Wellington's nickname, 'The Iron Duke', was earned on the
battlefields of the Peninsular War, yet he also had the
subtlety and variety of genius. The sensitive child
aristocrat was pushed into the army and reached India at
27. He commanded the allied armies in Portugal and Spain
against Napoleon, fighting a wearisome campaign from
Lisbon to the Pyrenees. After his epic victory at Waterloo
he was never asked to fire another shot.
In 1944 there were 80,000 men of the US Army in Dorset -
the springboard to Omaha Beach, Normandy. Gliders from
Tarrant Rushton took British airborne troops to Caen and
Arnhem, American flyers harried the German lines and
prefabricated steel bridges were developed at
Christchurch. Meanwhile the Dorsetshire Regiment were the
spearhead of the British infantry in Sicily, Italy,
Normandy and Burma. This is a day-by-day chronicle of
those momentous closing months of Dorset's war with
marvellous photographs.
Mint in d/w -
159pp, numerous contemporary photos, maps, index
From the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 to the Ethiopian Wars in
the 1970s. Includes the campaign in Oman and Dhofar, the
Yemeni Civil War as well as the other Arab-Israeli Wars.
There is a substantial section on the Arab States' Armies
and their weapons.
Good in d/w -
168pp, 20 colour
& 82 b/w photos, 48 maps, tables etc
Myths of warfare, 1861-1945. Looks at the Tank in WWI,
British Generals of WWI, The Angel of Mons, and the myths
of the American Civil War. The author argues that the
truth can only be approached by looking at that war in the
light of others which resemble it. This is an attempt to
push aside the mythology surrounding warfare.
Operation Jubilee, August 1942, was essentially a
rehearsal for the D-Day landings. There were 16 immediate
objectives of the operation, one of which was to discover
the importance of a German radar station. Among those
landed was Flight-Sergeant J M Nissenthall, a radar
expert, equipped with a Canadian Army uniform and escorted
by a personal bodyguard whose orders were to kill him
rather than allow the Germans to capture him. This is the
story of what happened to him and his bodyguard during the
fighting on the beaches near to Dieppe.
