Part of
12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend, SS-Panzer-Regiment 12
consisted of veterans transferred from the
1.SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division LAH after Operation
Zitadelle. They trained and led 17 and 18 year old
volunteers and draftees. The regiment trained in France and
Belgium until 6 June, when the Normandy Campaign began with
the Allied landings. The Hitlerjugend Division and its
Panzer-Regiment were among the first German armoured units
to be thrown into battle. They crossed the Odon and fought
east of Caen, acquitting themselves very well in defensive
battles against the British and Canadians during Monty’s
operations GOODWOOD in July, and TOTALIZE and TRACTABLE in
August. Faced by the Allies’ air power, limitless artillery,
and masses of armour, the Germans were steadily pushed back
and eventually, exhausted and decimated, SS-Pz-Regiment 12
fell back from the Falaise pocket and retreated toward the
Seine with its few remaining panzers. It crossed the river
at the end of August, bringing to an end its first military
campaign.
New in illustrated boards -
large format, 448pp, c300 b/w
photos
In 1709, after
eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not
enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the
army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the
kingdom. Circumstances had worsened to the point that King
Louis XIV was forced to offer to end the War of Spanish
Succession on humiliating terms for his country. However,
the allied powers - Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Holy
Roman Empire - refused Louis' offer, believing that one more
successful campaign would utterly destroy French power. This
book examines the campaign of 1709, culminating in the
battle of Malplaquet, which would prove Louis' enemies
disastrously wrong. Led by the Duke of Marlborough and
Prince Eugene of Savoy, the allied armies achieved a
tactical victory - but it was a hollow one.
New in card
cover - 96pp, 3 double page colour plates, 3 3D battle
plans, 5 colour maps, numerous colour illustrations
THE BATTLE OF FRANCE: SIX WEEKS WHICH CHANGED
THE WORLD
by Philip Warner
After the long winter of the
Phoney War the invasion of the Low Countries and France by
Hitler’s rampaging armies threw the World into crisis.
Chamberlain’s Government fell, Churchill became Prime
Minister. France was humiliated, the British Expeditionary
Force was only saved by the miracle of Dunkirk but many men
and huge amounts of equipment were lost to the Blitzkrieg.
England trembled but the invasion never came.
Very good in d/w
- 275pp, 21 illustrations, 9 maps, appendix,
bibliography, index
This is a reference guide to
Roman legionary fortresses throughout the former Roman
Empire, of which approximately eighty-five have been located
and identified. With the expansion of the empire and the
garrisoning of its army in frontier regions during the 1st
century AD, Rome began to concentrate its legions in large
permanent bases. Some have been explored in great detail,
others are barely known, but this book brings together for
the first time the legionary fortresses of the whole empire.
At the heart of the book is a referenced and illustrated
catalogue of the known bases, each with a specially prepared
plan and an aerial photograph. The book is complemented by a
website providing online links to particular fortresses and
a Google Earth file containing all of the known fortress
locations.
New in d/w - 208pp, numerous illustrations & plans
Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople.
Valentian was proclaimed Roman Emperor in AD 364, when the
Empire was reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in
battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the short reign of
his murdered successor, Jovian (364). With the Empire
weakened and vulnerable to a victorious Persia in the East
and opportunistic Germanic tribes along the Rhine, not to
mention rebellions within, it was not an enviable position.
Valentian decided the responsibility had to be divided and
appointed his brother as his co-emperor to rule the eastern
half of the Empire. Valens is most remembered for his
mistreatment of the Goths who sought refuge within the
Empire's borders from the westward-moving Huns. This led to
his death at the Battle of Adrianople in 378.
