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Welcome!

In this new edition of the Casemate catalog we are pleased to

announce an ever-broadening selection of forthcoming titles,

which we hope will earn your keen interest as much as ours.

The selections that follow are our upcoming works for

Spring 2013, and I am personally happy to say that not only has

Casemate’s own publishing continued to increase its output of

quality books, but that our distributed lines have likewise mined a

font of historical knowledge and expertise to grant us perhaps the

best list of new and upcoming titles in our bookselling experience.

It is worth noting, too, that with the advent of digital

media, Casemate has made a point to stay cutting-edge, offering

our works, and those of many of our distributees, in e-reader

format as well as in traditional print. With most of our current

titles, the reader will have their choice. Also featured in this

catalog, for the first time since our acquisition of the company in

2011, are titles from Oxbow Books—one of the world’s leading

sources of archaeological, architectural, and scholarly historical

works, from ancient times to the present.

We hope you will get in touch with us for more details on

these upcoming titles and for information on our extensive

backlist.

Going forward into 2013 we are primarily grateful for the

ever-expanding vibrancy of the history publishing community, as

well as the passion from readers themselves—a valuable

partnership that we constantly endeavor to keep.

Best regards,

David Farnsworth

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Casemate 3

Airfile 13

Amber Books 14

Amberley 16

Fighting High Publishing 19

Frontline Books 22

Grub Street Publishing 25

Heimdal 27

Helion and Company 29

Histoire and Collections 35

Kagero 37

Lancer 38

LRT Editions 39

MMP 40

Oxbow Books 43

Pen and Sword 45

Pen and Sword Digital 65

Savas Beatie 69

Seaforth Publishing 72

Tattered Flag 73

Editions Charles Hérissey/Riebel-Roque/Warlord Games 74

Order Form 75

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I Am Soldier of FortuneDancing with DevilsLt. Col. Robert Brown, USAR (Ret.) and Vann Carpenter

Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military career that succeeded in getting himkicked out of Special Forces not once but twice finally found his true calling as a publisher.

Thirty-eight years ago he launched an upstart magazine from his basement called Soldier ofFortune, which pushed the bounds of journalism to its limits with his untamed brand ofreporting—a camera in one hand, a gun in the other, and soon thereafter he discovered that he’destablished a worldwide community. His wildly popular, notorious magazine became an icon foraction-seekers in the U.S. and around the world.

In this long-awaited book, Brown tells his own story, taking the readers into combat zones wherehe and his daring combat journalists trotted across the globe. His rogue warrior journalistsembedded themselves with anti-Communist guerillas or freedom fighters, often training andfighting with rebels against oppressive regimes. In their revolutionary journalistic style, theycreated the action and then wrote about it. Generals and leaders of exotic armies welcomed theSOF visitors and led them or allowed them to tread into unchartered territory.

In short, the “Soldiers of Fortune” went where even the U.S. government feared to tread, and theydid it with gallant style, not fearing risk but welcoming the challenge, as long as they felt thecause was right and needed to be reported. In this book the exploits of Brown and his veteranteams are revealed for the first time in all their gonzo glory, even as the U.S. military, public, andpolite diplomatic society sometimes shunned their endeavors.

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 432 pages • 48pp photosMay 2013 • hardback • 9781612001937eISBN - 9781612001944

Shanghai 1937Stalingrad on the YangtzePeter Harmsen

This deeply researched book describes one of the forgotten battles of the 20th century. At itsheight it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three millioncivilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventurein China into a general war between the two oldest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led toPearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was apivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world.

In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was instore for the rest of mankind only a few years hence, in theaters around the world. It demonstratedhow technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal.Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, allhappened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II—or perhaps morecorrectly it was the inaugural act in the war—the first major battle in the global conflict.

Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful months whenthe battle raged. The rich cast included China’s ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and hisadversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed thecontinent toward its deadliest conflict ever. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a sternGerman veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army andled it into battle against the Japanese invaders.

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages • 16pp. photosApril 2013 • hardback • 9781612001678eISBN - 9781612001685

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$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages • photos throughoutMay 2013 • hardback • 9781612001814eISBN - 9781612001821

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages • 16pp. illustrationsApril 2013 • hardback • 9781612001654eISBN - 9781612001661

The Tigers of BastogneVoices of the 10th Armored Division during the Battle of the BulgeMichael Collins and Martin King

The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become legend. But howmany students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when theyarrived? And this unit—the 10th Armored Division—continued to play a major role in its defensethroughout the German onslaught.

In The Tigers of Bastogne, authors King and Collins finally detail the travails of this young armoreddivision, which had only arrived in Europe that fall, yet found itself subject to the full brunt ofManteuffel’s Fifth Panzer Army in the Ardennes. At first overwhelmed, and then falling back toprotect the vital crossroads, the 10th Armored was reinforced (not “saved”) by the ScreamingEagles, and its men and tanks went on to contribute largely to America’s victory in its largest battleof the war.

General Anthony McAuliffe, of the 101st Airborne, said, “It seems regrettable to me that CombatCommand B of the 10th Armored Division didn’t get the credit it deserved at the battle ofBastogne. All the newspaper and radio talk was about the paratroopers. Actually the 10thArmored Division was in there a day before we were and had some very hard fighting before weever got into it.”

Fortunately, in this book, the historical record is finally corrected. With their trademark style, Kingand Collins, through their firsthand interviews with veterans, bring us straight into the combats ofthe 10th Armored, equaling the balance between the brave paratroopers and gallant tankers who,together, held off Germany’s last major offensive in the West.

Special Operations in the American RevolutionRobert Tonsetic

When the American Revolution began, the colonial troops had little hope of matching HisMajesty’s highly trained, experienced British and German legions in confrontational battle. Indeed,Washington’s army suffered defeat after defeat in the first few years of the war. However, theAmericans did have a trump, in a reservoir of tough, self-reliant frontier fighters, who were bravebeyond compare, and entirely willing to contest the King’s men with unconventional tactics. In thisbook, Robert Tonsetic describes and analyzes examples of special operations conducted during theRevolutionary War. Most of the operations were conducted by American irregulars and volunteerswith specialized skills, and led by leaders with native intelligence.

While General Washington endeavored to confront the Empire on conventional terms, hemeantime relied on his small units to keep the enemy off balance. The fledgling Continental Navyand Marines soon adopted a similar strategy. As the war continued, Washington increasingly reliedon special operations forces in the northeast as well as in the Carolinas. When the British and theirIndian allies began to wage war on American settlements west of the Appalachians, Washingtonhad to again rely on partisan and militias to conduct long-range strikes and raids targeting enemyforts and outposts.

Throughout the war, what we today call SpecOps were an integral part of American strategy, andmany of the lessons learned and tactics used at the time are still studied by modern day SpecialOperations forces. As this book establishes, the improvisation inherent in the American spiritproved itself well during the Revolution, continuing to stand as an example for our future martialendeavors.

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Barksdale’s ChargeThe True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863Phillip Thomas Tucker

On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry itwas unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms ofhow the conflict had turned a corner—from persistent Confederate hopes to impending Rebeldespair. But Pickett’s Charge was crushed by the Union defenders that day, having never had achance in the first place.

The Confederacy’s real “high tide” at Gettysburg had come the afternoon before, during theconflagration when Longstreet’s corps entered the battle, when the Federals barely held on. Theforemost Rebel spearhead on that second day was Barksdale’s Mississippi brigade.

Barksdale’s brigade was already renowned in the Army of Northern Virginia for its stand-alonefights at Fredericksburg. On the second day of Gettysburg it was just champing at the bit to go in.Longstreet began to launch McLaws’ division, and finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead. TheMississippians utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to CemeteryRidge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals desperately struggled to find units to stem theRebel tide.

Barksdale was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion,finally ended the day’s fight as the Federal units on their heights took stock. They had barely heldon against the Rebels, on a day that decided the fate of the nation. Barksdale’s Charge describesthe exact moment when the Confederacy reached its zenith, and the soldiers of the Northernstates just barely succeeded in retaining their perfect Union.

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 384 pages • 16pp photosMay 2013 • hardback • 9781612001791eISBN - 9781612001807

Behind the LinesA Critical Survey of Special Operations in World War IIMichael Dilley

The array of new technologies that came on the scene in the early 20th century resulted in widelyvaried new forms of military special operations once civilization embarked on its greatest war.Suddenly, fighting men could be delivered by parachute, submarine, glider, jeeps, and fastamphibious craft deep into enemy territory to perform special tasks; yet others would continue toperform missions the same as their ancestors in previous wars—on foot using stealth, enduranceand patience.

This work contains discussions of the employment of various special purpose, special missionorganizations during World War II. These units operated in Allied and Axis countries and in varioustheaters of war including Europe, North Africa, the Pacific, Asia, and the continental United States.Representing every major combatant, the operations include various kinds of raids, intelligencegathering missions, support to partisan/guerrilla groups, prisoner rescues, direct-action missions,and at least two where the object was simply to steal something. Some missions would have beenofficially denied if the operations had been caught in the act.

The book is divided into two sections: Behind Enemy Lines and Behind Friendly Lines, todemonstrate that special-purpose organizations can be employed wherever needed, even in areascontrolled by military units of their own or allied countries. Many of the units described run thegamut of special mission types, from commando to parachute units, reconnaissance to sabotageunits, and partisan training units as well as those with combined missions.

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages • 16pp. photosMarch 2013 • hardback • 9781612001838eISBN - 9781612001845

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$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages • 16 pp. photosMay 2013 • hardback • 9781612001616eISBN - 9781612001623

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages • 16 pp. photosMay 2013 • hardback • 9781612001265eISBN - 9781612001388

Hitler’s Wave-Breaking ConceptAn Analysis of the German End-Game in the Baltic, 1944–45Henrik Lunde

Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany’s strategy inthe north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war turned, and gigantic Russian armies began toclose in on Berlin. In this long-awaited work, Henrik Lunde turns his sights to the withdrawal ofArmy Group North.

Providing analysis to the problem, Lunde acknowledges that Hitler had valid reasons to maintaincontrol of the Baltic coast. Without it, his supply of iron ore from Sweden would have been cut off,German naval bases would have been compromised, and an entire simpatico area of Europe wouldhave been forsaken. On the other hand, Germany’s maintaining control of the Baltic would havemeant convenient supply for forces on the coast, and perhaps most important, remaining Germandefensive pockets behind the Soviets’ main drive to Europe would tie down offensive forces.However, the German high command had to make quick decisions and gamble, with the fate ofhundreds of thousands of troops and the entire nation at stake on quickly decided throws of theirdice.

As Henrik Lunde details in this work, Hitler guessed wrong. By leaving four battle-hardened armiesin isolation along the Baltic, the Soviets pulling up to the Oder River encountered weakeropposition than they had expected. Having economic resources of their own, they cared little forHitler’s own supply line and instead lunged at his center of power: Berlin. Once that was taken theremaining German pockets could be wiped out. The Germans deprived themselves of many of theirstrongest forces when they most needed them, and the climactic battle for their capital took place.

Taking FireSaving Captain Aikman—The Heroic Rescue of a Phantom Pilot from NorthVietnam by the Air Force's Guardian AngelsKevin O’Rourke and Joe Peters

American military special operations forces have become a well-recognized and respected part ofour popular culture. But whom do these elite warriors look to in their times of greatest need: whenwounded on the battlefield, cut off deep behind enemy lines, or adrift in the expanse of theworld’s oceans? They look skyward, hoping to catch a glimpse of their own personal guardianangel: a U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper.

Taking Fire provides a look into the heroism of this little known segment of the Air Force SpecialTactics community by focusing on one of the most dramatic rescues of the Vietnam War. It wasJune 1972 and Capt. Lynn Aikman is returning from a mission over North Vietnam when his F-4Phantom is jumped by an enemy MiG and shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton ejectfrom their crippled aircraft, but Hanton lands near a village and is captured. Injured during theejection, Aikman lands some distance from the village, and there is a chance that he can beresuced.

On the ground, Captain Aikman looks up and suddenly sees his guardian angel in the form of USAFPararescue Jumper Chuck McGrath. As Sergeant McGrath is preparing to hook the downed pilot toa hoist line, he sees it fall to the ground. Hostile fire on the rescue helicopter has damaged thehoist mechanism causing the operator to cut the line. While circling A-1 Skyraiders strafe themilitia to keep them away from Aikman and McGrath, the helicopter crew races to come up with aplan. It’s getting dark, and they’ll only have one chance.

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Four-War BoerThe Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus KruelerColin Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis

The amazing life of Pieter Krueler provides a window into a full century of conflict such as one manrarely experiences. Four-War Boer traces Krueler’s life from the Second Boer War through hisservice in World War I with the German army in East Africa, to the Spanish Civil War to World WarII, and on into the latter part of the 20th century, when he served as a mercenary during the 1960sCongo Crisis.

This biography of a remarkable man and warrior is based on six years of historical research throughsecondary and primary sources as well as extensive interviews with Krueler himself. Interviewswith German officers and others who knew Krueler add first-person testimony and give the workthe immediacy of a memoir.

Following the Boer defeat, Krueler sided with the Germans during the East African Campaign. Healso operated in the Belgian Congo where he led native soldiers on missions. After WWI, Krueler’sdistrust of the rising Fascist and Communist movements led him to volunteer as a mercenaryduring the Spanish Civil War. In World War II, he worked as a reserve officer instructor, and later asa coast watcher to guard the coast of South Africa from German incursion.

Krueler later served as a mercenary during the 1960s Congo Crisis. A chapter of this book isdevoted to the formation of Rhodesia’s Selous Scouts. This material includes fascinating newinformation, and breaks the secrecy surrounding Rhodesian and South African special operations,as unveiled through the experience of a man who was a founding father of counterinsurgency inAfrica.

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages • 16pp. photosMay 2013 • hardback • 9781612001753eISBN - 9781612001760

Assault from the SkyU.S Marine Corps Helicopter Operations in VietnamDick Camp

This work describes U.S. Marine Corps helicopter operations, including their actions and evolution,throughout the Vietnam War. The book is divided into parts spanning the three stages of theCorps’ combat deployment: “Buildup (1962–1966),” “Heavy Combat (1967–1969),” and “The BitterEnd (1975).” Each part includes chapters devoted to “telling the story” of Marine helicopters fromthe individual to the strategic level.

Vietnam has often been called our “first helicopter war,” and indeed the U.S. Marine Corps, as wellas Army, had to feel its way forward during the initial combats. But by 1967 the combat wasraging across South Vietnam, with confrontational battles against the NVA, on a scale comparableto the great campaigns of WWII. In 1968, when the Communists launched their mammothcounteroffensive, the Marines were forced to fight on all sides, with the helicopter giving them theadditional dimension that proved decisive in repelling the enemy.

The author, a Vietnam veteran, uses his experiences as a company commander to bring the story tolife by weaving personal accounts, after-action reports and official documents into a remarkablyreadable narrative of service and sacrifice by Marine pilots and crewmen. The entire story of thewar is here depicted through the prism of Marine helicopter operations, from the first deploymentsto support the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) against the Viet Cong through the rapidUnited States buildup to stop the North Vietnamese Army, until the final withdrawal from ourEmbassy.

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages • photos throughoutApril 2013 • hardback • 9781612001289eISBN - 9781612001401

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$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 248 pages • 48 illustrationsFebruary 2013 • hardback • 9781612001777eISBN - 9781612001784

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages • 16pp photosApril 2013 • hardback • 9781612001852eISBN - 9781612001869

Or Go Down in FlameA Navigator’s Death Over SchweinfurtW. Raymond Wood

Though Anglo-American air power may be unrivaled in today’s world, this was certainly not thecase during Europe’s last great war. “Black Thursday,” the second Schweinfurt raid, was the mostsavagely fought air battle in U.S. history, and a milestone in the course of World War II. On October14, 1943, the U.S. Eighth Air Force launched nearly 300 bombers deep into German territory todestroy the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, hoping this would bring enemy industry to a halt.

On that day, hundreds of German fighters raced among the unescorted B-17s, knocking downplane after plane, each with ten men aboard. Other German aircraft flew just outside machine-gunrange of the formations, lobbing rockets that exploded into thousands of pieces of shrapnel. U.S.bombers that split off from a formation became prey for the agile packs of German fighters whowould set upon them like wolves thirsty for a kill. By the end of the day, the flight path of theFlying Fortresses was marked across the breadth of Germany by towering pillars of smoke fromcrashed machines, fiery tributes to 600 lost airmen.

W. Raymond Wood was a child when his brother was lost in the Schweinfurt raid, and the minutedetails of this book is the result of his effort to illuminate “Black Thursday” as no writer has before.He not only reveals the experience of the American flyers in this famous battle, but that of thecivilians on the ground and the enemy fighters who flew against the bomber stream, including theMe-110 pilot who in all probability destroyed his brother’s plane with a rocket.

General Gordon GrangerThe Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind “Juneteenth”Robert C.Conner

This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army fromdefeat at the Battle of Chickamauga. Immediately after the war, his actions sparked the“Juneteenth” celebrations of slavery’s end, which continue to this day.

Granger’s first battle was at Wilson’s Creek and he soon rose through the ranks in early 1863 vyingwith Forrest and Van Dorn for control of central Tennessee. The artillery platform he erected atFranklin would soon overlook the death knell of the main Confederate army in the west. Granger’sfirst fame came at Chickamauga, when the Rebel Army of Tennessee came within a hair’s-breadthof destroying the Union Army of the Cumberland. Without orders, Granger marched his ReserveCorps to the scene of the action. Bringing fresh ammunition and hurling his men againstLongstreet’s oncoming legions, Granger provided just enough breathing space to prevent thatUnion defeat from becoming the worst battle disgrace of the war.

Granger was then given command of a full infantry corps, but just proved too odd of a fellow topromote further. At Chattanooga he got on the nerves of U.S. Grant for going off to shoot cannonsinstead of commanding his troops and Sherman had no use for him either. So he went down tojoin Farragut in the conquest of Mobile, leading land operations against the Confederate forts.

This biography sheds new light on a colorful commander who fought through the war in the Westfrom its first major battles to its last, and even left his impact on the Reconstruction beyond.

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The Last Hot Battle of the Cold WarSouth Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil WarPeter Polack

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America preparedto claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where forces from both sides viedfor control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein.

The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, had only to wipe out a massive resistancegroup, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to claim full sovereignty over the country. Agiant FAPLA offensive so threatened to succeed in overcoming UNITA that apartheid-era SouthAfrica stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted theAngolan government to call on their own foreign reinforcements—the army of Communist Cuba’s.

Thus began the epic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, largely unknown in the U.S., but which raged forthree months in the entirely odd match-up of South African Boers vs. Castro’s armed forces, whichfor the first time in the Cold War proved what it could achieve.

The South Africans were no slouches at warfare themselves, but had suffered under a boycott ofweapons since 1977. The Cubans and Angolan troops had the latest Soviet weapons, easilydelivered. But UNITA had its secret U.S. supply line and the South Africans knew how to fight.Meantime the Cubans overcame their logistic difficulties with an impressive airlift of troops overthe Atlantic, while the Boers simply needed to drive next door.

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages • 16pp photosApril 2013 • hardback • 9781612001913eISBN – 9781612002019

Crossing the WireOne Woman's Unlikely Journey to the Afghan War, and Her SuprisingRevelations about the Dangers We FaceAnnaMaria Cardinalli, Ph.D.

When an explosive U.S. military report on the topic of sexuality in southern Afghanistan wasleaked into mainstream American media, it generated a firestorm of attention and reaction. Whilesome of the findings regarding Afghan sexual practices were simply of cultural interest, otherfindings were of grave humanitarian concern, such as the cyclical abuse of young boys,perpetuated over countless generations. Because the topic became sensationalized, the author ofthe report, Dr. AnnaMaria Cardinalli, was discouraged to see her findings somewhat distorted in apublic light. In this book, she takes the opportunity to provide the context of her research, whichis as unique and revealing as the report itself.

Instead of a further academic account, this book is the author’s journal—in fact “journey”—apersonal invitation into the life and rare experience of a woman working on the farthest front of theWar on Terror. As a member of one of the Pentagon’s “Human Terrain Teams,” in the Pashtun south ofAfghanistan, this read is not only interesting for its findings on Afghan sexuality but for its intimatewindow into the fascinating and almost surreal difficulty of our military’s job in that country andbeyond, and the surprisingly indispensable place of a woman’s hand in the world of war.

Through the author’s eyes, we ultimately experience the ways in which the issue of Afghansexuality has profound impact on concerns from women’s rights to Afghanistan’s economicdevelopment and security to the recruitment and development of the terrorist threat to theWestern world—a threat, she argues, we will not be free of without attention to this cycle ofviolence.

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages • 16pp. photosJune 2013 • hardback • 9781612001951eISBN - 9781612001968

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Vintage Aviation Series

Wings of WarAn Airman’s Diary ofthe Last Year of theWarRudolf Stark

$29.95 • 5 x 7.5228 pages • June 2013hardback9781612001876 • eISBN - 9781612001883

This is a rare day-to-day account by a youngGerman squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35during the grim last year of the war. Originallypublished in 1933, it provides minutedescriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans’step-by-step retreat in the face of increasinglyoverwhelming Allied forces in the air.

Brutally honest and vividly written, Stark’saccount of the end-game of the ImperialGerman Army Air Service provides an intimate,front-row glimpse of the death-throes of aonce feared corps. This book also containsreproductions of some of the author’s paintingsdepicting life on the Western Front.

Fighter Pilot“McScotch”

$29.95 • 5 x 7.5 • 276pages • April 2013 •hardback •9781612001463 •eISBN -9781612001470

“McScotch” himself describes his book and paystribute to a colleague in this note:“This book consists of the reminiscences of anordinary fighter pilot of the R.F.C. who had theprivilege of serving in one of the leading FighterSquadrons and who had the honor of being thefriend of the supreme fighter of all the AirForces, that indomitable and lovable patriot.”

Available records and publications show“McScotch” himself as a fighter pilot holdingthe rank of lieutenant and then captain. He iscredited with 12 kills of German opponents.

AnAirfighter’sScrapbookIra Jones

$29.95 • 5 x 7.5 • 338pages • March 2013 •hardback •9781612001500 • eISBN - 9781612001517

Ira “Taffy” Jones was a well-known air fighterduring the First World War, having scoredabout 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in Francewith 74 Squadron.

An Air Fighter’s Scrap Book recreates theatmosphere of the days of the biplane, ofwartime flying, of early peacetime adventuresin the air, the development of civil aviation,and breathtaking record beating flights, allevoking the sheer delight in flying thatcharacterized those early years.

Night Raidersof the AirA.R. Kingsford

$29.95 • 5 x 7.5 • 222pages • March 2013 •hardback •9781612001487 • eISBN -9781612001494

A.R. Kingsford flew with 100 Squadron, theunit that dropped the first bomb at night onGermany and, on November 11, 1918, the lastone.

One of the many who came to Europe from allover the Commonwealth to fight in the FirstWorld War, Kingsford had sailed from NewZealand in 1914. Full of incident andadventure, Night Raiders of the Air is a first-person account by this young Commonwealthvolunteer on his experiences during the waragainst Germany.

Jagdstaffel356The Story of aGerman FighterSquadronM.E. Kähnert

$29.95 • 5 x 7.5126 pages • April 2013hardback • 9781612001449eISBN - 9781612001456

Although the author has given this Jagdstaffela fictitious number and changed the names ofthe pilots composing it, the incidents related inthis book have the genuine ring of truth andwill be recognized as facts by anyone who hashad experience of flying on the Western Frontor who has studied it since. Many expertsbelieve this work draws on the experience ofthe Bavarian Jasta 35, which flew against theBritish; however, whatever its real number mayhave been, Jagdstaffel 356 undoubtedly foughtin the air over Flanders in 1918.

This book is an exciting account, obviouslywritten from firsthand experience, of the airwar from the German side.

German WarBirds‘Vigilant”

$29.95 • 5 x 7.5 • 288 pages • June 2013hardback • 9781612001890eISBN - 9781612001906

This book, originally written in 1931 by“Vigilant” (the pen name for Claude Sykes), tellsthe tales of air combat by the German pilots ofthe First World War. Manfred von Richthofen,Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke and otherfamous flyers are joined by equally resourcefulcolleagues such as Rudolph von Eschwege andHand Shuz, taking part in battles in the sky andclose escapes on the ground when broughtdown on the wrong side of the lines.

German War Birds contains some of the earliestinformation to appear after the war about aircombat in the Middle East and Russia, as well asthe Western Front, and about the significance ofobservation balloons as targets that were viciouslyattacked. The author focuses on the heart of theaction and recreates the experiences of theairborne war with immediacy and excitement.

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Attack on Pearl HarborStrategy, Combat, Myths,DeceptionsAlan. D. Zimm

$18.95 • 6 x 9 • 464 pages • 16pp photosApril 2013 • paperback • 9781612001975eISBN - 9781612000213

“Nothing previously published has offeredsuch a close examination of Japanesestrategy . . . an in-depth study of theJapanese planning, preparation and execution of the attack withparticular focus on factors not thoroughly considered by otherhistorians, if at all . . . detailed analyses that lead to a much betterunderstanding of what the Japanese did, why they did it, and especiallyhow the attack was very nearly an abject failure instead of a stunningsuccess.”—Naval Institute Proceedings

“The first militarily professional description of the Pearl Harbor attack,and for those who are serious about military history and operations, it isa joy to read. . . . a superb military analysis of the attack . . . not onlyrenders all other histories of Pearl Harbor obsolete, it has set the barhigh for other histories of the Pacific War.”—War In History

The Tank KillersA History of America’s World War IITank Destroyer ForceHarry Yeide

$18.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 16pp photosApril 2013 • paperback • 9781932033809eISBN – 9781935149736

This is the story of the specialized U.S.armored force designed specifically to killenemy tanks in direct combat. It followsthe men who fought in the TDs from the formation of the force in 1941through the victory over the Third Reich in 1945, through North Africa,Italy, France, and Germany, describing a story of American flexibilityand pragmatism in military affairs. It draws heavily on the records ofthe tank destroyer battalions and the units with which they fought,and veterans of the force add their personal stories.

“This thoroughly researched and well-presented history of a relativelylittle known, but significant, contributor to victory is a valuableaddition to US Army history”—Journal of America’s Military Past

TirpitzThe Life and Death of Germany’sLast Super BattleshipNiklas Zetterling and Michael Tamelander

$18.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • May 2013paperback • 9781612001982 • eISBN -9781612000497

After the Royal Navy’s bloody high seascampaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, theAllies were left with an uncomfortabletruth—the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger thanher sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable of destroying any otherbattleship afloat, as well as wreak havoc on Allied troop and supplyconvoys. For the next three and a half years, the Allies launched avariety of attacks to remove Germany’s last serious surface threat.

“The authors have woven Tirpitz’s story quite well, and in doing soexplain the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding thesuper battleship. Their book is an excellent study of an aspect of navalstrategy the Germans used with such aplomb . . . a welcome addition tomy library.”—Naval Historical Foundation

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The McGurk’s BarBombingCollusion, Cover-up and aCampaign for TruthCiarán MacAirt

$16.95 • 5 x 7.5 • 244 pages • March 2013Frontline Noir • paperback • 9781904684930

In the early evening of Saturday 4thDecember 1971, British extremists of theUlster Volunteer Force planted a no-warning bomb on the doorstep of afamily-run bar in north Belfast. They killed 15 men, women andchildren - the country’s most devastating massacre of civilians since theNazi Blitz. Nevertheless, the innocent victims were to become theforgotten victims of a dirty war.

British Government, military and RUC police sources immediately statedthat the bombing was an IRA “own-goal” even though the full weight ofevidence, including a witness who saw the bomb being planted, provedotherwise. As the families buried their loved ones, the State drip-fedblack propaganda into the intelligence stream and the media. Sincethen the families have fought tirelessly and constitutionally to cleartheir names. For many, the McGurk’s Bar Massacre was a turning pointin the conflict.

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The Armies of Bismarck’s WarsThe Army of Prussia-History, Uniforms and Equipment, 1860–1867Bruce Bassett Powell

$69.95 • 8 x 10 • 392 pages • June 2013 • hardback • 9781935149231

On July 3rd, 1866 a Prussian army overwhelmed and defeated an Austrian army near the fortress city of Königgrätz ina bloody battle that lasted all day. At a stroke, the foremost power in Germany and central Europe had been reducedto a second rate player. How was an upstart country like Prussia able to upset the balance of power in Europe? Onlysixteen years before it had been put in its place by Austria with the treaty of Olmütz. Its performance as an Austrianally had been less than stellar in the 2nd Schleswig War of 1864 despite its defeat of the Danes at Düppel.

The story of this army is the subject of this book. Bruce Basset Powell shows how the confluence of three men’slives; King William I, Helmuth von Molkte and Otto von Bismarck provided the essential ingredients that createdthis victorious army. The growth and influence of the General Staff is examined along with the recruitment andtraining of officers and men. He fully describes the organization of the army and the fledgling navy as well as theweapons with which they fought. In particular he gives a detailed account of their dress and accoutrementsaccompanied by 24 full page color illustrations depicting over 70 uniforms.

Deutsche LuftwaffeUniforms and Equipment of the German PilotSantiago GuillenGustavo Cano

$65.00 • 8 x 12 • 310 pages • June 2013 • Andrea Press • hardback • 9788496658394

When World War II began, Germany’s Luftwaffe was the most powerful air force yet seen, achieving victory aftervictory in tandem with the German Army. But as other great powers rose to combat Hitler, the supremacy of theMe-109, Stuka, and Focke-Wulf soon began to pale before vast fleets of Allied warplanes which German industrycould hardly match.

Nevertheless, while “flying till they died,” Luftwaffe pilots continued to write a record of heroism and innovation,until at the very end of the war they nearly gained the edge again with their aces flying the world’s first jetfighter, the Me-262.

In this large, lavishly illustrated, full-color work we gain an intimacy with the daily life of Luftwaffe pilots as neverseen before. From their uniforms to equipment to everyday sundries, drawn from incredible collections ofmemorabilia, we can share their experiences on airfields or in the very skies of Europe, above the dark causewhich unfortunately they served.

Finding Your Father’s WarA Practical Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War II US ArmyJonathan Gawne

$24.95 • 7 x 10 • 352 pages • May 2013 • paperback • 9781612001999 • eISBN - 9781612002002

Originally published in 2006 and selling through three printings, this invaluable guide has been revised andupdated for a new edition. In this work, leading military historian and researcher, Jonathan Gawne, explains andshares the techniques he uses to research archives, libraries, veteran associations, and myriad other sources ofinformation to track down wartime careers.

The book provides an overview of the Army in World War II. It goes on to explain how to find information fromsuch sources as discharges, uniforms, paperwork, the National Personnel Records Center, National Archives, otherfacilities, and what you can expect from veterans organizations. The book also helps you to assemble the data youhave collected and piece together the story of your relatives’ wartime service.

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Airfile Publications

Operation TorchThe Invasion of French North Africa - November to December 1942Compiled by Neil Robinson

$35.00 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 76 pages • Now Available • paperback • 9780956980250

Operation “Torch” was the code name of the first Angle American amphibious operation of World War Two,launched against Vichy French controlled Morocco and Algeria, on 8 November 1942.

Featuring a wide and eclectic range of aircraft types operated by both sides, who carried an equally wide range ofcolor schemes and markings, the well-researched and detailed illustrations in “Operation Torch” providefascinating coverage of this important first amphibious operation of World War Two.

British Experimental, Development and Test Aircraft 1945 – 2010

$35.00 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 76 pages • 150 illustrations and 20 photosMarch 2013 • paperback • 9780956980274

Covering the fascinating and eclectic mix of ex-RAF service types, and specifically designed experimental anddevelopment aircraft that were used by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Airplane & Armament ExperimentalEstablishment and the Empire Test Pilots School from the end of World War Two until the turn of the 20th century.

RAF Middle East Air Force & Near East Air Force1945 – 1979

$35.00 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 76 pages • 100 Illustrations and 30 photographsMarch 2013 • paperback • 9780956980281

The aircraft and color schemes of the many and varied aircraft used by the RAF in the Middle East and Near EastAir Forces following World War Two, which traces the gradual withdrawal of British interests in these often volatileareas during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

RAF Trainers Volume 21945 – 2010Tim Walsh

$35.00 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 76 pages • 120 illustrations and over 25 photosSeptember 2013 • paperback • 9780956980298

Following the publication of ‘RAF Trainers Volume 1’, Volume 2, continues the story of the color schemes andmarkings, from the immediate post-war era in 1945, with the introduction of jet-engined types, through thesecond half of the 20th century and in to the 21st century, including the aircraft types used today.

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Amber Books

The Marine CorpsThree Centuries of GloryB. L. Crumley

$19.98 • 9 x 11.75 • 272 pages230 photographs and artworks • January 2013paperback • 9781909160453

The United States Marine Corps is one of themost famous military units in the world. TheMarine Corps: Three Centuries of Glory tells thestory behind a unit that has seen action acrossthe world in its long and illustrious history. Thebook begins with the Marine Corps’ originsduring the colonial period, where battalions ofAmerican Marines were raised to fight alongsidetheir British counterparts. It was not until 1798,however, that the Marine Corps was finallyofficially created by an act of Congress. Sincethat date, it has fought in Central America,China, World War I, World War II, Korea,Vietnam, Beirut, Grenada, the Persian Gulf, andmore recently Afghanistan. The book describesthe full combat record of Marines over the yearsand details the Marine Corps’ organization,equipment, uniforms, and insignia. Informationboxes give detailed descriptions of some of themen who have made the Marine Corps what it istoday, and of events where the Marine Corpshave gained its glorious reputation. BelleauWood, Iwo Jima, Inchon, Khe Sanh: these greatbattles have gone down in military history.Illustrated with black-and-white and colorphotographs and full-color artwork, The MarineCorps is a definitive history of one of the world’sgreatest fighting units.

KurskThe Greatest Tank BattleM. K. Barbier

$29.95 • 7.75 x 9.25 • 192 pages200 photographs • May 2013hardback • 9781782740223

In July 1943, the German Army launched whatproved to be its last great offensive on theEastern Front. Kursk is a comprehensive historyof the last time that Germany held the strategicinitiative in the war against the Soviet Union.Once that initiative was lost, a vengeful RedArmy set the course for the eventual destructionof the Nazi state. Kursk shows how a bitterstruggle developed between the German andSoviet forces, which sucked in huge numbers oftanks, and men into a small area, becoming thegreatest armored battle of the war. The RedArmy of 1943 was very different from the forcethat reeled before the German onslaught in1941, and its newfound professionalism andgreater numbers wore down the attackers untilall their momentum (and the battle) was lost.The final chapter discusses the full implicationsof the battle for the Germans and Russians. Thebook’s authoritative text is complemented withdetailed maps that explain the troopmovements that took place during the battle. Italso includes appendices with information onorders of battle, losses and equipment. Kursk isan expert account of the moment when theNazi state lost the initiative against the USSRand how then the course was set for theeventual destruction of Nazi Germany.

StalingradThe Infernal CauldronStephen Walsh

$29.95 • 7.75 x 9.25 • 192 pages200 photographs • May 2013hardback • 9781909160583

The German invasion of the Soviet Union wasHitler’s biggest gamble in his quest forLebensraum in the East – and it was atStalingrad that his gamble failed. Stalingrad isa history of the greatest battle of World War II,a defining moment in the struggle on theEastern Front. From conditions on the EasternFront before the battle to the consequences ofthe battle for both combatants, Stalingrad is acomprehensive account of the build-up,engagement, turning points and aftermath ofwhat became the Verdun of World War II. Withauthoritative text and rarely seen photographs,Stalingrad shows how the rubble-strewn citygave rise to a bitter hand-to-hand strugglebetween both sides, and how landmarks suchas the Mamaev Kurgan Hill could change hands17 times in a single day. With battle maps, 170photographs and appendices, Stalingrad is afascinating and vivid account of the battle thatbled the German army dry, and turned the warin the East decisively against Germany.

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Amber Books

Visual Encyclopedia ofShipsDavid Ross

$40.00 • 9 x 11.25 • 449 pages • April 2013paperback • 9781907446245

From the dawn of civilization, man has held afascination with the sea and over the centurieshas built myriad ships and sailing craft for anequally diverse range of purposes. Ships: VisualEncyclopedia provides a fascinating at-a-glance guide to more than 1200 of the mostimportant ships from the earliest times to thepresent day. From the Viking longship throughthe 16th century galleon to the super carriersand nuclear submarines of the 21st century,Ships: Visual Encyclopedia includes everyconceivable type of ship in which man hasgone to sea. As well as warships from everycentury, this book also examines those vesselsthat have explored the globe, conducted trade,and afforded great adventure andentertainment. Ships: Visual Encyclopedia isthe comprehensive guide to all the world’sships, both military and civilian. Each ship isillustrated with a profile illustration,accompanied by brief details andspecifications, and vessels are arrangedchronologically and by use to allow easycomparison. Timelines of design anddevelopment are also provided on many pageswhere appropriate, giving a sense of thehistory of each type of ship. With 1200outstanding color illustrations, Ships: VisualEncyclopedia is an essential reference book formaritime and ship enthusiasts.

Fighting Techniques ofthe Medieval World500–1500Equipment, Combat Skills and TacticsMatthew Bennett et al.

$17.98 • 8 x 10 • 256 pages • 20 color maps, 25 photographs and 100 artworksFebruary 2013 • paperback • 9781909160477

Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Worlddescribes the fighting techniques of soldiers inwhat has been characterized as the ‘age ofchivalry’. The book explores the tactics andstrategy required to win battles and points outhow the development of such weaponstechnology changed the face of the battlefield.Divided into five sections, the text firstexamines the individual components of themedieval army, the foot soldier and themounted soldier, the equipment they wore andused, and how they fought together as a unit.

Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Worlddescribes why certain types of units were moreeffective than others. The third sectiondiscusses how these units were used togetheron the battlefield. It also examines thecontrasting tactics of both sides during thecrusades, and points out the variousshortcomings of the crusaders and theirleaders. The fourth part of the book looks atthe specialist techniques and equipmentdeveloped for siege warfare. Finally, the lastsection covers naval warfare, from the ships inwhich the men fought to the weapons theycarried and the major battles of the period.Using specially commissioned color and black-and-white artworks to illustrate the battles,equipment and tactics of the era, this bookshows in detail the methods by which armiesgained and lost ascendancy on the battlefield.

Fighting Techniques ofthe Ancient World 3000BCE–500CEEquipment, Combat Skills and TacticsSimon Anglim et al.

$17.98 • 8 x 10 • 256 pages • 20 color maps, 25 photographs and 100 artworksFebruary 2013 • paperback • 9781909160460

Fighting Techniques of the Ancient Worlddescribes the fighting techniques of soldiers inEurope and the Middle East in an age beforegunpowder. The book explores the uniquetactics required to win battles with thetechnology available, and points out how littlehas changed in some respects in the art of war.Using specially commissioned color and black-and-white artworks to illustrate the battles,equipment and tactics of the era, FightingTechniques of the Ancient World shows indetail the methods by which armies, includingAssyrians and Roman forces, prevailed overtheir foes, and why other armies were far lesssuccessful. The book is an essential companionfor any reader in warfare in the classical age.

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I Survived the SommeCharles Meeres

$27.95 • 6 x 9.25 • 176 pages60 illustrations • January 2013hardback • 9781445606187

Charles Meeres served on the Western Frontbetween 1915 and 1918. He kept a secretdiary and painted many watercolors of life atthe front.

He described how he fought alongside the men of Kitchener’sarmy at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and daily life in the trenches inthe winter of that year. He was present at the first day of the battleof the Somme. Subsequent battles include the Battle of Arras in1917, and a description from his comrades of the Third Battle ofYpres. These sections come directly from the diaries as written upeach night by Meeres, and bring to life the daily details of army lifein the dramatic times of the First World War.

Two Years in a GulagThe True Wartime Story of a Polish PeasantExiled to SiberiaFrank Pleszak

$34.95 • 6 x 9.25 • 288 pages • 60 illustrationsFebruary 2013 • paperback • 9781445601779

At the onset of the Second World War, Frank Pleszak’sfather, aged nineteen, was deported from easternPoland to the harsh Gulags of northeastern Siberia.

Freed when Germany invaded Russia, he was never allowed to returnhome and eventually found his way to fight alongside the British Army. Afterthe war ended, he settled in England, completing a journey of over 40,000kilometers.

Like so many of his contemporaries, he spoke very little about it. After hisfather’s death, Frank became intrigued and started researching his early life.As he discovered more and more, Frank became amazed and shocked at theordeals his father had been through.

This true story occurred during a largely unknown and poorly documentedperiod of modern history that has been denied by successive RussianGovernments and largely ignored by western governments and media.

Radar Britain’s Shield andthe Defeat of theLuftwaffeDavid Zimmerman

$22.95 • 4.75 x 7.75352 pages • 30illustrationsMarch 2013 • paperback • 9781445608594

The individual bravery and skill of the Battle ofBritain pilots and the fighting qualities of theiraircraft would have been in vain if they had notbeen part of a highly complex andsophisticated air defense system based onradar. The development of the system in justfive years is one of the most remarkablescientific and technological accomplishmentsof the twentieth century. The creation of theradar defenses has been somewhat overlookedover the years.

Many of the studies of radar have focusedon the development of the technology, withlittle attention given to the creation of themuch larger system for integrating radar intothe nation’s air defenses. This work relates thedevelopment of radar with the diplomatic andair policy concerns of the period.

EvacueesGrowing Up inWartime BritainGeoffrey Lee Williams

$19.95 • 4.75 x 7.75160 pages11 illustrationsApril 2013paperback • 9781445613345

In 1939, at the age of nine Geoffrey Lee Williamsand his twin brother Alan felt ready for the warbut were not ready for its consequences. Thegovernment had long planned the massevacuation of children, under the code name‘Pied Piper’, but the details were kept secretfrom local authorities and the population atlarge. The first wave left British cities on 1September 1939 and by 3 September, a fewhours before war was officially declared, it isestimated that millions of women and childrenhad already been allocated to the plannedreception areas or had been privately evacuated.Geoffrey and Alan were among them.

This book begins with Geoffrey and Alan’sfirst evacuation to Hartley in Kent and thengoes on to record their impressions of theirthree subsequent evacuations and theiradventures, or misadventures until the end ofthe War in 1945.

Norfolk atWarFrank Meeres

$24.95 • 6.5 x 9.25160 pagesJanuary 2013paperback9781445604664

During the Second World War, Norfolk wastruly on the ‘front line’. Being so close to theContinent, air raids were frequent and invasionwas a very real and persistent threat for thepeople of the county. The men and women ofNorfolk took up positions in all branches of theforces to fight for their country.

The American presence in the county wasstrong, and has left a rich archive of personalpapers and photographs, which are now heldat the Norfolk Record Office. This book drawson this material and on the reminiscences ofthose in the county during the war. The book isbeautifully illustrated with contemporaryphotographs, and these enhance theenthralling story being told: of what life waslike during the Second World War.

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WinstonChurchill’sToyshopStuart Macrae

$19.95 • 5 x 8192 pages40 illustrationsJanuary 2013 • paperback • 9781445608426

The inside story of one of the most famous‘back rooms’ of the Second World War.Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumventthe delays of the service ministries,Department M.D.1. earned from its detractorsthe soubriquet ‘Winston Churchill’s Toyshop’,yet from a tiny underground workshop in thecellars of the offices of Radio Normandie, andsubsequently from a millionaire’s mansion,came an array of secret weapons ranging fromthe ‘sticky bomb’ to giant bridge-carryingassault tanks.

Agent RoseBernard O’Connor

$34.95 • 6 x 9264 pages26 color illustrationsJanuary 2013 • hardback9781445608389

In September 2010, thebody of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat inTorquay. With no known friends or relatives, acouncil burial was arranged. A police search ofher belongings found wartime Frenchcurrency, and wartime medals. Furtherinvestigation revealed that she was one of 40women sent into France by the SOE, theSpecial Operations Executive, Churchill’s top-secret wartime ‘spook’ organization. Her storyand her poignant death as a recluse became aninternational media sensation.

Hitler’sEnglishGirlfriendDavid Rehak

$19.95 • 5 x 8 160 pages36 photographsJanuary 2013 • paperback • 9781445608457

Basing his account on the known facts, DavidRehak tells the shocking story of Unity Mitford,an English girl who turned into Hitler’s mostbeloved groupie and most unlikely intimatefriend. Through Rehak’s compelling narrative,we learn about a truly strange and fascinatingyoung girl and her extraordinary relationshipwith perhaps the most evil and mysteriousman in world history.

Desert RatsThe Desert War1940-3 in the Wordsof Those WhoFought ThereJohn Sadler

$34.95 • 7 x 10320 pagesJanuary 2013 • hardback9781848683372

From 1940-3, Britain was engaged in a life anddeath struggle with the Axis powers in NorthAfrica, a titanic, swaying conflict that surgedacross the barren wastes of Egypt, Libya andTunisia.

The British servicemen who were to formthe ‘Desert Rats’ were not professional soldiers;they were drawn from all walks of life and hadnever set foot in the Western Desert. Theburden of the War would rest on them fornearly three years and their final victorycleared the whole of North Africa.

The SecondBattle ofNewbury1644John Barratt

$22.95 • 4.75 x 7.75128 pages34 illustrationsApril 2013 • paperback • 9781445601700

The Second Battle of Newbury marked theclimax of a dramatic summer of fightingduring the English Civil War. By no means thelargest battle of the war, it was neverthelesshighly significant. On no other occasion wasKing Charles closer to death and defeat, or theRoyalist Oxford army nearer to destruction. Yet,in some of the fiercest fighting of the war, theCavaliers withstood the onslaught of anumerically superior enemy and successfullyextricated themselves from a nearly fatal trap.

Doodlebugs,Gas Masks &GumChristina Rex

$19.95 • 5 x 8192 pages80 illustrationsJanuary 2013paperback • 9781445607023

Throughout six years of conflict, beginning 3September 1939, military maneuvers, bombsand exhortations to greater dedication to theWar Effort became the normality for children.For the young, this was a time of greatexcitement. From Dunkirk to D-Day, throughDoodlebugs to Victory, there was hardly a dullmoment and remarkably little fear for childrenas they learned, collected and played underthese bizarre circumstances.

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ArmageddonThe Illustrated Guide toBritain’s Cold WarBob Clarke

$34.95 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages150 illustrations • January 2013paperback • 9781445609157

From the late 1940s to the fall ofCommunist Russia, Britain was atwar. To the general public much ofit was imaginary but the Cold Warwas real nonetheless. Flaring up in1962, with the Cuban missile crisisand in the 1980s with thestandoffs between Reagan andThatcher on one side, with theSoviet leaders on the other.

Piper Cherokee A Family HistoryRon Smith

$24.95 • 6.5 x 9.25 • 96 pages180 illustrations • January 2013paperback • 9781445608501

The Cherokee has been incontinuous production since 1960,and varieties of models are madewith engines of differingspecifications, to give range andfuel economy variations within theclass of aircraft. This bookdescribes the heritage anddevelopment of the entire PiperCherokee family; its safety andownership characteristics; internaland external details; and a rangeof special variants from STOLmodifications and new engines totail wheel conversions.

TransatlanticBetrayalAndrew Porter

$34.95 • 6.75 x 9.75 • 160 pages100 color photos • February 2013paperback • 9781445606491

The RB211 gas turbine engine wasto be the biggest engineeringproject in Britain, and the world’sfirst three-spool turbofan. It hadbeen developed for the LockheedL1011 Tristar and finally enteredservice in 1972. Despite its hugedevelopment costs, it turned Rolls-Royce into a global company,supplying engines for manythousands of airliners and militaryaircraft.

Women in EarlyAviationDean Juniper

$34.95 • 7 x 10 • 192 pagesFebruary 2013 • paperback9781445600956

From the earliest days of balloonsand in the years of heavier than airflight, women have played a rolein the history of flying. The earliestballoonists included Garnerin andBlanchard, both famous for circus-style stunts while ballooning.

War saw women fighter pilotsin Russia and afterwards the thrillseekers took to the air, smashingrecords for distance and speed.Female pilots included Johnston,Earhart, Reitsch and Shenk.

TheAmericanBomberBoysMartin Bowman

$19.95 • 5 x 8320 pages100 illustrations • January 2013 • paperback9781445608587

Asked why he was in Britain, a US servicemanwith the US 8th Air Force quipped, ‘We’re hereto win the war for you’. The men of the US 8thAF dropped more bombs on Germany and Italythan any other air force. Martin Bowma

SpitfireA FighterPlane at WarDilip Sarkar

$34.958.25 x 11.75 • 192 pages • 300 photosFebruary 2013 • paperback • 9781445605852

The elliptical shape and mighty roar of theSupermarine Spitfire continues to inspirepeople all over the world. During the SecondWorld War, the Spitfire became the icon ofBritain’s defiance of Nazi Germany. Today itremains a symbol of national pride – and thefascination in R. J. Mitchell’s little fighter showsno sign of diminishing.

Churchill’sMost SecretAirfieldRAF TempsfordBernard O’Connor

$24.95 • 5 x 8 • 256 pages20 illustrationsFebruary 2013 • paperback • 9781445606903

RAF Tempsford was constructed to giveoverflying enemy aircraft the impression it wasdisused. Nothing could be further from thetruth – just after dusk on moonlit nights,planes from the 138 and 161 Squadrons wouldtake off on top-secret missions to the heart ofthe war-torn Continent. Despite the attentionof Churchill and George VI, the airfield’s secretshave long remained an untold chapter in thestory of the war.

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Fighting High Publishing

FightingHigh – WorldWar Two –Air BattleEuropeVolume OneSteve Darlow

$37.95 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 128 pages • illustratedthroughout in color and b/w • Now Availablehardback • 9780956269607

Based on extensive interviews, firsthandaccounts, original research, and archive sourcesFighting High tells the story of those who tookto the skies to oppose the Axis powers duringWorld War Two.

The stories in Fighting High - World War Two- Air Battle Europe, Volume 1, span the entirewar. In totality an exciting, vivid, and movingaccount of what the airmen went throughwhen they were ‘Fighting High’.

Fighting High– World WarTwo – AirBattle EuropeVolume TwoSteve Darlow

$37.95 • 8.25 x 10.75128 pages • illustrated throughout in color andb/w • Now Available • hardback • 9780956269614

Following the success of Volume 1, acclaimedmilitary aviation author Steve Darlow bringstogether another collection of stories telling ofthe extreme bravery, heroism and sacrifice ofthe men who fought the European air battleduring World War Two.

The second book in the series, as withVolume 1, brings into the public domain aconsiderable amount of original research andnew material, presenting many hitherto untoldstories about the air war. The book includesespecially commissioned original artwork,illustrations and maps.

PathfinderCranswick50th AnniversaryEditionMichael Cumming

$34.95 • 6.25 x 9.25 • 256pages • 16 page photosection • Now Availablehardback • 9780956269676

Alec Cranswick volunteered for the Royal AirForce in 1939 and went on to earn thedistinction of having flown, as a bomber pilot,the largest number of operations during theSecond World War. Tragically, piloting aLancaster bomber on his 107th bombingoperation, Squadron Leader Alec Cranswickfailed to return on the night of 4/5 July 1944.Bomber Command had lost an airmandescribed by Pathfinder Force Commander AirVice-Marshal Donald Bennett, as `so simplycourageous and so selfless in sacrifice.’

Great War toGreat EscapeThe Two Wars ofFlight LieutenantBernard ‘Pop’Green MCLaurence Green

$29.95 • 5.5 x 8.5192 pages • 16 page photo sectionNow Available • hardback • 9780956269638

Bernard Green managed to survive both theFirst and Second World War. He endured mud,destruction and death in the trenches of theWestern Front. Twenty-one years later, Bernardsigned up to fight Germany once more, thistime from the air. In July 1940 his Hampdenbomber was blasted from the sky. He survivedand was captured. For the remainder of thewar Bernard languished behind barbed wire,although he did manage to breakout as part ofthe famous ‘Great Escape’ in March 1944, theoldest man to do so. Bernard was recapturedand, again, was extremely lucky to survive.Fifty of his co-escapers were not so lucky,murdered on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler.

They Gave Mea HurricaneCharles Palliser DFC, AE

$34.95 • 6.25 x 9.25 • 256pages • 16 page photosection • Now Availablehardback9780956269683

As a teenager ‘Tich’ Palliser became ‘hooked onthis flying game’ and aspired to take to theskies. The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserveprovided the opportunity and a few monthsbefore the Second World War broke out theYorkshire-born novice was called-up to learnand develop his skills as a combat fighter pilot.

This is Tich’s story, illustrated withunpublished photographs, the readeraccompanies him through the tensions andemotional trials of being a Second World Warfighter pilot. They Gave Me a Hurricane is anextraordinary, gripping, and enthrallingaccount, as told by one of the RAF’s ‘ace’ fighterpilots – a fitting tribute to an outstandingairman and well respected veteran.

The Battleof Britain:Portraits of theFewChristopher YeomanDavid Pritchard

$37.95 • 8.25 x10.75 • 128 pagesillustrated throughout in color and b/wNow Available • hardback • 9780956269645

The Battle of Britain: Portraits of the Few is anexceptional tribute to the small group oflegendary pilots that served with the Royal AirForce through one of the most critical periodsof the Second World War. Portraits of the Fewcontains over 60 illustrations, capturing theimages and character of the military aviatorswho were designated the ‘Few’. Accompanyingthe portraits are action filled accountsrecounting gripping combats and ferociousencounters as the respective men successfullyresist the might of the Luftwaffe.

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1st Bedfordshires – Part OneMons to the SommeSteven Fuller

$34.95 • 6.25 x 9.25 • 256 pages • 16 page photosection and maps • Now Available • hardback9780956269652

In August 1914 the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment were amongstthe small professional British Army who gathered and prepared for awar that would ‘be over by Christmas’. With a long and proud history,dating back to 1688, the regiment’s fighting men had already servedthrough numerous wars and rebellions over and above long periods ongarrison duties in the ‘Fever Isles’, the New World, and throughout theexpanding British Empire. So when war was declared the ‘OldContemptibles’ of the 1st Battalion would find themselves heavilyengaged in more intense fighting during the first three months of theGreat War, as it came to be known, than many of the newly raised‘Service’ battalions would experience during their entire existence.

1st Bedfordshires – Part TwoArras to the ArmisticeSteven Fuller

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The second part of Steven Fuller’s history of the 1st Battalion, theBedfordshire Regiment, covering the period from October 1916 until theend of the war. In the final two years of the Great War the 1stBedfordshires were engaged at the Battle of Arras, the capture of OppyWood, several phases of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 – Passchendaele,the German Spring Offensives and the final ‘100 Days’ of battles in 1918.

By integrating a wide variety of official and personal sources,supported by maps, and personalized with individual stories andphotographs, Steve Fuller brings the fascinating and extraordinaryhistory of this distinguished battalion and it’s ‘Soldier Lads’ to life.

On Wings ofFortuneA Bomber Pilot’sWarWing CommanderRichard Pinkham DFCSteve Darlow

$29.95 • 6.25 x 9.25 •192 pages • 16 page photo section • NowAvailable • hardback • 9780956269621

Royal Air Force veteran Wing CommanderRichard Pinkham DFC presents the extraordinaryand graphic account of his experiences flying 62World War Two bombing operations. He tells hisstory with candor and without pulling punches,although the occasional humorous anecdotelightens proceedings.

Richard served with the Royal Air Forcethrough the entire war, embarking on hisoperational career amidst the desperate fightfor survival that was the Battle of Britain. Hewent on to take part in some of the largestbombing raids ever carried out againstGermany. With odds of 5 to 1 against him,Richard, unlike so many of his fellow airmen,lived to tell his story. He was then posted toNorth Africa to blast the Axis forces fromTunisia, and finally spent the last year of thewar in the Far East, taking up fascinatingaccident investigation duties.

DamBusters:Failed toReturn

Robert OwenSteve Darlow

$34.95 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 128 pages • illustratedthroughout in color and b/w • January 2013hardback • 9780957116344

On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select groupof young RAF Bomber Command airmencarried out one of the most audacious anddaring low level raids of the Second World War.Nineteen aircrews of No.617 Squadron, flyingmodified Avro Lancasters, each armed with a‘bouncing bomb’, were detailed to attackspecific dams, viewed as essential to Germany’swar effort. Two were indeed breached in anextraordinary display of skill and courage, butat a cost of eight Lancasters lost. Of the 56airmen flying these aircraft, 53 were killed and3 were captured. In Dam Busters: Failed toReturn Fighting High Publishing bringstogether notable Bomber Command historiansto recount the lives of some of the Dam Busterswho were lost that fateful night.

No Flightfrom the CageThe CompellingMemoir of a BomberCommand Prisonerof War during theSecond World WarCalton Younger

$34.95 • 6.25 x 9.25 • 256 pages • 16 pages ofb/w photos and illustrations throughoutJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9780957116351

Originally published in 1956, former Second WorldWar prisoner-of-war Calton Younger’s No Flightfrom the Cage is the story of a young man’sjourney to war, being shot down in May 1942,three years spent behind barbed wire, and ofenduring forced marches as the Nazi statecrumbled. The author also recounts his adventureson the run in France prior to capture and hisreturn to search for the people who helped him.In sensitive, gripping, yet often humorous prose,Cal Younger describes the toils and deprivations ofprison camp life. There is the brutality Calwitnesses. At Stalag Luft VI, an escape campaign,ruthlessly carried out, ends with the suicide andexecution of guards and prisoners. This revisededition incorporates previously unpublishedphotographs along with numerous illustrationsand cartoons depicting camp life, as sketched bythe author while a prisoner-of-war.

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Bomber Command:Failed to ReturnSteve BondSteve Darlow

$34.95 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 128 pages • illustratedthroughout in color and b/w • Now Available• hardback • 9780956269669

With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the RoyalAir Force’s Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating withinminutes of the start of the Second World War. Continually, through toMay 1945, the aircrews, with the odds heavily against them, fought indefiance of Nazi aggression. They defended the British Isles againstinvasion, they took the war directly back to Germany, they supported theAllied land campaigns, they opposed the enemy Navy and U-boatthreats, and they countered the German V-weapon offensives. But thecost was high. A staggering 55,573 airmen would lose their lives, 9,838would become prisoners of war and a further 8,403 would sufferwounds.

Fighting High Publishing brings together notable military aviationauthors to tell the stories of some of those who ‘failed to return’ fromoperations. The carefully selected stories demonstrate the diversity ofoperational duties undertaken by the aircrews, whilst highlighting theextremes of danger they faced, often day after day and night after night.

Bomber Command:Failed to Return IISteve BondSteve Darlow

$34.95 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 128 pages • illustratedthroughout in color and b/w • Now Available• hardback • 9780956269690

The casualty numbers are simply staggering – 55,573 airmen whoserved with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War losttheir lives in the fight against Nazism. A further 9,838 airmen becameprisoners or war and 8,403 were wounded in action. These extraordinaryand unprecedented loss statistics accumulated as the RAF bomber crewsplayed their part in the prosecution of Allied grand strategy: defendingthe British Isles from invasion, blasting the enemy industrialinfrastructure, supporting the Allied land campaigns, and countering theGerman V-weapon menace.

In this second volume concerning Bomber Command aircrew who‘failed to return’, Fighting High Publishing again brings togetheracclaimed historians to tell the stories of those who became casualties.Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, thevast majority previously unpublished, Bomber Command: Failed toReturn II continues to ensure that the memory of the bomber boys, whosacrificed all, is kept alive. ‘Lest we forget.’

Bomber Command –Operation HurricaneThe Story of Those who Flew,Fought, and Failed to Return on 14and 15 October 1944Marc Hall

$34.95 • 6.25 x 9.25 • 256 pages • 16 pagesof b/w photos • January 2013 • hardback9780957116337

On the 14 and 15 October 1944 RAF Bomber Command unleashed one ofthe Second World War’s most devastating bombardments, targeting theGerman industrial city of Duisburg. Known as Operation Hurricane,Bomber Command’s maximum effort involved approximately onethousand four-engine heavy bombers on each attack, delivering awhirlwind assault on the enemy’s war machine as the Allied armiesedged eastwards towards the Nazi homeland.

Never before had the city faced such a massive onslaught. This is thestory of Operation Hurricane from RAF Bomber Command’s perspective,and that of the numerous crews who flew, fought, and failed to return.Each of the aircraft lost has been investigated in depth; the lives of thecrews, the circumstances of their loss, and the identification of theairmen and their respective crash sites.

The BomberCommandMemorialWe Will RememberThemRobin GibbJim Dooley

$34.95 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 128pages • illustrated throughout in color and b/w • Now Availablehardback • 9780957116313

55,573 members of Bomber Command lost their lives during the SecondWorld War, yet no Campaign Medal was awarded and their bravery andsacrifice goes largely unrecognised. At last this is to be corrected withthe erection of the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park, London,in 2012. The journey from the initial idea to the unveiling of thememorial has been a long and complex one for those involved and ‘TheBomber Command Memorial - We Will Remember Them’ tells the storyof the campaign; locating a site, obtaining permission, raising the funds,designing the memorial, and the opening ceremony. The book also tellsthe remarkable story of Bomber Command from the viewpoint of thosewho took part, and veterans reflect on the experiences they had andwhat the memorial means to them. All the royalties for the book go theBomber Command Memorial Fund registered charity.

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Cracking theLuftwaffeCodesThe Secrets ofBletchley ParkGwen Watkins

$24.95 • 4.75 x 7.5 • 240pages • 8 pages of plates • February 2013paperback • 9781848326828

Bletchley Park, or ‘Station X’, was home to themost famous code breakers of the SecondWorld War. After the war, many intercepts,traffic-slips and paperwork were burned. Thetruth about Bletchley was not revealed until F.Winterbotham’s The Ultra Secret was publishedin 1974.

However, nothing until now has beenwritten on the German Air Section. In Crackingthe Luftwaffe Codes, former WAAF (Women’sAuxiliary Air Force) Gwen Watkins brings to lifethe reality of this crucial division.

Disaster atStalingradAn Alternate HistoryPeter Tsouras

$29.95 • 6 x 9.5 • March2013 • hardback9781848326637

It is early September 1942 and the Germancommander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus,is poised to advance on the Russian city ofStalingrad. His primary mission was to take thecity to secure the valuable oil fields in theCaucasus.

What happens next is well known to anystudent of modern history: a brutal war ofattrition that lasted for nearly two years, andthe victory by a resolute Soviet Red Army. Thiswas the first defeat of Hitler’s territorialambitions in Europe and a critical turning pointof WWII.

Memoirs of aStuka PilotHelmut MahlkeTranslated by John Weal

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 320pages • 100 b/wphotographs and 8pages of color drawings • April 2013 • hardback9781848326644

The author’s naval dive-bomber Gruppe wasincorporated into the Luftwaffe upon theoutbreak of war. What follows is a fascinatingStuka pilot’s eye view of some of the mostfamous and historic battles and campaigns ofthe early war years: the Blitzkrieg in France,Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the bombing ofMalta, North Africa, Tobruk, Crete and, finally,the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Hitler StrikesNorthThe Nazi Invasion ofNorway & Denmark,April 9, 1940J. GreeneA. Massignani

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages • 18 maps and 32b/w photos • March 2013 • 9781848326613

More than any other campaign of WWII,Operation Weserubing has been shrouded inmystery. The operation necessitated combiningthe resources of air force, army and navy.

This combined arms assault was the first‘three dimensional’ strategic invasion inhistory. Hitler Strikes North details the courseof this groundbreaking invasion and providesvaluable historical and modern lessons aboutthe role of combined arms planning, thestrategic demand for resources, and the use ofmilitary force.

I Was Hitler’sPilotThe Memoirs ofHans BaurHans Baur$29.95 • 5.25 x 8.5 • 240pages • April 2013hardback •9781848326965

A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baurwas one of the leading commercial aviators ofthe 1920s before being pitched into the thickof it as personal pilot to a certain ‘Herr Hitler’.Hitler, who loathed flying, felt safe with Baurand would allow no one else to pilot him. As aresult, an intimate relationship developedbetween the two men. Hitler relaxed in Baur’scompany and talked freely of his plans and ofhis real opinions about his friends and allies.

Hitler’s JetPlaneThe ME 262 StoryMano Ziegler$19.95 • 6 x 9 • 240pages • 16 pages ofplates • January 2013paperback9781848326996

The first operational military jet in the world,towards the end of the Second World War theME 262 was to be the German ‘miracleweapon’. Mano Ziegler was involved from itsinception and contributed to the design,testing, and training and even served in itoperationally.

Could the ME 262 have broken the Alliedsupremacy in the air? Why did the ME 262prove not to be the unparalleled successclaimed by Goering and why were Germancities left dangerously exposed against Alliedbombing campaigns? These are only some theimportant questions this new book answers.

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Crown Covenant andCromwellThe Civil Wars in Scotland 1639–1651Stuart Reid

$34.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 16 pages of platesJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781848326873

Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is agroundbreaking military history of the GreatCivil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish Waras it was fought in Scotland and by Scottisharmies in England between 1639 and 1651.While the politics of the time are necessarilytouched upon, it is above all the story of thosearmies and the men who marched in themunder generals such as Alexander Leslie, theilliterate soldier of fortune who became Earl ofLeven, James Graham, Marquis of Montroseand of course Oliver Cromwell, the fenlandfarmer and Lord Protector of England.

Historians sometimes seem to regardbattles as rather too exciting to be arespectable field of study, but determining justhow that battle was won or lost is often just asimportant as unraveling the underlyingreasons why it came to be fought in the firstplace or the consequences that followed. Here,Stuart Reid, one of Scotland’s leading militaryhistorians, brings the campaigns and battles ofthose far off unhappy times to life in a fast-paced and authoritative narrative as neverbefore.

Bringers of WarThe Portuguese in Africa During theAge of Gunpowder & Sail from the15th to 18th Century John Laband

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages • 24 pages of platesApril 2013 • hardback • 9781848326583

Long before coal-fuelled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and blackpowder, the Portuguese were engaged allaround the coasts of Africa in capturing tradingtowns, seizing slaves and searching for mineralriches. They fought their ancient Muslim foeswherever they encountered them, overthrewAfrican kingdoms and resisted Dutch, Omaniand Ottoman rivals.

Campaigning over difficult terrain and innotoriously inhospitable climates, these werefar from one-sided contests. Often victory wastheirs, but so too were crushing, ignominiousdefeats in the field, debilitating sieges andhumiliating capitulations. These were clashesbetween very contrasting societies with theirown methods of warfare, choice of weaponryand concepts of what it took to be a heroicwarrior.

The enthralling tale of the Portuguese inAfrica before the nineteenth century deservesto be every bit as familiar as the Spanishconquest of the Americas. Yet, surprisingly,English-speaking readers know few if any oftheir ferocious African wars. In this impeccablyresearched and spellbinding new book, JohnLeband seeks to redress this imbalanceexpertly recalling this remarkable saga in fullfor the first time.

Gurkha TalesFrom Peace and War, 1945–2011John Cross

$34.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages • 16pp of platesJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781848326903

J. P. Cross has spent 67 years among theGurkhas, first as a serving officer and then as aresident of Nepal, being the only foreigner inthe history of the country to be allowed to beboth a house- and land-owner. His languageability is such that, even after 90 minutes ofbeing interviewed on the radio, only thosewho recognized his voice knew he was not aNepali.

With this unparalleled knowledge andexperience, the author has produced a uniqueseries of articles, written over the past fiftyyears. These cover events in his own career,including the time he found himself incommand of a Japanese battalion fightingnationalist guerrillas in Indo-China in 1945,and jungle warfare in Malaya during theEmergency, as well as descriptions of thenature of the Gurkha soldier and hisrelationship with the British, first as part of thearmy of the Raj, and later in the modern BritishArmy.

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1812: TheMarch onMoscowPaul Britten Austin

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 416pages • 16 pages ofplates • January 2013paperback • 9781848327047

More than a third of a million men set out onthat midsummer day of 1812: none can haveimagined the terrors and hardships to come.They would be lured all the way to Moscowwithout having achieved the decisive battleNapoleon sought; and by the time theyreached the city their numbers would alreadyhave dwindled by more than a third.

The fruit of more than twenty years ofresearch, this superbly crafted work skillfullyblends the memoirs and diaries of more than ahundred eyewitnesses to reveal the insidestory of this landmark military campaign. Theresult is a uniquely authentic account in whichthe reader sees and experiences the campaignthrough the eyes of participants at each stageof the advance in enthralling day-by-daydetail.

1812:Napoleon inMoscowPaul Britten Austin

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 256pages • 16 pages ofplates • January 2013paperback • 9781848327030

At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon’s GrandArmy prepares to enter in triumphalprocession. But what it finds is a cityabandoned by its inhabitants – save only themen who emerge to fan the flames asincendiary fuses hidden throughout the emptybuildings of Moscow set the city alight. Forthree days Moscow burned, while lootersdodged the fires to plunder and pillage.

1812: Napoleon in Moscow follows on fromthe brilliant 1812: The March on Moscow, whichtook Napoleon’s army across Europe to the greatcity. Paul Britten Austin brings this next phase ofthe epic campaign to life with characteristic verve.Drawing on hundreds of eyewitness accounts byFrench and allied soldiers of Napoleon’s army, thisbrilliant study recreates this disastrous militarycampaign in all its death and glory.

1812: TheGreat RetreatPaul Britten Austin

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 464pages • 16 pages ofplates • January 2013paperback9781848326958

1812: The Great Retreat – the third and finalvolume in Austin’s magisterial trilogy –concludes the story of one of history’s mostdisastrous campaigns.

This volume follows the army’s withdrawalthrough 800 miles of devastated countryside,crossing the horrific relics of the Borodinobattlefield, fighting its way through theRussian General Kutusov’s successive attemptsto cut it off, and winning, againstoverwhelming odds, the three-day battle ofthe Berezina crossing. First-hand narratives,many published in English for the first time,describe Marshal Ney’s astoundingachievement in holding together the rear-guard until he himself, musket in hand, wasthe last man to re-cross the Niemen intoPoland.

The Exploits of EnsignBakewell MSWith the Inniskillings in thePeninsula, & in Paris, 1811–11:1815Ian Robertson

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages • 16 pages ofplates • 1/19/2013 • hardback9781848326989

A first-hand account of severalengagements in the Peninsula after the advance from the Lines of TorresVedras and pursuit of Masséna, and including the first siege of Badajoz,edited from the original manuscript and with an explanatorycommentary and notes by an experienced author well acquainted withboth the period and the scenes of action.

Fills a gap in the history of the Innis killings, the years 1812 to 1814only being covered in Charles Crowe’s war Journals, recently published byFrontline Books as ‘An Eloquent Soldier’.

Describes the French flight from Waterloo and – rarely revealedbefore – the life of a young officer in a promiscuous Paris during theearlier weeks of the Occupation.

The Waterloo Archive:Volume VGareth Glover

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages • April 2013 •hardback • 9781848326842

Much of the material available to readersin the English language interested in theexploits of the troops of Hanover,Brunswick and Nassau is in the form ofofficial reports. However, unbeknown tovirtually anyone in the English-speaking world interested in the morehuman aspects of these ‘foreign’ troops fighting alongside the British atWaterloo, there are a number of memoirs and sets of letters, which havebeen published in Germany over the last two centuries.

Until now, these had never been translated into English and so havebeen inaccessible to the vast majority. This volume seeks to put this rightand to bring to life the human story of these German troops – their trialsand tribulations, their sufferings and their emotions – and to finallyreveal their views on the battle which many entered with mixedemotions.

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Distant ThunderHelicopter Pilot’s Letters from Warin Iraq and AfghanistanDon Harward

$35.00 • 6 x 9.25 • 224 pages • approximately100 photos • Now Available • hardback9781908117281

Distant Thunder details the engrossingexperiences of a helicopter pilot’s tales of wartold through letters that come straight from the heart. Often the authorlabored well into the night after a mission still wearing the dusty flightsuit which bore witness to the events he penned.

Don Harward was torn between two worlds; his loyalty to his familyand to his country. Like so many other soldiers, even on leave, he canalways hear the dim roar of guns, the distant thunder of war, and isalways summoned towards the sound. Pacific Wings, a prestigious NewZealand-based magazine, has previously published some letters whichhave been praised by a growing readership, both aviator and non flyeralike, for their ability to transport the reader into the world of war. Atwenty-five-year veteran of the US Army, he details action over Panama,Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan, drawing also from his days in ArmySpecial Ops, operating with 2-2 SAS. As a 160th SOAR pilot for a lot of hismilitary career, his is a story that goes above and beyond the normalmilitary lifestyle.

Victor BoysTrue Stories from Forty MemorableYears of the Last V BomberTony Blackman

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages • color and blackand white photos • February 2013 • hardback9781908117458

The Handley Page Victor was the third of thethree V Bombers and the most long lasting,serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in thefirst Iraq war. Victor Boys tells the story of all the great things that wereachieved, recounted first hand by the operators themselves, aircrew andground crew. Starting with accounts by test pilot Johnny Allam, whoundertook the major development of the aircraft, through its work as anuclear bomber during the cold war, testing Blue Steel in Australia, to itssuperb work during the Falklands war and later as a first class air-to-airrefuelling tanker and vital support tool for fighters and other aircraft.

Published to coincide with the Victor’s 60th anniversary, the grippingtext is superbly illustrated with photographs from the operatorsthemselves, never released before.

Churchill and His AirmenVincent Orange

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages • black and whitephoto section • February 2013 • hardback9781908117366

Winston Churchill probably had more impacton 20th Century British military history thanany other person and especially during WorldWar II. Yet of all the many volumes since thatwar which deal with his relationships with generals and admirals, mostsurprisingly, there seems not to be a single book devoted to Churchill asa would-be pilot, and, more importantly, to the relations he had with ahost of airmen between 1914 and 1945.

Crucially, Churchill had supported the independence of the RAF fromother services, and whilst he did bully and cajole, even abuse his airmen,he also listened to them and their plans, and inspired them. With hisexpert eye, respected historian and professor, Vincent Orange, hascarefully studied and evaluated every detail of Churchill’s relationshipswith his closest officers to produce a masterful analysis of a neglectedsubject.

Stuka AttackThe Dive BombingAssault on EnglandDuring the Battleof BritainAndy Saunders

$39.95 • 6.75 x 9.5 • 192 pages • Illustrated throughout • February 2013hardback • 9781908117359

The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and anaircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognized worldwide. Itsroles in Poland and the Battles of France and the Low Countries arealmost legendary, but in the UK its import during the Battle of Britain isone that has never been covered in any specific detail.

Here, Andy Saunders takes a critical look at every operation by Ju87sagainst British targets in 1940 – including those on land and at sea. Eachraid is charted, covering all aspects of the attacks including participants,defending RAF fighters and those on the receiving end. Myth and realityand truth and legend are all examined and analyzed in this highlyillustrated new book, which adds to our knowledge of one of the mostsignificant periods in the whole of British history.

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DH9: From Ruinto RestorationThe ExtraordinaryStory o fthe Discoveryin India and Return toFlight of a Rare WWIBomberAndy Saunders

$39.95 • 6.75 x 9.5 • 160 pages • 4 color throughout with over 150photos and drawings • February 2013 • hardback • 9781908117335

In 2000, quite by chance, aircraft restorer Guy Black of Aero Vintagelocated the hulks of at least two Airco DH9 bombers in a remote part ofIndia – hidden away in what had been a Maharaja’s elephant stable athis palace in Bikaner, Rajasthan. They were truly remarkable finds, andextremely rare examples of a near-extinct and important WWI aircrafttype – none of which had survived in Britain.

Recognizing their importance to the UK’s aviation heritage, andexcited by the challenge of restoration, Guy set about negotiating theirpurchase and returning them back to England. His colleague and author,Andy Saunders journeyed twice to India to complete the transaction anddismantle and pack them. Now one of them will fly again! Here thewhole intriguing story is told – fully illustrated step-by-step – fromdiscovery to recovery, through to research, restoration, reconstructionand first flight, all in fascinating, meticulous detail.

The Quick and the DeadThe Perils of Post-War Test FlyingWilliam Arthur Waterton

$29.95 • 5.25 x 8.25 • 248 pages • b/w photosection • February 2013 • hardback9781908117274

First published in 1956, but still relevant andthought-provoking today, this book is anabsolute revelation on test flying with theBritish aircraft organizations and manufacturers in the 1950s. Writtenfrom the pilot’s viewpoint, with refreshing candor and honesty, thisaccount details what really went on behind the scenes in the defenseworld. Waterton pulls no punches in recounting the non cooperation ofcivil servants and designers in improving/altering recognized faults(often minor) when developing aircraft – to the cost of lives lost. Mainlycentering on his work with the mighty Gloster Meteor and the Javelininterceptors, this is an astonishing insight into the workings of theaircraft industry. Uncomfortable reading for many, it was seen by hissupporters as a wake-up call at a time when British ingenuity andprowess were being overtaken by the Americans and Russians. Anastonishing insight into the workings of the British aircraft industry.

Tony Blackman TestPilotMy Extraordinary Life in FlightTony Blackman

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 248 pages • color and b/wphoto • February 2013 • paperback9781908117328

Tony Blackman OBE, MA, FRAeS waseducated at Oundle School and TrinityCollege Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics. Helearned to fly in the RAF, trained as a test pilot, and then joined A V Roewhere he became chief test pilot.

As an expert in aviation electronics he was subsequently invited bySmiths Industries to join their Aerospace Board, initially as technicaloperations director, helping to develop the new large electronic displaysand flight management systems. On leaving Smiths he joined the boardof the UK Civil Aviation Authority. He is a Fellow of the American Societyof Experimental Test Pilots, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigationand a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators. Tony Blackman– Test Pilot covers Tony’s captivating career, from the RAF, nationalservice and learning to fly, to squadron flying and testing aircraft atBoscombe Down.

Dust Clouds in theMiddle EastAir War for East Africa, Iraq, Syria,Iran and Madagascar, 1940-42Christopher Shores

$49.95 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 320 pages • Illustratedthroughout • February 2013 • hardback9781898697374

Originally appearing as a series of magazinearticles, the valuable research into air operations, over the old-styleMiddle East of World War II, here appears in book form. It deals with avariety of engagements between Britain and her Commonwealth forcesand the Germans, Italians and Vichy French across many borders anddiffering terrains.

It covers the Italian threat and Ababa, the air battles over Lebanon,the breaking of Vichy air strength and culminates in the occupation ofMadagascar in 1942.

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Breakout at NormandyThe 2nd Armored Division in the Land of the DeadMark Bando

$39.50 • 8.5 x 12 • 160 pages • 140 photographs • January 2013 • French/English Text • hardback •9782840483434

The 2nd Armored Division during the landing in 1944 in Normandy.

Normandie 1944, l’Arado, l’avion espionPhilippe Bauduin

$39.05 • 8.5 x 12 • 160 pages • more than 80 photographs • January 2013 • French Text • hardback •9782840483519

The German secret plane which was under the landing in 1944.

J’ai Survécu dans mon PanzerAmin Böttger

39.5 • 8.5 x 12 • 200 pages • 296 photographs b/w and 64 color • January 2013 • French Text • hardback •9782840483366

This book is exceptional in more ways than one. These are the memories of a radio of the 12th Squadron, 24thregiment of the 24th Panzer Division which fought on the Eastern Front, across Europe (France and Italy), intoeastern Prussia, and survived with serious burns. This book is accompanied with exceptional pictures taken by theauthor, with 64 color photographs - more than a third of them concerning his panzer uniforms and daily life ofthe tanker.

Raid de DieppeBerneval, Pourville,Puys, Varengeville, (19 août 1942)Nicolas BucourtHervé Fihue

$59.00 • 8.5 x 12 • 396 pages • more than 400 photographs with 80 unpublished • January 2013 • French Text •hardback • 9782840483168

The first attempt at landing in Normandy ended in a bloody failure. The authors go back over this operation with80 unpublished German photos taken after the raid, adding to the important iconographic documentation withpictures and photos of equipment found there.

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La Bataille d’El-AlameinCédric Mas

$36.00 • 8.5 x 12 • 120 pages • January 2013 • French Text • hardback • 9782840483410

Major Rudolf Witzig le Vainqueur d’Eben-EmaelFallschirmjäger sur tous les frontsFranz Kurowski

$19.50 • 8.5 x 12 • 80 pages • 140 illustrations • January 2013 • French • hardback • 9782840483359

This book presents the history of the famous Major Witzig, born on August 14, 1916, aspiring officer on April 1,1935, head of the engineering section of the Fallschirm-Infantry Battalion in August 1938, with which hecaptured Fort Eben-Emael at dawn on May 10, 1940, capturing 1,200 soldiers with his 55 paratroopers. Awardedthe Knight’s Cross, he jumped in Crete where he was seriously injured. Afterwards, he commanded a battalion ofparatroopers in Tunisia and on the Eastern Front. He was attributed the oak leaf cluster. After the war, he becamea colonel in the Bundeswehr.

La 1st Marine Division dans l’enfer du PacifiqueThe Old BreedCharles Trang

$54.00 • 8.5 x 12 • 420 pages • 800 b/w photographs • January 2013 • French Text • hardback • 9782840483427

The follow up to the first volume of Charles Trang’s dedication to Marines in the Pacific. The author provides ahistory of the 1st Marine Division with exceptional documents, illustrated with about 800 photos.

La Bataille du CotentinGeorges Bernage

$19.50 • 8.5 x 12 • 80 pages • January 2013 • French Text • hardback • 9782840483441

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For Motherand Country– a B-29er’sWarDiscovering theLost WWII Legacyof the GreatestGenerationTrevor McIntyre

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages • 30 b/w photosJune 2013 • hardback • 9781909384156

They were called ‘B-29ers’ - the men of the20th Air Force who brought the WWII JapaneseEmpire to its knees with the greatest bomberthe world had ever seen. Now nearly 70 yearsafter the end of the largest war in history, thestories of those men who valiantly fought anddied aboard the Boeing B-29 Superfortressbombers are quickly disappearing. For Motherand Country follows one young man’semotional journey discovering the lost WWIIlegacy of the Greatest Generation through therelics they leave behind, as he fights to savethe final reminders of their sacrifices forgenerations yet to come.

We ServedWith HonorMemoirs of theMen Who Servedthe 91st StrategicReconnaissanceWingLinda Rios BromleyJames F. Bard Jr.

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages • 105 b/w photos, 1map • June 2013 • paperback9781909384224

The 91st Bombardment Group, the forerunnerof the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing,arrived in England in September 1942prepared for the initial bombing operationsagainst Fortress Europe.

News correspondents were trained asgunners in order to fly on the bombingmissions and report the war first hand. Youngcollege-aged crews rapidly became seasonedwarriors and struggled to meet the 25-missionrequirement before their return home. ‘WeServed with Honor’ tells the history of the 91stStrategic Reconnaissance Wing from theperspective of the men who lived it.

Rememberingthe DragonLadyMemoirs of theMen whoExperienced theLegend of the U-2Spy PlaneBrig Gen (Ret.) Gerald E. McIlmoyleLinda Rios Bromley

$35.00 • 6 x 9 • 408 pages • c. 225 photos 1map • March 2013 • paperback9781908916938

With heightened tensions mounting in theCold War, President Dwight Eisenhower’srequest for more accurate intelligenceinformation on the Soviet Union was the sparkthat ignited the U-2 project.

First-person memoirs of many of the menwho supported the early US spy plane projectare included in this book. They include pilots,maintenance specialists, a flight surgeon,photographic specialists and some familymembers. The US also trained U-2 pilots fromTaiwan and the UK and some of their photosand memoirs are in this collection.

A Storm on a Sunny DayThe Soviet 11th Composite AviationDivision and the Luftwaffe, 22 June1941Dmitry Kienko

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages • July 2013 • paperback• 9781909384088

Despite the fact that a large number of books andarticles have been written about the initial events in the Great PatrioticWar, any study dedicated to this period of the war continues to be metwith great interest. There is reason to believe that not even 10% of theRussian archival documents have been used thus far. Dmitry Kienko’sstudy is dedicated to the operations of Soviet aviation formations overBelorussian territory in the initial period of the war, and presents theresults of many years of research.

The study is split into three, each discussing one of the sub-units ofthe 11th Composite Aviation Division, and each sharing a logicalstructure. First the author examines the history of the aviation unit’sinitial formation, then their relocation to Belorussian territory, and thenthe combat training of the personnel, their equipment, and the life anddaily routine in the garrisons.

To Rule the WindsThe Evolution of the British FighterForce Through Two World Wars Volume1: Prelude to Air War – The Years to 1914Michael C. Fox

$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 280 pages • c. 80 b/w photos,tables • July 2013 • hardback • 9781909384149

To Rule the Winds is the story of how acoordinated force of the Royal Air Force’s fighter squadrons came intobeing as Fighter Command in 1936 and what became of it after theBattle of Britain. It is a large story, to be told in a series of volumes. Thisfirst volume recounts the origins of military aviation in Britain, up to thebeginning of the First World War in the August of 1914.

Although the origins of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Forcehave been the subjects of works by numerous other authors referenced inthis volume, the series is based primarily upon original material in theNational Archives, Parliamentary reports and papers, as well ascontemporary military and aviation journals. Using such material, theauthor offers a more focused story than has appeared hitherto of theevolution of a fighter force that contributed so much to the continuedindependence of the British nation.

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Wars,Pestilenceand theSurgeon’sBladeThe Evolution ofBritish Military Medicine and Surgeryduring the Nineteenth CenturyThomas Scotland

$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 280 pages • 75 b/willustrations, figs, maps, 37 tables • July 2013hardback • 9781909384095

Wars in the 19th Century were accompanied bya very heavy loss of life from infectious diseases.Typhus fever, dysentery, malaria, typhoid feverand yellow fever caused many more deathsthan wounds inflicted by enemy actions.

This book examines the development andevolution of surgical practice against thisoverwhelming risk of death due to disease. Itreviews three major conflicts during this time:the Peninsular War, the Crimean War and theBoer War, and highlights significant medical andsurgical developments during these conflicts.

Tunes ofBlood & IronGerman Regimental& Parade Marchesfrom Frederick theGreat to the PresentDay by Luftwaffe LtCols Joachim Toeche-Mittler andWerner Probst Volume 1 – Infantry(Part 1)Antony DeanRobert Mantle

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 184 pages • c. 40 b/w ills, 8ppcolor ills. • March 2013 • paperback9781909384231

Volume 1 of a thorough 4-volume guide to theregimental march tunes and other parademusic concentrates on the vast official RoyalPrussian collection of ‘regimental’ and ‘neutral’quick marches. It provides a definitivedescription for each march, its composer, andhow and by whom it was used, in many caseson campaign as well as on parade.

Tunes ofBlood & IronGerman Regimental& Parade Marchesfrom the Age ofFrederick the Greatto the Present Day byLuftwaffe Lt Cols Joachim Toeche-Mittler and Werner Probst Volume 2 –Infantry (Part 2)Antony DeanRobert Mantle

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 200 pages • c. 105 b/w ills, 8ppcolor ills. • May 2013 • paperback9781909384248

Volume 2 of a thorough 4-volume guide tothe regimental march tunes and other parademusic deals with the official collection ofmarches for Cavalry and Artillery, and gives anewly and thoroughly researched guide tothe important Drum, Fife and Bugle FieldMusic tradition from the Middle Ages to thepresent day.

BattlefieldRationsThe Food Givento the BritishSoldier ForMarching andFighting 1900-2011Anthony Clayton

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 120 pages • c. 30 b/w photos,ills • May 2013 • paperback • 9781909384187

This book, written to raise money for the ArmyBenevolent Fund sets out the human story ofthe food and “brew-ups” of the front-linesoldier from the Boer War to Helmand.Throughout, the importance of the provision offood, or even a simple mug of tea, for moraleand unit fellowship as well as for the need ofthe calories required for battle is highlightedwith many examples over the century.

Railroadsand RiflesSoldiers,Technology andthe Unificationof GermanyDennis E. Showalter

$35.00 • 6 x 9 • 272pages • 4 maps •June 2013 • paperback • 9781909384194

Railroads and Rifles is a lucid and deeplyresearched account of the interaction of threekey factors in the unification of Germany - thegrowth of the railways and their relationshipwith war, and the development of the breech-loading rifle and Krupp’s rifled cannon.Railroads and Rifles intendeds to reassert thesynergies between war at its sharp end andwar as it impacted the societies that armedforces reflected and represented.

WithTrumpet,Drum andFifeA short treatisecovering the riseand fall ofmilitary musicalinstruments onthe battlefieldMajor Mike Hall

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 128 pages • 18 b/w ills • March2013 • paperback • 9781909384170

Despite there being a plethora of books aboutmilitary music, ‘With Trumpet, Drum and Fife’stands out from the crowd in that it exploresnew areas of the world of military musicalinstruments. The chapters of the book guideyou from the Ancient World through to theRestoration and up to the modern day givingexamples of the origins and developments ofthe instruments employed.

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BelfastDiariesA Gunner InNorthern Ireland1971-74Steve Corbett

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 208pages • 8pp colorphotos and illustrations, c. 70 b/w photosMay 2013 • paperback • 9781909384071

In the four-month period during 1971 thatGunner Stephen Corbett was stationed inAndersontown, Northern Ireland, 33servicemen were killed by terrorist action inthe province. His unit, 9 (Plassey) Bty, RoyalArtillery, was attacked by a bomb, bullet orrioters on more than 400 occasions.

The young Gunner’s notebooks detailing histwo tours of duty were put in a drawer wherethey were to lay, untouched, for more than 30years. Here, for the first time, this account ofhis service is vividly brought to life andvalidated through newspaper articles,intelligence reports, and surviving examples ofIRA propaganda.

The TerribleOnesThe CompleteHistory of 32BattalionPiet Nortje

$125.00 • 6 x 9 • 1392pages • 592 color andb/w photos, 6 b/w ills, 91 b/w maps, 13 docsJuly 2013 • hardback • 9781909384132

The soldiers of 32 Battalion were so feared bytheir enemies that they were called ‘theterrible ones’. This comprehensive two-volumework covers in detail the unit’s 117documented military operations from 1976 to1993. Nortje explains how the operations wereplanned and executed, what went wrong,what went right, and what the outcomes were.It also goes back to the early 1960s, coveringevents in Angola that would eventually resultin the formation of 32 Battalion, and it ends in2005, when the soldiers of the unitunknowingly betrayed themselves.

WitchcraftStrike!Fighting theHelmand Warwith the ArnhemLionsJames Eastwood

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 328pages • c. 90 color photos • May 2013paperback • 9781909384279

This incredible work tells of a Royal ArtilleryForward Observer, James Eastwood, whodeployed to Afghanistan in support of ArnhemCompany of the British Army’s Duke ofLancaster’s Regiment - the famous ‘ArnhemLions’.

The book features dozens of James’ ownphotos taken on active service, providing a rareinsight into the role of a forward observer inAfghanistan, including incredible actionimages. Set against the harsh Afghanlandscape and the ever-present threat of IEDs,this is a graphically honest account of theharsh reality of 21st Century warfare and thedaily pressures and demands placed uponBritain’s young soldiers of today. Read it and beinspired.

Secrets of the Cold WarUS Army Europe’s Intelligence andCounterintelligence Activitiesagainst the SovietsLeland C. McCaslin

$25.00 • 6 x 9 • 200 pages • c. 70 b/w photos• March 2013 • paperback • 9781908916914

Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a darkperiod of a silent war and offers a newperspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world toldin the words of those who were there.

The author, formerly an expert in counterintelligence in US ArmyEurope, weaves together exciting true accounts of allies collecting enemyinformation in the East and fighting spies and terrorists in the West.

Containing a host of first-person accounts that lift the lid onpreviously untold clandestine activities, this is a major contribution toCold War history, and exciting reading for all those who have an interestin the real-life world of military intelligence, counterintelligence andespionage.

Three Sips of GinDominating the Battlespace withRhodesia’s famed Selous ScoutsTimothy Bax

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 448 pages • c. 100 color andb/w photos • June 2013 • hardback9781909384293

There is nothing that terrorized Russian andChinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia’sbush war in the 1970s more than the famedSelous Scouts. The very name of the unit struck fear into the very heartand soul of even the most battle-hardened guerillas. Too afraid to evenwhisper the name amongst themselves, they referred to soldiers of theunit simply as Skuzapu, or pickpockets. It was not for nothing thathistory has recorded the Selous Scouts Regiment as being one of thedeadliest and most effective killing machines in modern counter-insurgency warfare.

In this special ‘deluxe’ edition, we follow Tim on his missions into thesilence of the shadows. As his story unfolds, we begin to understand howhe managed to survive and it is here you will find the significance of‘three sips of gin’ revealed.

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DingoFirestormThe GreatestBattle of theRhodesian BushWarIan Pringle

$49.95 • 6 x 9 • 304pages • c. 60 color and b/w photos, 4 b/wmaps • April 2013 • hardback • 9781909384125

On 23 November 1977, an armada ofhelicopters and airplanes took off fromRhodesian airbases and crossed the border intoMozambique. Their objective: to attack theheadquarters of the Zimbabwe AfricanNational Liberation Army. CodenamedOperation Dingo, the raid was planned tocoincide with a meeting of Robert Mugabe andhis war council at the targeted HQ . In thisfascinating account, Ian Pringle describes thepolitical and military backdrop leading up tothe operation, and he tells the story of thebattle through the eyes of key personalitieswho planned, led and participated in it.

EnduringValourSouth Africa’s Crossof HonourIan Uys

$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 288pages • 290 b/w and 7color photos, 3 mapsJuly 2013 • hardback • 9781909384286

The Honoris Crux (Cross of Honor) was SouthAfrica’s premier gallantry decoration awardedto members of the SA Defense Force between1952 and 2003. The stories behind over 300 ofthese awards and other medals for bravery aretold. For these soldiers, sailors and airmen thecommon denominator was courage. Theauthor has interviewed many of the medalrecipients and invariably found them to bemodest about their heroic exploits.

The awards were made irrespective of race,color or creed. Men from diverse backgroundslearnt to live and fight together, especiallyamong the Special Forces, where their livesoften depended on each other. Through thesepages, one learns of the incredible valordisplayed during the turbulent years of theBorder War.

A NewBattlefieldThe Royal UlsterRifles in Korea,1950-51David R. OrrDavid Truesdale

$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 272pages • 175 photographs, 4 maps • July 2013paperback • 9781908916921

A New Battlefield follows the Battalion RoyalUlster Rifles as it prepares for the first majorconflict fought by Britain since the defeat ofthe Japanese in 1945. During the summer of1950, the Battalion was stationed at SobraonBarracks in Colchester and its numbers werejust under four hundred men. For service inKorea, these numbers had to be drasticallyincreased and drafts of volunteers andreservists were brought in from varioussources. Despite their varied backgrounds, allranks soon coalesced into a professional unitthat took the campaign in its stride.

Chicken StreetAfghanistan before the Taliban:Clearing the Deadly Remnants of WarJohn Lane

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages • 16pp color photoMarch 2013 • paperback • 9781909384262

This captivating work tells of Afghanistan beforethe Taliban - a land of majestic mountains andarid plains, plains contaminated by the deadly remnants of war;landmines and unexploded ordnance, silent killers ready to kill and maimthe innocent and unsuspecting. A historic and timeless land of fearlesswarriors and never ending-conflict. A country where there have beenmany losers in years gone by - and where there will be many more … Ano-man’s land where nobody wins.

This is the true story of civil war and the broken lives of everydaycitizens caught in the crossfire of events in Afghanistan. A tale of courageand stoicism, domesticity and death in the turbulent times that followedthe Soviet withdrawal of 1989, and which saw the rise of Taliban controland destructive succession of events since that time, all of which sets thecontext for the current conflict.

KoevoetExperiencing South Africa’s Deadly BushWarJim Hooper

$35.00 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages • 48 pages colorphotos • February 2013 • paperback9780957058705

Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since itsrelease over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the originalin capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africa’s deadly bushwar. Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access toKoevoet, the elite South West African Police counterinsurgency unit - alsoknown as Operation K and officially as the South West Africa PoliceCounter Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN). Author Jim Hooper spent atotal of five months embedded with the semi-secret and predominantlyblack ‘Ops K’, which climaxed with one of the most vicious anddetermined infiltrations ever mounted by the communist-backed SouthWest Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO).

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Top SecretBritish Boffins inWorld War OneDavid Rogers

$59.95 • 6 x 9 • 224pages • c. 40 b/w ills, 8 diagrams • May 2013paperback9781909384217

The Fellowship of the Royal Society wasrestricted and required individuals to be at thepeak of their chosen scientific professions. AllFellows were experts in their chosen fields,which not only included traditional sciences,but also engineering and medicine. It is nowonder that their expertise and opinions weresought during the Great War.

The exploits of the Fellows during the warare relatively unknown. Drawing frompreviously unpublished documents from theRoyal Society archives deemed ‘Secret’ at thetime, and wartime documents from theNational Archives during the Great War, thisbook brings a unique perspective on wartimeinventions, research and developments fromone of the darkest periods of 20th Centurywarfare.

The RoyalCorps ofSignalsUnit Histories ofthe Corps (1920-2001) and itsAntecedents –SupplementaryVolumeCliff Lord

$79.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages • 231 b/w photosand ills. • July 2013 • paperback9781908916860

This book concentrates on Commonwealthsignal corps unit histories in Australia, Canada,India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan,Rhodesia, Singapore, and South Africa. Theemphasis is on post Second World War. A briefoverview is also given of each country’s Corpshistory, and illustrations of many of the units’distinctive insignia are shown. Supplementaryinformation is included on Ceylon in theSecond World War, and British Signal units thatserved in Northern and Southern Russia afterthe end of the First World War, Royal EngineerSignal Service Volunteers in 1918, and AirFormation Signals.

The GayshA History of theAden ProtectorateLevies 1927-61 andthe FederalRegular Army ofSouth Arabia 1961-67Frank Edwards

$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages • 45 b/w photos, 2 maps • July 2013 • paperback9781908916877

The Gaysh tells the story of the emergence ofan army following early attempts to protectthe trade routes in and through Aden. It wasnot until the Turks threatened to invade in theFirst World War that a regular army unit wasformed. The 1st Yemen Infantry did not seeaction, and there was a move to disband it in1928. Because a need remained, the decisionwas taken to replace its policing role byairpower, supported by a small force of leviesto defend the bases, including a camel corps.The book takes that story on through the AdenProtectorate Levies’ growing strength and itsrelationship with the British Government andits policies.

The Other Side of the WireVolume 1With the German XIV Reserve Corps onthe Somme, September 1914-June 1916Ralph J Whitehead

$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 614 pages • c. 350 b/w photos, 33 maps, plus docs, tables • June 2013paperback • 9781908916891

The Other Side of the Wire brings to life a period long forgotten in thedecades that have passed since the Great War ended in 1918. By focusingon one of the principal German formations involved in the Sommefighting, author Ralph Whitehead brings to life this period, from theinitial German advance on the Somme in September 1914 through theformation of the front that became so well-known almost two yearslater. The events that took place on the Somme between September1914 and June 1916 would surely turn the once rolling farmland into averitable fortress.

Muddling ThroughThe Organisation of British ArmyChaplaincy in World War OnePeter Howson

$59.95 • 6 x 9 • 188 pages • c. 10 b/w photosApril 2013 • paperback • 9781909384200

As with many other aspects of the British army,the outbreak of World War One started a processof change that resulted in a radically different provision of chaplaincycare once the war was over. Nothing was ever simple with chaplaincy asa number of churches became involved with the army. The structure wasalready under pressure before the war with the Catholic Church insistingon new rules for chaplaincy in the twentieth century. The creation of theTerritorial Force added a new dimension after 1907, bringing new playersinto the mix including the Jewish community. These chaplainschallenged the traditional Garrison Church based ministry of theregulars. The book examines the muddled state of chaplaincy in August1914 and looks at how chaplains were mobilized.

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The ArmouredForces of theBulgarianArmy 1936-45Operations,Vehicles,Equipment,Organisation, Camouflage & MarkingsKaloyan Matev

$125.00 • 8 x 12 • 504 pages • c. 600 b/wphotos, 24pp color profiles, insignia, mapsJuly 2013 • hardback • 9781909384163

This book provides a detailed history of motorvehicles and armored fighting vehicles in theBulgarian Army from 1936, during the lastyears of peace, until the end of the SecondWorld War in 1945.

For much of this period, Bulgaria was alliedto Germany. The Bulgarian Army was mainlyequipped with German weapons, or equipmentcaptured by the Germans and then sold toBulgaria. The negotiations as well as suppliesof motor vehicles and armored vehicles aredescribed at length. Until very recently, the fateof all armored fighting vehicles in the BulgarianArmy in 1945 remained completely unknown.

GeneralissimoStalinThe Myth of Stalinas a Great MilitaryStrategistBoris Gorbachevsky

$45.00 • 6 x 9 • 316pages • c. 30 b/wphotos, maps • July 2013 • paperback9781909384255

This new book reveals a bitter truth about thewar that has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russiatoday into a fury. A frontline veteran whosurvived the most savage fighting of theSecond World War refutes one of the primarySoviet myths: that it was Stalin’s “brilliantstrategic mind” and his “invaluablecontributions” that brought about the eventualvictory. The author argues that the Red Armyemerged victorious from the war in spite of thetyrant, who never spared his soldiers’ lives andwho recognized only one strategy: to break theWehrmacht’s resistance by overloading it withthe corpses of Red Army soldiers.

Zhitomir-Berdichev GermanOperations West ofKiev 24 December1943-31 January1944 Volume 2Stephen Barratt

$99.95 • 6 x 9 • 616 pages • c. 12 b/w photos,253 color maps in separately-bound mapbookJuly 2013 • hardback • 9781909384101

This is the second volume of a two-volume set,which together comprise a detailed history ofthe neglected operation that was to be thebeginning of the liberation of western Ukraine.

Following from where Volume 1 left off,this second volume describes events fromJanuary 10 -31, 1944 and details thecounterattacks undertaken by the Germans. Bythe time the last of these counterattacks wasclosing, the conditions had already beenestablished for the next Soviet offensive in theregion: the Korsun’ pocket. In tracing thesecounterattacks, the book describes how theGerman operational situation developedduring the period immediately leading up tothe Soviet Korsun’ offensive.

Crucible of CombatGermany’s Defensive Battles in theUkraine 1943-44Rolf Hinze

$59.95 • 6 x 9 • 504 pages • 32 b/w photos, 105b/w maps • April 2013 • paperback9781908916907

In his historical series, Hinze provides the onlycomprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions ofthe German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. Thisvolume covers events on the southern portion of the Eastern Front fromlate 1943, in the aftermath of the Battle of Kursk, through the greatSoviet summer offensives of 1943 and 1944.

Following the final failure of German hopes in the great Battle ofKursk, the German forces in the Ukraine were forced ever back, losingground gained in the years of victorious advance. This volume describesthe bitter and eventful battles of German army groups in the Ukraine andthe evacuation of the Crimean Peninsula during 1943 -1944. There are noother detailed and comprehensive accounts in which the variousindividual narratives, unit histories and studies of individual battles mayfind their place in relation to the big picture.

Hitler’s SwedesA History of the Swedish Volunteers inthe Waffen-SSLars Larsson

$69.95 • 6 x 9 • 384 pages • c. 160 b/w photos, 8 color maps • July 2013 • hardback9781909384118

Sweden was neutral during the Second WorldWar, but despite this, thousands of Swedes wanted to participate in thewar - the largest group in Finland, where over 10,000 Swedes applied tofight against the Red Army. Another much smaller group, which sawaction against the same enemy, was the Swedish SS volunteers. Whilethe Danish and Norwegian SS volunteers are well known today, theirSwedish counterparts remain unknown. Still, they saw action on boththe Eastern Front and participated in some of the bloodiest clashes.

Compared to many other groups of volunteers, there was never anofficial recruitment drive in Sweden, which is why only some 180-200men enlisted. This book is as much a history about the units, which theSwedes served in, as it is a story about the individuals themselves.

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Corsair30 Years of PiracyBruno Pautigny

$32.95 • 8 x 10 • 144 pages • January 2013paperback • 9782352502166

The Corsair no doubt appears at the top ofthe list of mythical aircraft which have lefttheir mark on aviation history.

The aim of this book is to tell the thirty year story of the Corsair’sextraordinary career from its baptism of fire in the Pacific to Africanskies, passing through the Far-East and a less martial but nonethelessvirile interlude in the colorful and exhilarating world of the Pylon Races.This book, which is actually the reissue, substantially increased of theprevious edition published in 2003 and now out of print, does not claimto be exhaustive and is destined as much to the enlightened amateur asto the neophyte, in whom perhaps will appear a new love for thefabulous Bent wing Bird.

Clandestine ParachutePick-Up OperationsJean-Louis Perquin

$32.95 • 8 x 10 • 265 pages • Now Availablepaperback • 9782352502494

This second volume of the collectionResistance is devoted to the parachutingand picking up of agents, from 1940 to1944. It is a gripping frieze of theseoperations and a vigorous tribute to those heroes of the resistancewhom the author describes here, using both his extensive personaldocumentation, connections among the veterans and many museumconservators throughout Europe. The reconstitution is rigorous and theinformation precise about both material and methods, and the wealth ofpictures will live up to the expectations of most enlightened amateurs.But above all, each reader can discover the personal life stories moreintimately, from the training exercises in England awaiting departure, tothe sacrifices made so freely in carrying out the missions.

50 AvionsCelebresArnaud Beinat

$34.95 • 7.5 x 10 • 50 pagesNow Available • French Textpaperback • 9782352502500

The fifty planes which make up this book all marked the Second WorldWar in one way or another. They have been photographed at the airshows where they still fly, maintained in flying condition by associationsor by wealthy amateurs at great expense and at the price of constanteffort.

The pilots who take to the air in these planes today are experiencedpeople and it mustn’t be forgotten that the pilots were only on average22 or 23 years old at the time. The author has therefore becomeattached as much to the men as to the machines.

Among the famous planes in the book there are the Supermarine‘Spitfire’, Junkers Ju 52, Polikarpov I-16, Hawker ‘Hurricane’, Boeing B-17‘Flying Fortress, Bell P-39 ‘Airacobra’, Grumann F6F Hellcat, Republic P-47‘Thunderbolt’, Focke Wulf FW 190, Yakovlev Yak 3, Curtiss P-40B‘Tomahawk’, North American P-51 ‘Mustang’ and Mistubishi A6M ‘Zero’,etc.

Le Guide de Peinturedes Figurines de laSeconde GuerreMondialeJoaquin Garcia Gasquez

$29.95 • 8.5 x 11 • 80 pages • Now AvailableFrench Text • paperback • 9782352502470

A beautifully assembled kit is alwaysenhanced by the presence of a well-paintedfigurine. This statement has become a profession of faith for the authorof this book, Joaquin Garcia Guazquez, one of the world’s armoredmodeling elite; here he has chosen to give us the benefit of hisexperience painting figurines from WWII, the supreme period formilitary modeling. Very instructively, using a lot of photographs, andstep by step he explains how to paint a successful figurine, from thechoice of tools, from the work area to the preparation of the figurine,painting the flesh parts, the uniforms and the accessories, etc. This isrequired reading, intended to guide you and inspire you when paintingfigurines to go with your next armored vehicle or action-packed scene.

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Wheeled ArmoredFighting VehiclesYouri Obraztsov

$24.95 • 8 x 10 • 300 pages • January 2013French/English Text • hardback9782352502579

This book gathers together for the first timeall the wheeled armored vehicles in theworld with their various modifications, modernization along with thetechnical specifications for each model.

There are more than 300 photos; the book is bilingual, methodical,giving the history of each vehicle and its dimensions in a practical andvisual manner. This manual enables you to identify accurately any 8 x 8combat armored vehicle from a picture even if it’s an incomplete one.

A series of four tests will enable the reader to find his level and toimprove his knowledge of the subject.

With all these qualities, this manual is an indispensable tool for thearmed forces and all armored vehicle and military history buffs.

Chasseurs A ChevalVolume 2: 1779-1815Ludovic LetrunJean-Marie Mongin

$24.95 • 8 x 10 • 80 pagesNow Available • paperback9782352502395

Our troopers are now in the EmperorNapoleon’s service.

This second volume follows themas they brigade with the Hussars in all the great theaters of operation atthe beginning of the Empire. Here we deal with the missions given overto the light cavalry before, during, and after the battle.

As for the uniform part, the book shows how their uniform evolvedfrom being a mere copy of the Hussats’ to becoming with time totallyspecific to the Chasseur a Cheval Arm.

Les Armes dela PoliceNationaleDominique Noel

$55.00 • 9 x 12.25 • 176pages • 750 photographsNow Available • FrenchText • hardback • 9782352502258

Creating a work on the French National Policeis challenging for both the complex subjectmatter as well as the rarity of the archives.Here, however, the author, a police officerhimself and a passionate researcher, hassucceeded at presenting a book rich inpreviously unpublished photographs anddocumentation. Dominique Noel offers an in-depth inventory of all the weapons allocated tothe police force from the Ancien Régime to2012.

From the armed halberd guards enlistedunder the 13th century Saint Louis to the 2010gardiens de la paix, equipped with the SIG SP2022, the reader will discover the vicissitudesthat have left their mark on this policeinstitution over the centuries, gaining an in-depth knowledge of the evolution of theNational Police.

DictionnaireDes MarquesMotocyclistesDe La SeineBernard Salvat

$55.00 • 10 x 10 • 172 pages • January 2013French Text • paperback • 9782352502562

Almost 150 years ago, the very first motorbikein the world, the steam-driven Perreauxmotorbike, made its debut on the pavingstones of the Porte Maillot in Paris. After that,hundreds of different brands of motorbikessprang up in the vast former Department ofthe Seine: almost 600 of them!

Not all of the names have the same renownor the same importance: some like de Dion &Bouton, Contal, Gnôme et Rhône or Vélosolexbecame world famous, either because theywere mass-produced or through the exploits offamous sportsmen.

The book is in principle a dictionary but alsoa tribute to the Department of the Seine whichbubbled with activity; it is also an exceptionalbook of pictures. Volume 1 alone assemblesalmost one thousand, of which the largemajority are period pictures.

The US ArmySoldierAurélian Morel

$22.95 • 8 x 10 • 80pages • Now Availablepaperback9782352502593

With the way the battlefield has evolved overthe last ten years, the soldier's equipment hashad to evolve accordingly. Although the mediaoften shows the US Army Boys right in theheart of the fighting in Afghanistan, and upuntil recently in Iraq, their equipment,material, and weapons have never been shownin detail.

This book has now done this, drawing up anexhaustive list of the equipment used by theUS Army's infantryman (but also the helicopterpilots and the armored vehicle drivers) - fromthe boots to the wrist computer, via the assaultrifle and the winter uniform - and theprograms intended to make the soldier evenquicker, even more effective and betterprotected.

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Super Model International vol. IIPrzemyslaw SzymczykLukasz Kapelski

$15.95 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 80 pages • 160 photos • December 2012 • paperback • 9788362878406

BMW R 75And Other BMW Motorcycles in the German Army in 1930–1945Lukasz Gladysiak

$19.95 • 8 x 11 • 56 pages • 44 3D graphics, 30 archive photos • December 2012 • paperback • 9788362878390

Heinkel He 219 UHU vol. IMarek Murawski

$24.95 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 96 pages • 102 3D graphics, 61 color photos, 45 archive photos, 6 color profiles, 8 sheets of A4 plans, 2 sheets of A3 plans • December 2012 • paperback • 9788362878413

Battlecruiser – Fast Battleship HarunaMiroslaw Skwiot

$22.95 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 84 pages • 131 3D graphics, double sheet B2 with the plans • December 2012 • papberback9788362878383

The Battleship USS IowaGrzegorz Nowak

$22.95 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 80 pages • 133 3D graphics, double sheet B2 with the plans • December 2012 • paperback9788362878376

The Battleship RichelieuAndrzej Sobucki

$22.95 • 8.25 x 11.5 • 80 pages • Fully illustrated throughout • December 2012 • paperback • 9788362878437

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Lancer

1962 and theMcMahon LineSagaClaude Arpi

$27.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 565pages • January 2013hardback • 9781935501404

Fifty years ago, India went through a tragicevent which has remained a deep scar in thecountry’s psyche: a border war with China. Theauthor also looks into why the Government stillkeeps the Henderson Brooks Report underwraps and what were Mao’s motivations for‘teaching India a lesson’.

Modernisationof the ChinesePLAFrom Massed Militiato Force ProjectionLt Gen JS Bajwa

$27.95 • 6 x 9 • 408 pages • January 2013hardback • 9781935501350

This book encapsulates the evolution of thePLA from its inception, through the tumultuousperiod of the Cultural Revolution on to the FourModernization era of China’s overalltransformation. The Changing politicalscenario and impact of globalization had asignificant influence in the revision of the PLAdoctrine.

Rise of ChinaIndian PerspectivesS Gopal (Ed) Nabeel A Mancheri (Ed)

$27.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 270pages • January 2013hardback • 9781935501374

The remarkable rise of China in the last threedecades has had a mixed global reaction. Whilemany countries have welcomed this rise, someof China’s neighbors have viewed it withconcern. What does the rise of China signify forIndia, given the none too smooth relationship?Or is “China Threat” an exaggeration as somewould hold?

IndelibleReminiscenceMemoirs of Major GeneralGurbakhsh Singh, PadmaShri, DSO, OBEMaj Gen Gurbakhsh Singh

$27.95 • 6 x 9 • 304 pagesJanuary 2013 • hardback9781935501381

The decade of the Forties wasturbulent for British Raj - WorldWar II was raging and the Indiansubcontinent was swept by apopular freedom movement. Asthe War ended, Indiansubcontinent was divided in 1947.

Indelible Reminiscences byMajor Singh, is a testimony of thoseturbulent times. As a LieutenantColonel he was commanding hisBattalion in Singapore when theBritish Forces in Malaya surrenderedto the Japanese.

Indian DefenceReviewApr-Jun 2012Bharat Verma (Ed)

$18.95 • 9 x 12 • 160 pagesJanuary 2013 • paperback9788170622598

Included in this Volume:• Transport fleet of the Indian AirForce • Power and proficiency:Future military engines • US-Indiadefense trade: Sizing up thecompetition • Indo-US militarytrade: A decade of wastedopportunities • Defending theIndian skies • Evolution of the air-to-air missiles: options for the IAF• The armed forces special powersact (AFSPA)

Indian DefenceReviewJul-Sep 2012Bharat Verma (Ed)

$18.95 • 9 x 12 • 132 pagesJanuary 2013 • paperback9788170622178

Included in this volume:• An integrated approach todefense procurement • FifthGeneration Fighters and the IAF •Helicopter Operations in Sri Lanka• Ballistic Missile Defense Systemfor India: A Realistic Assessment •India’s indigenous submarine: Thedesign dilemma • Aerospace andDefense News • Rational nationalsecurity

Under FireDealing with Threats toIndiaBharat Verma

$18.95 • 9 x 6 • 156 pagesJanuary 2013 • paperback9781935501398

From aggressive, deviousneighbors to well-armed internalinsurgents, the list of those takingaim at our nation is long. In thisriveting series of columns, Vermatakes a 360 degree look at thestrategic and military challengesfacing India today, and suggestsways and means to overcomethem.

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LRT Editions

Cavalry OutpostDutiesGénéral Antoine Fortuné De Brack

$65.40 • 8.5 x 10.75 • 336 pages115 illustrations color and b/wJanuary 2013 • paperback9782917747032

Written with an intelligence vast andactive, with a glowing heart, in anobserving and delicate spirit, with arare love for the soldier, this book, almost improvised, is a charminglittle masterpiece. At once witty and profound, the author, laying asideall prejudice, shows himself so original that certain parts, withoutceasing to be true, have a perfume of poetry which charms the militaryreader.

De Brack never loses sight of the morale of the soldier ; he speaks ofhonor, of courage, of devotion, and his language makes one thrill. Thestyle moves on at a cavalry pace, which is well adapted to the subject.

Le Soldat LagideStéphane Thion

$22.75 • 8 x 10.25 • 64 pages37 color plates • February 2013French Text • paperback9782917747100

Hellenistic Egypt, with its manypapyrus preserved by the dry climate,is the natural starting point forstudies of Alexander the Great’ssuccessors’ institutions. No other Hellenistic kingdom has as manysources, even in the military field. This book details the Ptolemaicorganization and equipment over the period covering the 3rd to the 1stcentury BC.

In an effort to bring the Ptolemaic soldier back to life, 37 platesillustrate the text, most of which were made from steles and mosaicsfound in Egypt.

French Armies ofthe Thirty Years WarStéphane Thion

$46.45 • 8.5 x 10.75 • 174 pages115 illustrations color and b/wJanuary 2013 • paperback9782917747018

A comprehensive book on the Frencharmy of Louis XIII and Richelieu withful accounts of battles of this periodand order of battles.

This book begins in 1617, the year that Louis XIII really took power bydistancing the queen mother and ordering the assassination of Concini(24 April 1617), and ends in 1648 – five years after the death of LouisXIII – the year of the Westphalia Peace Treaty (24 October 1648). Thisperiod was mostly dominated by the personality and works of Richelieu,who entered the king’s Council in April 1624. He gave the king anambition: “to procure the ruin of the Huguenot party, humble the prideof the great, reduce all subjects to their duty, and elevate your majesty’sname among foreign nations to its rightful reputation”. By the time ofhis death, on the 4th of December 1642, this program had beenaccomplished.

Grenadiers &Voltigeurs de laGarde impériale deNapoléon IIIAndré Jouineau

$22.75 • 8 x 10.25 • 64 pages55 color plates • January 2013English/French Text • paperback9782917747049

A detailed uniformology of the foot Imperial Guard of Napoleon III, thesemen who fought in the Crimea, at Solferino and Magenta, or in 1870.

The Imperial Guard is restored on 1 May 1854, two years after theproclamation of the Second Empire. Two Grenadier regiments of 3battalions, each of 8 companies, are created. On 17 February 1855, afourth battalion is added, however, companies are reduced to 6 perbattalion. The Crimean expedition brings out the need to create a thirdregiment by Imperial decree of 20 December 1855.

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From theVoisin to theMirage100 years of FrenchAeronauticPresence in PeruAmaru TincopaGallegos

$69.00 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 244 pages300 b/w and color photos, 30 color profilesMarch 2013 • paperback • 9788361421931

From the very beginning of aviation in SouthAmerica, French aircraft and aviators played amajor part in the development of militaryflying in Peru. This exciting new book coversthe use of French aircraft and the involvementof French designers, instructors and militarythinking in the development of the Peruvianair force. From “stick and string” biplanesthrough to supersonic jets, many of the mostsignificant French types saw service in Peruand were involved in local conflicts, as detailedin this book.

Profusely illustrated with many rare photosand color profiles of selected aircraft inPeruvian markings

Douglas F3DSkyknightJose Fernandez

$27.00 • 7 x 10 • 112pages100+ b/w photos,100+ color photos,scale plans, 16 colorprofiles • January 2013paperback • 9788361421702

The F3D was designed as a carrier-based all-weather fighter aircraft. It saw service with theUnited States Navy and United States MarineCorps. It downed several MiG-15s as a nightfighter over Korea with only one air-to-air loss.

The design, development and operations ofthese aircraft are described in detail, illustratedwith many previously unpublished photos.

FrenchWings No.3Breguet 27Jose Fernandez

$23.00 • 8.25 x 11.7580 pages • 100+ b/wphotos, 16 colorprofiles • December2012 • paperback • 9788361421771

This third title in the “French Wings” series tellsthe story of the Breguet 27 aircraft in theFrench Air Force. The Breguet 27 was a 1930sFrench biplane military reconnaissance aircraft,built for the Armée de l’Air (French Air Force)and also exported to Venezuela and China.Breguet 27s continued in military servicethrough the outbreak of World War II, stillequipping three Gropes at the time of theinitial German offensive.

The design, acquisition and operations ofthese aircraft is told in detail, illustrated withmany previously unpublished photos. Colorschemes and markings are described andillustrated.

311 Squadron RAFPavel Vancata

$27.00 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages • 100+ b/wphotos, 16 color profiles • January 2013paperback • 9788361421436

A history of the successful Czechoslovakbomber squadron in the RAF during WW2.

No. 311 (Czechoslovak) BomberSquadron was established as the secondCzechoslovak combat squadron within theRoyal Air Force during the summer of 1940, and became the only whollyCzechoslovak bomber squadron in the RAF.

The book contains: Superb color illustrations of camouflage andmarkings, rare black and white archive photographs.

British Private Aircraft.Volume TwoAn A to Z of Club & PrivateAeroplanesArthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume

$130.00 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 320 pages500 b/w photos • January 2013 • hardback9788361421924

Second in a two-part series on post-WW2British light aircraft, this book describesand illustrates all the designs built and flown from 1945 on. Fulltechnical descriptions, 3-view drawings and photos for each type, tocomplement the full history of the period covered in Vol 1 (which wasAeroplane magazine’s “Book of the Month” in September 2012!).

An invaluable resource for all those interested in light aircraft and inthe British aviation industry.

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MesserschmitBf 109 FRobert Michulec

$29.00 • 7 x 10 • 160pages • 200+ b/wphotos, 48 color profilesFebruary 2013paperback • 9788361421757

This book covers the development of the ‘F’variants of the most famous German WW2fighter, the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Contains:scale plans, photos and drawings fromTechnical Manuals, superb color illustrations ofcamouflage and markings, rare b+w archivephotographs, color photos of the preservedaircraft. Essential reading for aviationenthusiasts & scale aeromodelers.

BomberAircraft of305SquadronLechoslaw Musialkowski

$59.00 • 8.25 x 11.75160 pages • 200+ b/w photos, 30 color profiles• December 2012paperback • 9788361421801

History of this successful Polish bombersquadron during WW2. No. 305 ‘Weilkopolski’Squadron RAF was a Polish bomber squadronthan originally served as a night bombersquadron, but later converted to daylightoperations in 1943 and ended the war as alow-level bomber squadron.

The book covers the history of the squadronand the history of the aircraft used – VickersWelligton, B-25 Mitchell and de HavillandMosquito. Also details of the markings andcamouflage changes are described with manyunpublished photos and color profiles.

The PucaráStoryDr. Ricardo CaballeroPhil Cater

$49.00 • 8.25 x 11.75128 pages • 120+ b/wand color photos, 30color profiles • December 2012 • paperback9788361421825

The Argentine designed and built IA-58 Pucarálight attack aircraft was developed in the late1960s in response to a requirement drawn upby the Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Argentine AirForce). After a long developmental period thedesign went into series production in 1974.The aircraft remains in active service to thisday, with the FAA and with several foreign airforces. Best known for its involvement in theMalvinas conflict (Falklands war) in 1982, thePucará remains an effective and muchappreciated warplane. This book tells the fullstory of the design, development andoperational use of the Pucará, including themany upgrades and redesigns tested andplanned at various stages.

Hungarian FighterColoursDénes BernádGyörgy Punka

$69.00 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 192 pages200+ b/w photos, 72 color profilesDecember 2012 • hardback9788361421719

This book describes and illustrates all thefighter aircraft used by the Hungarianarmed forces during WW2. Covering both the indigenous designsemployed early on through to the German and Italian fighters flown formuch of the period, the camouflage and markings of these aircraft aredescribed and illustrated in great detail.

Fully illustrated with many rare wartime photos. Full color profiles ofmany representative aircraft.

Malta Spitfire Vs -1942Their Colours and MarkingsBrian Cauchi

$39.00 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 128 pages100+ b/w photos, 30+ color profilesFebruary 2013 • paperback9788361421795

In the desperate battle for Malta in 1941-2, when German and Italian bomberspounded the island, the arrival of Spitfire Vs helped turn the tables infavor of the Allies. Flown from RN and USN carriers, and some evendirect from Gibraltar, the Spitfires significantly enhanced the defenses.For many years arguments have raged about the precise color schemescarried by these aircraft – in this new book Brian Cauchi looks at all theevidence, from photos and personal memories through to surviving partsof these aircraft, and presents his personal interpretation of the manycolor schemes, official and otherwise, carried by these hard-pressed andhardworking warplanes.

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Kugisho E14Y GLENThe Aircraft that BombedAmericaRyusuke IshiguroTadeusz Januszewski

$59.00 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 160 pages200+ b/w, 60+ color profilesDecember 2012 • paperback9788389450616

Only one enemy aircraft has everdropped bombs on mainland USA -and that aircraft was a submarine-launched “Glen” floatplane. This book tells the story of the design,development and operational use of the E14Y1 “Glen”.

Included are details of earlier Japanese submarine-launched aircraft,and of the submarines designed and used as seaplane carriers. Profuselyillustrated with photos, plans and color profiles - plus a description andphotos of the only remnants of the E14Y1 still in existence, submergedaboard the hulk of the Akibasan Maru off Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific.

German AirProjects Vol 4Attack AircraftMarek Rys

$39.00 • 7 x 10 • 140 pagesscale plans, color profilesMarch 2013 • paperback9788389450319

The speculation about what theLuftwaffe might have achieved ifWWII had continued into 1946 is afascinating and rapidly growing field of interest. This book developssome of this intriguing speculation with extensive illustrations anddescriptions of German attack aircraft that were proposed from the mid-thirties until the end of WWII, describing projects developed by Junkers,Messerchmitt and others.

PolishVickers Pt. 27TO, Vickers-7TP,7TP forced, Vickers4-Ton ATAdam Jonca

$27.00 • 8.25 x 11.596 pages • color & b/wphotos, color profilesFebruary 2013 • paperback • 9788361421504

Complementing the well-established andsuccessful “Polish Wings” series on aircraft ofthe Polish Air Force, this book is the second in aseries on Polish army vehicles. It tells the storyof four major tanks of British origin used by thePolish army in the 1930s, some still in use atthe time of the German invasion. Training andoperations with these tanks are described andillustrated, with many photos and full colorartwork. Color schemes and markings aredescribed and illustrated.

Henschel Hs123Robert Panek

$38.00 • 7 x 10160 pages200 b/w photos, 40color profiles • January2013 • paperback9788361421481

The Henschel Hs123 was a single-seat biplanedive bomber and close-support attack aircraftflown by the German Luftwaffe during theSpanish Civil War and the early years of WorldWar II.

This book describes the development andoperation history of the Hs123. It contains:superb color illustrations of camouflage andmarkings, rare b&w archive photographs, andscale plans.

KARAS of 24Eskadra atWarTomasz J. Kopanski

$45.00 • 8.25 x 11.75144 pages • 200+ b/wphotos, 12 color profiles,2 maps • April 2013paperback • 9788361421818

The fascinating and untold story of the 24Eskadra of the Polish Air Force in September1939. 24 Eskadra was the only unit duringSeptember 1939 which ended the PolishCampaign with the same number of aircraft asit started, despite heavy losses. The operationsof the unit, its successes and losses, aredescribed in detail in this book.

Also this was the sole unit which used themost modern liaison aircraft in Poland, theLWS-3 Mewa. This new book is full ofunpublished photos of the Karas, the majorreconnaissance and attack aircraft in Polishservice, and of the Mewa.

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Oxbow Books

The RAF PathfindersBomber Command’s EliteSquadronMartyn Chorlton

$23.95 • 160 pages • Now AvailableCountryside Books • paperback9781846742019

The formation of the Pathfinder Force inAugust 1942 produced a steady butcertain change in the fortunes of BomberCommand. Its effectiveness againsttargets during the early years of the war had been very difficult togauge. When examined in detail afterwards, aerial photographs showedthat only one third of the aircraft were successfully reaching their targetarea and less than this were actually placing their bombs with targetaccuracy. It was known during the large-scale bombing of Coventry inthe autumn of 1940 that the Germans had used an elite force ofpathfinder aircraft who had acted as target finders for the main force ofGerman bombers. What was now needed for the RAF were some similarspecialist squadrons, with crews handpicked for their discipline, courage,high morale and skills in a wider than normal range of flying jobs.

Beyond the DeadHorizonStudies in Modern ConflictArchaeoloyNicholas J. Saunders (ed.)

$104.00 • 240 pages • 90 color and b/willustrations • Now Available • paperback9781842174715

The new interdisciplinary study ofmodern conflict archaeology hasdeveloped rapidly over the last decade. Its anthropological approach tomodern conflicts, their material culture and their legacies has freed suchinvestigations from the straitjacket of traditional ‘battlefieldarchaeology’. It offers powerful new methodologies and theoreticalinsights into the nature and experience of industrialized war. Thecomplexities of studying wars within living memory demand a newresponse - a sensitized, cross-disciplinary approach which draws onmany other kinds of academic study but which does not privilege anyparticular discipline. It is the most democratic kind of archaeology - onewhich takes a bottom-up approach - in order to understand the web ofemotional, military, political, economic and cultural experiences andlegacies of conflict.

ConfederateSeasJohn Hess

$29.95 • 140 pagescolored maps • NowAvailable • HeritagePublicationspaperback9781905933013

When the American Civil War began in 1861 itbecame of prime importance for the UnitedSates to seal off the Southern ports. TheSouthern Confederacy had few resources toprevent this happening, but tried very hard tomake up the difference. The result was a bitterfour year war on the sea in which the intriguesof foreign powers took a leading part. This is itsstory, a record of changing fortune anddesperate effort.

CivilianUniformsand How toDate ThemNeil Storey

$29.95 • 192 pagesDecember 2012Countryside Books • paperback9781846742484

Family photos of ancestors in uniform are oftenmistakenly assumed to be military when theyactually portray civilians such as firemen,policemen, chauffeurs and nurses. The authorhere explains how to make a correctidentification.

The RoyalOrdnanceFactory atHayesThe Story of aWorld War II Gunand Tank Factoryat Hayes in the London Borough ofHillingdonNick Holder

$15.95 • 48 pages • December 2012 • Museumof London Archaeology • paperback9781901992885

This is the story of a World War II tank and gunfactory in west London. Using wartimedocuments, specially commissionedarchitectural photographs and the recollectionsof some of the factory’s workers, the book aimsto tell the little-known story of how ROF Hayesplayed its part in the war effort and helped towin the Battle of Normandy in 1944 with theSherman Firefly tank.

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Oxbow Books

Roman ImperialArmourThe Production of EarlyImperial Military ArmourDavid SimJ. Kaminski

$50.00 • 180 pages • 148 b/w andcolor illustrations • Now Availablepaperback • 9781842174357

The Roman Empire depended on thepower of its armies to defend andextend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe,Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, foundedon well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with themost advanced arms and armor available at that time. This is the storyof the production of that armor. Roman Imperial Armour presents anexamination of the metals the armor was made from, of how the orescontaining those metals were extracted from the earth and transformedinto workable metal and of how that raw product was made into thearmor of the Roman army.

Roman MilitaryEquipment fromthe Punic Wars tothe Fall of RomeJ.C. CoulstonM.C. Bishop

$40.00 • 224 pages • b/willustrations • Now Availablepaperback • 9781842171592

Rome’s rise to empire is often saidto have owed much to theefficiency and military skill of her armies and their technologicalsuperiority over barbarian enemies. But just how ‘advanced’ was Romanmilitary equipment? What were its origins and how did it evolve? Theauthors of this book have gathered a wealth of evidence from all overthe Roman Empire to present a picture of what range of equipmentwould be available at any given time, what it would look like and how itwould function. They examine how certain pieces were adopted fromRome’s enemies and adapted to particular conditions of warfareprevailing in different parts of the Empire.

VasaA Swedish WarshipFrederick M. Hocker

$48.00 • 212 pagesfull color throughoutNow AvailableMedstroms Bokforlaghardback • 9789173291019

Vasa was the most modern warshipimaginable in 1628. Her ability for fast andaggressive sailing, the multiple gun deck andthe heavy, custom-made guns wereinnovations. She was meant to be a key assetfor Sweden in a bid for power in NorthernEurope. But as with most brilliant innovationsthere are also failures, and the ship sank on hermaiden voyage, a spectacular, costly andembarrassing fiasco. This book contains newinformation about the ship and the peoplewho built and sailed it. And then there’s thestory of the discovery of the wreck and itschallenging and exciting recovery.

Wearing theCloakDressing theSoldier in RomanTimesMarie-Louise NoschHenriette Koefoed

$50.00 • 144 pages24 color and 34 b/w illustrationsNow Available • hardback • 9781842174371

Wearing the Cloak contains nine stimulatingchapters on Roman military textiles andequipment that take textile research to a newlevel. Hear the sounds of the Roman soldiers’clacking belts and get a view on their purchaseorders with Egyptian weavers. Could armor bebuilt of linen? Who had access to what kinds ofprestigious equipment? And what garmentsand weapons were deposited in bogs at theedge of the Roman Empire? The authors drawupon multiple sources such as original textualand scriptural evidence, ancient works of artand iconography and archaeological recordsand finds.

Blood RedRosesThe Archaeology ofa Mass Grace fromthe Battle ofTowton AD 1461Veronica FioratoAnthea Boylston

$50.00 • 294 pages • 10 pp. of color plates •Now Available • paperback • 9781842172896

The Battle of Towton in North Yorkshire, foughtduring the Wars of the Roses, was reputedlythe bloodiest battle ever seen on English soil.In 1996, a mass grave of soldiers wasdiscovered there by chance. This was thecatalyst for a multi-disciplinary researchproject, still unique in Britain ten years afterthe initial discovery, which included a study ofthe skeletal remains, the battlefield landscape,the historical evidence and contemporary armsand armor. The discoveries were dramatic andmoving; the individuals had clearly sufferedtraumatic deaths and subsequent researchhighlighted the often multiple wounds eachindividual had received before and, in somecases, after they had died.

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Pen and Sword

The Defense ofMoscow 1941The Northern FlankJacky RadeyCharles Sharp

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages30 illustrations • Now Availablehardback • 9781781590706

There was only one point in theSecond World War when NaziGermany had a chance of winning.That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army’s forces beforeMoscow had been smashed or encircled, and no reserves were availableto defend the capital. All that stood in Hitler’s way were a handful ofSoviet rifle divisions, tank brigades and hastily assembled militia.

According to German accounts, their spearheads were stopped by themud, but a close examination of German records shows this was not so.Instead it is clear that it was the resistance of the Red Army and bad,arrogant planning that halted the Wehrmacht.

Panzer KillersAnti-tank Warfare on theEastern FrontArtem Drabkin

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages48 illustrations • April 2013•hardback 9781781590508

What was it like to confront theGerman panzer armies as an anti-tank gunner on the Eastern Frontduring the Second World War? Andhow did the Red Army’s tactics andskills develop over the course of the war in order to counter the threatposed by the elite troops of the Wehrmacht? The vivid personalnarratives of Red Army anti-tank men selected for this book give afascinating insight into these questions. Their testimony reveals howlethal, rapid, small-scale actions were fought, and it shows how suchisolated actions determined the outcome of the massive offensives andcounter-offensives that characterized the struggle on the Eastern Front.

TheNormandyInvasion,June 1944Looking Down onWarCol Roy Stanley II USAF(Ret’d)

$34.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 272 pages • 200-250 b/willustrations • April 2013 • hardback9781781590560

The Normandy Invasion literally takes a differentview of D-Day and just beyond, showing thewell-known events using aerial photos. The RAFand USAAF imagery used is almost entirely fromlong dormant U.S. Department of DefenseIntelligence files. Examining the invasion scenebeach-by-beach, the eyes of a trained photointerpreter uncover details a layman wouldcertainly miss. This overview of Normandylandings and subsequent combat shows thescope and sweep of battle and helps explain whysome objectives were reached, why some unitsforged ahead where others were stalled. We seethe beaches as never before; their width at lowtide; the support vessels off shore and equipmentmoving inland; formidable beach obstacles, andpre-invasion aerial reconnaissance.

Warsaw 1944An Insurgent’sJournal of theUprisingMagda Czajkowski

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 176pages • IllustratedJanuary 2013 hardback9781781590584

This remarkable Journal, written shortly afterthe event, describes not only the author’s ownexperiences of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising butthe wider picture. With the Soviet Army’sarrival imminent, the Polish Undergroundfighters decided to wage open warfare againstthe hated Nazi occupiers. This courageousdecision was taken despite the Poles’ chronicshortage of arms, ammunition and medicalsupport. They fully expected the Soviets torelieve them gratefully for hastening thedefeat of the Germans. With cruel andcalculated cynicism, the Soviets halted theiroffensive and let the uneven match be settledwithout their involvement. The outcome wasinevitable – Warsaw was largely destroyed, thePolish men, women and children fighterscrushed and the Nazis weakened. The Sovietsthen moved in.

Red ArmyTankCommanderAt War in a T-34 onthe Eastern FrontVasiliy Bryukhov

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages20 illustrations • March 2013 • hardback9781781590232

What was it like to command a T-34 tank on theEastern Front during the Second World War? Howwere tank operations organized and carried out,what was the actual experience of combat, andwhat were the qualities that made the differencebetween success and failure? Vasiliy PavlovichBryukhov’s vivid, detailed and gripping memoir ofhis wartime service gives a fascinating andauthentic insight into these questions. In addition,it provides an accurate, unsentimental record ofthe day-to-day life of a tank man whose unitfought in the forefront of the Red Armythroughout the conflict across the western SovietUnion and into Eastern Europe. His first-handeyewitness account is a memorable personalstory, and it gives a powerful insight into thereality of tank warfare seventy years ago.

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Churchill’sSecretDefenceArmyResisting the NaziInvaderArthur Ward

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 250 b/w and colorimages - Integrated • February 2013hardback • 9781848848085

Formed in the Summer of 1940, in greatsecrecy, the ‘Auxiliary Units’, a force of ‘staybehind’ saboteurs and assassins was intendedto cause havoc behind the German front lineshould the Wehrmacht gain a foothold inBritain. Arthur Ward looks deeper into thestory of the Invasion Summer of 1940 andinterviews those involved with Auxiliary Unitsat the very top and in the front line.

MidgetSubmarineCommanderThe Life of GodfreyPlace VCPaul Watkins

$39.95 • 6 x 9256 pages • 16pp b/wplates • January 2013 • hardback9781848848009

Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II fewwere as audacious as the attack by midgetsubmarines on the pride of the German fleet,the battleship Tirpitz,. Lieutenant GodfreyPlace was in command of submarine X7 inSeptember 1943 and traveled over 1000 milesto accurately place four tons of high explosiveunder the hull of the Tirpitz.

FightingWith theDesert RatsAn InfantryOfficer’s War withthe Eighth ArmyMajor H.P. Samwell MCMartin Mace

$39.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 224 pages • 8pp of b/wplates • January 2013 • hardback9781848847668

This is a descriptive account of what it was liketo serve as an Infantry Officer with the DesertArmy in the Western Desert and Sicily between1942 and 1943.

The author is Major H.P. Samwell, MC, whowas unfortunately killed on 13 January 1945,whilst serving with the 7th Battalion Argylland Sutherland Highlanders, 51st HighlandDivision.

SecretFlotillas Vol 1Clandestine SeaOperations toBrittany 1940-44Brook Richards

$29.95 • 6 x 9416 pages • January2013 • paperback • 9781781590805

This authoritative publication by the officialhistorian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividlydescribes and analyses the clandestine navaloperations that took place during WWII. Theaccount has been made possible through SirBrooks’ access to closed government archives,combined with his own wartime experiencesand the recollections of many of thoseinvolved.

ScatteredUnder theRising SunThe GordonHighlanders in theFar East 1941-1945Stewart Mitchell

$39.95 • 6 x 9224 pages • 16pp b/w plates • January 2013hardback • 9781781590256

2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders was postedto Singapore in 1937 with their families. Whenthe Japanese invaded Malaya in December1941, the Battalion fought bravely until thesurrender of Singapore on 14 February 1942.Those who were not killed became POWs. Ofthe 1000 men involved initially, over 400 haddied by their liberation in summer 1945.

Fifth Army inItaly 1943 –1945A Coalition at WarIan Blackwell

$29.99 • 6 x 9288 pages • 16 b/wplates • January 2013 • hardback9781848844872

The US Fifth Army first saw action during theSalerno Landings in September 1943, whilecommanded by US Lieutenant General MarkClark. Clark’s Fifth Army was itself part of theFifteenth Army Group, commanded by FieldMarshal Alexander. Alexander’s light anddiplomatic touch oiled the wheels of thisuneasy arrangement but inevitably, there weretensions and disagreements that threatenedsuccess.

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The HomeFront inWorld WarTwoKeep Calm andCarry OnSusie Hodge

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 16 pages of platesFebruary 2013 • hardback • 9781848848184

This book brings an era to life with vivid storiesand information from those who lived duringWorld War Two. The book explores how peoplelived in Britain during times of fear, hardshipand uncertainty; how they functioned andsupported those away fighting – and how theydealt with the enormous challenges andadversities.

Death WasOur Bed-mate155 (LanarkshireYeomanry) FieldRegiment and theJapanese 1941-1945Agnes McEwanCampbell Thomson

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages • 16pp b/w platesApril 2013 • hardback • 9781781591697

The book tells the story of a little knownartillery regiment, the 155th (LanarkshireYeomanry) Field Regiment, RA that sawconstant action during the ill-fated MalayanCampaign of 1941/42 and whose memberslater experienced the worst kind of hell asPOWs of a cruel and bestial enemy.

TraditionalEnemies Britain’s War WithVichy France 1940-42John D Grainger

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224pages • 9 mapsFebruary 2013 • hardback • 9781781591543

After the surrender of the French governmentin May 1940, the British were concerned thatthe resources of the Empire would be put atthe disposal of the Germans. The British soughtto neutralize the threat of the French fleet andsaw an opportunity to gobble up certainFrench colonies for themselves. Thus, shecontinued the rivalry with her nearestneighbor and recent allies.

D-Day NormandyLanding BeachesSixth Edition with Latitudeand Longitude ReferencesMajor Tonie Holt / Valmai Holt

$29.99 • 5.75 x 8.25 • 352 pages •January 2013 • paperback •9781848845701

Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area,universally known as ‘the Bible’,this is the sixth, completelyrevised, up-to-date, muchexpanded edition.

The third in the Holts’important series of BattlefieldGuides it employs the same,highly acclaimed formula. Onceagain, the cold facts are interlacedwith anecdotes of bravery, humor,sadness and humanity.

Hitler’s AtlanticWallPas de CalaisPaul Williams

$22.95 • 5.25 x 8.5 • 176 pages200 Illustrations • February 2013paperback • 9781848848177

This illustrated book describes themassive effort that the occupyingNazi forces put into theconstruction of the Easternsection of the Atlantic Wall.

Hitler’s Atlantic Wall tells thehistory of how and why the giantbatteries were built, the origins oftheir weaponry and the ingeniousengineering and militaryoperations that defeated them.

BrunevalPaul Oldfield

$22.95 • 5.25 x 8.5198 pages • Illustrated throughoutFebruary 2013 • paperback9781781590676

This book covers the developmentof radar, the search for Germanradar in the Second World War,the discovery of Würzburg radarat Bruneval, the planning andpreparations for the audaciousraid, its highly successfulexecution and the aftermath.

Cockleshell RaidPaul Oldfield

$24.95 • 5.25 x 8.5240 pages • 8 pp. color • January2013 • paperback9781781592557

Operation ‘Frankton’ is a story ofhow determined and resourcefulmen, using flimsy canoes,achieved what thousands couldnot by conventional means. Thisbook covers the ‘Frankton’ storyincluding the development of theRoyal Marines Boom PatrolDetachment, the planning andpreparation for the raid, itsaftermath and an account of thewar crimes inflicted on thecaptured.

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The NormandyCampaign 1944Bob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9304 pages • January 2013paperback • 9781781591413

The Battle of theBulgeThe First Eight DaysBob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9272 pages • Fully illustrated withmaps, contemporary photographsand illustrations • February 2013paperback • 9781781591420

Hitlers ForgottenArmies:Combat in Norway &Finland

$24.95 • 6 x 9384 pages • March 2013paperback • 9781781591437

By Air to BattleThe Official History of theBritish Paratroops in WorldWar II (World War II fromOriginal Sources)Bob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pagesJanuary 2013 • paperback9781781591130

Servants ofEvil Voices fromHitler’s ArmyBob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9 • 240pages • January2013 • paperback9781781591390

TheSpitfireBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 144pages • January2013 • paperback9781781591147

Der AdlerThe Official NaziLuftwaffeMagazine Bob Carruthers

$19.95 • 8.25 x11.75 • 176 pagesMarch 2013paperback • 9781781591406.

The U-BoatWar in theAtlantic Volume 1: 1939–1941Bob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9 • 256pages • April 2013paperback • 9781781591598

The U-BoatWar in theAtlantic Volume II: 1942–1943Bob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9 • 256pages • April 2013paperback • 9781781591604

The U-BoatWar in theAtlantic Volume III: 1943–1945Bob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9272 pages April2013 • paperback • 9781781591611

This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuousmilitary campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939 through to Germany’s defeat in 1945.

World War II From Original Sources

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GermanTankHuntersThe PanzerjägerBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 176pages • January2013 • paperback9781781591321

GermanParatroops1939–45TheFallschirmjägerBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9224 pages • February2013 • paperback • 9781781591123

Panzers atWar1939–1942Bob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 128pages • March 2013paperback9781781591307

Panzers atWar 1943-1945Bob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9128 pagesMarch 2013paperback9781781591314

Tiger I inCombatBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9128 pagesFebruary 2013paperback9781781591291

GermanArtillery inCombatBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9208 pagesMarch 2013paperback9781781591338

Wolf Pack:The U-Boats atWarBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9128 pagesFebruary 2013paperback9781781591574

The OfficialU-BoatCommandersHandbookBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9176 pagesFebruary 2013paperback9781781591581

The AfrikaKorps inCombatBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9128 pagesFebruary 2013paperback9781781591345

Voices from theLuftwaffeBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 128 pagesJanuary 2013 • paperback • 9781781591116

The Red Army in Combat1941-1945Bob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 144 pages • March 2013paperback • 9781781591352

Hitler’s War Machine

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GötterdämmerungThe Last Battles in the EastBob CarruthersWillhelm Willemar

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 144 pages • February 2013paperback • 9781781591369

This fascinating collection of primary sourceaccounts focuses on the combat actions of theWehrmacht in the final battles of the war. Thematerial is drawn from a variety of wartimesources and encompasses fascinating writingsconcerning the tactical, operational andstrategic aspects of the battle for Berlin.

The Waffen SS in theEast: 1941-1943Nicholas Milton

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages • April 2013paperback • 9781781591376

This is the illustrated history of the Waffen SSon the Eastern Front. The life and death of theWaffen SS can be traced in these photographs,and the saga of the decline into disaster is toldthrough these images.

The Waffen SS in theEast: 1943-1945Nicholas Milton

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages • April 2013paperback • 9781781591383

This is the illustrated history of the Waffen SSon the Eastern Front. The life and death of theWaffen SS can be traced in the survivingphotographs, and the saga of the declineintodisaster is told through these images, whichdocument the combat on the Russian Front.

Air War D-Day:Assaults from theSkyMartin Bowman

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 60images • March 2013 • hardback9781781591161

This is the second volume of acomprehensive five part work onD-Day that includes a multitudeof personal military accounts fromboth Allied and German Aviationpersonnel ‘who were there’.

Air War ‘MarketGarden’ So Nearand Yet So FarMartin Bowman

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages60 images • April 2013 • hardback• 9781781591178

This is the second volume in ameticulously researched four-partseries that provides acomprehensive insight into theaerial exploits at Operation‘Market Garden’ in September1944.

Air War D-Day: TheBuild UpMartin Bowman

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages •January 2013hardback • 9781781591192

This is the first volume of a mostimpressive tribute andcomprehensive five-part workthat includes a multitude ofpersonal military and civilianaccounts of the aerial operationswhich were carried out on D-Day.

Air War ‘MarketGarden: The BuildUp to theBeginningMartin Bowman

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages60 images • January 2013hardback • 9781781591154

This is the first volume of a fourpart work presenting a completeaccount of the air operationsthroughout ‘Market-Garden’ whenBritish, US and Polish troopsattempted to seize bridges acrossthe Lower Rhine as a springboardfor crossing into Germany.

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1914-1918– AnEyewitnessto WarBob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9304 pagesJanuary 2013paperback9781781591512

This is a fascinating collection of recollectionsfrom primary sources reflecting often-overlooked aspects of the Great War.

Waterloo1815:CaptainMercer’sJournalCavalie MercerBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 128 pages • January 2013paperback • 9781781591468

Originally published in 1900, this book featuresexcerpts from Alexander Cavalié Mercer’saccount of the battle of Waterloo.

Soldier ofthe EmpireThe Note-Booksof CaptainCoignetBob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9280 pagesFully IllustratedJanuary 2013 • paperback9781781591505

Jean-Roch Coignet was a French soldier whoserved in the military campaigns of theConsulate and First French Empire. He laterwrote his memoirs detailing his militaryservice in 1848.

Into BattleWithNapoleon1812The Journal ofJakob WalterJakob Walter Bob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 128 pages • February 2013 •paperback • 9781781591451

This is the contemporary account of JakobWalter, a Westphalian conscript in Napoleon’sGrande Armée.

Caesar’sConquestof GaulBob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 256pages • January2013 • paperback9781781591499

The Gallic Wars are described by Julius Caesarin this book, which was originally titledCommentarii de Bello Gallico, it is a pertinentand altogether the most important historicalsource regarding the conflict.

TheEnglishCivil Wars1642-1649Bob Carruthers

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 128pages • March 2013paperback9781781591475

This is the definitive military history of the CivilWars, which swept the British Isles from 1642to 1649.

Sea Battlesin the Ageof SailJames GrantBob Carruthers

$19.95 • 6 x 9 • 304pages • January2013 • paperback9781781591628

“Sea Battles In The Age Of Sail” collects JamesGrant’s work on the subject of sea warfare,from Francis Drake to Trafalgar.

The Zulu War –ThroughContemporaryEyesBob CarruthersJames Grant

$14.95 • 6 x 9128 pages • January2013 • paperback • 9781781591444

Written in 1894, just 15 years after the war,this is James Grant’s excellent military historyof the Zulu War of 1879.

The Anglo-SaxonChronicle:Illustrated andAnnotatedBob CarruthersJames Ingram

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 384pages • April 2013 • paperback9781781591482

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the mostimportant sets of historical documentsconcerning the history of the British Isles.

Military History From Original Sources

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Fighters UnderConstruction inWorld War TwoGraham Simons

$29.95 • 7.5 x 9.5128 pages • 200 blackand white imagesMarch 2013 • paperback • 9781781590348

Great PushThe Battle of theSomme 1916William Langford

$29.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 240pages • 250 b/wIllustrations • January2013 • paperback9781781590416

Hitler’s BoySoldiersThe Hitler JugendStoryHans Seidler

$29.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 128pages • 250 IllustrationsApril 2013 • paperback • 9781848841123

The Germansin Flanders1917 – 1918David Bilton

$29.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 176pages • 250 b/w photosApril 2013 • paperback9781848846500

Himmler’sNaziConcentrationCamp GuardsIan Baxter

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 128pages • 250 b/willustrations • January 2013 • paperback9781848847996

Korea – TheGround Warfrom BothSidesPhilip Chinnery

$29.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 144pages • 250 b/w imagesApril 2013 • paperback • 9781848848191

Rommel’sArmy in theDesertAlistair Smith

$24.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 144pages • 250 b/w PhotosFebruary 2013paperback • 9781848848078

ArmouredWarfare in theKorean WarRare Photographsfrom WartimeArchivesAnthony Tucker-Jones

$29.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 160 pages • 200illustrations • January 2013 • paperback9781848845800

TheCenturionTankPat WareBrian Delf

$34.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 128pages • 90 color and b/wphotos • April 2013 • paperback9781781590119

The Soviet-Afghan WarAnthony Tucker-Jones

$29.95 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 160 pages • 200 illustrations • January 2013 • paperback • 9781848845787

This photographic history of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979 to 1989 gives a fascinating insight into a grim conflictthat prefigured the American-led campaign in that country.

By focusing on the Soviet use of heavy weaponry, Anthony Tucker-Jones shows the imbalance at the heart of aconflict in which the mechanized, industrial might of a super power was set against lightly armed partisans whobecame experts in infiltration tactics and ambushes.

Images of War

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Slaughter on theSommeJohn Grehan Martin Mace

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages • March 2013hardback • 9781848847705

On 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophonyof the Allied artillery fell silent along thefront on the Somme. The ear-splittingexplosions were replaced by the shrillsound of hundreds of whistles. At that moment, tens of thousands ofBritish soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of theWestern Front, and made their way towards the German lines.

By the end of the day, a number of the regiments involved had metwith some degree of success; others had suffered heavy losses for nogain, whilst a few quite literally ceased to exist. On what is generallyaccepted as the worst day in the British Army’s history, there were morethan 60,000 casualties – a third of them fatal.

In this publication, the authors have drawn together the War Diaryentries for 171 British Regiments that went “over the top” that day.

Battle Lines: YpresNieuwpoort to PloegsteertJon CookseyJerry Murland

$29.95 • 5.25 x 8.5 • 240 pages100 color and black and white illustrations4-back-1 • January 2013 • paperback9781848847934

Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen& Sword’s new series of walking, cyclingand driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion forevery visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Manyof the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featuredhere. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over aseries of routes and explain the fighting that occurred in each place invivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why,and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there forthe visitor to see. Their accounts give a fascinating insight into thelandscape of the front line and the acts of war that took place there acentury ago.

Battle onthe Aisne1914The BEF and theBirth of theWestern FrontJerry Murland

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256pages • 16pp b/w plates • January 2013hardback • 9781848847699

The river Aisne featured prominently in August1914 during the Retreat from Mons and inSeptember was the scene of bitter fightingwhen the BEF re-crossed it in theirunsuccessful attempt to dislodge the GermanArmy entrenched along the Northern Crest.

The fighting was hugely costly to the BEF,which had already fought three majorengagements and marched over 200 miles in amonth. The three British Corps lost over 700officers and some 15,000 men. Little wonderone officer wrote that he felt he was ‘in thecompany of ghosts’.

The FirstBlitzAndrew Hyde

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 224pages • January 2013paperback •9781781591246

In 1917, the Germans launched a major aircampaign against the British mainland, whichshocked the whole nation and terrorized thesoutheast of England.

These attacks by German bombers causedhundreds of deaths and injuries, but until now,the full details of these raids have never beforebeen told. These range from the massacre ofCanadian troops resting in Folkstone on May25, 1917, to a 50kg bomb that struck UpperNorth Street School in London’s Poplar on June13, 1917. It not only took the lives of 18schoolchildren, many as young as 5 years, butalso crippled and mutilated twice as manyagain. Terrible as this was, it was just one ofscores of similar tragedies, which terrified thepopulace of London and horrified the world.

Salute of GunsDonald Boyd Clare Ajenusi

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256pages • 8 pages b/wJanuary 2013 • hardback9781848848504

Artillery was the decisive weapon of the GreatWar but its story is almost forgotten. Thedevelopments in artillery tactics, equipmentand shells played a major role in the finalAllied victory. This book gives the reader adramatic insight into the story of artillery inthe First World War.

Donald Boyd joined his local TerritorialForce artillery unit in September 1914.Commissioned in 1915, he learnt his trade inFrance from unsympathetic pre-war IndianArmy regulars who did not understand howwar was changing. From 1916 to 1918, he tookpart in the Western Front’s major battles,including the Somme, Third Ypres, Cambrai andthe 1918 offensives. The stress of an artillerysubaltern’s existence, observing in the frontline, keeping the guns in action at a batteryposition or leading ammunition columns uptracks exposed to shellfire brought him tonervous collapse twice.

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TheKaiser’sReluctantConscriptDominik Richert

$39.95 • 6 x 9288 pages8pp b/w platesJanuary 2013hardback9781781590331

As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richertrealized from the outset of the First World Warthat his family was likely to be at or near thefront line. His honest account of his part in theconflict, which saw him serving on both theWestern and Eastern Front over the duration ofthe War, gives a lively picture of major events.

WithBayonetsFixedThe 12th &13th Battalionsof the DurhamLight Infantryin the GreatWarJohn Sheen

$50.00 • 6.75 x 9 • 352 pages • Over 100 b/wIntegrated Images • March 2013 • hardback9781781590324

In 1914 the number of enlistmentsoverwhelmed the Durham Light Infantry.Accommodation was tight so the men wereformed into batches and sent to traininggrounds. Over 2,000 men were sent toBulllswater where they became the 12th and13th Battalions. John Sheen traced the men ofthe two battalions who landed in France in1915. This book is a fine addition to thepublished histories of one of the largestregiments in the British Army.

Johnny:The Legendand Tragedy ofGeneral Sir IanHamiltonJohn Philip Jones

$50.00 • 6 x 9288 pages16 b/w photosJanuary 2013hardback9781848847880

The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of thewar but the force that was deployed was toosmall to achieve its aim. General Hamilton wasat fault in the way he conducted his campaign.This book examines why Hamilton failed atGallipoli and shows how he became a well-respected military prophet who many severalperceptive predictions about the future ofwarfare.

The Defenceof theDardanellesFromBombardstoBattleshipsMichael Forrest

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages • 120 illustrationsJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781781590522

The Straits of Dardanelles were fortified in the15th century with massive bronze bombards.

On 18 March 1915, a powerful fleet ofBritish and French warships attempted tooverwhelm the shore defenses of theDardanelles. The attack failed at huge cost;three ships sunk and three more seriouslydamaged. This definitive work examines theflaws of Winston Churchill’s strategy andidentifies the inadequacies of pitting warshipsagainst shore fortifications.

Of ThoseWe LovedA Narrative1914-1919Rememberedand IllustratedI L (Dick) Read

$50.00 • 6 x 9528 pagesApril 2013hardback • 9781781591017

Dick Read was among the first to respond toKitchener’s call for volunteers in 1914. Hejoined 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment atthe outbreak of war and, within weeks, washeading for the battlefields of Northern Francewith the British Expeditionary Force. Thisnarrative is a personal record of one man’s warand a profoundly moving epitaph for a lostgeneration.

IntoBattleA Seventeen-Year-Old JoinsKitchener’sArmyE.W. Parker

$24.95 • 6 x 9112 pagesApril 2013 •paperback • 9781781591550

Written well over 90 years ago while theexperiences were still fresh in the author’smind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-oldboy from the time he joined Kitchener’s Army,as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914,until he found himself in hospital - an officerwith the Military Cross - recovering from hislast wound, on the day of the Armistice.

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Air BattleforArnhemAlan Cooper

$39.95 • 6 x 9208 pages1 x 16pp monoplate sectionJanuary 2013hardback9781781591086

Over sixty years ago, a battle took place thatcould have shortened the Second World war bysix months. The operation to take the bridgesat Arnhem was given the code name‘Operation Market Garden’, Market being theairside of the operation and Garden thesubsequent ground operation. The mainproblem was communications between theground forces and the resupply aircraft of theRAF.

Air Battleof theRuhrRAF OffensiveMarch – July1943Alan W Cooper

$24.95 • 6 x 9256 pages20 Integrated IllustrationsApril 2013 • paperback • 9781781590621

First published to acclaim in 1992, this bookdeals with the exploits of Bomber Commandduring their offensive against German Industryin the Ruhr during World War II. Air Battle ofthe Ruhr is a complete overview of a majoraspect of the air war against mainlandGermany – a subject that has rarely been dealtwith in such depth. This book fills in animportant gap in the history of the Royal AirForce.

The USEighth AirForce inEuropeEager Eagles:1941 –Summer 1943:Going OverGainingStrength Martin Bowman

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 60 mono in platesJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781848847477

This book describes the period when theAmerican daylight offensive faltered andnearly failed and recalls the terrible lossessuffered by Liberators on the low-level attackon the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania and by theB-17s on the notorious Schweinfurt andRegensburg raids which entered 8th Air Forcefolklore as ‘Black Thursday’.

Behindthe WireAlliedPrisoners ofWar in Hitler’sGermanyPhilip Kaplan

$39.95 • 6 x 9216 pages16pp b/w platesection • January 2013 • hardback9781781590447

Philip Kaplan presents us here with a rivetingaccount of the Allied experience behind enemylines, detailing the trials and tribulationsexperienced by the British and Americanairmen who were shot down in European skiesduring World War Two, to be incarcerated‘behind the wire’ in enemy camps.

Southernand WestCountryAirfieldsof the D-DayInvasion2nd TacticalAir Force in Southern and South-westEngland in WWIIPeter Jacobs

$24.95 • 5.25 x 8.5 • 196 pages • March 2013paperback • 9781844159017

As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, theairfields and interest in this book areconcentrated in a particular area – in this caseWest Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire andCornwall. This book looks at the history of eachbase, what remains today and explores thefavorite local haunts where aircrew and groundcrew would have sought well-deservedentertainment.

TheStrikeWingsSpecial Anti-ShippingSquadrons1942-45Roy ConyersNesbit

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages • 50 illustrationsJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781781590287

In November 1942, the RAF formed specialStrike Wings to attack the heavily defendedand seemingly invulnerable convoys thatbrought Germany’s vital supplies of iron orefrom Scandinavia down the coast of Europe tofeed its war machine. The outcome was a seriessea/air battles at close quarters, fought withincreasing ferocity until the last days of thewar.

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Mustang theInspirationThe Plane That Turned theTide in World War TwoPhilip Kaplan

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages • 16page insert of black and whiteillustrations • February 2013 •hardback • 9781781590461

This comprehensive account of theMustang aircraft charts theoperational history of the craft andrelays the personal stories andexperiences of the men who flewthe ‘Cadillac of the skies’. A vivid andenthralling history set to appeal toaviation enthusiasts looking formore than just a mere operationalhistory of the Mustang’s exploits.

Bombers Over BerlinThe RAF OffensiveNovember 1943 – March1944Alan W Cooper

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages20 b/w Images • February 2013paperback • 9781781590652

Berlin itself was ‘the Big City’. Itwas deep in the heart of Germanyand defended with flak and nightfighters. Heavy losses could beexpected on any raid to Berlin.Between November 1943 andMarch 1944, Berlin was the targetno less than sixteen times. 9,112sorties were flown and 495 aircraftwere lost.

Firestorm HamburgThe Facts Surrounding theDestruction of a GermanCity 1943Martin Middlebrook

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 432 pages • 24ppb/w plates • January 2013 •hardback • 9781781590355

In July 1943, a series of heavybombing raids virtually destroyedthe North German city ofHamburg. Martin Middlebrookhas delved deep into the archivesto uncover the facts. Thetestimonies of the Hamburgsurvivors are harrowing, providinga firsthand description of what itwas like to be subjected to aprolonged and intense air attack.

From Hitler’s U-Boatsto Kruschev’sSpyflightsTwenty Five Years withFlight Lieutenant ThomasBuchanan Clark, RAFChris Clark

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 125photographs and 88 illustrationsFebruary 2013 • hardback9781781590546

This book is about the Royal AirForce Career of Tom Clark, whojoined the RAF just before WW2.He trained as an Air Gunner andjoined a Flying Boat Squadron. Hewas involved in the hunt for“Bismarck” and was lucky tosurvive a fatal crash when five ofhis twelve man crew perished.

Bomber Command:Reflections of WarVolume 5 – Armageddon(27 September 1944 –May 1945)Martin Bowman

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 60 Mono platesJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781848844964

This is the fifth and final volume of a five-partwork that provides a comprehensive insight intoall aspects of RAF Bomber Command in WorldWar Two. It begins in late September 1944 whenthe Allied Bomber Offensive was at its height.The crews’ personal narrative puts you in thecenter of each intense and isolated andharrowing action as they try to stave off fears oftragic injury and death from fighters and flak.

Winged CrusadersThe Exploits of 14Squadron RFC & RAF1915-45Michael Napier

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 384 pages210 photographs, 19 maps, and 8pp colorplates (aircraft profiles) • January 2013hardback • 9781781590591

Formed in 1915 and still operational today, 14Squadron is one of the RAF’s longest servingand most senior Squadrons. Spending the firstthirty years of its operational life in the MiddleEast, the history of this Squadron is a rich one,but one that, until now, has gone largelyunrecorded.

Catalina OverArctic OceansAnti-Submarine andRescue Flying in WorldWar IIJohn FrenchEdited by Anthony Dyer

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 48 mono in platesFebruary 2013 • hardback • 9781781590539

John French first took up flying in 1937 withthe University of London Air Squadron, and thismove was to signal the start of a long andvaried career in flight that would see himinvolved in some of the most iconic wartimeexploits of the Twentieth Century.

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1 Group: Swift toAttack Bomber Command’s UnsungHeroesPatrick Otter

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 200images • February 2013 • hardback9781781590942

Following the recent unveiling ofthe monument to BomberCommand, the publication of thislovingly crafted account of theexploits of oft-overlooked 1 Groupis set to be a timely one. This bookcombines detail regardingoperations, aircraft, bases andincidents, with accounts of humanendurance and squadronfraternity.

Cockpit Commander -A Navigator’s LifeThe Autobiography of WingCommander Bruce GibsonBruce Gibson

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages16 photographs • February 2013hardback • 9781781590898

Previously self-published by theauthor, this book charts the courseof a dramatic career as a WingCommander. Living through one ofthe most dynamic periods inmilitary and Aviation developmenthistory, Bruce Gibson saw eventsplay out from his elevated aerialposition.

Flight 777The Mystery of LeslieHowardIan Colvin

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages12 pages of b/w plates • February2013 • hardback • 9781781590164

On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, aDouglas DC-3, en route fromLisbon to Britain, was shot downby German aircraft. Among thedead was the actor Leslie Howardand his tax adviser, AlfredChenhalls, who looked remarkablylike Winston Churchill. Did theGermans believe that Churchillwas on board? Other aircraft flyingthat route went unmolested inspite of the German air presence.

Portrait of a BomberPilotChristopher Martin Jary

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 144 pages40 b/w Images • January 2013paperback • 9781781590577

This book is about FlightLieutenant Jack Wetherly, DFC. Ittraces his development fromnovice second pilot of a Wellingtonin the pioneering days of 1940 tosenior captain of a Halifax inWing-Commander LeonardCheshire’s squadron in what MRAFSir Arthur Harris called his ‘MainOffensive’.

Fabulous FlyingBoatsA History of the World’sPassenger Flying BoatsLeslie Dawson

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages130 photographs, including maps and postersApril 2013 • hardback • 9781781591093

The history of the development and operationsof flying boats in the early twentieth century isa vibrant one, full of colorful characters andexperimentation. Leslie Dawson captures thisspirit of dynamism, reminding us of the mostsuccessful early pioneers of the seaplanesdevelopment working to put their mutualsuccesses in context.

On the Edge ofFlightA Lifetime in theDevelopment andEngineering of AircraftEric William Absolon

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 40 illustrations inplates • March 2013 • hardback9781781590775

This is the story of Eric William Absolon, arelentlessly enthusiastic Aviation champion,whose lifelong love of aircraft has neverwavered throughout his long and varied career.From boyhood fascination to the adultrealization of his ambitions, this first-handaccount takes in some of the key events of thedynamic period of twentieth century history.

Beyond the Damsto the TirpitzThe Later Operations ofthe 617 SquadronAlan W Cooper

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages20 Integrated Illustrations • March 2013paperback • 9781781590638

First published to acclaim in 1983, this book isset to impact upon the book-buying public,eager for accounts of this period of World Warhistory. Relaying the later operations of 617Squadron, this book steers away from typicalaccounts of the group, which dwell on thispredominant feature of their service history.

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Surviving Trainerand TransportAircraft of the WorldDon Berliner

$50.00 • 6.75 x 9.5 • 160 pages102 color illustrations, 100 monoillustrations • January 2013hardback • 9781781591062

This final volume in the three-volume set covering more than300 types of Surviving World WarII aircraft includes the less-glamorous ones that could notqualify for two volumes onFighters and Bombers.

The RAF’s Air War InLibyaNew Conflicts in the Era ofAusterityDave Sloggett

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages • 8 b/wImages • January 2013 • hardback9781781590607

The uprising in Libya in the springof 2011 took the world by surprise.The Gaddafi regime’s brutalattempts at suppressing theuprising soon prompted theinternational community torespond. NATO agreed to impose ano-fly zone across Libya, which wasled by Britain, France and the USA.

Borneo BoysRAF Helicopter Pilots inAction - IndonesiaConfrontation 1962-66Roger Annett

$60.00 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages • 100color illustrations plus mapsFebruary 2013 • hardback9781781590102

The book describes theoppositions, victories, and defeatsexperienced on the island ofBorneo. With its difficult terrain,jungles, and lack of adequate roadnetworks, it proved to be one ofthe biggest challenges from amilitary perspective.

Fire by OrderRecollections of Servicewith 656 Air ObservationPost Squadron in BurmaE.W. Maslen-Jones

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages • 16 ppb/w plates • January 2013paperback • 9781781592601

The debt owed by 14th Army to656 Air OP Squadron in thereconquest of Burma wasimmeasurable. From 1943 untilthe end of the war, these threeflights of five tiny Auster aircraftprovided air observation for thewhole of the Army fighting theJapanese below.

‘Sailor’ MalanBattle Of Britain Legend:Adolph G. MalanPhilip Kaplan

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 16pages of mono plates • January2013 • hardback • 9781781590454

Malan was thirty years old duringthe Battle of Britain, old for afighter pilot, but his maturity gavehis leadership authority. Here isthe story of this talented man thatmanages to strike a balancebetween objectivity and reverencein order to commit Malan’s story topaper.

Mosquito MissionsMartin Bowman

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages • One 16page b/w plate section, One 16page color plate section • January2013 • hardback • 9781781591673

The ‘Wooden Wonder’ was themost versatile combat aircraft thatoperated on all fronts in World WarTwo. Martin Bowman’s respectedformula of incorporatingbackground information withpersonal narratives is employedhere once again.

Adventurous EmpiresThe Story of the ShortEmpire Flying-BoatsPhillip E Sims

$50.00 • 8.25 x 11.75 • 256 pages146 mono halftones and lineJanuary 2013 • hardback9781781591079

This is a story from a bygone agerecalling the most successfulflying-boat airliner ever built.Designed to a specification forImperial Airways, then Britain’snational airline, it carriedpassengers and, more importantly,mail throughout the BritishEmpire.

Northrop FlyingWingsGraham Simons

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 270black and white photographsapproximately • April 2013 •hardback • 9781781590362

Jack Northrop’s flying wings weresome of the most spectacularflying machines ever to grace theskies. A design as aeronauticallypure as a flying wing had hugeadvantages over conventionalaircraft design.

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RomanConquests:Egypt andJudaeaJohn D Grainger

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages8pp color plates • January 2013hardback • 9781848848238

Egypt was the last of theMacedonian Successor states to beswallowed up by Romanexpansion. The Ptolemaic rulershad allied themselves to Romewhile their rivals went downfighting.

TheRomanInvasionof BritainArchaeologyVersus HistoryBirgitta Hoffmann

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages • 16ppcolor plates, plus b/w maps anddiagrams • March 2013 • hardback9781848840973

The purpose of this book is to takewhat we think we know about theRoman Conquest of Britain fromhistorical sources, and compare itwith the archaeological evidence,which is often contradictory.

Beyondthe Gatesof FireNewPerspectiveson the Battleof ThermopylaeChristopher MatthewMatthew Trundel

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages3 pics and 7 line drawings April 2013 • hardback9781848847910

The Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC is one of the most famousbattles in history.

Beyond the Gates of Fire bringstogether experts on the classicalperiod from Australia, NewZealand and the United States totake a fresh look at various aspectsof the battle.

RomanConquests:TheDanubianProvincesMichael Schmitz

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages • 8ppcolor • April 2013 • hardback9781848848245

Dr. Michael Schmitz traces Romaninvolvement in the Danube regionfrom first contact with theThracians after the ThirdMacedonian War to the ultimateconquest of Dacia by Trajan.

AnAlternativeHistory ofBritain:The Anglo-Saxon Age Timothy Venning

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 1 mapFebruary 2013 • hardback9781781591253

Taking a similar approach to hissuccessful If Rome Hadn’t Fallen,Timothy Venning explores thevarious decision points in afascinating period of Britishhistory and the alternative pathsthat it might have taken.

AnAlternativeHistory ofBritain:TheHundred Years WarTimothy Venning

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages • 1 mapMarch 2013 • hardback9781781591260

Continuing his exploration of thealternative paths of British history,Timothy Venning turns hisattention to the Hundred YearsWar. Could the English have wonin the long term, or, conversely,have been decisively defeatedsooner?

AnAlternativeHistory ofBritain:The War ofthe RosesTimothy Venning

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages • 1 mapApril 2013 • hardback9781781591277

Timothy Venning’s exploration ofalternative British history mighteasily have taken on to the Wars ofthe Roses. Venning discusses allthe scenarios within the benefit ofa deep understanding of the majordriving forces, tensions and trendsthat shaped British history.

The Battleof Hastings1066– TheUncomfortableTruthRevealing theTrue Location of England’sMost Famous BattleJohn GrehanMartin Mace

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages30 b/w images • February 2013hardback • 9781848848276

The Battle of Hastings is the mostdefining event in English history.This in-depth examines the earlysources to unravel the evidencethat historians choose to ignorebecause it does not fit thetraditional view of where thebattle was fought.

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Wellington’s WorstScrapeThe Burgos Campaign 1812Carole Divall

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages20 illustrations • January 2013hardback • 9781848848429

The disastrous retreat and neardisintegration of Sir John Moore’s armyon the road to Corunna in 1809 istraditionally regarded as the low pointin the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet underthe Duke of Wellington, the British and their allies suffered defeats andretreats that tend to be overshadowed by the series of victories thateventually drove the French from Portugal and Spain. None of thesesetbacks was graver than the retreat that followed the disastrous failureof the siege of Burgos in 1812. It is this less than glorious phase of thePeninsular campaign that is the subject of Carole Divall’s latest study ofthe British army of the Napoleonic Wars.

With Napoleon’sGuard in RussiaThe Memoirs of Major Vionnet,1812Louis Joseph Vionnet

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages60 illustrations integrated • January2013 • hardback • 9781848846357

Major Vionnet’s memoirs of Napoleon’sdisastrous 1812 campaign in Russia arefull of personal anecdote and vividglimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His accountconcentrates on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all themajor actions and followed the entire campaign from the openingmoves in July 1812 to being chased through Prussia in early 1813. Hewas present at the destruction of Smolensk, toured the battlefield ofBorodino and witnessed the great fire in Moscow. Vionnet was a majorin the Fusiliers-Grenadiers, a regiment of veterans in the Imperial Guard,and his account provides a wonderful insight into the élan, morale andcohesion of this elite fighting force. In addition to providing detailedexplanatory notes, he quotes from the accounts left by five other soldiersfrom the same regiment, and these extracts allow the reader to followthe ups and downs of the unit as a whole.

Waterloo BattlefieldGuideDavid Buttery

$39.95 • 5.75 x 8.25 • 304 pagesover 100 color and black-and-whiteillustrations • March 2013 • hardback9781781591215

The defeat of Napoleon’s French armyby the combined forces of Wellingtonand Blücher at Waterloo was a turningpoint in world history. This was theclimax of the Napoleonic Wars, and the outcome had a major influenceon the shape of Europe for the next century and beyond. The battle wasa milestone, and it cannot be properly understood without a detailedstudy of the landscape in which it was fought.

In vivid detail, using eyewitness accounts and an intimate knowledgeof the terrain, he reconstructs Waterloo and he takes the reader acrossthe battleground as it is today. He focuses on the pivotal episodes in thefighting – the day-long struggle for the chateau at Hougoumont, themassive French infantry assaults, repeated cavalry charges, the fall of LaHaye Sainte, the violent clashes in the village of Plancenoit, the repulseof the Imperial Guard and rout of the French army.

Salamanca 1812Wellington’s Year of VictoriesPeter Edwards

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 384 pages • 16 b/wMarch 2013 • hardback9781781590799

1812 was the year in which thePeninsular War swung in the favor ofthe combined forces of the British, theSpanish and the Portuguese. This wasthe result of a series of victories overthe French gained by the allied armiesunder Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwards’s compellingnew history.

The year began with Wellington launching a series of raids inEstramadura to distract French attention from preparations for anassault on Ciudad Rodrigo. There followed the capture of Badajoz andthe advance on Salamanca.

The Battle of Salamanca, on 22 July, saw some 50,000 French troopsarrayed against a similar number of allies. Using ground astutely,Wellington gained a crushing victory, inflicting over 14,000 Frenchcasualties. Although there was a rebuff at Burgos later in the year,Wellington’s forces were firmly on the march to victory in the IberianPeninsula.

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Allied SpecialForces InsigniaPeter Taylor

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pagesIllustrated throughout • January2013 • paperback9781781591239

As early as 1940 political leadersand military commanders realizedthat national morale could only berestored by taking offensive actionagainst the enemy.

From these uncertainbeginnings was born a plethora ofAllied Special Force units.Inevitably, some are householdnames but others are little known,having had brief and covertexistence in far flung parts of theworld.

The Last GreatCavalrymanThe Life of General SirRichard McCreery GCB KBEDSO MCRichard Mead

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages32pp b/w plates • January 2013hardback • 9781848844650

Dick McCreery was commissionedinto the 12th Royal Lancersandserved on The Western Front,winning the MC and survivingwounds.

Although not a public figure,McCreery was key figure in thedevelopment of armored warfareand among the most importantBritish fighting generals of theSecond World War. This is anoverdue acknowledgment of hiscontribution to victory.

Soldier At HeartFrom Private to GeneralMike Reynolds

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages48 b/w photos • February 2013hardback • 9781781590263

Growing up during the SecondWorld War, Mike Reynolds becameso interested in soldiering that hedecided to make the Army his life.Joining as a National Serviceman,to see if he would really like beinga soldier, he made the decision tobecome a professional and wascommissioned into The Queen’sRoyal Regiment.

Bronze AgeMilitaryEquipment Dan Howard

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages8 pages color • January 2013hardback • 9781848842939

This book is a fascinatingdiscussion of the development ofthe military equipment of theearliest organized armies.Spanning from the introduction ofmassed infantry by the Sumeriansthrough to the collapse of thechariot civilizations, this is theperiod of the epic strugglesdescribed in the Old Testamentand Homer’s Iliad.

TotalDestruction ofthe Tamil TigersThe Rare Victory of SriLanka’s Long WarPaul Moorcraft

$34.95 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages • 16pp b/w platesMarch 2013 • hardback • 9781781591536

In 2009, the Sri Lankan government forcesliterally eradicated the Tamil Tiger insurgencyafter 26 years of civil war. This was the firsttime that a government had defeated anindigenous insurgency by force of arms. Thestory of this war is fascinating in itself. Manycountries involved themselves in the war – toarm the combatants or to bring peace.

Atrocities,Diamonds andDiplomacyPeter Penfold

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 224 pagesMarch 2013 • paperback • 9781781591055

In 1997 Peter Penfold arrived in Sierra Leone asthe British High Commissioner. This bookdescribes not just his three-year tour but thebackground and subsequent events that placedthis small country at the center of the worldstage. This is a very important account basedon the most privileged knowledge.

Unicorns - Historyof the SherwoodRangersYeomanry 1794-1899Jonathan Hunt

$70.00 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages • Numerousillustrations including 8pp color • April 2013hardback • 9781848845473

Jonathan Hunt’s superbly researched Unicornsreveals that the history of the SherwoodRangers Yeomanry is inextricably linked to thatof its home county of Nottinghamshire.Formed in 1794, as part of the NottinghamshireYeomanry, the Regiment had a primarilypolicing role until the mid-nineteenth century.

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Spartacus: Talons of anEmpireRobert Southworth

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 208 pages • January 2013paperback • 9781781590843

This enthralling piece of work by first-timenovelist Robert Southworth explores theavenue history could have run down ifSpartacus had survived the slave rebellion in73BC, an uprising whose aftermath didn’t deliver the remains of thefamous slave leader. The brute force of this famous figure of Romanhistory is relayed, and the events of the period re-imagined to greateffect. The work is sure to appeal to fans of Roman history, as well asthose enamored by stories of action and adventure. Whilst the figure ofSpartacus continues to hold massive appeal for contemporary audiences,this work offers a fresh vision of the Roman era; a dark and brutalreenactment of high gladiatorial drama.

Royalist RebelAnita Seymour

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 272 pages • February2013 • paperback • 9781781590683

Set in a period of great social unrest, thisnovel explores the various rivalries acted outbetween Royalist and Parliamentarianfactions in 17th Century Britain.

The real-life historical figure of ElizabethMurray serves as the novels centralprotagonist; Countess Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale, she inhabitedHam House, a Jacobean mansion built on the River Thames atPetersham. Throughout the reigns of Charles I, Charles II, James II,William and Mary, she became deeply embroiled in the politics of theCivil War. Wielding a great deal of influence due to her elevated position,and partaking in her fair share of adventure, she found herself right atthe heart of the action.

ThePeenemundeConspiracyJames McDermott

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 256pages • February 2013paperback9781781591734

Peenemünde: windswept corner of the ThirdReich and birthplace of the space age. OttoFischer, a severely wounded Luftwaffe officerand former criminal investigator, is summonedto solve a seemingly incomprehensible case:the murder of a leading rocket engineer duringa devastating air raid. With only days until theSS assume control of the production of aremarkable new weapon, Fischer must find amotive and perpetrator from among severalthousand scientists, technicians, soldiers andforced laborers. As he struggles to get themeasure of a secretive, brilliant world in whichimagination moves far beyond the limits oftechnology, what at first appears to be asolitary crime draws him into a labyrinth ofconspiracy, betrayal and treason.

Threads ofTreasonMary Bale

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 272pages • March 2013paperback9781781591000

When two of the nuns creating the BayeuxTapestry fall from the tower of the Priory of StThomas the Apostle, Abbess Eleanor and herprotégé, Therese, are sent to investigate. As theadventures unfold, the intrigue createdbetween the Norman Princes and Bishops, aswell as the tensions between the conquerorsand the native Britons, deepen to great anddramatic effect. Mary Bale has captured thespirit and feel of the times, which she evokesin this, her first novel. This extensivelyresearched novel is sure to appeal to thoselooking for an evocative tale of adventure andintrigue, made vivid by fascinating perioddetails.

The TriangleTradeGeoff Woodland

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 272pages • April 2013paperback9781781591741

This epic weaves themes of generationalchange, moral wickedness, greed, romance,and the fortunes of war as they impact uponthe lives of a father and son caught up in theturmoil that preceded the implementation ofthe British Trade Act of 1807, which would endBritain’s involvement in the slave trade.

This novel roots the reader firmly in a cityon the brink of change, evoking a real sense ofthe struggles at play, and informing ourunderstanding of the realities of slavery, thosewho fueled its continuation and those whobrought about its eventual cessation, as well asthe legacy inherited by the City of Liverpooland the wider world.

Introducing Pen and Sword’s new fiction imprint Claymore Press

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Their Cemetery Sown With CornAn Englishman’s Stand Against the Nazi StormFrank Binder

$29.95 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages • January 2013hardback • 9781781590836

John Arnold is a young Englishman studying at Bonn University in theearly 1930s. Living with a German family in a nearby village hiswitnesses the pervasive rise of Nazi power in the tight knit community.His position as a guest is complicated by his love of Germany and hisburgeoning relationship with a Jewess and the maid in the house wherehe is lodging. Arnold finds it increasingly hard to stand silent witness tothe changing political order.

This compelling story of love, loyalty and courage in the face ofextortion, treachery and murderous cruelty is semi-autobiographical.Having studied in Germany over this period, Binder inevitably draws onhis own experiences and develops a rich cast of characters who areforced to come to terms with Hitler’s oppression.

Coming HomeRoy E. Stolworthy

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 368 pages • January 2013 •paperback • 9781781590713

A brutally honest portrayal of the realities of war,this novel relays the story of fifteen-year-oldThomas Elkin as he engages in the First World War.A tale of conflict, both global and personal, and ofredemption, this novel has the potential to rank alongside the best ofretrospective First World War literature. Accepting the blame for theaccidental death of his recently conscripted brother, Elkin switchesidentity with his dead sibling and enters into the fray of the conflict. Hisburning ambition is to die a glorious death in his brother’s name.

Believing that in fully submitting to the reality of war he is atoningfor his sins, he faces all the attendant horrors with a steel will and apoignant resignation.

TheReichsbankRobberyColin Roderick Fulton

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75 • 336pages • January 2013paperback9781781590782

In February 1945, the US Air Force launchedthe largest daytime bombing offensive againstBerlin, dropping over 2,250 tons of bombs onthe German capital. The Reichsbank, Germany’sstate bank, received 21 direct hits. This left thebuilding badly damaged its vaults unsafe andmeant that most of its contents were at risk.

The German authorities made the decisionto take most of the Reichsbank’s treasure awayand hide it for safekeeping.

All this loot was placed in a salt mine at aplace called Merkers. The US Army capturedthis intact. After this disaster, the Germansspent the next six weeks transferring theirremaining bullion and currency reservesaround what remained of the Reich in armoredtrains, looking for somewhere safe.

Exit PlanMike Sixsmith

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 272pages • January 2013hardback9781781590973

Bill Sloan, a formerBritish Armyintelligence officer and Shahid Al Sheehi, theson of a Pakistani British immigrant are caughtup in a breathtakingly ambitious plan for asmall Middle Eastern Emirate to seize regionalpower by acquiring weapons of massdestruction. The destinies of Sloan and AlSheehi are irrevocably entwined.

This novel draws the reader into a realm ofpolitical intrigue, characterized by thwartedterrorist plots, international duplicity, and ahost of anxious preoccupations including thethreat of WMDs. Incredibly timely, as theseissues still continue to feature in contemporaryheadlines, this work acts to set our currentperceptions of such issues is context.

BlockadeRunnerDavid Kent-Lemon

$14.95 • 5 x 7.75304 pages • January2013 • paperback9781781590645

It is 1861. Tom Wells is in pursuit of a girl fromNorth Carolina. He accepts an offer from hisemployer to leave the quiet obscurity of his jobas an office boy in a London shipping firm tocross the Atlantic to Nassau in the Bahamas.Now he must face the hazards of the Unionblockade in the American Civil War. Tom’sbravado may help him with running theblockade, but how will he cope with theconflicting issues of love and morality as hebecomes entangled with a lady of easy virtuein Nassau?

Tom’s adventures take him betweenNassau, Charleston and Wilmington NC, wherehe must smuggle arms and munitions througha gauntlet of Union warships to the Southernports, bringing cotton and tobacco back toNassau.

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TheArchaeologyof theSecondWorld WarUncoveringBritain’s WartimeHeritageGabriel Moshenska

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages • 16 pages of colorplates • February 2013 • hardback9781848846418

The Second World War transformed Britishsociety. Men, women and children inhabitedthe war in every area of their lives, from theirclothing and food to schools, workplaces andwartime service. Many physical signs of thewar have survived – a vast array of sites andartifacts that archaeologists can explore - andGabriel Moshenska’s new book is an essentialintroduction to them.

MidgetNinja andTacticalLaxativesBizarre WarfareThrough the AgesPhilip Sidnell

$14.95 • 6 x 9 • 176 pages • 8 - 12 b/willustrations • January 2013 • paperback9781848843318

‘Midget Ninja and Tactical Laxatives’ is a light-hearted look at some of the most bizarreincidents, weirdest weapons and strangeststratagems to be found in the annals ofwarfare. Drawn from all periods of historythere is something here for every reader withan interest in military history and/or a sense ofhumor.

WingedScalpelRichard Villar

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 224pages • 16pp b/wplates • January 2013hardback9781781591680

In this fast-paced narrative, ex-SAS surgeonRichard Villar provides ‘a very personal insightinto the difficulties, dangers and occasionalvirtual impossibility of providing medical aid todisaster areas and war zones.

He shares his remarkable experiences in theaftermath of three major earthquakes –Kashmir, Java and Haiti – as well as in theLibyan civil war.

The Lords ofWar: FromLincoln toChurchillSupremeLeadership fromLincoln to ChurchillCorrelli Barnett CBE

$39.95 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages • 8pp b/w PhotosJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781781590935

In this compelling study of leadership, CorrelliBarnett examines the strengths andweaknesses of twenty leaders in thenineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Heexamines how the difficulties they faced andthe political and strategic backgrounds of theirdays and analyses how they performed andwhat they achieved. Were they successful, orwere they beaten down by the burden of theirroles?

Monitors ofthe RoyalNavyHow the FleetBrought the BigGuns to BearJim Crossley

$50.00 • 6 x 9 • 246pages • 8 pages mono plates, 10 captioned linedrawings in appendix • February 2013hardback • 9781781590515

The book deals with the origins of Monitorsand how they evolved from the bomb ketchesof the 18th century. It looks at how the variousclasses of monitor were designed and built andexplores their careers in both World Wars,including the particular impact they had onthe various campaigns in which they fought.

Sea KillersIn DisguiseTony Bridgland

$24.95 • 6 x 9 • 224pages • February 2013paperback9781781591703

This is the remarkable story of what wereknown by the British as ‘Q’ Ships and by theGermans as ‘Decoy Raiders’. Disguised asharmless merchant ships, they could betransformed in moments into powerful killersand were used by both sides in the First WorldWar. This book describes the extraordinarylengths that both sides went to ensure secrecyand deception.

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Battle intheAtlantic$24.95 • 5.5 x 7.590 mins • January2013DVD NTSC4260110584982

This documentary shows previouslyunpublished private footage of a former U-boat driver.

WalkingtheWesternFront –Somme,Part 1Ed Skelding

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Spread across three seventy-minute DVDs,acclaimed film-maker Ed Skelding andeminent military historian Nigel Cave take uson a tour of the Somme battlefields as theyexist today.

WalkingtheWesternFront -Somme,Part 2Ed Skelding

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Spread across three seventy-minute DVDs,acclaimed film-maker Ed Skelding andeminent military historian Nigel Cave take uson a tour of the Somme battlefields as theyexist today.

The Peninsula SeriesPart 1 – SalamancaBHTV

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The BHTV team visits the ground where thehighlights of the battle took place and use it asa canvas to explain the battle that reached itsbi-centenary in July.

The Peninsular Collection– The Keys of SpainSiege Warfare 1812Tim Saunders

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This DVD explains the siege warfare tactics ofthe British and the French during the epicbattles fought in Spain before the Battle ofSalamanca in July 1812.

The Peninsular Collection– 95th Rifles 1800 toCorunnaTim Saunders

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95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna explores thehistory of the 95th Rifles, who were masters ofthe battlefield and particularly skilled inskirmishing.

100 Years War: Crecy1346$32.95 • 5.25 x 7.5 • January 2013 • DVD NTSC• 5060247620442

In this program, the BHTV team uses theirexperience as soldiers and guides to examinethe political, military and economicbackground of the 100 years War.

100 Years War: Agincourt1415Tim Saunders

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In this program, the BHTV team uses theirexperience as soldiers and guides to bring thisiconic campaign to life.

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Chancellorsville’sForgotten FrontThe Battles of Second Fredericksburgand Salem Church, May 3, 1863Chris MackowskiKristopher D. White

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages • 70 images, 11 maps • June 2013 • hardback9781611211368 • eISBN: 9781611211375

By May of 1863, the Stone Wall at the base ofMarye’s Heights above Fredericksburg loomedlarge over the Army of the Potomac, hauntingits men with memories of slaughter from theircrushing defeat the previous December. Theywould assault it again with a very differentresult the following spring when General JoeHooker ordered John Sedgwick’s Sixth Corps toassault the heights and move to his assistance.This time the Union troops wrested the walland high ground from the Confederates anddrove west into the enemy’s rear. The inlanddrive stalled in heavy fighting at Salem Church.Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battlesof Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church,May 3, 1863 is the first book-length study ofthese overlooked engagements and the centralroles they played in the final Southern victory.

Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D.White have long appreciated the pivotal rolesSecond Fredericksburg and Salem Churchplayed in the campaign, and just how close theSouthern army came to grief—and the Unionarmy to stunning success. Together theyseamlessly weave their extensive newspaper,archival, and firsthand research into acompelling narrative to better understandthese combats, which usually garner littlemore than a footnote to the larger story ofJackson’s march and tragic fatal wounding.

John Bell HoodThe Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of aConfederate GeneralStephen M. Hood

$32.95 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages • 2 photos, 1 mapMay 2013 • hardback • 9781611211405eISBN: 9781611211412

John Bell Hood, one of the Confederacy’s mostenigmatic figures, died unexpectedly fromyellow fever in August of 1879 at the age of 48.He had been working hard on his memoirs, thefirst draft of which he finished just before hisdeath. When Advance and Retreat: PersonalExperience in the United States andConfederate States Armies was published thefollowing year, they immediately became ascontroversial as its author.

A careful and balanced examination ofthese “controversies,” however, coupled withthe recent discovery of Hood’s personalpapers—long considered lost forever—finallysets the record straight.

Outlived by most of his critics, Hood’spublished version of the major events andcontroversies of his Confederate military careermet with scorn and skepticism. Manydescribed his memoirs as nothing more than apolemic against his archrival Joseph E.Johnston. These unflattering opinions persistedthroughout the decades and reached theirnadir when an influential author describedHood’s memoirs as “merely a bitter, misleading,and highly distorted treatise” replete with“distortions, misrepresentations, and outrightfalsifications.” Without any personal papers tocontradict them, many historians took fulladvantage of the opportunity to portray Hoodas an inept and dishonest opium addict and aconniving, vindictive cripple of a man.

Calamity atChancellorsvilleThe Wounding and Death ofConfederate General StonewallJacksonMathew W. Lively

$27.50 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages • 35 illustrations, 5maps • May 2013 • hardback • 9781611211382eISBN: 9781611211399

On May 2, 1863, Confederate General ThomasJ. “Stonewall” Jackson led his Second Corpsaround the unsuspecting Army of the Potomacon one of the most daring flank marches inhistory. His surprise flank attack—launchedwith the five simple words “You can goforward, then”—collapsed a Union corps inone of the most stunning accomplishments ofthe war. Flushed with victory, Jackson decidedto continue attacking into the night. He andmembers of his staff rode beyond the lines toscout the ground while his units reorganized.However, Southern soldiers mistook the ridersfor Union cavalry and opened fire, mortallywounding Jackson. One of the rounds brokeJackson’s left arm, which required amputation.A week later Old Jack was dead.

This book is the first examination of Jackson’sfinal days. Contrary to popular belief,eyewitnesses often disagreed regarding key factsrelating to the events surrounding Jackson’sreconnaissance, wounding, medical care, anddeath. These accounts, for example, conflictregarding where Jackson was fatally woundedand even the road he was on when struck. If hewasn’t wounded where history has recorded, thenwho delivered the fatal volley? What medicaltreatment did he receive? Did Jackson really utterhis famous last words, “Let us cross over the river,and rest under the shade of the trees?”

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Simply MurderThe Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862Chris MackowskiKristopher D. White

They melted like snow on the ground, one officer said—wave after wave of Federal soldierscharging uphill across an open, muddy plain. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along asunken road, poured a solid hail of lead into them as they charged . . . and faltered . . . and died.

As a result of the carnage, the battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the mostlopsided Union defeat of the war. “Burnside’s folly,” it’s been called—named after the Unioncommander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of Potomac to ruin along the banks ofthe Rappahannock River.

But the battle of Fredericksburg remains one of the most misunderstood and misrememberedengagements of the war. Burnside started with a well-conceived plan and had every reason toexpect victory. How did it go so terribly wrong?

Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have worked for years along Fredericksburg’sSunken Road and Stone Wall, and they’ve taken thousands of visitors across the battlefield. InSimply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, they not only recountFredericksburg’s tragic story of slaughter, they also share information about the battlefield itselfand the insights they’ve learned from years of walking the ground.$12.95 • 6 x 9 • 168 pages • Now Available

paperback • 9781611211467eISBN: 9781611211474

A Season of SlaughterThe Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864Chris MackowskiKristopher D. White

Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he had opened his OverlandCampaign in the Spring of 1864. His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare.

Promoted to command of all the Federal armies, the new lieutenant general chose to rideshotgun with the Army of the Potomac as it once again threw itself against the wily, audaciousRobert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. But Grant did something no one else had donebefore: he threw his army at Lee, over and over again.

At Spotsylvania Court House, the second phase of the campaign, the two armies shifted fromstalemate in the Wilderness to slugfest in the mud. Most commonly known for the horrific twenty-two-hour hand-to-hand combat in the pouring rain at the Bloody Angle, the battle of SpotsylvaniaCourt House actually stretched from May 8-21, 1864, fourteen long days of battle and maneuver.

Grant, hammering with his overwhelming numbers and unprecedented power, versus Lee,hunkered down behind the most formidable defensive works yet seen on the continent—Spotsylvania Court House represents a chess match of immeasurable stakes between two masteropponents.

As former battlefield guides at Spotsylvania Court House, authors Chris Mackowski andKristopher D. White know the ground as intimately as anyone today. With the knowledge andinsight that comes from that familiarity, coupled with their command of the fact, Mackowski andWhite weave together a gripping narrative of one of the war’s most consequential engagements.

$12.95 • 6 x 9 • 168 pages • June 2013paperback • 9781611211481eISBN: 9781611211498

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Barack Obama, AbrahamLincoln, and theStructure of ReasonDavid HirschDan Van Haften

$16.95 • 6 x 9 • 248 pages • Now Availablepaperback • 9781611211351eISBN: 9781611211108

Almost nobody noticed. In January 2011,President Obama completely changed thestructure of his speeches. A few people, likePeggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal andGustav Niebuhr in The Huffington Post, figuredout something was up. But neither could pin itdown.

Now the complete story is told and thetechnique is revealed. This is the one Obamabook everyone should read. It is the one bookon how to craft a persuasive speech thateveryone needs.

Authors David Hirsch and Dan Van Haftenshow precisely how President Obama’s 2011speeches have the same structure used byAbraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address(and in virtually all of Lincoln’s great speeches).The authors summarize and analyze PresidentObama’s speeches and demonstrate howstructure conveys meaning. Hirsch and VanHaften broke “Lincoln’s code” regarding howLincoln wrote his speeches, identifying andexplaining this unique structure in AbrahamLincoln and the Structure of Reason (November2010). Now, they reveal President Obama’s useof this same structure and how it is easier tounderstand, and more straightforward thanLincoln’s.

The UltimateDeployment GuidebookInsight into the Deployed Soldier anda Guide for the First-Time DeployedPaul N. SmithSFC Kristina A. Smith

$18.95 • 6 x 9 • 192 pages • 20 photos, 1 chartJune 2013 • paperback • 9781611211429eISBN: 9781611211436

Is your Facebook page a threat to nationalsecurity? What about your momma’s address?Only while deployed in service to our countrycan you completely let your appearance go . . .and receive no less than five marriageproposals. Many books have been writtenabout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, butfew touch on the day-to-day lives of deployedservice members, especially in a lightheartedmanner that is enjoyable to read and sharewith others. Paul Smith and Kristina Smith setout to rectify this oversight with The UltimateDeployment Guidebook.

Smith and Smith (no relation) met inAfghanistan during their deployment in 2010-2011, where they started joking about thevarious lifestyle changes necessary overseas.Their conversations led to the creation of thisbook, with two very differentmilitary/contracting backgrounds forming atruly unique view of overseas tours.

Lighthearted and accessible, The UltimateDeployment Guidebook appeals to a broadaudience, including family members who haveloved ones deployed overseas. It is a “must-read book” for the first-time deployed, civiliancontractors, family and friends of servicemembers, and anyone who has ever wonderedabout everyday life for service members in atheater of conflict.

Once a MarineAn Iraq War Tank Commander’sInspirational Memoir of Combat,Courage, and RecoveryNick PopaditchMike Steere

$18.95 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages • 38 b/w photoinsert • February 2013 • paperback9781611211443 • eISBN: 9781611210378

Readers in and out of the military will stand upand cheer for this valiant Marine’s Marine, aman who embodies everything noble andproud in the Corps’ long tradition. Never hasmodern mechanized combat seemed soimmediate and real, or the fight in Iraq seemedso human and worth believing in.

The real triumph in Once a Marine is itspreviously untold, behind-the-scenes tale ofthe day-to-day life of a career Marinenoncommissioned staff officer. Nick’s portrayalis a man complete: a husband and father, aswell as a warrior and a molder of youngwarriors. He reveals himself completely,something no memoirist in his position hasever done before. This includes our verypersonal introduction to his wife April, whoseheroics in the story equal Nick’s, together withdozens of others who, as Sgt. Popaditch writes,gave so much, so selflessly and freely, to him.

All Americans, of all political persuasions,have a duty to meet this courageous andadmirable fighting man, an exemplar of all ourmilitary men and women who give so muchout of love for their nation. Meeting GunnySergeant Popaditch through the pages of hisinspirational memoir offers up new reasons tobe proud and shoulder our own responsibilitiesas Americans.

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From Dreadnought to Daring100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in the Naval ReviewPeter Hore (ed.)

Founded in 1912 by some of the Royal Navy’s brightest officers, the quarterly Naval Review hasnever been subject to official censorship, and its naval members do not need official permission towrite for it, so it has always provided an independent, lively and at times outspoken forum forservice debate. In broad terms, it has covered contemporary operations, principles of navalwarfare, history, and anecdotes that record the lighter side of naval life, but sometimes with a biteto them. A correspondence section provides an important barometer of service opinion, whileextensive book reviews, written by those with real knowledge of the subject, carry considerableweight. For these reasons, the Naval Review is widely regarded as a journal of record.

$70.00 • 6 x 9 • 552 pages • 50 illustrationsJanuary 2013 • hardback • 9781848321489

$60.00 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 96 pagesIncludes CD containing all entries • April 2013hardback • 9781848320888

A Biographical Dictionary of the Twentieth-CenturyRoyal NavyVolume 1 - Admirals of the Fleet and AdmiralsAlastair Wilson

Despite its recent decline in size and influence, for much of the twentieth century the Royal Navywas a major player in world history. Its senior officers carried out – and sometimes made – Britishpolicy in peace and war, but with the exception of a few star figures, the details of their careershave never been published. This book is the first volume of a major study intended to provide aresume of the service lives of every flag officer, in the style of the great nineteenth centurybiographical dictionaries of Marshall and O’Byrne. Every entry is based on primary sources,including the Navy’s confidential personnel files, cross-referenced with general historical data and,in the case of living officers, correspondence with the subjects themselves.

The book comes with a CD, which contains the service histories and careers of 336 most senioradmirals on the Navy List from 1900 onwards. A monumental and unique naval historical resource.

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Tattered Flag

$16.95 • 6 x 9.5 • ca 120 page • 8 pages photoMay 2013 • paperback • 9780954311575

Over Empires and OceansPioneers, Aviators and Adventurers – Forging the International Air Routes 1918-1939Robert Bluffield

This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators. It is also a story ofdedication and determination, for despite fixed-wing aircraft proving their value over thebattlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, convincing governments and publicalike that they had a role in peacetime proved far more challenging. The Americans, as inventors ofheavier-than-air powered flight, had briefly courted with a passenger airline across Tampa Bay in1914, yet it took a further nine years for mail to be flown coast-to-coast. In 1919, a Britishcompany made the first international scheduled flight between London and Paris, but thecontinuation of regular services was thwarted by a less-than-enthusiastic government thatallowed its generously subsidized French competition, for a short time at least, to fly cross-Channelpassenger schedules unimpeded.

The British eventually realized that fast links with their Empire were vital, followed theexample of the French and Dutch who had forged air links with their cousins in North Africa andthe Far East. Meanwhile, in South America, the Germans, forbidden under the Versailles Treatyfrom any major aircraft-building, were establishing cunning supremacy by forming airlinesthroughout South America and in China. While America awaited a transcontinental passengerservice, Juan Trippe’s Pan American Airways was crossing swords with Ralph O’Neill of New York,Rio & Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) for air supremacy between the US, Brazil, Argentina andelsewhere in Latin America that led to the formation of arguably the world’s greatest airline.

$19.95 • 6 x 9.5 • ca 272 pages • b/w photosMay 2013 • paperback • 9780954311568

LawrenceWarrior and ScholarBruce Leigh

More than one hundred books have been written about T.E. Lawrence which explore the man andhis deeds. Just about every aspect of his life, his campaigns, the geo-politics of the Arab world,and the influence of the West in it have been examined. However, nobody has gone in search ofthe mind of the man himself – of his formation and his deep beliefs. Nobody has asked thequestion, What, really, is the source of the extraordinary power of this little man?

Archaeologist, writer, guerilla warfare theorist, diplomat, and airman, Lawrence also possessedan unusual ability to cross boundaries of class, race, culture, and religion. On top of this, hedemonstrated the ability to walk away from power and wealth and the accumulation of things –to change his name more than once; to begin again at the bottom of the heap in the RAF, and staythere, with only a few friends and books and a motorcycle.

This book examines how a slight Oxford academic combined two of the most challenging pathsa man can choose. What drove and motivated this man? How was it that he could apparently out-shoot, out-ride, and out-starve the Bedouin? How is it that the US military, and others, are stillstudying his famous account of the Arab Revolt and his ‘27 Articles’?

Drawing upon what Lawrence and those who knew him wrote, and did, and said, Bruce Leighdelves into Lawrence’s personal philosophy and practices, examining and analyzing his library,emphasizing that Lawrence’s views were not abstractions only, but intimately tied to his actionsand deeds.

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Paras en IndochineGénéral Pierre Hovette

6 x 9.5 • 288 pages • 23 illustrationsFrench Text • Editions Charles Hérisseypaperback • 9782914417341

This story follows the daily life lived by men ofthe 1st Commando 3rd BCCP in Indochina from1946 to 1954. These soldiers lived anexceptional life of courage, humility,selflessness, and solidarity while they foughtaway from their mother country. This book is anew version of Paras au Vietnam, which waspublished many years ago and had greatsuccess.

Pike and ShotteSteve Morgan

$48.00 • 196 pages • Now AvailableWarlord Games • hardback • 9780956358165

Pike & Shotte is Warlord Games’ third rulebookpublication. The rule book’s intention is toinspire a collector to play gentlemanly gameswith their collections of soldiers with friendswhere the emphasis is on the spirit of theperiod, not the letter of the rule.

World War II TriviaFayth Dressel Hannah Osborne

$7.95 • 8.5 x 11 • 72 pagesillustrated throughout • Now AvailableRiebel-Roque • paperback • 9780981489827

General Eisenhower personally watched thefirst planes take off carrying the U.S.paratroops that were to land in Normandy onthe eve of the invasion of Normandy. It wasreported that he had tears in his eyes.

Hitler reached the point where he had littleneed for money. Almost all of his expenseswere paid for by the state. He stoppedcollecting royalties on his book “Mein Kampf”and by 1944 it was recorded that the book’spublishers owed him 5,525,811 marks inuncollected royalties.

Adolf Hitler had a Nephew, Patrick Hitler,who served in the United States Army.

World War II Trivia explains these and otherinteresting facts about World War 2 and itsmajor players.

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There are three ways to order:1. By phone on 800-791-93542. Complete and send this order form to: Casemate Publishers, PO Box 511 (20 Main Street), Oakville, CT 067793. On our secure website at www.casematepublishers.com

o Visa o Mastercard o Discover o American Express o Check – Please make checks payable to Casemate Publishers

Card No.

Expiration Date / 3 Digit Security Code (4 digit for Amex),

Billing Address:

Name

Street

City State Zip

Telephone number

E-mail

o Check here if above address is the same for shipping address

If different please provide your shipping address:

Name

Street

City State Zip

Book title Page no. Quantity Price ($) Total

Total

U.S. Postageand Handling$6.00 for firstbook, $2.50 foreach additionalbook

Sub total

CT (6.35% on booksand shipping)PA (6% on books and shipping)VA (5% on books)

Total AmountEnclosed

on back of card (front of the card if Amex)

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Casemate Publishers

908 Darby Road

Havertown, PA 19083

Trade SalesOrders and inquiries regarding accounts, invoicing, shipping, stock availability, salesand discount information should be sent to:

Casemate Publishers908 Darby RoadHavertown, PA 19083Tel: (610) 853-9131, Fax: (610) 853-9146E-mail: [email protected]

Books will be dispatched from our warehouse:

Casemate22883 Quicksilver DriveDulles, VA, 20166

Returns (Trade Customers only)All returns require prior authorization. Returns will be accepted up to but not after 12months from the date of shipment. Books returned must be in a mint and resalablecondition and must be post paid. Full information, including invoice number and dateof order must accompany the books. Returns should be sent directly to ourwarehouse. Returns MUST NOT be sent to our Havertown offices. Any returns sent toour offices will be refused.

Individual SalesCasemate urges you to make use of your local bookseller. If this is not practical, orderscan be placed direct with us, if accompanied by full payment plus $6.00 shipping, plus$2.50 per extra book (PA residents add 6% sales tax). Please note these shipping ratesapply only to US orders, call for overseas rates. We accept payment by VISA, MasterCard,Amex and Discover. Call us or visit our website—www.casematepublishers.com.

Sales RepresentativesMidwest: Blue4Books• Ian Booth (763) 744-6921, [email protected]• Nicholas Booth (312) 933-4374, [email protected]• Tom Hamburg (952) 210-6529, [email protected]• Scott Barlett (636) 926-8175, [email protected]

New England and Mid-Atlantic: Parson Weems• Christopher R. Kerr (914) 478-5751, [email protected]• Linda Cannon (724) 513-9426, [email protected]• Causten Stehle (914) 948-4259, [email protected]• Eileen Bertelli (845) 986-3136, [email protected]

South East: Blue4Books• John Ingebritsen (321) 267-3284, [email protected]

South West: McLemore/Hollern & Associates• Sal McLemor (281) 360-5204, [email protected]• Larry Hollern (806) 351-0566, [email protected]• Karen Winters (512) 5877165, [email protected]

West Coast: Collins, Terry Associates• Ted H. Terry (425) 747-3411, [email protected]• David M. Terry (510) 813-9854, [email protected]• Alan Read (626) 590-6950, [email protected]

We do our best to ensure accuracy in the information contained in this catalog.However, prices and other details can change, so please check with us either byphone or at our website — www.casematepublishers.com — for the latest pricingand availability information

We welcome your comments, so please call us or write (you can e-mail us [email protected]) We’ll be delighted to hear from you.Catalog © 2012 Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors LLC

DistributionOur catalogs include titles published by many publishers. Each page in the catalogindicates the publisher concerned.

Overseas DistributionFor UK, European and British Commonwealth distribution of Casemate imprintedtitles as well as client publishers marked (C-UK), contact:

Casemate UK Ltd10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW, United Kingdome-mail [email protected] (01865) 241249, Fax (01865) 794449

Overseas customers wishing to place orders for books published by our clients shouldcontact us. Your order will be forwarded to the appropriate publisher for fulfillment.

E-books are available for purchase from the following sites:Apple’s iBookstoreAmazonBarnes & NobleBlio.comBooks-A-MillionBooksOnBoard.comChapters Indigo (Canada)EBLEbrary

EBSCOGoogle EditionsIngramKobobooks.comOmniLit.comPowell’s BooksTheCopia.comSony’s e-reader store

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