This book recounts
many vivid episodes in the operational service of the
Luftwaffe’s special and secret units which engaged in the
delivery of agents and saboteurs in the rear of the enemy
throughout the Second World War, not just on the Eastern
Front but across Asia and Europe. The activities of the
pilots and crews of these squadrons, even in the Luftwaffe
itself, were closed and secret. Information on these
operations was known only a limited number of people. It was
common practice for the crew of one aircraft in these units
to know nothing about the assignments of their fellow
airmen. The area of activity of such units covered the whole
of Europe, North Africa, the Arctic, the Urals, the
Caucasus, and Central Asia including Iran, Iraq, and
Afghanistan.
New in d/w -
255pp, numerous b/w photos, illustrations & maps
OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES 104:
NAVAL ACES OF WORLD WAR 1, PART 2
by Jon Guttman. llustrated by Harry
Dempsey
This second Naval Aces of World
War 1 book looks at the many flying naval heroes who served
alongside or against those of the Royal Naval Air Service
(RNAS). While the RNAS operated its own formidable arsenal
of Nieuport and Sopwith scouts over the Flanders coast, the
German Navy countered with its own Land Feld Jagdstaffeln
and Seefront Staffeln. Unique to World War 1 was the use of
flying boats as fighters in combat. The best flying boat
fighter was Italy's Macchi M 5, flown by three aces and also
the mount of Charles H Hammann, the first American to earn
the Medal of Honor in aerial combat.
New
in card cover - A4 format, 96pp, numerous b/w photo, 11
colour plates
In World War
II, aside from the battlefields in the West, the Eastern
Front and in North Africa, there was another small area
where the Panzers ruled: the OZAK (Operations Area Adriatic
Coastland), a large area which included the north-eastern
border regions of Italy and parts of present-day Slovenia
and Croatia. What makes this area so unique are the German
armoured formations deployed there with an exceptional range
of strange vehicles, which could be found nowhere else on
any other frontline of World War Two. This publication looks
at this exciting area of Wehrmacht Panzer history.
Anglo
German text and captions.
New in card cover - A4 format, 64pp,
137 b/w & 1 colour photos
The British Army and her
commonwealth Allies went to war in 1914 with little
knowledge and experience of constructing permanent,
protective structures. Some masonry fortifications, such as
defensive blockhouses in South Africa, had been built but
the Royal Engineers of the Army were more versed in simple
temporary defences. Home defences were a limited number of
forts around naval ports, and Martello Towers. It was
considered that the Navy was quite able to defend Britain's
coasts. The Germans, on the other hand, as with the other
continental countries such as France, Belgium, Italy,
Holland, Poland, Austria, etc. had been constantly renewing
and updating border forts for several centuries. They had
also maintained fortification and siege elements of their
armies, which were experienced in constructing
strong shelters. Both German and French armies began the war
with a degree of expertise in what was to become a static
war with little movement. However, by 1918 the British were
to surpass both enemy and her allies in the design and
construction, with supply and logistics, of such shell proof
cover for troops and defensive positions
New in d/w - 286pp, numerous b/w photos, plans, maps
LESSONS IN DISASTER:
MCGEORGE BUNDY
AND THE PATH TO WAR IN VIETNAM
by Gordon M. Goldstein
In the
last years of his life the former US National Security
Adviser, McGeorge Bundy, revisited the role he played in
leading the nation into the Vietnam War as a counsellor to
Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In this
original and provocative work the author draws on his
prodigious research as well as interviews he conducted with
Bundy before his death in 1996 to distill the essential
lessons of America's involvement in Vietnam.
