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Dornier Do 335 Pfeil B Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 20
ISBN: 9788366673847
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2022
Imprint: Kagero
Series: Top Drawings
Illustrations: drawing sheets, color profiles
Description:
The Dornier Do 335A did not meet all the Luftwaffe requirements. First, the cockpit armor was too weak, which excluded the machine from the role of a fighter intercepting heavily defended Allied bombers. Therefore, in the summer of 1944, a modified version of the Do 335 - marked with the letter “B”- was developed.
Blocking Kampfgruppe Pieper Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781636241289
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2022
Illustrations: 16pp photos
Description:
In December 1944 an enormous German army group crashed through the thin American line in the Ardennes forest. Caught by surprise, the Allies were initially only able to throw two divisions of paratroopers to buttress the collapse - the 82nd Airborne, which was rushed to the area of St. Vith, and the 101st, which was trucked to Bastogne.
RRP: £18.99
Schwerer Gelandegargiger Personenkfraftwagen and Successors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9788366549098
Pub Date: 11 Mar 2022
Imprint: MMP Books
Series: Camera ON
Illustrations: B&W photos
Description:
This new photo album is number 27 in the MMPBooks/Stratus "Camera On" series. It is the first to cover such a broad selection of Germany's heavy off road passenger cars. It includes both the Schwerer Geländegängiger Personenkraftwagen and its successors, the Horch 108 type 1 and its licensed build Ford type EG equivalents, as well as the heavy cars built on light truck chassis such as the Styer 1500 and Mercedes 1500A & S types.
James Montgomery Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781636241425
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022
Illustrations: 20 illustrations and photographs
Description:
James Montgomery was a leader of the free-state movement in pre-Civil War Kansas and Missouri, associated with its direct-action military wing. He then joined the Union Army and fought through most of the war. A close associate and ally of other abolitionists including John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Colonels Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Robert G.
The Day Rommel was Stopped Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781636241272
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022
Illustrations: photos and maps
Description:
George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942." This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at about 21.00 hrs on 2 July 1942, when Rommel's tanks withdrew for the first time since the fall of Tobruk on 20 June, or arguably since 14 January 1942 at El Agheila.
Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781636241401
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022
Illustrations: 35 photographs
Description:
Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old. Sent away from his family to finish his education, he left school at 16 to join the global tea trade. Soon after he finished his training with Brooke Bond, famous for their 'Dividend' tea, Hitler invaded Poland and Britain was at war.
Type 95 Ha-Go Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 24
ISBN: 9788366549708
Pub Date: 03 Feb 2022
Imprint: MMP Books
Series: Single Vehicle
Illustrations: photos, color profiles, scale drawings
Description:
This book compiles the color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the Type 95 Ha-Go Japanese light tank used in WW2.Scale plans in 1/35 scale plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also includes photos of the details in B&W.
The British Battleship HMS Vanguard Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 20
ISBN: 9788366673779
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2022
Imprint: Kagero
Series: Top Drawings
Illustrations: drawing sheets, color profiles
Description:
The British battleship HMS “Vanguard” was built in the years 1941–1946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the largest and also the last of the British battleships, and armed with artillery towers stored since 1925, taken from the cruisers HMS “Courageous” and HMS “Glorious”. It is widely regarded as Britain's best designed battleship, well-armed but also least needed.
The Panzerjäger Tiger(P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9788366673724
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2022
Imprint: Kagero
Series: Top Drawings
Illustrations: drawing sheets, color profiles
Description:
The German heavy tank destroyer Panzerjäger Tiger (P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand was based on the chassis of the Tiger (P) tank designed by Ferdinand Porsche.
Arracourt 1944 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636240329
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2022
Illustrations: 150 photographs and illustration
Description:
September 1944: With the Allies closing in on the Rhine, Adolf Hitler orders a counterattack on General Patton's Third Army in France. Near the small town of Arracourt, France, elements of the US 4th Armored Division met the grizzled veterans of the 5th Panzer Army in combat. Atop their M4 Shermans, American tank crews squared off against the technologically superior Mark V Panther tanks of the Wermacht.
Nations in the Balance Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781636240961
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2022
Illustrations: 50 photographs and 12 maps
Description:
From December 1943 to August 1944, Allied and Japanese forces fought the decisive battles of World War II in Southeast Asia. Fighting centered around North Burma, Imphal, Kohima and the Arakan, involving troops from all over the world along a battlefront the combined size of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The campaigns brought nations into collision for the highest stakes: British and Indian troops fighting for Empire, the Indo-Japanese forces seeking a prestige victory with an invasion of India and the Americans and Chinese focused on helping China and reopening the Burma Road.
Their Maryland Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781611215571
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2022
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 10 images, 20 maps
Description:
Students of the Civil War tend to think the story of Robert E. Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign is complete, and that any new study of the subject must by necessity rely on interpretations long-since accepted and understood. But what if this is not the case?
Appointment in Tehran Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781612009667
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Series: The Snake Eater Chronicles
Description:
When radical Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and take over fifty diplomats hostage the U.

Catalogue of the 1st International Online Marine Art Exhibition

Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781911408932
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sansom & Company
Les Forces Blindes Hongroises Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9782840485803
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Heimdal
Description:
Les actions des forces blindées allemandes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale sont bien connues du public, notamment en raison des nombreux ouvrages qui y ont été consacrés. Celles des forces blindées de leurs pays alliés sont, en revanche, bien moins connues. Cet ouvrage expose le rôle des forces blindées hongroises qui, au fil du conflit mondial, sont arrivées à se constituer un corps blindé assez puissant pour exercer un rôle déterminant sur le front bien que destiné à affronter l'un des adversaires les plus terribles de son temps : l'Armée rouge.
The Horse at Gettysburg Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780999304969
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Illustrations: 152 illustrations
Description:
One of the largest and perhaps the most well-known battle of the American Civil War occurred in July of 1863 in the modest town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The location and beauty of the many monuments and memorials on the battlefield today, preserve the memory of the soldiers who fought and died on these hallowed grounds. Visitors are also reminded of another hero of the American Civil War that played a vital role, the horse.