The most detailed study of the Battle of Britain yet
published. It contains exhaustive coverage on the losses of
the RAF and Luftwaffe and includes details of the locations
of graves, crash sites and airfields, plus a complete
listing of the "Few".
Very good in d/w
- 816pp, 1700 photos. Large format.
The memoir of Dr. Hans Heinz
Rehfeldt covering his service in Russia, Hungary, Lithuania
and the Battle for East Prussia. He
was on the Eastern Front from 1941 fighting for the city of Tula,
south of Moscow. Battling in freezing conditions. His
descriptions of the privations are vivid and terrifying.
With no winter clothes they resorted to using those taken
from Soviet corpses. Returning to his old unit in May 1944,
he experienced the heavy defensive battles in Romania as a
platoon commander and from August 1944 in East Prussia and
Lithuania. After being transferred by ship from Memel to
Konigsberg in late 1944, he took part in the battles for
Ostprussen in the winter of 1944/1945. Constantly exposed to
the attacks of Russian bombers and fighter planes and
severely wounded by shrapnel in the leg, he managed, with
the help of a Russian volunteer and a horse-drawn vehicle,
to get from Balga to Rosenberg, from there by ship transport
via Pillau to Swinoujscie and by train to Schwerin. Fleeing
impending Russian imprisonment he fled to the west, falling
into American captivity on 3 May 1945, and being released in
July 1945.
New in d/w -
340pp, numerous b/w photos & illustrations
The Tabaris Highlanders were a
group of volunteers from the Anglo-Argentine community who
arrived in Port Stanley shortly after the beginning of World
War II, intending to assist in the defence of the Falkland
Islands. They had responded to worrying comment in the
Argentine press on the possibility of German warships
blockading transit through Cape Horn to Australia, New
Zealand, and the Far East. They arrived in Port Stanley
aboard the Lafonia escorted by a destroyer. Their role was
to prepare defences of the islands in the event of a German
Raid.
New in card cover
- A5 format, 40pp, numerous, b/w photos/illustrations
The brainchild of Admiral Sir John
Fisher, battlecruisers combined heavy guns and high speed in
the largest hulls of their era. They were conceived as
‘super-cruisers’ to hunt down and destroy commerce raiders
using their size and gun-power. This book traces in detail
the development of Fisher’s original idea into first
battlecruiser, HMS Invincible of 1908, through to the
‘Splendid Cats’ of the Lion class, and culminating in HMS
Hood in 1920, the largest warship in the world at the time.
Their developmental history is backed by chapters covering
machinery, armament and armour, plus full technical data.
Illustrations include the author´s superb drawings and
original Admiralty plans reproduced in full colour. This is
a revised and updated edition of the classic work first
published in 1997.
New in d/w
- Large format, 128pp, 17pp colour scale plans, numerous b/w
photos
Unusually for a British service
Battalion, the Fifth battalion of the Essex Regiment
spent its entire Great War service in action against the
Turks. It had a bloody baptism of fire when it was
thrown into the inferno of Gallipoli in 1915, fighting
in the trenches near Anzac Cove. The rest of its war was
spent in Egypt, guarding the Suez Canal, and then in
Gaza and Palestine, where the battalion formed part of
Allenby's successful advance to capture Jerusalem and
Damascus in 1918. A facsimile reprint of the 1921
original, illustrated by photographs, maps and
accompanied by a Roll of Honour, this is a fine history.
