A history of the SAS Regiment to 1971. The
book looks at their operations from their formation by David
Strling as the Long Range Desert Group in 1941, and includes
their activities in North Africa, Italy, North West Europe in
WWII. Post-WWII the story continues with the Regiment's
operations in Malaya, Oman, Borneo and Aden.
G in d/w - 285pp,
30 photos,
maps, appendices, index
Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
was one of the few British dependencies in East and Central
Africa that had an African regiment with its own territorial
title - the military forces of Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Kenya and
Uganda being known collectively as The King's African Rifles.
The regiment's origins go back to the Barotse police of the
early 1900s. In World War I the Regiment campaigned in East
Africa, and in World War II in Italian Somaliland, Madagascar
against the Vichy French forces, and Burma against the Japanese.
As new in d/w - x
+ 134pp,
67 photos, 6 maps, tables, index
The desperate battles of the US
National Guard 30th Infantry Division to hold the German attacks
aimed at halting Bradley's breakout from the Normandy bridgehead.
The American infantryman is the hero of this magnificent account
of men at war. For five days in August 1944, the fate of the
Allied campaign in hinged on the refusal of a handful of men to
give up the tiny village of Mortain despite a massive German
counterattack. Yet the history books are mostly silent about this
momentous battle which broke the back of the German onslought, and
bought Bradley the time he needed.
Near fine in d/w - 273pp,
25 ills, 12 maps, notes index
