THE UNITED
STATES NAVY IN DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM
An officialDepartment of the Navy report on the role of
the US Navy in the Gulf War. Examines the build up of US
forces, the Navy/Marine team in action, joint operations,
the Navy's air war, Maritime interception, sealift and the
role of the SEABEES. Also amphibious operations, support
fo the ground forces, the weapons and their effectiveness
eg the Tomahawk cruise missile, and the lessons learnt.
With additional data on Allied participation, aircraft
sorties, losses, gunfire support, surface warfare,
unmanned aerial vehicles, etc.
Staple bound,
shelf wear, ow vg in
paper covers - xii + 215pp, tables, etc, large
format
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October
1944) was one of the most distinguished German field
marshals of World War II. He was the commander of the
Deutsches Afrika Korps and also became known by the
nickname The Desert Fox for the skillful military
campaigns he waged on behalf of the German Army in North
Africa. He was later in command of the German forces
opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion at Normandy.
Rommel is often remembered not only for his remarkable
military prowess, but also for his reputation for chivalry
towards his adversaries. He is also noted for possibly
having taken part in the plot to assassinate Hitler, for
which he was forced to commit suicide before the war's
end.
Good in d/w -
224pp, 160 photos,
20 maps, tables, biblio, index
Summer 1943. The greatest tank battle of WWII, with the
largest concentration of armour that the world has ever
seen. The best Panzer Divisions of the SS and German Army
were halted by the Red Army. Also covers the vast air
battle that was the most costly single day in aerial
warfare. A study of a battle that is still one of the
least known and least understood of WWII.
Good in d/w -
272pp, photos,
maps, bibliography, index
In WWI, having volunteered in 1914, the author served as a
rifleman in the ranks of Queen's Westminster Rifles in the
trenches on the Western Front. After the Christmas truce
of 1914 he was wounded and invalided home. Commissioned as
a 2nd Lieutenant in the Lincolnshire Territorial Regiment,
then to the Machine-Gun Corps, he served at Ypres and
Passchaendale, subsequently being promoted to Captain.
Spending the years between the wars in agriculture,
Walkinton once again saw service in WWII as
Second-in-Command of the Royal Sussex Regiment France as
part of the BEF.
Good in card cover
(with some shelf wear) - 221pp, 4 ills, map
