot formations contesting the invasion of their 

newly declared nation. 

In his first volume, on the Saratoga campaign, the author described how Burgoyne’s 

main thrust was first stalled and then obliterated during its advance 

down the Hudson River. Burgoyne had hoped to be met by a corresponding 

British thrust from New York City, but this never materialized, Lord Howe 

opting to attack Philadelphia instead. But the British had indeed launched a 

third thrust from the west, embarking from Lake Ontario at Oswego and 

thence forging its way down the Mohawk Valley. 

This third British thrust, under General Barry St. Leger, was perhaps the most 

terrifying of all, as it overran a sparsely populated wilderness where every 

man and boy had long needed to bear arms to protect against the ravages 

of the Iroquois Federation. Yet now the British—imitating the French before 

them—had made common cause with those same Indians, who now roamed 

across the frontier as the warpainted spearhead of the Empire’s new attack. 

In this book, as in his highly acclaimed first volume, the author captures the 

terrain, tactics and terror of this brutal, multi-faceted wilderness war as few 

writers have done before. It was neighbor against neighbor, native Americans 

on both sides, and European professionals against Colonial Patriots, in a desperate 

campaign that helped determine America’s fate.

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978-1-935149-42-2 

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Gunship Ace 

The Wars of Neall Ellis, Gunship Pilot and Mercenary 

Al J. Venter 

A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region 

from the 1970s on, Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator 

alive. Apart from flying Alouette helicopter gunships in Angola, he has fought 

in the Balkan War (for Islamic forces), tried to resuscitate Mobutu’s ailing air 

force during his final days ruling the Congo, flew Mi-8s for Executive Outcomes, 

and thereafter an Mi-8 fondly dubbed ‘Bokkie’ for Colonel Tim Spicer 

in Sierra Leone. Finally, with a pair of aging Mi-24 Hinds, Ellis ran the Air Wing 

out of Aberdeen Barracks in the war against Sankoh's vicious RUF rebels. 

For the past two years, as a “civilian contractor,” Ellis has been flying helicopter 

support missions in Afghanistan, where, he reckons, he has had more close 

shaves than in his entire four-decade previous year put together. 

Twice, single-handedly (and without a co-pilot), he turned the enemy back 

from the gates of Freetown, effectively preventing the rebels from overrunning 

Sierra Leone’s capital—once in the middle of the night without the 

benefit of night vision goggles. Nellis (as his friends call him) was also the first 

mercenary to work hand-in-glove with British ground and air assets in a 

modern guerrilla war. 

This book describes the full career of this storied aerial warrior, from the 

bush and jungles of Africa to the forests of the Balkans and the merciless 

mountains of today’s Afghanistan. Along the way the reader encounters a 

multi-ethnic array of enemies ranging from ideological to cold-blooded to 

pure evil. 

Heitai 

Uniforms, Equipment & Personal Items 

of the Japanese Soldier, 1937–1945 

Agustin Saiz 

A selection of the Military Book Club. 

Once the seemingly invincible conquerors of nearly all of East Asia, today relatively 

little is known of the exact weapons, uniforms, and lifestyle of World 

War II Japanese soldiers (the Heitai). In this lavishly illustrated book, readers 

and historians alike can finally glimpse the precise personal effects of the 

Imperial infantryman. 

Thanks to a collection carefully nurtured through the decades, every aspect 

of the Heitai’s daily existence is shown in detail with superb color photography 

accompanied by informative descriptions. Items range from weapons to 

clothing (both tropical and arctic), eating implements, communications equipment, 

awards, helmets, insignia, visual devices, gas masks, canteens, cameras, 

tents and footwear. Also included are propaganda leaflets and simple reading 

material issued to the Heitai during long, slow periods of service on isolated 

(sometimes bypassed) Pacific islands. 

By examining the exact possessions of a Japanese soldier—from dagger to 

toothbrush, from hand grenade to undergarments—one is able to see history 

come to life in a way no cinema or text alone could convey. At the same 

time, it is of interest to note both the differences between an Imperial fighter’s 

equipment with that of a GI, and how in many ways it was similar. 

As a companion volume to the bestselling Deutsche Soldaten, this over-sized, 

one-of-a-kind work on the Imperial Heitai provides a uniquely illuminating 

view of the Japanese fighting man who was once America’s most fearsome 

enemy. 

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Bismarck 

The Final Days of Germany’s 

Greatest Battleship 

Niklas Zetterling 

Michael Tamelander 

$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 

8 pages b/w photos 

978-1-61200-075-6 

paperback • September 2011 

eBook: 978-1-93514-982-8 

Erich Von Manstein 

Hitler’s Master Strategist 

Benoit Lemay 

$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 528 pages 


978-1-61200-059-6 

paperback • July 2011 

eBook: 978-1-93514-955-2 

Nazi Millionaires 

The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold 

Kenneth Alford 

Theodore P. Savas 

$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 

b/w photographs 

978-1-935149-35-4 

paperback • August 2011 

eBook: 978-1-93514-968-2 

Exodus from the Alamo 

The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth 

Phillip Thomas Tucker 

$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 432 pages 


978-1-61200-076-3 


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On 24 May, Bismarck was found off the coast of Greenland, but the ensuing battle 

was disastrous for the British. The Hood was totally destroyed within minutes and 

Prince of Wales was badly damaged. The chase resumed until the German behemoth 

was finally caught, this time by four British capital ships supported by torpedobombers 

from the carrier Ark Royal. The icy North Atlantic roiled from the crash 

of shellfire and bursting explosions until finally the Bismarck collapsed, sending nearly 

2,000 German sailors to a watery grave. 

Niklas Zetterling, a researcher at the Swedish Defense College, is most 

recently co-author of The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German 

Army in the East, 1944. Together with MICHAEL TAMELANDER, a part-time military 

author, they have written books about the battleship Tirpitz, the D-Day landings and 

the 1940 campaign in Norway. 

To many close students of World War II, von Manstein is already considered to be 

the greatest commander of the war, if not the entire 20th century. 

Though an undoubtedly brilliant military leader, surprisingly little is known about 

Manstein himself. In this book we finally have a full portrait of the man, including his 

campaigns, and an analysis of what precisely kept a genius such as Manstein harnessed 

to such a dark cause. 

It is thus through Manstein foremost that the attitudes of other high-ranking officers 

who fought during the Second World War, particularly on the Eastern Front, can be 

illuminated. With his grasp of strategy, tactics, and combined arms technology, he 

proved more than worthy of their confidence. This book is a must-read for all those 

who wish to understand Germany’s primary effort in World War II, as well as its 

greatest commander. 

During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and 

trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the 

stolen loot out of Allied hands, they concealed their treasures and fled. Most of these 

men were eventually apprehended, but many managed to evade capture. The intensive 

postwar Allied investigation that followed recovered only a sliver of this 

mountain of gold. What happened to the rest of it, and what fate befell these men? 

Authors Alford and Savas answer these questions and many more in this fast-paced 

and well-written new book. 

About the Authors: Kenneth D. Alford, of Richmond, Virginia, is the author of Great 

Treasure Stories of World War II and The Spoils of World War II. Theodore P. Savas has 

written or edited a dozen books, including Silent Hunters: German U-Boat Commanders 

of World War II. He lives in El Dorado Hills, California. 

Contrary to movie and legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo in 

the war for Texan independence did not die under brilliant sunlight, defending their 

positions against hordes of Mexican infantry. Instead the Mexicans launched a 

predawn attack, surmounting the walls in darkness, forcing a wild melee inside the 

fort before many of its defenders had even awoken.. 

The most startling aspect of this book is that most of the Texans, broke out of the 

fort after the enemy had broken in, and the primary fights took place on the plain 

outside. 

PHILLIP THOMAS TUCKER earned his Ph.D. in American History from St. Louis 

University in 1990. The author or editor of more than 20 books on military history, 

several of which have won national and state awards for scholarship, he has worked 

as a U.S. Air Force Historian for nearly two decades in Washington, DC.

The Battered Bastards 

of Bastogne 

George Koskimaki 

$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 484 pages 

b/w photos 

978-1-61200-074-9 

paperback • October 2011 

D Day with the Screaming Eagles 


$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 380 pages 

b/w photos 

978-1-61200-072-5 


Hell’s Highway 


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Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division 

in the Holland Campaign, 

September - November 1944 


$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 452 pages 

b/w photos 

978-1-61200-073-2 


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The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 

soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and 

made this history and much of it is told in their own words. 

The material contributed by these men of the 101st Airborne Division, the 

Armor, Tank Destroyer, Army Air Force , and others is tailored meticulously 

by the author and placed on the historical framework known to most 

students of the Battle of the Bulge. 

Pieces of a nearly 60 year old jigsaw puzzle come together in this book, when 

memoirs related by one soldier fit with those of another unit or group 

pursuing the battle from another nearby piece of terrain. 

George Koskimaki is a noted historian of the 101st Airborne Division. His 

other books include D Day With The Screaming Eagles and Hell’s Highway. 

He lives in Northville, MI. 

Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is 

an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves 

in eyewitness detail. 

Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, 

company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, 

platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted 

quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - 

and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country 

of Normandy. 

This book is primary source material. It is a “must read” for anyone interested 

in the Normandy landings, the 101st Airborne Division and World War ll in 

general. Hearing the soldiers speak is an entirely different experience from 

reading about the action in a narrative history. 

Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is 

adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author 

who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through 

the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the 

“Screaming Eagles” part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands. 

George Koskimaki is an expert in weaving together individual recollections 

to make a compelling and uniquely first hand account of the bravery and 

deprivations suffered by the troops, their hopes, fears, triumphs and tragedies 

as well as those of Dutch civilians caught up in the action. 

There have been many books published on Operation Market Garden and 

there will surely be more. The “big picture” which most histories paint, here 

is just the context for the real history on the ground. 

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Hitler’s Masterplan 

The Essential Facts and Figures 

for Hitler’s Third Reich 

Chris McNab 

$34.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 192 pages 

150 b/w and color photographs, 

diagrams and maps 

978-1-907446-96-2 


Wehrmacht 

The Essential Facts and Figures 

for the German Armed Forces 

Michael E. Haskew 

$34.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 192 pages 

150 b/w and color photographs, 

diagrams and maps 

978-1-907446-95-5 


Carrier Aircraft 

1917-Present 

Thomas Newdick 

$34.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 192 pages 

200 artworks and 40 photographs 

978-1-907446-97-9 


The Art of War [New Translation] 

Sun Tzu 

James Trapp (Translator) 

$19.95 • 7.75 x 10.5 • 96 pages 

978-1-907446-78-8 


Between 1933 and 1945, Hitler developed a vision for an infrastructure, architecture, 

race, labor force and Lebensraum. Some of these were implemented during his leadership 

as the German Wehrmacht expanded the Nazi sphere of influence, but what 

were the unrealized plans for a Europe dominated by the Third Reich? A raciallybased 

order would have been established across European Russia, with former 

German soldiers running farms worked on by slave labor. Germany and Japan were 

to carve up the Soviet Union and Asia between them. Berlin was to be rebuilt as 

Germania, a world capital city designed on grandiose, neo-classical lines. The data 

book is arranged in chapters covering topics such as leadership, war, physical infrastructure, 

empire building, race, culture and weaponry. World War II Data Book: 

Hitler’s Masterplan, 1933–45 is an essential reference guide for anyone interested in 

modern European history. 

The Wehrmacht (meaning ‘defensive might’) encompassed the entire German armed 

forces during World War II. Rising from the ashes of the post-World War I 

Reichswehr in 1935, the Wehrmacht became one of the cornerstones of Hitler’s 

re-assertion of German military might. More than 18 million men passed through 

the ranks of the Wehrmacht over of the 10 years of its existence. World War II Data 

Book: The Wehrmacht, 1935–45 focuses on the German land forces, with chapters 

on the history of the German Army, pre-war development, command structures, 

infantry, armored formations, artillery and support services.The book includes color 

artworks of key equipment and weapons, reference tables, diagrams, maps and 

charts, presenting all the core data in easy-to-follow formats. Packed with hundreds 

of helpful illustrations, World War II Data Book: The Wehrmacht, 1935–45 offers 

military history enthusiasts key data on every aspect of Germany’s ground forces 

during World War II. 

Illustrated with detailed artworks of naval aircraft and their markings with exhaustive 

captions and specifications, The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Carrier Air 

Power 1917–Present is an extensively researched review of the equipment and 

organization of the world’s carrier-based air arms and their deployment in conflicts 

since the end of World War I. Chapters are divided by nation, profiling the carrier 

aircraft of the US, the UK, France and Russia, as well as the smaller carrier-capable 

nations, including Canada and Australia. Illustrated with more than 250 specially commissioned 

and up-to-date artworks, The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Carrier 

Air Power 1917–Present is an essential reference guide for modelers and any 

enthusiast with an interest in modern military aircraft. 

Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is still used as a book of 

military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap and General 

Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. And beyond 

the world of war, business and management gurus have also applied Sun Tzu’s ideas 

to office politics and corporate strategy. Using a new translation by James Trapp and 

including editorial notes, this edition of The Art of War is printed on high quality paper 

and bound by traditional Chinese book-making techniques. It contains the full 13 

chapters on such topics as laying plans, attacking by stratagem, weaponry, terrain and 

the use of spies. Sun Tzu addresses different campaign situations, marching, 

energy and how to exploit your enemy’s weaknesses. Of immense influence to 

great leaders across millennia, The Art of War is a classic text richly deserving this 

exquisite edition.

$22.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 

88 b/w illustrations 

978-1-445601-35-9 


$22.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 


978-1-445602-71-4 


Spitfire Ace of Aces 

The True Wartime Story 

of Johnnie Johnson 

Dilip Sarkar 

$39.95 • 7 x 10 • 320 pages 

127 photographs 

978-1-445604-75-6 

hardback • August 2011 

Wings over Meir 

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The Story of the Potteries Aerodrome 

William Cooke 

Wings Over Meir is a highly readable and meticulously 

researched account of the Potteries’ 

now largely forgotten aerodrome. In setting the 

scene, the author traces the district’s long 

history of involvement in aerial pursuits, from 

balloon ascents and death-defying parachute 

drops to some of the country’s earliest flying 

and gliding exhibitions. 

Portraits of Heroes 

Derbyshire Fighter Pilots 

in the Second World War 

Barry M. Marsden 

Barry M. Marsden brings together the fully 

researched stories of the aviators who hailed 

from the Peak County. He recounts the stirring 

deeds and tragic deaths of the courageous 

pilots who fought to rid the world of the Axis 

scourge. The result is a book that was prepared 

with the cooperation of several of the surviving 

pilots, as well as the families of the deceased. 

Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ‘Boys Own’. By 

the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in 

Britain, feted by Churchill and Eisenhower. By 1945 he had notched up 38 enemy 

‘kills’ – all fighters which took far more skill to shoot down - and officially the RAF’s 

top-scoring fighter ace. One of his most impressive achievements was that despite 

over 1000 combat missions, he was never shot down. 

Aviation historian Dilip Sarkar spent many hours with Johnson in the final years of 

the great man’s life, recording the last interviews Johnson would ever gave. The book 

is infused with breath-taking first hand accounts from Johnnie himself and many of 

his fellow Spitfire pilots also interviewed by the author and profusely illustrated with 

photographs from Johnson’s personal albums. 

$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 224 pages 


978-1-445602-82-0 


$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 304 pages 


978-1-445605-10-4 


Last of the Few 

18 Battle of Britain Fighter Pilots 

Tell Their Extraordinary Stories 

Dilip Sarkar 

Dilip Sarkar relates the stories of 18 pilots, 

researched through personal interviews, correspondence 

and contemporary archive material. 

Many of the pilots featured became ‘aces’ in the 

Battle of Britain, others achieved such status 

afterwards whilst others went into action only 

to be instantly blasted out of the sky without 

even having seen the enemy. 

Gun Button To Fire 

Tom Neil 

Tom flew 141 combat missions (few pilots 

reached 50) mostly from North Weald airfield 

in Essex, and shot down 13 enemy aircraft 

during the Battle of Britain. 

This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable 

months from May to December 1940. When 

the Germans were blitzing their way across 

France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received 

his first posting – to 249 Squadron. 

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Peter Rex 

$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 320 pages 

57 illustrations, 44 in color 

978-1-445603-84-1 


William the Conqueror 

The Bastard of Normandy 

Peter Rex 

$34.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages 

30 color illustrations 

978-1-848683-32-7 


Anglo-Saxon Kings 

Timothy Venning 

$30 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 

30 illustrations 

978-1-445602-07-3 


Agincourt 

Rosemary Hawley Jarman 

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 


978-1-445602-33-2 


This tale puts the English resistance to William’s invasion center stage unlike previous 

histories that concentrate on the Normans. 

On this invasion and ‘regime change’ pivoted the second millennium of English history. 

This is well recognized, what is not is how long and hard the English people 

fought to deny William ‘the Bastard’, Duke of Normandy his prize. Rather than being 

the smooth transition peddled by pro-Norman historians, the Norman conquest 

was a brutal and violent takeover by an army of occupation. 

Peter Rex tells the whole story of the Conquest of England by the Normans from 

its genesis in the deathbed decision of King Edward the Confessor in January 1066 

to recommend Harold Godwinson as his successor, to the crushing of the last flickers 

of English resistance in June 1076. 

A new biography of the Norman king who conquered England in 1066, changing 

the course of the country forever. William the Conqueror's life is set against his true 

background, the turbulent Norman Duchy which, even after the Conquest of 

England, remained his primary concern. William is revealed as the brutal and 

violent product of his time, much given to outbursts of rage, capable of great cruelty, 

autocratic, avaricious and prone to a sort of grisly humor. His military reputation 

rests mainly on his victory at Hastings and he showed little sign of strategic or tactical 

genius. He inspired great loyalty in some and even greater hatred in others. His 

primary attribute was his ruthless will which made him the driving force behind 

Norman ambition in North Western Europe. His propagandists shamelessly manipulated 

the facts to justify his conquest of England, a dubious enterprise if ever there 

was one. 

Starting off with an examination of the problematic textual sources and the historiography, 

Timothy Venning argues that is time to return to a more linear view of the 

Anglo-Saxon period and to re-examine ideas about the Anglo-Saxon settlement of 

England. In The Anglo-Saxon Kings, the author examines the rulers of Anglo-Saxon 

England, those whom the sources tell us most about, beginning with the legendary 

leaders of the Anglo-Saxon invasion as Hengest and Horsa or Cerdic and Cynric 

and moving on through such figures as Æthelberht of Kent, who received the mission 

led by Augustine of Canterbury to re-Christianise England, Saint Oswald of 

Northumbria to Alfred of Wessex and his dynasty, the Viking invasions, and the last 

of the Anglo-Saxon kings, Harold Godwineson. 

A small English expeditionary force in Northern France battling to reach the coast 

before being cut off by an enemy superior in numbers and equipment; a victory 

plucked from the jaws of certain-seeming defeat – this story is familiar in the twentieth 

century. It is also the story of Agincourt in the fifteenth. 

The distinguished historical novelist Rosemary Hawley Jarman here recreates the 

whole of the brief, foolhardy expedition mounted by a 28-year-old English king determined 

to regain the realm across the Channel.The siege of Harfleur, the ravages 

of disease, the gradual encirclement, the decision to break out and march through 

hostile territory to Calais, all lead up to the rainy dawn of 25 October 1415 – 

St. Crispin’s Day – when the ragged, hungry English came face to face with a mighty 

and magnificently accoutered French army and won one of the most overwhelming 

victories in the chronicles of war.

$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 304 pages 

978-1-445604-27-5 


$30 • 7 x 10 • 192 pages 


978-1-445601-28-1 


Roman Body Armour 

Hilary Travis 

John Travis 

$40 • 7 x 10 • 256 pages 


978-1-445603-59-9 


Ancient Rome, Volume 1 

The Republic 753BC–30BC 

Patricia Southern 


Patricia Southern charts the rise of Rome from 

its humble origins to its dominance of the western 

world, describing the personalities who 

helped to shape it, such as rebel gladiator 

Spartacus, Hannibal, the Carthaginian leader 

who invaded Italy, Caesar and Pompey, and 

finally Octavian, Cleopatra and Mark Antony. 

Vinovia 

Iain Ferris 

Although there has been interest in the site 

since the sixteenth century, it was not until a 

Time Team dig that large-scale public interest 

really wakened and a five-year international 

field project was begun. This book will use the 

results of this work to present a clear picture of 

the history of the site and its place in the 

Roman military north. 

Roman Body Armor assesses current views of the history of the Roman army, relative 

to the development of its equipment, and melds these with the archaeological 

evidence available. It differs from preceding literature in that it has drawn together 

the streams of published information of sculptural imagery and archaeological ‘hard’ 

evidence, while also looking at the component parts and how they are physically 

put together. 

Reconstruction’s of armor were subjected to low-level, simulated wear, over several 

years, to view how the component parts inter-reacted, which parts were more susceptible 

to wear damage through regular attrition, and to see what features may be 

anticipated archaeologically on artifacts as evidence of wear damage and field repairs. 

The armor was also subjected to simulated combat testing using a range of 

weaponry, including archery equipment. 

Roman Body Armor features visual representations of many of the described types 

of armor in use, in photographs of re-enactors and a selection of full color artist’s 

representations. 

$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 272 pages 


978-1-445604-28-2 


$30 • 7 x 10 • 192 pages 


978-1-445601-79-3 


Ancient Rome, Volume 2 

The Empire 30BC–AD476 

Patricia Southern 

This is a comprehensive history of the Roman 

Empire from 30BC to the late fifth century AD, 

describing the Emperors and others who dealt 

with the administration of the provinces and the 

command of the armies, some of them more 

successfully than others. 

Roman Provincial Administration 

John Rogan 

Taking a wide selection of sources, ranging from 

Tacitus’ account of his father-in-law’s time as 

governor of Britain to the New Testament’s 

account of Roman rule in the Middle East, the 

author applies his knowledge of organizational 

theory to how the Romans ruled their empire, 

spreading their ideas and fulfilling what Virgil told 

them was their destiny. 

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Agent Tate 

The True Wartime Story of Hary Williamson 

Tommy Jonason 

Simon Olsson 

This is the Second World War career of the 

longest serving double agent in the Double Cross 

system who operated from September 1940 to 

the end of war. 

$30 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages 


978-1-445604-81-7 


Boy in the Blitz 

Colin Perry 

This is almost all of what survives of a journal he 

kept by RAF Pilot Colin Albert Perry between 

March and November 1940, when he was eighteen 

years old. 

$30 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-445603-92-6 


A Couple of Duffers Go to War 

Geoffrey Lee Williams 

This book conveys not only the desire of children, 

to be involved in the war effort but also their 

growing awareness of the cataclysmic events 

unfolding around us between 1939 and 1945. 

$22.95 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 


978-1-445603-25-4 


Land Girl 

A Manual for Volunteers in the Women’s 

Land Army 1941 

W. E. Shewell-Cooper 

First published in 1941, Land Girl was a practical 

guide for the city slickers who were recruited into 

the Women’s Land Army. 

$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 124 pages 


978-1-445602-79-0 


Letters from HMS Britannia 

William Lambert & the Late Victorian Navy 

A. B. Demaus 

His letters home from the service, assiduously 

compiled by A. B. Demaus, record the experience 

of a capable, ambitious cadet during a time of rapid 

technological change and relative peace. 

$22.95 • 7 x 10 • 96 pages 


978-1-848683-05-1 


No Phoney War 

Stephen Flower 

This is the story of this dramatic time in Europe 

and beyond, explaining why the Phoney War was 

anything but, bringing this period of supposed 

inactivity to life. 

$29.95 • 7 x 10 • 224 pages 


978-1-848689-60-2 


One Musician’s War 

From Egypt to Italy with the RASC, 1941– 45 

Jean Perraton 

Self-taught violinist George Warner’s letters home 

from the North African and Italian campaigns provide 

an enthralling, humane account of Europe’s 

darkest years. 

$22.95 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 


978-1-445604-04-6 


Winston Churchill’s Toyshop 

The Inside Story of Military 

Intelligence (Research) 

Stuart Macrae 

Written by Colonel Stuart Macrae, the story is told 

of this relatively unknown establishment and the 

weapons it developed which helped destroy innumerable 

enemy tanks, aircraft and ships. 

$24.95 • 7 x 10 • 208 pages 


978-1-445603-70-4 

paperback • July 2011


NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat 

Gordon Wilson 

This narrative includes the 1968 personal account 

of the first intercept of a Soviet Bear bomber off 

the coast of Canada. 

$30 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 


978-1-445602-63-9 


A Tommy at Ypres 

Doreen Priddey 

This is an accurate factual account which will be of 

great interest to historians, as well as a heart 

warming story of one man’s experience of war. 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 


978-1-445602-13-4 


The Corsini Letters 

Philip Beale 

Adrian Almond 

The Corsini letters comprised the largest extant 

archive for any English merchants of the sixteenth 

and seventeenth centuries. The Corsini Letters is the 

first book to look at the archive as a whole. 

$60 • 7 x 10 • 224 pages 

40 drawings 

978-1-445600-85-7 


The Myth of Ancient Egypt 

Charlotte Booth 

Charlotte Booth sets out to investigate eight of the 

most common myths about Egypt, their origins and 

how they have developed, in an attempt to separate 

fact from fiction. 

$30 • 7 x 10 • 192 pages 


978-1-445602-74-5 


British & Allied Aircraft Manufacturers 

of the First World War 

Terry C. Treadwell 

Terry Treadwell takes us through the various types 

of Aircraft and this companion to his German and 

Austro-Hungarian Aircraft Manufacturers is profusely 

illustrated with images of the men and their 

machines. 

$27.95 • 7 x 10 • 256 pages 


978-1-445601-01-4 


Front Line Harbour 

A History of the Port of Dover 

Anthony Lane 

This highly illustrated book describes the development 

of the harbor over the last 500 years and its 

associated shipping activities, commercial and naval, 

particularly the cross-Channel ferries. 

$24.95 • 7 x 10 • 192 pages 

317 illustrations, 33 in color 

978-1-445600-30-7 


A History of War Surgery 

John Wright 

Dr John Wright charts the evolution of war surgery 

from ancient times to the present day.The 

book is illustrated with 150 often graphic images 

of war surgery up to the twenty-first century. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-445602-32-5 


Spooks 

The Unofficial History of MI5 

From the First Atom Spy to 7/7, 1945–2009 

Thomas Hennessey 

Claire Thomas 

The book looks at MI5’s attempts to prevent mass 

murder on the streets of Britain, including the failure 

to stop the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005. 

$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 288 pages 

978-1-445602-67-7 


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T. E. Lawrence and 

the Arab Revolt 

An Illustrated Guide 

Joseph Berton 

$77 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 208 pages 

over 100 color & b/w photographs 

978-84-96658-35-6 


Painting Figures 

Julio Cabos 

$26 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 36 pages 

over 300 photographs 

978-84-96658-29-5 


The Spanish Civil War 

1936–1939 

Carlos J. Medina 

$49.95 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 120 pages 

more than 300 photographs mostly 

unpublished, 12 explanatory maps 

of major battles 

978-84-96658-20-2 


A compelling photographic overview of the life of Lawrence of Arabia and 

the Arab Revolt that he helped lead. Many books have been written about 

Lawrence but this book will provide many rare and unseen photographs to 

illustrate his role in the revolt and the people who fought with and against 

him. Using photographs from public archives and private collections, Joseph 

Berton has assembled an impressive selection of images that will provide an 

important visual resource for military historians, figure modelers, and 

Lawrence enthusiasts. Special chapters include unpublished photographs of 

the Hejaz Armored Car Battery, the French troops that supported Lawrence 

and the pilots and planes of the Royal Flying Corps that assisted with the 

Arab Revolt. Photographs showing actual Arab robes worn by Lawrence, 

uniforms of Arab and Turkish soldiers and weapons, details of Bedouin 

clothing, camel saddles and rugs are provided with detailed captions. Photographs 

taken by Harry Chase, printed from original glass plate negatives, are 

also shown in amazing detail. Final chapters include a research guide to the 

major Lawrence collections in public institutions, some words of advice 

for the Lawrence collector today and information on visiting important 

Lawrence sites. 

A comprehensive guide to the preparation and painting of figures, where you 

can find a variety of examples of ‘step by step’ from priming to painting last 

details. Within these examples we can see figures of different themes and 

scales, developing management techniques of acrylic paint by brush and also 

by airbrush. 

This book is intended not only for those artists who want to learn miniature 

painting but is also ideal for those wishing to refresh or learn the basics of 

new materials and paints that are used by more experienced painters. 

A unique book about the fratricidal conflict that ravaged Spain and still 

remains in force in the memory of a significant part of the population. The 

author, Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery Carlos Medina, conducts an impartial 

study of the conflict, analyzing the political causes as well as the military 

development of operations in the various fronts from 1936 to 1939.

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Luftwaffe Flight Equipment 

1935–1945 

Antonio Montero 

Santiago Guillén 

$83 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 312 pages 


978-84-96658-37-0 

hardback • December 2011 

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F.A.Q.: Planes 

$59.95 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 159 pages 

978-84-96658-18-9 • paperback 

$89 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 380 pages 


978-84-96658-33-2 


This book is a comprehensive study of flight equipment used by the Luftwaffe 

pilots between 1935 and 1945. The authors are experts in the field and NCIA 

solvency is guaranteed by other works published within and outside Spain. 

The text is accompanied by color images of high quality study conducted by 

professional photographers. Alongside these images are other black and white 

of excellent quality from public and private archives. 

Meine Ehre heißt Treue 

An Study on Militaria of the Allgemeine SS 

Ulric of England 

Meine Ehre Heisst Treue explores the iconic artefacts, uniforms and insignia 

which underpinned the concept and philosophy behind Hitler’s Third Reich 

in general, and Himmler’s Allgemeine-SS in particular. Formed in 1925 as a 

personal protection unit for Adolf Hitler, while under the control of Himmler 

(1929–1945), the Allgemeine-SS grew from a small paramilitary group to one 

of the most powerful, complex organisations in the Third Reich. 

Today the Allgemeine-SS is equally enigmatic; as the vehicle by which Himmler 

proposed to implement his thesis to create a ‘Centre of the New World’; its 

structure, and psychology remains little-understood. Authored by leading 

militaria specialists Ulric of England, Meine Ehre Heisst Treue extends deep 

inside the Allgemeine-SS to reveal an unsurpassed creativity and philosophy. 

From the iconic, black SS uniform designed by Prof. Karl Diebitsch, graphic 

designer Walter Heck (and manufacturer Hugo Boss), to the applied arts, for 

example the ‘first born’ mother’s brooch and Allach porcelain flower vase, 

this authoritative book, presents the most distinguished Allgemeine-SS 

collection to date. 

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Six Months Without Sundays 

The Scots Guards in Afghanistan 

Max Benitz 

$27.95 • 6 x 9.25 • 320 pages 

16 pages of color photos 

978-1-84341-052-2 


Empire of Sand 

How Britain Shaped the Middle East 

Walter Reid 

$32.95 • 6 x 9.25 • 416 pages 

16 pages of b/w photos 

978-1-84341-053-9 


A Time of Tyrants 

Scotland and the Second World War 

Trevor Royle 

$32.95 • 6 x 9.25 • 416 pages 

16 pages of b/w photos 

978-1-84341-055-3 


Max Benitz reports from the frontline of a highly controversial war in a perceptive 

and revealing account of several months spent in Afghanistan with 

this world-famous infantry battalion. Training with them and living amongst 

them as they undertake their tour in Helmand province, Benitz gives a unique 

insight into the pressures faced by those who risk their lives every second of 

the day in one of the most dangerous places on earth. Fascinating and 

illuminating; The Scots Guards in Afghanistan reveals new insights into the war 

raging in Afghanistan and the men and women who bravely serve there for 

the British forces. 

Max Benitz has a diverse career, both as an actor and a writer. Born in London 

in 1985, he is best known for his role as Midshipman Calamy in the 2003 film 

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World by director Peter Weir. 

At the end of the First World War the modern Middle East was created by 

Britain and France, who carved up the old Ottoman possessions with scant 

regard for the wishes of those who lived there. Frontiers were devised and 

alien dynasties imposed on the populations as arbitrarily as in mediaeval times. 

It was destined from the outset to failure. 

With reference to a huge amount of primary and secondary sources, Walter 

Reid explores Britain’s role in the creation of the modern Middle East and 

the rise of Zionism, from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, 

when Britain handed over Palestine to UN control – a process from which 

has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the world-wide 

tensions that threaten the 21st century. 

Acclaimed military historian Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second 

World War. The country’s geographical position gave it great strategic 

importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting 

naval and aerial operations against the enemy and for training regular and 

specialist SOE and commando forces. Scotland also became a social melting 

pot with the arrival of Polish and eastern European refugees, whose presence 

added to the communal mix and assisted postwar reconstruction. 

Based on previously unseen archives in the Scottish Record Office, A Time of 

Tyrants is the first history of the unique role played by Scotland and the Scots 

in the global war to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

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The Last of the Ebb 

The Battle of the Aisne, 1918 

SIdney Rogerson 

$27.95 • 5 x 7.5 • 192 pages 

16 pages plate section 

978-1-84832-611-8 


The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel 

Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys 

on the Hindenburg Line, 1918 

Dale Blair 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 

11 maps, 8 pages plates 

978-1-84832-587-6 


To Arras, 1917 

A Volunteer’s Odyssey 

Walter Reid 

$15.95 • 5 x 8 • 200 pages 

16 pages of b/w photos & 1 map 

978-1-84341-054-6 


In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive. Aware that American 

troops would soon be arriving in Europe, the Germans saw this as their last 

chance to win the war. If they could overcome the Allied armies and reach 

Paris, victory might be possible. The German offensive was initially a great 

success. Striking at the Allied line’s strongest point, the Chemin des Dames, 

they burst their way through and made quick progress towards Marne. However, 

the advance eventually stalled. With supply shortages and lack of 

reserves, this was to be the ‘last ebb’ of the German war effort. 

Rogerson, a young officer in the West Yorkshire Regiment, describes the 

experiences of his battalion from the Aisne through to the Marne. Fighting 

under French command, the West Yorkshires were inadequately supported 

by artillery and practically without help from the air. The 4 tired divisions 

were forced to fight and run 27 miles across wooded downlands and 3 rivers 

on emergency rations. 

The author vividly conveys the bravery and extraordinary resilience of the 

West Yorkshires, who were able to face up to the terrible ordeal of such a 

battle without loss of morale. Remarkably for a book of this period, an 

account by Major-General A. D. von Unruh, which gives the German perspective 

of the offensive, has been included. 

Blair forensically details the fighting and the largely forgotten desperate 

German defense. Although celebrated as a marvelous feat of breaking the 

Hindenburg Line, the American attack failed generally to achieve its set 

objectives and it took the Australians three days of bitter fighting to reach 

theirs. Blair rejects the conventional explanation of the US ‘mop up’ failure 

and points the finger of blame at Rawlinson, Haig and Monash for expecting 

too much of the raw US troops, singling out the Australian Corps commander 

for particular criticism. 

Overall, Blair judges the fighting a draw. At the end, like two boxers, the 

Australian-American force was gasping for breath and the Germans, badly 

battered, backpedalling to remain on balance. Overall the day was calamitous 

for the German army, even if the clean break-through that Haig had hoped 

for did not occur. 

To Arras, 1917 is a biography of the author’s uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 

1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. 

This is the true and poignant account of a young Scottish officer, pinned down 

and fatally wounded in No-man’s land on the first day of the Battle of Arras, 

on Easter Monday 1917. The gripping narrative creates a mood of sombre 

inevitability. It does not simply set out the events of Captain Ernest Reid’s life, 

but puts Ernest’s life into its moral as well as its historical context and 

describes the cultural influences – the code of duty, an unquestioning 

patriotism – that moulded him and his contemporaries for service and sacrifice 

in the killing fields of France and Flanders. In retrospect, he and they 

seem almost programmed for the role they were required to play, and in this 

lies the pathos at the heart of this moving book. 

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Panzers on the Eastern Front 

General Erhard Raus and His Panzer 

Divisions in Russia 1941–1945 

Edited by Peter Tsouras 

$27.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

16 pages photos 

978-1-84832-619-4 


Luftwaffe Fighter Aces 

Mike Spick 

$27.95 • 6 x 9 • 248 pages 

35 photos 

978-1-84832-627-9 


Fighting with Popski’s Private Army 

Park Yunnie 

$29.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 384 pages 

978-1-84832-616-3 


While Berlin Burns 

The Memoirs of Hans-Georg 

von Studnitz 

Hans-Georg Von Studnitz 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 


978-1-84832-617-0 


General Erhard Raus was one of the German Army’s finest panzer generals and a 

leading exponent of blitzkrieg in the east. German panzers were witnesses to the 

incredible onslaught that was the first few months of Barbarossa, then the gradual 

strengthening of Russian resistance, counterattack and, ultimately, the long and 

drawn-out German retreat. Raus and his panzers were tested in every conceivable 

tactical situation and, inevitably, Raus became highly versed in all aspects of mobilized 

warfare. 

This account by Erhard Raus, edited by leading Eastern Front expert Peter G. Tsouras, 

concentrates on German efforts to relieve Stalingrad. Raus, as commander of 6th 

Panzer Division, was in the thick of this bitter action, urging his panzers forward in a 

massive effort to break the Soviet stranglehold. These journals were originally written 

to brief the US Army at the height of the Cold War. 

In this exciting book Mike Spick shows how the Luftwaffe’s leading fighter pilots were 

able to outscore their allied counterparts so effectively and completely during the 

Second World War. When the records of the Jagdflieger pilots became available after 

the war, they were initially greeted with incredulity – the highest claim was for 352 

kills, and more than 100 pilots had recorded more than 100 victories. However postwar 

research proved that these claims had in fact been made in good faith and 

confirmation had only been given after rigorous checking. 

To discover the secret of this success, aviation history expert Mike Spick examines 

the exploits of these aces and sets out the context in which it took place. Every 

major theater is covered in detail including the conditions peculiar to each: climate, 

relative numerical and qualitative strengths, the presence or absence of radar and 

other measures, and the relative merits of the planes being flown. 

‘Captain Bob Yunnie, MC’, aka Park Yunnie, became the first recruit to the special 

unit founded in Cairo by Major Vladimir Peniakoff (‘Popski’). As Eighth Army advances 

towards Tripoli, PPA sets out in jeeps across the desert to mount raids behind 

the Mareth Line. Yunnie relives the ensuing action at Gafsa and Kasserine, and 

vividly depicts the sorties which took the men straight across the German Line of 

Command. 

As Tunis falls to the Allies on 7 May 1943, PPA train for raids on the Italian mainland. 

They are dropped by RAF gliders in central Italy, where they set about blowing up 

strategic targets while waiting for the Allied landings. Yunnie is given his own patrol, 

and in the narrative that follows, colorful characters flit in and out of the front-line 

action in the mountains of Southern Italy. 

From 1943 to 1945, while his world was deafened by the sounds of war as Germany 

fought on hopelessly, Hans-Georg von Studnitz – from his vantage point in the 

German Foreign Office Press and Information Section – recorded the day-to-day 

events in Berlin. He was in the perfect position to write such an account: he was 

entrusted with the drafting of Nazi political directives and was in constant touch 

with the foreign diplomats stationed in Berlin. 

This is a fascinating and comprehensive insight into life in Berlin: the bombings and 

its effects, the social life, the key personalities and events. Studnitz writes with the 

trained skill of a journalist and a political commentator, and his account has few 

equals in the literature of memoirs.

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Sniper Anthology 

Snipers of the Second World War 

Martin Pegler 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

16 pages of plates 

978-1-84832-625-5 


Hitler Was My Friend 

The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer 

Heinrich Hoffmann 

$39.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages 

978-1-84832-608-8 


Rossano – A Valley in Flames 

An Adventure of the Italian Resistance 

Major Gordon Lett, DSO, FRGS 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

978-1-84832-621-7 


U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat 

of the Second World War 

Franz Kurowski 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 


978-1-84832-606-4 


For the first time, leading Second World War authors from around the world have 

collaborated on a definitive anthology of the greatest snipers of the war. 

Each author supplies full details of their chosen sniper, including illustrations that have 

never been published before, to construct a complete and varied picture of sniper 

warfare. 

These gripping narratives will be fascinating reading for any one who is keen to learn 

about the role and technique of the sniper during the Second World War and go 

beyond the cursory treatment in existing histories. 

The contributors include Charles Henderson writing on the myth of Major Koenig, 

Mark Spicer on Harry Furness, Martin Pegler on Vassili Zaitsev, Charles Strasser on 

Pavlichenko, Adrian Gilbert on Sepp Allerberger, Leroy Thompson on Captain C. 

Shore, Dan Mills on Private Delvin and Roger Moorhhouse on Simo Haya. Nigel 

Jones will also contribute. 

Heinrich Hoffmann became Hitler’s official photographer and traveled with him 

extensively. He took over two million photographs of Hitler, and they were distributed 

widely, including on postage stamps, an enterprise that proved very profitable 

for both men. 

This edition of a classic book includes photographs by Hoffmann and a new introduction 

by Roger Moorhouse. 

Gordon Lett was the first Allied officer to enter La Spezia in April 1945, together 

with the partisans. He was awarded the DSO for his services and received the 

Medaglia Argento al valor militare from the Italian government. Today there is still a 

strong bond between many of those mentioned in the book and the Lett family. 

By 1 August 1941, U-48, the most successful boat of the Second World War, had sunk 

56 merchant ships of 322,478 gross tons and one corvette. Schultze became commander 

of operation 3 U-Flotilla and later was appointed commander, II/Naval College 

Schleswig. He died in 1987 at the age of 78. U-48 was scuttled on May 3 1945. 

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The Waterloo Archive: Volume III 

The British Sources 

Gareth Glover 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 

8 page color plates 

978-1-84832-605-7 


An Eloquent Soldier 

The Peninsular War Journals 

of Lieutenant Charles Crowe 

of the Inniskillings, 1812–14 

Edited by Gareth Glover 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 352 pages 

8 pages plates 

978-1-84832-593-7 


Albuera 1811 

The Bloodiest Battle of 

the Peninsular War 

Guy Dempsey 

Foreword by Donald E. Graves 

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages 

16 pages of b/w plates 

8 pages of color plates 

978-1-84832-624-8 


Charging Against Wellington 

The French Cavalry in 

the Peninsular War, 1807–1814 

Robert Burnham 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 352 pages 

8 pages plates 

978-1-84832-591-3 


The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, they are brimming with 

personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost 

thoughts. The human aspect of war comes to the fore, the humor and exhilaration; 

the fears and miseries; the starvation and exhaustion; the horror and the joy. 

It is usually accepted that very few common soldiers of this period could read or 

write and that the few letters and journals that do exist emanate from more senior 

officers, who were required to be able to write to perform their duties. Volume I 

proved this to be a fallacy, and this volume continues with a further three accounts, 

and show how the ordinary soldier saw things, giving a different aspect to our studies. 

Lieutenant Charles Crowe’s journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign 

of Wellington’s army is a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, 

the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published. 

Clearly written purely for the enjoyment of his family, Crowe does not pull his 

punches: he censures officers both junior and senior; he talks openly of the ravages 

of war, and the pillaging, raping and looting; the horrors of war, describing the deaths 

and horrific wounds of many in lurid detail, the cowardice and stupidity; and he also 

describes the mundane in detail – nothing is passed over. 

Crowe is an invaluable source to military historians on many levels, and his journal 

will stand proudly – deservedly – in the pantheon of great military memoirs. 

On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular 

War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese 

force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, 

stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to 

reach the fortress of Badajoz, 12 miles north. 

This compelling new book fills this gap by using authentic primary sources to tell 

the story of the battle as completely as possible and dispels long-standing myths. 

The book also brings to life the human dimension of the story by using first-person 

recollections to describe experiences on and off the battlefield. The battle’s drama 

is intensified by the circumstances of the fighting, which led to extremes of behavior 

ranging from incomprehensible valor to rank cowardice. 

The book is divided into three sections. The first contains biographies of 80 generals 

who led the French cavalry, focusing on the time they served in the Peninsula and 

its impact on their careers. 

The second section looks at the ever-changing organization of the cavalry, where 

the various regiments and brigades were located and who commanded them. This 

is not as easy a task as it may appear, because a considerable amount of the cavalry 

was provisional regiments, consisting of squadrons drawn from other regiments. 

Charging Against Wellington chronicles all the changes, showing which units left, 

when they left, and how their departure impacted the army. 

The third section looks at the service record of the 70+ French cavalry regiments 

that fought in Spain and Portugal. There is a table for each regiment that tracks the 

regiment’s colonels, composition, organization, strength, and casualties while in the 

Peninsula, and when its various squadrons arrived and departed.

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The Hand of History 

An Anthology of Quotes 

and Commentaries 

Edited by Michael Leventhal 

$27.95 • 5.5 X 8 • 232 pages 


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Ambush 

Surprise Attack in Ancient 

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Rose Mary Sheldon 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 322 pages 

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Peter Connolly 

$70 • 8.5 x 11 • 320 pages 

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Teutonic Knights 

William Urban 

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 

978-1-84832-620-0 


‘Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter’ 

- Nigerian proverb 

‘This proverb undermines the idea of “objective” history. It’s all too easy to think that 

bias in history is bad, and that objectivity is good. But objectivity is usually a euphemism 

for the history of the victors, or the history of the hunters. What would an 

objective history of the Iraq war look like? 

- Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambrige University 

For this fund-raising book famous writers from around the world have selected their 

favorite quotes about history. Each has selected a quote and provided an original 

commentary explaining why it strikes a chord with them. 

There are two images of warfare that dominate Greek history. The better known is 

that of Achilles, the Homeric hero skilled in face-to-face combat to the death. He 

is a warrior who is outraged by deception on the battlefield. The alternative model, 

equally Greek and also taken from Homeric epic, is Odysseus, ‘the man of twists 

and turns’ of THE ODYSSEY. 

Greek warfare actually consists of many varieties of fighting. It is common for popular 

writers to assume that the hoplite phalanx was the only mode of warfare used by 

the Greeks. The fact is, however, that the use of spies, intelligence gathering, ambush, 

and surprise attacks at dawn or at night were also a part of Greek warfare, and 

while not the supreme method of defeating an enemy, such tactics always found 

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In this sumptuous guide to twelve centuries of military development, Peter Connolly 

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presented with illustrations that are, quite rightly, recognized as being the best and 

most accurate representation of how the soldiers from these formidable military 

empires appeared. 

Greece and Rome at War lucidly demonstrates the face of battle in the ancient world. 

Covering the wars between the Greeks and the Persians and the epic contest 

between the Romans and their most capable opponent, Hannibal, as well as organization, 

tactics, armor and weapons, and much more, this excellent work brings the 

armies of Greece, Macedon and Rome vividly to life. 

This major new book surveys the gripping history of the knights and their Order 

and relates their rise to power; their struggles against Prussian pagans; the series of 

wars against Poland and Lithuania; the clash with Alexander Nevsky’s Russia; and the 

gradual stagnation of the order in the fourteenth century. The book is replete with 

dramatic episodes - such as the battle on frozen Lake Peipus in 1242, or the disaster 

of Tannenberg - but focuses primarily on the knights’ struggle to maintain power, 

fend off incursions and raiding bands and to launch crusades against unbelieving foes. 

And it was the crusade which chiefly characterized and breathed life into this Holy 

Order. 

William Urban’s narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible 

and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have 

long been misunderstood. 

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Malta Spitfire 

The Diary of an Ace Fighter Pilot 

George Beurling 

$18.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 256 pages 

30 b/w photos 

978-1-906502-98-0 


Fire by Night 

The Dramatic Story of One Pathfinder 

Crew and Black Thursday, 

16-17 December 1943 

Jennie Gray 

$18.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 208 pages 

60 b/w photos 

978-1-906502-99-7 


Raw Courage 

The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of 

Four RAF Brothers in Arms 

Norman Franks 

Simon Muggelto 

$39.95 • 5.75 x 8.25 • 224 pages 


978-1-908117-13-7 


Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta – that is where the Spitfires intercepted 

the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes as they swept eastwards 

in their droves, screening the big Junkers with their bomb loads as they pummeled 

the island beneath – the most bombed patch of ground in the world. 

One of those Spitfire pilots was George Beurling, who in fourteen flying days 

destroyed twenty-seven German and Italian aircraft, and damaged many more. 

Malta Spitfire tells his story and that of the gallant Spitfire squadron, 249. 

The reader has almost the sensation of being in the cockpit with him, climbing 

to meet the planes driving in from Sicily, diving down through the fighter 

screen at the bombers, dodging the bullets coming out of the sun, or whipping 

up under the belly of an Me for a deflection shot at the engine. This 

is war without sentiment or romance, told in terms of human courage, skill 

and heroism 

When she was very young, the author was captivated by the story her father, 

Joe Mack, repeatedly told her about his astonishing rescue from a crashed and 

burning Lancaster one night in 1943. As an adult she decided to find out what 

happened to his aircraft and the countless others returning from operations 

that same dreadful night…She writes from the heart, honestly and at times 

lyrically and her thorough research uncovers the harsh realities of warfare, the 

failure of procedures and, worst of all, her father’s shocking secret. 

This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served 

with the Royal Air Force. The eldest three flew during WW2 and all three 

died. 

The youngest, not old enough to see wartime flying, flew night-fighters in the 

post-war years, ending up flying Spitfires with the Battle of Britain Memorial 

Flight. The eldest brother, John, was killed in a flying accident just as he was 

starting a job as a flying instructor, in 1941. 

Their father had been a naval officer, serving mainly in destroyers in WW1, 

winning the DSC. He remained in the navy post war to become a commander 

but then became a barrister at law before his untimely death in 1932. 

All four boys kept up a healthy and loving correspondence with their mother, 

right from their time at Wellington School, until their passing. 

The book tells of their lives through these letters, written at a time when 

people wrote almost daily to each other if only a few lines. It is a touching 

memorial to four young men who served their country and its air force well.

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Spitfire Mark I P9374 

The extraordinary Story of Recovery, 

Restoration and Flight 

Andy Saunders 

$39.95 • 6.75 x 9.75 • 224 pages 

b/w and color photos throughout 

978-1-908117-06-9 


Special Ops Liberators 

223 (Bomber Support) Squadron, 100 

Group, and the Electronic War 

Steve Bond 

Richard Forder 

$39.95 • 6 x 9.25 • 224 pages 


978-1-908117-14-4 


Finding the Fallen 

Outstanding Aircrew Mysteries from 

the First World War to Desert Storm 

Investigated and Solved 

Andy Saunders 

$39.95 • 6.75 x 9.75 • 208 pages 

b/w photos throughout 

978-1-908117-10-6 


The World’s Greatest War 

Cartoonists, 1792–1945 

An A–Z 

Mark Bryant 

$39.95 • 7.75 x 10 • 192 pages 

color and b/w illustrations throughout 

978-1-908117-08-3 


Andy Saunders relates the fascinating story of the recovery of this Battle of France 

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return to the UK for rebuild and restoration to flying condition. The full history of 

the airframe from the factory to loss, the airplane’s operational history with 92 

Squadron and the story of the pilots who flew it during its career are also told, as is 

the unfolding saga of its restoration and return to air – detailing its progress through 

the workshops right up to the first flight in 2011. Upon completion P9374 will be 

the earliest mark of Spitfire flying anywhere in the world. It is also intended that this 

landmark airplane will grace many major air shows into the foreseeable future. 

The work of the RAF’s 100 Group remains one of the least known aspects of the 

1939-45 war. Even less has been written about the specifics of day-to-day electronic 

warface operations and the countermeasures employed. This book, the result of 

many years meticulous research by Squadron Leader Richard Forder RAF (Ret’d) 

redresses the balance by focussing on one the heavy units, 223, and its sister units 

at RAF Oulton, Norfolk. 

Equipped with former USAAF Liberators, they operated from August 1944 to the 

end of the European war, with a primary role of protecting Bomber Command Main 

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The logical successor to the highly acclaimed Finding the Few and Finding the Foe, 

this new work covers a selection of similar mysteries involving missing aircrew and 

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Starting with a re-appraisal of the Mannock affair, the author highlights the fates variously 

of RAF, USAF, Luftwaffe personnel from bomber, reconnaissance and fighter 

crews. Each case is examined with a microscopic and forensic approach worthy 

of Silent Witness, and evaluates the detective work involved in unraveling these 

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conclusion with ‘closure’ achieved – although some question marks are left hanging 

unanswered over other equally fascinating cases. Every bit as intriguing as Andy’s 

earlier works, this is destined to be equally well received and avidly awaited. 

This book puts the record straight by assembling, for the first time in a single volume, 

brief biographies of 300 of the most significant international artists of the past two 

centuries who drew political cartoons and caricatures during wartime, not only in 

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Artists from more than 30 countries - and working on both sides of the wars concerned 

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Britain. 

Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 classic war cartoons in color and black-andwhite, 

as well as portraits and self-portraits of the artists themselves, this essential 

source book also contains an introductory essay on the history of the political 

cartoonist in wartime 

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Guide to the Battle of Normandy 

Georges Bernage 

$22.50 • 8.5 x 12 • 80 pages 

highly illustrated 

978-2-84048-309-0 


Sturmartillerie, Volume 1 

Didier Laugier 

$79.95 • 8.5 x 12 • 400 pages 

photographs and documents throughout 

978-2-84048-285-7 


French Text 

Sturmartillerie, Volume 2 

Didier Laugier 

$59.95 • 8.5 x 12 • 144 pages 

photographs and documents throughout 

978-2-84048-306-9 


French Text 

After the immense success of the Guide des plages du débarquement, this 

new guide to the Normandy battlefields has been long-awaited. In this highly 

illustrated work, Georges Bernage chronicles the different phases of operations 

from June 8, 1944, to the end of the battle. 

Initially intended as a single volume edition, this work of encyclopedic proportions 

by Didier Laugier, will finally appear in a two volume series. Rich in 

both photographs and text, this first volume presents the development of 

the assault gun, its production, the various models (with sixteen pages 

of color profiles), weaponry and equipment, along with a historical description 

of most assault gun groups and brigades. 

Due to the significance of the rare documentation and photographic records, 

we have decided to publish this supplemental volume to give this work full 

attention. Volume Two will highlight other assault gun groups among which 

are those of the Waffen-SS. Also to be included are full-color presentations 

of the various uniforms, in addition to certificates and awards.

Opération Cobra 

La percée Américaine en Normandie 

(2–22 juillet 1944) 


$45 • 8.5 x 12 • 160 pages 

800 photographs and documents 

many maps and color profiles 

978-2-84048-286-4 


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Le Mur de l’Atlantique face 

au Débarquement (6 juin 1944) 


$27.95 • 8.5 x 12 • 80 pages 

full color 

978-2-84048-297-0 


French Text 

Les Vikings en Normandie 

(911–1066) 


$29.95 • 8.5 x 12 • 96 pages 

full color thoughout 

978-2-84048-305-2 


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Guillaume le Conquérant 

La Saga du Septième Duc 

Thierry Georges Leprévost 

$43 • 8.5 x 12 • 130 pages 

978-2-84048-310-6 


French Text 

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Well known author George Bernage presents the difficult and challenging battles 

lead by the US Army south of the Cotentin Peninsula, from July 2 to July 15, 1944. 

Forced to fight in the marshes, and suffering initial losses during their confrontation 

of the determined Germans, Bernage describes the resulting preparation of Operation 

Cobra which resulted in the carpet bombing of July 25 and 26, 1944, and the 

decisive breach all the way to Coutances and Avranches. Opération Cobra includes 

over 800 photographs and documents in addition to many maps and color profiles. 

Here is the most up-to-date guide, in full color, describing the history of the Atlantic 

Wall which the July 6, 1944, landing was forced to confront. From the battery at 

Merville to that of Saint-Marcouf, Georges Bernage provides a detailed overview of 

the Wall and those who occupied the positions. This is an indispensable guide for 

anyone wishing to gain a more in-depth understanding of a critical D-Day obstacle. 

This outstanding work presents a complete study of the Vikings and their culture. 

Through brilliant illustrations and photographs we will learn about their civilization, 

their boats, and the various artistic styles unique to each period. In addition, George 

Bernage provides an overview of the types of swords used and a historical perspective 

of the Viking raids in Normandy, from their first establishment in 911, the first 

dukes, and the Scandinavian vestiges in Normandy until the English invasion in 1066. 

Embellished with a wide variety of illustrations, and based on documents and monuments 

from the period, this innovative biography focuses on the chronicles of the 

11th and 12th centuries. Through his sharp and accessible narration, the author 

recounts a saga that places the reader in the very heart of the character, all while 

remaining loyal to the reality of the facts. 

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Operation Dingo 

Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio 

and Tembué 1977 

Dr J.R.T. Wood 

$29.95 • 8 x 11.75 • 80 pages 

8 pages color photos 

many b/w photos, maps 

978-1-907677-36-6 

paperback • November 2011 

Battle for Cassinga 

South Africa’s Controversial 

Cross-Border Raid, Angola 1978 

Mike McWilliams 

$29.95 • 8 x 11.75 • 80 pages 



978-1-907677-39-7 

paperback • December 2011 

Selous Scouts 

Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency 

Specialists 

Chris Cocks 

Dennis Croukamp 

$29.95 • 8 x 11.75 • 80 pages 



978-1-907677-38-0 


France in Centrafrique 

From Bokassa and Operation 

Barracude to the Days of EUFOR 

Erwan de Cherisey 

$29.95 • 8 x 11.75 • 80 pages 



978-1-907677-37-3 


On 23 November 1977, the Rhodesian Air Force and 184 SAS and RLI paratroopers 

attacked 10,000 ZANLA cadres based at ‘New Farm’, Chimoio, 90 kilometers inside 

Mozambique. Two days later, the same force attacked 4,000 guerrillas at Tembué, 

another ZANLA base, over 200 kilometers inside Mozambique, north of Tete on 

the Zambezi River. Estimates of ZANLA losses vary wildly; however, a figure exceeding 

6,000 casualties is realistic. The Rhodesians suffered two dead, eight wounded 

and lost one aircraft. It would produce the biggest SAS-led external battle of the 

Rhodesian bush war. 

Battle for Cassinga is written as a first-hand account by an ordinary South African 

paratrooper who was at the 1978 assault on the Angolan headquarters of PLAN, 

the armed wing of SWAPO. The book relates why the South African government 

took the political risk in attacking the fortress in an external operation and examines 

the SWAPO claims that Cassinga was a refugee camp guarded by a few PLAN 

soldiers. It also explains why Sam Nujoma the SWAPO leader had no option but to 

perpetuate this falsehood. 

Battle for Cassinga looks at all the players in a critical light. SWAPO and PLAN, the 

SADF and the commanders from both sides, Dimo Amaambo of PLAN and Jan 

Breytenbach of the SADF as well as the brave soldiers from both sides who fought 

for their political ideologies but perhaps, more importantly, for their own band 

of brothers. 

Formed in 1973 by the legendary Lieutenant-Colonel Ron Reid-Daly at the behest 

of Rhodesian military supremo General Peter Walls, the Selous Scouts were to write 

their name into the annals of military history as one of the finest counterinsurgency 

units of all time, through their innovative pseudo-guerrilla tactics, brilliant reconnaissance 

operations into Zambia and Botswana and daring flying-column raids into 

Mozambique. Feared and hated by the liberation movements ZIPRA and ZANLA, 

the Scouts wreaked untold havoc and destruction on their Soviet- and Chinesebacked 

enemies, accounting for 68% of guerrilla casualties within Rhodesia alone 

during the bitter bush war of the 1970s. Uniquely ahead of its time, the regiment-a 

brotherhood of men that traversed cultural and racial barriers; their Shona motto 

was ‘Pamwe Chete’ (together only)-was to produce the type of soldier that earned 

for the unit one Grand Cross of Valour, nine Silver Crosses and 22 Bronze Crosses 

of Rhodesia. 

France in Centrafrique explores the pre- and post-colonial history of the Republic of 

Central Africa as well as giving the reader a taste of the country’s involvement in 

WWII itself. The main focus of this volume is on Central Africa’s independence and 

the rise to power of Jean Bedel Bokassa including the Focard network and 

Françafrique connections, France’s military links with RCA (defense agreements), 

the republic’s post independence military, its politics and Bokassa’s coup. To bring 

the reader up to speed with the RCA de Cherisey discusses the years after Bokassa, 

a new political rule, the effects on the army and the relationship with France all the 

way to Operation Almandin I, II and III.This book concludes with a look at Operation 

Boali, Bozizé’s coup and the international fall-out in terms of further intervention 

both from France and the EUFOR.

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 56 pages 

24 b/w photos 

diagrams, maps 

978-1-907677-47-2 


$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 672 pages 

64 b/w photos 

978-1-907677-44-1 


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Stalin’s Falcons Resurgent 

Soviet Air Power and 

the Battle of Kursk 1943 

Mark A. O’Neill 

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 

50 photos, 15 color maps 

978-1-907677-45-8 


Panthers to the Front! 

The Diary of a Panther Tank Gunner in 

Panzer Regiment Brandenburg (Panzergrenadier 

Regiment Brandenburg), Eastern 

Front February–April 1945 

Eduard Bodenmüller 

A. Stephan Hamilton 

This is the war diary of Unteroffizier Eduard 

Bodenmüller, who served in the 4th Company 

of Panzer Regiment Brandenburg, part of Panzergrenadier 

Division Brandenburg, and covers 

the period February-April 1945 on the Eastern 

Front. His diary entries are concise yet also provide 

a lot of information which more extensive 

memoirs omit. 

The Diaries of Ronald Tritton, 

War Office Publicity Officer, 1940–45 

Fred McGlade (ed.) 

The diary kept by Ronald Edward Tritton is a 

revealing and often frank record of the internal 

conflicts at the Public Relations Department of 

the War Office and the Ministry of Information 

during the Second World War. Ronald Tritton 

was recruited in 1940 for the position of War 

Office Publicity Officer by Major-General Beith, 

Director of Public Relations at the War Office, 

to transform the dysfunctional department. 

This book describes the impact of Soviet air power on the battles in and around 

the Kursk bulge during the summer and fall of 1943. Soviet fighter, ground-attack 

and bomber pilots contributed dramatically to the success of both the defensive 

and offensive phases of the Battle of Kursk and the subsequent drive to the Dnepr. 

While Soviet pilots were still dramatically short on training and other resources, they 

would increase in combat effectiveness for the rest of the Great Patriotic War, while 

their opponents would continue to lose combat effectiveness. 

Stalin’s Falcon’s Resurgent utilizes previously unavailable contemporary Soviet documents 

to gain a clearer idea of how the Soviet Air Force (or VVS) gained air superiority 

over the Luftwaffe during the summer offensive of 1943, besides drawing on German 

unit histories from many of the ground units that participated in the battle. 

$99.95 • 8.75 x 12 

464 pages 

750 b/w & 86 color photos 

978-1-907677-43-4 


$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 424 pages 

115 b/w photos, 8 pages 

color maps, 2 b/w maps 

978-1-907677-22-9 


Mrs Adolf Hitler 

The Eva Braun Photograph 

Albums 1912–45 

Blaine Taylor 

This is the strange-but-true saga of her life, richly 

illustrated from her own personal photograph 

albums, as well as from other captured German 

archives.This fascinating, gripping, and tragic 

story of a pretty, well-liked, middle-class shop 

girl is of a life mainly lived in the iron shadow 

of history. 

Tunisian Tales 

The 1st Parachute Brigade 

in North Africa 1942–43 

Niall Cherry 

Tunisian Tales covers the raising of the Brigade 

in 1941 and training in the UK before their 

transfer to the Mediterranean theater of 

operations. It also covers the three airborne 

operations carried out by the Brigade there in 

great detail. The book is complemented by over 

100 photos many never published before, several 

maps and coverage of the Airborne Medical 

Services in the area. 

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Jet Age Man 

SAC B-47 and B-52 Operations 

in the Early Cold War 

Lt Col USAF (Ret.) Earl J. McGill 

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages 

50 b/w photos, illustrations & diagrams 

16 color photos 

978-1-907677-46-5 


Bullets, Bombs & Cups of Tea 

Further Voices of the British Army in 

Northern Ireland 1969-98 

Ken Wharton 

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 536 pages 

120 b/w photos, maps 

978-1-907677-06-9 


On the Prussian Infantry 1869 

Capt Theodor May 

$29.95 • 5.75 x 9 • 80 pages 


978-1-906033-59-0 

paperback • January 2012 

The events in Jet Age Man took place during the early Cold War, an era that 

will go down as a period when civilization teetered on the edge of the abyss. 

To some, nuclear deterrence appeared as utter madness, and was in fact 

commonly referred to as M.A.D. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction 

provoked protests and marches, and the architect of M.A.D, General 

Curtis LeMay, became a symbol of madness himself. 

Raised during those turbulent times, most contemporary historians conclude 

that we were lucky to have survived. What they fail to recognize is that for 

LeMay and the thousands of Cold War warriors who fought and won while 

serving in the Strategic Air Command, the proof of concept lies not in the 

“what if?” but in the reality, “what did.” Historically, M.A.D. succeeded where 

appeasement, diplomacy and even hot wars failed. When The Wall came 

down, strength, not weakness, had prevailed. 

Most of this story takes place in the Cold War trenches of the Strategic Air 

Command. It is about those who served and the many who died, told by 

someone who, as a young man, literally held the fate of all mankind within 

reach of a switch. 

This is Ken Wharton’s second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles 

told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier. This book looks 

deeper into the conflict, utilizing stories from new contributors providing 

revealing and long-forgotten stories of the troubles from the back streets of 

the Ardoyne to the bandit country of South Armagh. Ken Wharton - himself 

a former soldier - is now known and trusted by those who served and they 

are keen for their part in Britain’s forgotten war to now be made public. For 

the first time, he tells the stories of the ‘unseen victims’ - the loved ones who 

sat and dreaded a knock at the door from the Army telling them that their 

loved one had been killed on the streets of Northern Ireland. There are more 

first hand accounts from the Rifleman, the Private, the Guardsman, the Driver, 

the Sapper, the Fusilier on the street as they recall the violence, the insults 

and the shock of seeing a comrade dying in the street in front of them. Building 

on the huge success of Ken’s first book, this second volume will provide 

plenty of new material for the reader to reconsider afresh the role of Britain’s 

soldiers in Northern Ireland. 

On the Prussian Infantry 1869 is the second of two controversial titles penned 

by a Prussian infantry officer, Captain Theodor May, that challenged the Prussian 

military establishment in the wake of the Campaign against Austria in 

1866. In 2006 Helion reprinted the author’s first title, The Prussian Campaign 

of 1866, a Tactical Retrospect. In 2009, Helion reprinted Moltke’s official reply, 

A Reply to the Prussian Campaign of 1866. 

This particular title focuses on the tactical formations employed by the Prussian 

infantry during 1866, including the company column, the deployed line 

and skirmishing formations, and suggests revisions to them. This edition 

features a comprehensive new introduction by Duncan Rogers that surveys 

the controversy triggered by May’s writings and sets them in the context of 

contemporary military literature.

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New Encyclopedia of Modern 

Main Battle Tanks 

Marc Chassillan 

$55 • 9 x 12.25 • 176 pages 

978-2-35250-177-0 


Main Battle Infantry Vehicles 

Youri Obraztsov 

$27.95 • 8.25 x 9.75 • 128 pages 


978-2-35250-189-3 


French/English Text 

1973–2010 The Story 

of Matchbox Kits 

Jean-Christophe Carbonel 

$19.95 • 8 x 9.5 • 84 pages 


978-2-35250-188-6 


This new work dedicated to contemporary combat tanks will be appearing 

in two volumes. Volume one introduces about one dozen tanks from four 

countries: France, USA, Japan, and Germany. Among them the reader will find 

the famous US Abrams, the well known French Leclerc and its German equivalent 

the Leopard. 

Marc Chassillan provides a detailed analysis of each tank, including plans, supporting 

profiles, and action shots. In addition, there are technical chapters on 

the machinery, exterior armor, the sight, and weaponry. This is truly the Bible 

for those who are passionate about of modern tanks. 

Marc Chassillan is an international specialist of combat tanks. Trained as an 

engineer, Chassillan has participated in the development of the Leclerc tank 

and has written numerous articles in the journal RAIDS. 

This book regroups, for the first time, all tracked IFVs from the world over 

and their many modernizations and modifications along with a timetable 

showing the dates that they were put into service. Enriched with more than 

350 photos, methodic and bilingual, it reveals the history of each vehicle along 

with precise dates presenting the capacities and technical characteristics for 

each and every model. Dimensions are indicated in a practical and visual manner. 

This handbook allows the precise identification of a tracked vehicle from 

an image, even partial. A series of four tests will allow you to evaluate your 

current level and improve your knowledge on the matter. Regrouping all these 

qualities, this manual is an indispensable tool for the armed forces and everyone 

that has a passion for armored vehicles and military history. 

This publication is the second volume in a series of books on military material, 

the first volume of which is entitled Main Battle Tanks. 

Who can ever forget the aircraft kits with the multicolored plastic parts? 

Unlike other makes, Matchbox just didn’t suddenly appear one day on the 

plastic scale models scene. Matchbox came from the well-known range of 

die-cast vehicles of the same name. 

The Lesney company which used the brand name “Matchbox” was founded 

in 1953 by Mr Leslie Smith (who remained on the board of the company 

throughout his career – he died in 2005) and Mr Rodney Smith. It was this 

company that thought up these little “pocket money” vehicles and the ingenious 

packaging which gave them their name. 

The name came from the box which was the shape, size and color of a match 

box. The firm brought out scale models of planes, tanks, boats, motorbikes 

and cars but also little soldiers which all brightened the childhood days of 

today’s forty-year olds… This book retraces the forty glorious years of a firm, 

of a brand of kits intended for beginners just as much as it was for the most 

demanding buffs. 

More than just a kit, a state of mind. 

Jean-Christophe Carbonel is a world renowned specialist of French model 

kits. His 20-years of experience with the European and Japanese model kit 

markets has enabled him to deal in depth with the French “model craze.” 

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French Cuirassiers, 1801–1815 

André Jouineau 

Jean-Marie Mongin 

$19.95 • 8 x 9.5 • 80 pages 

978-2-35250-126-8 


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French Army 1940 

$19.95 • 8 x 9.5 • 64 pages 

978-2-35250-179-4 • paperback 

Alésia, 52 BC 

The Victory of Roman Organization 

Frédéric Bey 

$19.95 • 8 x 9.5 • 80 pages 

illustrations 

978-2-35250-123-7 


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Hungary 1944 –1945 

$19.95 • 8 x 9.5 • 80 pages 

978-2-35250-155-8 • paperback 

The fourteenth work in the “Officers and Soldiers” collection is dedicated 

to the French Cuirassiers from the Consulate to the Second Restoration. 

Dating back to the Heavy Cavalry of the Ancient Régime, the first Cuirassier 

regiments were really created in France in 1801 during the Consulate. This 

new type of cavalry turned out to be one of the essential arms of Napoleon’s 

tactics. 

First twelve, then fourteen regiments were created to constitute the shock 

troops of the Napoleonic Wars, together with the two regiments of Carabiniers 

already formed. For more than ten years, they took part in all 

Napoleon’s campaigns: from Austerlitz on 2 December 1805 to Waterloo 

on 18 June 1815 and from the valleys of Spain to the distant Russian steppes. 

André Jouineau, figurines maker and collector, has worked with Histoire & 

Collections for more than 18 years. His uniforms plates, which have been 

fully carried out using data processing, have made him a pioneer in this field. 

Jean-Marie Mongin, previous chief editor of Uniformes and Tradition Magazine, 

puts all his knowledge of military history into these drawing texts 

and captions. 

The Romans had been at odds with the “Gauls” for a very long time. Somewhere 

between 390 and 386 BC, a Senoni warchief called Brennus managed 

to capture Rome and ransom the city with his famous Vae Victis. The Urbs 

was then a city whose authority was only relative. Nonetheless, the sack of 

Latium’s capital, highlighted by Livy in his History of Rome, helped to forge a 

centuries-old loathing between the Romans, ashamed of being forced to 

capitulate to Brennus, and the Gauls, insolently proud of their triumph. 

The next step was part of the competition between the “Great Powers” of 

the period. Independent Gaul was implicated in the global expansionist 

process of Roman might, which took place throughout the whole of the 

Mediterranean basin. Finally more pragmatically, Gaul merely became a 

political pawn in the hands of the triumvirs Pompey, Crassus and Caesar after 

they took over control of the Republic at the end of its decline, from the 60s 

BC onwards. 

It was therefore as a victim of what was at stake quite outside its control that 

Gaul so dramatically became part of Julius Caesar’s political strategy. Alésia 

was the final manifestation of this deep mistrust between the two peoples. 

Frédéric Bey is a specialist of Imperial Rome and the French First Empire. He 

is the designer of many wargames published in the magazine VaeVictis, and 

has written books on famous battles such as Austerlitz and Wagram.


The Soviet Soldier, 1941–1945 

Philippe Rio 

$44.95 • 9 x 12 • 176 pages 

approximately 800 photographs 

978-2-35250-100-8 

hardback • June 2011 


German Soldiers of World War Two 

$44.95 • 9.5 x 12.5 • 160 pages 

978-2-91523-935-5 • hardback 

$34.95 • 8.25 x 9.75 • 112 pages 


978-2-35250-183-1 


Eight million Soviet soldiers died on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 

1945. However, their history, uniforms, and day-to-day plight remain mostly 

undocumented to this day. Many misconceptions prevail, most of them stemming 

from the ferocious Nazi propaganda of the time. In reality, the Soviet 

soldier proved himself a resolute and well-equipped fighter. His uniform and 

equipment improved constantly during the Great Patriotic War, despite the 

shortcomings of a war-crippled economy. 

There have been few books on the history and uniforms of the World War 

2 Soviet Army. The interested reader will find here a coherent wealth of 

information on the Red Army's organization and orders of battle, its uniforms 

and equipment, and its materials (soft skinned vehicles, AFVs, Artillery, 

Signals...). The various guises of the Soviet soldier, from Barbarossa to the fall 

of Berlin, have been reproduced in color with more than 50 studio reconstructions 

of infantrymen, artillerymen, parachutists, tankmen, women soldiers, 

marines, commissars, etc. 

A large variety of individual equipment, small arms, personal items, insignia 

and medals are illustrated in detail. The book also features hundreds of 

unpublished period photographs, many from the soldiers themselves. 

A career French Army NCO, Philippe Rio has a passion for the Red Army, 

from the 1930s to the 1950s. His vast knowledge of the subject has enabled 

him to contribute many articles to the French Militaria Magazine. 

The Clandestine Radio Operators 

Jean-Louis Perquin 

All Resistance and radio buffs have been waiting for this book, abundantly 

illustrated (300 photos 70 of which in color) and giving an exhaustive account 

of the real champions of Free France – the Allied underground radio operators 

parachuted into Occupied Territory. 

Ruthlessly pursued by the Germans, the radio operators had a life expectancy 

of six months… For the first time, the training they received in England is 

described in detail and five accounts describe how these heroes lived daily. 

Most of the radio equipment, some of which is very rare, is shown for the 

first time with color photos. The son of a Resistance worker, Jean-Louis 

Perquin has earned the friendship and the trust of the veterans and has 

drawn attention to himself by publishing articles on what Allied special agents 

wore when they were dropped into enemy occupied territory. In touch with 

a lot of historians and museum curators in the States, Great Britain, Norway 

and France, he has drawn up this first title in the “Resistance” collection with 

devotion and humility. 

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12th & 15th Air Forces 

Gérard Paloque 

$34.95 • 8.25 x 9.75 • 128 pages 

over 400 color profiles with 

approximately 50 photographs 

978-2-35250-210-4 



8Th Air Force 

$49.95 • 9 x 12 • 192 pages 

978-2-91523-982-9 • hardback 

French Aircraft, 1939–1942 

Dominique Breffort 

André Breffort 

$39.95 • 9 x 12.25 • 160 pages 

978-2-35250-197-8 



60 Years Of Aerial Warfare 

$49.95 • 9.25 x 12.5 • 164 pages 

978-2-35250-117-6 • hardback 

Created in 1942, and immediately placed under the command of General 

Doolittle, the 12th Air Force was responsible for conducting Operation Torch 

on November 8, 1942. 

The unit served with the Northwest African Air Forces from February to 

December 1943, then with the Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean 

(MAAF) until the end of the war alongside the other unit presented in this 

work: the 15th Air Force. 

Formed in November 1943, the 15th Air Force was established to operate 

in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), primarily from air fields 

located in southern Italy where they were stationed. The objectives of both 

units were to destroy all the oil refineries and aircraft factories. 

Gérard Paloque provides a well rounded overview of all those involved in 

the 12th and 15th Air Forces as well as the aircraft utilized by these two great 

units, bringing to life many of the objectives and results that have been often 

forgotten by World War II historians. 

The reader will find a chapter dedicated to the famous Tuskegee airmenóthe 

322nd Fighter Group of the 15th Air Force, the United Statesí first all-black 

air unit. 

In May 1940, contrary to preconceived ideas France possessed many aircraft, 

balancing her fleet between outdated machines, which were thus quite 

vulnerable, and truly modern aircraft, which were nonetheless too weak in 

number and suffered from many defects that new models most often incur. 

Breffort and Jouineau have joined forces again to provide a newly expanded 

edition from two volumes of the Avions & Pilotes collection under the same 

title. This complete panorama of fighter aircraft of the period extends from 

the beginning of the Second World War to the dissolution of the Vichy 

Regime’s aviation program. 

From Amiot to Potez, all the fighters, bombers, reconnaissance and observation 

aircraft utilized by the French Air Force between 1939 and 1942, 

whether they were produced in France or purchased abroad, are presented 

here in alphabetical order; an overview made complete with the presentation 

of the principle prototypes that were built but which were never made it to 

the production line due to a variety of circumstances.


Mirage 2000N 

Hervé Beaumont 

$27.95 • 7.75 x 9.5 • 112 pages 

978-2-35250-208-1 


French Text 

Matériel de l’Armée de l’Air et 

de l’Aéronavale Le Vautour 

Alain Crosnier 

$24.95 • 7.75 x 9.5 • 64 pages 

978-2-35250-207-4 


French Text 

Les Avions de la Campagne 

de France Breguet 693 

Arnaud Prudhomme 

$34.95 • 8.25 x 9.75 • 128 pages 

978-2-35250-194-7 


French Text 

Le Grand Guide 

du Maquettisme Avions 

Juan Manuel Villalba 

$59.95 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 200 pages 

978-2-35250-206-7 


French Text 

The Mirage 2000N program was launched in 1978 to accomplish intercept missions 

and medium-range air to surface nuclear attacks in order to eventually replace the 

Mirage IVP which was terminated in 1990. 

Based off of the Mirage 2000B, it is equipped with a weapons system organized 

around an Antilope radar system, enabling automatic navigation and field monitoring, 

all while maintaining its in-flight auto-defense capabilities. 

While the first models were only capable of carrying nuclear missiles, beginning with 

the 2000N-K2, the aircraft is now able to undertake conventional ground attack 

missions, with a large array of traditional bombs. The line of Mirage 2000N aircraft 

are a key element at the very heart of the French Strategic Air Command. 

Created by SNASCO (Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du sudouest, 

more commonly known as Sud-Ouest) in response to a program established 

by the French Air Force General Staff in 1951, the Vautour is a turbojet shoulderwing 

monoplane with a swept wing and flying tail. Three versions have been built 

since its inception: version A, the ground attack monoplane; B, a two-seat bomber; 

and N, a two-seat all-weather interceptor. 

After an inaugural flight in October 1952, the official delivery of the first Vautour 

was in May 1956; however, by the end of 1958, the initial order of 300 aircraft was 

reduced to 140 due to budgetary issues. Israel purchased close to thirty aircraft, 

which were utilized during the six-day war, many of which remained in service until 

1972. As for the French, certain aircraft were used in Polynesia during nuclear testing, 

where they were used to collect radioactive particles present in the air. 

Alain Crosnier, a noted specialist in military aviation, brings to light the aircraft and their 

personnel flying under the French flag. Recognized as much for his originality and the 

quality of his illustrations as for the accuracy and precision of his writing, Crosnier has 

dedicated himself to the history and illustrations of modern aviation history. 

Derived from the Breguet 690 which was built at the beginning of 1936, the Breguet 

693 had its baptism by fire in May 1940: eleven aircraft of the GBA 1/54 were 

engaged in the region of Maastricht against the Germans. Unfortunately the ground 

assault tactic utilized proved to be disastrous, rendering the aircraft particularly 

vulnerable and ten among them, decimated by the flak, never returned. 

The Breguet 693, a two-seat twin-engine bomber carrying a pilot and a machine 

gun back-to-back, was also one of the first French aircraft to be equipped with radio 

communication. 

Like many units however, the assault groups were eventually pulled out of North 

Africa, and due the German occupation, this particular model saw no other future 

developments. 

The very best specialists in the field reveal their modeling and painting techniques 

for the icons of aviation history. Specific aircraft are highlighted such as the Fokker 

D.VII and its diamond finishing, the Nieuport Ni 11 with its faux wood grain, and 

the Yak 3 with its “wave” camouflage. Also included are the F4D-1 Skyray jet and 

the MH 6 helicopter. 

In addition to the excellent assemblages, Juan Manuel Villalba provides an overview 

of various tools and paints. This work speaks to both the novice as well as to the 

advanced modeler looking to perfect his technique. 

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Vorwärts Immer, 

Rückwärts Nimmer 

An Illustrated Guide to the History and 

Fate of German Sturmartillerie in WWII, 

Volume I; The Early Years 

Thomas Anderson 

$59 • 8 x 11 • 209 pages 

250 photographs, 40 color illustrations 

1 map, tables 

978-3-9522968-9-9 



Sturmgeschütz III 

$69 • 8 x 11 • 316 pages 

978-3-9522968-4-4 • hardback 

You Up There – We Down Here 

Schoolboys Deployed as Anti-Aircraft 

Gun Assistants 

Gerhard Oberleitner 

$57 • 8 x 11 • 270 pages 

275 photographs, 2 maps, tables 

978-3-9522968-7-5 



Sturmgeschütz III 

$75 • 8 x 11 • 296 pages 

978-3-9522968-5-1 • hardback 

The Sturmartillerie was established before outbreak of WWII as an integrative 

support arm of the infantry, which was far way from thorough mobility. 

Sturmgeschuetze - assault guns - turretless tanks armed with a 7.5 cm gun - 

should push forward the attack breaking any enemy resistance, destroying 

infantry guns, MG nests and bunkers. In the further course of the war the 

young service branch would have to stand the impetus of ever growing numbers 

of enemy tanks. 

This book is the first of a series. Its purpose is to introduce this small, but 

remarkable service arm to the reader. Development and combat of of the 

first units in battery - scale and the later Sturmgeschütz battalions resp. 

brigades will be explained by photos, diagrams and colored artwork. The 

author turned his attention to the identification of Sturmartillerie units - 

markings and characteristics will be clarified wherever possible. 

During his research the author relied only on sources found in German 

archives. Subjective recollections of veterans have been used to illustrate the 

nature of this service arm. 

The author describes his experiences as a Luftwaffe Anti-Aircraft Assistant 

1944–1945: “It was simply a question of us fifteen to sixteen-year olds manning 

the anti-aircraft guns on the ground defending ourselves against the 

airmen in the bombers and fighters 20 000 feet above our heads.” Letters, 

reports, documents and above all, the author’s complete diary and photographs 

that do so much to authenticate this time capsule. He describes how 

it was in those days, the final two years of World War II – both on the ground 

and in the air, manning the guns and systems of the 7th German Anti-Aircraft 

Brigade, or on operations with the bombers of the 15th US Air Fleet - 

including insight into the lives of the schoolboy troopers “down here” and 

the bomber crews “up there”.

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Threat From China 

Bharat Verma (Ed) 

$27.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 548 pages 

978-1-93550-130-5 


Asia 2030 

The Unfolding Future 

Ajey Lele (Ed) 

$18.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 342 pages 

978-1-93550-122-0 


Indian Defence Review 

Oct–Dec 2010 


$18.95 • 9 x 12 • 188 pages 

978-8-17062-182-9 


Indian Defence Review 

Jan–Mar 2011 


$18.95 • 9 x 12 • 192 pages 

978-8-17062-214-7 


The threat from China has crept to level ‘Orange’ for the past many years and the 

creeping invasion built over decades displays great features of stealth. 

First, they invaded and forcibly occupied independent Tibet. Subsequently, to protect 

their flank in Tibet, the Chinese demand that Arunachal be part of China. Theoretically, 

even if India hands over conveniently termed Southern Tibet, they will want to 

occupy whole of Northeast to protect flanks of Arunachal. 

Indians continue to live in isolated compartments of their making without inter-linkages 

with the big picture. This compartmentalized thinking is a cultural defect that 

ensures absence of connectivity with other multiple lateral tactical pictures. These 

small pictures if sensibly stitched together create ‘whole’ which helps in formulation 

of a grand strategy. 

In this volume, Indian Defense Review with the help of its contributors provides, a 

fairly integrated picture of the multi-dimensional threat that China poses, and offers 

many fresh alternatives. 

This book is an effort to understand how the future will unfold in Asia 2030. It is 

important to examine whether Asian states will continue with the present pace of 

their economic growth or lose momentum and undo the change occurring today 

at the regional and systematic level of international politics. 

The book deals with the “Strategic Futures” in Asia, pertaining to issues of thematic 

significance, like future of aerospace-power, trends in the technological development 

of ballistic missiles defenses, and the future of the internet. It also provides a vivid 

future description on matters of geo-political significance like economics, demography, 

water resources, nuclear issues, climate change and the environment, governance, 

and state relation. 

This document is an attempt by a team of IDSA scholars to look at the past and 

present trends concerning some critical issues which will be of importance to 

determine the future. 

Armed Forces Special Powers Act: soldiers clear, but is everyone else? • H.E. Hervé 

Morin interview with Minister of Defense, France • Defense Procurement • Defense 

Procurement: a procedure sans policy • Design Considerations for Indigenous Aircraft 

Carrier-2 • Modular Design and Construction of Warships • Aerospace and 

Defense News • Developments in French Naval Industry • Bengaluru Space Expo 

2010 • Commercial evaluation is the weakest link • Shipbuilders Dilemma and the 

Way Ahead • Lengthening Malevolent Chinese Shadow • THE DELUGE: will Pakistan 

submerge or survive? • Limitations of Technical Intelligence • Women in the Indian 

Army • Specialized Force for Internal Unrests • India and the US-China Great Game 

• China: a new kind of superpower in the making • France and Nuclear Disarmament: 

between vision and realism • Police Cannot Take on Maoists • Meeting Maoist 

challenge • Water Availability in Pakistan • China’s arms sales to Pakistan unsettling 

south Asian security • Countering Sino-Pak Axis • Countering Kayani Doctrine • 

Internal Security and the Military • India’s national security: emerging trends 

2011—2014: the danger from China • Article 370: The Untold Story • India As A 

Defense Manufacturing Hub • US Aerospace Industry And Aero India 2011 • 

Achieving Partnership And Growth • Modernization Of India’s Military Aviation 

• India And The European Aerospace Industry • Israel And Aero India 2011 • 

Unmanned Vehicles And Modern Day Combat • Aerospace And Defense News 

• The Silent Use Of Hard Power • President Medvedev’s Visit • Balancing Of Terror: 

Script Going Awry • The War Of 1962: Why The IAF Was Not Used • Central Police 

Organizations: Training For Anti-Maoist Operations • Career In The Military: Imperatives 

Of Attracting Right Material • Pakistan’s ‘Strategic Depth’ In Afghanistan • Will 

Pakistan Implode? • If Pakistan Splinters… • The War Of 1962: Herderson Brooks- 

Bhagat Report • One Rank One Pension: An Obligation To Be Fulfilled • Trends In 

China’s South Asia Policy Appraising Wen Jiabao’s 2010 Visit • India’s Role In The 

New World Order • Leaders And Managers For Armed Forces • The Making Of 

The Pakistani Bomb 

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$27 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 

100+ b/w photos 

16 color profiles 

978-83-61421-43-6 


$25 • 8.25 x 11.75 

144 pages 

250 b/w photos, 32 color 

profiles and detail photos 

978-83-61421-42-9 


The ANZACs 

Classic Warbird Series No. 12 

Malcolm Laird 

Steve Mackenzie 

$22 • 7 x 10 • 72 pages 

100+ b/w photos, 27 color profiles 

978-0-9864653-0-7 

paperback • April 2011 

311 Squadron RAF 

Pavel Vancata 

History of the successful Czechoslovak bomber 

squadron in the RAF during WW2. 

No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Bomber Squadron was 

established as the second Czechoslovak combat 

squadron within the Royal Air Force during the 

summer of 1940, and became the only wholly 

Czechoslovak bomber squadron in the RAF. 

The book contains: Superb color illustrations of 

camouflage and markings, rare black and white 

archive photographs. 

Victory Air Displays 

Prague 1946 & ‘47 

Pavel Kloucek 

Bohumil Kudlicka 

Pictorial history of the two “Victory Air Displays” 

in Prague, Czechoslovakia after WW2. 

They included aircraft from Allied counties such 

as the USA, UK and France, with many WW2 

aircraft. The range of aircraft on display included 

the P-51D Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-17, 

B-29, A-26B Invader, F-80A Shooting Star, Spitfire, 

Meteor Mk. IV, Vampire, Lincoln, Anson and 

Avro York. 

An updated and extended version of the now out-of-print CW volume on ANZAC 

Spitfire pilots, this new book in the highly acclaimed “Classic Warbirds” series tells 

the stories of ten Australian and New Zealand pilots in WW2, flying Spitfires and 

Hurricanes based in Britain, the Middle East and the CBI theater. Based on interviews 

with the pilots and their written memoirs, this is a fascinating look at the personalities 

inside the fighter planes. Profusely illustrated with photos (many from the pilots’ own 

collections) and Malcolm Laird’s superb artwork, this is essential reading for students 

of WW2 air warfare, enthusiasts, and modelers. 

Malcolm Laird has been producing books, decal sheets and model kits for many 

years, and his “Ventura” products are highly regarded all over the world. Co-author 

Steve Mackenzie is an aviation historian. 

$59 • 8.25 x 11.75 

160 pages 


12 color profiles 

978-83-89450-82-1 


$69 • 7 x 10 • 200 pages 


100+ color profiles 

and detail photos 

40+ scale plans 

cuteway 

978-83-61421-41-2 


Wings on Windermere 

The History of the Lake District’s 

Forgotten Flying Boat Factory 

Allan King 

In the early ‘40s a factory was built from scratch 

to produce Short Sunderlands, along with a 

complete village to house the workers. The fascinating 

story of this forgotten factory is told in 

this book, alongside the history of the big ‘planes 

built there, which served with the RAF and 

other air arms until the 1950s. 

Japanese Experimental Transport 

Aircraft of the Pacific War 

Giuseppe Picarella 

Information in English on Japanese WW2 transport 

aircraft is hard to find, and in this book the 

story of the Japanese experimental transport 

designs is told in great detail. The context is 

explained, with information on the low priority 

given to transport aircraft and the disastrous 

implications of that neglect for the Japanese war 

effort. Fully illustrated with many rare photos 

and excellent artwork.

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt 

“Bubbletop” 

Robert Peczkowski 

$27 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 


64 pages in color with profiles 


1/72, 1/48 & 1/32 scale 

978-83-61421-27-6 

paperback • March 2011 

North American A-36A Apache 

Przemyslaw Skulski 

$27 • 7 x 10 • 160 pages 


200+ color photos 

32 color profiles, scale drawings 

978-83-61421-45-0 


Bell P-39 Airacobra 

Robert Peczkowski 

$27 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 

40 b/w photos 

80 pages in color with profiles 



1/72, 1/48 & 1/32 scale 

978-83-61421-28-3 


EX USAAF Aircraft 1945 

Polish Wings No 5 

Andrzej Morgala 

$25 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 80 pages 

978-83-61421-11-5 


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The book covers the technical history of the late production P-47 Thunderbolts, 

with the “bubbletop” canopy. From the P-47D-25-RE through to the final P-47N, 

the changes in the various production series are described and illustrated, with 1/72, 

1/48 and 1/32 scale line drawings and many photos. There are about 30 black and 

white wartime photos, including walk around photos of P-47s in 10 different museums 

around the world and shots of restored planes in private hands still flown today. 

At the rear of the book are color illustrations of P-47s in profile (23) and 12 twoviews 

(showing wing tops and fuselage sides). These show the markings of almost 

every air force that ever flew the P-47D and N: Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, 

Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Iran, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Portugal, Taiwan, 

Turkey, USSR, USA, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. 

The initial version of the famous P-51 Mustang to go into USAAF service was the 

dedicated fighter-bomber variant, the A-36A “Apache”. This book describes and 

illustrates the design and development of this version of the most famous American 

WWII fighter. 

It contains: Scale plans, photos and drawings from technical manuals, superb color 

illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare black and white archive photographs, 

and color photos of the preserved aircraft. It is essential reading for aviation enthusiasts 

and scale aeromodelers. 

Designed as an interceptor, when the Bell P-39 Airacobra appeared in 1941 it was 

acclaimed as one of the most advanced combat planes of the time. Elegantly 

designed and innovatively engineered (it featured the engine mid-aircraft like a racing 

car), it experienced mixed operational fortunes but was especially successful in the 

Soviet Air Force. This book is a full technical history of this important but neglected 

fighter of World War Two. It presents scale plans of all versions, many detailed photographs 

of surviving aircraft, full color illustrations of the aircraft in the different 

liveries of its many users: USAAF, RAF, Soviet, French, Italian and others, in total more 

than 50 color profiles. 

This addition to the Polish Wings series describes and illustrates all the former 

USAAF aircraft used by the Polish Air Force after World War II. As with all the titles 

in this series, specially commissioned artwork depicts the color schemes and markings 

of the aircraft deployed. 

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Into the Vally 

The Valentine Tank and Derivatives 

1938 –1960 

Dick Taylor 

$39 • 7 x 10 • 180 pages 


40+ color profiles 



978-83-61421-36-8 


Warpaint, Vol 3 

British Army Vehicle Colours 

and Markings 1903–2003 

Richard Taylor 

$45 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 160 pages 

978-83-61421-23-8 

paperback • May 2011 

Austro-Hungarian Submarines 

in WWI 

The Valentine was unusual, as unlike most British tanks to see service during 

WW2 it began life as a private venture. That is, it was not designed to a 

General Staff (GS) specification, but came off the drawing-board with the 

intention of exciting enough interest within the military establishment to 

secure an order. 

The Valentine had the highest production numbers of any wartime British 

tank, and arguably the most variations. A total of 8000+ Valentines were produced 

in no fewer than 11 variants. The Valentine tank received its baptism 

of fire with the British 8th Army in Operation Crusader in North Africa during 

July 1941, representing just the beginning of a long career, as they would 

eventually take part in combat in both the European and Pacific Theaters. 

After the war, Valentines served in several armies as late as 1960. Valentines 

also saw action with the armed forces of Canada, the Soviet Union, Poland, 

Australia, and New Zealand. 

Book contents: Development, Technical Description, Marks Descriptions, 

Operational Use, Colors and Markings, Variants, Survivors. 

Author Dick Taylor is a serving British Army officer with wide experience of 

tank operations, and a history degree. He has written many popular books 

on British tanks, and has drawn on official and private sources to produce 

this comprehensive book. 

This book, volume three in a series of four, describes and illustrates post 

WW2 camouflage and markings as follows: 

Chapter 1: Paint and Camouflage post WW2 

Chapter 2: Arm of Service Markings 

Chapter 3: Formation Signs 

The book is profusely illustrated with photos, color profiles, and detail drawings. 

It describes in detail the official paint schemes, the variations often seen 

in practice, and the individual and unit markings applied to tanks, armored 

cars, trucks and smaller vehicles, and towed guns. The series will prove invaluable 

for military enthusiasts and modelers, as it makes sense of a very 

confusing topic! 

Jirí Novák Austrian submarines of World War I were known as “U-boot”, an abbreviation 

of Unterseeboot. This book details the history of the development and 

$45 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 180 pages 

operational use by the Austro-Hungarian navy of submarines in WWI. German 

use of submarines in WW1 is well known – this is the fascinating and 


little-known history of their major ally’s activities in undersea warfare. 

scale drawings 

978-83-61421-44-3 


Contains descriptions and specifications of all the boats involved. Profusely 

illustrated with scale drawings and many rare photos.

He Who Dared and Died 

The Life and Death of a SAS Original, 

Sergeant Chris O’Dowd, MM 

Gearoid O’Dowd 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 

16 pages b/w plates 

978-1-84884-541-1 


SAS in Tuscany, 1943 – 45 

Brian Lett 

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$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

16 b/w plates 

978-1-84884-446-9 


SAS Trooper 

Charlie Radford’s Operations 

in Enemy-Occupied France and Italy 

Francis MacKay 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 


978-1-84884-399-8 


Brought up in poverty in the West of Ireland, Chris O’Dowd ran away to 

join the Irish Guards aged 18. In no time he tasted bitter action in Norway 

but hungry for more he volunteered for the newly formed Commandos. 

After intensive training he sailed for Egypt, serving with Churchill’s son 

Randolph, novelist Evelyn Waugh and, most significantly, David Stirling. 

When Stirling got the go-ahead to form the SAS, his handpicked team 

included the young Chris O’Dowd. After his part in the early SAS behindthe-lines 

raids on enemy airfield, O’Dowd was promoted to Lance-Sergeant 

and awarded the Military Medal. 

When Colonel David Stirling was captured, the SAS’s future was in danger 

(it was always threatened by enemies within the Army) but Ulsterman Major 

Paddy Mayne managed to keep it alive. O’Dowd’s courage and toughness 

typified the spirit of the SAS and he became a key member of this elite band. 

The SAS spearheaded the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and then was ordered 

to the Italian mainland. Tragically Chris O’Dowd was killed in action along 

with fourteen others in October 1943. 

While always dangerous and daring SAS operations are by no means invariably 

successful and when they go wrong, they do so very badly. 

The first of the three, SPEEDWELL 2 saw six men drop blind into Northern 

Tuscany on 8 September 1943, by chance the day of the Italian Armistice. 

But with no radios or air/ground support their courageous three week 

operation ended in disaster; four were captured and executed and only one 

got out. 

The second and third operations, GALIA (winter 44/45) and BLIMEY (April 

1945), provided contrasting results. GALIA, 34 men led by Captain Walkerbrown, 

tied up many thousands of enemy troops for nearly two months 

under extreme winter conditions – an extraordinary achievement, thanks in 

measure to cooperation with an SOE mission led by Major Gordon Lett, the 

author’s father. BLIMEY sadly achieved little and the reasons for the success 

and failure of these two operations are carefully analyzed. 

This book adds valuable new information on SAS operations in WW2. 

A pre-war Sapper, Charlie Radford served in North Africa until he returned 

to the UK for parachute training. He volunteered and joined 2 SAS in Scotland. 

His first operation was in France (Op RUPERT) cutting railway lines and 

he then took park in Operation LOYTON, now in armed jeeps. His next 

assignment (Operation ZOMBIE) involved parachuting into the Italian 

Dolomites to disrupt the vital German link North of Verona between Italy 

and Austria. 

This operation ended in failure due to foolhardy leadership, inadequate manning 

and poor preparation. His OC was captured, tortured and executed but 

Charlie escaped to live with the Partisans before being repatriated to the 

UK. After the war he returned to France to help with the exhumation and 

reburial of SAS men executed in the Vosges mountains. Post-war he served 

in Kenya and Somaliland and briefly recounts his experiences. 

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Code Wars 

How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ 

Led to Allied Victory 

John Jackson 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-510-7 


Code Name MULBERRY 

The Planning Building and Operation 

of the Normandy Harbours 

Guy Hartcup 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 

978-1-84884-558-9 


War of the White Death 

Finland Against the Soviet Union 

1939– 40 

Bair Irincheev 

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-166-6 


When the top secret code breaking activities at Bletchley Park were revealed 

in the 1970s, much of the history of the Second World War had to be rewritten. 

Code Wars examines the role of ULTRA (the intelligence derived from 

breaking secret enemy signals) on major events of the Second World War. It 

examines how it influenced the outcome of key battles such as D-Day, El 

Alamein, Crete, key naval battles, the controversy surrounding Churchill and 

Coventry, the shadowing of Hitler’s V1 pilotless aircraft and the V2 rocket. 

The book also examines the pioneering work in breaking Enigma by the Polish 

cryptographers, and the building of Colossus, the world’s first digital, programmable 

computer, which helped unravel the secret orders of Hitler and 

the German High Command. It also tells the story of the American successes 

in breaking Japanese signals, known as Magic. 

It also stresses the vital role of the intercept stations which took down the 

enemy messages, providing the raw material for the cryptographers to break. 

The book shows how the code breakers were able to shorten the war by 

as much as two years and bring Signals Intelligence, in the post-war years, 

into a new era of military intelligence gathering. 

Allied leaders and military planners realized early in preparations for the 

invasion of NW Europe that the massive forces required to defeat Hitler’s 

armies needed constant resupply of men, equipment, ammunition, fuel and 

other materials. These would have to come in by sea but it was known that 

the Germans would not only defend the few major ports but destroy them 

before withdrawing. 

The drastic answer was to build two artificial harbors. This extraordinary venture 

involved the most ingenious engineering and staggering amounts of construction. 

All this was achieved in a short space of time. Under conditions of 

great secrecy, code named MULBERRY, two sites in Scotland were established. 

The book describes not just the methods used but the men who made this 

miracle possible. How these massive structures fared and the contribution 

they made is told in this fascinating book. 

On 30 November 1939 Stalin’s Red Army attacked Finland, expecting to 

crush the outnumbered, ill-equipped Finnish forces in a matter of days. But, 

in one of the most astonishing upsets in modern military history, the Finnish 

defenders broke the Red Army’s advance, inflicting devastating casualties and 

destroying some of the divisions that had been thrown against them. 

Eventually, in March 1940, the overhauled Red Army prevailed through the 

deployment of massive force. The Finns were compelled to cede territory 

and cities to their overbearing neighbor, but the moral victory was theirs. The 

courage and skill their army displayed in the face of the Soviet onslaught – 

and the chaotic and reckless performance of their opponents - had an 

important influence on the massive struggle that was about to break out 

between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. 

For this highly illustrated and original portrayal of this famously unequal struggle, 

Bair Irincheev has brought together a compelling selection of eyewitness 

accounts, war diaries, battle reports, and other records from the Finnish and 

Russian archives to reconstruct the front-line fighting, and he analyses the 

reasons for the Red Army’s poor performance. Never before has the harsh 

reality of the combat in the depths of the northern winter been conveyed 

in such authentic detail.


Hitler: Dictator or Puppet? 

Andrew Norman 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 

30 b/w pictures 

978-1-84884-523-7 



He Was My Chief 

29.95 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 272 pages 

978-1-84832-536-4 • hardback 

The Last Nazis 

The Hunt for Hitler’s Henchmen 

Mark Felton 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-286-1 


ALSO BY THIS AUTHOR: 

21st Century Courage 

$39.95 • 6 x 9.25 • 208 pages 

978-1-84884-073-7 • hardback 

Written by an authority on Adolf Hitler, this book charts new ground and 

shows how the writings of a deluded ex-monk, Lanz von Liebenfels and the 

pseudo-science of Liebenfels and other writers convinced Hitler that Germany’s 

destiny was to save the world from a Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy. It 

was this perverted sense of destiny that drove the Nazi Party and led to the 

outbreak of the Second World War and the deaths of some sixty million 

people as well as the destruction of much of Europe. Using the writings of 

Liebenfels from his magazine Ostara, Dr Andrew Norman demonstrates how 

the mass murders of Jews, Gypsies, mentally-ill people and those regarded 

as less than human had its roots in articles written by Liebenfels. An index of 

Ostara articles is included and their very titles indicate the malign influences 

that shaped Hitler’s Germany. 

The heinous crimes committed by the Nazis will inevitably appall mankind 

for ever. Interest in the hunt for those who have escaped justice since 1945 

is huge. A surprising number of war criminals remain alive 65 years on despite 

the on-going campaign by the Simon Weisenthal Center, who launched ‘The 

Last Chance’ campaign in 2008. Since 2001 no less than 76 legal decisions 

have been won against Nazi war criminals and collaborators, half of them in 

the USA. Yet the author reveals that there are many more alive and free today 

and their stories are no less shocking for the passage of time. 

He also covers those who died recently before trial as well as those who 

have succeeded in escaping justice or only suffered very minor punishment. 

The author spares no effort to shock the reader with his accounts of the 

appalling crimes committed by these evil men and women. 

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The Quiet Gunner at War 

El Alamein to the Rhine 

with the Scottish Divisions 

Richmond Gorle 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-540-4 


Scottish Lion on Patrol 

15th Scottish Reconnaissance 

Regiment 

W. Kemsley 

M R Riesco 

T Chamberlin 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 416 pages 

16 color and 80 b/w 

978-1-84884-569-5 


Japan’s Last Bid for Victory 

The Invasion of India, 1944 

Robert Lyman 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 

32 b/w + 10 maps 

978-1-84884-542-8 


Chindit Affair 

A Memoir of the War in Burma 

Edited by Brian Mooney 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

8 pages of b/w plates 

978-1-84884-448-3 


In 1939 Dick Gorle was already a professional soldier but stationed in India. After 

the Dunkirk disaster he was recalled and initially involved in training recruits at 

Plymouth before going north to form the Highland Division Gunners. 

We hear of the journey to Egypt and thereafter it is intense action at El Alamein 

under Monty and the long grueling advance to Tripoli. The invasion of Sicily followed 

and Gorle describes the horrors of war in the mountains and towns while the locals 

appeared almost oblivious to the momentous events unfolding around them. 

Called back to attend Staff College, Gorle rejoined the fray in North West Europe 

as his Regiment, part of the Lowland Division, alternatively received thanks and 

welcome from those liberated and fierce and deadly resistance from the retreating 

Germans. His memoir sums up the elation of victory, the closeness of comradeship 

and the desperate sadness of losses. 

Scottish Lion on Patrol was first published in 1950, the record of the 15th Scottish 

Reconnaissance Regiment’s formation, training ands service in the campaign that 

took them from Normandy to the Baltic. They played a key role in the liberation of 

Europe and the Regiment was unique in that it was in the forefront of the crossings 

of the Rivers Seine, Rhine and Elbe. The troops who landed in Normandy were 

highly trained but most of them had not experienced actual combat; however they 

very quickly learned the skills necessary to survive and defeat a cunning and 

resourceful foe. Full of eye-witness accounts, this is a true story of a real Band of 

Brothers, the original work being faithfully reproduced and significant new material 

from personal recollections which are graphic, moving and occasionally humorous. 

Robert Lyman’s deep knowledge and understanding of the war in Burma, and the 

great battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are well known. In this book he uses 

original documents, published works and personal accounts to weave together an 

enthralling account of some of the bitterest fighting of the Second World War. Not 

only does he use British sources for his research but he has also included material 

from the Naga tribes of north-east India, on whose land these battles were fought, 

and from Japanese accounts, including interviews with Japanese veterans of the fighting. 

In March 1944, some 2,200 battle trained men of 111 Brigade flew from India into 

northern Burma to land on improvised airstrips cleared from the jungle. Five months 

later, 111 Brigade was down to 118 fit men – eight British officers, a score of British 

soldiers and 90 Gurkhas. One of those eight officers was Frank Baines, and in Chindit 

Affair he tells, in vivid language and with shrewd insight, what happened. 

Frank commanded two platoons of young Gurkhas and was attached to 111 Brigade 

Headquarters, serving under John Masters, where he had a close-up view for most 

of the time. 

All the horrors of jungle warfare are here – bodies blood-sucked by leeches and 

corpses impaled by bamboo; Japanese soldiers reduced to eating human flesh; a 

court martial and execution; soldiers falling sick and dropping by the wayside, and 

being killed and wounded in action.

Merville Battery 

& The Dives Bridges 

Carl Shilleto 


$24.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 144 pages 

978-1-84884-519-0 


The Real Tenko 

Extraordinary True Stories of Women 

Prisoners of the Japanese 

Mark Felton 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages 


978-1-84884-550-3 


Air Raid Shelters 

of the Second World War 

Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz 

Stephen Wade 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 

120–150 b/w illustrations integrated 

978-1-84884-327-1 

hardback • June 2011 

Fighting Through - From Dunkirk 

to Hamburg 

A Green Howards Wartime Memoir 

Bill Cheall 

Edited by Paul Cheall 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages 


978-1-84884-474-2 


The newest volume in the popular Battleground Normandy series, Merville Battery 

& The Dives Bridges chronicles the Allied efforts to capture the battery and destroy 

the bridges across the River Dives, thereby cutting off German troops who would 

join the fighting from the East. 

Author Carl Shilleto has also written revised editions of Pegasus Bridge and Merville 

Battery and Utah Beach, both in the Battleground Normandy series. 

This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local 

women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a number of memoirs have been 

published there is no dedicated volume. It chronicles the massacres of nurses (such 

as that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore), disturbing atrocities on both European 

and Asians, and accounts of imprisonment. 

It reveals how many ended up in Japanese hands when they should have been evacuated. 

Also covered are the hardships of long marches and the sexual enslavement 

of white and native women (so called ‘Comfort Women’). 

The book is a testimony both to the callous and cruel behavior of the Japanese and 

to the courage and fortitude of those who suffered at their hands. 

This book will feature the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including 

interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The book 

will contain the different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in 

people’s gardens) and discuss the strength and weakness of their designs, using original 

designs and primary material. The nostalgia/social history of the book will cover 

people’s experiences of staying in the air raid shelters. These will be divided into 

topics to include getting to the shelters (how they reacted to the sirens or whether 

they just moved into the shelters, especially those in gardens, long-term), facilities, 

health issues, morale and safety, both real and perceived. In recent years, air raid 

shelters have been converted into different uses, including homes and the book 

will finish with a brief chapter concerning the future and preservation of these once 

vital buildings. 

When Bill Cheall joined up in April 1939, he could not have imagined the drama, 

trauma, rewards and anguish that lay in store. 

First and foremost a Green Howard, he saw the sharp end of the Nazis’ Blitzkrieg 

and was evacuated exhausted. Next step, courtesy of the Queen Mary, was North 

Africa as part of Monty’s 8th Army. After victory in Tunisia, the Sicily invasion followed. 

The Green Howards returned to England to be in the vanguard of the Normandy 

Landings on GOLD Beach (his colleague, Sergeant Major Stan Hollis won the only 

VC on 6 June and Bill Cheall was wounded). 

Once fit, Cheall returned to the war zone and finished the war as a Regimental 

Policeman in occupied Germany. 

Bill’s many and varied experiences make fascinating reading. He tells his story with 

modesty, humility and humor. 

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$50 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages 


978-1-84415-976-5 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 


978-1-84884-298-4 


Under the Devil’s Eye 

The British Military Experience 

in Macedonia 1915 –18 

Alan Wakefield 

Simon Moody 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages 


978-1-84884-461-2 


The Underground War 

Vimy Ridge to Arras 

Phillip Robinson 

Nigel Cave 

This is the first part of a planned four-volume 

series focusing on a hitherto largely neglected 

aspect of the Great War on the Western Front 

- the war underground. 

This volume looks mainly at the central Artois. 

The narrative draws on French and German 

archival material and personal descriptions. 

The text is illustrated with numerous diagrams 

and maps. 

Battle for Flanders 

German Defeat on the Lys 1918 

Chris Baker 

After the successful German offensive on the 

Somme, their breakthrough on the Lys threatened 

Ypres and the British hold on Flanders and 

brought them close to victory on the Western 

Front. Yet, as Chris Baker shows in this compelling 

account, the declining force of the 

German attack revealed deficiencies in material, 

organization and morale that led to their 

ultimate defeat. 

The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival 

of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers 

of British and allied troops were tied up in the strategically vital Balkans. Salonika 

was converted into a vast military base and over 70 miles of defensive works were 

created. 

We learn of the disappointments of the British XII Corps offensive in April/May 1917 

(The First Battle of Doiran) and the more successful aggressive raiding in the Struma 

Valley. Using first hand accounts a vivid picture of life for the British Army is painted, 

with the roles of the Royal Flying Corps/RAF and RNAS well covered. 

The campaign drew to a victorious conclusion with the defeat of the Bulgarians in 

1918 but the British Salonika Army remained in place until 1921. The effect of this 

slow demobilization are also covered. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-297-7 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

60 integrated b/w + 6 maps 

978-1-84884-537-4 


Blood and Iron 

Letters from the Western Front 

Hugh Montagu Butterworth 

Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of 

the millions of lost soldiers of the Great War, 

and the extraordinary letters he sent home 

from the Western Front have been forgotten. 

But, after more than ninety years of obscurity, 

these letters have been rediscovered, and they 

are published here in full. They are intensely 

personal and beautifully written record by an 

articulate and observant man. 

Fromelles 1916 

No Finer Courage, 

The Loss of an English Village 

Michael Senior 

In addition to a full run of The Lee Magazine, the 

author has drawn on a wide range of archive 

sources that include unpublished letters, diaries, 

memoirs and newspapers. Fromelles 1916 gives 

an unrivaled insight into the life and times of an 

English village in the First World War – a way of 

life swept away for ever by the changes ushered 

in by the conflict.

Artillery in the Great War 

Paul Strong 

Sanders Marble 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages 


978-1-84415-949-9 


Horsemen in No Man’s Land 

British Cavalry and Trench Warfare 

1914 –1918 

David Kenyon 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 


978-1-84884-364-6 


Walking the Somme 

- Second Edition 

Paul Reed 


$24.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 240 pages 

over 100 color and b/w illustrations 

978-1-84884-473-5 


Suvla: August Offensive – Gallipoli 

Stephen Chambers 

$29.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 192 pages 

120 b/w photos 

978-1-84884-543-5 


Artillery was the decisive weapon of the Great War – it dominated the battlefields. 

Yet the history of artillery during the conflict has been neglected, and its impact on 

the fighting is inadequately understood. Paul Strong and Sanders Marble, in this 

important and highly readable study, seek to balance the account. 

Their work shows that artillery was central to the tactics of the belligerent nations 

throughout the long course of the conflict, in attack and in defense. They describe, 

in vivid detail, how in theory and practice the use of artillery developed in different 

ways among the opposing armies, and they reveal how artillery men on all sides 

coped with the extraordinary challenges that confronted them on the battlefield. 

Their work will be fascinating reading for anyone who is keen to understand the 

impact of artillery on the Great War and its role in the wider history of modern 

industrialized warfare. 

On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of the industrial age, by the 

machine gun and massed artillery, the cavalry were seen as an anachronism. They 

were vulnerable to modern armaments, of little value in combat and a waste of 

scarce resources. 

At least, that is the common viewpoint. Indeed, the cavalry have been consistently 

underestimated since the first histories of the Great War were written. But, in light 

of modern research, is this the right verdict? 

David Kenyon seeks to answer this question in his thought-provoking new study. His 

conclusions challenge conventional wisdom on the subject – they should prompt a 

radical re-evaluation of the role of the horseman on the battlefields of France and 

Flanders a century ago. 

This new edition of Paul Reed’s classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling 

companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first 

published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime’s research into the battle and 

the landscape over which it was fought. 

From Gommecourt, Serre, Beaumont-Hamel and Thiepval to Montauban, High 

Wood, Delville Wood and Flers, he guides the walker across the major sites associated 

with the fighting. These are now features of the peaceful Somme countryside. 

In total there are 16 walks, including a new one tracing the operations around 

Mametz Wood, and all the original walks have been fully revised and brought up 

to date. 

Walking the Somme brings the visitor not only to the places where the armies clashed 

but to the landscape of monuments, cemeteries and villages that make the Somme 

battlefield so moving to explore. 

The landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 

6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite 

early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a mismanaged affair that 

quickly became a stalemate. 

The newly formed IX Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford, 

failed, not for lack of sacrifice of its New Army and Territorial’s, but for failure 

of generalship. Opportunities were thoughtlessly wasted due to lethargy. Suvla not 

only signaled the end of Stopford and many of his Brigadiers, but also saw the end 

of the Commander in Chief, Sir Ian Hamilton. 

This book adds to the Gallipoli story by recounting the Suvla Bay landing through a 

mix of official accounts intertwined with a rich collection of the participants’ letters, 

diaries, personal accounts, photographs and maps. 

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$50 • 6 x 9 • 360 pages 

60 b/w in plates 

978-1-84884-528-2 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

30 b/w in 

plate section 

978-1-84884-544-2 


Surviving Bomber Aircraft 

of World War Two 

A Global Guide to Location and Types 

Don Berliner 

$50 • 6.5 x 9.5 

102 color and 100 b/w photos 

978-1-84884-545-9 


Bombers over Sand and Snow 

205 Group RAF in World War II 

Alun Granfield 

The bomber squadrons in North Africa usually 

operated from Advanced Landing Grounds 

scraped out of the bare desert, with only a few 

tents for shelter.The ebb and flow of the land 

battles not only determined the activities of the 

night bombers, but also determined their location. 

This book tells their story. 

Luck of the Devil 

Flying Swordfish in WWII 

Robert le Page 

Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 

1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying 

carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action 

mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, 

escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the 

Arctic seas and covering D-Day. The author 

remembered staring down from the stalling 

aircraft to see a terror stricken fitter gazing up 

at him. Fortunately all survived. 

This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft in aviation museums throughout the 

world. Each double page spread contains a color photo of an example of the aircraft 

as viewed in an aviation museum, examples of different marks (wartime shots in 

mono) and a textual resume of the type with statistics. 

The aircraft can be viewed in the USA, UK, France, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Canada, 

Australia, Finland, Holland, Poland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and Spain. 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

60 b/w in plates per volume 

978-1-84884-492-6 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-145-1 


Bomber Command: Reflections of War 

Retaliation 1939 –1941 

Martin Bowman 

This massive work provides a comprehensive 

insight to the experiences of Bomber Command’s 

pilots and aircrew throughout World 

War Two. From the early wartime years when 

the RAF’s first attempts to avenge Germany’s 

onslaught were bedeviled, to the final winning 

onslaught that finally tamed Hitler in his Berlin 

lair, these volumes trace the true experiences 

of the men who flew the bombers. 

Ben Bennions DFC: 

Battle of Britain Fighter Ace 

Nick Thomas 

Ben Bennion enlisted in the pre-war RAF, serving 

first as an ‘erk’ before being selected for 

pilot training. His first posting led to service in 

the Middle-East and Bennion’s passport and 

other travel documents had to be rushed 

through. A clerical error led to his name being 

recorded as ‘Bennions’.

US Carrier War 

Design, Development and Operations 

Kev Darling 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages 

300 – b/w within text 

2 x 16 pages color sections 

978-1-84884-185-7 


Rising Sun 

John Toland 


$39.95 • 5 x 8 • 976 pages 

978-1-84884-525-1 


B-17 - The Fifteen Ton 

Flying Fortress 

Graham S Simons 

Harry Friedman 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

480 b/w within text 

978-1-84884-538-1 


This book covers all aspects of the operations made by US aircraft carriers 

from their introduction into service during World War One to the continuing 

conflicts in the Middle East. America's part in WW1 saw the deployment of 

US Navy aircraft operating from coastal bases- mainly Curtiss flying boats. In 

the immediate post-war period the first aircraft carriers were commissioned, 

Langley, Saratoga and Lexington. When in World War Two, the wreckage settled 

in the mud of Pearl Harbor, US Navy fighters engaged the Japanese for 

the first time at Wake Is. Japan continues its conquest of the Pacific countries 

and Islands throughout 1941. The USN then went on the offensive when two 

carriers attacked the Gilbert -Marshall Islands and the Doolittle raid against 

Japan was launched from USS Hornet. During the Battle of Coral Sea the 

US Navy achieved a significant victory. Meanwhile in the Atlantic US Carriers 

including Wasp and Ranger undertook escort duties across Atlantic. 

Post WW2 actions included the War in Korea when the US Navy deployed 

for operations covering combat on both the east and west coasts. During 

the War over Vietnam USMC and US Navy aircraft were deployed from 

carriers against targets in North and South Vietnam. Most recent carrier 

deployments include both Gulf Wars and continuing middle-eastern conflicts. 

This magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning history, told primarily from the Japanese 

viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of the Empire of the Sun from 

the invasion of Manchuria to the dropping of the atomic bombs, demolishing 

many myths surrounding this catastrophic conflict. 

Why did the dawn attack on Pearl Harbor occur? Was it inevitable? Was 

the Emperor a puppet or a warmonger? And, finally, what inspired the barbaric 

actions of those who fought, and who speak here of the unspeakable - 

murder, cannibalism and desertion? 

‘Unbelievably rich … Readable and exciting’ 

Newsweek 

‘The most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific War’ 

Chicago Sunday Times 

The Boeing B-17 was the first American heavy bomber to see action in World 

War when it was supplied to the RAF. The design originated in 1934 when 

the US Air Corps was looking for a heavy bomber to reinforce their air forces 

in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska. For its time, the design included many advanced 

features and Boeing continued to develop the aircraft as experience of the 

demands of long distance flying at high altitude was gained. When the USA 

entered WWII production of the aircraft was rapidly increased and it became 

the backbone of the USAAF in all theaters of war. This book describes 

how it was built and utilizes many hitherto unpublished photographs from 

the design studio and production lines. It illustrates and explains the many 

different roles that the aircraft took as the war progressed. Heavy bomber, 

reconnaissance, anti-submarine and air-sea rescue operations – there were 

few tasks that this solid design could not adopt. 

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$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 

978-1-84884-442-1 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-539-8 


$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 

978-1-84884-554-1 


Flying Start 

Hugh Dundas 

This is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir 

Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of 

the most distinguished fighter pilots of World 

War II. He writes of his wartime experiences, 

and particularly of his period as Squadron 

Leader and Wing Commander and his involvement 

in the Battle of Britain. 

The WAAF at War 

John Frayn Turner 

This book vividly describes the many roles 

played by members of a highly respected organization 

the WAAF. Perhaps the best known of 

these incredibly gallant girls is Noor Inayat-Khan 

GC who was executed at Dachau in 1944 but 

there were many others whose stories are told 

here.The WAAF at War is a long overdue tribute 

to the war winning contribution played by 

all its members. 

Escape, Evasion and Revenge 

Marc H. Stevens 

This is the story of a heavily conflicted young 

man, alone in a world that is in the midst of 

destruction. He is afforded an opportunity 

to help his persecuted people to obtain a 

small measure of revenge. It is at once a sad 

yet uplifting tale of thankless and unheralded 

heroism. 

$60 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 328 pages 

300 color and b/w photos 

978-1-84884-284-7 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

170 b/w within text 

978-1-84884-546-6 


$50 • 9.5 x 6.75 • 272 pages 

100 color images 

978-1-84884-223-6 


Avro Vulcan: Design and Development 

Origins, Experimental Prototypes and 

Weapon Systems 

David W. Fildes 

The Avro Vulcan was the last V Bomber to see 

active service in its primary role during the Falklands 

conflict. The book examines the origins of 

the design, the prototypes and experimental aircraft 

and goes on to explain the modifications 

that were made to the last of the breed. 

Valkyrie: The North American XB-70 

The USA’s Ill-fated Supersonic 

Heavy Bomber 

Graham M. Simons 

This book is the most detailed description of 

the design, engineering and research that went 

into this astounding aircraft. It is full of unpublished 

details, photographs and first-hand 

accounts from those closely associated with the 

project. This giant six-engined aircraft became 

famous for its breakthrough technology, and the 

spectacular images captured on a fatal air-to-air 

photo shoot. 

Military Low-Flying Aircraft 

The Men Who Fly and the Skill of 

the Photograhers that Capture Them 

Michael Leek 

This book contains first-hand accounts from the 

pilots and expert advice for the photographer, 

together with stunning close-up color photos of 

the aircraft flying at eye-level and sometimes 

below the camera. It has the full support of the 

Royal Air Force and articles by the leading photographers 

in this field.


MIG Menace Over Korea 

Nicolai Sutiagin, Top Ace Soviet 

of the Korean War 

Yuri Sutiagin 

Igor Seidov 

The authors use official records, the reminiscences 

of Sutiagin’s comrades and his wife’s diary to 

reconstruct in vivid detail the career of one of the 

great fighter pilots. 

$40 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-038-6 

hardback • February 2011 

RAF Harrier Ground Attack - Falklands 

Jerry Pook MBE, DFC 

During the Falklands war Jerry Pook, flew air interdiction, 

armed recce, close-air-support and airfield 

attack as well as pure photo-recce missions. This is 

his story. 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

978-1-84884-556-5 


Profiles of Flight - Lockheed F-104 Starfighter 

Interceptor / Strike / Reconnaissance Fighter 

Dave Windle 

Martin Bowman 

This book contains the world famous color profiles 

created by Dave Windle of the type in different 

operational modes, configurations and color 

schemes. Martin Bowman has written detailed 

descriptions and photographs. 

$39.95 • 9.5 x 6.5 • 88 pages 

30 color profiles, 1 or 2 page each 

50 b/w photos 

978-1-84884-449-0 


Kent VCs 

Roy Ingleton 

The nation holds a special place in its heart for 

winners of the Victoria Cross and this book is sure 

to inspire those who call Kent home. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages 


978-1-84884-409-4 


Naval Aviation in the Korean War 

Reflections of War - Vol1- Cover of Darkness 

Warren Thompson 

This book covers the role of US aircraft carriers 

and aircraft in stopping the North Korean initial 

push to the south and describes the stabilization 

of the front lines after 1951. 

$50 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 304 pages 

250 color and b/w illustrations 

978-1-84884-488-9 


The Malayan Emergency 

and Indonesian Confrontation 

The Commonwealth’s Wars 1948–1966 

Robert Jackson 

This is the first full study to cover the role of airpower 

in these conflicts. It will be of relevance to 

students at military colleges, and those studying 

military history. 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages 

978-1-84884-555-8 


Profiles of Flight - 

North American Mustang P-51 

Long-range Fighter 

Dave Windle 

Martin Bowman 

This book contains the world famous color profiles 

created by Dave Windle of the type in different 

operational modes, configurations and color 

schemes of the Mustang. 

$39.95 • 9.5 x 6.5 • 88 pages 

30 color profiles, 1 or 2 page each 

50 b/w photos 

978-1-84884-581-7 


Fall of Eagles 

The Evolution of Air Warfare in World War One 

Alex Revell 

Some of the pilots in these pages are well-known, 

others less so, but all shared the common experience 

of fighting in the air during the war of 

1914 –1918. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

36 b/w in plate section 

978-1-84884-527-5 


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$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 352 pages 

62 b/w in plates and 7 b/w 

maps within text 

978-1-84884-513-8 


$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages 

978-1-84884-521-3 


The Battle-cruiser HMS Renown 

1916–48 

Peter C. Smith 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

40 b/w images in plates 

978-1-84884-520-6 


Critical Conflict 

The Royal Navy’s Mediterranean 

Campaign in 1940 

Peter C. Smith 

During 1940 Churchill and the War Cabinet 

regarded safe passage for British ships in the 

Mediterranean Sea to be of paramount importance.The 

Royal Navy finally put matters to rest 

with the destruction of the French fleet in 

Toulon. However, there remained the powerful 

Italian fleet. They had to be destroyed at all 

costs. This is the story of how this was achieved 

during 1940. 

The Ohio & Malta 

The Legendary Tanker That Refused to Die 

Michael Pearson 

On entering the Mediterranean the convoy was 

subjected to prolonged ferocious air and submarine 

attacks and suffered terrific losses. 

OHIO suffered a direct hit from a torpedo, 

direct bomb hits and was struck by two Luftwaffe 

aircraft shot down while attacking her. 

She was towed into Grand Harbor by three 

destroyers and a minesweeper with her vital 

cargo virtually intact. 

This is the story of the Royal Navy battle-cruiser HMS Renown, a famous ship with 

a long and distinguished operational career. Originally built for the First World War 

she subsequently served in the post-war fleet and took royalty around the world. 

Modernized just in time for World War Two, she re-joined the fleet in September, 

1939 and for the first two years of the war her speed and heavy gun armament 

made her one of the most important ships of the fleet. She escorted the famous 

carrier Ark Royal for most of her illustrious career as flagship of Force ‘H’ in the 

Mediterranean and took part in many stirring battles and convoy actions. A host of 

fresh detail coupled with eyewitness memoirs from former crew members make 

this an outstanding warship biography. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-450-6 


$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 

16 pages b/w 

978-1-84884-552-7 


North Sea Battleground 

The War and Sea 1914 –1918 

Bryan Perrett 

This book explains in chronological order the 

major encounters between Kaiser Wilhelm II’s 

High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy. It also 

includes other important operations such as 

mine laying and sweeping, the Zeppelin Offensive, 

the bomber offensive against the UK and 

complete background operational information 

within the area. 

Cox’s Navy 

Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet 

at Scapa Flow 1924 –1931 

Tony Booth 

Cox’s Navy tells the incredible true story 

of Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap 

merchant, who, despite having no previous 

experience, led the biggest salvage operation 

in history to recover the ships. The 28,000 ton 

Hindenberg was the largest ship ever salvaged. 

Not knowing the boundaries enabled Cox to 

apply solid common sense and brilliant improvisation, 

changing forever marine salvage practice 

during peace and war.

Axis Warships 

Roy M. Stanley II 


$50 • 9.5 x 7.5 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-471-1 


The Hidden Threat 

Mines and Minesweeping in WWI 

Jim Crossley 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 168 pages 

10+ charts and diagrams 

+ 1x4 page plate 

978-1-84884-272-4 


The Battle of North Cape 

The Death Ride of 

the Scharnhorst, 1943 

Angus Konstam 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages 


978-1-84884-557-2 


Convoy SC122 and HX229 

Climax of the Battle of the Atlantic, 

March 1943 

Martin Middlebrook 

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 352 pages 


978-1-84884-478-0 


For his latest book Colonel Roy Stanley presents aerial photographs of the German 

and Italian fleets that were selected as important six decades ago and have long lain 

dormant, unindexed and unexplained. Extensive use of aerial and other Intelligence 

imagery from long retired files would be enough to make this book a must for those 

intrigued by Second World War II intelligence and naval history. But it is the author’s 

commentary that makes this work truly unique, thanks to his aerial photo interpretation 

experience, ability to provide Intelligence analysis, and academic background. 

Meticulously researched for ship identification, the eye of an experienced PI sees 

things others might miss, and the author tells us what he sees. Some of these photos 

may have appeared in contemporary documents but never with the insight presented 

in this book. Even the most devout follower of warships will learn something. 

It is not widely remembered that mines were by far the most effective weapon 

deployed against the Royal Navy in WW1. They cost them 5 battleships, 3 cruisers, 

22 destroyers, 4 submarines and a host of other vessels. They were in the main combated 

by a civilian force using fishing boats and paddle steamers recruited from 

holiday resorts. This unlikely armada saved the day for Britain and her allies. After 

1916 submarine attacks on merchant ships became an even more serious threat to 

Allied communications but submarines were far less damaging to British warships 

than mines. 

On 25 December 1943 the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst slipped out Altenfjord 

in Norway to attack Artic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to 

the Soviet Union. But British naval intelligence knew of the Scharnhorst’s mission 

before she sailed and the vulnerable convoy was protected by a large Royal Naval 

force including the battleship Duke of York. In effect the Scharnhorst was sailing 

into a trap. One of the most compelling naval dramas of the Second World War 

had begun. 

‘Angus Konstam’s book is an excellent read and strongly recommended… thoughtful 

and totally engrossing…If you are interested in the Royal Navy in the Second World 

War, the Arctic convoy campaign or capital ship actions, The Battle of the North 

Cape is well worth its cover price.’ 

Naval Review 

In Convoy, every maneuver of the merchant ships, their escort vessels, the long range 

aircraft cover, and the attacking U-boats is documented in a powerful narrative that 

will recall for many readers Nicholas Monsarrat’s best-selling novel The Cruel Sea. 

In many ways, this book could be the story of any of the hundreds of convoys that 

sailed the ocean during the war. One important chapter throws new light on three 

controversial aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic: why there was an “Air Gap” long 

after full air cover could have been provided, why the convoys had to sail with dangerously 

weak naval escorts; and how the Allied outwitted the Germans in the radio 

decoding war. 

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The Sieges of 

Alexander the Great 

Stephen English 

$39.95 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 168 pages 


978-1-84884-060-7 


Alcibiades 

Professor P J Rhodes 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 

1 x 8 pages plate section 

16 –24 b/w photos 

2 or 3 maps 

978-1-84884-069-0 


The Spartan Army 

J. F. Lazenby 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 

13 b/w pictures 

14 maps and plans 

978-1-84884-533-6 


During his spectacular career of conquest Alexander the Great attacked 

many cities and fortresses, never failing to take them. Such operations occupied 

more of his time than his famous pitched battles and were at least as 

vital in securing his vast empire. Sieges provided some of the sternest tests 

for the Macedonian army, and it is perhaps telling that Alexander received 

most of his many wounds in the shadow of enemy walls. Yet this is the first 

full-length study concentrating purely on his many dramatic sieges and his 

mastery of siege craft. 

Dr. Stephen English describes each of Alexander’s sieges, analyzing the strategy, 

tactics, and technical aspects, such as the innovative and astoundingly 

ambitious siege engines used. From the shocking destruction of Thebes, 

through the epic siege of Tyre, which Alexander found an island and left 

permanently joined to the mainland, to his final (and nearly fatal) combat at 

the town of the Malli, where he was first to storm the enemy battlements, 

we see how Alexander’s sieges helped make him great. 

Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical 

Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the 

Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant and charismatic 

this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt to stand 

up to the Spartans on land as part of an alliance he was instrumental in bringing 

together. Although this led to defeat at the Battle of Mantinea in 418 BC, 

his prestige remained high. He was also a prime mover in Athens' next big 

strategic gambit, the Sicilian Expedition of 415 BC, for which he was elected 

as one of the leaders. Shortly after arrival in Sicily, however, he was recalled 

to face charges of sacrilege allegedly committed during his pre-expedition 

reveling. 

Alcibiades soon ingratiated himself with the Spartans, encouraging them to 

aid the Sicilians and to keep year-round pressure on the Athenians. He then 

seems to have overstepped the bounds of hospitality by sleeping with the 

Spartan queen and was soon on the run again. 

There has been no full length biography of this colorful and important 

character for twenty years. Professor Rhodes brings the authority of an 

internationally recognized expert in the field, ensuring that this will be a truly 

significant addition to the literature on Classical Greece. 

For at least two centuries the Spartan army was the most formidable war 

machine in Greece; the purpose of this book is to show the reasons for this. 

Professor Lazenby looks first at the composition, training and organization of 

the army, tracing its roots back to the eighth century BC. The second part 

analyses some of the main campaigns - Thermopylai, Plataea, Sphakteria, Mantineia, 

The Nemea, Koroneia, Lechaion and Leuktra. The final part continues 

the story to the end of Greek independence. 

Since this book was first written over 25 years ago, novels, computer games 

and films such as 300 have raised interest in the Spartan military to new 

heights. The return to print of this excellent study is sure to interest academics 

and more general readers alike.


Imperial General 

The Remarkable Career 

of Petellius Cerialis 

Philip Matyszak 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

6 maps 


978-1-84884-119-2 


Handbook to Roman 

Legionary Fortresses 

M.C. Bishop 

$50 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 256 pages 


b/w maps 

line drawings throughout 

978-1-84884-138-3 


Constantine: The Great General 

A Military Biography 

Elizabeth James 

Stephen English 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 

1 x 8 page plate section 

10 maps 

978-1-84884-118-5 


Roman Conquests: Gaul 

Michael Sage 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 

8 pages color plates 

6 b/w maps 

978-1-84884-144-4 


Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of 

Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent 

biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With 

a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging unscathed despite some 

hairy adventures (and scandal, usually involving some local wench) he appears to 

have been a Roman version of Blackadder and Flashman combined. 

Imperial General is both a fascinating insight into the life of an imperial Roman officer 

during the period of the Principate, and a rollicking good tale told in Philip Matyszak’s 

trademark lively style. 

This is a reference guide to Roman legionary fortresses throughout the former 

Roman Empire, of which approximately eighty-five have been located and identified. 

With the expansion of the empire and the garrisoning of its army in frontier regions 

during the 1st century AD, Rome began to concentrate its legions in large permanent 

bases. This book brings together for the first time the legionary fortresses of the 

whole empire. An introductory section outlines the history of legionary bases and 

their key components. At the heart of the book is a referenced and illustrated 

catalogue of the known bases, each with a specially prepared plan and an aerial 

photograph. A detailed bibliography provides up-to-date publication information. 

The book will be accompanied by a website providing online links to sites relevant 

to particular fortresses and a Google Earth file containing all of the known fortress 

locations. 

Constantine the Great is a titanic figure in Roman, and indeed world history. Most 

famed for making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire and for 

moving the seat of imperial rule to Constantinople, he is most often studied for his 

religious and political impact. But it is often forgotten that his power and success 

was made possible by the use of armed force, in an impressive military career. 

Elizabeth James sets the scene with a discussion of the nature of the Roman army 

as it emerged in evolved form from the Third Century Crisis, describing the make 

up of the armies, their weapons and tactics, and the impact of Constantine’s policies 

and reforms. She then examines each of Constantine’s campaigns and battles, 

(including the British campaign which led to his proclamation as emperor at York) 

to show that he deserves to be remembered as a great general as well as a great 

emperor. 

This latest volume in the Roman Conquests: series deals with some of the best 

known Roman campaigns of all. Indeed, due to the involvement of Julius Caesar and 

the commentaries he wrote upon them, these are some of the most studied of any 

ancient campaigns. 

Before Caesar, however, Rome had already established a foothold across the Alps in 

Gaul and Michael M Sage starts with these early acquisitions which were largely 

reactive and defensive. 

This context makes all the more remarkable the dazzling success of the audacious 

campaigns, just half a century later, by which Caesar rapidly completed the initial 

conquest of the rest of Gaul. The subsequent revolts that soon occurred, culminating 

in the great unified rising under Vercingetorix, are also covered in detail. 

Michael Sage narrates and analyses all these campaigns, showing how the Roman 

war machine was able ultimately able to overcome vastly superior numbers of Celtic 

warriors to extend Rome’s rule. 

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Edward IV and the Wars 

of the Roses 

David Santiuste 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 


978-1-84884-549-7 


Twilight of the Hellenistic World 

Mike Roberts 

Bob Bennett 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


b/w maps and battle plans 

978-1-84884-136-9 


Manzikert 1071 

Professor Brian Todd Carey 

Joshua B Allfree 

John Cairns 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


100 maps and battle diagrams 

978-1-84884-215-1 


Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV 

died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet Edward has not achieved the martial 

reputation of other warrior kings such as Henry V - perhaps because he 

fought battles against his own people in a civil war. It has also been suggested 

that he lacked the personal discipline expected of a truly great commander. 

But, as David Santiuste shows in this perceptive and highly readable new study, 

Edward was a formidable military leader whose strengths and subtlety have 

not been fully recognized. This reassessment of Edward’s military role, and of 

the Wars of the Roses in which he played such a vital part, gives a fascinating 

insight into Edward the man and into the politics and the fighting. Based on 

contemporary sources and the latest scholarly research, Edward IV and the 

Wars of the Roses brings to life an extraordinary period of English history. 

This book recounts and analyzes the complex series of conflicts between the 

Hellenistic Successor states in the generation before the Romans intervened 

in, and ultimately conquered, the region. This period is rarely treated in any 

depth, usually warranting little more than a summary as context for discussion 

of the Roman conquests. The authors demonstrate that this period of 

almost-constant conflict and rivalry makes a fascinating subject of study in its 

own right. For example, it describes Macedon’s war with Cleomenes and the 

final crushing of the last gasp of Sparta as an independent power; and the 

campaigns in the east whereby the Seleucid king, Antiochus (later defeated 

by the Romans at Magnesia) earned his title of Antiochus the Great. They 

show how the Hellenistic monarchs, while aware of Rome's epic clash with 

Carthage in the West, did not yet see her as a major threat and were preoccupied 

with more immediate concerns. As well as clearly narrating the 

complex events they assess the various military systems of the Hellenistic 

states and developments in warfare on land and sea. This is a very original 

book on a neglected period of politico-military history. 

In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a 

powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the 

Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmanoeuvred by the Turkish sultan, 

Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to give battle with only half his troops near 

Manzikert. By the end of that fateful day much of the Byzantine army was 

dead, the rest scattered in flight and the Emperor himself a captive. As a result, 

the Anatolian heart was torn out of the empire and it was critically weakened, 

while Turkish power expanded rapidly, eventually leading to Byzantine appeals 

for help from Western Europe, thus prompting the First Crusade. 

This book sets the battle in the context of the military history of the Byzantine 

Empire and the Islamic World (Arab and Seljuk Turkish) up to the pivotal 

engagement at Manzikert in 1071, with special emphasis on the origins, 

course and outcome of this battle. The composition, weapons and tactics of 

the very different opposing armies are analyzed. The final chapter is dedicated 

to assessing the impact of Manzikert on the Byzantine Empire’s strategic 

position in Anatolia and to the battle’s role as a causus belli for the Crusades. 

Dozens of maps and battle diagrams support the clear text.


Aden Insurgency 

The Savage War in Yemen 1962– 67 

Jonathan Walker 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 352 pages 

17 b/w images 

10 maps 

978-1-84884-548-0 


With the SAS and Other Animals 

A Vet’s Experiences During 

the Dhofar War 1974 

Andrew Higgins 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

16 pages b/w 

8 pages of color plates 

978-1-84884-486-5 


From SAS to Blood 

Diamond Wars 

Hamish Ross 

Fred Marafono MBE 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-511-4 


During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax. Britain’s dwindling 

power in the Middle East was under siege from Arab nationalism, the Communist 

bloc and from American designs in the region. Aden, with its strategic 

military base and old Protectorate buffer zone, was soon the main battleground. 

The 1962 Egyptian-inspired coup in the neighboring Kingdom of 

North Yemen further tightened the noose. So began a bitter and bloody 

insurgency war in South Arabia. British regular an special forces were soon 

pitted against growing and formidable insurgency forces, fighting both a war 

in the mountains and an urban conflict in the back streets of Aden. Intelligence 

agencies vied for control of ‘hearts and minds’. The British launched a clandestine 

war in Yemen to keep their enemies at bay. But still the situation in 

Aden spiraled out of control, culminating in a bloody slaughter in 1967. In 

that November, the British Army finally withdrew from South Arabia. 

Aden Insurgency is the extraordinary story of Britain’s last colonial conflict. 

Using a wide range of recently released archive and eye-witness accounts, 

the author charts the collapse of the South Arabian state. Set against a background 

of ruthless political ambition, these events shaped the Yemen of today. 

In 1970 at the height of the Cold War, the young Sandhurst-trained Sultan 

Qaboes of Oman, with secret British military backing, took on the communist 

rebels in a fierce but little known war. Along with regular British Army and 

‘contract’ officers, the SAS played a key role in this bitterly fought but ultimately 

successful campaign. 

The local economy was a primitive one based on agriculture and the author, 

freshly qualified and, by his own admission, somewhat naïve particularly in 

military matters, found himself solely responsible for the veterinary care of a 

territory the size of Hungary. 

Attached to D Squadron, 22 SAS, Andrew Higgins learnt how to respond to 

the Jebali people’s love and concern for their animals who provided their 

livelihood – goats, camels, sheep, horses, cattle, even bears, hunting birds and 

pedigree hunting dogs. 

His first-hand experiences and anecdotes of life dealing with every level of 

Omani society from rulers to black slaves and their varied livestock make for 

wonderfully atmospheric and often amusing reading. In short, With the SAS 

and Other Animals is an unusual and potent mix of Special Forces action and 

veterinary experiences. Readers may well conclude that it really shouldn’t 

have happened to a vet even in a desert war! 

Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior. 

On the point of being demobbed from the SAS, Fred Marafono was recruited 

by David Stirling for his private security company. After Stirling’s death, Fred 

found himself in the midst of Sierra Leone’s Blood Diamond wars, and 

formed an unbreakable bonding with the country’s champion of democracy, 

Chief Hinga Norman, whose leadership and tragic death are integral to the 

story. 

Fred was recruited by Simon Mann for the finest of all private military companies 

in Africa, Executive Outcomes. Fewer than two hundred of them 

defeated the rebels in their strongholds. Through political weakness, Executive 

Outcomes were made to leave the country, and chaos ensued. Committed 

men like Hinga Norman and British High Commissioner Peter Penfold saw 

that in the absence of military commitment from the west, only high caliber 

mercenaries would win the fight to restore democracy: three of them 

kept a vital air bridge open ? ‘What God abandoned, these defended’. Fred’s 

final action was supporting the SAS in their brilliant hostage release, ‘Operation 

Barras.’ 

Peter Penfold sums it all up in the book’s foreword, writing of the, ‘confidence, 

trust and admiration I have for this remarkable man.’ 

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Battlefield General: Arnhem 1944 

Jonathan Sutherland 

Diane Canwell 

$19.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages 

12 b/w maps 

978-1-84884-484-1 



Fallschirmjager 

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 176 pages 

978-1-84884-318-9 • paperback 

The Wargaming Compendium 

Henry Hyde 

$50 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 256 pages 

b/w and color photos throughout 

978-1-84884-221-2 



Wargaming on a Budget 

$29.95 • 6 x 9.5 • 176 pages 

978-1-84884-115-4 • paperback 

This is the first in a series of game books which put you in command of the 

forces in engaged in some of history's most famous battles. Your tactical skill 

and ability to make the right command decision will be tested at every turn 

of the page. Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was one of the 

most daring Allied plans of the Second World War. An audacious surprise 

assault from the air, it was intended to give the Allies a bridgehead across the 

Rhine, removing the last significant natural barrier on the road to Berlin. If 

successful it might have shortened the war by months. Will the brave British 

paratroopers be able to seize the vital bridge at Arnhem and hold it until 

reinforcements fight their way through? Or will the Germans be able to 

recover the initiative and crush them in a skillful counterattack? 

The book presents you with a series of command decisions, aided by situation 

maps; directing you to the next relevant briefing depending on the option 

you choose. No dice are necessary to play, just this book and your tactical 

skill. When you buy this book, the fate of nations is in your hands. 

This book gives a complete introduction to the hobby of wargaming with 

miniatures, especially suitable for the newcomer but also containing sufficient 

depth and breadth of information to attract the more experienced gamer. 

Packed with color photographs, maps and diagrams the book is a visual treat, 

but one built on the solid foundations of a highly literate and engaging text 

that does not ‘dumb down’ the hobby. Every aspect is explained clearly and 

in a way that both informs and entertains, with plenty of personality, gentle 

humor and a lightness of touch. 

The contents will include a brief history of the development of wargaming, 

choice of periods from ancients to sci-fi, the question of scale (not only of 

miniatures, but the size of game from the smallest skirmishes to epic battles), 

terrain, buying and painting miniatures, creating scenarios for wargames, running 

a campaign, solo wargaming and so on. It will also incorporate simple 

wargaming rules covering all periods of history as well as fantasy and science 

fiction gaming. These rules will have optional mechanisms allowing them to 

be used for very small games with just a few figures, or much bigger games 

with several regiments or brigades on each side.


Wargamer’s Scenarios: 

The Peninsular War 1808 –1814 


Diane Canwell 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 

40 color illustrations 

maps and b/w plates 

978-1-84415-947-5 



Grand Battery 

$34.95 • 6.75 x 9.75 • 192 pages 

978-1-84415-941-3 • hardback 

Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls 

A Tabletop Game of Naval Battles 

in the Age of Sail 

Alan Abbey 

$33.95 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 128 pages 

b/w diagrams throughout 

8 pages color plates 

978-1-84884-534-3 



Admiral of the Blue 

$45 • 6.25 x 9.25 • 256 pages 

978-1-84415-294-0 • hardback 

The enjoyment of wargaming is greatly enhanced if the battles (games) are 

played within well thought-out scenarios. Instead of simply lining up evenlymatched 

armies and fighting to the death, the players can have realistic 

objectives (such as the capture of a vital piece of terrain or delaying a superior 

enemy to cover a retreat) and be confronted with more challenging tactical 

decisions. Devising such scenarios can take a lot of effort, and more critically, 

time, which is always in short supply. This book is designed to take the time 

and effort out of organizing fascinating and challenging wargames set in the 

Peninsular War. 

In addition to 20 carefully devised scenarios of varying size and complexity, 

this book contains a concise introduction to the theater of operations and 

an integrated chronology of battles and campaigns, showing where the scenarios 

fit into the wider events. The scenarios and orders of battle are 

intended for use with Pen & Sword’s own Napolenic wargame rules, Grand 

Battery, but they are easily adaptable for use with other leading systems. 

Contents : 

• Concise introduction to the Peninsular War with chronology to 

place the scenarios in context. 

• 20 carefully devised scenarios of varying size and complexity. 

• A wargamer-friendly map, showing players where to place terrain, 

buildings and other features that had an impact on the battlefield. 

It will also show initial dispositions (historical) and mark the point 

of entrance (or exit) of units during the battle. 

• Briefing notes on the context of the battle and the dilemmas 

and objectives facing each commander. 

• Orders of battle for each side and any other information required 

to set up. 

• Clear win/lose/draw conditions. 

Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls is a set of wargame rules for naval battles in the age 

of sail. With them you can recreate the triumphs of Nelson or Hawke or 

tackle pirates on the Spanish Main. The rules themselves are very simple and 

easy to learn. Each player can easily command a single ship or several, the 

rules working equally well for a single frigate chasing down a privateer, or a 

large-scale fleet action with multiple players on each side. The basic rules have 

been written with the emphasis on providing a fast-playing and fun game, but 

optional rules are included which will add a greater level of historical realism 

and detail. A unique card-driven turn sequence prevents the game becoming 

too predictable. Also included are a selection of scenarios for re-fighting specific 

historical battles and simple campaign rules. Although intended for use 

with model ships, the rule book includes sheets of ship counters which can 

be used to get started. Just add dice, tape measure and pencil and you’re 

ready to play. 

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Flying Legends of World War II 

Archive and Colour Photos 

of Famous Allied Aircraft 

Philip Handleman 

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.75 • 112 pages 

120 color and b/w illustrations 

978-1-84884-308-0 


Final Days of the Reich 

Ian Baxter 

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 160 pages 


978-1-84884-381-3 


Blitzkrieg Russia 


Diane Canwell 

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 144 pages 


978-1-84884-334-9 


More than thirty Allied Forces’ WWII aircraft types are illustrated in many 

rare and previously unpublished black and white and color photographs. Each 

type is described giving vital data on development history, combat record, 

famous pilots and significant air battles. Performance, range and weapon loads 

are also included. The unique color photographs are from the collection of 

the late William B. Slate, an aviation photographer who strove to capture the 

thrilling perspective that can only come from close-up, in-flight vantage points 

from an aircraft flying in formation. 

The Final Days of the Reich is the latest in the popular Images of War series 

range by Ian Baxter. Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs 

accompanied by in-depth captions and text, this book is a compelling account 

of the final weeks of the Nazi’s struggle for survival against overwhelming 

odds. Each photograph fully captures the tension, turmoil and tragedy of 

those last, terrible days of war as Wehmacht, Waffen SS, Luftwaffe, Hitlerjungend, 

Volkssturm and other units, some of which comprised of barely trained 

conscripts, fought out their last battles. 

Exhausted and demoralized skeletal units must have been aware of the 

impending defeat. Yet the German General Staff was still resolved to fight at 

all costs. By late March 1945, less than 100 miles east of Berlin some 250,000 

German troops had slowly withdrawn to the Oder, and what followed was 

a series of fierce and determined defensive actions that would finally see the 

Germans encircled and fighting the last desperate battle within Berlin itself 

against overwhelming odds. 

The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the 

German invasion of Russia in 1941 – Operation Barbarossa. Two of the 

albums contain shots taken by German infantrymen and include shots of 

combat, vehicles, knocked-out tanks and prisoners of war. Two of the other 

albums feature flak and artillery units in the invasion. These include shots of 

artillery and flak units in action, destroyed Russian aircraft, vehicles and armor 

as well as Russian prisoners. The final album contains shots taken by a tank 

destroyer unit. In this set, there are shots of knocked out Russian armor (and 

abandoned armor), artillery and assault guns in action and a fascinating 

glimpse into the transition into the first winter. There are many exceptional 

photographs including rubber boats carrying troops across a river, knocked 

out monstrous Russian tanks, engineers at work and a range of more casual 

poses. There are also some interesting studies of uniforms and equipment, 

abandoned vehicles, vehicles being salvaged and maintained and a host of 

other subjects. 

Some are focussed on the early war months with Russia, so there are huge 

columns of captured Russian prisoners, fraternization with the local peasants 

and a glimpse of the vast distances involved in the advances made by the 

Germans in the early months of the conflict.

Armoured Warfare 

on the Eastern Front 

Anthony Tucker-Jones 

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 160 pages 


978-1-84884-280-9 


Battle of Kursk 1943 

Hans Seidler 

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 160 pages 


978-1-84884-393-6 


German Halftracks At War 

1939–1945 

Paul Thomas 


$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 160 pages 


978-1-84884-482-7 


On the Eastern Front during the Second World War massive Soviet and German 

tank armies clashed in a series of battles that were unmatched in their 

scale and ferocity. Several of them have attained almost legendary status. But 

epic encounters such as these were only part of a broader story, as Anthony 

Tucker-Jones demonstrates in this selection of graphic photographs. While 

the images give a fascinating inside view of combat, they also reveal the daily 

routines of tank warfare 65 years ago. Training, maintenance, transportation 

and supply are shown, as are the daily lives of the tank crews and the often 

appalling conditions in which they worked and fought. The photographs also 

record in vivid detail the destructive reality of armored warfare, from the 

initial triumphant advance of the German panzers deep into the Soviet Union 

to the massive Red Army counter-offensives which drove the German armies 

back to Berlin. 

The greatest tank battle in world history, known as Operation CITADEL, 

opened during the early hours of 5 July 1943, and its outcome was to decide 

the eventual outcome of the war on the Eastern Front. Images of War Battle 

of Kursk, is an illustrated account of this pivotal battle of the war on the 

Eastern Front, when the Germans threw 900,000 men and 2,500 tanks 

against 1,300,000 soldiers and 3,000 tanks of the Red Army in a savage battle 

of attrition. 

Unlike many pictorial accounts of the war on the Eastern Front, Battle of 

Kursk draws upon both German and Russian archive material, all of which 

are rare or unpublished. The images convey the true scale, intensity and horror 

of the fighting at Kursk, as the Germans tried in vain to batter their way 

through the Soviet defensive systems. The battle climaxed at the village of 

Prokhorovka, which involved some 1,000 tanks fighting each other at pointblank 

range. 

During this vicious two week battle the Red Army dealt the Panzerwaffe a 

severe battering from which the German war effort was never to recover 

fully. Kursk finally ended the myth of German invincibility. 

In the aftermath of The Great War, which saw the introduction of the Tank, 

the more far sighted military leaders realized that the future of warfare hinged 

on a balance of mobility, firepower and protection. 

Tanks would need to be accompanied into battle by supporting arms, specifically 

infantry, artillery and engineers. An all fully-tracked field army was 

thought to be too expensive, so the semi-tracked support vehicle (commonly 

called a halftrack) was born. The halftrack concept was embraced by the 

French, the US and most notably Germany. 

The Germans commissioned numerous types of half tracked tractors, which 

were classified by the weight of their towed load. These vehicles were designated 

Sonderkraffarzeug (special motorized vehicle), abbreviated as Sd.Kfz. 

Without these vehicles the Blitzkrieg would not have been possible. 

These front-wheel steering vehicles with tracked drive transformed the fighting 

quality of the armored divisions. They carried the infantry alongside the 

advancing panzers and brought guns and pontoon-bridge sections. The 

halftrack also became the preferred reconnaissance vehicle. 

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The Peninsular War 

- Wellington’s Battlefields Revisited 

Ian Fletcher 

As the 200th Anniversary of the Peninsula war 

approaches, this book is a timely reminder of one 

of the most successful campaigns ever fought by 

the British Army. 

$39.95 • 8 x 9.5 • 128 pages 

145 color pics 

2 maps 

978-1-84884-529-9 


Wingate Pasha 

The Life of General Sir Francis 

Reginald Wingate 1861–1953 

R. J. M. Pugh 

Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an eminent 

Scottish soldier-statesman. It tells the story of a 

man from an impoverished background who 

nonetheless mastered several foreign languages. 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 

27 b/w + 8 maps 

978-1-84884-531-2 


France at Bay 1870–1871 

The Struggle for Paris 

Douglas Fermer 

Douglas Fermer weaves this story of military victory 

and defeat into a gripping narrative and it sets 

the extraordinary events of nearly 150 years ago 

in the context of European history. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 280 pages 


978-1-84884-325-7 


Frigates, Sloops & Brigs 

James Henderson 

The fictional characters Horatio Hornblower and 

Jack Aubrey hardly surpassed some of the extraordinary 

deeds of derring-do and tragedy described 

in these pages. 

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 384 pages 


b/w drawings & maps 

978-1-84884-526-8 


Wellington Against Junot 

The First Invasion of Portugal 1807–1808 

David Buttery 

David Buttery, in this original and perceptive new 

study, sets the record straight - his tightly focused 

narrative covers the entire invasion in vivid detail. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-142-0 


The Crimean War at Sea 

The Naval Campaigns Against Russia 1854–56 

Peter Duckers 

The scale and intensity of the naval operations 

embarked upon during the Crimean War are 

astonishing. This new book offers the first overall 

survey of them. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-267-0 


Isandlwana 

How the Zulus Humbled the British Empire 

Adrian Greaves 

Isandlwana is a brilliant and fresh account of this 

most famous battle which will fascinate experts 

and laymen alike. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-532-9 


Marshal Vauban and the Defence 

of Louis XIV’s France 

James Falkner 

James Falkner’s new study will add significantly 

to the understanding of Vauban’s achievements and 

the impact his work has had on the history of 

warfare. 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 

75 b/w & color illustrations 

978-1-84415-927-7 

hardback • September 2011


The Armed Forces of the European Union 

2012–2013 

Charles Heyman 

This first edition of an entirely new publication will, 

for the first time, provide comprehensive information 

on what is one of the world’s largest military 

force groupings. 

$19.95 • 5 x 8 • 192 pages 


978-1-84415-519-4 


Aviation Assault Battlegroup in Afghanistan 

The 2009 Tour of The Black Watch, 

3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland 

The book charts the experiences of the Battlegroup 

from its training, deployment, its thirteen 

operations including raids into the Sangin Valley. 

$60 • 7.5 x 10 • 288 pages 

full colour throughout with 225 images 

978-1-84884-536-7 


Renegade Hero 

The True Story of RAF Pilot Terry Peet 

and his Clandestine Mercy Flying with the CIA 

Michael Higston 

Cold war helicopter ace Terry Peet lived for flying. 

This book is the true revelation of an entirely mysterious 

affair as told to the author by Terry Peet. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-530-5 


Counter-insurgency 

Lessons from History 

Ian F. W. Beckett 

John Pimlott 

This historical survey, which covers irregular 

warfare in countries as widely separated as Chad, 

Vietnam, Uruguay and Mozambique, will be fascinating 

reading for anyone studying insurgencies. 

$24.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 240 pages 

978-1-84884-396-7 


The British Army: 

A Pocket Guide 2012–2013 

Charles Heyman 

Lavishly illustrated throughout, there is no comparable 

publication available on the market that deals 

with the British Army. 

$15.95 • 4 x 6 • 224 pages 

978-1-84884-107-9 


Operation Enduring Freedom 

The Seeds of War in Afghanistan 

Tim Ripley 

This is a definitive account of the first six months 

of the military campaign in Afghanistan that saw 

the initial air and special drive to unseat the Taliban 

regime. 

$50 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 256 pages 

150 photos, maps and diagrams in color 

978-1-84884-564-0 


Mugabe’s War Machine 

Paul Moorcraft 

Knox Chitiyo 

The authors examine the background to Mugabe’s 

accession to power through the black nationalist 

insurgencies against white rule and the civil war 

between the black Zimbabweans. 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-410-0 


Roberts and Kitchener in South Africa 

1900 –1902 

Rodney Atwood 

The comradeship-in-arms of Roberts and Kitchener, 

their differing yet complementary personalities, their 

strategic and tactical decisions are described and 

assessed using personal papers and official correspondence. 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages 


978-1-84884-483-4 


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$24.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 

352 pages 

978-1-84884-395-0 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 


978-1-84884-524-4 


Target London 

Bombing the Capital 1915–2005 

Peter Reese 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 

30 illustrations including maps 

978-1-84884-122-2 


Britain’s Part-time Soldiers 

The Amateur Military Tradition 1558–1945 

Professor Ian Beckett 

In this classic study, first published over 20 years 

ago, Ian Beckett gives a comprehensive overview 

of the development of the amateur military tradition 

in Britain from the mid-sixteenth century 

to the present day. He shows how standing 

armies in Britain have been viewed with distrust 

and how the preference for amateur and temporary 

soldiers has heightened the importance 

of the auxiliary forces in defense. 

The Ulster Tales 

A Tribute to Those Who Served 1969 –2000 

John Wilsey 

The Ulster Tales captures the lives and experiences 

of ten individuals who were caught up 

in the Troubles. The book covers the media, 

military, intelligence, police, business, politics 

and civil service. The book is a tribute to the 

many who dedicated their lives to the fight 

against terrorism and an original and interesting 

way of promoting a better understanding of 

the complex Northern Ireland situation. 

Peter Reese, in this thought-provoking account, vividly describes how the destructive 

potential of aerial bombing and terrorist actions has increased and how Londoners 

have struggled to protect themselves and their city. 

He looks at the strategic aims of the bombing campaigns and contrasts them with 

the actual responses of Londoners. As he traces the developing theory and practice 

of air power, he dispels myths and misunderstandings that still surround the subject. 

His narrative follows the story from the commencement of the First World War 

when the development of aircraft accelerated and the possibilities of aerial warfare 

came to be appreciated – and feared. 

He also considers in the concluding chapters more recent threats to the capital 

which come, not from aircraft and missiles, but from the bombing tactics adopted 

by terrorists. 

$50 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 

color & b/w illustrations 

978-1-84884-263-2 


$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 


978-1-84884-414-8 


First in the Field 

651 Squadron Army Air Corps 

Guy Warner 

651 was the first Air Observation Post 

Squadron, being formed at Old Sarum on 

August 1, 1941. Its main duties were the direction 

of artillery fire, reconnaissance and light 

liaison. In 2000 it was selected as the Attack Helicopter 

Fielding Squadron to bring the Westland 

Apache AH.1 into service. In 2004 it was all 

change again with a move to RAF Odiham. 

The Intelligencers 

British Military Intelligence 

From the Middle Ages to 1929 

Brigadier Brian Parritt CBE CNI 

Intelligence about the enemy is a fundamental 

part of any war or battle, knowledge of the 

enemy’s strength, dispositions and intentions are 

essential for success. This book reveals that for 

250 years the British Army resolutely failed to 

prepare for war by refusing to establish a 

nucleus of soldiers in peace, trained to obtain 

intelligence in war.

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b/w photos, charts, and tables throughout 

978-1-932714-73-9 


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978-1-611210-96-5 


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The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook 

A Drill Instructor’s Strategies and Tactics for Success 

Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch 

The transition from civilian to that of a Marine is a process unlike any other 

in any branch of the military. As any potential recruit can imagine, Marine 

recruit training is difficult and challenging. Its purpose is to mold a 

Marine from the inside out. 

Nick “Gunny Pop” Popaditch is best known as the “Cigar Marine” and author 

of Once a Marine, a candid memoir about his service as a tank commander 

in Iraq, his horrific wounding in the first battle of Fallujah (where he was hit 

in the head by a rocket-propelled grenade), and his long and difficult recovery. 

Gunny Pop has experienced the Marine recruit training process from every 

perspective: as a new recruit and as a drill instructor (all three hats). This new 

book brings together his nearly 16 years of Marine Corps expertise. 

The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook is a comprehensive, practical, 

and easy-to-follow guide written specifically for every new or prospective 

recruit about to enter Marine recruit training. Gunny Pop offers step-by-step 

instructions and solutions, including helpful charts and graphics, for how to 

prepare both physically and mentally for recruit training. Written by a Marine 

who experienced it firsthand many times over, Gunny Pop explores what 

recruits will be asked to do (and in many cases, explain why), and the 

motivating forces behind drill instructor lessons and behavior. 

Also included is a custom fitness program specifically designed to prepare 

you for the physical demands of Marine recruit training. 

The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook was written by a Marine and 

former drill instructor for young men and women who want to become one 

of the few and the proud. No one should undertake Marine recruit training 

without having read this book. 

The Ultimate ROTC Guidebook 

Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Excelling in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 

2LT David Atkinson 

Are you or is someone you know interested in Army ROTC (Reserve Officers’ 

Training Corps)? People join ROTC for many reasons. Some want a 

guaranteed job once school is finished. Others need help paying for college, 

want a challenge, or feel a special calling to be a leader in the most powerful 

military in history. For anyone interested in this topic, The Ultimate ROTC 

Guidebook: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Excelling in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 

is a must-read necessity. 

Cadets come from all walks of life, including students from high school 

beginning their first year of college, veterans who want to get an education 

and return to the military as officers, and enlisted personnel who are taking 

advantage of receiving a free education as they work to transform from an 

enlisted soldier to an Army officer. Cadet life is very different from any other 

civilian or military experience. The expectations, learning curve, requirements, 

and tasks will be new to you or will be conducted in a manner you have 

never experienced. 

Author David Atkinson had no idea what to expect as a new member of 

ROTC (2007). With some extra effort and hard work he adjusted and rose 

to the top of his class. The Ultimate ROTC Guidebook will show you, step 

by step, how to do the same thing he did—and much more. Within these 

pages you will learn what to expect and get specific and practical tips on how 

to excel at every level of training. There are already documents that explain 

how to wear your uniform correctly and what awards are available, but only 

this guide will tell you how to complete a mission above the standard, explain 

how to reach your peak fitness level, and how to improve your battalion as 

a whole. Using the information in this book, Atkinson earned every significant 

award ROTC offers and was selected as one of 15 cadets in the nation to 

train in Slovakia for three weeks in 2008 and Germany in 2009. 

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$18.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 

28 maps throughout 

978-1-611210-78-1 


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The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook 

Facts, Photos, and Artwork for Readers of All Ages, June 9 – July 14, 1863 

J. David Petruzzi 

Steven Stanley 

The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook is an informative full-color guide for 

American Civil War and Gettysburg enthusiasts of all ages. Authors J. David 

Petruzzi and Steven Stanley use clear and concise writing broken down into 

short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, modern 

and historic photographs, tables, charts, and artwork to narrate the history 

of the Gettysburg Campaign from the opening battle at Brandy Station in 

Virginia on June 9, 1863, to the escape of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate 

Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River on July 14, 1863. 

Chapters include quotes of interest from participants, tables and charts of 

the ages and seniority ranking of the generals of both sides; weather observations 

during the battle; a stunning photographic study of the entire 

campaign; a discussion of the battle’s myths and controversies; biographies 

of select officers, civilians, and battlefield photographers; trivia about the 

campaign; a comprehensive order of battle; a suggested reading list and websites; 

and much more. 

As enjoyable to look at as it is easy to use, every casual and serious student 

of the Civil War and Gettysburg will want a copy of The New Gettysburg 

Campaign Handbook as a constant companion while reading other books 

on the campaign—and even as a supplement and general field guide while 

walking the hallowed Pennsylvania ground. 

About the Authors: J. David Petruzzi is an award-winning Civil War cavalry 

historian. He is the author of many articles for a wide variety of publications, 

and has written or co-authored several books including: (with Eric Wittenberg) 

Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to 

Gettysburg (Savas Beatie, 2006); (with Wittenberg and Michael F. Nugent) One 

Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of 

Northern Virginia, July 4 –14, 1863 (Savas Beatie, 2008). 

The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses 

Synopses, Orders of Battle, Strengths, Casualties, and Maps, 

June 9 – July 14, 1863 


Steven Stanley 

The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses is a full-color, master work 

decades in the making. Presented for the first time in print are comprehensive 

orders of battle for more than three dozen engagements both large 

and small waged during the five weeks of the Gettysburg Campaign (June 

9–July 14, 1863). 

Each presentation includes a synopsis of the engagement, photos of the commanders, 

an original full page map of the fighting, an order of battle with 

numbers and losses (including killed, wounded, captured, and missing), charts 

and graphs of relative strengths and losses, a conclusion of how the fighting 

affected each side and the course of the campaign, and a brief suggested 

reading list. 

J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley use a staggering array of primary 

resources to compile the text and craft the original maps, including the Official 

Records, soldier letters and diaries, period newspapers, regimental histories, 

reminiscences, muster rolls, and other published and unpublished sources. For 

the first time students of the campaign can turn page-by-page to read, visualize, 

and understand blow-by-blow how the unfolding action affected the 

individual corps, divisions, brigades, and regiments, and by extension influenced 

decision-making at the highest levels of command. 

The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses: Synopses, Orders of Battle, 

Strengths, Casualties, and Maps, June 9 – July 14, 1863 is a stunning original 

presentation destined to become a constant companion for anyone interested 

in this always fascinating slice of Civil War history.

$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 

7 maps 

54 photos and illustrations 

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Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg 

The Battles for Brinkerhoff ’s Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2–3, 1863 

Eric J. Wittenberg 

Few aspects of the battle of Gettysburg are as misunderstood as the role 

played by the cavalry of both sides. Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles 

for Brinkerhoff ’s Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2–3, 1863 by awardwinning 

author Eric J. Wittenberg is the first and only book to examine 

in significant detail how the mounted arm directly affected the outcome of 

the battle. 

On July 3, 1863, a large-scale cavalry fight was waged on Crest Ridge four 

miles east of Gettysburg. There, on what is commonly referred to as East 

Cavalry Field, Union horsemen under Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg tangled with 

the vaunted Confederates riding with Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. This magnificent 

mounted clash, however, cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding 

of what happened the previous day at Brinkerhoff ’s Ridge, where 

elements of Gregg’s division pinned down the legendary infantry of the 

Stonewall Brigade, preventing it from participating in the fighting for Culp’s 

Hill that raged that evening. 

Stuart arrived at Gettysburg on the afternoon of July 2 after his long ride 

around the Army of the Potomac just in time to witness the climax of the 

fighting at Brinkerhoff’s Ridge, and spot good ground for mounted operations 

one ridge line to the east. Stuart also knew that Gregg’s troopers held the 

important Hanover and Low Dutch road intersection, blocking a direct route 

into the rear of the Union center. If Stuart could defeat Gregg’s troopers, he 

could dash thousands of his own men behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. 

The ambitious offensive thrust resulted the following day in a giant clash of 

horse and steel on East Cavalry Field. The combat featured artillery duels, 

dismounted fighting, hand-to-hand engagements, and the most magnificent 

mounted charge and countercharge of the entire Civil War. 

The Second Day at Gettysburg 

The Attack and Defense of the Union Center 

on Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863 

David L. Shultz 

David Wieck 

On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union 

left flank with a massive blow that collapsed Dan Sickles’ advanced position 

in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a large gap in the 

center of the Federal line on Cemetery Ridge. Fresh Confederates from A. 

P. Hill’s Corps advanced toward the mile-wide breach, where Southern 

success would split the Army of the Potomac in two. The fate of the Battle 

of Gettysburg hung in the balance. 

Despite the importance of the position, surprisingly few Union troops were 

available to defend Cemetery Ridge. Major General Winfield S. Hancock’s 

veteran Second Corps had been whittled from three divisions to less than 

one after Gibbon’s division was sucked into earlier fighting and Caldwell’s 

command was shattered in the Wheatfield. With little time and few men, 

Hancock determined to plug the yawning gap. Reprising Horatio at the 

Bridge, the gallant commander cobbled together various commands and refused 

to yield the precious acres in Plum Run ravine. The swirling seesaw 

fighting lasted for hours and included hand-to-hand combat and personal 

heroics of which legends are made. 

The Second Day at Gettysburg: The Attack and Defense of the Union Center on 

Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863 expands on David Shultz and David Wieck’s 

critically acclaimed earlier work The Battle Between the Farm Lanes.This completely 

revised and expanded study, which includes new photographs, original 

maps, and a self-guided tour of the fighting, is grounded in extensive research 

and unmatched personal knowledge of the terrain. The result is a balanced 

and compelling account of this often overlooked portion of the battle. 

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58 photos 

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978-1-611210-98-9 


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$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages 

14 maps 

978-1-611210-88-0 


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Plenty of Blame to Go Around 

Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg 

Eric J. Wittenberg 


June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles 

and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart 

leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of 

the Civil War’s most bitter and enduring controversies. Instead of finding glory 

and victory—two objectives with which he was intimately familiar—Stuart 

reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy’s 

most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats. Now in paperback, Plenty 

of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg by Eric J. 

Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi objectively investigates the role Stuart’s 

horsemen played in the disastrous campaign. It is the first book ever written 

on this important and endlessly fascinating subject. 

Stuart left Virginia acting on Gen. Robert E. Lee’s discretionary orders to 

advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania, where he was to screen Lt. Gen. 

Richard Ewell’s marching infantry corps and report on enemy activity. The 

mission jumped off its tracks from virtually the moment it began when one 

unexpected event after another unfolded across Stuart’s path. For days, 

neither Lee nor Stuart had any idea where the other was, and the enemy 

blocked the horseman’s direct route back to the Confederate army, which 

was advancing nearly blind north into Pennsylvania. By the time Stuart 

reached Lee on the afternoon of July 2, the armies had unexpectedly collided 

at Gettysburg, the second day’s fighting was underway, and one of the 

campaign’s greatest controversies was born. 

Unholy Sabbath 

The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory 

Brian Matthew Jordan 

Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of 

South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary 

engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed 

by Antietam’s horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a 

decisive Federal victory and important turning point in the campaign, as historian 

Brian Matthew Jordan convincingly argues in his fresh interpretation 

Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, 

September 14, 1862. 

Most authors of the Maryland Campaign brush past South Mountain in a 

few paragraphs or a single chapter. Jordan, however, presents a full-length 

study based upon extensive archival research, newspaper accounts, regimental 

histories, official records, postwar reunion materials, public addresses, letters, 

and diaries. Readers will come away with a full understanding of the strategic 

results of the fighting in general, and a keen appreciation of the tactical actions 

at Fox, Turner, and Crampton’s gaps in particular. The Northern victory provided 

a substantial boost for the downtrodden men of the Union army who 

recognized the battle for what it was: a sharp, hours-long combat that 

included hand-to-hand combat and resulted in nearly 5,000 casualties. Indeed, 

South Mountain was the first conclusive victory for the Army of the 

Potomac—the first time the men of that army maintained possession of the 

field and with it the responsibility of burying the dead. 

Jordan goes well beyond the military aspects of the battle to better understand 

and explain how and why South Mountain faded from public memory. 

He chronicles how and why former Confederates, true to the Lost Cause, 

insisted they were outnumbered while proud Union veterans remembered 

South Mountain as a full-scale engagement—wholly distinct from Antietam— 

where they outfought and defeated their Rebel opponents.


The Maps of Antietam 

An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) 

Campaign, including the Battle of South 

Mountain, September 2–20, 1862 

Bradley M. Gottfried 

$39.95 • 7 x 10 • 320 pages 

124 full color maps 

978-1-611210-86-6 


eBook: 978-1-61121-087-3 

The Petersburg Campaign 

The Eastern Front Battles, 

June – August 1864, Volume 1 

Edwin C. Bearss 

Bryce A. Suderow 

$34.95 • 6 x 9 • 488 pages 

8 maps 

978-1-611210-90-3 


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Napoleon and the Art 

of Diplomacy 

How War and Hubris Determined 

the Rise and Fall of the French Empire 

William R. Nester 

$34.95 • 6 x 9 • 488 pages 

8 maps 

978-1-611210-92-7 


eBook: 978-1-61121-093-4 

The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, 

including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2–20, 1862 is the eagerly 

awaited companion volume to Bradley M. Gottfried’s bestselling The Maps 

of Gettysburg (2007) and The Maps of First Bull Run (2009), part of the 

ongoing Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series. 

The Maps of Antietam breaks down the entire operation (and all related 

actions) into 21 map sets or “action-sections” enriched with 124 full-color 

original full-page maps. These spectacular cartographic creations bore down 

to the regimental and battery level and include the march into Maryland, the 

Harpers Ferry Operation, the Battle of South Mountain, the battle at Antietam, 

the retreat, and the fighting at Shepherdstown, as well as important 

marches and events. At least two—and as many as ten—maps accompany 

each “action-section.” Opposite each map is a full facing page of detailed, 

footnoted text describing the units, personalities, movements, and combat 

(including quotes from eyewitnesses) depicted on the accompanying map, 

all of which make the story of Lee’s raid into Maryland come alive. 

The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around 

Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil 

War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 when advance elements from 

the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the James River and botched a 

series of attacks against a thinly defended city would not end for nine long 

months. This important—many would say decisive—fighting is presented by 

legendary Civil War author Edwin C. Bearss in The Petersburg Campaign: The 

Eastern Front Battles, June – August 1864, the first in a ground-breaking twovolume 

compendium. 

Although commonly referred to as the “Siege of Petersburg,” that city (as 

well as the Confederate capital at Richmond) was never fully isolated and 

the combat involved much more than static trench warfare. In fact, much of 

the wide-ranging fighting involved large-scale Union offensives designed to 

cut important roads and the five rail lines feeding Petersburg and Richmond. 

A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon the 

general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, 

however, are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and 

Napoleon Bonaparte is no exception. After all, conquerors are accustomed 

to imposing rather than negotiating terms. For Napoleon, however, the arts 

of war and diplomacy meshed. Napoleon was often as brilliant and successful 

at diplomacy as he was at war, although at times he could also be as 

disastrous at the diplomatic table as he was on his final battlefield. William 

R. Nester’s Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy: How War and Hubris 

Determined the Rise and Fall of the French Empire is the first comprehensive 

exploration of Napoleon the diplomat and how his abilities in that arena 

shaped his military campaigns and the rise and fall of the French empire. 

Napoleon’s official diplomatic career lasted nearly two decades and involved 

relations with scores of kings, queens, ministers, diplomats, and secret agents 

across Europe and beyond. All those involved asserted their respective state 

(and often their private) interests across the entire span of international 

relations in which conflicts over trade and marriage were often inseparable 

from war and peace. For Napoleon, war and diplomacy were inseparable 

and complementary for victory. Much of Napoleon’s military success was 

built upon a foundation of alliances and treaties. 

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Frank McClean: The Godfather 

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Philip Jarrett 

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120 b/w photographs 

978-1-84832-109-0 



Seaforth World Naval Review 

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World War II Sites 

in the United States 

A Directory & Tour Guide 

Richard E. Osborne 

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b/w photos 

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First Year of World War II, 1919 

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During aviation’s pioneering years Francis Kennedy McClean used his vast 

inherited wealth to help the now famous Short Brothers company to 

become established as one of Britain’s greatest aircraft manufacturers and 

helped the Royal Navy’s first pilots into the air. In short, he was the Godfather 

of British naval aviation. 

He provided the Royal Aero Club with one of the first flying grounds in the 

UK, personally purchased no fewer than sixteen airplanes from Short Brothers 

before the First World War and also acted as the company’s unpaid test 

pilot. Convinced that aviation was destined play a vital role in the nation’s 

defense, he made his own airplanes freely available to the Territorial Army 

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site from which to fly, thereby founding England’s first naval flying school. 

McClean’s great influence and significance are revealed for the first time in 

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Atlantic Canada’s Brutal & Bloodthirsty 

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Harold Horwood 

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Michel Garcia 

Jean-Louis Gaynecoetche 

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French Text/English Captions 

Captured Arms / Beutewaffen is Vol. IX in the Propaganda Photo Series on 

World War II German small arms. This volume is dedicated to the millions of 

small arms that were captured by the German army in more ten twelve 

different countries. Most weapons were re-issued to the German army, paramilitary 

units and auxiliaries. They were often used in their original state, but 

sometimes modified to German standards. 

This book covers all small arms described in the ‘Kennblätter fremden Geräts’ 

(instruction sheets on foreign material) and many other weapons. Last but 

not least, Captured Arms / Beutewaffen features a unique selection of original 

German World War II propaganda photos, depicting captured arms in use in 

German service. 

For over three hundred years, lawlessness in Canada flourished off Canada’s 

east coast. Pirates roamed the North Atlantic, and master storyteller Harold 

Horwood recounts their action-filled careers, crimes and violent deaths. Privateers—licensed 

by governments to harass the enemy—aimed to capture 

enemy ships and plunder their cargo. 

Among the characters readers meet in these pages are the folk hero, Peter 

Easton, still celebrated as a great Newfoundlander and famed privateer Enos 

Collins, the wealthiest ship owner in British North America and owner of 

the Black Joke. 

This new collection brings together the best of Harold Horwood’s writing on 

pirates and privateers, and offers rich, edge-of-your-seat, high seas adventure. 

This book details all the crashes sustained by the French Air Force, French 

Navy and all other French governmental agencies. Each crash is reported in 

giving the circumstances of the loss as far as they are known, and also giving 

other details like the serial and code. Each loss is profusely illustrated with 

photographs of the aircraft involved. This is the first book of this new series 

which will cover all the French military aviation crashes of the post-war era. 

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Hail Caesar 

Battles with Model Soldiers 

in the Ancient Era 

Rick Priestley 

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on every double-page spread 

7 battle deployment maps 

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Ops: Victory at All Costs 

Operations over Hitler’s Reich with 

the Crews of Bomber Command 

1939 –1945, Their War – Their Words 

Andrew R.B. Simpson 

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 640 pages 

approx. 90 b/w photos 

4 maps 

978-0-9555977-6-3 


London at War 

Relics of the Home Front 

from the World Wars 

Alan Brooks 

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages 


978-1-84563-139-0 


Rick Priestley is a world-renowned games designer having created Games 

Workshop’s Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 game systems amongst 

others. Following on from his highly acclaimed Horse & Musket rules, Black 

Powder, he has now turned his attention to the ancient world with Hail Caesar 

which spans from 3000BC through to around 1100AD. 

Many books have been written about Bomber Command’s war, from the 

highest levels of command to the experiences of the lowest WAAF, but only 

a few have been able to reveal the human side of the bomber crews’ experience. 

Based upon many personal interviews, correspondence and archival 

sources, Andrew Simpson has compiled a compelling, informative and 

absorbing documentary record of what the men of Bomber Command went 

through – from initial training and crew formation, to descriptions of life on 

squadron and on their extremely dangerous operations, to the numbing effect 

of morale breakdown. This intensely researched book contains many personal 

accounts from air crew. The author also examines the technology of bombing 

and how this form of aerial warfare evolved in terms of aircraft design, navigation, 

bombing methods, tactics and gunnery as used in, and as deployed by, 

the Hampden, Whitley and Wellington medium bombers, and the Stirling, 

Halifax and Lancaster ‘heavies’. 

The two world wars of the twentieth century seem so distant from us now, 

a lifetime ago, in a different age. Yet in London the evidence of these conflicts 

is around us, near at hand, in the many relics and reminders that are scattered 

across the fabric of the modern city. And, as Alan Brooks demonstrates in 

this fascinating photographic record, they can be seen and visited today. 

Plaques and inscriptions, graves, cemeteries and rolls of honor, stone monuments 

and stained glass, war-damaged buildings, pillboxes and air-raid shelters, 

painted signs and camouflage – these are just some of the mementoes of 

war, and of the experience of Londoners, during the greatest conflicts the 

country has known.

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